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Summary: Absolutely hilarious
Review: This is a great set with a wide variety of film genres getting the MST3K treatment. Bloodlust is a gruesome remake of the Most Dangerous Game, Catalina Caper is a Tommy Kirk beach romp with some intentional "comedy", The Creeping Terror is possibly the worst and lowest budget monster-on-the-loose picture ever made, and The Skydivers is a Coleman Francis (doesn't that say it all?) "drama" involving some skydivers, a love-triangle gone awry and lots of cups of coffee from the same guy who brought us Beast of Yucca Flats. A great selection for both the long-term MST3K fan or someone just wanting to check out the show for the first time. Catalina Caper is worth it alone, as this comes from the legendarily hilarious second season of the show; when you hear Tom Servo singing "Creepy Girl" you'll know why MST3K is possibly the funniest show ever to be on television.
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Summary: MST Box set.. Great, but could be better...
Review: This is the first boxset collection Rhino has released of Mystery Science Theater 3000, containing the Mike-hosted episodes Skydivers, Bloodlust, and The Creeping Terror. Joel, the first host of the show, only shows up on the Catalina Caper Disc. While these shows aren't quite the classics that volume 2 contains, there are still some wonderful moments here. The Little Richard song in Catalina Caper is a hilarious string of barbs and wisecracks that is, to me, the highlight of that episode. Skydivers is one of the few Roger Corman flicks that's actually watchable - with the mst3k gang helping. I've only made it through the Red Zone Cuba episode once, and I can actually sit through this one. The Creeping Terror is enjoyable just for watching the sheer lack of terror the movie inspires. About the weakest episode here was Bloodlust. Seeing a member of the Brady Bunch cast in that tight of a shirt is just about too much to bear....
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Summary: A Review
Review: This is the first of the 4-episode collection sets, and it was a good hook for their other ones. Athought this is strangely the only one with the un-MSTed versions, you don't nessesarily need those (though ironicly, the worst movies ever made are now digitally mastered on DVDs...).
Anyway, on to the review section: THE SKYDIVERS:
MADE BY: Coleman Francis (start snoring now)
If not the worst movie ever made, certainly the worst I've ever seen. Plot: Uh... there isn't one. If you must have one though, I guess you could say that it's "the struggle to keep a make-shift sky diving school alive", but even that's giving it too much credit. As this is part of the "Coleman Francis Trilogy", this should come as no suprise though. Continuity isn't there, niether is a script, nor is skydiving. To further add to this, you'll recognise the music from his other movies. Overall, this is just a horrible film that has no reason for existing. If I'd gone to see it in theaters, I'd've left 5 minutes in (maybe less).
MST3KED VERSION:
HOST: Mike
In my opinion, the funniest in the set. Even though this movie pretty much makes fun of itself, they find their ways to make it better. Every aspect of the film is mocked; the editing, acting, diolauge, and of course the film itself. The jokes come at a steady rate, and they are consistantly funny, provided you know the context (lots of past movie references, but those are in every episode). Simply stated, you have to experience it to find it funny, as with most things, it just can't be put into words. If I had a dollar for every time I laughed in this movie, I'd be able to pay off the national debt.
(I'll have to do them separately, I guess... I'll write those later.)
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Summary: mystery science theater 3000 vol.1
Review: This was the box set that got me hooked on Mystery Science Theater 3000. I had watched a few episodes when I was in my early teen years, but I was not to bright to understand the many allusions to...well everything under the sun. Therefore, I found myself watching each one of these discs several times over, especially the very horrible, but entertaining episode of _The Skydivers_. Like most cult sensations, this television series has an incredible knowledgeable fan base. Yet, this fan base is somewhat comparable to the die hard Simpsons-ites I have met over the years. That is, they tend to be very intelligent (somewhat nerdy), but always funny. Once you open your mind to this series, you might be surprise about how erudite this show can be. If you are a person who has a hard time justifying "blowing" sixty bucks on this box set, I want to say that replay value of each one of these episodes is very high and even recommended, due to the rapid fire jokes.
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Summary: The Box Set that started it all
Review: This was the box set that got me hooked on Mystery Science Theater 3000. I had watched a few episodes when I was in my early teen years, but I was not to bright to understand the many allusions to...well everything under the sun. Therefore, I found myself watching each one of these discs several times over, especially the very horrible, but entertaining episode of _The Skydivers_. Like most cult sensations, this television series has an incredible knowledgeable fan base. Yet, this fan base is somewhat comparable to the die hard Simpsons-ites I have met over the years. That is, they tend to be very intelligent (somewhat nerdy), but always funny. Once you open your mind to this series, you might be surprise about how erudite this show can be. If you are a person who has a hard time justifying "blowing" sixty bucks on this box set, I want to say that replay value of each one of these episodes is very high and even recommended, due to the rapid fire jokes.
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Summary: these are extremely funny movies
Review: this was the funniest show on TV(WHY DID THEY QUIT IT!!!!!!)this is a great DVD to ill name them best to worst
Skydivers
catalina caper
the creeping terror
and bloodlust
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Summary: Terrible packaging
Review: Was this review helpful to you? Hit the NO button now. This review isn't about the content, its about the packaging. Well, not the actual display box, the system used to hold the DVDs in place. Without a doubt it is one of the worst systems I have ever come across. The DVD itself is held in place by three prongs. One is marked "PUSH" and does absolutely nothing. The other two remaining prongs hold the DVD in a vice like death grip forcing you to BEND the DVD.
**** THIS IS ONE OF THE MAJOR CAUSES OF DVD ROT ****
Whoever designed this system should be hung, drawn and quartered along with the wacko at Rhino who approved it.
Thankfully this woefully inadequate system is improved by the time volume 4 comes around.
Oh, by the way, 5 stars for the content, read the other reviews for what they're about ....
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Summary: great. now i have ANOTHER dvd to save up for.
Review: what with all this simpsons and south park and various animes, and now this, i don't think i'll EVER complete my dvd collection. MST3K is probably one of the funniest things i've seen in, like, ever. first you have these horrible sci-fi movies that were already pretty funny without the power of MST3K. you know, because they were so horrible. then you put in a hilarious and original cast to sit and make fun of it and you have an award-winning and simply hilarious show that's a must own for everyone (run-on sentences are fun, yes?). buy it and make your dvd player happy at you. O_O
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Summary: An MST quality assortment!
Review: Whoever at Rhino decided to package these four MST episodes into one DVD collection did a really nice job, because they comprise an excellent cross-section of the show: one from the early years (I've said in other Amazon.com reviews that I think seasons 3 and 4 were probably the best of the show's entire run) plus some from the later Comedy Central years; bad horror films combined with a bad comedy film and one that's just, well, bad (how *would* you classify "The Skydivers"? "Drama" doesn't seem like quite the right word.). If anything, the collection may be -- as one of the institutional reviews put it -- a little "Mike-centric." But the volume two collection balances this out by including two Joel-era episodes. The magic of DVD technology brings many other interesting benefits to this collection, including complete, uncut versions of the original films without the benefit of "Shadowrama" technology. But the real value, of course, is far more in the MST riffing than in the films themselves. So pop up the popcorn and settle in for a long weekend of great entertainment. Even this many years after the show's final season, an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 is still really hard to beat.
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