GAME OVER! Tickets to MST3K Cinematic Titanic Dec. 31!
You know, if there is one thing I love more than watching bad movies, it’s making fun of them! And if you don’t have plans yet for New Years, the original creator and stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 will be presenting Cinematic Titanic - a three movie “trifecta of terribleness” marathon at the Keswick theater where they will be riffing the year away.
For those of you wondering what Cinematic Titanic is from the press release:
“CINEMATIC TITANIC brings the comedic art of movie riffing created over twenty years ago in the form of the Peabody Award-winning television series MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 to a live forum. Performed in a theater, the five stars take the stage flanking a jumbo movie screen and riff on a feature film (and for New Year’s Eve, three movies!) in front of a live audience. Those present are sure to have a full evening of laughter with literally hundreds of jokes dished out during each film. Attendees of the special New Year’s Eve event will experience some of the cheesiest films of all time, taking the celebration into the wee hours of the New Year.”
Personally I can’t wait, the show will be at the Keswick Theater December 31st at 7:30 pm. Tickets are available on Ticketmaster and you can also call (215-572-7650) or go in person at Keswick box office Mon. through Sat. and all Ticketmaster outlets. Tickets are $52.50 and if you don’t have the cash fear not, thanks to the folks as the Keswick theater – Geekadelphia has got your back! We have 1 set of 2 tickets we are giving away for this performance, that’s over $100 bucks, all you have to do to have a chance to win is comment with your favorite B-movie and why. The winner will be picked on Saturday December 19th, our Geeksmas gift to you.
Contest Rules: One entry per-person. The tickets will be will call, so you will need to present an ID at Ticket office on the day of the event at the theater, to pick up your tickets.
Hands down, my favorite B movie is Hercules in New York. You just can’t beat Arnold’s fantastic acting, dubbed over by an under-enthusiastic voice actor. The puns are fantastic and the pre-production audio is just awful. This movie really is one of the worst fish-out-of-water stories ever put on film, and I love it.
Here, you can watch it on hulu:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/12323/hercules-in-new-york
I wonder if this qualifies as a ‘B’ movie, but “Shoot ‘em up” is one of my favorite lesser known ‘fun flicks’. You can’t go wrong with eating a carrot, while jumping around shooting 10 guys and delivering a baby!
Oh man, Return to Horror High starring George Clooney, greatest, worst horror movie I’ve seen/bought/rewatched numerous times
Definitely Plastic Utopia. Who doesn’t love a disgruntled mime?
You can watch the trailor here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azz9raDRY10
Well, my favorite one is the tin spaceship movie…the name unfortunately escapes me…you see, we watched so many of them!…my son was 8 or 9 when he discovered the show one night…we were hooked!…my husband and his siblings were dumbfounded why we laughed so hard and enjoyed the show…said son is 26 now and we still are excited by the new movie coming out…you’ll see us, just look for the geeks in the front row!
it would be hard to pick just one favorite but the one I think I watched last and always enjoy is Aldo Lado’s The Humanoid (L’umanoide 1979). thanks for a great contest!
I think Gorgo is the best B-movie ever, because who DOESN’T like British Kaiju Films?
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank was so much fun. Now I am getting teary thinking of how much I miss Raul Julia
My favorite b movie is probably Killer Tongue. The main character tastes a piece of a meteorite and her tongue turns LETHAL! Ridiculous and hilarious.
Return of the Living Dead, hands down. Naked Linnea Quigley (both living and deceased)? Check. Defined sense of self through attire? Check. Zombie Apocalypse producing rain clouds? Check. Paramedics? Sent. Nuclear solution? Yee-haw.
My favorite B movie is Killer Klowns From Outer Space. It give you homicidal clowns wrapping people up in cotton candy and then sucking out there blood through crazy straws! It also bring back fond childhood memories.
Three words: “Red Zone Cuba” It has everything: escaped convicts, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, bad fake Castro beards, trains, planes and Tungsten mines. So awful it got made into a musical a few years ago.
Night of the Lepus. Because it has huge radioactive bunnies dismembering people, and frankly I don’t think it’s fair to ask for anything else.
It may be cliche at this point, but ‘Manos: Hands of Fate’. Quintessential in that it hits all the factors necessary for a movie to truly be “B”:
– ‘Outsider’ creator
– Cast of troubled and/or non-professional actors
– Audience isn’t always clued in on the story logic
– Horrible editing and sound work
– Prolonged exploitive scenes (gore/sex/etc..)
– Goat legs
My favorite B-movie is the Uwe Boll masterpiece Alone in the Dark. It was his first film after House of the Dead, where Uwe Boll went from “how did he screw this up?” to “can he do anything but screw this up?” Test audiences were so confused by the storyline, they added a plot-dump text scroll in the beginning, with a person reading it to make sure we all got it. The plot still didn’t make any sense. Probably because there’s about 17 tiny-little plots strands and only half go anywhere.
Christian Slater is, as declared by Uwe Boll in the sublime director’s commentary, a “normal paranormal investigator.” Tara Reid is cast as a scientist, and the only way we can tell she’s supposed to be a genius is because she has glasses. Uwe Boll criticizes her in the director’s commentary, calling her a “B-actor” who will get in tabloids for falling out of a dress or whatever but refusing to take off her bra for the sex scene.
I’ve watched it five or six time and each time it asks more questions than it answers. I still enjoy it each and every time.
Equilibrium. Why? Two words: Gun Kata.
To be honest, I’ve a guilty pleasure in the form of Roger Corman’s Little Shop of Horrors. Yes, I know it’s not the musical on which this film is the basis, but then again, any subsequent marketing campaign (for the home video release) which involves promoting a certain actor’s appearance (no matter how small a role Jack Nicholson had in the movie) has got be sheer brilliance. Oh, that and Roger Corman is the definitive person of the “B movie” genre. At least that’s my opinion in this case.
Best / Worst movie of all time I have to say would be “Hell Comes To Frog Town”. It combines the awesome power of Rowdy Rodney with the awe inspiring dialogue of a crappy B-Movie. I have learned quite a few life lessons from watching this gem. They are as follows……
1- Having a monitoring device, complete with nut shocker, on your package, SUCKS.
2- Women in the military have camoflage lingerie.
3- If you’re going to be sleeping with mutant frog girls keep a bag or two handy.
4- Don;t piss off a hot chick with a machine gun
Now, these are only a few of the mass life lessons taught in this cinematic masterpiece . You just need to see it for yourself