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Join Us Saturday, October 12th @ ~8:00PM (US/EDT) Here: http://cytu.be/r/TroperCoven


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)

Suggestions List for Future Features

Coven Glossary of In-Jokes, Memes, and Other Useful Terms to Know

Coven .gif Gallery (Our favorite moving images composed in the simplest of digital formats)

Edited by SeanMurrayI on Oct 12th 2020 at 1:47:43 PM

Bisected8 A casual tief of punk from Her Hackette Cave (Primordial Chaos) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
A casual tief of punk
#11726: Feb 2nd 2015 at 3:12:18 PM

I don't think I'll be able to make it tonight. I'm still tired from last night (long story short, I was up for a few more hours after we finished the movie).

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Charbydis Que asco! from software Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Que asco!
#11727: Feb 2nd 2015 at 3:56:21 PM

I'm just trying to participate. What re you so defensive over?

I don't talk soft, that's the other guy.
BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#11728: Feb 2nd 2015 at 4:00:29 PM

Your approach is rude. The "Oh yeah? What about this?" before showing us a link that we had no way of knowing even existed comes across as combative. A better way to phrase it would have been "Actually, I found it on You Tube unlisted. Here you go:"

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#11729: Feb 2nd 2015 at 4:17:05 PM

[up][up][up]Yeah, you better get some sleep, man, and I'll be seeing you again some other time.

As for everybody else, you better say your prayers... because we're beginning an evening touting blatant Christian media. First up, we got a blast from the past from Deeper Understanding, plus the absolute worst Bibleman video that I could find (that we haven't seen before).

Then, at the top of the coming hour, we check out God's Not Dead.

Join us! http://cytu.be/r/TroperCoven


~Morgikit ~Lewattoo ~Tre ~Noaqiyeum ~Wuggles ~Anime Badger ~Finger Puppet ~Colonel Cathcart ~Completely Normal Guy ~Finger Puppet ~Space Wolf ~William Radar Storm ~Will Keaton ~Egregious One ~Sebby Moran ~Inhopelessguy ~Syrika ~BaconManiac5000 ~TAPETRVE ~Hashil ~Quag15

edited 2nd Feb '15 4:48:03 PM by SeanMurrayI

Charbydis Que asco! from software Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Que asco!
#11730: Feb 2nd 2015 at 4:45:11 PM

I'm sorry. I meant the "oh yeah" as a joke. I guess it was a bad joke.

I don't talk soft, that's the other guy.
Knowlessman hey i dunno, why don't you tell me from Stupidtown, USA (FL) Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
hey i dunno, why don't you tell me
#11731: Feb 2nd 2015 at 9:18:22 PM

[up] Tone is a tricky thing on the internet. If something's worded aggressively, it's gonna be taken aggressively. :/ Emoticons can kinda sorta help with that, I think, but nothing replaces body language, and nobody can read minds.

i care but i'm restless, i'm here but i'm really gone, i'm wrong and i'm sorry, baby
SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#11732: Feb 3rd 2015 at 7:43:04 AM

We got our hands on a classic horror movie treat tonight—the original Prom Night, starring Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis.

It's like Roller Boogie and Hell Night rolled into one, and Linda Blair is staying at home!

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#11733: Feb 3rd 2015 at 7:45:29 AM

Leslie Nielsen? Must be before he decided that comedy was his life.

Meanwhile, the page for God's Not Dead claims that the movie is more or less a Whole-Plot Reference to a Chick Tract called Big Daddy. Which is blocked at work and therefore I can't read it. I guess "Category: Traditional Religions" isn't allowed at work.

The Ledge is supposedly the atheist equivalent of the movie we just saw - totally failing, by portraying its atheist protagonist as enough of a jerk to make him unlikeable.

I also just heard of a film called Persecuted. Wanna know its plot? A Christian fights to prevent a law from being passed, a law saying that all religions must be treated equally (which apparently means that no religion can claim they have the whole and only truth). Oh no, the horror. Then he's framed for a murder he didn't commit. Those intolerant persecutors, trying to force equal rights into law! D:<

edited 3rd Feb '15 10:48:06 AM by BonsaiForest

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#11734: Feb 3rd 2015 at 10:54:13 AM

[up]The plots' framing and the motivations of the two main characters (especially the professors) are very similar, but the central argument in the Chick Tract is centered around the proving the case for Creationism, rather than the existence of a God.

Nonetheless, you're in for a hell of a treat when you can look at that later. I think I found it more entertaining than the movie.

edited 3rd Feb '15 11:00:54 AM by SeanMurrayI

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#11735: Feb 3rd 2015 at 11:15:57 AM

I just read it on my phone. What on earth? Lots of things are brought up to be disproven, and in the end, suddenly the Bible is just automatically assumed to be true. Nobody even bothers to ask any questions about it. They should give it the exact same scrutiny that they gave to the professor's evidence of evolution.

I love that conversation at the end. "What will happen if we die believing this?" Who would even think to ask that??

