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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

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17501: Nov 25th 2016 at 4:11:00 PM

Oh, Ho-Oh-HOOOOoooooooo...

Back from holiday and kicking off Kung Fu Friday with a double serving of gag dubbing and Japanese gameshow insanity on mXc.

Then, at the top of the coming hour, our business is a matter Of Cooks and Kung Fu with Jackie Chan Jacky Chen.

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


~Bisected8 ~Morgikit ~lewattoo ~Noaqiyeum ~Finger Puppet ~Completely Normal Guy ~TAPETRVE ~Rockonman ~spacealien ~Mystic Eclectic ~Shippudentimes ~Space Wolf ~colonelcathcart ~Germi91 ~Maple Samurai ~Gehayadren ~fredhot16 ~pyrite

Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#17502: Nov 25th 2016 at 4:47:51 PM

[up][up]And you can't spell laughter without augh!

War is God.
SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17503: Nov 26th 2016 at 8:30:15 AM

This movie here is... odd.

For starters, the movie's reception amongst critics and audiences is comparable to (if marginally "better" than) Suicide Squad (I seriously haven't had so much "fun" frequently mocking a comic book movie since Batman & Robin)... Yet, nevertheless, Siskel & Ebert apparently gave it "Two Thumbs Up."

This movie contains:

  • An overworked family man who dies and is reincarnated as a dog.
  • Eric Stoltz as a former colleague of the dead family man who makes moves on the man's grieving widow and child.
  • If one Pulp Fiction actor weren't enough, Samuel L. Jackson voices another dead person reincarnated as a dog.
  • A monkey helps rescue a puppy from a cosmetics testing facility.
  • At one point the dog attempts to kill Eric Stoltz, who isn't entirely upset by that.

Is this so bad it's good? Is it an unexpected masterpiece? Or is it a total Fluke, by name and by nature?

edited 26th Nov '16 8:32:30 AM by SeanMurrayI

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#17504: Nov 26th 2016 at 10:15:47 AM

I have babysitting today, but I hope I don't miss this!

I love how the trailer attempted to play it up for drama, too!

edited 26th Nov '16 10:16:45 AM by BonsaiForest

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17505: Nov 26th 2016 at 11:49:01 AM

[up]The movie basically is a heartfelt drama, and the film does a decent job of it (For the most part, anyway). It's just impossible to put much of the details into words and want to take it seriously.

edited 26th Nov '16 11:49:46 AM by SeanMurrayI

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
#17506: Nov 26th 2016 at 3:57:58 PM

I'm going to have to miss the next few days because of some early starts, but I'll be back on Monday.

TV Tropes's No. 1 bread themed lesbian. she/her, fae/faer
SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17507: Nov 26th 2016 at 4:15:03 PM

Oh boy, here we go.

First up, Retsupurae riff on... something British. I'm not sure what exactly.

Then, at the top of the coming hour... It's the only 1990's family film about reincarnation featuring the voice of Samuel L. Jackson: Fluke.

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


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Morgikit Mikon :3 from War Drobe, Spare Oom Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Mikon :3
#17508: Nov 26th 2016 at 5:15:00 PM

This might interest some people. A direct to video movie from the BBC featuring 4 former Doctors. And something about a corporate conspiracy of sorts, I don't quite remember. But hey, apparently it's only an hour.

Here's a trailer for The Airzone Solution.

edited 26th Nov '16 5:15:42 PM by Morgikit

Shippudentimes Since: Dec, 2012
#17509: Nov 26th 2016 at 8:14:30 PM

I brought up the movie Free Birds (2013) the other day in the chat for a next possible pre-Thanksgiving viewing, and here's a trailer.

It's been described as a blatant beat-for-beat ripoff of Aardaman's/ Dreamworks' 2000 movie Chicken Run .

The critic's consensus (a rating of 17% of 100) on Rotten Tomatoes with an audience score of 44% out of 100) is:

Technically proficient yet creatively moribund, Free Birds begs unfortunate comparisons with the dim-witted fowl that inspired it.

