MST3k 617 - The Sword and the Dragon 

Jack Frost was another Rus-Fin they did.

There were some great parts of Jack Frost ;)

3:07 was just so hilarious for me. "Servo, you’ve entered a… a deep level of (elite rapper skills)."

@@scotshabalam2432 With Jack Frost, it's a Double Double MST3K Russo-Finnish Feature! 😂

@@GrizDrummer25 jack frost is definitely my favorite mst3k episode

😷We're getting close to it being a memory. MST3K makes life right now more tolerable. We never say "No"to this show.📺

Update: COVID not over and this is my third time through the films

Aye

Yup yup, in fact I'm on my second trip through the series 🤷‍♂️. Also watched a shit ton of Rifftrax as well.

Just beat a round of covid even after vaccination. Mst made the coughing easier

Thanks!

That was the best part, shouting out the punch line when I hadn't seen this before!

I thought it was funny before this reference. Guess I'm easily entertained.

Ohhhhh. Thank you!

Yes! Very clever thing they did. “When you’re out of slits, you’re out of pier.”

When you’re out of Schlitz you’re out of Beer!

A film by Ingmar Bergman.

@@scooterpinball I really wonder how many people remember the slogan even today - and in twenty or thirty years, will it be completely obscure?

The best sven and Ole joke delivery I've ever witnessed

I think about that skit at least once a week.

I hate to break it to you but time is linear.

😆​@@RettMikhal

Go look at him now and feel better?

It's when Dr Forrester looks younger than you that you need to feel old!

stryder619 it always adds some cheer to my life

It’s an easy way to get cozy.

July 2021 Covid

THE POWER OF BOTS COMPELS YOU!

Same. Christmas tradition.

Watch the one they do for Jack Frost, equally comfy-ass foreign movie, this time from hardy Russians!

Agent Bill Wilson For you

All the actors were killed by the Russian mob.

@@Knifegash Funny how the MST3K cast thought it was Finnish.

Knifegash jack frost was a russofinish production.

Both are bad ass in their own ways.

Mike has the screen presence of a potato.

@@justinakard4434 They are both better than Pearl.

@@alecfoster6653 that's just ridiculous! Pearl didn't even have the role of either of them on the show! That's like saying Slash doesn't even compare to Prince or MJ.

Mike is the best, anyone who disagrees should just go eat a machine gun.

*ahem* WITH MY SPEAR AND MAGIC HEEELMEEET...!

Can I be Sephiroth?

As someone who's then-fiancé, now spouse has played years (and has introduced me) in the playing of D&D and other styled RPGs, I concur. Always better to start out small and slow with a new RPG or story of an existing game to get a feel for it. I have experienced more trying games where I wasn't eased into the play or briefed on the worldbuilding (including games where my spouse's brother was DM/GM) and those are always fun...to see if you survive the first round or two!! 😅😂

Servo: Withdraw your lies lies I tell you!

😂

The kid must have one hell of a pituitary gland!

That was what I noticed too

Soap Operatime is no joke. From pregnancy to working as a spy & cheating with your best friend inside of 4 years.

It was a mistranslation. It was suppose to be TEN years in the dungeon...which...still isn't long enough for his son to age that much

Don't forget "Sinbad"!

I seem to like these ones more than the rest. I watch Jack Frost at least once a year, it's so good. I'd like to find more of these kinds of movies.

It is true, this and Jack Frost both hold up much better than most movies that get riffed. Probably because they're not no-budget indie movies. They're big-budget epics that just happen to be old as fuck haha 🤷‍♂️

Not technically eastern European - they're Russo-Finnish productions mostly.

@@Jesse__H Really, even more than being old, they're just really over the top. The whole thing is in for a penny, in for a pound

ha. your name, your picture.

I feel the same about 'Jack Frost'

I think the thing that ruins them is the dub. They're classics where they come from

@@elafimilo8199 As someone who doesn't know Finnish, whats the best option? Subtitles? Or is there a better dub?

@@MinecraftMartin I did find a Ptushko movie on RU-vid with subs. I'm not Finnish or Russian either, so it was helpful to me.

Apparently this was actually a Soviet movie and has nothing to do with Finland.

@@elafimilo8199 Yeah I recognize this as a folktale about the bogatyrs, they even look like the painting and everything, really cool.

Same here!

Well i watched as a kid and still watches it now. So i get more of the references now than when young. The only difference really is the nostalgia factor. It brings me back to the good ol days. Glad you found mst3k and enjoy it!

I was 30-40 during the show run. I’m the age of the people in the show, which felt perfect. They were my cool friends

Servo: Withdraw your lies lies I tell you! Crow: Servo, he said he liked you. Servo: oh. Well. Carry on.

