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The Oozing Skull - Movie Download
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PLEASE NOTE:
(1) Because of high demand, DVDs ordered today will ship within 5 business days. Thanks for your patience, we're making discs as fast as we can.
(2) This title won't be available for download until April 2008.
(3) Although we can only sell in the US now, we think we'll also be able to ship to our friends in Canada soon.
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In the far-off land of Kalid, President Amir lies on his deathbed. If this revered head-of-state dies, the brutal dictatorship that he has so lovingly cultivated will fall into a dark age of uncertainty and chaos. And so, in this moment of crisis, his loyal staff are left with no alternative but to choose the only logical and sensible course of action - to transfer Amir's brain into a younger, healthier, and most importantly, living body.
Enter Doctor Robert Trenton, a mad scientist of the traditional "they all laughed at me and now I'll show them" school. He, along with his assistant, Dorro, a little man with a big appetite for evil, and Tracy, a conniving beauty with a heart that's harder than her leathery, over-tanned skin, concoct a deliriously diabolical plan involving murder, body-napping, skullduggery,and oozy, gooey brains.
Afraid to watch this movie alone, aren't you? Well, now you don't have to, and neither will future generations, because The Oozing Skull has the almost historic distinction of being the first movie chosen for Cinematic Titanic - the new movie riffing delivery system.
Created by Joel Hodgson, creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Cinematic Titanic peppers The Oozing Skull with the kind of hilarious, rapid-fire commentary that fans of fine movie riffing have come to know and love. Joining Joel are his original Mystery Science Theater 3000 cast mates Trace Beaulieu and J. Elvis Weinstein, along with longtime MST3K writers and cast members Frank Conniff and Mary Jo Pehl. It's gonna get ugly, but then it's gonna get funny, so strap yourself in for the skull-oozing, gut-busting ride that is Cinematic Titanic.
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| Format: NTSC |
| Color: Color |
| Sound: Dolby Digital |
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| Backup Burns Allowed: Yes |
| Store in Library: Yes |
| Play from Hard Drive: Yes |
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| Country: USA |
| Language: English |
| Aspect Ratio: 4:3 (standard TV) |
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| Customer Comments | | Reviewer: anonymous on 12/22/07 |  | | In the not too distant future, this moving f'n rocks. |
| | Reviewer: Drewsolo "lunchpail" on 12/22/07 | | | OMG OMG OMG its here WOot, looks good so far in preview, can't
wait until I get it at home! |
| | Reviewer: anonymous on 12/22/07 | | | The riffs are great!! Everything is really neat! |
| | Reviewer: Roscoe Vacant on 12/22/07 | | | Please make this available in the UK Joel! |
| | Reviewer: Fireball on 12/22/07 |  | | Seems a bit pricey for an old movie and a Riff. Also only a 4:3? No widescreen of this cinematic masterpiece? giving it 4 until final copy is here for full review. We'll see if it's up to RiffTrax, Film Crew, and old school MST3K standards. Looks promising, just pricey. |
| | Reviewer: zombienutz on 12/23/07 | | | I just ordered this and can not wait to get it. I am giving it four stars based purely on the work of the previous work of Joel and the crew. I can't wait to get this bad boy in the mail. Quick and easy ordering process as well. |
| | Reviewer: ukfan on 12/28/07 | | | PLEASE PLEASE - we need to be able to get this in the uk
Anyone fancy buying a few copies and putting them on ebay? |
| | Reviewer: Herman on 01/13/08 | | | Very funny! Classic riffing style with silhouettes reminiscent of MST3K but fresh, new and very hip. Recommended to all people who love bad movies and love to make fun of bad movies. I was such a MSTie, this is like a reunion of some of my dearest old friends. |
| | Reviewer: randysolo on 01/15/08 | | | Just watched my copy! and all I can say is fantastic! Great!
awesome!
