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|    Derek Janssen to Doug Elrod    |
|    Re: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (C    |
|    02 Dec 08 23:37:17    |
      8e7f1bb1       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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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