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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
#17526: Nov 30th 2016 at 4:14:30 PM

A batshit playlist before a batshit movie!

First up, we got a mix of new Retsupurae vids, a vid from Cr1TiKaL... and another episode of the hyperactive video game show Bits (the show so fucking intense, we only watch, like, one episode every 3 months).

Then, at the top of the coming hour, China is taking over America and running wild over a small Appalachian town through people's iPhones in Dragon Day.

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

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#17527: Nov 30th 2016 at 6:39:52 PM

So a lot of Americans surrender to the communist invaders, while others flee to Mexico. Great ending.

I happen to have a thing for "survival" movies. People surviving in the woods, surviving on an island, surviving apocalyptic events, etc. Dealing with the threats such things pose (lack of food and water, other people trying to survive, etc.)

As such, this was a fun movie, and I'm happy to see it got ★★★★.

fredhot16 Don't want to leave but cannot pretend from Baton Rogue, Louisiana. Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
Don't want to leave but cannot pretend
#17528: Nov 30th 2016 at 6:41:39 PM

One word can sum up my feelings for this movie: Why.

Why?

WWWHHHYYY?

WWWWWWWWHHHHHHHYYYYYYYY?

WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

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SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17529: Nov 30th 2016 at 8:38:35 PM

More real quotes from real viewers on this [awesome][awesome][awesome][awesome] masterpiece (This thing attracts an odd mix of snarks, the director's parents, and total crackpots):

Let me start by saying I joined IMDb today just to leave this review. I decided to do this after I noticed that 70 something people gave this film a rating of 10. Clearly these people are the cast/crew and their friends. You people have no shame.

...

All in all I do actually feel bad for the guy who wrote, directed, and produced this movie, but come on man, you should have never picked up a pen. Also you and your crew are scum for giving this movie a 10. I know even you don't believe it deserves that. Anyway at this point you should be marketing this as an intentionally bad movie or a comedy. You'd probably get this movie more attention if you gave it the rating it deserves.

Even the guy that's suppose to be in the know, the NSA guy, says things like China is a 5000 year old empire ... That 5000 years of Chinese people living there have had a multitude of different governments. They didn't do their research.

The story was very intelligent, not overly complicated. The plot was simple, believable and no obvious holes.

Thought this film was a good idea when I read about it and thought something like this could happen, but wished I hadn't spent my time. That's time I can never get back. It may be a low budget film but it looks cheap and the acting is so bad that acting seriously can't be their day job. I think the child and the horse are probably the best actors in it.

The fact that garbage such as this actually gets funded is in and of itself far more of a threat to America's integrity than anything an enemy could conjure up from the outside.

Red Dawn (1984, starring Patrick Swayze) was an excellent movie with great acting and plausible plot.

Invasion Day (2013, AKA "Dragon Day") is all of that and much more— a highly realistic and very frightening portrayal of would could very possibly happen in the United States.

As of 2351 hours GMT on August 8, 2016 the U.S. National Debt is in excess of $19.4 TRILLION USD. A trillion is 1,000 x billion.

One of my favorite characters in the film was the Mexican illegal immigrant Alonso. His appearance as a critical part of the story was moving and unexpected.

The ending managed to steer clear of clichés and was a thought-provoking turn into something different. It had my friend who saw it with me talking about it for quite a while.

I really wanted to like this movie because I'm sympathetic to some of it's basic ideas such as prepping, fiscal conservatism, and national sovereignty. Unfortunately, "Dragon Day" is a poorly constructed mish-mash of themes that just don't fit together. I regret the $4 I spent to rent it from Amazon and I have no interest in seeing any further efforts from writer/director, Jeffrey Travis.

...

There is yet another weird incongruity in this movie: Despite being openly hostile to Beijing because of it's potential threat to US sovereignty, DD is very sympathetic to Mexico. All of the Mexican characters are portrayed as virtually Christ-like. The main one is essentially a mestizo version of the "Magic Negro" trope found in so many Hollywood movies. This nonsense is a bizarre contradiction to the movie's theme of American nationalism. I have never met a Patriot who was happy about Mexico's ongoing, slow-motion occupation of the West Coast and the Southwest. Of course, there are any number of white liberals who love the idea (because Mexican culture is sooo supportive of feminism, gay rights, and transexuality, lol?) but these are the same self-hating, logic-impaired basket cases who always side against Trad-Cons, no matter what the issue. Does Travis actually think these people have the slightest sympathy for prepping, fiscal conservatism, or national sovereignty? If so, he should read all the reviews and posts here accusing him of "racism" because he doesn't support preemptive surrender to China.

So is the movie jingoistic propaganda designed to stir up fear of the yellow horde?

NO, NO, NO! In the entire movie, only ONE Chinese military person is even SHOWN, and then for maybe a minute! This movie is about the tremendously vulnerable position America has put itself in by miring itself in debt, while at the same time creating an ever more government-dependent citizenry, and an entire nationwide infrastructure with a serious Achilles heel.

