My copy of Wasp Woman showed up today. I can’t wait to watch it.
I finally got my copy in the mail last Saturday. I didn’t watch it until Monday night, though. It was hideously funny. Most surprising was when I received the DVD, it came with an autographed silhouette of Trace Beaulieu!
This movie was about a mission to Venus. Why scientists would think Venus more habitable than Mars is completely unknown to me. Some spies find some kind of doomsday robot machine thingy and take some pictures of it. Because of this, the mission is changed and the schedule moved forward. Three of the astronauts are replaced with women. The men argue about this for some reason.
After launch, the Earth is destroyed in what looks like a series of rips in the film, but are probably meant to be special nuclear effects. The astronauts realize they are the last people left alive, and start to freak out. They also realize that because they used fuel to avoid debris from the exploded Earth, they won’t have enough to safely land on Venus, so they have to kick someone out of the rocket. Instead, an emergency happens and one of the guys has to separate a booster stage manually via a spacewalk he knows he won’t return from, because the boosters will fire when it happens. So one of the female astronauts goes out with him because he “doesn’t have enough mass” to get it unstuck. Together they un-stick the booster and the rocket takes off, leaving them stranded.
But WAIT! What’s that over there?? It’s an empty Russian rocket in space near Venus! (insert deus ex machina here)
The two astronauts that were stranded now become the main characters of the story, but they never take their helmets off again, because now they’re different actors with different voices! They attempt to follow the rocket, but a mysterious voice over the radio claiming to be the hive mind of Venus (or something like that anyway) tells them the rocket is gone, and they can’t land on Venus because the people living there are peaceful and don’t want any warmongering ex-Earth scum living with them. The voice tells them they will have a new beginning somewhere else, and that’s about it. They kind of imply that the people of Venus shoot the Russian capsule off into space toward some other planet, but nothing is resolved.
Cinematic Titanic is releasing their new movie tomorrow. For now, we’ll have to be happy with this:
Cinematic Titanic is going to release their next episode, The Doomsday Machine on June 19th. You will be able to order the DVD or download the show.
Joel and the gang at Cinematic Titanic finished recording several new “episodes” recently, and have put a limited release out on their new trailer for Doomsday Machine. If you’re a member of their mailing list you’d have gotten a link and a super secret password to get in and view it.
Best part, the stinger: Gumball machine head on a robot? I’m sorry, that is lame. The new episode will be available in June.
Last night I watched Cinematic Titanic’s The Oozing Skull.
For anybody that is, like me, a big MST3K fan, this is a must have DVD. The riffs are great, and come at you non-stop, just like Mystery Science Theater 3000. The movie was terrible, but let’s not kid ourselves—it was supposed to be.
I loved every silly minute of it, and highly recommend it to anybody that could never sit through a bad movie without cracking jokes at it.