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May you be a good gentile and link this please?
I take it this is just speculation on your part. But if true, it wouldn't surprise me.
The only thing I know about Wu is his sexual hypocrisy towards the Rev60 character designs.
TGWTG Linkara / Lewis Lovhaug - HMMMMMMM? (Dead Gay Muppet Gangbang)
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And yes, the rest is speculation.
Honestly, like someone else in the thread said, the more they preach, the more likely they are secret sickos. Or at least hypocrites, like Linkara. One of his art faves was Harley Quinn raping Batman (I think. Either him or Chu). His literotica stuff alone is enough. The rest is icing on the cake.
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This is the exact right way to judge people's intelligence, you unimaginably retarded woman.Laci Green said:
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This will all end in tears, I just know it.
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Well the cinematography is already horrible. No tracking shots, no establishing shots, no atmosphere; just constant exposition dumps. When it's not static shots using an unmanned tripod, it's a shaky cam operated by hand. Pretty much everything I was expecting and just like every other Channel Awesome movie, the opening credits are the only good part because they were the only things not made by the people starring in the film.
Oh that bar scene at 5:35 is so fake. It's obviously just somebody's basement dressed like a bar. It's especially obvious when there's only two other people in the background, it's also especially obvious when you can plainly see the dining room furniture & entertainment center in the background.
You know what would've made a big difference in this movie? If he weren't using his default, shitty fucking flipcam and actually got something with DSLR. That would actually make the movie almost cinematic.
By the way, what's a lapel mic? What's a boom mic? What's reverberation? What's background static? What's sound treatment? These are many questions that went unasked in the making of this movie.
Did Linkara do any research into film making at all before filming this travesty? He's confessed in the past to almost never watching TV or movies so it's not like he can just assume that he can mimic a real film by means of having watched a bunch of them.
Almost everything is filmed as one static shot with with only rarely any cuts or changes to perspective, which makes the film feel like it's moving at a snail's pace. One does not shoot a feature length film like it's a soap opera. Take for example the nightmare sequence at 8:16, there are plenty of jump cuts to the somehow better filmed fights from his show and his reactions. It's the same shot every time it cuts back to him; a film maker worth his salt would be changing perspectives, doing close ups and other things that would build suspense but no, he took one long shot of him reacting & used only that one take. In fact, that's something even Doug Walker, in spite of his horrible ideas, would've gotten right.
I've seen short films made by middle schoolers with more general filming competence. He has ties with James Rolfe, right? Why didn't he get that guy to help direct? James could've brought his professional equipment to film. He could've helped build sets properly. Why get a bunch of useless chucklefucks that can't do anything but mug before the camera?
The only useful reviewer in this movie is Nash & that's only because he's leagues and bounds more educated at generally everything than Lewis is, up and including to film making, which is ironic because they could've used Nash's DSLR camera & gotten a 1080p resolution, like a real movie. I wonder why they didn't.
Is Lewis really so prideful in his own shit that he wouldn't allow other people to use their personal equipment to greatly enhance his own movie or would they not risk the manchild breaking it like a roid-raged chimp over a counter top?
Speaking again of making cuts in your film, notice that you never see anything than dead shots of the actors themselves? You never see the camera take focus of an object the character is reaching for; Lewis is such a camera hog that he's willing to shitify his own movie by reaching offscreen for shit instead of taking the time to turn the fucking tripod toward something that isn't him.
9:14
What the fuck is with that background? If you're gonna use CGI, blur it out, fucktard, that way I can't tell that it was fabricated by a machine and it also has the benefit of giving focus to the actor.
Good God, at 9:39, why is Spoony so fucking blurry & distorted in that green screen shot? He's like, the only person ever affiliated with Channel Awesome to be at all worth a fucking shit at using chroma key compositing. Here is yet another person with not only a higher education but also with better equipment than Lewis & I know for a fact that they are a Jobs & Wozniak type of duo.
Also, look at that typo at the top right, "recorded 4 months eariler"? What? This is really a movie you're expected to pay money for?
