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

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Tiffing. Yes

Evan, Friday, 23 November 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link

Oh I just saw the big reunion sign behind them just now

Evan, Friday, 23 November 2018 00:41 (five years ago) link

(Asylum movies are almost always 20% actiony craziness and then the rest of it is 80% ppl standing around in rooms padding out the rest of the movie)

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 November 2018 00:42 (five years ago) link

2016, ok. Thanks google. I’m out of the loop

Evan, Friday, 23 November 2018 00:43 (five years ago) link

These are pretty good so far; as good as the best eps of last season I think. Atlantic rim is pretty dire and so new that it doesn’t feel right. Like you need 15-20 years of remove before it works

YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 23 November 2018 03:33 (five years ago) link

yeah i agree. the land stopped by time is already v funny

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 November 2018 04:44 (five years ago) link

sorry, the day that time ended

anyway #steakmilk

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 November 2018 04:52 (five years ago) link

WISE MEN STILL SEEK HIM

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 November 2018 05:15 (five years ago) link

the Concept Song made me cry-laugh. bonafide Elliot Kalan magic if I ever heard it

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 November 2018 05:29 (five years ago) link

I watched through to The Day Time Ended -- is there a story about how this movie happened? It's bonkers. IMDB contributers think the stop motion monsters were dinosaurs, but I don't know. The animation is actually pretty good, but the monsters and alien don't fit in with the rest of the movie at all.

adam the (abanana), Monday, 26 November 2018 06:22 (five years ago) link

xxxxxxp https://i.imgur.com/1RRZnVy.jpg

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 26 November 2018 07:15 (five years ago) link

I noticed that the MST3K version cut out around half of the Mcdonalds scene. I know they cut, but I was surprised they chose that material to cut.

adam the (abanana), Monday, 26 November 2018 08:19 (five years ago) link

Phew, okay, got through all six at last (saw the first two last week, was home sick today so I knocked off the rest). More thoughts later but Killer Fish is some goddamn hilarity.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 8 December 2018 05:40 (five years ago) link

i started in on Mac and Me and i had forgotten how much i loved these guys

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 8 December 2018 10:15 (five years ago) link

Moved recently and got a Roku and discovered to my pleasant surprise that Pluto (which has a 24/7 MST3K channel AND a Rifftrax channel) and Tubi (which has the Shout Factory episodes on demand) exist.

blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 21 December 2018 04:41 (five years ago) link

Forgot how annoying the motorcycle in Warrior of the Lost World was btw

blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 21 December 2018 04:41 (five years ago) link

"Tuuuuubular."

"SHUT UP!"

Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 December 2018 05:06 (five years ago) link

...and the bad fathers who love them

YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 21 December 2018 05:32 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

Watching the Mac and Me episode was kind of a surreal experience, since I actually saw this film in theatres. Some context: when I was 10, my parents and I went to go see Midnight Run but the lady at the ticket counter basically shamed my mother about taking her child to that film and pressured my parents towards Mac and Me instead. To say that it is the worst movie that we ever saw theatrically is no small claim; other movies I saw in theatres as a child included Poltergeist 2 and Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold.

Anwyay, the episode itself is pretty funny, and the film gives them plenty to work with. Also, they don't make note of it, and I couldn't spot her myself, but apparently Jennifer Aniston is dancing somewhere in that McDonalds sequence.

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Saturday, 2 March 2019 04:50 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

I'm somewhat disappointed but hardly surprised that the It's Just a Show podcast verdict on Racket Girls is that it's ungood, as opposed to a clear series high point (which it is).

zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

I would agree with you there, it's amazing! But I won't speak ill of my fellow hosts on Megaphonic. :-D

Meantime, Joel's announced he's doing one last live tour with the bots; no Jonah this time, if that factors into a decision of whether to go or not. Full details here:

https://mst3klive.com/

The two movies are, per the Kickstarter note:

"No Retreat, No Surrender"

A self-conscious teen becomes a martial arts master under the tutelage of Bruce Lee’s ghost. Featuring fresh-faced Jean-Claude Van Damme as a brooding hit man and a Bruce Lee lookalike, who looks nothing like Bruce Lee.

