The world lost something amazing when Castleton University changed its name to Vermont State University: Castleton Campus. It's just not the same to say, "who am I kidding? I never went to Vermont State University: Castleton Campus."
That movie has the worst bit of dialog I've ever heard in my life:
Slacker Gas Pump Guy: "Whoa! Minutemen!"
Castleton Snob: "Correction, they are PISSED Minutemen!"
I've watched the mst3k version of this movie probably 20 times in the last couple months (every night before bed I let an episode run) and I still can't tell you anything that happens in this movie other than disconnected people and places. up there with skydivers.
more time travel movies should take advantage of their local historical reenactment societies. sure it means you pretty much have to set your climactic battle scene during the civil war or in colonial williamsburg, but they all have their own costumes!
its a very well structured script (if a blatant ripoff of a bunch of other time travel movies, especially BACK TO THE FUTURE) but also fucks basic things up like breaking the 180 degree rule in dialogue scenes.
overall still in the 95th percentile of quality for an mst3k movie
I've been there and i agree its a worthless "city". Just a bunch of dead eyed cud chewing cheese gobblers. Bernie Sanders should have cut them off from Vermont, give them to New Hampshire, that states a shithole anyway they deserve each other
finding love in the produce section at Martins > deleting the 7 floppy discs that hold all of the tech to time travel. its the philosophical problem known as Castleton's Choice
compared to bad movies now like they really put effort into it. like if someone wore a Castleton Uni shirt in Sharknado no one would give a shit. there's something there definitely
I think that's best summed up by the explanation that bad movies like Sharknado were *intentionally* bad, whereas bad movies like Time Chasers were genuine efforts that have heart behind them instead of corporate greed.
yeah definitely. you're right that the difference boils down to sincerity. like a good bad movie, the writers and directors and actors are putting a level of effort that's anathema to *wink wink* taking the piss movies. its that key combination of flopsweat desperation + ego stretched beyond ability
An absurdly rich businessman uses the government contract obtained to lock up the actual time travel inventor, *when he says the changes they made to time doom the nation to an apocalypse*.
It's so on the nose! It may as well be science fact.
Teenage Strangler is another movie MST3K did where it was just like a town's community theater group got together and said "hey, why not make a film?" The films that genuinely tried but didn't quite make it are way better than the films with huge budgets and professionals that end up sucking anyway
The guy who made it spoke at my brother’s college. He’s just the guy who runs Rutland cable access and these movies did well enough in central and eastern European video markets to make a little profit that would all go into making the next movie
One of the things I love about this movie is that during a chase, our hero gets into a car and promptly wrecks it, because he only rides a bike or flies a plane. Great move, shows he has limits.
Also the evil CEO’s office is clearly in a mezzanine and I love that for him.
i met a guy wearing the "CASTLETON" t shirt once and assumed he was a MSTie but when i asked him about it it turned out he had no idea what time chasers was and was just from vermont
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i'm lying in bed
holding you close to my dreams
woo-ooooh-ooooo-ahhhhh🎵
Slacker Gas Pump Guy: "Whoa! Minutemen!"
Castleton Snob: "Correction, they are PISSED Minutemen!"
overall still in the 95th percentile of quality for an mst3k movie
WHAT UP!
It's so on the nose! It may as well be science fact.
Also the evil CEO’s office is clearly in a mezzanine and I love that for him.
"you'll have to take my word for it, we can't show it!"
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1- uh okay, 4!