The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 6 (Attack of the Giant Leeches / Gunslinger / Teenagers from Outer Space / Mr. B's Lost Shorts)

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mst3k vol. 6.

MST 3000---JUST AS I REMEMBER IT.

Two greats and two not so greats

Another great Joel collection, and Mr. Bs shorts for a bonus

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 6 (Attack of the Giant Leeches / Gunslinger / Teenagers from Outer Space / Mr. B's Lost Shorts)
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Release Date: 2004-10-26

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It's business as usual for Mystery Science Theater 3000 in this sixth volume of episodes taken from the archives of the long-running television show, which is nothing but good news for MST3K's many adherents--and with four discs and six hours of content, neither longtime fans nor newcomers to the series will be shortchanged. The formula is the same as ever: having been sentenced by mad scientist Dr. Clayton Forrester to watch unspeakably bad movies (all part of the doc's wacky plan for world domination), janitor Joel Robinson (portrayed by series creator Joel Hodgson, who would later write for Jimmy Kimmel's variety show) and his robot buddies Crow and Tom Servo sit aboard their spaceship, the Satellite of Love, and do exactly that. Their own skits and interstitial shtick are mildly diverting, but as always it's the wisecracks our heroes direct at the screen that dominate the proceedings far more than the movies themselves. By turns genuinely witty and groan-inducing, their nonstop riffing, laden with puns, sarcasm, and cultural references (from poet Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" to atrocious pop songs like Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods' "Billy Don't Be a Hero," all in the space of a couple of breaths), usually drowns out the dialogue in the films. That's not a bad thing, of course, when the movies are turkeys on the order of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 6 lineup, which comes from episodes first aired between 1990 and 1994. They include Attack of the Giant Leeches (boasting perhaps the least convincing movie monsters ever created), Gunslinger (a Western that drags on interminably), and the self-explanatory Teenagers from Outer Space. Disc 3 contains six shorter films, and may be the best of the lot for that reason alone.

With Mystery Science Theater 3000 having departed the airwaves in 1999 (it began in '88), the show lives on primarily by way of these DVD releases. And while some would argue that a little of this stuff goes a fairly long way, Rhino's typically fine packaging and presentation (even without any bonus features) make this and the other MST3K sets a collector's treat. --Sam Graham

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Join Joel, Mike, and their "robot friends" as they endure the worst movies ever made, all for the pleasure of an evil scientist. To survive and maintain their sanity, these crazy captives make stinging quips and hilarious jokes at the expense of these torturous cinematic stinkers.

Customer Reviews:

"Mr. B., you're hot.".......2007-03-01

As much as I am a huge fan of MST3K, this set is easily one of the strongest DVD collections that Rhino has put out. With three episodes from the Joel/Comedy Central era and a disc full of "shorts", this set will keep you occupied for so long, what with repeated viewings and all.

"Attack of the Giant Leeches" is first on the list, and, well, hardly any attacking ever occurs. Joel and the bots have a good time with this film, although it's not really their best work in the 4th season. 7.5/10

"Gunslinger", one of Joel's last episodes, is a pretty slow-paced Roger Corman western that adds good fodder for the trio to riff at. It stands on the same level of the Giant Leeches film, though. 7.5/10

"Mr. B.'s Lost Shorts" happens to be a great compilation of selected shorts from certain episodes. They're all gems here, but the best is undoubtedly "Mr. B. Natural". As dull and retarded as an educational short can get, lost of hilarious riffs occur with this one, such "Joel, I'm scared.", or "Hey, leave my father out of this!" Seriously, this is really funny stuff. 9/10

This set goes off with a bang as "Teenagers From Outer Space", from the start adds great riffs from the trio. One of the best host segments occurs with the hosts explaining through illustration what happens in movies and in real life. 9/10

Well, that's it. I don't seem to like this set as much as Volume 7 or the Essentials, but this set still is a lot of fun. Worth the money, period.

mst3k vol. 6........2006-03-21

the disc was in excellant condition and played without a problem. i am very satisfied with this disc. all a all a good purchase

MST 3000---JUST AS I REMEMBER IT........2006-03-19

The MST 3000 Collection, Vol. 6 was as I hoped it would be (that
is, just as when I saw them the first time, I laughed through-
out each episode). The Collection has made certain B-movie bombs I would not watch a second time, make me want to go back for re- runs.The Sci-fiers "ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES" and "TEENAGERS
FROM OUTER SPACE" were made more watchable than many big bucks
horror flicks, contemporary and recent. It brings back to mind
again; why was it ever taken off the air?

Two greats and two not so greats.......2005-09-12

Overall I'm really happy with this collection because of the inclusion of Teenagers From Outer Space and the Lost Shorts disc, but I would not have chosen to include Gunslingers, one of my least favorite episodes, and while Attack Of The Giant Leeches isn't bad it's not all that great either.

