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  1. I love #movies. I love #scifi. I love scifi movies.

    I like hard scifi, but I'm aware of the compromises that must be made when bringing technical material to a broad audience on the big screen. I can make allowances for that. So I don't have a problem suspending my disbelief when a technical or scientific clunker is required by #story mechanics.

    But suspension of disbelief only goes so far. If @pzmyers is right about "Project Hail Mary" (2026), I strongly suspect I'm not going to enjoy it. So I'll wait for it to come out for home viewing, I think. Easier to "walk out" when it's just pressing the "stop" button and you didn't fork out $40 for tickets and a bucket of #popcorn.

    His take - not really a review as such:

    freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngul

    #SciFiMovie #AndyWeir #ProjectHailMary #SuspensionOfDisbelief #film #BadMovie

  2. Today I discovered that there is a 1980s Greydon Clark movie, starring Joe Don Baker [1], which has not been riffed by RiffTrax (or MST3K, or Cinematic Titanic), and I'm frankly shocked.

    If it's not one of the four new episodes of MST3K the RiffTrax guys are doing, I'm going to be some disappointed.

    [1] The same #cinematic pairing that resulted in Final Justice (1985), A.K.A. "Mitchell Goes to Malta", some of the finest #cheese ever #riffed.

    #RiffTrax #MST3K #GreydonClark #JoeDonBaker #riff #BadMovie #BadMovies #FinalJustice #Joysticks

  3. Today I discovered that there is a 1980s Greydon Clark movie, starring Joe Don Baker [1], which has not been riffed by RiffTrax (or MST3K, or Cinematic Titanic), and I'm frankly shocked.

    If it's not one of the four new episodes of MST3K the RiffTrax guys are doing, I'm going to be some disappointed.

    [1] The same #cinematic pairing that resulted in Final Justice (1985), A.K.A. "Mitchell Goes to Malta", some of the finest #cheese ever #riffed.

    #RiffTrax #MST3K #GreydonClark #JoeDonBaker #riff #BadMovie #BadMovies #FinalJustice #Joysticks

  4. Today I discovered that there is a 1980s Greydon Clark movie, starring Joe Don Baker [1], which has not been riffed by RiffTrax (or MST3K, or Cinematic Titanic), and I'm frankly shocked.

    If it's not one of the four new episodes of MST3K the RiffTrax guys are doing, I'm going to be some disappointed.

    [1] The same #cinematic pairing that resulted in Final Justice (1985), A.K.A. "Mitchell Goes to Malta", some of the finest #cheese ever #riffed.

    #RiffTrax #MST3K #GreydonClark #JoeDonBaker #riff #BadMovie #BadMovies #FinalJustice #Joysticks

  5. Today I discovered that there is a 1980s Greydon Clark movie, starring Joe Don Baker [1], which has not been riffed by RiffTrax (or MST3K, or Cinematic Titanic), and I'm frankly shocked.

    If it's not one of the four new episodes of MST3K the RiffTrax guys are doing, I'm going to be some disappointed.

    [1] The same #cinematic pairing that resulted in Final Justice (1985), A.K.A. "Mitchell Goes to Malta", some of the finest #cheese ever #riffed.

    #RiffTrax #MST3K #GreydonClark #JoeDonBaker #riff #BadMovie #BadMovies #FinalJustice #Joysticks

  6. Today I discovered that there is a 1980s Greydon Clark movie, starring Joe Don Baker [1], which has not been riffed by RiffTrax (or MST3K, or Cinematic Titanic), and I'm frankly shocked.

    If it's not one of the four new episodes of MST3K the RiffTrax guys are doing, I'm going to be some disappointed.

    [1] The same #cinematic pairing that resulted in Final Justice (1985), A.K.A. "Mitchell Goes to Malta", some of the finest #cheese ever #riffed.

    #RiffTrax #MST3K #GreydonClark #JoeDonBaker #riff #BadMovie #BadMovies #FinalJustice #Joysticks

  7. It's time for some good old #scifichannel movie!
    For tonight, it's ALIEN BLOOD (2005).
    It's bad, but still watchable.

    #syfy #BadMovie #scifimovies

  8. If you like snow and skiing, and not much else, at least not anything terribly coherent, then this is the film for you!
    A few shots of some creative forced perspective and such, but yeah… not much else.
    #MovieReview #Bmovie #BadMovie #Horror
    imdb.com/title/tt0053232/

  9. Just watched one of the most recent #RiffTrax - "Champagne and Bullets" (1993).

    I don't know anything about the guy behind the original movie, which stinks, but it was a vanity project, written, produced, directed, edited by, starring, and even featuring songs written and sung by him. And he is a fellow who absolutely, positively was not capable of doing any of those things.

