From: matrix29@charter.net   
      
   "Nathan Seese"  wrote in message   
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   > 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'm rather fond of the un-MSTied "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank", "The   
   Magic Sword", most of the Godzilla movies (they were silly goofy fun   
   anyway), "The Brain that Would Not Die" (although the plot is a bit   
   simplistic for my grownup self versus my child self that originally watched   
   it), "The Green Slime" (good kid entertainment), "Phase 4" (works as a   
   pretty decent light science-fiction tension show), "The Giant Spider   
   Invasion" (hilarious improvement with MST3K yet not bad on its own), most of   
   the Hercules movies, "Village of the Giants", "This Island Earth",   
   "Laserblast", "The Incredible Melting Man" (great gooey horror for its time   
   that lost the edge with the full-on uncensored gore of today's movies),   
   "Parts: The Clonus Horror" (works great as a movie if you were a reader of   
   MARVEL Comics - "Micronauts" series's of comics), and "Squirm" (slow moving   
   plot, but great stuff if you had a moronic redneck step-father that you grew   
   to hate more and more everyday, great performance from the entire cast in   
   this movie too).  Some movies are a victim of the time they were made and   
   the budget plus cast & crew they were able to obtain and the educational   
   experience level of the writers.  There have been a few great remakes   
   already with bigger budgets that I have enjoyed and you folks have already   
   spotted a few of them at the theaters and on the Sci-Fi Channel.   
      
       All of the rest of the movies I never knew about or watched before MST3K   
   gave them the high-poking comedy treatment.  I probably would not have a   
   great care for many of the un-MSTied movies if I encountered them before   
   seeing the MST3K treated versions.  Now they all have a special place in my   
   heart as a result of the intermixing of the movie and MST3K crew's great   
   work with the hilarious comedy that resulted.  In many ways the MST3K   
   treatment gave me a strong emotional-investment in enjoying the movies   
   despite the flaws, no matter what the movie was about, because I loved the   
   great humor that played off the quirks of the movies themselves.  It is kind   
   of how a mediocre meal is greatly improved by a wonderful restaurant staff,   
   engaging music, and a clever show.  Of course, there is a rational price   
   limit no matter how great the whole result comes out to be, so the   
   deliverers should not be unreasonably greedy.   
      
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