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.
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Edited by SeanMurrayI on Oct 12th 2020 at 1:47:43 PM
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Tonight, we're On Deadly Ground.
Before that, more Mario, and more Chiitan!
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Eventually, lots of explosions happened in a building near the end. And there was a protest showing "No blood for oil" signs, in a movie from 1994! So that slogan existed then.
It got ☠ . Aldo's vanishing X vote (your vote disappears if you leave the server) was still counted (and was what tipped it in this direction). But guys, don't vote and run!
Tomorrow get ready for some R-rated French weirdness.
Edited by BonsaiForest on May 1st 2019 at 7:57:30 AM
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I gotta watch this movie on my own still. How the hell could this be so bad to merit an X ?
Anyway, from the French filmmakers who made Delicatessen (A very delightful movie... which I just realized we've never actually watched because of subtitles), get ready for The City of Lost Children...
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Tonight, we take a trip to France to visit The City of Lost Children, which is more fucked up than it sounds.
Before that, more Mario and Chiitan.
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Well, this movie was some crazy shit that I'd assume could only come from France. How do I even begin to describe it? A metal island in a vast ocean appears to be where all of (French-speaking) humanity resides. Oh, there's a scene where two Siamese twins play a magic song that causes a flea to inject mind control poison into Ron Perlman's character's head, making him turn evil and start trying to kill his roughly 10-year-old cohort, causing her to cry a tear that flies like a mile away, triggering a bunch of animals.
It makes about as much sense as anything else that happens in the movie.
It got unanimous ★★★. We should definitely rewatch it on a weekend with more people and share the French madness.
ShippudenTimes: It's like a combination of Terry Gilliam and Unfortunate Events on crack
Edited by BonsaiForest on May 1st 2019 at 9:53:50 AM
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Tomorrow's movie was picked out by my online friend, btw. She found it on her own and said it would be perfect for the group. I showed it to Sean and he gave his okay.
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I love the title for this one: The Time Machine (I Found at a Yard Sale)
That just about sums up everything...
Okay, everybody who totally shat on On Deadly Ground the other night is obligated to watch tonight's movie and reassess what an especially horrible movie (an X for that matter) is really supposed to look and feel like.
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I take it you watched that movie yourself and decided it was not that bad?
What would you give it?
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Okay, tonight we take a trip with The Time Machine (I Found at a Yard Sale). The kind of movie you'd find at a yard sale, made using actors you'd find at a yard sale.
Before that, more Mario and more Chiitan.
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During the movie, I ran a poll, "What percent of this movie takes place in front of a greenscreen?" Clearly it was at least some number higher than 70%, so I didn't put any choices below that. Probably 100%. And I wasn't the only one who voted that. (Two people chose my facetious "All of this is real!" choice.)
That spaceship looks like a manhole cover.
Anyway, blame my online friend for this unanimous ☠ we just watched.
Edited by BonsaiForest on May 2nd 2019 at 9:38:28 AM
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What's even more baffling than the sheer overabundance of green screen and three whole camera angles (a centered two-shot or front-facing closeups of its two lead actors) is that the YouTube description from the movie's creator takes pride in this being "Shot on Red" (as if the mere use of a high-end 3K HD digital camera should overlook every bullshit thing they actually filmed using the camera) and claims to have been produced by the "Actors' Theatre Production Company." Did anybody appearing on screen in this movie look or behave like an experienced actor? At least anybody could give even the likes of Tommy Wiseau or Neil Breen credit for trying to convey some sense of human emotion on screen, but anybody in that movie apparently lacks all measure of charisma and can't even bother to develop any sort chemistry with their co-performers. This so-called "Actors' Theatre Production Company" can't even provide actual actors. Anyway...
Oh, HO-OH-HOOOOOOoooooooooooo...
I know I forgot to add a trailer last night for tonight's Kung Fu Friday, but before Bonsai put a trailer in place, I was actually looking forward to revisiting the legendary Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (![[awesome]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/minis/award_star_gold_3.png "[awesome]"){kind=small}
), and I think we deserve to treat ourselves...
Edited by SeanMurrayI on May 3rd 2019 at 12:25:15 PM
I just submitted my own review of last night's movie to IMDb:
What really unnerves me, though, is the production title card from some (alleged) studio calling itself the "Actors' Theatre Production Company." Setting aside all of this movie's OTHER numerous faults, failures, crimes, and shortcomings, that production title card (which is the FIRST thing that anybody who'd dare to ever watch this movie would set their eyes upon) gives the impression that this is a vehicle for regional, aspiring ACTORS.
"Sure," I think to myself, "I'm not exactly going to be seeing Sir Lawrence Olivier or Meryl Streep in this thing, but at least the performers on screen would be giving a try, if only for their own sake." I mean, would I be crazy to assume that the good people with the "Actors' Theatre Production Company" would have any regard for ACTING?
Well, surprise! Unless the "Actor's Theatre Production Company" actually happens to be a non-profit whose mission statement is to provide acting gigs for asocial individuals with mental deficiencies and no previous theatre experience, this company couldn't even competently put on a community production of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town."
The acting alone defies comparison to any other "legendarily bad" movie anyone can name. Never before have I seen two people (Johnny James Gatyas and Amy Henry) on screen look less convincing as human beings and lack as much personal chemistry. At least the likes of Tommy Wiseau or even Neil Breen can make an honest attempt at conveying an authentic emotion or make an on-screen "connection" with their cast mates. Here, however, that is a luxury which this film's $3,500 budget cannot afford.
