Over the years, my stance on 1009: Hamlet has softened to the point where I actually enjoy choosing this episode to watch once in a while. If you're in the right kind of mood: This can be a lot of high-brow fun. It's a good riff on some very challenging material. The riffing during "To Be or Not To Be" is among my underrated favorite sequences.
@09daniscool If only it worked... right beneath your post but above the 👍🏻👎🏼 options is the option to "translate to English". Unfortunately it did nothing to translate Klingon to Common
No one recognized Maximilian Schell, a great Swiss Ausrian actor who has made made many great movies besides Fci Fi and horror movies. He is very young here and apparently starting is career.
I'm sure I'm not the only guy who's seen Judgement At Nuremberg... but really, if you were in some nonsense like this, would you WANT to be recognized for it?
I've been watching this episode for years and only now just realized Mike's line in the find the lady game at the beginning was a reference to Final Justice: "Now, you think you can take me? Go head on, it's your move"
I always love this episode. The riffing is on point and it’s funny that it’s a bad version of a classic story. I didn’t find out until like two days ago that people don’t like this one and I was shocked.
Love the Richard Thompson reference. I've seen him live a couple times. Give that man a guitar and he can pull the stars out of the sky and turn winter into spring.
Richard Thompson was paid $10,000 by the venue owner on the Colorado River, in 2012, to play a concert on the owner's birthday 😂😂😂 And his marketing director predicted 600 tickets sold (at $44/ea). They sold 80 or less. Owner "lost" about $5,800 for his own birthday. I bootlegged it 😂
Most adaptations remove Fortinbras because it's damn near an extra half-hour of material which is only loosely related to the rest of the plot. It's the easiest subplot to cut (and has many fewer fans than the next-easiest, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern) and that shit matters when you're performing a talky drama that can last over four hours long.
@@KairuHakubi That's not the final part. This version has completely cut out three characters from the play, but as someone already pointed out, it's probably for time, even if it diminishes the plot.
@@bryannimmo8548 I can see it being cut for time, and if I had to cut something, I'd cut those bits too. But they do add to the play. The fact that Hamlet gladly condemns two of his best friends to death for his revenge shows just how far gone he is. And Fortinbras' final line really drives home how pointless all the killing has been. Everyone who stood to benefit in any way from the killing is dead, innocent people who were drawn into the killing are dead, and on top of it all this man comes in and announces the killing of yet another two people as if it's a good thing. It's the final hammer blow that really drives the nail in.
I might've zoned out when they said it, but I'm surprised I didn't hear anyone mention Scott Bakula at all. If they did, be sure to correct me. I am _not_ watching this over again to check. (To be clear, I love the riffs, but I can only stare at a featureless black void for so long before I zone out.)
Didn't read the title and went 'Wait, Is this Hamlet? Oh It Is Hamlet' What did I forget? Why does it always seem like it's performed in an empty warehouse/factory?
At least Gibson's version was interestingly set in the proper historical era (no tights or rapiers). And it had Helena Bonham Carter, which is already better than anything in this concealed pile of sausage drippings.
Because it's a cheap production with gloomy visuals; and nor "Olivier ripping off Welles with his camera prowling around the darkened battlements of Elsinore" gloomy, but more like a shitty horror flick with an incompetent lighting team. Plus some real ridiculous costumes and hair. Plus PLUS it's dubbed from another language, which absolutely murders the lyrical flow of the dialogue.
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This is one of my favorite episodes.
Good riffing in this episode 😊
This is my least favorite episode, toooooo booooorrrriinnnggg.
Puts me to sleep every time. Never seen more than first 20 minutes
My dad loves it too.
"Face it son, I'm gonna rock your uncle's world!" 😂
Over the years, my stance on 1009: Hamlet has softened to the point where I actually enjoy choosing this episode to watch once in a while. If you're in the right kind of mood: This can be a lot of high-brow fun. It's a good riff on some very challenging material.
The riffing during "To Be or Not To Be" is among my underrated favorite sequences.
"To die.... to SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP"
The pull string doll that recites the entire To Be or Not To Be soliloquy is my favorite.
The best written worst movie they've ever covered.
Ooo! This was my night-night movie for the longest time. I missed it so. I'll sleep well tonight!
Shakespeare in the original Klingon.
Q'uapla!
@09daniscool If only it worked... right beneath your post but above the 👍🏻👎🏼 options is the option to "translate to English". Unfortunately it did nothing to translate Klingon to Common
No one recognized Maximilian Schell, a great Swiss Ausrian actor who has made made many great movies besides Fci Fi and horror movies. He is very young here and apparently starting is career.
I'm sure I'm not the only guy who's seen Judgement At Nuremberg... but really, if you were in some nonsense like this, would you WANT to be recognized for it?
Yes! he was in the Black Hole!
‘Alas Poor Who?’ Would be one of the most challenging and difficult quiz shows….especially without any forensic knowledge. 😂
I've been watching this episode for years and only now just realized Mike's line in the find the lady game at the beginning was a reference to Final Justice: "Now, you think you can take me? Go head on, it's your move"
To mumble or not to mumble. That is the eternal question that all actors must consider.
Oooh, as much as I love MST3K, this episode is a tough one
It's the Scifi Channel era's answer to "Red Zone Cuba."
I always love this episode. The riffing is on point and it’s funny that it’s a bad version of a classic story. I didn’t find out until like two days ago that people don’t like this one and I was shocked.
Ths most underrated episode ever. This one must've been HARD to do, long and slow and very talky without as much audio space for riffing.
That Rosalind Russell bit snuck up and KILLED me!
Best MST3K ever!
Crow and Servo's "biker hamlet" became a real thing eventually
Sons of Anarchy
Too true!
If you kiss a skull you knew him too well.
Love the Richard Thompson reference. I've seen him live a couple times. Give that man a guitar and he can pull the stars out of the sky and turn winter into spring.
Richard Thompson was paid $10,000 by the venue owner on the Colorado River, in 2012, to play a concert on the owner's birthday 😂😂😂
And his marketing director predicted 600 tickets sold (at $44/ea). They sold 80 or less. Owner "lost" about $5,800 for his own birthday.
I bootlegged it 😂
@@ZENmud The more talent they have, the less known they are. A critique on the species, to be sure.
Imagine watching this movie without them. It’s so dull.
Why is it that every movie adaptation skips the final part of the play? That's what really hits it home!
@@KairuHakubi I think they mean the part after that, where Fortinbras shows up to basically take over Denmark for Norway.
Most adaptations remove Fortinbras because it's damn near an extra half-hour of material which is only loosely related to the rest of the plot. It's the easiest subplot to cut (and has many fewer fans than the next-easiest, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern) and that shit matters when you're performing a talky drama that can last over four hours long.
@@KairuHakubi That's not the final part. This version has completely cut out three characters from the play, but as someone already pointed out, it's probably for time, even if it diminishes the plot.
@@bryannimmo8548 I can see it being cut for time, and if I had to cut something, I'd cut those bits too. But they do add to the play. The fact that Hamlet gladly condemns two of his best friends to death for his revenge shows just how far gone he is. And Fortinbras' final line really drives home how pointless all the killing has been. Everyone who stood to benefit in any way from the killing is dead, innocent people who were drawn into the killing are dead, and on top of it all this man comes in and announces the killing of yet another two people as if it's a good thing. It's the final hammer blow that really drives the nail in.
The Branagh version has it, but it has EVERYTHING, which is why it's like 4 hours.
Honestly it would be great if Joel released a Hamlet action figure this Christmas, and I’d buy it day one.
"Oh No Its Jewel Get her out Of Here"🤣🤣
My Dad would Quote that Line All The Time
King Ricardo Montalban!
"Hamlet, to the last I will grapple with thee"
Quien es mas macho? Lloyd Bridges or Ricardo Montalban?
In the 2000 adaptation of Hamlet with Ethan Hawke, Hamlet does, in fact, fax people soliloquies!
And ironically it's EVEN WORSE than this version.
I might've zoned out when they said it, but I'm surprised I didn't hear anyone mention Scott Bakula at all. If they did, be sure to correct me. I am _not_ watching this over again to check.
(To be clear, I love the riffs, but I can only stare at a featureless black void for so long before I zone out.)
Didn't read the title and went 'Wait, Is this Hamlet? Oh It Is Hamlet'
What did I forget? Why does it always seem like it's performed in an empty warehouse/factory?
If Hamlet was an action figure the play would have been much shorter.
Apparently, the producers of this version of "Hamlet" didn't brush up their Shakespeare.
Mike really effed this one up. Had the chance to watch a good movie but he left it to the Mads 😹😹😹
Could've been worse... they could've sent the Ethan Hawke version.
5:21 Movie sign!
Htom is the best.
Hilarious classic 😅
He's getting Germaner.....
Rich Corinthian leather.
fun!
40:24 == lusting for movie actresses defines unrequited love.. 😂😂
2:04 wait, wut?
If I’ve said it once…. Anything can be more excruciating if it’s German when it otherwise wouldn’t be.
Oh, boy, this one was a slog. Mike and the bots were game, but it is probably the most boring Hamlet ever committed to film.
Eh still better than Mel Gibson's version. And unlike Olivier's version, Hamlet's mom here is not a decade YOUNGER 🤨
At least Gibson's version was interestingly set in the proper historical era (no tights or rapiers). And it had Helena Bonham Carter, which is already better than anything in this concealed pile of sausage drippings.
I remember watching this on Sci-Fi and it was so boring I couldn't finish it. Not even the MST3K treatment could make it watchable.
Now I want a cheese danish…not this danish cheese.
Soporific
😑
Yes, thanks Germany! For Nothing, I guess!?
I don't get the gag. This was a nice little naturalistic reading of Hamlet.
Because it's a cheap production with gloomy visuals; and nor "Olivier ripping off Welles with his camera prowling around the darkened battlements of Elsinore" gloomy, but more like a shitty horror flick with an incompetent lighting team. Plus some real ridiculous costumes and hair. Plus PLUS it's dubbed from another language, which absolutely murders the lyrical flow of the dialogue.
This incredibly boring version of Shakespeare deserves all the riffing it gets!
I want to do it.
This is easily the worst movie they’ve ever watched, I thought nothing could get worse than Starfighers.