Sorta. I started watching in my late teens. 35 now.

Maybe the Dragon's supposed to be a secret weapon so the enemy can't prepare for it.

I loved the Dr. Strangelove reference.

I know it's 8 yrs ago but, I thought the same thing. The Joel episodes too. Good humor never dies. 🙃 🤪 😂 🤩 😁 🤣 😝 🙄

@@faithfulgrl "her"

LET! ME! DOOOWN!

they referenced that in one of the episodes by noting that crow and tom shot off all of the SOL's flare guns and fire extinguishers in Mike's face.

Servo: Withdraw your lies lies I tell you!

I remember when this aired. I about died laughing.

Ya.

". . . It's just a show"

The effects were actually amazing. The extras in their thousands. I must admit I was impressed.

I just saw the "restored" version of this at a local art-house cinema. While it was certainly goofy in places, you can really see what they were going for. I imagine the dubbed one from the 60s got hacked up a bit and we might have to blame Corman. :D Also charming to think about the "defense of Kiev" in the era of the Russian invasion. ;)

josh tagge Touche'

as would i

And I would kill just to watch that, MMMGrower!

I'd play DnD with Mike and the Robots.

NERD!!! i'm a nerd too, so i'm allowed to say it lol

ok millenial

I know this comment was made almost a decade ago, but for the sake of anyone who's curious and reading now: This movie is based (loosely) off of actual historical events regarding Russia reclaiming independence against the Mongol empire (Ilya Muromets was indeed a real person who was a key player in Russia's revolt against the Golden Horde. Just that the giants, dragons, and enchanted apple-producing tablecloths are likely either legends or fables tied to the actual events by poets after the fact or the studio just really went off the rails with creative liberties for the sake of pizazz), BUT, fun fact, if I'm not mistaken Scandinavia during the viking days traveled far and wide, from the Americas to North Africa and indeed Central Asia, so at one point Scandinavia and Mongolia did have ties and it's theorized that Iceland's horses are descended from Mongolia's. So they didn't walk from China to Finland but they did walk from Finland to just north of China.

TheKingofThessaly Perfect avatar for this quote... Best. Avatar. Ever.

Heavy Metal is still around but i don't know if it's still as good.

I'm going to marry the woman that's actually impressed with that.

Me too!

From the writers of The Big Bang Theory

*So funny that you picked Jack Frost. That's one of the two my MST3k watching companion said were so terrible she couldn't get through them. (the other was Prince Of Space...ugh!)* 😖

I just saw the original last night and I can't wait to watch this version :) The English dubs seem totally weiiird.

I didn’t know that! Cool!

I'm so glad I waited for that punchline

not gonna lie that whole sketch actually made me freak out because of how unnerving it was.

You count the slits

@@TheBonkleFox same i remembered watching it in high school and being a little freaked out because they looked especially like puppets plus also i had no clue what they were referencing

That was a LONG walk for that joke. Boys must have needed some filler.

Hunter Kemp 22:44 - 27:00 This movie has the greatest joke in the history of mankind.

But fuck those quick cuts...

Dude, that’s alternative energy anywhere.

It's implied throughout the film that most of the nobles are incompetent, squabbling buffoons

He captured a legendary Pokémon.

Then the second he isn't guarding some furs and stomps on a coat the king immediately hates him.

Ha! I was about to make the same comment!

Well, duh. When does this all take place? "In the not-too-distant future..."

Mind. Blown.

I think they had a regular acting pool they drew from. The one young blond guy played Ivan in Jack Frost.

Monkey the great sage

Ilya Muromec canonically couldn't move his legs until he was 30, so considering the times he could've looked like that..maybe. He also needed to be huge and have a great beard. If you search for illustrations of him, he always kinda looks like this. Time in these traditional russian epics is VERY subordinate to the plot needs. I remember reading one where Ilya and his fellow knights went away to fight the Tatar hordes for 25 years, and then returned to a still young and fresh Prince Vladimir and his beautiful young wife. Time is just a number

Nostalgic for the shrill noise of dial-up.

Why would you use a fireball against a Balrog?

No, you’re supposed to fly, you fools.

RUN,YOU FOOL'S!⚔️🔥😋

But what do you do if your a 10th level Mage?

“I’m attacking the darkness. Not the flame, though.”

bitfreakazoid I think they do have a riff for that.

As in kill moose and squirrel?

That along with the doors reference makes me want a best of for this episode.

@Kevin McDougall And the dark haired hottie was recast as the Roman chick who taunts pearl in space mutiny. EDIT: I too miss Dr.F and T.V.'s Frank as well.😢

Ah I saw this movie before and I'd say this copy had a very dull bad colors for some reason. Try serching Ilya Muromets if you're intrested

I've seen the end Ah I see. Thanks!

