It's a shame, this movie. It's based on a really good John Varley novelette of the same name. And Raul Julia is normally a very good actor; he was even good in the 2 Addams Family movies.

How sad that we find such wonderful actors cast in such horrible roles.

Ben Jackson

Am I wrong to say this isn't the worst movie they did?

And how does Aram Fingal get a huge picture of Bogart? Aren't movies forbidden in this future? So how could their be pictures of movie stars accessable?

Ben, you should read "The Psychotronic Film Encyclopedia" (a great resource for MST fans). One of the points the author makes is that actors aren't really that good at picking out roles, though they may pretend to be in interviews.

Just a sample of great actors in bad movies: John Wayne-"The Conqueror"; Cary Grant--"That Hagen Girl"; Orson Welles--"Casino Royale", etc.

The bottom line--even actors need to work.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! I love Casino Royale! It was hillarious! It's one of my favorite films (up there with Jimmy Hollywood and Scream).

Nuff said.

This is one of the saddest things ever seen on PBS since those Telecrappy thingys. Raul Julia must've had a lot of bills to pay. Nuclear scientists couldn't attempt to describe the story of this film.

Best line: "Mom, my nuts!!"

This will be on sci-fi next Sat. so be sure to see the moronic adventures of Aram Fingal!!!

Be sure to bring barrels of butter for the Fat man.

Please support your local Public Broadcasting Station.

"This is how much pure cocaine you'd need to enjoy this movie!" I love that line. :-)

"You must remember this...my liver has been pierced"

Hee hee hee!

This was such a horrible movie. I loved the part where Servo got beat up by the nanites though.

This was such a horrible movie.

And your point would be...? They're ALL horrible movies!

I dabble in doppler.

My point is, it's worse than most of the horrible movies I've seen on MST.

You obviously haven't seen Manos: The hand of fate.

(Translates to Hand: The Hand of fate)

Here's an indicator of how bad it is: It was produced by a fertilizer salesman.

Nit on Spornan:

It's "Manos: The Hands of Fate", and it translates to

"Hands: the Hands of Fate".

Whoops!

Either way, it should be called "Crapfest: The worst movie of all time"

Someone translate that into Latin for me, and we got ourselves a movie!

Never seen it.

Rapfestcay: Hetay orstway oviemay ofay allay imetay!

Oh, you meant real Latin, sorry.

"People with pacemakers, do not look at Raul Julia right now...."

"Worse, I'm going to turn him into an anteater."
"This movie just hates anteaters!!"

I think this has to be one of my top faovrite crappiest films in the Sci-Fi MST era. It's just so bad, even for PBS, and Raul Julia, weak plot, crappy future setting, and graphics from Radio Shack make it pure camp and pure riffing fun!!

"So the future is going to be run by old lesbian nuns."
"Your navel is very deep."
And, of course, as somebody said above, "Mom, my nuts!"

Actually, that first riff is "So, aging lesbian nuns run the future".

"Your naval is very deep, I can't even see to the bottom of it" is not a riff, but an actual line of dialogue. I think it qualifies as the most out of place line ever uttered on screen anywhere. It makes absolutely no sense.

Raul Julia wasn't the only decent actor in this film. Maury Chaykin plays Mr. Fat's right hand man. He's one of the most prolific character actors out there. His latest role has been that of the title character in A&E's Nero Wolfe series. But while watching him in OATMB, a riff from 'Mitchell' comes to mind: "As an actor, (he) hadn't found his element yet." I was in hysterics when he monotonously shouts out, "IT IS SUMMER AND THERE IS A BLIZZARD OUT THERE!"

This is definately one of my favorite episodes. The chasm scene scores about a 99 on the hilario-goofometer putting it right up there with the golf cart scene at the end of 'Space Mutiny'. Speaking of 'Space Mutiny', the only way 'Overdrawn' could have been funnier is if the leading man was played by Reb Brown. Of course that's pretty much true of any movie.

Chairman Fat was played by Donald C. Moore. I wonder if he's any relation to Star Trek's Ronald D. Moore.

My favorite riffs:

"Really, REALLY big brother!"

"Somebody turn off the fat rotating guy!"

"Oh yeah, that'll stop the 400 pound man who smells pancakes."

"Ha ha! Fang!"

"Man, kids are tuning in to watch Barney..."

"This is how much pure cocaine you would need to enjoy this movie."

Raul: "Go to work?"
Crow: "But I'm an actor!"

"Someone beat up George Will!"

"Look up there! It's the Asian Pee Wee!"

"Ralph Malph here!"

Slavin: "Switch to analogue."
Mike: "It has a warmer sound."

"Ha ha! Now she's vomiting blood!"

