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Summary: One of MST3K's Best
Review: The plot has been dicussed by others,so all I have to add is the movie is worth your time.Beyond the jokes,the movie itself is chock full of mysogyny,bad acting,bad writing,bad lighting...bad everything.There's no excuse for a movie this odious,which is why it's so fun to watch Mike & the 'bots kick it to pieces.
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Summary: So bad it's great!
Review: I first saw this movie when I was in the 4th grade or thereabouts, and it scared the living bejesus out of me. But what do you know when you're in the 4th grade? Now that MST3K has reissued this movie and I've watched it perhaps 10 times, I laugh all the way through it. The dialogue is awful. The basic plot recalls countless puns about folks who lose their heads and flash-in-the-pan actresses. Mad Scientist Bill Courtner's girlfriend has lost hers in a fiery car crash ("Honey roasted," comments one of Mike's companions). Obsessed scientist that he is, he keeps her head alive in a lasagna pan full of "adreno-serum" in the basement laboratory of his country place. She says, "Let me die!" enough times that you're ready to oblige her, then strikes up a liaison, sort of, with the thing that lives in Bill's closet--the product of an earlier experiment that went awry. (When Bill looks in the closet, you're dying to hear, "Omygawd, it's Rosanne!" but Mike's pals missed that one.) The scene in the seedy strip club sends me into hysterics. Best line here, robot Crow observing one of the girls: "I must have blood before the night is done!" There are some godawful blunders. For example, the scene in which Bill enters the country place with a new girlfriend follows very closely after his assistant Curt's having stumbled around the same room bleeding profusedly from ... shall we say, a farewell-to-arms type encounter with the thing in the closet. So where's all the blood? The ending is a bit gory (though tame by today's standards). The thing in the closet certainly wins the ugly award for that year. But when he/it turns away toward the stairwell after making mayhem starting a fire in the lab and taking a bite out of poor Bill's throat, we see another ghastly flaw: you can actually see where the mask is tied on at the back of the actor's head! Now THAT's funny! Not to mention how Bill's old girlfriend, still in her pan at the end, manages to laugh without the benefit of chest, diaphragm or lungs. (I forgot, she has neck juice.) Incidentally, in my version the end credits also screw up the title, calling it The HEAD That Wouldn't Die. Mike and his robots' running commentary, though, offers nonstop comedy you can enjoy over and over again. I haven't been panning this movie. (Sorry!) Four stars for amusement value. Steven Yates
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Summary: Mike's maiden voyage turns out to be a great one!
Review: "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" was great. Right up there with "Pod People." I'm rather partial to Joel, but Mike does a great job on his first try. The head keeps chanting, "Let me die! Let me die!" Somebody should have let this movie die before it was dumped on an undeserving world. Through MST3000, it gets a second chance.
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Summary: It Rules!
Review: This is Mikes first episode. He doesn't have his style down yet so give him a break, will ya!!!! Anyway, the film is about a mad doctor performing experimental limb transplants on humans, sort of like a 50's version of The Reanimator. The doctor and his girlfriend are in a car crash. He lives, she's beheaded (dum dum duuuummmm!) He then takes her head, puts in a lasagna pan and tries to find a new body for her! She somehow manages to talk even though she has no lungs. The woman the mad doctor chooses to be the new body is a good 6 inches shorter than his girlfriend was. The acting sucks, the dialogue sucks, the editor was probably drunk, and the music sounds like it came from a porn movie soundtrack. In other words: It was a perfect film to be on MST3K. ;)
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Summary: very funny
Review: Has some prize lines such as "I HATE YOU for doing this to me! I wish you would DIE!...uh, could you change my water please?"
Rating:
Summary: A pretty good episode
Review: This is Mike's first appearance. The episode is pretty funny, but Mike doesn't quite have the host thing mastered. If you're a newcomer to the MST3K world, hold off on this one. But the die-hards need to own it
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Summary: Mike's first episode, but other than that, not noteworthy.
Review: There's just something strange about trying to judge a person's first episode. For some reason, Mike just doesn't seem to have his rhythm down for this one. Although there are some funny jokes in this episode, it just isn't as consistant as some of the others I've seen. Perhaps the movie itself is just so Godawful that it makes things really difficult for everyone on the SOL. But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong
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Summary: One of the Best MST3K's In Existance
Review: After Joel Robinson (Joel Hodgson) left the SOL, Mike Nelson (Michael J. Nelson) is chosen to replace him. To welcome him to the show, the mads show him a waste af time if there ever was one - The Brain That Wouldn't Die, an easy target for our wise-crackers! An absolutly hilarious episode!
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Summary: MST3K Rules!
Review: This is a movie, not a book. The movie is "The Brain that Wouldn't Die" or as many MST fans call it 'The Transition Episode' cuz this is the first episode to feature Mike Nelson after the original host (and creator) Joel Hodgson left. Mike has done a great job with the show and you can see it with the his very first pot-shot at the movie (which is horrible, by the way. I can't imagine watching it without Mike and the Bots). Anyway, this is one of the best MST3K episodes out there! Catch it! (push the button frank)
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Summary: Textbook Sleaze Film
Review: Brilliant but deranged surgeon seeks a beautiful body on which to transplant the head of his girlfriend, decapitated in an automobile crash. It takes some time and effort to lure the right body out to his place in the country. In the basement there he's keeping his girlfriend's head alive in a "lasagna pan," tended by his crippled assistant who needs an arm transplant and so willingly participates in the surgeon's hideous "experiments." Their prior experiments with organ and limb transplants have not been entirely successful... This film is a classic slab of sleaze made more palatable by MST3K humor - this version is probably better than the original. Buy it!
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