    My partner brought out one of her favourite sayings in these types of situations: "Oh, to have the confidence of a mediocre white man."

    Makes a good RiffTrax, though.

    #vanity #VanityProject #produced #directed #written #starring #BadMovie #movie #film #BadActionMovie #riff #riffing

  10. Wow…Temu Starcrash with Temu Marjoe Gortner and Temu Caroline Munro.
    Why anyone would want to make a knockoff of a knockoff is beyond me, but I’m not Italian. 🤷
    #Bmovie #MovieReview #BadMovie
    imdb.com/title/tt0175663/

  11. I managed to get ahold of all 10 original seasons of Mystery Science Theater 3000..

    What am I watching tonight? The Crawling Eye! And its horrible.

    #mst3k #badmovie @mackensen

  12. @lauren

    I'd watch it!

    "The Apple" is near or at the top of my "How the hell did this movie ever get studio approval of the script, much less actually greenlighted and funded for production?". It's so bad it's ... well, it's something.

    #movie #BadMovie #BadMovies

  13. We watched an Italian movie called #HandsOfSteel last night for my #badmovie night. It's somehow a mix of the Terminator and Over The Top but also takes place in the Arizona desert-- it's just wild. Highly Recommended!

    imdb.com/title/tt0091166/

  14. It's "Timecop"! Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in Peter Hyams' horny, explosive time travel action epic, which #Rifftrax will tear apart in theaters this summer. #kickstarter rewards include your name in the credits, DVDs, digital shorts, t-shirts, an Ice Cream Bunny Xmas ornament (!) #cult #badmovie #scifi #comedy #mst3k
    kickstarter.com/projects/rifft

  15. #HotTake: Fred Olen Ray aspired to rise to the level of a Greydon Clark or maybe even a Rick Sloane.

    Aspired. Never quite got there.

    #FredOlenRay #GreydonClark #movie #BadMovie #BadMovies #craptastic

  16. #BadMovie night at the historic Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff #Dallas

  17. Watched the first 4 minutes of "Rebel Moon". Jfc, even from just that it's a stinker.

    That initial exposition is at least two levels tops deep and the space horse on the space farm... Ugh #rebelmoon #badmovie

  18. Oh mein Gott!

    Fast n the furios 1. Das kann man ja heute echt kaum noch schauen. Das ist echt übel.

    #badmovie
    #badmoviesforbadpeople

  19. You know, between "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny", there's half a good movie waiting to come out.

    #IndianaJones #CrystalSkull #DialOfDestiny #movie #film #BadMovie #GoodMovie #critic #JumpTheShark

  20. Halloween season at the theatre dredges up something from the 90s and quickly wishes to bury it again. Warning: The occurrence of a dance-a-thon is greatly exaggerated. #comedy #badmovie #dance #snark #shotonvideo

    youtu.be/R10P73jqhIQ

  21. Yo yo yo listen up #BadMovie lovers! Neil Breen's new movie is coming out this month across the world and to let people know where it will be screened Breen has made a YouTube video where he verbally lists the 60 locations. VERBALLY. IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER. There is no video component of this message besides a poster for the film, no visual list to consult.

    I am very excited.

    youtu.be/vuWXFm10624

    #NeilBreen #genius #CadeTheTorturedCrossing

  22. We are back, again, against the better judgment of pretty much everybody! We haven't done an Andy Milligan film in a while. There might be a reason for that ... well, here's the reason!

    Watch on YT: youtu.be/qolh1-UlMHE

    #comedy #riff #badmovie #andymilligan #mondopiecetheatre #grimreaper #sketch

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    Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

    The Blob (1958)

    This movie was marketed as a horror film but technically it’s also a science fiction because the Blob came from outer space on a meteor. This is a B-movie with a lot of cheesy special effects but it makes fun of itself and it was marketed to young people many of whom actually thought the film was scary.

    The Blob itself was basically just watered down gelatin with food coloring and they got it to move by placing it on a table with a camera mounted on it. Then they would tilt and jiggle and move the table around at various angles to get the gelatin to move around. Then they’d film it in slow motion or print the film in reverse or turn the whole jig upside down to get the different effects that they wanted.

    The scene where the blob jumps from the stick onto the man’s arm was simply filmed upside down to get the blob to defy gravity.

    To the producers of the film, the Blob was a self-referential metaphor. The film was produced about a decade after the end of World War II; all the returning veterans had jobs by then and were making a lot of money. This was the beginning of the hay day for a new advertising and promotion industry for all consumer products including movies. Just a couple of years after this film was released, The Beatles arrived on the scene using the new promotion techniques to help fuel their meteoric rise, resulting in Beatlemania during the 1960s.

