Comment on Hamlet - 1009 by FutureDami
I LOATHE Hamlet. (The MST3K episode. I love the play.) The WORST MST3K episode ever.
It...It just doesn't open itself to good humour. Yeah, it's a poorly made version of Hamlet but it's still Shakespeare and that's why it doesn't work. They should have done something like Cat-Women On The Moon or Killers From Space or Attack Of The Crab Monsters or...
You see where I'm going with this?
It...It just doesn't open itself to good humour. Yeah, it's a poorly made version of Hamlet but it's still Shakespeare and that's why it doesn't work. They should have done something like Cat-Women On The Moon or Killers From Space or Attack Of The Crab Monsters or...
You see where I'm going with this?
I could be wrong, but I think this goes along with Mike's personal challenge to be able to riff -anything- which the rifftrax team did with Casablanca. Hamlet was pretty rugged, mainly because the version they got was so dry. I think they did pretty well considering what they were working with, but yeah... its certainly not one of my favorites and I have a high threshold for tedium (I played most of the Dragon Quest games to completion)
Well, I didn't like the Rifftrax of Casablanca either. It's too good of a film to be riffed on and it's too serious for that matter. I guess what I'm saying here is that I feel that a movie has to have goofy moment or be so bad on so many levels that riffing is the only thing that can save it.