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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.
http://www.rifftrax.com/
Download mp3s, and start them up at the same time as your DVD....
Anyone have any links to prior work they've done, to know what to expect?
An I.T. motto in the hands of an idiot is a dangerous thing...
It's not the whole MST3K crew, but RiffTrax have been around for a while and are extra awesome because they finally give the treatment to mainstream movies.
What's everyone's favorite line from MST3K?
Mine: "We will be approaching speeds of... 3!"
Satellite News is still up and running for anyone who liked MST3K. They have news on the Film Crew and Rifftrax (which is Mike Nelson and guests recording downloadable commentary tracks for various movies), as well as other things that the old Best Brains crew are up to. http://www.mst3kinfo.com/
psmylie's dictionary: Godzillion (noun) Any number large enough to destroy Tokyo
A few months back on Shout!'s website, fans were asked to vote on which of the four scheduled Film Crew releases would be the first on store shelves, the winner was the 1961 clunker Hollywood After Dark. Also know as Walk The Angry Beach and The Unholy Choice, the "film" features future Golden Girls star Rue McClanahan getting down to her skivvies and shaking it for all she's worth when her acting career fails - oddly enough that's the story of the film too. It might also be worth mentioning the Rifftrax effort they put together a while ago, with more info/comments on the Slashdot article.
My work here is dung.
And for all those who don't have a clue what MST3K is and whether you should care:
;) )
http://www.mst3kinfo.com/mstfaq/basics.html
(Q1 says "What is Mystery Science Theater 3000?"
"and less interstitial sketches - which most MST3k fans never considered to be that essential anyhow."
The sketches *were* essential. Some of them were great, and almost all of them were funny. Well, at least when JOEL was doing them.
Joel was better than Mike. By a lot. People that like Mike will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
ok so the link on slashdot doesnt even go to the http://www.filmcrewonline.com/ website, but rather some dude's lame blog with lame ads. Oh, and I'm not even sure they even do this anymore, since they've been busy with RiffTrax, and their official website hasn't changed in a long time. What a terrible slashvertisement by man-in-the-middle proxy (go to my website to go to the real one).
What no Joel?! He was by far superior! /troll flamebait I'm wasting karma points on this.
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Oh, and nuts to "thom walker" from the UK!!!
Joel left the show in Season 5. Mike graduated from Head Writer to Head Writer and host. It wasn't quite the way you describe it. Joel was awesome, but Mike was too, in a different way.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
I mean the bots were aresome, they interacted with the screen and thast just brought even more fun into the show.
Maybe someday there will be a MST3K reunion movies or movies, LOL
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
Servo: "Come on, one more sacrifice before we go?"
Mike: "Okay, but this is the final sacrifice."
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.