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EorayMel posted:I thought it got reincarnated as Riffrax? Alas. originally, Joel (the guy who came up with MST3K and original host) left the show after some disputes with Jim over creative direction. Mike became the head writer of the show and the new host you may remember Trace and Frank, they were the original evil doctor and sidekick. (well, a guy named J. Elvis was the very first sidekick). Trace left the show and then Frank left not long after, their work on screen was replaced by Bill, Kevin, and Mary Jo (all writers moving in front of the camera) in 1999, the show got canceled. no more MST3K. at this point, Jim owns the show and nobody else can make any MST3K not too long after that, Mike came up with the idea of Rifftrax. same concept, different execution. Bill and Kevin work with Mike on this Joel also moved into this vacuum and created Cinematic Titanic, which is more stage and live event oriented, but still making fun of bad movies. he was joined by Trace, Frank, Mary Jo, and J. Elvis both Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic are very good, but the nature of CT is such that it doesn't have as much longevity, where Rifftrax has been going for a long time now at some point, Jim made some official MST3K cartoon shorts. they were very bad and had nothing to do with making fun of movies eventually, Joel was able to get the rights to MST3K back from Jim. this lead to a kickstarter, which lead to MST3K getting picked up for distribution by Netflix. this is pretty much Joel's thing, everyone else is busy with other stuff but sometimes they come around to MST3K Netflix paid for two seasons and canceled the show. lame now this kickstarter is for another crop of MST3K stuff, and the creation of a bespoke streaming service to release episodes and live events. since Joel has already navigated kickstarting new seasons, this is very likely to succeed Who What Now posted:Was the reboot even any good? yeah it was really good. the main reason people don't like it is just because it is new, no nostalgia factor. the riffs are a bit fast paced and its just a little weird to hear MST3K jokes about ready player one and internet memes instead of old television shows or obscure political figures. but aside from that the quality of the episodes makes it worth a watch. Cry Wilderness is a classic episode and Carnival Magic is mind baffling Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Apr 15, 2021 |
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Colonel Cancer posted:The remake was all right imo, didn't know that Netflix canned it the problem i think is that MST3K is not a binge watch show, and netflix really loves when people binge the first netflix season was more traditional, 14 mostly standalone episodes. the second season had 6 episodes, i think as an experiment to see if it would become bingable? definitely it didn't work but the episodes are pretty good anyway oh well, gently caress netflix. MST3K has a large enough fanbase to exist independently of distributors
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Time Chasers is one of my all time favorites i like the films that are almost watchable on their own. some of the worst mst3k episodes are poverty row slogfests of just dull scripts shot in black and white as crap filler during the 50s. its real hard to make movies that boring into something funny. the coleman francis trilogy is interesting because of how much these films openly hate their audience, they're films that double dog dare you to watch them on the other hand, the best episodes are films which aren't exactly good, but at least watchable. films that move forward, things happen, events take place in sequential order and make a minimum of sense. time chasers brushes against being actually decent. like its not a great movie but it was made by literally a 19 year old kid in rural vermont on a poo poo budget and honestly, its not that bad. its nowhere near good but it is entertaining at least which is the bare minimum of what a film needs to be
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muscles like this! posted:Also Rock N Roll Nightmare stares Jon Mikl Thor, the guy from Zombie Nightmare. jon mikl thor is great. legit z-grade rock and roll guy whose stage act included bending steel bars with his teeth and blowing up hot water bottles like balloons. absolute chad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZdsnXp8a2w&t=2759s e: im sorry i forgot about this video which is stupendously good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m0bc3Io10s Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Apr 21, 2021 |
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muscles like this! posted:Its very weird that Jon Mikl Thor starred in just two movies, both with Nightmare in the name that both came out in the same year. he and his band were getting traction at the time plus, he's canadian, so he and his band were available for any low budget canadian filmmakers who needed a rock and roll dude who would write the score and flex his pecs in any old script you throw at him
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A Fancy Hat posted:As a kid, the Santa Claus looking captain in Space Mutiny was the funniest thing in the world to me. Especially "Finally, Christmas comes to Santa!". the captain is played by cameron mitchell, who had a pretty decent career on broadway and stage in the mid 20th c before transitioning to hollywood, westerns, and as he got older, a lot of very entertaining bad movies he's the bad guy in kill squad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIS48FDzutk and he's the worlds most pissed off cop in terror in beverly hills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tk-Giofqyc and he's all over the titan of bad 80's action movie rip offs, deadly prey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrQbBULQT3s pretty sure you can find all of these movies on youtube Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Apr 21, 2021 |
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