Apparently it's a half-baked environmental message that delves into the Metaphorgotten pretty quickly and violates its own half-baked message by the end.

edited 26th Nov '16 8:16:08 PM by Shippudentimes

Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#17510: Nov 26th 2016 at 8:23:03 PM

Sorry guys and girls, I wasn't feeling that great earlier today for some reason.

War is God.
SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17511: Nov 27th 2016 at 8:37:28 AM

Tonight's film calls itself "A Rock & Roll Fable".

Wikipedia describes it as "a mix of musical, action, neo-noir, drama, and comedy, with elements of retro-1950s and 1980s."

A further paragraph on on the ambitions of director Walter Hill (of The Warriors fame and notoriety) states:

According to Hill, the film's origins came out of a desire to make what he thought was a perfect film when he was a teenager, and put in all of the things that he thought were "great then and which I still have great affection for: custom cars, kissing in the rain, neon, trains in the night, high-speed pursuit, rumbles, rock stars, motorcycles, jokes in tough situations, leather jackets and questions of honor".

With all this spectacle built up on a sheer rush of energy overloading the senses like a hit of cocaine, it's a shock that a movie like this actually lost money at the US box office against a $15 million budget.

Nevertheless, it certainly deserves a chance with us.

Boasting a cast that includes the likes of Michael Paré, Diane Lane (not her singing voice), Rick Moranis, a very unknown Bill Paxton, Ed Begley, Jr., E.G. Daily, and punk rock singer Lee "I Got Banned for Life on Saturday Night Live" Ving... Plus the first ever substantial film role for Willem Dafoe as an evil dude with the name Raven Shaddock... Raven Shaddock (It certainly helps explain his appearance in that other movie we saw him in with Judge Reinhold the other week).

Here is... Streets of Fire

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17512: Nov 27th 2016 at 4:09:32 PM

Alright, we're taking it easy getting into the swing of things with another run through The Crystal Maze.

Then, at the top of the coming hour, we brace ourselves for the "rock & roll fable" Streets of Fire.

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


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SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17513: Nov 28th 2016 at 8:48:23 AM

Here's an intriguing production backstory: A TV-movie made for UPN intended as a pilot for a space-faring sci-fi series that never materialized that was directed by Joe Dante. Yes, that Joe Dante.

There's no trailer or commercials to be found to give us a better expectation of these things. All we have to go by is the genre, the name of a prominent director (and the Dick Miller cameo that would surely come with it), and an IMDb synopsis:

A galactic civil war has lead to a new Dark Age. Thief Thorpe seeks help from a former rebel, now a warlord, and a former general, who wishes to rebuild the Galactic Republic, to save his missing sister Nova from mysterious aliens.

This is known as both The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy and The Osiris Chronicles (presumably, the name of the proposed TV series that never spun off).

Until later, enjoy this other unrelated sci-fi video...

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#17514: Nov 28th 2016 at 10:45:10 AM

This Christmas really feels empty as far as games go. Damn. Any good movies coming out? I hope Moana is good. Disney has been coming up with a lot of ideas that I think won't turn out great, and then I watch them and they turn out fantastic.

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17515: Nov 28th 2016 at 3:14:31 PM

Eh, multiplexes don't run good movies anymore.

The only crap that really catches my eye anymore is another Kate Beckinsale Underworld movie, which I didn't think the world needed more of, and yet another Amitiyville Horror movie, which the world needs even less. Both of those ain't coming out until after the New Year.

I can't remember where I saw this trailer before (maybe somebody shared it in the chat?), but this is weirdass shit will at least get a limited release somewhere this Friday:

edited 28th Nov '16 3:18:20 PM by SeanMurrayI

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#17516: Nov 28th 2016 at 3:36:49 PM

Isn't The Last Guardian coming out this year after over a decade of waiting? Pokemon Sun and Moon are also out, if that's your bag. I know it's mine.

