Mystery Science Theater 3000: C/D, S/D.

(Speaking of Ballyhoo, I will note that according to Joel's own Kickstarter account, he's backed one other project on there:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ballyhoomotionpics/celluloid-wizards-in-the-video-wasteland

...and if he wants to do more from those guys, bring it.)

Wait, was that the convention in '94?

I know it was, bcz I couldn't go to a Twins game as there was the baseball strike on.

I think the choice of the Nerdist guy likely means this will be MST3K for millennials--i.e. updated cultural references, faster and more obvious riffing. Some MST episodes have long stretches of silence from the hosts--I doubt that will be happening.

and a whole lot more yelling

I dunno, I feel like the riff-per-minute count is generally very high, almost as high as you can go without making it totally impossible to understand what's happening in the movie. There are definitely some stretches of dead air but sometimes that's almost down to the movie they're stuck with. I always like when they bring in a longform gag that just takes advantage of the space, like the Leonard Maltin thing over the long ending and closing credits of Laserblast, or the Day The Earth Froze opening credit material.

I just hope the aesthetic and style, despite taking advantage of new technology, remains kinda homemade and doesn't look as mobile-site/hashtag/sterile/over-elaborate as I'm worried it might.

needs to be shot on video IMO. the host segments at least. though the sets did look great shot on film for the 1996 movie. hrm.

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As long as we're here -- the guy behind the Manos restoration is doing The Atomic Brain next, as well as funding a documentary on its director, who turns out to have been one of those Hollywood lifers behind the camera that apparently is something of a legend for working cinematographers to the present. And at $16,000 this is, how you say, way cheaper than the revival deal.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manos/the-atomic-brain-4k-restoration

Meantime, new interview with Joel:

http://mashable.com/2015/11/17/mystery-science-theater-3000-joel-hodgson

Of interest:

Q You've mentioned that you plan to stick to the look that people know but also bring it up a notch. Tell me about your plans to evolve the look of it.

A Well, they were a couple of things built into Mystery Science Theater that worked really good, and that is that it appears to be a live document of a day in time. I was really careful about that; I didn't want to do a lot of post-production on the show. I wanted all the effects to be in camera, and we're seen a lot of that come around, with [the way] J.J. Abrams (did) Star Wars. People are sort of on the other end of [the argument] that seeing everything is the best way to tell a story; sometimes just having a really solid world you're in works really good. So I want to stick with that. I don't want to go too far out with that. But I also don't want to arrest the look of Mystery Science Theater and kind of stick with what we were doing in the '90s, which at the time was really provocative. I think we can move it along a little bit further. I'm not sure if I can, but I'd like to try.

The thing I think will really protect it is that everything has to be done live. No matter what we do, it will have its own kind of charm.

That's promising. I'm glad he seems concerned with maintaining parameters in the overall look and feel.

So anyway, new update:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/bringbackmst3k/posts/1423502/

He wants Felicia Day as "Kinga Forrester," MST3K's next Mad… and Dr. Clayton Forrester's daughter!" and "Hampton Yount and Baron Vaughn to become the next voices of Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo!"

Plus a new extra henchman, it seems.

Was holding out for Deven Green.

I've never actually watched any of the Sci Fi Channel episodes. Were there good ones? They looked ... less than.

Oh, they're great! Though I generally feel the "Mad's" stuff from that era went downhill, the riffing was plenty good.

You're doing yourself a major disservice skipping out on those final seasons, poly. Some of them are all-time. Check:

Space Mutiny
Time Chasers
Werewolf
The Final Sacrifice
Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
Horrors of Spider Island
Diabolik

The Sci-Fi eps more or less require you to skip the host segments.

I'd add Giant Spider Invasion to that list.

The Sci-Fi eps more or less require you to skip the host segments.

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I was saying this in a slightly softer way, but to be specific I like the isolated bots + Mike bits of those segments much more often than when the Mads are a part of it, so that distinction is kind of important imo.

Yeah Sci-Fi wanted them to have a continuing plot of some kind so the mads segments are kinda weak.

Final Sacrifice is all-time classic though.

I didn't watch the Sci-Fi episodes for years, but when I started watching them on youtube it was like finding lost treasure

Ditto! Agreed about skipping all Mads segments and most M&TBs ones, but if you can get past new Crow there's lots of good riffing.

I dig having Baron Vaughn on the show

More interviews floating around -- oddly enough, the one via StarWars.com is the best of that bunch; it goes deeper in some directions I haven't seen in the other pieces:

http://www.starwars.com/news/weve-got-movie-sign-joel-hodgson-talks-star-wars-and-mst3k

Good interview- hits on some of our recent discussion upthread.

BTW, doubling back a few posts: some Sci-Fi episodes I'm particularly glad to have seen for one reason or another. None of these stick out in my mind as super all-time classics the way some Comedy Central episodes do, but I've also seen all of these a maximum of one time each, so it's a bit more impressionistic re: memories of laughing fits at particular points, or just a memorably strange movie.

Touch of Satan
Agent For H.A.R.M.
Time Chasers
The Mole People
Invasion of the Neptune Men
Horror of Party Beach
Werewolf
Final Sacrifice

RIP Rex, your headstone movie was too good to be MSTied

http://www.avclub.com/article/rip-rex-reason-star-island-earth-228925

His name was really Rex Reason? Hero.

Anyway, Turkey Day Marathon starts in half an hour:

http://mst3k.com/events/turkeyday15/wheretowatch/

crossing our fingers that the youtube app on our ps3 has updated to allow streaming ...i had to watch it on the ipad last year

your headstone movie was too good to be MSTied

And ranks as possibly one of their worst episodes too, if it ranks.

So excited to force family to watch this yet again!

First up, Outlaw of Gor. The score so far:

Comedy Central: 1
Sci-Fi: 0

One of the first episodes I finally saw as it ran. Glad this is going to be on demand at Yahoo because looks like streaming on my phone isn't happening...

ps3 stream is working! yaaay

This Island Earth was better at the Minneapolis convention. Still a decent movie tho.

mst3k.com stream not working

Ah cool, YouTube on my iPhone IS working. Maybe it just started a little later.

i have never seen this one before...this movie is really, uh, something

Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot?

oh man, that's one i really can't do. i can't remember if we even finished it or not, the plot just kinda... continues. and yeah, that one dude is reeeeeeal hard to take. no fault on the riffing, just one of those where the movie itself is so irritating that you kinda can't deal.

That montage of man ass at the end . . .

Haha I love _Outlaw_, it's just so ridiculous. They could never do enough wannabe Conan movies for me.

And now _Eegah!_! Two for two for me here.

Ditto!

Favorite riff: the screeching sound accompanying Roxy's trip down the giant slide.

the song he sings by the pool is outstanding

Oh wait, it's Arch Hall Jr. that's the celebrity I most closely resemble.

Two of my favorite-ever MST3K moments in this: "Watch out for snakes!" obviously, and Joel putting his hands over the bots' mouths when Roxie asks, "Do you know where Deep Canyon is?"

I am William Burroughs ... I am William Burroughs ... I am William Burroughs ... I'm Rose Kennedy.

You know, this episode has one of my all time obscure lines. After Eegah smacks Arch Hall Jr and they all cheer, first Tom does a whiny voiced complaint supposedly from Arch, then Joel adds "Come on, you stupid zinge." Zinge? Am I hearing that right?

"Whatsa matter Mister Miller?"
"Sit down, Pieface. It's a long list."