Sunday, October 16, 2005
Hercules vs the Moon Men
So I popped in a new DVD of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 yesterday morning and watched an episode called Hercules vs the Moon Men. This had to be THE WORST movie ever created and ever will be created may God have mercy on our souls. I can't really tell you what it was about because honestly, I don't know. There was plenty about Hercules, but there appeared to be absolutely nothing about Moon Men. I suppose maybe the bad guy , a bizarre looking figure who seemed to be covered in some type of armor except for a strange looking mouth, may have been one of the Moon Men, but they never alluded to this, except maybe in a confusing seen where what was supposed to be the moon seemed to grow closer to the earth, though it looked more like Glenda the Good Witch making her decent. The most memorable scene was about 20 minutes of people writhing around in a sandstorm with no dialogue or dramatic music. In the end, I didn't know who the bad guy was, what he hoped to accomplish, or what Hercules in fact saved the world from. You know, there have been several times when I've watched this show and thought, "That's gotta be the worst movie ever created", until I end up seeing one that's even worse. This time it's different though. I am convinced that there is no movie worse than Hercules vs the Moon Men. If there is, it was probably banned and destroyed because people literally would have asphyxiated and died while watching it. However, this just elevates the raw talent inherent in the writers for MST3K. They managed to take what would have been a horrendous experience and make it fun and enjoyable with the witty remarks of Joel, Crow, and Tom Servo. In essence, this just goes to show that evil can be used for the greater good.
Here are some links I found on another website (I didn't save the address for the website itself, so I can't include the link for it). These are videos where somebody has made trailers of movies and made them appear to be a completely different genre, ie The Shining as a family comedy, and Titanic as a horror.
The Shining
Westside Story
Titanic
* Note from the future: The pre-YouTube website that these links originally directed to, has been gone for the better part of a decade. I have located these videos on YouTube, and redirected the links there, this time directing them to open in a new tab, which I did not know how to do back in 2005. The Titanic trailer took forever to find, amidst the plethora of Titanic horror remix trailers that have gone up over the years since then.
I also added a paragraph break between the main article and the paragraph which explains the totally unrelated video links. Really, the entire main article could use paragraph breaks, but I wanted to preserve it in its original form. I just couldn't let it slide, however, that there was no break between the main article, and the section which completely changes the subject from the main article. I don't know what I was thinking back then. How silly of me. Anyways, enjoy these blasts from the Internet past.
Sincerely,
J-Dubb from 2017, who is much more mature and has better grammar and punctuation than J-Dubb of 2005.
*November 17, 2017
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