Great sound effects by the way, Lewis. It's especially believable that Spoony is at a press conference when there's audibly no crowd making noise, even when there's "cameras" flashing in the background, all two of them... in the same pose... am I supposed to be impressed by this?
10:36: really Lewis? You couldn't even bother to use transparent fishing line to operate your fucking puppet? You used that gaudy, orange fucking string? Do you know anything about film making? Describe to me what "suspension of disbelief" is supposed to be & then promptly discard that description because it is obviously fucking wrong.
12:45: Is that Nash's DSLR camera? If you had access to that then why didn't you use it you imbecile? I know what the footage for that camera looks like & you definitely never used it for this movie. Also, I don't know what good that camera mounted mic would do you since you always shoot at a distance away from the camera and aren't likely using that audio anyway.
12:50: Why does he dress up in that ridiculously unfitting costume, anyway? He looks like shit while wearing it. It's not vintage, it's autistic, you fedora tipping dumbass.
13:33: Why is the camera shaking during these close ups which are set at dutch angles? Don't tell me someone is holding the camera by hand for a shot suited only for a tripod.
Good God, it's like everything that comes naturally to a film maker is being done ass-backwards in this movie.
Also, look at the lighting for this bar, what kind of bar is this where there are no lights save for the fucking neon light mounted on the wall in the background? Bars are typically lit with soft, warmth focused bulbs either suspended from the ceiling or mounted on support beams but the lighting in this shot consists of purple & green; this looks like a drug den you would find in Cyberpunk 2077.
17:22: Wow, that CGI is fake as Hell, I haven't seen CGI that fake since the Phantom Menace. Compare & contrast with, like, these three film students.
17:40: Is that supposed to be the fucking spaceship interior?! It's just another person's fucking basement, only with some big, bulky mixing board staged in front of a couch made in the 1980s.
It also doesn't help that this acting is fake as Hell. Who are these people? Linkara could've literally gone to a performance art college & gotten someone better. Then again, I don't think an actor of any notable caliber could pull of that dialog.
"Look, I'm just sayin' that the universe is a strange, strange place."
"Better strange than boring."
Jesus fuck.
God, this audio sounds terrible, listen to that distorted background echo at 18:47. What pirated malware did they use for mixing the audio? It's almost to the point where it would've been better if they didn't attempt to treat the audio at all.
21:25: "You will laugh, you will cry, you will poop your pants." because Lewis refuses to let the actors use real adult words like "shit". This was a selling point in the trailer, by the way.
21:56: Oh boy, Cybermats. Isn't that a Doctor Who IP? In a non-parody, non-educational & non-critical film sold for profit? That's considered copyright infringement last I checked. You done committed an punishable crime, bro.
22:25: That screaming is so fucking fake & hilariously bad. Especially the way it's layered together. It would've literally been better if it were a silent shot.
27:02: Look at the framerate on that rotating planet, that's just God awful.
27:20: Wow, look at that set, it's terrible. It's so fucking cramped, notice that the control console is set up against the wall & the monitor is the size of an airplane window. I don't think I've ever seen a set shittier than this & Lewis has had access to the Starship Enterprise set at one time.
Look how horrid the lighting is, not only is it muddying dark but it's a clear gradient from the end of the set to the back wall. What the fuck did they use for stage lamps? 40 watt incandescent bulbs?
By the way, since this is supposed to be a spaceship, that means the lighting should come from overhead, not from a "wall".
31:35: If the spaceship has its own artificial gravity, why would the crew feel any momentum from the ship tilting?
Why is there a chair at the center of the room when the control panels are set against the walls? Why aren't there chairs set up at the control panels? The set from Power Rangers made better sense than this. At least then, it was obviously designed with a crew in mind and not some idiot's half backed concept of what this would look like.
32:10: Why are there any sound effects in fucking space where sound cannot travel due to the lack of oxygen? You couldn't get crowd sound effects for a press conference but you actually took the time to add sound effects in a scene that has no place for it? Does Lewis know anything about space travel or even space itself?
Only the first act and already every decision made was massively incompetent.
