Synchtube Tropers (Riff on Videos and Movies)

I disagree; it's about an issue that's been heavily politicized in the US, and it's hard for me to see it as anything but. Even in the US Politics thread, people sometimes talk about these types of issues, and how politicians try to play the whole "Christians are persecuted in their own country" card. Hell, Trump did it! He told a crowd, "Stores will say 'Merry Christmas' again!"

Nowadays, the election cycle dominates the discussion there, but it's been brought up from time to time, as it is a political issue.

Still best to treat the US Politics threads with the seriousness they typically demand. If we're able to get a hold of Bob Roberts again for this weekend before Election Day, that would be a fairly appropriate title to bring up in that discussion in a serious manner, if only to remark about how much it honestly (eerily) parallels Donald Trump's campaign to a tee. It's not the ideal forum for us when we clearly won't take a movie topic seriously and would be totally open and upfront about savagely mocking it, be it for its message or its execution.

A better question is "are those people actually interested in riffing a shitty movie?"

Why invite random people just because of some tangential interest in the movie's subject matter, not simply because it's a shitty movie?

Because it could get some people who are interested for at least that reason, and some of them may enjoy the experience and stay.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but it seems counter-productive to reach out to people who are potentially only tangentially interested in it. It's just simpler and more efficient to reach out to people who have more in common with us... or just reach out to people we know and may be interested.

As Sean said, that thread hasn't really shown interest in us before. It seems like a waste of time. Even then, doesn't it seem kind of odd to reach out to people in a serious thread about subject matter that's hardly serious? This isn't a serious coven, we're just having fun and dicking around. We just make pop culture references and inside jokes and mock movies.

In any case, all I mean is that it seems to run contrary to what we do. This is a shitty movie. We're not seriously dissecting it. We're taking the piss out of it.

Well, tonight we start things off with some Spooksville, and a great little 6 minute Best Of of the hilarious Time Changer.

Then, at 7:30 PM EST, we learn that God's Not Dead 2! Yes, it's a declaration followed by a number.

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Gods too decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whosoever shall be born after us - for the sake of this deed he shall be part of a higher history than all history hitherto.

"In the name of tolerance and diversity, I suggest we destroy her."

Actual dialog. A lot of cartoonish dialog is in this movie.

I've watched videos by Christians who say that God's Not Dead 2 is awful. One such video - again, by a Christian - pointed to the movie's simplistic black and white portrayal of atheists as selfish and evil and Christians as perfectly good, as a major problem.

Nowadays, many religious people know non-religious people, and the bias barriers are breaking down. But sadly, there's an audience for this type of movie. I wonder if a third one will get made, and what it could possibly be about.

So much of this movie takes place in one location: the courtroom. Really? The first movie had a good number of subplots and locations.

Oh, and for the record, I (an atheist) would be on her side also. She didn't actually proselytize, but instead legitimately answered a student's question.

And for our record? The movie got    X   . We had 8 voters (10 viewers at max); one voted 4 stars, saying it was "amazing" (I assume as in amazingly awful), while all others voted X. The math rounds it to an X by our rules.

This was excruciatingly painful to watch.

The aftershow gave us a new GIF, as suggested by one of the Tropers.

Bishop battering ram!◊

Well, doesn't look like I was missed anything.

For anyone who ever read S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders in middle school, here's the film adaptation of her followup to that story.

The original book was framed as a semi-sequel to The Outsiders, alluding to events from the previous story and featuring some of its side characters and main protagonist, Ponyboy Curtis, in what would amount to the literary equivalent of "cameos." The movie adaptation, though... not so much.

While Francis Ford Coppola's movie adaptation of The Outsiders stayed faithful to the book's 1965 setting, this adaptation (with a screenplay written by its co-star, Emilio Estevez, in what was his third appearance in a film based on S.E. Hinton's stories) moved the setting into the then-contemporary mid-1980's, which principally means anxieties about being drafted to fight in Vietnam are replaced with girl troubles and the two side characters still carried over from The Outsiders (neither being Ponyboy) get 80's hair.

But, hell, I just want to run with this one for the sake of showcasing Morgan Freeman in a supporting role. I'm pretty sure he dies early on, though.

Here's That Was Then... This Is Now

edited 2nd Nov '16 8:09:40 AM by SeanMurrayI

Other dialogue:

"As a devoted atheist"

Just...

Just....

And regular activity finally resumes tonight with more of Gamesmaster and the final season of Knightmare.

