For the uninitiated... A contingent of tropers (mostly from across America) holds regular get-togethers over the Interwebs on this site called Synchtube which lets individuals, such as ourselves, open and join in text-based chatrooms within typical web browsers (Firefox, Chrome, et. al.) that allow the chat participants to view YouTube videos in synchronization with everyone else present (without even needing to set up an account)... and we've decided to use said chatrooms to play cheeseball webvideos and feature-length movies found in the public domain which stretch all the way from letters B to Z, which everyone subsequently riffs on a la MST3K.
For over EIGHT years, everybody who gets involved mostly finds good enjoymentnote in calling out tropes that are recognized in the videos and stories and coming up with jokes to fling back at whatever's happening on the screen, many of which turn into various in-jokes and running gags (a Coven Glossary is kept and maintained for everyone's help and convenience HERE) to repeat in the chat.
We're always looking for new ways to better coordinate and expand our activities and are more than happy to welcome newcomers interested in joining our gatherings.
Complete List of Past Features (and Their Respective Ratings)
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Edited by SeanMurrayI on Oct 12th 2020 at 1:47:43 PM
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Happy birthday Sean!
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Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Happy B-Day Sean. Have a good time.
Ahh the first Punisher movie. A classic cheesy action flick. If I can, I will show up a bit late for it.
Who watches the watchmen?
Thanks, everyone for the well wishes.
Before I head off now, it just came to my attention that Something Awful's movie review writers published an "awards" article highlighting the "best" (stupidest) stuff from all the terrible movies they looked at in the past year.
Some of these we've seen ourselves before; some others we'll still have to seek out. At the very least, there's still a whole lot to appreciate in the name of an awards category like "The Three Seashells Award for Best Murder-Death-Kill"...
Gary Busey on fire is the greatest spectacle of its kind since That Guy from 'Gangland'...
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Okay! Tonight is a comic book themed night. The movie is The Punisher. The pre-show gives us two more "regular person" type superheroes: Batman, and Cybersix!
Hop on in! http://cytu.be/r/tropercoven
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edited 6th Feb '16 4:21:07 PM by BonsaiForest
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Well, if you can't give a damn about wholly American feasting ritual of the Super Bowl tonight, we'll be having a bit of fun tonight with Bruce Willis as a disgraced Secret Service agent-turned-private investigator and Damon Wayans as an ex-NFL quarterback-turned-second banana, with a screenplay penned by Shane Black, writer of the first two Lethal Weapon movies.
This is... The Last Boy Scout.
Fascinatingly, screenwriter Shane Black also wrote The Monster Squad (![[awesome]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/minis/award_star_gold_3.png "[awesome]"){kind=small}
) and was brought in to rewrite The Last Action Hero (also , and which was originally meant to poke fun at and deconstruct his own work and got its title from this very movie). Just a few years back, he both wrote and directed Iron Man 3.
The director of this piece, Tony Scott, got his start directing the Tom Cruise films Top Gun and Days of Thunder, and followed up this very film with bringing Quentin Tarantino's screenplay True Romance to the screen, and later directed Will Smith in Enemy of the State, Kiera Knightley in Domino, Denzel Washington in both Man on Fire and Deja Vu, and helmed a modern remake of one of the greatest heist movies of all time in The Taking of Pelham 123 (again, starring Denzel Washington, along with John Travolta). Tragically, he committed suicide in the late summer of 2012.
After watching The Punisher (1989), I decided to watch the other live-action versions. This one was the worst. Ray Stevenson was the most accurate, but Thomas Jane was the most entertaining. His movie had the Punisher fighting a large Russian man to unfitting music.
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Large Russian man... That was pro-wrestler Kevin Nash with his beard shaven and his hair cut and bleached. I had the pleasure once of pretending it was "no big deal" having him on our film set for a few hours while making The Newest Pledge ().
I remember seeing the Thomas Jane Punisher movie when it was in theaters. I haven't seen it since, so my memory is a little hazy. Apart from Kevin Nash as the Russian, the things I most vividly recall from that film are a body on fire in the early scene where Frank Castle's extended family is massacred (something about the way the stunt was pulled off either with a dummy or a stuntman slathered in flame-retardant gel made me think of the utter poor effects work in Commando), the blowtorch/popsicle torture scene, John Travolta getting hassled by some Mexican gangsters as the Punisher undermined him, and John Travolta's imminent execution when he's dragged into a parking lot packed with strategically-placed Pintos.