This movie not only is action packed, but has guts to mention China! On the cutting edge, the movie is not afraid to show how much American business has been a lap dog to China. This movie will stir you upturn the apple cart!!!! The movie American business men don't want you to see!

edited 30th Nov '16 8:39:11 PM by SeanMurrayI

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17530: Dec 1st 2016 at 8:54:42 AM

So tonight's movie hosted by the same wonderful channel that brought us last night's "masterpiece" includes another movie sporting a thumbnail for 40 Days and 40 Nights—the early 2000's romantic comedy starring Josh Hartnett and Shannyn Sossamon about a young male who gives up all forms of sexual activity for the season of Lent (even stupider than it sounds).

However, that's NOT the movie that corresponds with the thumbnail.

What we're actually watching is a disaster movie distributed by The Asylum that's largely inspired by the biblical story of Noah's Ark called 40 Days and Nights, featuring Monica Keena of Freddy vs. Jason (and, as I recall, the one-time celebrity crush of a really obsessive troper who was maintaining a TVT page for her that had to be toned down considerably—it's still an incredibly stupid and pointless article entry).

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
#17531: Dec 1st 2016 at 12:15:20 PM

[up][up] Those reviews are nearly as entertaining as the movie itself.

Anyway, I have a driving lesson first thing, so I'll see you all for KFF. waii

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I-Teleported-Bread Since: Jul, 2016
#17532: Dec 1st 2016 at 2:09:53 PM

say, guys, did anyone hear about this TV movie based off of the Legends Of The Hidden Temple game show we watched a while back? it aired last saturday, i believe.

EDIT: i still happen to have that dvd program on my laptop, and i also happen to have some crappy movies that seem right up our alley on dvd. i can also scout for any crappy cheap movies i can find in stores where i live, if you guys would like.

edited 1st Dec '16 2:16:08 PM by I-Teleported-Bread

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17533: Dec 1st 2016 at 2:23:07 PM

Good lord, what happened to Kirk Fogg? He looks like Ted Cruz dressed as Kirk Fogg on his way to the worst Halloween party imaginable.

EDIT: [up]What DVD's do you have?

edited 1st Dec '16 2:23:59 PM by SeanMurrayI

I-Teleported-Bread Since: Jul, 2016
#17534: Dec 1st 2016 at 2:34:24 PM

mostly horror and comedy, but there's also a few action movies, too, AFAIK.

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17535: Dec 1st 2016 at 4:10:05 PM

[up]I'm asking what movie titles you have. I'm assuming at least one caught your eye before you brought this up.

Anyway, we'll get rockin' and a rollin' right now with Street Sharks and Gamesmaster.

Then, at the top of the coming hour... The Asylum goes biblical in 40 Days and Nights.

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


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ColonelCathcart Since: Jun, 2013
#17536: Dec 1st 2016 at 4:17:35 PM

From the content advisory of the rom-com of the same name: "What a sick society we are. This is pathetic."

Why aren't we watching this instead? (I'm only mostly facetious)

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17537: Dec 2nd 2016 at 4:44:23 AM

Oh, Ho-Oh-HOOOOOoooooooooo...

Coming to us this Kung Fu Friday, from the director of Commando, Mark L. Lester, comes a Mark Dacascos action vehicle about going undercover at an American military base near the US-Mexico border to investigate corruption and drug smuggling. Go on, take a guess at what he finds...

Basically, the same sort of themes we saw the last time we watched that other Mark L. Lester movie with Lou Diamond Philips. You know, the one inspired by "true events."

Here's The Base.

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17538: Dec 2nd 2016 at 3:37:12 PM

Good news for anybody who loves bad news:

L. Ron Hubbard's sendoff tune "Thank You for Listening" is back on YouTube, and we're throwing that shit on Google Docs so it can NEVER be lost to us ever again!

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#17539: Dec 2nd 2016 at 3:48:57 PM

Awesome. I find that song enjoyable to listen to for the music itself, yet fun for its terrible lyrics and questionable singing quality from Elron himself.

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17540: Dec 2nd 2016 at 4:14:16 PM

''Oh, Ho-Oh-HOOOOOOooooooooooooo...

Let's get Kung Fu Friday off and running with some Godfrey Ho insanity and more of mXc.

Then, at the top of the coming hour, the director of Commando ([awesome][awesome][awesome][awesome]) joins forces with Mark Dacascos to bring to us The Base.

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

fredhot16 Don't want to leave but cannot pretend from Baton Rogue, Louisiana. Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
Don't want to leave but cannot pretend
#17541: Dec 2nd 2016 at 6:39:47 PM

Yeah, sorry guys, but I've got finals next so I won't be back until next Saturday.

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BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#17542: Dec 3rd 2016 at 8:17:14 AM

About that Legends of the Hidden Temple movie? It's been made already. And guess who's got it. 😁

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17543: Dec 3rd 2016 at 8:44:20 AM

Gonna send this one out en masse.