The principal cast of The Time Machine (I Found at a Yardsale) cannot possibly be comprised of people who have any interest trying to act (for stage or screen), and they cannot even be bothered to hide that fact. About the only person in this entire movie who appears to be an authentic performer is a belly dancer (A belly dancer!), and even she's not worth looking at.
Treat this movie as toxic waste and keep far away before you start growing tumors on your thyroid.
Edited by SeanMurrayI on May 3rd 2019 at 12:27:25 PM
Oh, HO-OH-HOOOOOoooooooooo...
Time to kick off Kung Fu Friday with another episode of Takeshi's Castle.
Then, at the top of the coming hour, we revisit the dyed-in-the-wool stone cold classic Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky!
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What's eatin' you, chief?
stop talking to yourself ya weirdo
Edited by Prometheus136 on May 3rd 2019 at 8:22:56 AM
War is God.
Alright, tonight's movie opens with a premise involving a mysterious blackout that plunges the city of Detroit into total darkness, and by the time the sun rises, the city is almost completely devoid of human life (credible). The few people who remain each find their way to a rundown bar and with daylight beginning to disappear completely, our heroes soon realize that their enemy is the darkness itself.
This is Vanishing on 7th Street, with Hayden Christensen and John Leguizamo.
Alright, I'm starting us off with The Super Mario Bros. Super Show.
Then, at the top of the coming hour, we disappear into The Vanishing on 7th Street.
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A new depressing update from "Daddy" Derek Savage:
"Be afraid... Be very afraid... Introducing 'Dirty Dog', Cool Cat's new archenemy..."
Anyway, tonight we got a real pizza shit that I recall actually being made for IMAX 3D, Fly Me to the Moon and the odd story of houseflies hitching a ride on the Apollo 11 rocket. This is gonna be some serious trash, alright.
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"Dogs are my friends! Identify yourself!"
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(LOL!) "Darty DAWWWWWG!!!!!! AAAAAOOOOOOooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuu... !!!!!"
Anyway, first up, we got a video from Jerma that's thematically relevant to last night's movie (still worth a laugh).
Then, after that, at the top of the coming hour, we sit through a bizarre presentation of Cold War / Space Race history and nostalgia told from the perspective of anthropomorphic houseflies in the CGI animated movie Fly Me to the Moon. Again, this movie was originally intended for IMAX 3D.
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Considering how much crap actually got into the movie, we should probably subject ourselves to this sometime.
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Please don't make suggestions like this, especially not so soon after already watching a different abysmal family film; that's just bad etiquette. I'm not even ready to even want to think about awful family movies again.
Anyway... Tonight we roll out our now practically customary Italian murder movie.
I know next to nothing about this one. Never even heard of it or the director before, so we'll all be in for one kind of surprise or another as we figure this one out for ourselves: Watch Me When I Kill.
A murder in a pharmacy is witnessed by a young lady. Her boyfriend begins his own investigation to find the culprit. There's more to the initial murder than what was originally led to be.
But, hey, check out this bitchin' poster!
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Edited by SeanMurrayI on May 6th 2019 at 3:24:36 PM
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Edited by iflewaway on May 6th 2019 at 12:58:32 PM
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I finished watching last night's movie on my own, and I will concur that this was a gigantic mess.
I really wanted to get into this one. The opening credits sequence and licensed used of Bon Jovi gave me some hope that that this could play out like a very rough, unrefined, facsimile of Tarantino movie (and it does seem to have several "Tarantino-esque" qualities... dialogue, however, definitely isn't one of them), but the longer the movie would play out, the more it would be confined to the trappings of late-80s/early-90s action movies, and more closely reflect the stylings of Andy Sidaris (silicone sluts at the biker bar) or the on-screen pairing of Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello in Hudson Hawk (minus the musical numbers)... throw in Tom Seizemore running some sort of megacorp bank with Billy Baldwin leading a nigh-unkillable posse and sprinkle on a throwaway "drugs are bad" message, and you got yourself one hell of a gigantic pile of bullshit. The inclusion of a Fantastic Drug seems solely present to violate the Show, Don't Tell rule; no one is ever seen using "LSD eye-drops," and the movie doesn't even bother to try and use such a thing as an excuse for a throwaway special effect sequence or something.
To really illustrate the depths of how poorly this movie's budget and resources were put to use, contrast the exceptional aforementioned opening credits sequence (with aerial helicopter shots and Bon Jovi muzak) with the early, pivotal armored car heist scene that appears to be filmed inside a bubble on some outdoor studio backlot with the execution of a direct-to-VHS action movie put out by Nu Image.
Then top it all off with all the hints and allusions to some longer history of adventures and shenanigans between the two main characters without the movie ever developing any kind of backstory to make viewers care about it.
As bad and dumb as this movie was, though, I still get the feeling that there's plenty going on here to merit repeated viewings, and perhaps, like Abraxas: Guardian of the Universe, this could be one pizza shit movie that we could warm up to over time.
Anyway, tonight, Steven Seagal is commit industrial espionage and terrorism against Michael Caine in hopes of turning oil fields over to the indigenous tribes of Alaska in On Deadly Ground...
Edited by SeanMurrayI on Apr 30th 2019 at 12:30:53 PM