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#11736: Feb 3rd 2015 at 11:31:39 AM

-"Sir, may I quote from the Bible?"
-"YES, YES, YES !! "

dreamedkestrel Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
#11737: Feb 3rd 2015 at 12:10:12 PM

we notice this stuff every time but

those do not look like teenagers

i dont know where to start secret movie club for cool ppl
Prowler I'm here for our date, Rose! Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
I'm here for our date, Rose!
#11738: Feb 3rd 2015 at 12:31:52 PM

Comparing Prom Night to Hell Night is an insult to Hell Night. :X

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#11739: Feb 3rd 2015 at 3:17:46 PM

Is Hell Night really that well-liked? I only remember finding it dull... as did most everybody else who had a say in bestowing it with a rating of [awesome].

The only two things from the movie that I can vividly recall were a visible boom mic... and Linda Blair's cleavage. The rest is long forgotten.

Bisected8 A casual tief of punk from Her Hackette Cave (Primordial Chaos) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
A casual tief of punk
#11740: Feb 3rd 2015 at 3:52:01 PM

I'd assume Prowler meant that in an Insult to Rocks sort of way.

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BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#11741: Feb 3rd 2015 at 4:16:03 PM

~Bisected8 ~Morgikit ~WillKeaton ~WilliamRadarStorm ~CompletelyNormalGuy ~AnimeBadger ~Lewattoo ~ColonelCathcart ~FingerPuppet ~Wuggles ~SpaceWolf ~Tre ~Inhopelessguy ~Peptobislawl ~SebbyMoran ~BaconManiac5000 ~TAPETRVE ~Hashil ~Noaqiyeum

Okay, tonight's Prom Night! Are you excited? Ignore those warnings about the killer on the loose... stupid school administrators trying to ruin our fun.

Before, we got more of Retsuperae playing Sonic 2006, and more Starcade, that 80s gameshow that had nothing to do with stars or famous people, and everything to do with arcades.

Come on in: http://cytu.be/r/tropercoven

Bisected8 A casual tief of punk from Her Hackette Cave (Primordial Chaos) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
A casual tief of punk
#11742: Feb 3rd 2015 at 4:18:30 PM

I won't be able to make it, sadly; I've got an opportunity to impress a potential employer tomorrow so I want to get to bed early.

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SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#11743: Feb 3rd 2015 at 4:26:25 PM

[up]Best of luck, Bi!

I think I can manage to show up in a short while, once I'm finished with an important project that I'm handling.

Prowler I'm here for our date, Rose! Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
I'm here for our date, Rose!
#11744: Feb 3rd 2015 at 4:54:47 PM

[up][up][up][up] I did, in a sense, though I do enjoy Hell Night quite a bit(and going by Rotten Tomatoes and my slasher-loving compatriots, I'm not alone). But, like somebody once said, "Prowler is weird."

But I digress. I used to consider Prom Night one of the dullest slashers ever made. It's certainly the dullest Jamie Lee Curtis-starring one. Tonight should be interesting.

EDIT:

So...Prom Night happened.

Ya know what SHOULD happen? Prom Night II!

edited 3rd Feb '15 6:43:36 PM by Prowler

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#11745: Feb 4th 2015 at 7:02:02 AM

I hate it when a boring movie has a couple good ideas/fun moments, but they're buried within an ocean of bland. That's how I feel about last night's movie.

But I'm looking forward to tonight's bullshit documentary. Wow.

Bisected8 A casual tief of punk from Her Hackette Cave (Primordial Chaos) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
A casual tief of punk
#11746: Feb 4th 2015 at 7:42:59 AM

[up][up][up]Thanks (good news; I'm doing some work experience in a convenience store bakery for two weeks, bad news; I start at 06:30 in the morning, so I might be missing a few days next week and the week after).

edited 4th Feb '15 7:48:26 AM by Bisected8

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Quag15 Since: Mar, 2012
#11747: Feb 4th 2015 at 7:46:05 AM

[up]Good luck.[tup] Hope you'll be back soon.

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#11748: Feb 4th 2015 at 7:46:55 AM

[up][up]Happy to hear that. It sounds amazing.

Yeah, we'll be fitting not one but two feature-length documentaries into tonight's playlist.

In pre-show, we'll have the 47-minute Cane Toads: An Unnatural History. Take my word for it, it's bizarre. And if enough people turn out for most of that, perhaps we may rate that, too.

Then, at 8:00, the marquee attraction: The Law Enforcement Guide to Satanic Cults.

This is gonna be a weird night.

edited 4th Feb '15 7:48:15 AM by SeanMurrayI

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#11750: Feb 4th 2015 at 2:39:39 PM

I found what might be one of the strangest things yet.

It's called Final Flesh. No, it's not a porno. Instead, a comedian hired four "porn for hire" companies that make fetish films based off the requester's script, to make the four pieces that, combined, make up an absurdist comedy. An absurdist comedy made by porno companies that don't realize they're making a comedy instead of some guy's weird fetish piece.

Check the trailer above. Well, the soundtrack is NSFW, but the content? Well, it doesn't have any sex or nudity, while the film has no sex.

edited 4th Feb '15 4:02:12 PM by BonsaiForest


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