Teenagers From Outer Space is a new favorite of mine since getting this collection. Aside from being a hilarious episode it's suprisingly watchable as a movie, with a fast pace and a story that actually mostly makes sense, as well as some real emotion too. Of course it's cheesy in the way that all fifties space operas were, with goofy "space" suits, rayguns and a forced-perspective lobster for a monster. Seriously, it's a dead lobster. Not even a puppet. Just a lobster. "The high council will sentence you to TORCHA!!"

Mr. B's Lost Shorts is another gem, with the hilarious and wacky Mr. B Natural leading the way, followed by some old and grainy educational films about driving safety and marriage and a crazy acid-trip of a car commercial from the fifties.

Gunslinger is a poorly-made western which would be unbearable without Joel and the Bots to riff on it, and even with the jokes it's slow and agonizing. It's my second least favorite episode next to Catalina Caper and I wish something like Night Of The Bloodbeast had been included instead.

Attack Of The Giant Leeches is okay, but not a great episode in my opinion. It's drab and boring and the riffing does a lot to liven it up but not enough. The leeches themselves look like guys wearing garbage bags and silly string, so that's funny. But the episode in general disappoints.

All in all, the good makes up for the bad, so it's worth the money to me.

Another great Joel collection, and Mr. Bs shorts for a bonus.......2005-08-10

This is a great selection for fans of the Joel era. You have one of the funniest shorts ever in "Undersea Kingdom" In which a group of sailors and a bratty little kid named Billy, and find the sunken continent of Atlantis. The reguallar movies on this selection are Top Notch, "Attack Of The Giant Leeches" is borefest that only J&TBs can cure when a cheating wife and her husband's best friend go missing, leave to jerky wildlife mnagement expert to save the day, (or at least find the bodies). Teenage Aliens, where bleeding heart rebels against his alien peers, and decides to not cause an apocoliptic lobster ruin planet earth. The shorts are always a bonus, Mr. B Natural is always a good one to use in order to turn a chum into a misty.

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3.5 for this pleasant movie
Bernie Mac Is The Saving Grace To What Could Be A Bad Movie
Not Bad But Could've Been Better
Plesant but predictable
Not really a comedy, but a better film than you might expect. However, too much cussing!

Mr. 3000 (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Bernie Mac , Angela Bassett , Michael Rispoli , Brian J. White , and Ian Anthony Dale
Director: Charles Stone III
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Exclusive interviews, highlights, and behind the scenes coverage
DVD's main menu allow you to jump directly to the action
Presented in full-screen digital video

ASIN: B0006GAI5U
Release Date: 2005-02-01

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Stan Ross was a baseball superstar who turned his back on the game years ago when he finally hit 3,000 hits. Years later, he's now a successful, self-made entrepreneur whose many businesses revolve around his title: Mr. 3000. But a clerical error has proven that Stan is just short three hits of his spectacular hit record. Now, with time on his side and the potential to be inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Stan must return back to the game and get back his title. But things have changed with age, and as Stan finds out, it's not too easy to get back into the game when he hasn't played for years, and he's nearing 50.

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Bernie Mac is perfectly cast in Mr. 3000, a feel-good baseball comedy that capitalizes on Mac's established comedy persona. He plays Stan Ross, veteran first-baseman for the struggling Milwaukee Brewers, who quit the team during a pennant race and, nine years later, discovers that he's actually three hits short of his 3,000 career-hit claim to fame. When he attempts a comeback to correct his record, his selfish past returns to haunt him, along with a former flame (Angela Bassett, who deserves better roles) who's covering Stan's return to baseball for ESPN. It's strictly formula, but the comedy is consistently entertaining, and director Charles Stone III proves that his 2002 sleeper hit Drumline was no fluke, injecting observant details into a very predictable plotline. Easily recommended, Mr. 3000 makes a good double-header with 1989's hit baseball comedy Major League. --Jeff Shannon

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3.5 for this pleasant movie.......2006-09-20

What caught my attention for this movie, is thats it pictures a selfish
man that only cares about himself and what happens when a situation changes things around. Its a baseball movie, but not all the movie is played on the field.
I was surprised and did enjoy this film all the way the the ending credits. I recommend this movie if you like smart comedies and not the ones that goes over the edge.

Bernie Mac Is The Saving Grace To What Could Be A Bad Movie.......2006-07-14

Mr. 3000 is a decent film about a washed up baseball player who needs to prove himself again when he discovers he isn't "Mr. 3000" as he thought he was. The story drags in places but overall isn't that bad. If you come into this film with low expectation, you won't feel so disappointed by the end. I'm not saying that this movie is the worst thing ever. I actually thought it was pretty good, but it just doesn't make for a great movie. Luckily, I wasn't expecting an Oscar winning blockbuster film when I started to watch. Once again, the acting and everything is good, the story is just something that has been seen many times in much better films in the past.

Not Bad But Could've Been Better.......2005-11-28

Mr. 3000 is a film about a former baseball player named Stan Ross who was a very good player....AND KNEW IT! His stats was only equaled by his arrogance and flagrant disrespect for the fans, the team that he played for and his fellow baseball players with the exception of his sidekick Bocca.

