Dave at the Movies
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
VINTAGE D-DAY DAVE! Always cranking dat thing.
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Dec 18, 2009 22:59:11 GMT -5
Use to come on after Nitro for quite a while. ;D
I remember one day they were funny and played Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
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Post by VenomFang on Dec 18, 2009 23:44:13 GMT -5
Yes I remember it. I remember they didnt have a decent movie selection.
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Post by Psy on Dec 18, 2009 23:46:15 GMT -5
I remember it very fondly.
I think I remember a certain thrice-named person here enjoying it as well.
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mattperiolat
King Koopa
Thank you, Brodie... for everything.
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Post by mattperiolat on Dec 19, 2009 1:43:57 GMT -5
Man, was I a fan of this back in the day. Kind of like MST3K only... not.
Joe Bob was at his best when the movies were awful, but you had to know his days were numbered when he was getting stuck with movies like Delores Clayborn. Not a bad movie, but SO not his demographic.
His absolute best was Damnation Alley. I don't think I've ever laughed harder at a movie and I've been begging for MST3K or RiffTrax to do it ever since.
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Triple Kelly
Vegeta
Not once, twice, but three times a Kelly
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Post by Triple Kelly on Dec 19, 2009 3:40:30 GMT -5
I remember it very fondly. I think I remember a certain thrice-named person here enjoying it as well. I hope you're talking about me.  Monstervision on TNT with Joe Bob Briggs was my perfect Saturday night for unwinding after a stressful week at high school. He did the impossible, be extraordinarily informative and entertaining while simultaneously tearing down and praising some of the weird stuff shown on the network. Think the only one he seriously just couldn't handle was Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III. He went through the laundry list of problems it had and how unfaithful it was to the TCM franchise. Once Ted Turner sold out in the AOL/Time Warner merger, they gave JB mainstream movies to show ("The American President", "Back To the Future", which killed his show soon afterward (along with WCW). He was supposed to go back to hosting on The Scream Channel or HorrorNet (one of those) but the channel has been in limbo for many years now. |
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Post by renzino on Dec 19, 2009 19:59:08 GMT -5
I loved Monstervision.
It along with Up All Night was the highlights of my Friday and Saturday nights.
I was actually glad that Monstervision was moved to Saturday nights that way I could watch Up All Night with Rhonda Shear without having to keep flipping the channels.
Joe Bob Briggs is awesome and it would be nice if he could get another show like Monstervision.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Dec 20, 2009 5:43:00 GMT -5
I liked his pre-TNT show on The Movie Channel as well. The TNT show was great, but it got really sad at the end when he was forced to show stuff like Dying Young.
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Lick Ness Monster
Dennis Stamp
From the eerie, eerie depths of Lake Okabena
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Dec 20, 2009 7:35:57 GMT -5
Yep, Joe Bob's great. So much so that he was inducted into the WrestleCrap horror hall of fame in the official horror threads.
I'll second a lot of what was already said here, but the guy's single greatest quality was that no matter how bad of a movie he was given, he made it watchable. Of course, the whole Joe Bob character itself is pure genius - a redneck, misogynist, cheesy horror film-loving film critic who awards points for the various types of "Fu" and issues a "vomit rating." You can't get much more awesome than that.
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Post by DSR on Dec 20, 2009 10:29:39 GMT -5
Any guy who's opening riff on a movie he's about to show us includes the amount of breasts on film (even if they are edited out for TV) is a hero in my book. Monstervision was the best!
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