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Featuring "The Skydivers," "Red Zone Cuba," and "The Beast of Yucca Flats," it's over 4 hours of confusing plots and baffling dialog. Watch if you dare!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Love Skydivers and RZC, both excellent episodes IMO. Never really enjoyed Yucca Flats as much though.

Skydivers is an interesting one - I actually think there's a decent enough movie in there somewhere. The plot is pretty easy to follow (despite what Frank says when introducing it!) and there's potential for a proper film there, if handled better and if they had actors do their own skydiving instead of vice versa.

It'd never get made nowadays, but I can imagine it as a mid-budget 90s action thriller or something, in the vein of Cliffhanger or Point Break or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Skydivers is my favorite of the Francis trilogy for sure! There's something compelling about it that I can't put my finger on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh man, Red Zone Cuba was one of the first ones I watched with my now wife. She was the one that got me into mst3k, but she couldn't finish that one. Somehow I made it through, but even the crew couldn't save it, and I've never watched it again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I agree, it's such a slog.