Your “Mock What Now?” Thursday Night Open Thread

BrettFavresColonoscopy - May 11, 2023May 11, 2023

Banner Photo from MST3K's twitter As you all know, during the offseason, Horatio runs a series of mock drafts to keep us from working entertained on Mondays. Two Mondays ago, that installment centered around comedy movies and DAMN did the kommentariat step up to the plate and crush that grapefruit over

Hue Jackson’s Hall of Fame Scammers: Hargobind Tahilramani

The Maestro - June 3, 2021June 2, 2021

Welcome back to another exclusive sneak preview of the Hue Jackson School of Scam Artistry! We're into June! Football gets ever closer with every passing day. I can almost taste it. It's the time to start crunching film to prepare for training camps. It's also the time for our planet's best

Oscars 2019 Preview and Open Thread: We Got to Move These Acclaimed Motion Pictures. We Got to Move These Short Nominees.

makeitsnowondem - February 24, 2019February 24, 2019

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Welcome to Oscars Evening, Commentists! I'm back, and I've got some more capital-T Takes on these awards, specifically the prestige categories, the short films, and the feature films that well-adjusted people probably care even less about than they do the short films. But first, I want to yell about something

Oscars 2019 Preview: I Have Eaten The Polar Bears That Were In Your Ice Cap

makeitsnowondem - February 23, 2019February 23, 2019

Happy Oscar weekend! In past years, I know, I've spread this out a little more, but there were a few key films I had to go down to the wire to find time to watch. It's honestly still looking questionable whether I'll see everything on the list this year, thanks

Oscar Night 2018 Open Thread

makeitsnowondem - March 4, 2018March 4, 2018

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Good evening, Commentists! It's Oscar night, and I'm here to set the stage for your finest cinematological dick jokes. Here are the nominees for Best Picture, ranked, and my predictions for which of them will actually win. 10. Darkest Hour Impeccably acted and unexpectedly pretty to look at. There are no bad movies

Oscar Preview 2018: Prestige Award Lightning Round

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makeitsnowondem - March 1, 2018

I did it. I had to go to two different theaters yesterday because the one I went to first was having "events" of some sort and had canceled all its normal screenings with minimal notice, but I regrouped, ate something, and saw the last movie on the list, the Aaron Sorkin

Oscar Preview 2018: Salute Your Shorts

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makeitsnowondem - February 28, 2018February 28, 2018

The animated features and short films are, collectively, some of my favorite awards-season categories. There's almost always something in there that's as good as most of the Best Picture nominees, and because it's not a Best Picture nominee, I get to feel smug about appreciating it. Also, a lot of

Oscar Preview 2018: Art for Film’s Sake

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makeitsnowondem - February 26, 2018February 26, 2018

Good afternoon, Commentists! Today I'm cruising on through the more artsy categories today, and here's a status update: I have three more feature films to watch, and another seven shorts still, and as of tomorrow all of them will be available to me. We're really doing this! Let's get into

Oscar Preview 2018: Awards for Nerds

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makeitsnowondem - February 25, 2018February 25, 2018

Good afternoon, Commentists. We're a week from Oscar night, and and my plan was to cover all the "technical categories" today, but that was before I did a little more research and discovered that there are seven technical categories and that they include costume design and production design. And, look,

Oscar Preview 2018: The Films No One Watches

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makeitsnowondem - February 22, 2018February 22, 2018

Good afternoon, Commentists. We're ten days from the Oscars, and I believe that this will finally be the year that I can claim to have watched everything. Some of you may remember how close I've gotten the past couple of years; I missed the animated film My Life as a Courgette last year,

I Just Realized the New “Ghost in the Shell” is Rated PG-13…

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers - March 7, 2017March 7, 2017

...and naturally I had to come to the INTERNET to complain about it. Are you fucking kidding me?! A major part of the premise and success of the cyber-punk source material is the complete and ridiculous over the top violence! Just look at some of this shit (unless you are at

A Wednesday Deadline Day Daytime Open Thread

Beerguyrob - March 1, 2017March 1, 2017

It's a big day in sports today, for players, agents and the tax man, as 3:00 ET/12:00 PT is the NHL trade deadline, and 4:00 ET/1:00 PT is the deadline for teams to put franchise tags on players. It's also the day equipment managers hate, because they have to make