Never saw the film that came out a few years after that.
edited 7th Feb '16 12:31:53 PM by SeanMurrayI
War Zone is very much hit-or-miss. At its best it is most true-to-life adaptation of the character, but at the same time most of the secondary characters and script are absolutely pathetic, and make even Thomas Jane's Scooby Doo neighbours look awesome in comparison.
edited 7th Feb '16 12:47:17 PM by TAPETRVE
Fear the cinnamon sugar swirl. By the Gods, fear it, Laurence.
Yep.
The vast majority of the characters and plot elements are accurate. The writing could use a lot of work, though. It was that kind of stilted dialogue that you could expect from a B action movie in 1985, only this was 2008.
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Alright, so if you have no interest in watching the Super Bowl or 30-second commercials that will be made easily available hours from now on YouTube, anyway, then come over to the Coven Chat, and I'll have Lowtax and Shmorky and another episode of Knightmare waiting.
Then, a little before the top of the coming hour, we got our own semblance of football-themed entertainment with Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans in The Last Boy Scout.
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Knowing that Willis and Wayans ended up hating each other after tonight's movie, I was reminded of some article I happened to come across on one of those random links you always see at the bottoms of articles, about "onscreen besties who don't get along in real life".
This is the article I saw, though it's not the only one of its kind.
Am I a weirdo?
Well, I opted to watch the Super Bowl instead of tonight's movie, and I think I may have watched more amazing So Bad, It's Good ness than you guys did. The halftime show was something that I suspect you'd all appreciate. The music was terrible, and Batman & Robin era Joel Shumacher would have called the costumes tasteless. I couldn't stop laughing. Anyway, I hope you guys had just as much fun as I did.
Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.
That Mountain Dew commercial alone was more fit for us than anything we've ever watched.
Mikon :3
I honestly can't remember the halftime show. Not much of anything I saw made a big impression on me.
Except for the puppy-monkey-baby.
So Mountain Dew spent over $5 million creating something more vile and disgusting than Mountain Dew itself. Wonderful.
And speaking of other horrors of capitalism, the world is one step closer to Derek Savage announcing the DVD release of his long-awaited followup to Cool Cat Saves the Kids. He's announced pricing figures for the DVD and other package deals for his new instructional video Gun Self-Defense for Women (and for Men, too). For just $60 plus S&H, you can own the new DVD, plus a can of pepper spray and a 53-million volt stun gun (so long as the stun gun isn't illegal in your home state or city). The new DVD will be ready for order as soon as Mr. Savage receives that shipment of DVD's, I assume.
Anyway, tonight we're rolling out a made-for-TV sci-fi/horror movie that's basically trying to ape Stephen King's style. A remote fishing island off the coast of Maine becomes infested with lethal insects that root inside their victims, and it's up to a doctor who recently relocated to the island to battle the bugs and deal with the locals who don't believe him. And, talk about ties to Stephen King... We got Dean Stockwell from The Langoliers playing the local sheriff.
The title sure sounds good, though—They Nest.
What's eatin' you, chief?
is this a prequel to They Live
War is God.
I think it's a sequel to Them!
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$60? Hmm... maybe I'd be willing to pay that much. I already bought Cool Cat Saves the Kids, as well as Black Cougar, so...
Now I'm really glad that I didn't toss out my DVD/Blu-Ray drive when I got my new computer. I was thinking it would be useless to even have one. But now I see a use for it.
EDIT: Oh, oops. $60 for the whole package, not just the video.
edited 8th Feb '16 10:27:05 AM by BonsaiForest
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is derek savage selling weapons to fund his anti-weapons movie
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The video is about how to use guns safely, not about how guns are bad.
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Oh, it's certainly not an anti-weapon video. Derek Savage would package his DVD with a shotgun, if laws allowed him to.
edited 11th Feb '16 3:49:24 PM by SeanMurrayI
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Another thing I'm now noticing on Derek Savage's website. He's now touting that Cool Cat Saves the Kids won a "Dove Award", as if it were a badge of honor.
Researching whatever the hell the "Dove Awards" are, I'm directed to an evangelical movie review site that judges films by their family-friendly and faith-based content (as if the usual MPAA rating wouldn't already suffice) with a unique 0-5 scale on a range of content specs. Rest assured, Cool Cat Saves the Kids is deemed to be "Family Approved" ...but weary that a character says "shut up", "dag-nam-it", and "bonehead"; that may be inappropriate!
But stay away from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies! Oh no, that film has cleavage ("some of it a bit strong")... and ladies put knives in their UNDERGARMENTS ... and their THIGHS are visible! Oh dear, and there's "frontal male nudity in what looks like a painting in the background."
What's eatin' you, chief?
Jesus Christ, did TV Tropes drop acid while I was gone? What the shit, man?
War is God.
Happee boozeday, good Sir
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Fear the cinnamon sugar swirl. By the Gods, fear it, Laurence.