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.

There's also RiffTrax

[AugstWest]

http://www.rifftrax.com/ [rifftrax.com]

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

Rifftrax

[WrongMonkey]

It's not the whole MST3K crew, but RiffTrax [rifftrax.com] have been around for a while and are extra awesome because they finally give the treatment to mainstream movies.

Satellite News

[Psmylie]

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/ [mst3kinfo.com]

And MST3K is...

[IBBoard]

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 [mst3kinfo.com]

(Q1 says "What is Mystery Science Theater 3000?" ;) )

Re:Favorite MST3K Line?

[InvisblePinkUnicorn]

"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.

What crap

[JimboFBX]

ok so the link on slashdot doesnt even go to the http://www.filmcrewonline.com/ [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).

Re:Rifftrax

[TheGreatOrangePeel]

I was thinking the exact same thing, then I thought, "Wait! This is a doup [slashdot.org]!" But a little checking around [dapcentral.org] would seem to show that they indeed are, all three, united in a new project. They've been The Film Crew for a while, but they seem to be jumping in on actual DVD releases now as we can see on The Film Crew's website [filmcrewonline.com] the link for which seems to be missing in the article. Still, though, this is pretty old news. I remember voting for my 'first release' several months, if not a year, back. That could've been which to riff first I suppose, though.

Re:rmcclanahanfan saw this comming 6 years ago....

[CatsupBoy]

Sorry, URL got munged: imdb.com [imdb.com]

Re:Favorite MST3K Line?

[jollyreaper]

What's everyone's favorite line from MST3K?

There are so many good ones, I don't know where to start. Some of the best lines just aren't anything without seeing the visuals that inspired them. Here are the ones I can think of off the top of my head:

Thug: I got a guy, he knows all the angles!
Crow: Name's Euclid.

Some weird wicker coffin used by paramedics to move a body
Crow: Oh, look, it's a picnic casket!

From Clash of the Moons
Winky: [after leave is cancelled for a mission] So much for that gay nightlife. Looks like I'm going to have to go ride the rocket!
Joel and the Bots: [audible gaping, no response]

Pod People
Joel: Pod People got no reason to live!

Joel: Trumpy! You do stupid things!

Tom Servo mimicking Trumpy: Mmm, yes, everything looks good. You look like a potato. Mmm, little winged potatoes.

Manos: Hands of Fate
Frank and Dr. Forrester repeatedly apologizing for an experiment that was cruel and inhumane, even by their standards

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
The whole fucking movie. This is one of the first ones I play on Turkey Day. Been doing my own Turkey Day marathons ever since Comedy Central stopped.

Warrior of the Lost World
[hero sets motorcycle cops on fire]
Crow: Oh, look, Buddhist bikers protesting the no-helmet law.
Mega-weapon! Mega-weapon!

Attack of the the Eye Creatures
Pointing out just how little care went into the creation of this movie, including a typo in the title, along with all the other great stuff. "They just didn't care."

Running gags:
Watch out for snakes!
[a-ok sign] It stinks!
Any of the Torgo stuff
Droppo, you're the laziest man on Mars!
Gamera is really neat! Gamera is turtle meat! We love Gamera!

Re:There's also RiffTrax

[cayenne8]

"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.

:-)

Re:There's also RiffTrax

[smclean]

Are there any players that will let you sync the audio to the video and let it work for fastfoward and pausing? That's the only problem I can see with it, be a real pain in the ass if you had to just let the damn thing run, no pausing. If I'm in an audience of a size greater than one, there will be pauses, rewinds, etc.

The do try and make it easier to sync mid-movie by occasionally having a robot-voiced character read a line that should be synchronized with a line in the movie. This way, you *can* still start in the middle of a movie, but it is a PITA.

Re:Rifftrax

[smclean]

When he left MST3K he filmed a pilot for HBO, a sketch comedy show called 'The TV Wheel'. My buddy and I were big enough fans that we went to the filming of the pilot, after being tipped off from Usenet that you could get free tickets. The show was never picked up.

Wikipedia lists some other projects of his post-mst3k..

Re:There's also RiffTrax

[trevorgensch]

No, it's just not you - their tv show was enjoyable (except for all that between movie nonsense which could quite happily be excised IMO), but Rifftrax, with its incredibly scene specific commentary is unlistenable - and don't dare get more than 2 seconds out of sync or the jokes will be even unfunnier.