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.

Blasphemy

[realmolo]

"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.

rmcclanahanfan saw this comming 6 years ago....

[CatsupBoy]

Posted in 2001 on IMDB, a user noted [imdb.com]:

I think the best way to sum it up is just to say that Mystery Science Theater 3000 would have had a field day.

In fact, this movie was so bad they had to bring back MST3K just to make fun of it!

Oh, and nuts to "thom walker" from the UK!!!

Re:I guess I'm old....

[ConceptJunkie]

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.

Re:Blasphemy

[Wildfire Darkstar]

For what it's worth, I think Mike was significantly better in the host segment skits than Joel ever was. When not in the theater, Joel pretty much fell back to prop comedy, and after a season or two it became rather formulaic. In the theater (which, of course, is really the most important part), I think they were both excellent, but in different ways: Joel's deadpan delivery was suited to a very different sort of comedy than Mike's approach. In the end, I tend to gravitate more towards Mike-hosted episodes than Joel-hosted ones, but I think that has more to do with the movie selection than anything else.

Re:Favorite MST3K Line?

[Flarg!]

Zap? Is that you? It must be! Why else would you give such a vitriolic response to a fairly harmless set of jokes, which, yes, I found mildly amusing. It reminds me of the Penny Arcade "Greater Internet Fuckwad" theory: Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Fuckwad. You, sir (or ma'am?), prove the formula correct.