Oh that bar scene at 5:35 is so fake. It's obviously just somebody's basement dressed like a bar. It's especially obvious when there's only two other people in the background, it's also especially obvious when you can plainly see the dining room furniture & entertainment center in the background.
You know what would've made a big difference in this movie? If he weren't using his default, shitty fucking flipcam and actually got something with DSLR. That would actually make the movie almost cinematic.
By the way, what's a lapel mic? What's a boom mic? What's reverberation? What's background static? What's sound treatment? These are many questions that went unasked in the making of this movie.
Did Linkara do any research into film making at all before filming this travesty? He's confessed in the past to almost never watching TV or movies so it's not like he can just assume that he can mimic a real film by means of having watched a bunch of them.
Almost everything is filmed as one static shot with with only rarely any cuts or changes to perspective, which makes the film feel like it's moving at a snail's pace. One does not shoot a feature length film like it's a soap opera. Take for example the nightmare sequence at 8:16, there are plenty of jump cuts to the somehow better filmed fights from his show and his reactions. It's the same shot every time it cuts back to him; a film maker worth his salt would be changing perspectives, doing close ups and other things that would build suspense but no, he took one long shot of him reacting & used only that one take. In fact, that's something even Doug Walker, in spite of his horrible ideas, would've gotten right.
I've seen short films made by middle schoolers with more general filming competence. He has ties with James Rolfe, right? Why didn't he get that guy to help direct? James could've brought his professional equipment to film. He could've helped build sets properly. Why get a bunch of useless chucklefucks that can't do anything but mug before the camera?
The only useful reviewer in this movie is Nash & that's only because he's leagues and bounds more educated at generally everything than Lewis is, up and including to film making, which is ironic because they could've used Nash's DSLR camera & gotten a 1080p resolution, like a real movie. I wonder why they didn't.
Is Lewis really so prideful in his own shit that he wouldn't allow other people to use their personal equipment to greatly enhance his own movie or would they not risk the manchild breaking it like a roid-raged chimp over a counter top?
Speaking again of making cuts in your film, notice that you never see anything than dead shots of the actors themselves? You never see the camera take focus of an object the character is reaching for; Lewis is such a camera hog that he's willing to shitify his own movie by reaching offscreen for shit instead of taking the time to turn the fucking tripod toward something that isn't him.
9:14
What the fuck is with that background? If you're gonna use CGI, blur it out, fucktard, that way I can't tell that it was fabricated by a machine and it also has the benefit of giving focus to the actor.
Good God, at 9:39, why is Spoony so fucking blurry & distorted in that green screen shot? He's like, the only person ever affiliated with Channel Awesome to be at all worth a fucking shit at using chroma key compositing. Here is yet another person with not only a higher education but also with better equipment than Lewis & I know for a fact that they are a Jobs & Wozniak type of duo.
Also, look at that typo at the top right, "recorded 4 months eariler"? What? This is really a movie you're expected to pay money for?
Great sound effects by the way, Lewis. It's especially believable that Spoony is at a press conference when there's audibly no crowd making noise, even when there's "cameras" flashing in the background, all two of them... in the same pose... am I supposed to be impressed by this?
10:36: really Lewis? You couldn't even bother to use transparent fishing line to operate your fucking puppet? You used that gaudy, orange fucking string? Do you know anything about film making? Describe to me what "suspension of disbelief" is supposed to be & then promptly discard that description because it is obviously fucking wrong.
12:45: Is that Nash's DSLR camera? If you had access to that then why didn't you use it you imbecile? I know what the footage for that camera looks like & you definitely never used it for this movie. Also, I don't know what good that camera mounted mic would do you since you always shoot at a distance away from the camera and aren't likely using that audio anyway.
12:50: Why does he dress up in that ridiculously unfitting costume, anyway? He looks like shit while wearing it. It's not vintage, it's autistic, you fedora tipping dumbass.
13:33: Why is the camera shaking during these close ups which are set at dutch angles? Don't tell me someone is holding the camera by hand for a shot suited only for a tripod.
Good God, it's like everything that comes naturally to a film maker is being done ass-backwards in this movie.
Also, look at the lighting for this bar, what kind of bar is this where there are no lights save for the fucking neon light mounted on the wall in the background? Bars are typically lit with soft, warmth focused bulbs either suspended from the ceiling or mounted on support beams but the lighting in this shot consists of purple & green; this looks like a drug den you would find in Cyberpunk 2077.
17:22: Wow, that CGI is fake as Hell, I haven't seen CGI that fake since the Phantom Menace. Compare & contrast with, like, these three film students.
17:40: Is that supposed to be the fucking spaceship interior?! It's just another person's fucking basement, only with some big, bulky mixing board staged in front of a couch made in the 1980s.
It also doesn't help that this acting is fake as Hell. Who are these people? Linkara could've literally gone to a performance art college & gotten someone better. Then again, I don't think an actor of any notable caliber could pull of that dialog.
"Look, I'm just sayin' that the universe is a strange, strange place."
"Better strange than boring."
Jesus fuck.
God, this audio sounds terrible, listen to that distorted background echo at 18:47. What pirated malware did they use for mixing the audio? It's almost to the point where it would've been better if they didn't attempt to treat the audio at all.
21:25: "You will laugh, you will cry, you will poop your pants." because Lewis refuses to let the actors use real adult words like "shit". This was a selling point in the trailer, by the way.
21:56: Oh boy, Cybermats. Isn't that a Doctor Who IP? In a non-parody, non-educational & non-critical film sold for profit? That's considered copyright infringement last I checked. You done committed an punishable crime, bro.
22:25: That screaming is so fucking fake & hilariously bad. Especially the way it's layered together. It would've literally been better if it were a silent shot.
27:02: Look at the framerate on that rotating planet, that's just God awful.
27:20: Wow, look at that set, it's terrible. It's so fucking cramped, notice that the control console is set up against the wall & the monitor is the size of an airplane window. I don't think I've ever seen a set shittier than this & Lewis has had access to the Starship Enterprise set at one time.
Look how horrid the lighting is, not only is it muddying dark but it's a clear gradient from the end of the set to the back wall. What the fuck did they use for stage lamps? 40 watt incandescent bulbs?
By the way, since this is supposed to be a spaceship, that means the lighting should come from overhead, not from a "wall".
31:35: If the spaceship has its own artificial gravity, why would the crew feel any momentum from the ship tilting?
Why is there a chair at the center of the room when the control panels are set against the walls? Why aren't there chairs set up at the control panels? The set from Power Rangers made better sense than this. At least then, it was obviously designed with a crew in mind and not some idiot's half backed concept of what this would look like.
32:10: Why are there any sound effects in fucking space where sound cannot travel due to the lack of oxygen? You couldn't get crowd sound effects for a press conference but you actually took the time to add sound effects in a scene that has no place for it? Does Lewis know anything about space travel or even space itself?
Only the first act and already every decision made was massively incompetent.
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Linkara's many characters get very, very tiring when they're all supposed to be in the same movie interacting with each other. It just gets so painfully obvious.
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So just finished watching the first part. And lord almighty, I thought I'd never see anything cheaper than "To Boldly Flee". But here we are.
As a whole, the movie reeks of cheapness, the sets are crude to nonexistent. The most obvious being with the space station (no amount of lampshading is going to hide that fact) and the thing passing itself off as a bar (just because there's a neon light in the background can't hide the obvious bookcase off to the side).
the greenscreens look terrible, even for a low budget "movie", and it seems that they took the best CGI 1995 had to offer for the spaceship and effects. Also, the robot looks worse than he did before. And that's saying something considering he was both cardboard and shitty CGI on the series. Hell I'd even say the series had better effects, and those were downright ugly.
While I'm on the technical aspects, I'm going to agree with @MarvinTheParanoidAndroid, 720p is a terrible definition for a film. Even if it's internet exclusive. And I have to wonder why Nash wasn't asked to bring along the camera too. I mean it wouldn't have been hard, and wouldn't have driven up the budget either. And the sound quality just loves to fluctuate between "above average" to "Holy shit, what are they even saying?" I take it none of the budget even went to sound, sets or effects.
