Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever Quotes

“One thing I like about the 1950s is that kids were hip without any sense of irony about it.  They were dressing in fifties cool-cat clothing with complete sincerity.  Nobody wanted to be“retro”back then. With the Depression still fresh in everybody’s mind, did anyone in the 1950s dress up as the Joad family from The Grapes of Wrath, and go to Dust Bowl-themed parties because they thought it was cool?  Probably not.  In the past, the past was something you wanted to forget about rather than romanticize.  I really miss those days. ”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“We are all obscure references waiting to happen.”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“Films like Daddy-O are here to remind us that millennials have been around since long before the millennium. ”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“There’s also the inconvenient truth that I am friends with many millennials and they are actually quite nice and very smart.  They also have a nonchalant and unselfconscious acceptance of all kinds of different cultures and races and sexual preferences; in terms of equality and tolerance they are the most enlightened generation yet.  But on the other hand, they have beards and understand technology, so fuck them. ”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“And it would have raised a red flag if there WASN'T a Norman Fell reference in this book.”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“That wonderful childlike impulse to loiter and piss your life away often morphs into a lame, conformist need to pay bills and have food to eat. Anytime you see a person with a loving family, a comfortable home, and a substantial income, you can only shake your head and wonder where he or she went so wrong and became such a loser.”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“Perhaps the most frequent question I get about working on MST3K is, “Where did you get your movies from?”  People seem genuinely fascinated by this, as if there’s some mysterious quest involved in finding a not-very-good film, like Indiana Jones traversing a booby-trapped labyrinth to obtain an ancient, priceless idol hidden under a cum-rag in Tommy Wiseau's basement.”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“I want to pursue a career in sarcasm,”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“do have a religious background; I began training to become a lapsed Catholic at an early age).”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“unfortunately, psychological counseling that treats victims of bad movie overexposure is a scarce commodity,”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“White people committed more crimes in movies in the 40s, because having a black man committing a crime in a film meant you had to hire a black man to play the role, and hiring minorities was a low priority for The Greatest Generation.”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“Ed Wood may not have had the talent of an artist, he may not have had the skills of an artist, but he had the soul of an artist.”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“I’ve come to the conclusion that many low budget horror and sci-fi films of the fifties and early sixties were slow and seemingly devoid of action because they were designed to provide a kind of wallpaper for the kids who were only in the theater to make-out. ”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“In the past, the past was something you wanted to forget about rather than romanticize.  I really miss those days. ”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“But back in the fifties, cool-cat teens who greased their hair and snapped their fingers to Pat Boone’s versions of Little Richard songs didn't understand that they weren’t really that cool at all and were in fact their era’s version of Justin Bieber fans.  Had they known this, they might have developed a self-awareness that would have better prepared them for their eventual deaths in Vietnam.    It’s”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“Could you imagine how much better this film would be if Little Richard was in every scene? ”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“When you’ve been traumatized by awful cinema, you need to share the experience and purge your demons somehow; unfortunately, psychological counseling that treats victims of bad movie overexposure is a scarce commodity, so writing this book is the closest thing there is to therapy for me”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever