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This collection of MST3K Shows is a mixture of some of the best and some of the not-so-good. Let me break it down. <
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>Show 104, Women Of The Prehistoric Planet is the perfect example of a first class Science Fiction B-movie. Spaceships held up by strings, skin tight uniforms on the women, bad science and no real plot. In other words it has everything that could make it a wonderful flick. The disc even comes with an introduction by Irene Tsu who starred in the movie and made it really big after this film, her first part. The host segments in this DVD deal with the Isaac Asimov Doom's Day Device which I think is the funniest skit from the early Joel years. But not even MST3K could help the last part of the movie where it just seems to drag on, and on, and on. <
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>Show 207, Wild Rebels, has no plot, no hero, no real characters but does have a nice get away car. Another example of Joel's early years, it almost seems like a light meal. Afterwards you don't feel full and don't remember a thing but you sure had fun. You think. <
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>The Sinister Urge is Show 613. With an introduction by Conrad Brooks, which was filmed in black and white, and a short called Keeping Clean And Neat, this disc is worth watching. The movie was based on a true story of the porn trade in 1950 Hollywood. The case says that is was about the smut trade in 1960 Hollywood but Conrad Brooks says it was made by Ed Wood Jr. in 1952 and released in 1956, so that has to be wrong. Watch the short again after the movie to feel less dirty. <
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>The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-up Zombies is Show 812. First appearance of Ortega. Tall hair. Black cats. A crystal ball. Dancing strippers who never strip. The beach, the midway, the artistic feel to many of the dream segments and dance numbers just screams cheap film. Sometimes funny in a Ha-Ha way and sometimes funny in a nightmare way. <
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The Incredibly Strange Movies That Stopped Hurting And Became MST3k Episodes
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>Another release of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 episodes from Rhino and another nice split between episodes hosted by Joel Robinson and his replacement, Mike Nelson. I really enjoyed the mix we got here. It opens with a rare look at MST3k's first season and concludes with one of my favorite episodes from the Sci-Fi channel era. Some brief comments on each of the episodes follow. <
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>A Joel Episode. It's extremely difficult to watch this movie, because it's so incredibly static. You'll get distracted by the non-moving surface of the wall next to your TV set. The director obviously didn't believe in moving the camera; they bought a tripod and, damnit, they'll lock it off if they want to. <
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>That complaint aside, this film is the embodiment of every 1950s-1960s bad science fiction movie: the goofy science, the boring plot, the long sequences of planetary explorers slowing making their way across the same three studio sets, the "twist" ending which connects the fate of the futuristic astronauts with the birth of mankind. It desperately needs a good comic relief character. But unfortunately, the best the movie can provide is a guy who yells "HI-KEEBA!" and falls over. <
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>I'm not a huge fan of the early episodes of MST3k, and the deadening pain caused by the sheer boredom of this film does not help. Still, the jokes are pretty decent, even if the riffing doesn't have the quickness and the polish that Best Brains would later develop. <
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>(Oh, and if you're looking for a lot of women in this movie, too bad. Despite the title, the planet they land on is entirely bereft of females.) <
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>A Joel episode. This is your standard bikers-rob-a-bank-for-the-kicks film. The production of this movie must have provided a boon for the local sellers of German war paraphernalia, because virtually every character and wall is adorned with either a swastika or an Iron Cross. <
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>This was such an enjoyable episode simply because the movie was sort of fun in a bad, goofy way. <
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>A Mike episode. This film was directed by Ed Wood, so it will not be a surprise to hear that a) the film opens with a scene of a woman running down a dirt road wearing only high heels, a bra and a half-slip, and b) one of the police methods of catching criminals is to use a male officer in drag as bait. <
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>This film is a ham-fisted screed against the porn industry. Characters make, if not impassioned speeches, certainly boring ones which make smutty pictures seem like more of a threat to civilization than murder and war. Of course, it's hard to really take this seriously when the product we do see is the most chaste pornography imaginable (not only are some of the models wearing giant 1950s style bathing suits, but one wears an outfit that literally covers her from her neck to her ankles). <
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>And, of course, it's an Ed Wood film, so Mike and the bots get to mock those delightful little quirks that made his films so special. Like the exciting (and repeated!) footage of police cars slowly pulling into parking spots. Or the insistence that we witness every character entering and exiting the room in each appearance. <
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>THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES: <
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>A Mike episode. Get a load of that title. I hadn't seen this episode since MST3k was still airing fresh episodes, and while I remembered this being a bad film, I'd hadn't realized how much of this movie is taken up by pointless song and dance sequences. The crew are perfectly correct when they point out that the director simply filmed an open mike night and made it half of his movie. <
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>The plot involves a crazy carnival fortune teller who occasionally throws acid on the faces of her costumers and locks them in the back of her stall. Why exactly she does this is unknown. Ray Dennis Steckler (the writer, producer, director and star of the film) and his odd posse wander into the carnival and become involved with all the strippers, singers and fortune tellers the place has to offer. <
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>For my money, this is one of the funniest commentaries that Best Brains ever produced. The sheer bizarreness of the characters as well as the totally incoherent plot make this ideal fodder for the Brains. <
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>I'd been looking forward to the release of TISCWSLABMUZ for a long time, so I was bound to love this set. But the other three movies are worthwhile too. Good for fans and newbies alike due to the nice mixture from all distinct eras of MST3k.

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"A Magazine about the Jetson's Dog"
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> Yet another fun-filled MST3K collection, filled with "Incredibly Strange" Zombies and Sinister Urges...not to mention Prehistoic Women and Wild Rebels. Rhino keeps shipping out these collections like there's no tomorrow, and I do look forward to seeing more of these collections in the future. <
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> THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES THAT DIED THE BECOME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES -- Move over, Torgo...Ortega shells are made of people! <
> Far and away the best episode of this collection. Jerry takes his girl to the fair and sees a fortune teller. Jerry, who looks like Nicolas Cage, goes on a killing spree after the fortune teller "bangs his head with a steady cam" and makes him kill people. <
> The wisecracks of Mike and the 'bots are funny. <
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