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I once watched these two films as a double-feature - on purpose! Did I watch them ironically, mockingly? Of course. Nevertheless, the fact remains, I watched them.
I beg your forgiveness.
(That said, they represent the finest performances of Scott Valentine and Michael E. Knight, and as a bonus, Phoebe Cates, Emmanuelle Beart AND Calvert DeForest.)
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1 Barry on Mar 21, 2008 at 11:35 am
Mike, you’re like a daredevil who gets his high from defying death in exceedingly dangerous stunts. Merely repeating that danger doesn’t produce the same thrill, so you have to reach farther with each stunt, bringing yourself closer and closer to self-destruction each time.
It’s the only way you can make yourself feel alive.
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2 Moosaka on Mar 21, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I once watched Justin and Kelly and Paint Your Wagon in one seating. One had the velvet tones of one Lee Marvin, one did not.
Paint Your Wagon was infinitely better.
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3 Michael on Mar 21, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I own Uwe Boll’s House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, and Blood Rayne (still waiting for Dungeon Siege) so I think I’m worse off.
And just to make it even worse I own a non MST3K version of the Mr. B Natural short in all of it’s unedited, creepy glory.
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4 Tim D on Mar 21, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Is this some sort of plea for an intervention? You can start the healing process yourself by watching some hockey, or some other manly sport. And go eat some bacon, and have a beer.
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5 Walter on Mar 21, 2008 at 12:37 pm
I watched Beowulf without your aid one time. I’ll let you know when the swelling goes down.
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Reply from Mike Nelson on March 21, 2008:
DON’T EVER ATTEMPT SUCH RASH ACTS!
Reply from Neb on March 21, 2008:
Why don’t they look? *sigh*
6 Strom Thetty & The Tartmakers on Mar 21, 2008 at 1:25 pm
I just watched The Disorderlies starring none other than 1980s hip-hop sensations The Fat Boys (and a sadly decrepit Ralph Bellamy). I hurt all over. Nothing sadder than a bad comedy.
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7 mathey on Mar 21, 2008 at 1:54 pm
The Supernatural Date movie was some sort of weird ’80s romantic comedy subgenre, wasn’t it? I suppose “Mannquin”, another 1987 movie about dating outside of your reality, could be included with those two as some kind of dreadful trifecta.
I blame “Splash”.
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Reply from Beautiful Houndstooth on March 21, 2008:
Don’t forget 1985’s “Once Bitten” starring Jim Carrey.
8 Onil on Mar 21, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Were you paying off a bet?
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9 Indianadelae on Mar 21, 2008 at 2:52 pm
May I ask, why confess this now? When I read Movie Megacheese, and you discussed them, I did indeed
make the assumption you had actually seen them. I then judged you severely, and it was a good 10 minutes before I could pick the book back up and start reading again. I had forgotten about it until this post, and now the judgement is back. For shame.
That being said, I once watched a full half-hour of Battlefield Earth, without your treatment, on TV. I blame the morbid fascination that makes people rubber-neck to look at car crashes for making me do it (I blame Jose Cuervo, too).
My soul is still dirty. Feel free to judge accordingly.
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Reply from DavidTC on March 26, 2008:
Hah, that’s nothing I saw Battlefield Earth IN THE THEATRE! That’s right, and it was one of those big stadium style multiplexes too. Let me tell ya, you really have to see it on the big screen to truly appreciate the sheer scope of the film.
Course that’s nothing compared to Lost in Space, when I think of all those other people who were in the seats around me that afternoon, my heart just breaks. Plus, my sister has still not forgiven me for convincing her to accompany me. But who can blame her, really?
10 Darth Chimay on Mar 21, 2008 at 3:07 pm
You know, I think I’d be more surprised and disappointed at this point if it had been a double feature of Fanny and Alexander and Wild Strawberries.
Of course, I once did a double-feature of Because I Said So. I really didn’t need another movie after that because I lost all faith in humanity and myself and just cried myself to sleep.
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11 Natureboy (Ken) on Mar 21, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Meh, Try watching Ankle Biters and Curse of The Cannibal Confederates back to back then you will have my respect. After that double feature, you will believe Child Bride is just as good as Casablanca.
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12 Derek on Mar 22, 2008 at 5:05 am
PLEASE do a Rifftrax of one of those! I miss the boggling crapiness of MST3K movies.
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13 Mr. Slick on Mar 22, 2008 at 4:41 pm
: O
Why Mike why?! I taste metal. : (
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14 Botchinator on Mar 23, 2008 at 6:08 am
The root of this issue can be explained if you can tell us why you choose these movies. What was it about these movies that made you say “boy, i’m gonna watch the heck out of these”.
Did you miss the 80’s that much? Were you on lots of medication recovering from severe head trauma? Or is it that most of the movies you’ve done over the years are movies you actually liked, and it pained you to make fun of them week after week?
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15 Nelly McDairy on Mar 23, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Poor Mike. If, after reading your open confessions here, your countrymen run you out of the US on a rail, you are very welcome to come hide out in one of the many rooms of my humble abode (in the swollen bowels of jolly old Sweden, of course). Just until things blow over. Bring the robots and the family. It’ll be great fun (in a witness protection-y sort of way).
xoxox - Incipit Chaos
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16 Jef Burnham on Mar 24, 2008 at 3:16 pm
My mother once convinced me to watch “My Demon Lover,” and on other, seperate occasions, “Striptease” and “Showgirls.”
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17 RemmieBarrow on Mar 25, 2008 at 5:28 pm
If you think that combination of movies was horrific, just try the double feature of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and “The Cat in the Hat”(the live action movies, not the animated specials- those were actually good). You will be on your knees vomiting within seconds.
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