This movie is quite enjoyable: The effects are refreshingly non-Cgi yet still convincing, there’s Zero politics, and the score has a nice Rachmaninov or Tchaikovsky feel to it. Also a general Eastern Exoticism adds to the interest

For a youtube video of a VHS cassette of a television broadcast of a Soviet film on sub-par film stock... it looks great!

only saw the mst3k version haven't seen the uncut version

I reply to say I admire your Aquabats avatar. Great band, that. Now I must listen to Thing on the Bass Amp, again...

TheHotFalafel me too!

The Stripper's on next. A reference to this classic chart: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ttewgVpU8PE.html

Incorrect as it is, if I should ever come to own a horse I know what I’m naming it now.

Also who cares if it’s right? Get the tat!

I know huh

Actually, Crow and Mike are more World of Darkness guys.

Clearly, these guys were still playing 2ed. THAC0 all day long!

@@bchin4005 I was going to make a THACO joke, but saw your comment and decided to tell you so. Yeah, so... roll initiative!

@@murrfeeling Tom would definitely get himself a trenchcoat and a katana.

… …ja

Sven and Ole was in a epidsode of the Flintstone

*"Jousting with the milkmaids"* sounds like a pretty hetero activity to me! (Not that there's anything wrong with that either way)

Your brain would melt after trying to watch the MST3K's riff of Manos: The Hands of Fate.

***** Oh no, I understand Manos perfectly. But this is just beyond me.

SBSW Huh? Main character (the hero) helps his country overcome struggles to defeat a mighty enemy. How is that difficult to understand...

crazyfvck the combination of fairy tale stuff, stupidity, and violence can be difficult for the rational, civilized mind to make heads or tails of. This movie is like a Klingon fairy story. Why did the king have the hero Elyah locked in a dungeon for 10 or 15 years? I totally missed that, but I wasn't paying close attention. You are right though about the movie.

SBSW That's how i feel regarding First Spaceship to Venus...MAN is that one boring!

Hahahahaha

And don’t forget your toothbrush

It's the actress who plays pearl

Yeah

That intro was gold

Omg they made us watch Battleship Potemkin in screenwriting college. I want to puke when i think about that horrible movie..

@@JK-xt7ro Oh ... I see ... well ... a lot of people consider it the most important film in cinema history because of the editing technique used - the famous Odessa Stairway scene.

Its russian

Like Anna tried to do

yeah it was a trope of those epic poems. Like a lot of poems originally transmitted orally, there are dozens of little sentences that are repeated costantly through the chapters to ease memorization. Every time a knight meets another knight for the first time, the whole ritual starts: " tell me who you are,who were your mother and father, if you' re younger i' ll be your big brother.." . Most of the knights get their name from a river or a mountain and are in some way similar to their namesake : a wise and strong knight would have the name of a wide and slow river, a young and bashful knight would carry the name of a mountain river with waterfalls and fierce rapids..Muromec just means " from Murom" which was the name of his village. He is a venerated by russian orthodox christians btw, even though he is a mythical figure

it's also a thing you get a lot in Chinese mythology; in a time of generally awful shit, a bandit/hero/warlord/king (they're kind of interchangeable) proclaims anyone who he's working with his brothers at the drop of a hat. "if the world is against us together, we are family," sort of thing.

the reason it became a saying was because it's something people actually did gotta remember, ye olde times, "this man is my brother" is not just saying he is your pal, it is saying that when you die if you don't have any kids he gets your stuff.

Every time someone throws that bucket of water at it, I hope for a LAUGH-IN joke.

Lizzy Chrome Not reallly, lotr had been popular for decades by the time this was made.

What adds to the joke is that Kate Mulgrew starred in the short-lived and deeply misguided *Mrs. Columbo*.

@@Sushigatana The people who watched the Sci-Fi channel back in the day were also people who read more.

My name's not Baby, its Janet. Ms. Jackson if you're nasty.

Wow, you totally missed that reference. Dude this is really lame.

And, not that it matters, my name is actually Anastasia.

I'm not playing.

Get a life.

clearly, chain lightning is the correct spell.

+aesp51 Energy is contagious...enthusiasm spreads...

+aesp51 I would think Cone of Cold would be more effective

+Matt Mangus why not a prismatice spray?

D&D doesn't even have the rights to use the term Balrog and Balors are immune to fire. This DM is crap.

Would you rather see Mike *undressed* as a bunny?

Is he wearing the jumpsuit beneath? That is a VERY important question in this scenario!

+KTAVERILL charlies greenman costume on acid

:/ I have enough trouble sleeping... Stop giving my insomnia fuel!

I think the Werecrow he turned into was scarier.