    Here’s a trailer for the film, showing the style of advertising they used, which seems quaint compared to the psyops employed by businesses today.

    Accessible video description:

    The trailer opens with Steve McQueen and another woman entering the police station to tell the police about the blob then there are big title graphics that say “Beware of the blob” as the announcer talks about the film.
    It shows a bunch of people sitting in a theater and it shows the blob oozing from the projection booth then it shows a bunch of people running from the theater screaming.
    More Title Graphics say “it crawls... it creeps... it eats you alive!” The Blob, now very large, oozes out of the front doors of the theater. a man and a woman are briefly shown kissing in a car as they are interrupted by a falling meteor, the man and woman drive off. then it shows an old man with a stick with the small blob on it and the blob jumps up from the stick onto his arm. Shows the blob indoors, about the size of a bear, a man tries to shoot it with a gun. then it shows Steve McQueen trying to calm people down but they run towards a diner. then the blob engulfs the diner. next it shows Steve McQueen, the text says, “starring Steve McQueen”, then more title Graphics say, “Get Set it's coming soon”, then in huge type “The Blob” with smaller type that says “a Tonylyn production”, “color by Deluxe”.

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    #science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #sfftw #film #movie #ET #extraterrestrial #alien #space #1950s #1960s #badmovie #blob #horror #oldpromos #beatles

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    Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

    Killers from Space (1954)

    This film was released less than a decade after the United States had bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII and just five years after the Soviet Union had tested their first nuclear weapon. It's very typical of 50s scifi during the height of the Cold War with all the giant bugs and lousy special effects -- but this one is special because it has a couple of well-known actors in it.

    Steve Pendleton was a character actor whose face was well known to audiences at the time and Peter Graves, the protagonist in this film, was just getting his career going. He's probably most well known for his starring role in the comedy Airplane (1974), and to older folks he's most known for playing Jim Philps the lead character in the original Mission Impossible series.

    Ironically the giant insects in this movie are not the result of exposure to nuclear radiation but they look just like the giant insects from any other 50s scifi. The rest of the special effects in this film are just as bad.

    And the science facts presented in the film are just as bogus as most other scifi films at the time. (Some of the science mistakes are highlighted in this satirical trailer of film.)

    You'll notice a picture of Eisenhower in the background on some of the shots in this movie. The actors were awkwardly positioned to make sure that you could see his picture in the background. I'm not sure what point the filmmakers were trying to make but it was obvious they were trying to include his picture in those scenes.

    This is a really bad film with a ton of unintentional flaws but it's really rather entertaining for that reason. I recommend this film for anyone who enjoys watching silly 50s science fiction or who studies the Cold War period.

    Accessible video description:

    The video starts with a title, then the protagonist in tattered clothing stumbles up to a poorly acting guard at a building. then he's in a doctor's office with his shirt off and the doctor points at a large scar on his chest. then in an office with military men with Eisenhower's picture in the background. then his wife, is talking to a man who is investigating the protagonist and they subtly flirt as he lights her cigarette. then a man in a phone booth asks for the police. then a woman takes a printout from a teletype and puts it into a message tube which is sent to a dispatcher who reads it. then the protagonist is in the laboratory of the humanoid aliens who have big eyes. then a video screen shows pictures of an alien city. then a bunch of closeups of giant insects, lizards, a cockroach and a grasshopper with silly sound effects dubbed over them as the protagonist looks frightened. Then the protagonist is walking with the leader of the aliens and the alien tries to convince him to be a traitor. then the protagonist is talking to one of the military guys about how to destroy the alien facility while it briefly cuts to a shot of the woman in silence. after he gives his plan there are close-ups of people looking incredulously into the camera including a woman from another 1960s comedy and finally Larry Tate from the old TV show Bewitched.

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    #science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #sfftw #film #movie #ET #extraterrestrial #alien #space #1950s #badmovie #coldwar #bigbugs #nukes #ruskies

    (fair use satire with scenes from this film, The Absent Minded Professor (1961) and Bewitched (circa 1970) plus well-known sound effects from other films)

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    Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

    Killers from Space (1954)

    This film was released less than a decade after the United States had bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII and just five years after the Soviet Union had tested their first nuclear weapon. It's very typical of 50s scifi during the height of the Cold War with all the giant bugs and lousy special effects -- but this one is special because it has a couple of well-known actors in it.

    Steve Pendleton was a character actor whose face was well known to audiences at the time and Peter Graves, the protagonist in this film, was just getting his career going. He's probably most well known for his starring role in the comedy Airplane (1974), and to older folks he's most known for playing Jim Philps the lead character in the original Mission Impossible series.

    Ironically the giant insects in this movie are not the result of exposure to nuclear radiation but they look just like the giant insects from any other 50s scifi. The rest of the special effects in this film are just as bad.

