MST3K is Back, Sort Of

Polar Star writes "Retrocrush reports that Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett are back making fun of crappy movies again in a new incarnation called The Film Crew. In the first of many new DVDs to be released, they take on a 1969 abomination called Hollywood After Dark which features a still-not-very-young Rue McClanahan as a down-on-her-luck actress who becomes a stripper. Needless to say, it's one of the scariest movies you'll ever see. There's plenty of funny jokes throughout, and they definitely prove themselves worthy of carrying on the MST3K tradition." Update 1925 GMT by SM: Corrected a few oversights and pointed to The Film Crew's actual website.

Comments

Whatever

[Anonymous Coward]

Are there actually MST3K...fans?

Re:There's also RiffTrax

[AugstWest]

Rempis is a douchebag.

One of the biggest flame wars in internet history

[Princeofcups]

MST3K was created by Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, and Josh Weinstein. The jokes were spontaneous, and show was at its best.

Then Michael J. Nelson became head writer. Kevin Murphy and Frank Conniff took over for Josh, which was a big loss. The jokes started to became a little stale, but the show was still good. Frank simply was not funny, but Trace did what he could to keep the sketches interesting.

Then Joel left, and Nelson took over as the star of the show. Joel played a kind hearted, inventive, make-the-best-of-a-bad-situation character. Nelson just played a looser. The bots went from Joel's friends helping him make fun of the Mad Scientists, to sarcastic little kids who were mean and sarcastic to Nelson.

Then Trace left, to be replaced by Mary Jo Pehl and Bill Corbett. At this point, in my opinion, the sketches became unwatchable. The movie riffing was still OK, but there were way too many scatology and Beavis and Butthead style "heh, he sucks" jokes.

Please do NOT call Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett MST3K. They took over a brilliant concept and kept it alive long after the creaters were tired of it. I give them credit for that. But they could never come close to that first season.

jfs