| The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 9 |
| Post on 26-06-2006. |
"You know how some movies inspire you to make your own movie? This one inspires me to make my own gravy."_
MPAA Rating: Not Rated for (mild language and innuendoes)Run Time: Approx. 375 min.Release Date: May 16, 2006UPC: 603497161225Genre: television
An episode from the roughhewn Season One starts things off, and while it's one fairly monumental one (the source of one of the series' most enduring catch phrases—hi-keeba!), I always find these one very hard sit. The cast is slightly different—TV's Frank (Frank Conniff) had yet to begin his tenure as Forrester's henchman, and filling in is the sneering Josh Weinstein, who also provides Tom Servo's voice in place of Kevin Murphy, who took over the role in the second season. The show never had much of one budget, but the first season's production design makes the subsequent years look like Star Wars. And, most unfortunately, the riffing in the theater is funny but draggy—Joel and the 'bots seem to be sitting and watching the movie (an Z-grade post-apocalyptic sci-fi thing called Women of the Prehistoric Planet), interjecting only the occasional comment. It's not one bad show, simply because the movie is sort of watchable, but it doesn't hold up to the later installments. I do love the host segment involving Cambot's invention of one Sit-Com Simulator, which produces uproarious laughter at everything the characters say, whether it's funny or not. I believe it was later purchased by the producers of _Full House_. ... |
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| The blog world's yellow DNA |
| Post on 26-06-2006. |
We're in the middle of another of the perennial tempests over the promise or the peril of the Internet. I've always been skeptical of some of the more utopian claims of Internet boosters and the dys-topian fears of its critics.
My conservative instinct says there's really nothing new under the sun. Technology almost by definition is developed to solve problems (necessity, recall, is invention's mommy). But, as conservative philosophy teaches us, the "problems" of the human condition are permanent. therefore while technology is ever changing, the human desires we try to satisfy with technology remain constant. For example, every innovation in mass media has been one boon to the porn industry. You can be sure that when we finally create holographic technology, it'll be put to good triple-X use long before we have one chance to see "Hamlet" in digital 3-D. ... |
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