The "I'm watching/just watched *movie title* thread....

[Tarbaby]

Elysium(2013)sci-fi Ill-received follow-up by the maker of "District nine". Earth's elite  live in luxury on a satellite while the rest of us Rabbo scrounge for existence here on the planet. Set in 2154. I see that for every person who loves this movie about nine people hated it.

[b_dubb]

Elysium(2013)sci-fi Ill-received follow-up by the maker of "District nine". Earth's elite  live in luxury on a satellite while the rest of us Rabbo scrounge for existence here on the planet. Set in 2154. I see that for every person who loves this movie about nine people hated it.

I really liked that movie. Brace yourselves. Unmitigated fan boy hate inbound

[RcCle]

"Wavelength" 1983


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP8jrXY00-Y

Soundtrack by: Tangerine Dream!

"Two young lovers learn that a small group of child-like space aliens are marooned on Earth and are being held prisoner at a top secret military facility. The couple then decide to liberate the extraterrestrial castaways and help them make a rendezvous with a rescue ship sent from the alien home planet."

[Treading Water]

Elysium(2013)sci-fi Ill-received follow-up by the maker of "District nine". Earth's elite  live in luxury on a satellite while the rest of us Rabbo scrounge for existence here on the planet. Set in 2154. I see that for every person who loves this movie about nine people hated it.

Does this mean you liked it??   

[George Drooly]

"Wavelength" 1983


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP8jrXY00-Y

Soundtrack by: Tangerine Dream!

"Two young lovers learn that a small group of child-like space aliens are marooned on Earth and are being held prisoner at a top secret military facility. The couple then decide to liberate the extraterrestrial castaways and help them make a rendezvous with a rescue ship sent from the alien home planet."

Thought you meant this one, an old art film classic:


http://youtu.be/aBOzOVLxbCE

[Tarbaby]

 I had the impression that the Elysium earth was a dystopian society, falling apart at the seams, similar to Blade Runner movie.

Does this mean you liked it??   

I did enjoy it but remember, I can't see, I just enjoyed the audio. And frankly, I was half dozing and the audio and music and special effects was very evocative. And of course I absorbed the dialogue and plot.

[missing transmission]

10 mins 45 secounds into Beyond the Black Rainbow....

If that's not a nod to Phantasm's music and a Barracuda distance shot, I don't know what is.

I'm a sucker for synth scores so for that reason alone I'm a fan. I may start a whole new thread just for old school/retro synth music.

So that's just an abridged version? [of rifftrax Casablanca]

You can buy the whole rifftrax commentary and many other besides from the official website.

(Or acquire it from "other sources" already synced and mixed  : )

BTW, did you catch the Nat Geo channel on April Fools Day when they turned it over to Rifftrax?  I just happened to surf by and heard the unmistakable voices of Mike and Kevin doing horrible things to a cheesy nature documentary.  Great stuff, and apparently there's a chance they'll get a regular show there because one of Nat Geo's programming execs is a big fan.

No but that sounds amazing, and reminds me of when veteran and much loved comedian Eric Morecambe paid an unscheduled visit to the 1975 Xmas Eve World of Sport and ended up staying the for the whole show


WORLD OF SPORT

-------------------------

And I found Elysium... okay but nothing special. Although Sharlto Copley was excellent

Snowpiercer is a film of many flaws but I thoroughly enjoyed it... seems most films I like veer into "flawed but interesting"   

[Camazotz Automat]

Attn MST3K fans:

Tonight on the "RETRO-TV" over the air network, an MST3K episode will broadcast to your television antennas. Retro TV runs over-the-air on local affiliates’ digital sub-channels and low-power stations.

There is one in my area, but I'm not picking up a good signal. Figures. I thought it would be cool to see an episode via the original medium/carrier.

I believe the time tonight is 8 PM Eastern, with the Saturday episode repeated on Sunday afternoon.

The weekly Saturday schedule for the next two months:

July 5: The Mad Monster
July 12: The Corpse Vanishes
July 19: First Spaceship On Venus
July 26: The Unearthly
August 2: Cave Dwellers
August 9: Pod People
August 16: The Castle of Fu Manchu
August 23: The Giant Gila Monster
August 30: The Indestructible Man

To see if RETRO-TV has an affiliate in your area, go here:

http://www.myretrotv.com/affiliates--schedules.html

[ItsOver]

Thanks for the MST3K reminder.  I'm in a similar situation.  The local Retro TV station is a challenge to pick-up.  I'll see what I can do with some antenna fiddling. 