Too bad. The story here is actually not too bad; with better acting and sets, this could convincingly be a good episode of "Outer Limits" or something (don't know about a whole film).

Raul Julia turns in a really bad performance in every way; I mean, he could have at least hammed it up like John Philip Law in "Space Mutiny" or like he himself did in "Street Fighter." This is somewhat offset by actually playing "Rick" fairly well.

Did it seem like Fingal was mixing movies? I mean, "The Fat Man" is from "The Maltese Falcon" (I know, I know, Sydney Greenstreet is in both films, but they're different characters). And what's Marlene Dietrich doing? And why is it called "The Place"? Pay attention to your movies!

Someone said that if you tweak the film (okay, a LOT) you get "The Matrix." True enough, although the implications of what Fingal is doing are never really explored. So he can make the world safe to watch classic Warner Brothers films? That's it? And doppling is just living as animals?

>>That's it?

I'm sure uses his new freedom after the movie to wipe out all those smelly repulsive anteaters.

Tom has a great time here, mocking the film's weird future terminology:

"Oh, he opened his syntho-flavo-door."

"I sing you to syntho-sleep, after the techno-love."

"Maybe you should reconst your Flavofives!"

"And the VoicereconstflavsynthtigARGHHHH!!"

I love they guys' reaction to seeing The Fat Man the first time:

"HEY! It's TV's Frank!"

I know it's infantile, but I laughed like Elmer Fudd on a juicer at all the Fat Man jokes. My favorites are:

"What are you going to do?"
"EAT!"

"Watchtower, da*nit!"

"And now, Mr. Fingal, it is your turn--"
"TO FEED ME!"

The scene where the only joke is farting sounds is absolutely hilarious.

"Think of the sausages I'll never eat!"

"Hold on, I'm passing a ham through my left ventricle!"

"All you can eat? The joke's on them!"

"Fingal, DRAW...me some butter."

He died defending the Cointreau.

I'm interfaced!
BFD!

To Wendy's.

T-zones, graphically portrayed.

He looks like Winston Churchill's mobbed-up brother Vito.

More gravy!

Apollonia, where are you?
Sitting on her bony butt doing nothing.

A Viv Savage Christmas ornament.

In the future, puerile ruses still work.

"I love you this much!"
"I don't care for you!"

Looses something without the visuals, huh?

You know, I'm really embarassed to admit this, but it took me two or three viewings to realize that Raul was playing both Fingle AND Rick.

"Hey, Extreme Babooning!"

It does look fun. If I could do that, I'd basically never stop.

I think the reason the bar is called The Place is because the producers didn't have permission to rip off Casablanca so obviously. Yes, they can apparently have members of the cast impersonating some of the characters in a broad manner, but ripping off the name of the bar is too much. Here's some more fun lines.

Raul Julia, you get back here and be in this bad movie.
But I'm signed to play Archbishop Romero.

I seem to have died. Is that bad?

A Raul-bik's Cube.

Hooray for socks!

I hear that transpod coming, it's coming round the bend.

Fingal, you're mine!
With Bearnaise sauce!

The littlest sexual deviant.

He looks drunk to me!
It's an inner-ear problem.

A midget Jewish cowboy.
Yippi-Kay Oy Vey!

You take the trip!
Yes, there's a meal!

*A shot of a concourse with the word Nirvana written on it*
Crow: "Come, as you are, to my mall, to my atrium yeah yeah!"

Tom: "I thought Raul was Puerto Rican, but I didn't know he was...Cuban!" (Said as Raul's face is shown in the identicube.)

Crow: "Reverse the access code? If this works movie I will spank you!"

Crow: "I seem to have died, is that okay?"

So, they don't have permission to rip of Casablanca, but the CAN show the first 30 seconds of the actual film?

""Your naval is very deep, I can't even see to the bottom of it" is not a riff, but an actual line of dialogue. I think it qualifies as the most out of place line ever uttered on screen anywhere. It makes absolutely no sense. "

Its a reference to naval gazing, i.e. a cheesy new age way of saying that you are looking at yourself and your soul. She's saying he's very "deep". Still a dumb line.

I actually got to see the uncut version of this movie. It is a lot better than what is presented here. The MST3K version is only the beginning part of the film. It makes a lot more sense if you watch the whole thing.

This movie actually is similar to the far superior Brazil.

Spelling nit: Navel, not naval. Naval is a referent to things that are part of a navy. Navel refers to one's umbilicus.

Just watched this. Is it me, or do what pass for the storyline and the production values give the impression that one is watching a lesser episode of the original Doctor Who with The Doctor inexplicably missing (as well as an unusual number of American accents)?