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MST3K "Manos" Arrives on DVD
malicioususer writes "According to this page the legendary MST3K episode "Manos: Hands of Fate" appears on DVD November 20th. If you can bring yourself to endure only one MST3K, this is the one." A great present for anyone you want to punish this christmas ;)
Hooah! Love MST3K here, good to see this happening.
Though, one thing that would be amusing is if they put Joel and the 'bots on a commentary track so you could watch the movie without...
...no wait, bad idea. I'll shut up.
This movie was so, uh, good that I named my Handspring Visor after it. Yup, its name is "Manos, the Handspring of Fate".
What, did you think I had named it Torgo?
Posted from the wireless couch.
Anything with "goatman Torgo" and Satanic rituals can't be all bad. And for only 20 bucks!
Reviews here and here.
"If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States and our allies, he's sorely mistaken." Bush on bin Laden
The next version of the slashcode software will automatically remove all vowels from words. It will also turn any phrase that it's ever seen before into an acronym.
The slashdot readership will love it. Apparently superfluous letters anger them.
What I want to see MST3Ked are "Independence Day" (Oh, so nobody fleeing alien invaders is prepared to drive on the wrong side of the freeway?) and "Deep Impact" (We made underground accomodation for 2 million people in a few months - and kept it a complete secret. We just painted 100,000 workers and 10,000 trucks camoflage green so the press wouldn't see them.)
I doubt they could afford the rights to do this, however.
Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas.
You're just asking for DEEP HURTING.
Trying to think of where it was that I read some history of Manos and it turned out to be an unfinished derelict wreck of a movie that someone thought they could resurrect...
I think I need this DVD, though.
/Brian
Gah...if Manos was the only episode of MST3K I had watched, I'd be dead right now. My whole world view changed. I saw evil in its purest fertilizer-salesman form. I dread the day when my friends finally make me show them the episode...cuz yeah, I do own it. I've protected them this long from the horror. I'm going to miss those friends.
If you liked MST3K when it was running, you should check out Edward The Less, an "online series" with the same writers and actors.
You should also check in on this MST3K tape-trading site from time-to-time. It's still under construction, but it'll be cool when they finish it.
"Mitchell" is also available, according to amazon.com.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Manos is the Spanish word for hands. That's right. The title actually *means* "Hands: The Hands of Fate". Trust me, the title is just as brilliant as the plot. But nothing can beat a Torgo screen saver!
I'm not a big fan of MST3k. I would really like it except for those idiots at the bottom of the screen and make fun of the movie. It really gets on my nerves.
"when life gets complicated, I like to take a nap in a tree and wait for dinner" - Hobbes.
The current ratings have Manos in the large block tied for second... but it has almost 3000 votes - 10 times more than the "winner," and over three times more votes than any of its peers.
It even has close to a thousand more votes than _Police Academy: Mission to Moscow_, the movie with the second most votes.
That has to count for something. Any bad movie can get negative votes, but it takes a really bad movie to get 50% more negative votes than a _Police Academy_ movie!
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
See The Hand That Time Forgot by Richard Brandt for some interesting background information on the production of this film.
Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
Anyone else notice how many of the IMDB's 100 Worst Films have been on MST3K? Of course many of them are probably there because MST3K has gotten the required 20 people to watch them. Manos: the Hands of Fate is #2 ;)
"Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity" -Alvy Ray Smith
From IMdB's MST3k page, by
and on the same site by Joe Pranevich {knight@wave.lm.com}
If you want more detail read the basics about MST3k. An excerpt: Although the details of its premise have changed radically over its 11-year history, Mystery Science Theater 3000 has always been about one thing: making fun of bad movies.
The official show website is http://www.scifi.com/mst3000/ and here is a huge page of links from ibiblio.org. Apparently there are several tape trading sites, loads of fan sites, quotes pages, episode guides and so on.
There is an Official FAQ on the official Mystery Science Theater 3000 Information Club website, and another page of interesting looking MST3k-related junk at John's Mystery Science Theater 3000 WWW Page which makes the cut for this post because of course it's hosted on linuxsavvy.com (I think it's a private consulting company but I'm not associated with it).
Have fun!
Oh, yeah, I'd second the suggestion about the Geek's wishlist for 2002.
