Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Holy shit Dan Brown!

[jd]

I think Mike was much more stiff than Joel, and there are far fewer
laugh out loud moments (for me) in the Mike episodes...  Joel was the
guy who was responsible for several Pynchon references, anyways.

On 8/11/06, Matthew Ryan <matthew.ryan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Eh, a guy's got to make a living, I guess. I've rented most of the MST3K
> episodes that Netflix has and, with the exception of a few dated pop culture
> references here and there, they still hold up. As for Joel vs. Mike...I
> dunno, I liked them both.
>
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> On 8/11/06, jd <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There's a sample clip there, on the rifftrax page... it's really sad.
> > The jokes are told in a tone of voice that seems to say, god, why me?
> > I imagine it's dead more because Joel got bored, or found a better
> > job... meanwhile Mike must have been hiding in some basement somewhere
> > desperate to re-claim the glory of poorly built sets and bad movies.
> > Because if funny-because-it's-stupid is dead, Stephen Colbert wouldn't
> > get quite the same audience!
> >
> > On 8/11/06, K. Michael Babcock <aesova at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'm not sure that works as well, somehow.
> > >
> > > I think that the MST3K appeal may have been, at least in part, due to
> > > the time period in which it existed. More recently, digital cable and
> > > the dubya-dubya-dubya have created a glut in the
> > > funny-because-its-stupid market.
> > >
> > > On 8/10/06, jd < wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > It looks like Mike Nelson, the relatively un-funny replacement for
> > > > Joel on MST3K, isn't done humping that dead horse just yet:
> > > > http://www.rifftrax.com/
> > > >
> > > > so maybe you will get your wish to get some sort of MST3K-ing of the
> > > > DaVinci Code
> > > >
> > > > so far he only has Road House and The Fifth Element, though.
> > > >
> > > > On 8/10/06, K. Michael Babcock <aesova at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Unless it's shown on (now defunct) Mystery Science Theater 3000, it
> > > > > probably isn't worth sitting through.
> > > > >
> > > > > On 8/10/06, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Never felt any drive to read that book, and for the movie I can
> wait
> > > > > > until it's shown on free tv.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 2006/8/10, The Great Quail <quail at libyrinth.com>:
> > > > > > > > Yeah, I spent a lot of time yelling @ TDVC.  In
> > > > > > > > public.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > My biggest problem with "The DaVinci Code" was its idiot
> characters. I mean,
> > > > > > > Dan Brown has written these characters, see, that are supposed
> to be
> > > > > > > GENIUSES in their fields of religion, language,. Antiquity
> cryptography,
> > > > > > > etc. And then, every dozen pages or so, they all stand around
> with their
> > > > > > > tongues hanging out, stumped at some moronic "puzzle" that any
> half-way
> > > > > > > intelligent reader has guessed by the time his eyes hit the
> period ending
> > > > > > > the sentence.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I shit you not -- at one point, a pair of linguistic scholars
> are staring
> > > > > > > befuddled at ENGLISH HANDWRITING IN REVERSE and they have no
> idea what it
> > > > > > > is. Once even remarks something to the effect that it looks
> "Semitic" or
> > > > > > > "Aramaic" or something. Oh my fucking God.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > It's like having Umberto Eco, Douglas Hofstadter, and Paula
> Frederiksen
> > > > > > > being completely flamboozled by a pre-movie word-scramble of
> CHESS JURIST.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > --Quail
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