Yes, I know I skipped a couple of episodes. They are DAP Central editions and for some reason they don’t burn well on DVD+Rs. I’m going to reburn on DVD-R and was told that solves several problems. I don’t know why, but it’s worked once, so I’m willing to go with it.
Despite starring Gregory Peck and Gene Hackman, MST3K somehow still got hold of this dud. Perhaps that’s why they got hold of it. This movie was about a team of three astronauts living in space for five months, to aid research for man’s extended-living in microgravity. When they’re about to come home, something goes wrong with their reentry burners and they become stranded in orbit with limited oxygen.
A rescue is planned, an untested rocket shot quickly into space to save the slowly suffocating astronauts. Gene Hackman breaks down and goes crazy, one of the other astronauts decides he can fix the engine on an EVA, and the other one keeps a level head. EVA astronaut cuts his suit on a sharp bit of metal fin and dies, solving part of the oxygen problem. The rescue ship gets there just as the astronauts are running out of air (of course).
I give this movie one empty seat, for not including Ernest Borgnine in this Poseidon Adventure in space.
I just finished watching The Castle of Fu Manchu, starring Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu. This was back when they used white actors instead of Chinese people to play Chinese people (remember the old Charlie Chan movies?)
Anyway, this movie was so noxious I’m surprised I didn’t smell it before I put it in my DVD player. Fu has a secret weapon that can turn water into ice. He uses it one time in the movie, at the beginning, to sink a cruise ship. He tries to hold the world hostage, but doesn’t make any concrete demands. Scotland yard sends some detective over to do something, and Fu kidnaps a doctor to perform a heart transplant on another guy for some reason. Seriously, this was a bad film!
I give this movie five empty seats because it stinks! (insert “ok” finger sign here)
Oh boy, where do I start? I watched this movie last night in my continuing adventure to watch all of Mystery Science Theater 3000 from the beginning.
This steaming pile of holiday drivel was a terrible idea—unless you’re a Martian I guess. Let me explain. The movie starts out on Mars, with little Martian children watching Earth-broadcast TV about the holidays and Santa Claus. Their parents, upset about them watching Earth TV but also upset because the children never laugh or play or have fun (never mind the fact that they have no toys!), decide to kidnap Santa and bring him to Mars to make the Martian children happy.
So they pop over in their rocket, and begin looking for Santa. When the find Santas all over the world, they kidnap two children and ask them about it. They reply that the real Santa lives at the North Pole, so the Martians take the children there. A goofy Martian servant, Droppo, provides the comedy relief when he hides in the “radar box” that houses the mechanism that protects the rocket from Earth radar.
The children escape the rocket, and are attacked by a super cheesy man in a polar bear suit. As Servo points out, you can even see the head piece overlapping the body. After their escape, the children run to Santa’s workshop to warn him of the Martians. It doesn’t work, and they all get taken by the Martians back to their own planet, where they treat Santa like royalty and provide a giant machine that makes toys by pushing buttons. Now, why they didn’t use this for their children in the first place is beyond me.
One of the Martians, upset by all this holiday cheer, kidnaps Santa, but doesn’t realize that it’s Droppo in a Santa suit—the whole time he has him! When he returns to demand the rest of the Martians send Santa and the children back to Earth they pummel him with toys and he is knocked silly. Droppo escapes by switching two light bulbs around on a control panel (you think I’m kidding?) and everybody has a good laugh and Santa and the kids go back home.
I’m going to give this movie 0 empty seats—for the number of people that watch this every year as a Christmas tradition. Come on, there can’t be anyone that does this…