    And the science facts presented in the film are just as bogus as most other scifi films at the time. (Some of the science mistakes are highlighted in this satirical trailer of film.)

    You'll notice a picture of Eisenhower in the background on some of the shots in this movie. The actors were awkwardly positioned to make sure that you could see his picture in the background. I'm not sure what point the filmmakers were trying to make but it was obvious they were trying to include his picture in those scenes.

    This is a really bad film with a ton of unintentional flaws but it's really rather entertaining for that reason. I recommend this film for anyone who enjoys watching silly 50s science fiction or who studies the Cold War period.

    Accessible video description:

    The video starts with a title, then the protagonist in tattered clothing stumbles up to a poorly acting guard at a building. then he's in a doctor's office with his shirt off and the doctor points at a large scar on his chest. then in an office with military men with Eisenhower's picture in the background. then his wife, is talking to a man who is investigating the protagonist and they subtly flirt as he lights her cigarette. then a man in a phone booth asks for the police. then a woman takes a printout from a teletype and puts it into a message tube which is sent to a dispatcher who reads it. then the protagonist is in the laboratory of the humanoid aliens who have big eyes. then a video screen shows pictures of an alien city. then a bunch of closeups of giant insects, lizards, a cockroach and a grasshopper with silly sound effects dubbed over them as the protagonist looks frightened. Then the protagonist is walking with the leader of the aliens and the alien tries to convince him to be a traitor. then the protagonist is talking to one of the military guys about how to destroy the alien facility while it briefly cuts to a shot of the woman in silence. after he gives his plan there are close-ups of people looking incredulously into the camera including a woman from another 1960s comedy and finally Larry Tate from the old TV show Bewitched.

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    #science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #sfftw #film #movie #ET #extraterrestrial #alien #space #1950s #badmovie #coldwar #bigbugs #nukes #ruskies

    (fair use satire with scenes from this film, The Absent Minded Professor (1961) and Bewitched (circa 1970) plus well-known sound effects from other films)

  26. -

    Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

    Killers from Space (1954)

    This film was released less than a decade after the United States had bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII and just five years after the Soviet Union had tested their first nuclear weapon. It's very typical of 50s scifi during the height of the Cold War with all the giant bugs and lousy special effects -- but this one is special because it has a couple of well-known actors in it.

    Steve Pendleton was a character actor whose face was well known to audiences at the time and Peter Graves, the protagonist in this film, was just getting his career going. He's probably most well known for his starring role in the comedy Airplane (1974), and to older folks he's most known for playing Jim Philps the lead character in the original Mission Impossible series.

    Ironically the giant insects in this movie are not the result of exposure to nuclear radiation but they look just like the giant insects from any other 50s scifi. The rest of the special effects in this film are just as bad.

    And the science facts presented in the film are just as bogus as most other scifi films at the time. (Some of the science mistakes are highlighted in this satirical trailer of film.)

    You'll notice a picture of Eisenhower in the background on some of the shots in this movie. The actors were awkwardly positioned to make sure that you could see his picture in the background. I'm not sure what point the filmmakers were trying to make but it was obvious they were trying to include his picture in those scenes.

    This is a really bad film with a ton of unintentional flaws but it's really rather entertaining for that reason. I recommend this film for anyone who enjoys watching silly 50s science fiction or who studies the Cold War period.

    Accessible video description:

    The video starts with a title, then the protagonist in tattered clothing stumbles up to a poorly acting guard at a building. then he's in a doctor's office with his shirt off and the doctor points at a large scar on his chest. then in an office with military men with Eisenhower's picture in the background. then his wife, is talking to a man who is investigating the protagonist and they subtly flirt as he lights her cigarette. then a man in a phone booth asks for the police. then a woman takes a printout from a teletype and puts it into a message tube which is sent to a dispatcher who reads it. then the protagonist is in the laboratory of the humanoid aliens who have big eyes. then a video screen shows pictures of an alien city. then a bunch of closeups of giant insects, lizards, a cockroach and a grasshopper with silly sound effects dubbed over them as the protagonist looks frightened. Then the protagonist is walking with the leader of the aliens and the alien tries to convince him to be a traitor. then the protagonist is talking to one of the military guys about how to destroy the alien facility while it briefly cuts to a shot of the woman in silence. after he gives his plan there are close-ups of people looking incredulously into the camera including a woman from another 1960s comedy and finally Larry Tate from the old TV show Bewitched.

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    #science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #sfftw #film #movie #ET #extraterrestrial #alien #space #1950s #badmovie #coldwar #bigbugs #nukes #ruskies

    (fair use satire with scenes from this film, The Absent Minded Professor (1961) and Bewitched (circa 1970) plus well-known sound effects from other films)