"Pod People?"   Gag, what would happen if Jorch Noory produced a movie.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Attn MST3K fans:

Tonight on the "RETRO-TV" over the air network, an MST3K episode will broadcast to your television antennas. Retro TV runs over-the-air on local affiliates’ digital sub-channels and low-power stations.

There is one in my area, but I'm not picking up a good signal. Figures. I thought it would be cool to see an episode via the original medium/carrier.

I believe the time tonight is 8 PM Eastern, with the Saturday episode repeated on Sunday afternoon.

The weekly Saturday schedule for the next two months:

July 5: The Mad Monster
July 12: The Corpse Vanishes
July 19: First Spaceship On Venus
July 26: The Unearthly
August 2: Cave Dwellers
August 9: Pod People
August 16: The Castle of Fu Manchu
August 23: The Giant Gila Monster
August 30: The Indestructible Man

To see if RETRO-TV has an affiliate in your area, go here:

http://www.myretrotv.com/affiliates--schedules.html

Glad to hear somebody's showing those again. Unfortunately, my cable provider doesn't offer Retro-TV.  Looks like we're going to have crappy weather tonight, so maybe I'll break out a couple of the old tapes.

BTW, how many comments does your Shadowrama post have now?  I never did contribute, because the best ones I thought of were already posted by the time I got there.

[albrecht]

Glad to hear somebody's showing those again. Unfortunately, my cable provider doesn't offer Retro-TV.  Looks like we're going to have crappy weather tonight, so maybe I'll break out a couple of the old tapes.

BTW, how many comments does your Shadowrama post have now?  I never did contribute, because the best ones I thought of were already posted by the time I got there.

You need to keep pestering them about getting channels like RetroTV, MeTV, etc. Every time I call the cable company or pay my bill online I mention it (usually say how competitor has them.)

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

You need to keep pestering them about getting channels like RetroTV, MeTV, etc. Every time I call the cable company or pay my bill online I mention it (usually say how competitor has them.)

Unfortunately, the only competition our cable company has is the satellite companies, and I've heard mixed reviews (mostly bad) about them from friends.  We do get MeTV, which is usually a fun trip down memory lane, although I wish they wouldn't run so many ads aimed at senior citizens and their ailments--that gets depressing after awhile.   

[albrecht]

Unfortunately, the only competition our cable company has is the satellite companies, and I've heard mixed reviews (mostly bad) about them from friends.  We do get MeTV, which is usually a fun trip down memory lane, although I wish they wouldn't run so many ads aimed at senior citizens and their ailments--that gets depressing after awhile.

Yeah, best to record on DVR/TiVO or even VHS and skip through those "left alert" and "medical device" commercials. Though there are also surprisingly interesting infomercial gadgets that appear occasionally!

[ItsOver]

Glad to hear somebody's showing those again. Unfortunately, my cable provider doesn't offer Retro-TV.  Looks like we're going to have crappy weather tonight, so maybe I'll break out a couple of the old tapes.

BTW, how many comments does your Shadowrama post have now?  I never did contribute, because the best ones I thought of were already posted by the time I got there.

Are you close to any of the Retro TV stations?  Around 30 miles or so?  If so, get an el cheap RCA rabbit ear type, indoor antenna for around $10 at some place like WalMart, if you don't have one and you're in business if you have a digital ready TV or converter.

That's what I did and I cancelled Direct TV. A one time expenditure of $10 and I'm saving close to $100 a month and getting what I want  to watch with the local OTA digital broadcasts.

I spent a minute moving my RCA antenna into position and I've got the local Retro TV locked in now.  Perfect picture.  I just didn't have the right direction, previously.  Ready to start the night with some MST3K.  Woohoo!

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Are you close to any of the Retro TV stations?  Around 30 miles or so?  If so, get an el cheap RCA rabbit ear type, indoor antenna for around $10 at some place like WalMart, if you don't have one and you're in business if you have a digital ready TV or converter.

That's what I did and I cancelled Direct TV. A one time expenditure of $10 and I'm saving close to $100 a month and getting what I want  to watch with the local OTA digital broadcasts.

I spent a minute moving my RCA antenna into position and I've got the local Retro TV locked in now.  Perfect picture.  I just didn't have the right direction, previously.  Ready to start the night with some MST3K.  Woohoo!

