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619 - Red Zone Cuba
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"I want to give you some idea of what to expect."
There's 80,000 of them and 7 of us.
"I'm doing a followup story on the desperadoes that were through here in '61"
Ah yes... which century?
There were a lot of forensics going on in Kansas in the 50s...
"Running Down The Road, Trying To Loosen My Load, Got COLEMAN FRANCIS On My Mind."
You wanna video? We got some super-violent Asian triple-X cartoons...
And when Curly dies in the wild, he provides food for other Curlys.
For this next shot, let's focus on me with my legs splayed and my enormous package spread out.
-They don't call John Carradine the "Voice" for nothing.
-Ah, to be blessed with an instrument like that.
Maybe now would be a good time to put my hands on my knees and rotate...
I want to hurt this movie, but I could never hurt it the way it hurt me.
Obviously, you don't know who you've captured here. I'm Coleman Francis.





Mike in a tux. BRB, I suddenly need a cold shower.
Wait a second! You mean to tell me Cherokee Jack walked away from all this scot-free? Ha, that figures. Another “Hollywood Pretty Boy” skates by on good looks and rakish charm!
Okay, I like Joel better during the host segments sometimes. This film provides an example-the joke about Dr. Forester dying is stretched, even though you can basically get all the laughs out it in one, maybe two segments. They honestly didn't do anything with the "Mike is Carol Channing" joke, so it wasn't funny. They don't even really talk about the film, except to complain, "God, this is an awful film," which adds nothing since the whole point is that all of these films are awful.
I'd have had more fun if they'd made jokes directly relating to the plot like they did with Manos. They had Joel dress up in a hokey outfit, Mike Nelson cameo'd as Torgo, they made fun of all that filler from when they were driving around at the beginning. Here, they could have made fun of all those horrible jumpcuts, the terrible editing, or they could have had a whole segment where Crow attempts to explain the plot (which is non-existent until the last fifteen minutes).
This is an awful movie, the riffing is top notch, but the host segments do nothing for me at all.
Tom Servo started singing that random song from "The Starfighters" at 29:02. Beautiful! I love subtle callbacks like that.
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Off the top of my head, I think dropping the restaurant owner down the well is probably the most depraved act that occurs in an MST3k film (apart from JT in Sidehackers). That his entire existence is the definition of depression doesn't help, but it's really capped off by the fact the reasoning behind it is never fully explained. Flag on the moon
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I want John Carradine singing "Night Train To Mundo Fine" as my new ringtone. I'm going to take care of that tonight.
I don't want to be covert anymore :C
wait for Crow's 'frog mine' scream and splash at 1:07:47 followed by Mike's 'there! now we have the rest of the day to ourselves!' classic!
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I love when Mike imitates Coleman Francis.
"Well I feel better just talkin' about it."
My favorite one is "chinese fire drill." it gets me every time.
"We got an omelet called supercalifregulisticexpialdelicious..." A quote that is funny to see, but HILARIOUS the way Tom says it... Writing it doesn't do it justice!
Was that the gym teacher from the industrial arts short?!?!
Yup, this is from my home state. This is from one of the premier schools in Kansas. The medical school is known and respected nationwide. Unfortunately, the forensics department didn't follow suit.....
This movie is like the crappy cousin of The Dirty Dozen (wow, that rhymes). That being said, I like this one a lot for some reason.
What does Cherokee Jack have against the letter 'Y'?
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Man, I don't know why we don't have shorts like this in grade schools anymore. There's nothing kids like more than tips on posture and communication delivered in a dry clinical method.
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This was a movie in the same way the Bataan Death March was a nature hike.
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Watched Sky Divers last night, now I'm bracing myself for more Coleman Francis....
I'm doing research for an article I'm writing about the most notorious Directors and Producers of MST3K :D
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Sorry Manos, but THIS is the worst movie ever made. Manos had a bad plot; Red Zone Cuba never even comes near one. Manos has awful actors; Red Zone Cuba has people saying things on camera. Even the incorrigible 'Incredibly Strange Creatures...' has to take a backseat to this toxic waste dump on film. Still, the riffs make it one of my top eps all time.
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John Carradine sings the theme song. How can you not love this movie?
The Bay of Pigs probably would've gone better if the U.S had used actual soldiers instead of a pack of ex-cons with 3 hours of traning.
The Riffing in the short had me in stitches! Just as good as the the "LOST SHORT"
Talk about your incompetence! It's bad enough that most of the dialogue is "looped", but... I'm just watching this scene where they hop off the freight. They're obviously outdoors, but when you listen to their "looped" lines, you can hear the room echo at wherever it is they had their "looping" stage set up. Auggghh.
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Oh, and in case anyone's forgotten -- I'm Cherokee Jack!
That is all.
This one's chock full of rifftastic goodness... but I've decided to give it a Laugh solely on the basis of John Carradine singing the opening theme.
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Seriously, this is the most depressing thing on film I've EVER seen....I can only imagine what damage could ensue the tender mind without the riff track attached...which, ironically, makes it the funniest thing I've seen in a good long time!
The first episode I bought on DVD, my favorite.
this one's my favoriate episode..."Oh to be blessed with an instrument like that!" lol
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I can't believe no one had added this one yet!