Tonight's feature presentation is gonna begin roughly thirty minutes earlier around 7:30 PM (EST), and this is gonna be a really poignant film that I really hope many of us can give a look.

This film is a personal favorite of mine from Spike Lee that I was actually hoping to give a go here much earlier in the year, but right now might be an even better time to watch this than before—1996's Get on the Bus.

The general focus of the film concerns a group of black men traveling from Los Angeles to the Million Man March in October 1995, but more specifically than delving into the racial issues that the march was based on (and which are still of concern 20 years later, today), this is an extraordinary character study that exposes conflicts over group identity and personal perceptions that delve even deeper (and may be even more divisive) than race.

Much like Spike Lee's seminal work Do the Right Thing before this, the majority of the film is driven by verbal confrontation and all sides believing they have a fair point to make, and it in many cases, it may not be easy for a viewer to pick a "correct" side (If at any time one watching this movie does choose a side, it would be worth asking yourself first how much your own personal biases may be a factor in your judgement).

Another common theme to dwell on is how most everybody on the bus distances their reasons for going to the march from the controversial and inflammatory views of the march's original organizer, Louis Farrakhannote . Consider what parallels might be found here today with a white America that elected Donald Trump as a leader, despite much of his own horrific rhetoric that many wouldn't agree with.

(Not embedding the trailer here, only because I don't think it does the actual movie any justice, but anyone can seek it out, if interested)


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edited 3rd Dec '16 12:31:50 PM by SeanMurrayI

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#17544: Dec 3rd 2016 at 8:49:33 AM

I will be babysitting around 4 PM, but I'll try to be home by 7.

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
#17545: Dec 3rd 2016 at 8:52:43 AM

Sooo...good news; I've been offered training for the bakery at work and to have all my normal hours moved there.

Bad news: this means I'm up at the crack of dawn Monday/Thursday (starting this week), so I won't be able to make it Sunday or Monday anymore (and there'll probably be Thursdays where I'm too tired to stay up).

I also won't be able to make it tonight because I need to be up in the morning to get some Christmas stuff done before work.

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SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17546: Dec 3rd 2016 at 9:14:44 AM

Congrats, Bi! I know that's a position that'll suit you well.

If you'd still wish to check out tonight's movie at a more opportune time for yourself, shoot me a PM, and I'll get that to you.

Enjoy your weekend, though, and hope to catch a movie with you again during the mid-week.

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17547: Dec 3rd 2016 at 4:00:08 PM

Alright, as a special treat right now, first we have the very special reprisal of Knightmare created especially for "Geek Week" on YouTube (as if every week on YouTube isn't a "geek week").

Then, immediately following that at 7:30 PM (EST) is a special showing of Spike Lee's Get on the Bus.

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


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

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17548: Dec 4th 2016 at 7:04:13 AM

Glad everybody took something away from last night's movie.

Tonight, though, we'll let our hair down with something more... routine.

The weirdest thing that strikes me about tonight's feature is that its appeal is most clearly with adults who were watching Nickelodeon over 20 years ago, but the target audience would actually be a much younger generation that could barely even know about any of this stuff.

All I can say is it's just great that Kirk Fogg was able to take the time out of his busy schedule working on a cure for cancer or something important like that to make an appearance on Nickelodeon again.

Here is Legends of the Hidden Temple: The Movie...

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#17549: Dec 4th 2016 at 7:27:06 AM

Oh yeah, it annoys me when something has a confused audience target.

I say this despite my belief that works should be for "whoever wants to read/watch/play them", and that a target audience can be very limiting.

Still, having confused targeting is a problem for works that have very limited appeal or have potential to scare away groups they might otherwise appeal to, or attract the audience that will dislike it most.

A perfect example from my own childhood is Peter Pan & the Pirates. That cartoon was a Darker and Edgier take on Peter Pan, made ~1990. I loved it. I found it by channel surfing when I was a kid, and it looked interesting. And you know, it scared away much of its possible audience. Little kids? Too brutal and scary for them. Older kids? It's about Peter Pan, so take what you will from that.

At least with the movie Pan, I can see adults being more willing to check it out, but with that cartoon, it was clearly kid-oriented yet also dark as fuck for what it was. It stood no chance, and even as a kid, when it got cancelled, I could quickly guess why.

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#17550: Dec 4th 2016 at 10:38:04 AM

Well, The Accountant has a 51% on Rotten Tomatoes, but a 7.6 from the IMDB. You Tube reviewers are giving it good reviews, while mainstream critics are giving it bad ones. Critical Dissonance indeed.

I found an HD copy, so I'll be checking it again. I'm not sure that it's material for us though; it's super recent, and despite the critics railing on it for being implausible and absurd, it's also probably too good for us.

edited 4th Dec '16 11:39:32 AM by BonsaiForest


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