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From: jtj0012@134.139.2.10
"Doug Elrod" wrote in message
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On Aug 26, 3:38 pm, jb000...@mr-happy.com (JB) wrote:
> In <%1Vsk.76$z4.23...@okeanos.csu.net>,
> Tom Carberry shouted to everyone in earshot,
>
> >I received my copy of "The Wasp Woman" on Saturday and enjoyed it
> >thoroughly.
>
> I'm sure glad I downloaded mine the day it became available and didn't
> get around to watching it till yesterday. but I did enjoy it, or as
> much of it as I remember through the haze of seasonal allergies and
> their drowsiness-inducing medications.
Somehow I enjoyed this less than the others. The first had an aura to
it, perhaps because I was anticipating it so much, and the second had
a couple of things I laughed at. For this one, I think I smiled at
"Oooh, it's Sheriff Taylor, and he's got Opie's head in a box. Oooh!"
-Josh as Floyd the Barber (perhaps channeling "Barton Fink", too?) :-)
I'm now wondering if they are deliberately limiting their
"toolkit" (which in MST3K used to include methods like the
"underlining the situation" technique I remarked on recently). So
instead of comedy techniques A-J, they now run the gamut from A to B
(to borrow a phrase from Dorothy Parker :-)). It's an interesting
experiment, to see how how much comedy they can achieve with the
"restrictor plates" in place (to borrow a metaphor from NASCAR ;-)),
but I think the ultimate answer is going to be: Not nearly as funny
as the average MST3K.
I must respectfully disagree. I thought "The Wasp Woman" was on a par with
some of their better work from both CC and SciFi. Perhaps because I
actually like the movie as a stand alone.
Tom Carberry (#45505, and they should seriously consider "Not of This
Earth")
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