Once Stan gets 3,000 hits, he quits the team in the middle of the pennant race which leaves lingering bad feelings. Nine years later, a statistical error is discovered and Stan decides to return to the game that he once turned his back on in order to gain those 3,000 hits. He finds, however, that the game he left behind is much different and finds himself at odds with "T-Rex" Pentibaker, a hitter who is very similiar to Stan himself. Add the return of a former love (played by Angela Bassett) and you have a character who has to face himself.

It could've been better in spots but I have to agree with other reviewers that if not for Bernie Mac's performance, it would've totally stunk! Whoever decided to cast him as Stan Ross made the right call. He and Angela, in my view, have been in better films but did great with the material they had in this mildly ammusing but still relevant comedy. I call it relevant because considering all the egos in professional sports and in sports entertainment fields, this could easily be one of our real life sports hero's one day!

Anyway, worth the rent. Would buy only at a reduced price however!

Plesant but predictable.......2005-11-06

A nice little sports/date movie about a self centered ball player who is good and knows it to the point that he is royal pain.

Classic redemption story of both himself and the prima-donna on the club when he rejoins.

Bernie Mac makes the picture and it is worth a watch, don't know if it is worth a buy.

Not really a comedy, but a better film than you might expect. However, too much cussing!.......2005-09-03

I find Bernie Mac engaging and humorous rather than funny in a joke telling sense. Mr. 3000 benefits from this as more of a dramatic movie with funny moments than as a comedy. That the marketing campaign kept emphasizing it was a comedy is probably one of the reasons it did not do so well at the box office. Bernie Mac and the other stars give good performances and, for a sports movie, this has some things to offer. Unlike "Major League", it is not a cartoon.

However, when you say the movie is "Very Funny" right under the title you create an expectation that this movie never intended to deliver. This movie is about a character who gets an unexpected and unwanted second chance to set things right. However, what gets set right isn't exactly what he intended to do when he began the journey. You see, that isn't a premise for comedy although humorous things do happen along the way, it is not a setup for one joke after another.

Stan Ross (Bernie Mac) is an extremely talented hitter who is so in love with his own talents and image that he simply has no clue how this affects his relations with his teammates and the fans. When he hits his three thousandth hit he ends up ripping it out of the hands of the kid who ended up with the ball. The press gets on him after the game and Ross responds by retiring from the game even though his team is in the midst of a championship run. He figures that with his three thousand hits he can't be denied his place in the Hall of Fame.

Nine years later he still isn't in the hall and during his shenanigans to try and swing the public to pressure the voters to put him in the league finds out that three of his hits were double counted. So, Ross figures the only thing to do is to jump in late in the present season to get his three hits. It turns out to not be as easy as he had hoped.

During these weeks we get to see the management's attitude towards the "sanctity" of the game and Ross's own appreciation for what he had so callously walked away from. The end of the movie is not exactly predictable, but very nice.

The problem is that all the swearing in the film (even though there is a very funny series of bits with a Japanese pitcher trying to get Yankee swearing right) and the somewhat frank (but modest) sexuality with Angela Bassett (who is very good in this film) make it a bit hard to justify as a family film. Unless your family cusses and talks about sex openly, I guess.

Better film than you might expect from its box office receipts, but a pitifully misguided ad campaign did set the wrong expectations for the public. And, if they wanted it to be a family film, less cussing and putting in romance for sex would have been better choices.

Average customer rating:

3.5 for this pleasant movie
Bernie Mac Is The Saving Grace To What Could Be A Bad Movie
Not Bad But Could've Been Better
Plesant but predictable
Not really a comedy, but a better film than you might expect. However, too much cussing!

Mr. 3000 (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Bernie Mac , Angela Bassett , Michael Rispoli , Brian J. White , and Ian Anthony Dale
Director: Charles Stone III
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Release Date: 2005-02-01

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This hilarious, crowd-pleasing hit scores big laughs with funnyman Bernie Mac (BAD SANTA, OCEAN'S 11) and Academy Award(R) nominee Angela Bassett (Best Actress, WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT, 1993). The day he got his 3,000th big league hit, Stan Ross (Mac) walked away from the game believing he'd punched his ticket to the Hall of Fame. But 10 years later, Stan becomes baseball's biggest error when it's discovered that three of his hits don't count! Now this over-the-hill former star with an oversized ego decides to make the major league's most outrageous comeback in order to regain his claim to fame! Also featuring Chris Noth (TV's SEX AND THE CITY, CAST AWAY) and Paul Sorvino (THE COOLER, GOODFELLAS) ... catch the laugh-packed comedy that's been a home run with audiences everywhere!

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3.5 for this pleasant movie.......2006-09-20

Bernie Mac Is The Saving Grace To What Could Be A Bad Movie.......2006-07-14

Not Bad But Could've Been Better.......2005-11-28

Plesant but predictable.......2005-11-06

Not really a comedy, but a better film than you might expect. However, too much cussing!.......2005-09-03

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