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   Chris "Sampo" Cornell to Doug Elrod   
   Re: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (C   
   03 Dec 08 06:51:34   
   
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   From: msampo@aol.com   
      
   In article   
   <2486d653-3804-4a4c-adfc-98f06cabe358@k8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,   
    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" :-).   
      
   I haven't seen it yet, but that's an interesting and astute observation.   
      
   > 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).   
      
   I sincerely doubt it.   
      
   Sampo   
      
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