I'll have to look into that.  Thanks!

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

great film.


Heaven Is For Real - Official Trailer - In Theaters Easter 2014

[RcCle]

Thought you meant this one, an old art film classic:


http://youtu.be/aBOzOVLxbCE

I am deeply disturbed and maybe programed?  WITFH was that?  I am left with the same feeling when that clown jumped in front of me and got within 2 inches of my face with that freaky smile.

[Camazotz Automat]

BTW, how many comments does your Shadowrama post have now?  I never did contribute, because the best ones I thought of were already posted by the time I got there.

Last I checked, it was up to 65, which is decent.  It's a different format there and once something drops down below the first four or five topics, I don't think it gets viewed as much, especially since a new weekend topic has begun.

I myself was unable to pick up the Retro TV signal.  I tried two ways: converter and digital receiver, two different tvs.  The digital did a little bit... I was picking up pixelated vomit with sporadic sounds. So I did a rescan and then it wouldn't even let me enter the channel number.  If I can't let it sit still on the intended channel, I can't fiddle with the antenna to check strength.

Sometimes digital systems suck baboon ass .........  I'm probably just too far away from the low power station.  I will get a different antenna and mess with it later. I can pick up MEtv just fine, so that's what I'll leave it on tonight.  But I really wanted to see an MST3K episode over the airwaves.  I'm glad I mentioned it though. Sounds like It's Over is having good luck with the event.

[ItsOver]

Yes!  It was good to set back and relax with some MST3K.  I'd forgotten Tom Servo was voiced by somebody else the first season, who just wasn't all that good.  Kind of sounded like that really fat, annoying, know-it-all guy with a nasal voice that we all unfortunately know.  Just think of the ponytailed comic book store worker on "The Simpsons." 

Anyway, it's nice to have MST3K back on the air, even if it's just the old  shows.  Joel was as good as I remembered.  I hope all of you can pick-up the next show. I've had the best luck with the inexpensive RCA rabbit ears, as long as the stations are within 20-30 miles away.  I just hooked it up to the antenna plug on the back of my TV and then scanned for available stations and locked them into "favorites."  Even if the station was initially very weak, I found if I locked them into the "favorites" function of the TV, I could move the station around for the best reception.

[Blinko]

Tried to watch a movie called Sacrifice by famed Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky

Couldn't get into it

[basswood]

http://youtu.be/Vi6u14oGmh0

Cheesy but still a halfway fun way to kill 1:16:01 of time. Cancelled TV pilot of the sci-fi series; REWIND (Series 01 - episode 01) revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack.

[Camazotz Automat]

Anyway, it's nice to have MST3K back on the air, even if it's just the old  shows.  Joel was as good as I remembered.

If you stick with it, you'll see some from every season, but they appear to be doing them in order. You have only one more to watch before Tom Servo's voice changes to the more well known version. From First Spaceship On Venus onward, it's Kevin Murphy all the way, performing Servo.

The next seventeen:

412- Hercules And The Captive Women
419- The Rebel Set
424- Manos: The Hands of Fate
504- Secret Agent Super Dragon
506- Eegah!
507- I Accuse My Parents
511- Gunslinger
517- Beginning of the End
518- The Atomic Brain
610- The Violent Years
616- Racket Girls
619- Red Zone Cuba
701- Night Of The Blood Beast
812- The Incredibly Strange Creatures…
908- The Touch of Satan
1002- Girl in Gold Boots
1009- Hamlet

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

If you stick with it, you'll see some from every season, but they appear to be doing them in order. You have only one more to watch before Tom Servo's voice changes to the more well known version. From First Spaceship On Venus onward, it's Kevin Murphy all the way, performing Servo.

Josh Weinstein went on to have a very successful career as a writer and producer, but Kevin Murphy was by far the better Servo, and gave him his personality.  I especially enjoyed some of the vocal arrangements he did for the interludes, particularly one where he multi-tracked at least a dozen parts.  The man can sing!

[Camazotz Automat]

Josh Weinstein went on to have a very successful career as a writer and producer, but Kevin Murphy was by far the better Servo, and gave him his personality.  I especially enjoyed some of the vocal arrangements he did for the interludes, particularly one where he multi-tracked at least a dozen parts.  The man can sing!

While I am impressed with J. Elvis Weinstein's later career, what really is amazing in my opinion is that he was only 16 or so years old when he performed Servo.

