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krpalmerOnce more, I've happened to learn about the just-announced set of Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVDs from Shout! Factory from a journal community post, and it was somehow a particular surprise to see the announcement this time. I had been thinking it was just about time for the special five-disc Gamera collection to be released, but perhaps because the announcement for that set had been made early, I hadn't been thinking back to when Shout! Factory made previous announcements just as its sets were coming out.
Once I'd got past my general surprise, the four episodes in the collection did catch my attention. After the Gamera movies seemed to break an old barrier "everyone" knew about, we're getting two more of the Japanese "movies" from the third season. "Time of the Apes," as might be anticipated from the title, could be called a Planet of the Apes ripoff. "Mighty Jack" is more original what with including a flying super-submarine, but the rest of the "movie," assembled by pasting together two episodes of a serial television show in the "Fugitive Alien" tradition, seems memorable more or less for being incomprehensible. After that, it's on to the "Mike era" with "The Violent Years," a slice of juvenile delinquent exploitation memorable for more reasons than it having been written by Ed Wood, Jr., and "The Brute Man," the one episode in this collection I've actually already commented on. The rest of the collection should be good to comment on when it does come out, but perhaps that's why I've held off on getting to those episodes before now.
Once I'd got past my general surprise, the four episodes in the collection did catch my attention. After the Gamera movies seemed to break an old barrier "everyone" knew about, we're getting two more of the Japanese "movies" from the third season. "Time of the Apes," as might be anticipated from the title, could be called a Planet of the Apes ripoff. "Mighty Jack" is more original what with including a flying super-submarine, but the rest of the "movie," assembled by pasting together two episodes of a serial television show in the "Fugitive Alien" tradition, seems memorable more or less for being incomprehensible. After that, it's on to the "Mike era" with "The Violent Years," a slice of juvenile delinquent exploitation memorable for more reasons than it having been written by Ed Wood, Jr., and "The Brute Man," the one episode in this collection I've actually already commented on. The rest of the collection should be good to comment on when it does come out, but perhaps that's why I've held off on getting to those episodes before now.