Christopher
Mozilla
For those of you who live in or near Austin Texas, a local comedy group, Mr. Sinus Theater 3000, does live MSTk 3000 type of shows at the legendary Alamo Drafthouse. I reccomend the shows highly. They did Footloose, renacting the horrible Chicken-Tractor scene at halftime, using tricycles instead. I nearly passed out, but that could have been the beer.
To Quote the theme song: "We show movies live, not on TV, we show films with nudity..."
Less Talk, More Beer.
IANAL, but according to the /. TOS, we're SOL. It should be O.K., IMHO, since by reading the FAQ you should be able to get most of them p.d.q.
-no broken link
Everyone needs to see this episode at least once. You will shake your head in utter bewilderment.
Schwab
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
Firstly: Thank the gods other people think having Mike and the Bots on every DVD would be a good thing. And hey, they could have a short host segument before the movie, then the movie, then another short one after the flick. It'd be great! ;)
;)
Secondly: The reason Best Brains/Rhino doesn't put out whole seasons is because of the film rights. After many of these..."classic" flicks were shown to Joel/Mike and the Bots, the copyright holders quickly jacked up the price of using the films. Some people, like Sandy Frank, didn't know what Best Brains was doing to their movies, and they were furious. So for a lot of the movies, the rights have expired and the cost of getting them for video distribution is (apparently) higher than projected sales.
Now what I find interesting is that Best Brains themselves has released some new episodes on video. The thing is that Rhino's not involved in it, and they're from the Sci-Fi Channel years. They're available at mst3kinfo.com. That means that Best Brains owns the rights to these movies, and arn't going through a disto such as Rhino. Very interesting. Maybe people could lobby BBI hard enough that they'd release DVDs (Doubtful, but it never hurts).
And lastly, Sci-Fi is removing MST from their lineup after December. So watch and tape now, or check around for episodes. eBay has some general episodes, and private citizens have been known to have a large episode as well as rare tape collection.
--Reverend Raven
Desperate days demand dire deeds.
Many movies vie for the coveted crown of Worst Movie Ever Made. Most people typically award this mantle to Ed Wood's Plan Nine from Outer Space.
They are wrong.
You thought Plan Nine was bad? You thought Waterworld was bad? You thought Highlander II was bad? You have not experienced bad until you have endured the horror, the banality, the stunningly bewildering mess that is...
Manos: The Hands of Fate.
Most movies that people call "bad" are movies that merely failed to entertain them. Manos, however, will have you shaking your head in utter bewilderment as you ask yourself, "What were they thinking?" and, "How could they not know this sucked?" Filmed on grainy 8mm stock (and if it wasn't 8mm, it sure looks like it), the movie is in focus barely half the time, and poorly framed the other half. Scenes plod along at a glacial pace as "actors" stand around in utter silence as the camera continues rolling, waiting patiently for them to remember their lines, or at least ad lib one.
It is worth seeing, just to know that such things exist. You will be amazed. And not in a good way.
Schwab
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
**shudder**
-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
I take care of your screen while you're away.
Hey, for all of you guys who love the old MST3k episodes that *AREN'T* getting released: MST3k-DAP Also, on the zirc network in #dapcentral, and on edonkey2000, at, well, just check the above URL for that information.. Hasta luego, Exantrius
If you check www.mst3kinfo.com you can find that the Brains (mst3k production company) are selling a bunch of the SciFi episodes, as well as a new shorts tape with "Operation Venezuela" (originally planned for the MST3k interactive CD-ROM which never materialized).
I was lucky enough to see that one at their second convention in '96, and it's freakin funny. I hope they release some of the deleted scenes from the movie (like the meteor storm scene) soon.
PS I have over 100 episodes on video tape. Who wants to be a dear and buy me a DVD writer so I can convert them all over? You know you want to!
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
Jack Pallance in an MST... too funny to begin with. But the lines f*ing RULE. "I'll just follow your butt!" (orchestra hit sound effect) "Oh, maybe not" and "Oh look, *another* nice day!" are jsut too classic.
Mitchell is possibly the best of the best.... "Ohh, he's landed jsut short of the green" and "*pnat* *pant*, uhhhhh... there's gotta be a beer around here somewhere...." are too good.
Then again, Godzilla vs. Megalon is alos too damn good, as is Human Duplicators. Crap. How can you pick just one!!!!
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