The acting looks and sounds like half the cast doesn't even want to give a shit. Like no one wanted to even be in the film in the first place, but were bribed by either Lewis (or Doug) to appear anyways. And I have to question why Lupa would even want to be in the film considering the fallout she had between CA. Ditto Spoony/Insano with his brief cameo.
And then there's the writing. I mean it's nice to set things up. But this just feels like a movie that shouldn't be watched until you watch the most recent episodes at parts. And even then, there's still not enough time to explain everything. Like the space station, or why the robot looks completely different than from the rest of the series. Hell, even one of the people commenting on the video was confused about the robot. Hell, this "Allen" fellow never even appeared in the series until this point, so a lot of his scenes have little to no buildup. And that's before the filler with the movie night. Now I'm not going to say that I'm a good writer (hell, I'm just writing this review at the spur of the moment), but even I know terrible or pointless filler when I see it. And that was some of the most pointless filler I've seen in any film. Even the other Channel Awesome films. Also, is it just me, or does the story give me deja-vu to "To Boldly Flee", just without the Seltzerberg-style references?
That said, I am going to give the devil its due and give it some praise (as much as I don't want to). For instance, Unlike Doug's excuses of films, I did actually get a laugh out of a few lines (mostly Brad's). And I did like the fact they weren't using that computer voice for the robot anymore (even if I think the British accent isn't entirely necessary). But between the bland, "I don't give a shit" acting, dated effects and recycled, poorly constructed plotline. I can't see myself either giving a care or being invested. To the diehards, this might be worth a quick lookover. But for me, not so much.
If I were to rate it out of 10, I'd give it a 2. As a movie tie-in to AT4W, it falls flat as we're suddenly introduced to plot elements and characters never seen before, and most newcomers and long timers (or haters curious to see what's going on) will get lost within the first 10 minutes. As a movie on its own merits, it has terrible acting, humor, writing, effects and as I said before, people won't be able to follow it unless they watched the series. As a CA movie, again, it falls flat. It gets points as we aren't focusing around Doug this time, but everything else takes all the apparent flaws of the other films and just ups them ten-fold. Combined with the terrible resolution which just makes the poor production values even worse. It makes me want to say that even Doug's recent stuff has better effects/production values than this.
Tl;dr: This movie sucks and is a terrible way to spend however much it cost to make this.
As a whole, the movie reeks of cheapness, the sets are crude to nonexistent. The most obvious being with the space station (no amount of lampshading is going to hide that fact) and the thing passing itself off as a bar (just because there's a neon light in the background can't hide the obvious bookcase off to the side).
the greenscreens look terrible, even for a low budget "movie", and it seems that they took the best CGI 1995 had to offer for the spaceship and effects. Also, the robot looks worse than he did before. And that's saying something considering he was both cardboard and shitty CGI on the series. Hell I'd even say the series had better effects, and those were downright ugly.
While I'm on the technical aspects, I'm going to agree with @MarvinTheParanoidAndroid, 720p is a terrible definition for a film. Even if it's internet exclusive. And I have to wonder why Nash wasn't asked to bring along the camera too. I mean it wouldn't have been hard, and wouldn't have driven up the budget either. And the sound quality just loves to fluctuate between "above average" to "Holy shit, what are they even saying?" I take it none of the budget even went to sound, sets or effects.
The acting looks and sounds like half the cast doesn't even want to give a shit. Like no one wanted to even be in the film in the first place, but were bribed by either Lewis (or Doug) to appear anyways. And I have to question why Lupa would even want to be in the film considering the fallout she had between CA. Ditto Spoony/Insano with his brief cameo.
