From: ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net   
      
   dgates wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:08:00 +0200 (CEST), Nathan Seese   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>As in, which movies would be most bearable to watch without the riffs?   
   >>I've seen a little more than dozen episodes, and so far my "favorite"   
   >>movie is probably Time Chasers. It's cliched, low budget, and M&TB really   
   >>tear it apart, but I think I could live through an unedited version.   
   >   
   > I remember a version of this thread way back when.  The movie that   
   > seemed to get the most support was "Kitten with a Whip."   
      
   And the running joke we get in the host segments is...a guy *dressed   
   like a cat!*  He's the Kitten with a Whip that you've heard tell about,   
   get it?  :-D   
      
   (...THAT'S the most target they could make fun of, out of the entire movie?)   
      
   > Nowadays, I'd say "Danger: Diabolik" blows that one away.   
   >   
   > I remember that, riffing it, it seemed that a couple times Mike or   
   > Crow didn't realize that the movie was fully self-aware about what it   
   > was doing.   
      
   And actually, Russia considers "Jack Frost" and "Magic Voyage of Sinbad"   
   to be classics, in their original forms--   
   They may LOOK goofy, yes, but it's an *honest*, straightforward goofy on   
   an East-European budget, and trying to be as culturally close as   
   possible to their source material.   
      
   (In fact, seems like the Mike-era "Frost" and "Sword & the Dragon"   
   didn't really seem to know *why* they were picking on the films, outside   
   of just desperately stretching old Joel-era "Day the Earth Froze" licks   
   for fan value--   
   Oddly, in the Russian "Sinbad", Kevin Murphy keeps making Finnish jokes,   
   and in the Finnish "Sword", M&tB keep making Swedish jokes...World   
   geography is not their strong suits.)   
      
   Derek Janssen   
   ejanss1@verizon.net   
      
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