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17517: Nov 28th 2016 at 4:09:06 PM

So here we go.

First up, more episodes of Gamesmaster and Street Sharks to get in a groove.

Then, at the top of the coming hour... It's Joe Dante's sci-fi opus The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy

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


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Gehayadren Bad Movie Binge Collector from A Garbage Fire Since: Jun, 2016 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#17518: Nov 28th 2016 at 5:30:11 PM

Here's the film that I was talking about in the CyTube channel. The Mummy's Dungeon was a formerly lost film, until VeeHS user Komrads uploaded it. It looks like quality dog poop.

edited 28th Nov '16 5:31:26 PM by Gehayadren

Ha ha ha. What a story, Mark.
SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17519: Nov 29th 2016 at 8:22:27 AM

[up]Scrubbing through this, and I immediately find a Nazi swastika lying at the edge of the camera frame @9:37. Do we dare to watch any more of this?

Anyway, tonight we have one of Vincent Price's more prominent horror features made in-between Roger Corman's and American International Pictures' loose and very lose adaptations of Edgar Allen Poe works. This one in particular was his immediate followup to The Raven (Remember all the rivaling wizards and sorcerers duking it out with each other in Poe's poem?)

This is Diary of a Madman.

Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#17520: Nov 29th 2016 at 12:45:58 PM

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/andrew_price.jpg

War is God.
SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17521: Nov 29th 2016 at 4:14:12 PM

Easing into things right now with an old episode of Iron Chef.

Then, at the top of the coming hour, we got the one and only Vincent Price in Diary of a Madman.

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


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SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17522: Nov 30th 2016 at 9:18:09 AM

The more I think about the premise behind tonight's movie, the more I think this just may be the single stupidest, most logically unsound film I've seen ever since I first saw Johnny Mnemonic roughly ten years ago. That would be a monumentally impressive, if dubious, feat for a movie to pull off.

Here we have a story based on some seriously misplaced paranoia about Chinese computer chips and the belief that China could easily launch a massive cyber attack against the United States that disables every electronic device made after Nixon's visit to China in the early 1970's or something. This is some ridiculous Alex Jones shit.

"Oh, hey, isn't that Samsung Galaxy smartphone you're carrying manufactured in South Korea? Well, you better be wary because, one day, the nonexistent Chinese components inside it are gonna cripple America and we'll all be doomed, DOOMED, I SAY!"

Other clearly misguided and downright idiotic premises in this movie are pointed out in some of the IMDb user reviews:

...[W]e don't owe China anything, they own American bonds. It's like owning stock in our country, if we do good their bonds are worth more and they do good. For this and other reasons if they destroyed American consumerism they would destroy themselves.

Another hilarious thing about this story were the wristbands that you are supposed to wear after the "invasion". When you put them on your wrist they instantly know your name, and if you walk 100ft away from your house after 3pm your wrist will "start burning", then somehow you die. I'm assuming they are supposed to be killed by electrocution, but whats up with the "burning" that happens for like 3 min before they die? Why doesn't the bracelet just electrocute them? Probably has to do with the fact that batteries don't have enough amperage to kill someone. They would get shocked, maybe burned, then the thing would shut off because the battery would die. Anyway, how are you supposed to charge those things when you can't take them off. Just sit by the outlet 6hrs a day I guess.

What more is there to say? We're in for a really bad treat.

Here is Dragon Day (aka Invasion Day)...

edited 30th Nov '16 9:19:38 AM by SeanMurrayI

Shippudentimes Since: Dec, 2012
#17523: Nov 30th 2016 at 9:24:33 AM

I still think Vincent Price makes the classiest of Disney villains.

On that note, have we seen the theatrical and/or "Re-Cobbled" cut of The Thief and the Cobbler ?

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17524: Nov 30th 2016 at 12:50:20 PM

Yes, we have. It got a [awesome][awesome], apparently.

Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#17525: Nov 30th 2016 at 3:10:20 PM

Patrick Bateman wrote the premise.

War is God.

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