Post by Kasey Kagawa

Ladies and gentlement, I present to you the opening chase scene from Warrior of the Lost World, a fetid piece of cinematic tripe starring that guy from “The Paper Chase”, a TV show that I’m sure at least three of you remember. The Paper Chase guy is riding his futuristic motorcycle through the surprisingly green post-apocalyptic landscape of what appears to be Mendocino County. The motorcycle is supposed to be cool because it talks and has lots of colored lights and buttons on it, but in reality it’s more like what would happen if you crossed KITT with Wesley Crusher. People in motorcycle helmets with the symbol for units of electrical resistance painted on them chase him, things blow up, and then, after being shot a few times, the Paper Chase guy is healed by North African dictator and a old white guy in a bedsheet with a flashlight taped to his arm.

For your protection, this is actually a clip from “Mystery Science Theater 3000″. In case you’ve forgotten your 1990’s TV history, Mystery Science Theater 3000, or MST3k, was a long-lived TV show about a man trapped in space by mad scientists and two wise-cracking robots who are forced to watch paint-peelingly bad movies. As a defense mechanism, they mock the films as they watch them, making some of the most unwatchable films of all time actually entertaining. It’s probably one of the best TV shows of all time, and if you feel like you can handle the pain, Donald Pleasence shows up later in the film as the bad guy.