Then, at the top of the coming hour... Emilio Estevez tries his hand at writing and performing in some 1980's Brat Pack drama in 'That Was Then... This Is Now''.

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In light of recent events, any chance we could get Rookie of the Year in the near future?

If it's too much to ask, can someone remove the The Daily Show video that I added in the aftershow (and save it for November 8th's) and keep the two Mike Diva videos and the Carol Burnett sketch?

(The reason I want the two Mike Diva videos in there is because there's two bizarre Hillary and Trump videos he did, one for Super Deluxe, that I'd think would be so perfect for November 8th, that comes off as neither anti- or pro-Hillary or -Trump. And his reasons for doing them make just as much, if less, sense than them.

edited 3rd Nov '16 8:58:21 AM by Shippudentimes

I was thinking about that film, too, but it's hard to think of an "appropriate" time for it now after a World Series. We'll see.

Anyway... for years running now, there's been one trash movie genre that I've never so much as even wanted to mention by name: The women in prison genre. Although sexualized, even fetishized, content is nothing off-limits in B-movies and has generally been par of the course throughout our coven's history, for these kinds of movies, the wide variety of fetishized content in this genre (lesbianism, group showers, prison rape, bondage, whipping, torture, catfights, general degradation, and more) are the main attraction and often indistinguishable from outright pornography.

There are still a few titles out there that would ordinarily seem like something we'd already generally try and see (Notably, Chained Heat with Linda Blair and Sybil Danning, which somehow inspired the name of a Trope Page that the movie has nothing to do with), but with other kinds of B-movies out there to find, sticking to other genres is just easier.

Tonight's film, tough, isn't quite in line with the women in prison genre, but it's certainly a 1960's sexploitation piece set in a prison... and with a title sounding this ridiculous, how can we resist?

When an oversexed teenage girl causes havoc among the guards and inmates of a British prison governed by her father, you get 1000 Convicts and a Woman...

edited 3rd Nov '16 11:18:02 AM by SeanMurrayI

You sure De Sade didn't pen that?

I'll give you a point for that one, you darn wit.

Though, while looking up the actual screenwriter for this just now... This guy's other major writing credits include the script to the Jimmy Stewart movie Harvey—the one where he's best friends with an invisible 6'3" bunny rabbit—which he helped adapt for the screen with its original Broadway playwright... He also adapted that 1955 Lady Godiva movie with Maureen O'Hara and George Nader (the male lead from Robot Monster) and received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay for The Glenn Miller Story.

Wikipedia apparently learned of his passing over 8 years ago (at the age of ~101) before members of his own family.

edited 3rd Nov '16 12:30:45 PM by SeanMurrayI

Sounds like we are watching an absolute masterpiece.

Indeed we are, right?

Well... First up, we have the return of Richard O'Brien and The Crystal Maze.

Aaaaaannnnd... At the top of the coming hour, the title spells it all out in 1000 Convicts and a Woman.

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Oh, Ho-Oh-HOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo...

Kung Fu Friday is back, and we're returning to customary traditions with a Godfrey Ho smash (albeit with a bit more gunplay than martial arts, but we'll get our fill, alright).

For the first time ever, we look ahead to the complete cut of Top Mission starring Alphonse Beni.

Added 3 Mike Diva's, and a new Dunkey for the aftershow.

Also, I think a good preshow for Election Day would be The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, a variety show that not only had Jack Benny and George Burns as guest stars, but gave rise to the careers of The Who and Jefferson Starship, took Pete Seeger off of the Communist blacklist, hosted an uncharacteristically good-sport Richard Nixon during his campaign for office, had the first interracial couple on screen interacting together a year before the Kirk/Uhura kiss, and made bold political/social statements in their sketches that brought them under extreme scrutiny by CBS censors, even more so ^note  they were already under fire for "questionable" content: Read: saying the word "breast" in the context "My heart beats furiously within my breast" because it said "Breast" and "breast" could not be uttered on TV back then .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smothers_Brothers_Comedy_Hour

edited 4th Nov '16 11:29:45 AM by Shippudentimes

Didn't think the Smothers Brothers got much of a reaction when we last ran clips of them from their old show and some other places.

I'm not even sure how much I'd even want to run a movie on Election Night, anyway. So far, I just figured on casting my vote then digging a giant hole in the ground and burying myself inside it (and after the other movies we're thinking of running this weekend, that's definitely sounding like a pretty good idea).

After burying yourself in shame, make sure to watch Manos and Foodfight.