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barely made it through the mst3k version

posted 16 years ago by jpkmets
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I love mst 3k

I have every episode except for a few of the original pre-comedy central season on dvd from either the box sets or underground purchases. I will pop one in whenever I am bummed, tired, have the house to myself or am practicing herbal medicine. Well, tonight I was the last person awake, just relaxing with a presidente and put on the dvd with this movie, 'outlaw' and 'radar secret service' on it.

About 15 minutes into alien from la I realized that I had blocked from my mind just how unwatchable it is. There is no way to describe the pain of this movie. Maybe it would be like an entire movie of watley yelling 'CABOT' in outlaw but for 90 minutes.

Jesus, even mst3k's worst movies, manos, red zone cuba are watchable but only starfighters, along with this one is just painful to watch. Just brutal.

I am going to have to watch radar secret service now to wash the pain out of my brain from this movie. It really ought to be #1 on the bottom 100 and without any sort of a struggle. Good god sorry. Just had to vent. I'm amazed that mike and the bots didn't breach the hull and kill themselves during this. Makes space mutiny or future war or maybe even hobgoblins look like citizen kane as far as bad 80s films that got mstified.

Hold me rowsdower!

[–] bibimimi 16 years ago

There's good cheese, then there's bad cheese, and then there's 'can't-wash-the-stank-off-me' cheese. This movie is in that 3rd category.

[–] iscream22 15 years ago

I loved this mst, thought it was freakin hysterically bad (thats what mst3k is all about!)

[–] nwohmale2000 14 years ago

You have to admire their fortitude for bad movies, you know they didn't just sit down and watch it once make all their jokes they probably had to suffer through it a few times.

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[–] nrkist2424 13 years ago

Oh, wow. This is nowhere near the worst movie ever, and is actually one of the better movies out of all the mst3k experiments. It's practically in color AND it's not Mitchell. Wild Wild World of Batwoman is the previous episode and is a million times more intolerable.

[–] DarthBill 13 years ago

I loved the MST3K version. It's how I learned of the film in the first place.

[–] eblackadder3 13 years ago

I agree with the OP. I've recently been re-watching MST3K online and I've pretty much covered my favorites seasons which are 2-6. This is one of the few I missed during the original run and it's safe to say I didn't miss much. Apart from the film being nearly unwatchable, the host segments were not up their usual standards. Mike, Joel and company didn't seem to be trying too hard for this particular episode. It's easily the poorest episode (for me) from seasons 2-6.

[–] Druff 12 years ago

I finally got to see it recently, it just came out in the box set. It had some shining moments, but overall it was a slog. The MST episodes where the movie is a mid-1980s bucket of barf, those are my least-favorites. I much prefer when they do old black & white stuff from the 1940s to the mid 60s.

And I gotta disagree that Space Mutiny and Hobgoblins were much better...

[–] shawarmageddon 8 years ago

Having watched it just now, I pretty much had the same experience. Apart from "Mighty Jack", which made me wanna claw out my eyes, this is easily the one MST3K I've had most pain getting through. I usually love those MST3K'ed 80's, straight-to-video goof-fests like Hobgoblins and Deathstalker, but this was barely watchable. You gotta give credits to Mike Nelson for sitting through an utter piece of garbage like this several times to come up with enough riffs. Talk about masochism...