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MST3K is Back, Sort Of

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-no-asteroid-that's-a-battlestation dept.

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.

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  1. There's also RiffTrax by AugstWest · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.rifftrax.com/

    Download mp3s, and start them up at the same time as your DVD....

    1. Re:There's also RiffTrax by cayenne8 · · Score: 5, Informative
      "Know what MST3K is? Me neither.

      Your 'geek' license is immediately revoked. Please hand it in now.

      "Get the gist of it from the summary? Me neither."

      MST3K = Mystery Science Theater 3000. Please go google it.

      Google is your friend.

      :-)

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  2. Prior work? by ArcadeX · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anyone have any links to prior work they've done, to know what to expect?

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  3. Favorite MST3K Line? by InvisblePinkUnicorn · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's everyone's favorite line from MST3K?

    Mine: "We will be approaching speeds of... 3!"

    1. Re:Favorite MST3K Line? by Psmylie · · Score: 3, Funny

      Anything that mentions Zap Rowsdower.

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    2. Re:Favorite MST3K Line? by InvisblePinkUnicorn · · Score: 3, Informative

      "in reference to a character who had died earlier in the movie but, for some reason, showed back up on the control room alive and well, working in another scene"

      The funniest part is that it was just "in another scene", it was in the very next scene after her death. If you watch the credits, they make fun of the person responsible for Continuity.

    3. Re:Favorite MST3K Line? by stinerman · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't forget:

      Big McLargehuge
      Gristle McThornbody
      Buff Hardback
      and
      Thick McRunfast

    4. Re:Favorite MST3K Line? by Psmylie · · Score: 4, Funny
      I posted this a while back, but here it is again: Zap Rowsdower, Chuck Norris style!

      When Zap Rowsdower talks, people become intoxicated by the alcohol fumes from his breath
      There are no endagered animals, only animals that Zap Rowsdower hasn't eaten... yet.
      Zap Rowsdower once killed an entire cult with a single roundhouse kick. They died laughing.
      Bullets are deflected by Zap Rowsdower's hockey hair
      There is no forehead under Zap's mullet... there's another beer gut
      In the unlikely event that Canada ever runs out of beer, they can drink Zap Rowsdower's blood, which is 120 proof.
      You are what you eat, and Zap Rowsdower is 200 pounds of bacon fat
      The only force known to withstand the force of a Chuck Norris Roundhouse Kick (tm) is Zap Rowsdower's doughy gut

      That's all I have for now... Rowsdowermobile, awaaay!!

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  4. Satellite News by Psmylie · · Score: 4, Informative

    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/

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  5. Blasphemy by realmolo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "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.

  6. What crap by JimboFBX · · Score: 4, Informative

    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).

  7. Joel or Mike? by SirStanley · · Score: 4, Funny

    What no Joel?! He was by far superior! /troll flamebait I'm wasting karma points on this.

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  8. Re:I guess I'm old.... by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  9. Re:Rifftrax by jollyreaper · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whatever happened to Joel??

    Didn't he really come up with the MST3K idea, even the theme music? Why did he just disappear? He got in an escape pod and made it back to Earth at the end of Mitchell. He's been keeping a low profile since then because he doesn't want the Mads to send him back.
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  10. Re:Final Sacrifice MST3K premiered today in 1998 by Dachannien · · Score: 4, Funny

    Servo: "Come on, one more sacrifice before we go?"
    Mike: "Okay, but this is the final sacrifice."