Synchtube Tropers (Riff on Videos and Movies)

I'll take it we'll watch two episodes of the original game show (even though there's nothing to connect them except for visuals and some mythology gags?) as preshow material?

Nah, don't wanna overdo it.

There will be an other trek through The Crystal Maze, which seems thematically appropriate enough, though.

Then, yeah, at the top of the coming hour comes Legends of the Hidden Temple: The Movie.

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I know we sometimes watch Iron Chef in the preshow, so I'd like to just take this opportunity to say how much I love Iron Chef. I first saw it on Food Network several years ago. I especially like the dubbing. They do such a good job of conveying the comradery between the commentators and shows just how much fun they are having. And then there's the puns and clever wordplay. It's cheesy, but I can't help but smile. Now I'm talking about the original run of the show. I've seen a reboot or another country's attempt to make their own version here and there, but in my opinion they never capture the magic the original show had.

Well, the entire movie was basically an obstacle course. Three kids get lost in the Hidden Temple, then run around and solve puzzles and deal with dangers.

The use of the show's ideas and themes was a mixture of corny and clever, but mostly corny.

I found it to be good stupid fun, though, and wasn't bored even once, which is a pretty big compliment to give any movie, even a bad one.

Tuesday night is gonna be spectacularly batshit, but tonight we'll take things a bit easier with a film about a teenage goth girl who discovers an antique mirror that grants her "black magic power" that enables her to exact vengeance on her tormenters. Just the type of movie Jack Chick wouldn't want you to see!

Starring the mysterious actress Rainbow Harvest (apparently, that is her real name), who appeared in a handful of film and TV roles in her late teens and early twenties before giving up on acting entirely around 1991, and Karen Black (who we last saw being tormented by a devil doll) as the goth girl's widowed mother.

Here is Mirror Mirror...

Why hasn't the playlist been updated for today?

Because I'm busy tonight.

Anyway, we got episodes of Street Sharks and Gamesmaster (WHO will be victorious in the grand virtual soccer battle between Vinnie Joes and John Barnes? I'm the only person dying to find out!)

Then, at the top of the coming hour, it's goth girls, black magic, and demonic control in Mirror Mirror.

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Holy shit.

When looking up reviews on Mirror Mirror, I discovered who the writers are.

Annette Cascone and Gina Cascone.

Don't know those names? They're the creators of Deadtime Stories, one of the corny kids' horror series we watched in preshows.

Huh. That's a neat little fact.

Sorry that I missed these past movies, folks (especially Get on the Bus). I've been a bit preoccupied.

S'kay, we understand. So, as Christmas approaches, what rendition of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol are we riffing on this year? The 1938 one starring John Barrymore as Scrooge, the 2009 one with Jim Carry as Scrooge, The Three Spirits, Bob Hopkins, and Gary Oldman as Bob Cratchit, Mr. Magoo.'s Christmas Carol or Mickey's Christmas Carol as preshow material, Bill Murray's Scrooged, or the anvillicious, yet still timely and powerful A Carol For Another Christmas written by Rod Serling?

Finals and term papers and all that, right? We still have Get on the Bus on hand, if you're able to find time to watch a movie on your own.

Anyway, tonight's title and trailer just about speaks for itself, but HOLY SHIT, who pulled together this cast???

• Barry Bostwick ("Who's Barry Bostwick?") as Franklin Delano Roosevelt—I can't remember seeing him in anything else here since that flying motorcycle ride a the end of 'Megaforce'
• Ray Wise as Gen. Douglas MacArthur—Hamming it up just like when he was the only worthwhile part of Wrong Cops (   X   )
• Bruce McGill as... Er, I'm assuming he'll just be playing the "straight man"
• Kevin Sorbo as ...Abraham Lincoln?!?—That raises the God's Not Dead franchise cast alumni count up to 2
• Richard Riehle—"Baltimore Orioles... NUMBER ONE!!!!"
• The guy playing "Werewolf Hitler" was once part of a musical adaptation of 'Re-Animator' with George Wendt◊

And that's just what catches my eye from the cast list.

Brace yourselves for FDR: American Badass...

I need to be up early tomorrow (it's getting to be a crazy week), but there's nothing stopping me making tomorrow's movie, baring something completely from left field.

Aww, shucks, I'll have to tell you all about it later then, if it goes really, really well. Hope to catch you again tomorrow.

Anyway, first up, we got Street Sharks... Retsupurae... and some other stuff.

Then, at the top of the coming hour... (A sentence that shall live in infamy:) Barry Bostwick is FDR: American Badass.

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Well, that certainly was an... unusual... movie last night.

Tonight, though, we're rolling out a past 1980's sci-fi/action/suspense cold war relic with Def-Con 4 ()

"The 'Star Wars' technology of the future becomes the reality of today." Of course, anybody here who remains a die-hard fan of Gymkata should remember that's NOT a direct reference to a goddamn George Lucas movie but to Ronald Reagan's batshit ambition to neutralize Soviet nuclear threat with lasers in outer space. Thirty years later, and this still ain't a reality. Give Donald Trump half a chance, though, and I'm sure he'll resolve to revive the godawful program sometime in the coming months...

I'm home from work, as I had to drive my dad to a hospital, and I'll have to take him again to a doctor's appointment in a few hours. I wish I had time to go for a nice long walk or bike ride or something, move around and stuff. But I'll be called into action soon...

That hospital trip wasn't a serious medical emergency, I hope. Is your dad doing okay?

He has diabetes-related problems with his foot that have really screwed him over. Now he has to wear a cast, and will have surgery next month.

So this is more about preliminary visits before that surgery, I take it? Hope all goes well with that going forward. Glad to hear it wasn't a more dire sudden emergency.

Anyway, first up, it's time for another trip through The Crystal Maze, screaming at idiots.

Then, at the top of the coming hour... "the 'Star Wars' technology of the future" becomes the Cold War nightmare from 30 years in the past in Def-Con 4.

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Been fond of the epic poem since high school, but anything about the video game it inspired years back and this animated work that was surely inspired by the game in turn is pretty foreign to me, but what the hey?

Let's set our sights on Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic:

But does it have massive swinging devil cock?

I glanced around the movie some time months ago, and it looked interesting. I notice they're hyping it up as having ties to anime and manga. I looked it up on Wikipedia and there's a lot of Japanese and also Korean names in the credits.

I wonder what it was like to make the movie. Like, what was the process of getting this odd international hodgepodge of designers together to make this? What did those people think of the experience of making something like this?

Fuck, I gotta call an audible. YouTube uploader made tonight's movie non-embeddable, and I didn't notice this until just now. Entirely my fault, but we'll take another go at this one another day in the very near future.

In the meantime... Can I interest anybody right now in revisiting Christopher Walken in McBain?

I was looking forward to tonight's movie. Damn it!

How about rewatching that other animated movie that took place in Hell?

I need a title. If you can find it on YouTube, throw it on the playlist.

Found it! It's called Lady Death.

I really wanted to see the animated Inferno, but this is thematically similar.

edited 8th Dec '16 4:03:51 PM by BonsaiForest