I'm trying to recall anything worthwhile I did at/near that age.

I mastered a video game or two, got to third base with "Sandra," and managed to not get killed in foolish ways that will not be detailed here.

Josh was definitely more on top of his game.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

While I am impressed with J. Elvis Weinstein's later career, what really is amazing in my opinion is that he was only 16 or so years old when he performed Servo.

I'm trying to recall anything worthwhile I did at/near that age.

I mastered a video game or two, got to third base with "Sandra," and managed to not get killed in foolish ways that will not be detailed here.

Josh was definitely more on top of his game.

I did not know that, and am duly impressed.  However, Kevin Murphy is Tom Servo, and I intend to make those my last words if I'm capable of speech when I go to join the choir invisible.  I also prefer Mary Ann and Bailey to Ginger and Jennifer, so maybe we share some common ground there. 

BTW, When I was sixteen, I made Jesus weep.  More than once. 

[Camazotz Automat]

I did not know that, and am duly impressed.  However, Kevin Murphy is Tom Servo, and I intend to make those my last words if I'm capable of speech when I go to join the choir invisible.

Understood. Let me just type that out....

Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost gets his ashes ensconced in the Tom Servo urn that is signed by Kevin Murphy. Not the one signed by Weinstein.

Alright. You're all set, mang.

All you have to do now, is... well... you know.  (but should you change your mind as far as treatment, we're still offering the SOL casket. It's bitchin'!)

((We may have had a misunderstanding. I think Kevin is a genius. Josh was a catalyst.  Maybe where I said Josh was more on top of his game? I meant compared to me, not Kevin, if that made you think we didn't already share common ground before the Minnow crashed.))

[ItsOver]

I did not know that, and am duly impressed.  However, Kevin Murphy is Tom Servo, and I intend to make those my last words if I'm capable of speech when I go to join the choir invisible.  I also prefer Mary Ann and Bailey to Ginger and Jennifer, so maybe we share some common ground there. 

BTW, When I was sixteen, I made Jesus weep.  More than once. 

Yes, yes, Murphy "is" Tom Servo.  Let there be no doubt.  It was a little of a shock to hear Weinstein doing Servo.  If he was only 16 at the time, that explains some of my distaste for that's exactly what he sounded like voicing Servo.  Heck, he didn't even sound like he'd made it to puberty, which is just plain wrong for the hardened, cynical, witty Tom we all love.

On the antenna front, I dug the box out for the one I have.  It's an "RCA indoor for 1080 HDTV broadcast."  I believe WalMart has them for as low as $5 now.  I checked on Google and the local Retro TV is right at 30 miles from me, as the "crow" flies, appropriately for MST3K.  This simple antenna has worked well for the past few months.  Hey, if it doesn't work for you, you can always return it.

FYI, during the MST3K broadcast, they were running a commercial for a RiffTrax showing of "Sharknado," with Mike, Tom, and Crow doing their thing.  It's showing at theaters across the country this Thursday.  I'll dig-up the website and post it here.

[ItsOver]

"Sharknado" and the MST3K crew.  This Thursday, coming to a theatre near you.  Maybe.

http://www.fathomevents.com/#event/rifftrax-live-sharknado/buy

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Understood. Let me just type that out....

Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost gets his ashes ensconced in the Tom Servo urn that is signed by Kevin Murphy. Not the one signed by Weinstein.

Alright. You're all set, mang.

All you have to do now, is... well... you know.  (but should you change your mind as far as treatment, we're still offering the SOL casket. It's bitchin'!)

((We may have had a misunderstanding. I think Kevin is a genius. Josh was a catalyst.  Maybe where I said Josh was more on top of his game? I meant compared to me, not Kevin, if that made you think we didn't already share common ground before the Minnow crashed.))

You're a nice man.  And I hear those Weinstein urns are highly sought after collectibles.  Just try to find one of eBay or Craigslist.

[paladin1991]

I did not know that, and am duly impressed.  However, Kevin Murphy is Tom Servo, and I intend to make those my last words if I'm capable of speech when I go to join the choir invisible.  I also prefer Mary Ann and Bailey to Ginger and Jennifer, so maybe we share some common ground there. 

BTW, When I was sixteen, I made Jesus weep.  More than once. 

Dude!  Mary Ann and Bailey!  Oh yeah.  That is a double dream fantasy date.