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Okay, I've now seen the un-MST-ed Danger Death Ray [message #171900] Sat, 14 February 2009 03:54 Go to next message
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Originally posted by: dgates

The biggest changes are simply that a few scenes were deleted from the
MST3k version:

1. The opening scene, before the opening credits, shows the villains
hijacking a car that belongs to actual government officials that
belong at the death ray demonstration. Not a bad scene.

The villains are disguised as road workers, drilling in the asphalt.
When they delay the officials' car, they lift up their drills,
revealing them to be machine guns. They kill everyone in the car,
with a little bit of attitude, then strip off their road worker
uniforms to reveal dress suits underneath.

This adds a nice impact to the opening credits which follow. Suddenly,
instead of random guys driving, it's known villains, with a couple
secret gadgets, and we have some reason to wonder where they're headed
in this stolen car.



2. A lot more time is spent on kidnapping the death ray scientist,
including a scene where the villains wire explosives to the death ray
that he's demonstrating and blow it up.

Also one of the two villains from the opening credits (the one in the
back seat with the mustache) gets stuck in a door while they're trying
to escape. This moment is shown at 1:09 on the YouTube trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt10rLQkkB4



3. Bart Fargo watches a security video of all the government
officials, recognizes the two villains, and says that they've crossed
paths before. In the same scene, Bart says that he doesn't know where
to find them, but he does know where to find a man called "Scarface,"
someone who knows them.

I suppose that explains why, later, Bart is asking around, looking for
a man with a scar.


Those are all that pop into my mind right now, other than a feeling
that a few action scenes get extended.
Re: Okay, I've now seen the un-MST-ed Danger Death Ray [message #172232 is a reply to message #171900] Mon, 23 February 2009 16:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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dgates <dgates@somedomain.com> writes:

> The biggest changes are simply that a few scenes were deleted from the
> MST3k version:

> 1. The opening scene, before the opening credits, shows the villains
> hijacking a car that belongs to actual government officials that
> belong at the death ray demonstration. Not a bad scene.
[ ... ]
> This adds a nice impact to the opening credits which follow. Suddenly,
> instead of random guys driving, it's known villains, with a couple
> secret gadgets, and we have some reason to wonder where they're headed
> in this stolen car.

Oh, yes. That puts, well, emotion into the opening scenes
and tension into the herds of white guys walking instead of their
being just filler.


> 2. A lot more time is spent on kidnapping the death ray scientist,
> including a scene where the villains wire explosives to the death ray
> that he's demonstrating and blow it up.

I thought the First Death Ray got destroyed somehow, mostly
from how it was clearly being under-applied where it might be useful,
but I couldn't pin down any specific moment that made that quite
clear in the MiSTed version.


> Also one of the two villains from the opening credits (the one in the
> back seat with the mustache) gets stuck in a door while they're trying
> to escape. This moment is shown at 1:09 on the YouTube trailer:

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt10rLQkkB4

Ooh. Ow.



> 3. Bart Fargo watches a security video of all the government
> officials, recognizes the two villains, and says that they've crossed
> paths before. In the same scene, Bart says that he doesn't know where
> to find them, but he does know where to find a man called "Scarface,"
> someone who knows them.

> I suppose that explains why, later, Bart is asking around, looking for
> a man with a scar.

Yeah, that does. Without that bit it looks like Bart is just
figuring that Barcelona's a happening town and somebody's got to know
something if he just hangs out long enough.


> Those are all that pop into my mind right now, other than a feeling
> that a few action scenes get extended.

It's really a rather endearing movie. If I hadn't been
exposed to it via Our Brains I wouldn't think to watch it, but with
the example I do like its ... oh, I don't know just what. The way
it cutely tries to be an actual spy movie, I suppose, and gets there
in some pieces.

--
Joseph Nebus
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Re: Okay, I've now seen the un-MST-ed Danger Death Ray [message #172235 is a reply to message #172232] Mon, 23 February 2009 16:59 Go to previous message
Doug Elrod is currently offline  Doug Elrod
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On Feb 23, 4:20 pm, nebu...@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
>         It's really a rather endearing movie.  If I hadn't been
> exposed to it via Our Brains I wouldn't think to watch it, but with
> the example I do like its ... oh, I don't know just what.  The way
> it cutely tries to be an actual spy movie, I suppose, and gets there
> in some pieces.  

So, it tried to go far, but ended up just being some B-art?

-Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu) ;-)
I'll always remember the security camera scene fondly!
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