And then there's the writing. I mean it's nice to set things up. But this just feels like a movie that shouldn't be watched until you watch the most recent episodes at parts. And even then, there's still not enough time to explain everything. Like the space station, or why the robot looks completely different than from the rest of the series. Hell, even one of the people commenting on the video was confused about the robot. Hell, this "Allen" fellow never even appeared in the series until this point, so a lot of his scenes have little to no buildup. And that's before the filler with the movie night. Now I'm not going to say that I'm a good writer (hell, I'm just writing this review at the spur of the moment), but even I know terrible or pointless filler when I see it. And that was some of the most pointless filler I've seen in any film. Even the other Channel Awesome films. Also, is it just me, or does the story give me deja-vu to "To Boldly Flee", just without the Seltzerberg-style references?
That said, I am going to give the devil its due and give it some praise (as much as I don't want to). For instance, Unlike Doug's excuses of films, I did actually get a laugh out of a few lines (mostly Brad's). And I did like the fact they weren't using that computer voice for the robot anymore (even if I think the British accent isn't entirely necessary). But between the bland, "I don't give a shit" acting, dated effects and recycled, poorly constructed plotline. I can't see myself either giving a care or being invested. To the diehards, this might be worth a quick lookover. But for me, not so much.
If I were to rate it out of 10, I'd give it a 2. As a movie tie-in to AT4W, it falls flat as we're suddenly introduced to plot elements and characters never seen before, and most newcomers and long timers (or haters curious to see what's going on) will get lost within the first 10 minutes. As a movie on its own merits, it has terrible acting, humor, writing, effects and as I said before, people won't be able to follow it unless they watched the series. As a CA movie, again, it falls flat. It gets points as we aren't focusing around Doug this time, but everything else takes all the apparent flaws of the other films and just ups them ten-fold. Combined with the terrible resolution which just makes the poor production values even worse. It makes me want to say that even Doug's recent stuff has better effects/production values than this.
Tl;dr: This movie sucks and is a terrible way to spend however much it cost to make this.
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64,000 dollars were earned through IndieGoGo.
Even assuming it ripped him off too, he still should have over 50k in budget.
Even assuming it ripped him off too, he still should have over 50k in budget.
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well that's including the money he gets from patreon as well since im assuming atlest a bit of it went toward the movie
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I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if Lewis pulled a Doug Walker and spent the money on unrelated bills. Channel Awesome's never been open about money.
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Anyone think Lewis or any other channel awesome producer is going to review the film in the future? Cause that's something a lot them have been doing with their own films lately.
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As for Lupa she probably signed on for this before the fallout with CA and from what I understand it was management that had a problem with her not the other way around. She's probably doing this because she's got nothing against Lewis. And Spoony is in the same boat. He's still friends with the producers like Brad, Lewis and Doug and he's done cameos in their videos as well. With him he chose to leave although the story has many sides. Doug has said that he is welcome back if he ever chooses to come back.
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That would be amusing. But I doubt Linky boy would allow it unless it was a "special" circumstance.
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Best line "You watched my Show and didn't want to shot me?" asked like he thinks watching the show would make people want to shoot him...
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One of many reasons, Lewis. One of many reasons.
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This was always Lewis's selling point- him not saying words like "fuck", "shit" or their derivatives. Yeah, it gets annoying when those words are overused, but for fuck's sake, they're not like the plague. USE THEM! No one's stopping you.
Also as I said in my review, about the space station's set, just because you point out that it's an obvious living room set, then tell the character who complains about it to accept it. Doesn't mean it makes it any better. If anything, it makes it worse because you just did a needless bout of (unfunny) meta humor, which could have been avoided if you had bothered to hire a fucking set designer. Even To Boldly Flee had an excuse as to why its spaceship's interior looked like someone's house. What's this movie's? Oh right, they don't bother to explain it outside of that one "joke". It's sad when even Lewis fails at exposition, and that's not something that you can fail easily.
And good point about the Cybermats. This was a problem in the series itself. At least with things like the morphers and Pyramidhead, they were used in a mocking sort of manner (kinda-sorta-not really). The Cybermats and other Dr. Who references, not so much. I'm legit surprised BBC hasn't sued his ass yet.
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Better yet: put it on the new MST3K.
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That's an insult to the standards of MST3K.