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   Derek Janssen to Doug Elrod   
   Re: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (C   
   02 Dec 08 23:37:17   
   
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   From: ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net   
      
   Doug Elrod wrote:   
   > I didn't enjoy this one as much as the last (Legacy of Blood).  I   
   > think, perhaps, that carefully avoiding the riffs from the MST3K   
   > version caused a big MST3K-shaped shadow of negative comedy.  I   
   > imagine that doing this one might have been painful in a way beyond   
   > your average bad movie -- kind of like being told to make a movie   
   > about T.E. Lawrence, but, by the way, don't duplicate any of the   
   > scenes in the epic film "Lawrence of Arabia" :-).  If it wouldn't be   
   > considered an insult, a question I would ask is whether they had   
   > access to the "list of jokes cut for time" from the MST3K episode   
   > (such a list certainly existed at *some* point, and there would be a   
   > certain efficiency about incorporating some of that).   
   >   
   > Here are some lines I chuckled over:   
   >   
   > "In the future, all doors will be opened automatically, by stagehands"   
   > -Joel   
      
   If this replaced "OPEN, Koko the Clown door!", it should never happen   
   again.  -_-   
      
   Derek Janssen (some things just work better on the spur of the moment)   
   ejanss1@verizon.net   
      
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