Its like eating a bowl of (insert your fav desert here)
I saw Hi-keeba! to Joel and the gang for a job well done!
its great, like having old friends come over for dinner and a bad b-movie, and then riffing on it (without the dinner part)
so buy it, if you havent ! |
| | Reviewer: live4laughs on 01/15/08 | | | As good as ever! You can go home again. You're like family. Welcome back. It's good to laugh out loud. This is what you guys should be doing. Keep 'em coming. FUNNY! MORE! FUNNY! MORE! FUNNY! MORE! |
| | Reviewer: Officer Cornjob on 01/16/08 | | | This is an excellent show, and highly recommended to anyone who is a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000. The film (originally called Brain of Blood, retitled here as The Oozing Skull) is perfect fodder, and the crew gets into the flow of things with nary a hiccup. It's just as if they have been doing this for all these past MST free years. Sure the show has a few minor rough edges, but that is to be expected, and there are FAR fewer than would be forgivable for a successful premier episode. Cinematic Titanic is off to a terrific start and I can't wait for the next release. I hope we don't have to wait too long. |
| | Reviewer: Janni on 01/18/08 | | | Really, I want to give this 4.5 stars, so I'm rounding up to five out of goodwill towards the Titanic gang. This is as good as the average MST3K episode, which is in fact high praise. Is there anything I wish was different? Truthfully? I miss the corny skits. There are skits here, where the movie freezes and someone speaks their mind, but the segments feel a little distant. I guess it's hard to feel the same attachment to people who stay silhouettes the whole time. Fortunately, I'm already attached to them from years of MST3K. Perhaps a newbie who never saw the skits in MST3K won't realize there's something missing. Still, that's just a quibble. Great job, Joel & Co.!
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"You know what would make this scene 50% better? SNARE." |
| | Reviewer: Stochastic Jack on 01/19/08 | | | I've now watched this about a dozen times, and I'm going to give it four stars. At first, I was only going to give it three, but the riffs catch up with you on repeated viewings.
One kvetch though: if you're going to send just the disc in a plain white wrapper, how about giving us a link to a downloadable PDF of a cover, so we can print it out and put this in a DVD case and proudly display it in the collection next to the MST3K and Film Crew stuff? |
| | Reviewer: VapoRub on 01/19/08 |  | | CINEMATIC TITANIC 01
THE OOZING SKULL
First, I'm glad to see this and I want to see more. The warm sense of reunion is a fairly good substitute for genuine entertainment.
But, it was something of a let-down. Maybe my expectations were too high. MST3K is one of my favorite things. This production feels as if it was done either as a bored lark or in desperation. It is not inspired. It has the feel of a relic... a leftover... serving a niche market-within-a-niche market. The jokes refer to such a wide span of pop-culture eras, it's practically a sure thing much of the audience will be baffled at any given time during the show. MST3K referenced a more narrow window of familiarity.
The absence of Mike Nelson as head writer is keenly felt. Mike, Joel, and the rest made up a wonderful team. That team is now fragmented. RIFFTRAX, uneven as they are, are on average much funnier than the CT-riffed OOZING SKULL. The FILM CREW's version of HOLLYWOOD AFTER DARK is much funnier than OOZING SKULL's riffing. The ideal riffing entertainment experience was provided by Joel as front man with Mike as the best brain. We may never get that combination again, which is too bad.
In CINEMATIC TITANIC, There are too many on-screen riffers. Each riffer has relatively few jokes. The riffers are shown from such a long shot it's difficult to get any sense of their presence and gestures. The whole thing looks like a post-production "cheat", not that there's anything wrong with that. The riffs could very easily have been recorded comfortably in advance, and various takes of the silhouettes just standing around could be combined in editing and compositing. The simple immediacy of three clearly-seen guys in seats offered by MST3K has been replaced in CT with a less visually-involving presentation. There are long sequences in CT 01 in which individual silhouette characters appear to be held frames.
Mary Jo is hardly used. She has few lines. And while it sounds sexist, it is not easy to understand the typical female voice compared to that of a typical male voice. Mary Jo's voice is perfectly lovely, gorgeous even, but it doesn't have the edge that makes it easy to understand in a riffing situation. Her lack of lines and the difficulty in making out what she's saying suggest that she should be the first casualty among CT's onscreen characters.
The assaulted movie, retitled here as OOZING BRAIN, was an excellent choice. It is prototypical MST3K material and presents more than enough opportunities for witty derision. Unfortunately, many of those opportunities were missed by the CT gang. While I understand the need to let a riff session "breathe", there are many dead spots in this first episode - incidents which cry out for obvious jokes and receive none, and long stretches of silence from the riffers while hilarious incompetence unfolds on the big CT screen. Five riffers should make for more riffing than three riffers, and there was certainly room for more riffing. Instead of a high-speed barrage of appropriately deadly jokes offered in the best episodes of MST3K, CT 01 gives the viewer a painfully relaxed, almost disinterested stream of moderately funny observations. There are very funny moments, and I'm sure you know what they are, but there aren't many of them. It appears the group wasn't really giving its fully-focused effort.
