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Mock the Movie: Maniac

Jason Thibeault

Lifted in its entirety from Almost Diamonds because I’m a content-stealing jerk.

Have a Twitter account? Have some snark? Have a little bit of time this Thursday night for a deliciously bad movie?

If you’re one of those people whose friends have been known to say, “I’m never watching a movie with you again!” this is the event for you. From the JAYFK:

Science!  Sex!  Psychos! Showgirls!  A tenuous Edgar Allan Poe connection!   A zombie?!  Our next Mock The Movie selection Maniac has it all.

With a tagline “He Menanced Women With Weird Desires”, Maniac nearly guarantees it’s mock-ability!

Maniac claims to be “THE MOST BIZARRE FILM EVER MADE!” — we’ll see about that.  That’s a bold claim, Maniac, and the Mock The Science team of smart-ass sci-fi fans have high (or is it low?) standards.

Here’s how we do this Mock The Movie thing:

  1. Start following @MockTM on twitter.
  2. Start watching Maniac Thursday, October 6th, at 9PM EST.  You can find it on YouTube.
  3. Once you’ve got Maniac  going, tweet your snarky comments to@MockTM.  Directing our tweets to @MockTM will keep our followers from being overwhelmed with our snark!
  4. Let the snark roll on twitter, but keep in mind… this movie was made in 1934.  In your @MockTM tweets try not to focus on special effects (or the lack thereof).  Instead, focus on the plot, characters, acting, story development, etc.  Let’s save our riffs on a movie’s special effects for a movie made after the end of the Cold War.

Snark about bad science is, of course, never unwelcome.

If you don’t feel like snarking along yourself the first time, you can still join us in watching the movie. Just do a Twitter search on MockTM to get all the snark as you go.

I’ll be, as always, running the Twitter scrape bot, and will post a log here after the movie’s over.

Mock the Movie: Maniac
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Mock the Movie: Rocketship X-M

Jason Thibeault, 6 Comments

Dr. Rubidium, Dr. Skyskull, Stephanie Zvan and I (yes, I just linked myself, whaddaya gonna do about it?) are teaming up once again this Thursday for our next Mock The Movie event.

Rocketship X-M promises to provide plenty of bad space science as Lloyd Bridges and his — what’s the opposite of “intrepid?” — crew somehow manage miss the Moon and land on Mars. Like you do. And encounter an alien civilization on that otherwise barren ball of rust. Like you do.

The rules for Mock The Movie are simple.

  • Start following @MockTM on Twitter.
  • Start watching Rocketship X-M on archive.org (public domain, free for everyone) Thursday, September 22, at 9PM EST.
  • Once you’ve got the movie playing, tweet your snarky comments to @MockTM. We have magical Twitter gnomes scraping the @-mentions and will have a transcript available as soon as possible over at The JAYFK. Directing our tweets to @MockTM will keep our followers from being overwhelmed with our snark!
Mock the Movie: Rocketship X-M

“I thought the internet was our future.”

Jason Thibeault9 Comments

Oh great. Another horrible movie I need to watch: Netforce. Not even Scott Bakula’s going to save this one.

“Somebody’s been hijacking the net bigtime.”
“I find VR so much more satisfying than the old emot-o-con. I mean with the new codec, and the megamodems, with compression…”
“Any kid that can hyperlink a gif is a webmaster nowadays.”

Welp. That last quote before the Everything is Terrible logo pretty much nailed the truth. And, I suppose, the one during that logo too.

Might be worth adding to the list for Mock The Movie.

“I thought the internet was our future.”

Mock The Movie: Mega Python vs Gatoroid

Jason Thibeault

Another week, another Mock The Movie event. I’ll be running the Python scrape-bot so we can post logs at The JAYFK once it’s done.

When it comes to Mock The Movie, you can’t go wrong if you choose @SyfyMovies to mock!  They brought us our first Mock The Movie (‘Sands Of Obilivon‘) and we’ve chosen  @SyfyMovies  Mega Python vs. Gatoroid for this week’s viewing pleasure.

This movie stars 1980′s pop stars Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, is set in swamps, and will likely violate every scientific principle.

The rules for Mock The Movie are simple…

  1. Start following @MockTM on twitter.
  2. Start watching Mega Python vs. Gatoroid today, August 31st, at 9PM EST.  You can find it on Netflix.
  3. Once you’ve got Mega Python vs. Gatoroid going, tweet your snarky comments to @MockTM.  Directing our tweets to @MockTM will keep our followers from being overwhelmed with our snark!

I’ve seen the other two Syfy Mega-whatsit vs Giant Something-or-others, and they are… well… They are. They exist. That’s about the best I can say about them. If you’ve got some time, and an iron constitution, please join us!

Mock The Movie: Mega Python vs Gatoroid

Mock The Movie: Atom Age Vampire

Jason Thibeault, 2 Comments

Lifted from The JAYFK:

Last week, we kicked-off Mock The Movie with the SyFy Original Movie‘Sands of Oblivion‘.  Participating smart-ass science fiction and horror movie lovers took to twitter and shared their snarky comments with the tag #mtm.  This week, we’ll be enjoying Atom Age Vampire!

This 1960′s gem has a damsel in distress, a mad scientist, and vampirism caused by science!!!  Could we ask for anything more? This is a movie dying to be mocked!

Here are the new Mock The Movie details:

  1. Start following @MockTM on twitter.
  2. Start watching Atom Age Vampire this Thursday, August 18th, at 9PM EST.  You can find it on Hulu, Achive Classic Movies or Google Videos.
  3. Once you’ve got Atom Age Vampire going, tweet your snarky comments to@MockTM.  Directing our tweets to @MockTM will keep our followers from being overwhelmed with our snark!

Atom Age Vampire this Thursday at 9PM EST.  It’s a date!

I’m participating in this movie. In fact, I built and will be running the twitter bot tomorrow night that will automatically retweet the “chosen ones” that get followed by @MockTM. Come one come all! It will be epic.

Well, as epic as “watching a crappy movie and snarking at it” can get. Which, for the record, is pretty damned epic.

Mock The Movie: Atom Age Vampire

Live blogging 2012: Doomsday

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Yes, that’s right, not the original 2012, the cheap knockoff Christian propaganda film. Stephanie Zvan and I are about to subject ourselves to this… oeuvre… and I intend to live-blog it as we go. Completely alcohol-free, at that. Heaven help us.

Apparently George W. got here first. The bastard. I swear I didn’t spoil myself on this epic retardery in advance. Well, not much. Aside from the IMDB comments thread, and a tiny snippet of George’s post.

Beginning time: 10:41 AM. Refresh for updates.
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