Both the FILM CREW and MST3K have a structure that provides a pleasant rhythm: the silhouette/voice over sequences are peppered with host segments that serve as a resting place, some eye relief, a useful summation, increased familiarity with the riffing characters in sketch material that amplifies the riffing humor in a setting that offers more freedom than the commentary offers alone. CT (and RIFFTRAX) does not offer this pleasing, desirable, interlude. The complete lack of any explanation of why the little silhouette guys are stuck in an auditorium riffing on movies is disorienting. MST3K wrapped up the entire reason for its existence nicely in a short theme song. CT offers nothing. Beyond the instrumental theme, there is no wrapper material. No extras. No explanation. What the dang heck anyway.
I hope CINEMATIC TITANIC is successful and there are many more CT shows. It has to get better, and it's great to hear these people work together again. This first show, however, is way off.
In terms of value-for-money, CT 01 is a bust. I don't need to rehash the oft-repeated complaints about CT's despicably shoddy packaging and extremely high price. DVD replication and packaging is surprisingly inexpensive these days, so the corners cut here are baffling.
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Addressing one of the more foul-smelling elephants in the room: piracy may slightly affect the bottom line of CT. It's impossible to believe in a 100% lost-sale correlation, as put forth by MPAA/RIAA. Each copy downloaded via P2P does not result in a lost sale. Most downloaders wouldn't have bought what they download at any price, even if piracy was completely eliminated. It is possible, however, that a small segment of the potential market, one that might have purchased CT 01, downloaded it for free instead in a moment of ethical weakness. The exact impact of illicit digital acquisition will never be known, but this may prove interesting to the idly curious:
I will ignore, for the moment, binary newsgroups, IRC, FTP sites, and emule, and stick to discussing the popular bit torrent protocol. I have over 200 bit torrent sites bookmarked. Just for kicks, I searched every one for CINEMATIC TITANIC. I found several torrents, and removing all redundant hits from aggregating sites, I found that torrents for the show have been grabbed over six hundred times. Assuming each torrent resulted in a download, that's six hundred pirate copies of CT 01. Many P2P users dupe downloaded video for friends. Let's wildly claim that 20% of CT downloaders did that. That would make 720 illegal copies generating no revenue for Joel and The Gang. How much does the CT crew get for each copy? That's private info and we can only guess. Let's guess that EZTRAX keeps more-or-less 33%, and that CT receives about $10 per disc. IF we accept the plainly fallacious assertion that each downloaded copy is a lost sale, from bit torrent alone, that would mean $7200 lost. That's not so bad, really. If an entertainment company can be damaged by a $7200 loss, it's not doing well. |
| | Reviewer: kegobeer on 01/26/08 | | | As a big MST3K fan, it was a sad day when Mike and the 'bots were yanked from the airwaves. Imagine my surprise when I discovered Joel was back! I didn't hesitate - I jumped at the chance to buy the new Cinematic Titanic DVD. I was not disappointed. All the great riffs are there, the writing is excellent, the guests fantastic, and the experience top notch! If you are a MSTie, or you enjoy watching the best rip on a horrible movie, run - don't walk - and buy this movie! |
| | Reviewer: Den on 01/26/08 | | | I wish they would have had the download licensing taken care of so I wouldn't have had to deal with the DVD but it was worth the wait. |
| | Reviewer: Lester on 02/01/08 | | | Ah, such peak riffing performance. It's good to hear
Joel & crew ripping brainy schlockfest.
at first, TOS really baffled me. But watch it a few times, the pain threshold goes up and hilarity ensues! Stilted dialogue, baffling incontinuity, make this a
B-movie smorgasbord. I give it 9 out of 10 Gor head bandages!
Cinematic Titanic - keep it going! |
| | Reviewer: anonymous on 03/13/08 | | | I thought the host segments were weak but I loved it over all! |
| | Reviewer: nopesoappope on 03/18/08 |  | | Sure, the movie's bad, but the formerMSTs weren't funny, the DVD came scratched and scuffed in a small paper envelope without even a mailer... |
| | Reviewer: hrmhrmhrm on 03/18/08 | | | Any reason why negative criticism of the movie is not being posted? Really uncool, EZTakes, doesn't make me want to buy stuff from you. |
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