"Circus of Horrors"

A garish 1960s British thriller showcasing mod circus acts, plastic surgery, and animal attacks by stagehands in fur suits. Warning: Features the pop hit “Look for a Star” over and over again.

If you want to sample that, er, glory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlmtAwYme64

Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 June 2019 04:36 (five years ago) link

No Retreat...is a lot of fun.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 3 June 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link

Yikes

I was booked to be in a fun show starting right now but instead I’m sitting in Lenox Hill Hospital waiting to find out if I’m getting a stent or open heart surgery (the latter being the more likely scenario). Ordinary, everyday life is precious.

— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) June 13, 2019

Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 June 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link

oh damn...well i hope taking care of it now will take care of it for a long time.

omar little, Friday, 14 June 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link

He got through it!

Update: I had quadruple bypass surgery and I just got out of the ICU with a good prognosis for recovery. So grateful to all who sent me such warm wishes. I love all of you.

— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) June 18, 2019

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 01:29 (five years ago) link

yaaaay

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 01:45 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

And updating that news above, Frank's back with The Mads are Back crew; he talks about his surgery a bit at the start.

https://soundcloud.com/user-340711944/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 01:45 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Saw the MST3k live show over the weekend & it was a total blast, definitely recommend catching it if youre on the fence. Never saw Joel perform IRL, it was a surprisingly heartwarming and nostalgic experience (even considering the circumstances) for me & my companions seeing him riff onstage, reacting to the audience, etc. Film we saw was "No Retreat, No Surrender" which was truly bananas, would easily have been a classic episode back in the day.

“Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, 23 September 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link

wish i had the scratch

only saw a live show with Mike, Minneapolis 1994

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 September 2019 21:24 (five years ago) link

Were you there on Friday, too? xp

Evan, Monday, 23 September 2019 21:28 (five years ago) link

Oh, whoops. Glazed over the movie title you mentioned. I saw "Circus of Horrors"

Evan, Monday, 23 September 2019 21:29 (five years ago) link

I love ‘No Retreat, No Surrender’.

Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 07:40 (five years ago) link

Frank's starting to surface more in public and he's looking great -- he'd mentioned losing weight after the surgery:

Mads meet-up with @feliciaday in Brooklyn. Check out her inspiring new book, Embrace Your Weird. pic.twitter.com/w72GAhpG11

— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) October 5, 2019

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 5 October 2019 04:32 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

Pretty good for a half-century run without a body.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link

Someone finally ... let her die

temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link

dedicated 24 hour Twitch channel goes live tomorrow
http://www.twitch.tv/mst3k

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link

You could kinda tell this was the case. From Joel's latest mailout to the original Kickstarter backers:

As some of you might have guessed, we won't be making new seasons of the show for Netflix. However, I want you to know that we've had a wonderful time working with the Netflix team, and will always be grateful to them. After all, they gave us the opportunity to spend the past few years aboard the Satellite of Love, and made it possible for new generations to discover the joys of riffing cheesy movies with your friends.

I couldn't be more grateful or proud to our incredible cast and our wonderful crew for bringing this incarnation of the show to life, and hope that we'll get the chance to continue collaborating on MST3K as we enter our next chapter.

And, I'm pleased to confirm that The Return and The Gauntlet – along with a healthy selection of classic episodes – will continue to stream on Netflix, bringing some of the show's best episodes to cheesy movie lovers around the world.

Now, I know you might have questions about the future of Mystery Science Theater, but as you've seen over the last four years, we are just as dedicated to keeping MST3K alive as ever. And I want to remind you that there are still lots of options for us to explore in the years to come. This isn’t our first rodeo! So, while this might be the end of the first chapter of bringing back MST3K, don't worry: it's not the last chapter.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link

I'm sad that there will be less of it in the near future, and happy that they'll have time to reconsider some aspects.

wasdnuos (abanana), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link

two months pass...

So I saw the touring production with Joel the other night -- nights, really, both Friday and Saturday:

Seeing #MST3Klive on Friday and Saturday night in SF was a real treat, and I'm so glad I went. If this is indeed Joel's formal bowing out from the role he created, while still helping guide its future, then it couldn't have been more fun. pic.twitter.com/JfNKkF7Hyg

— Ned Raggett (@NedRaggett) February 4, 2020

And I muttered this on FB:

So back on Friday and Saturday night, as I briefly posted then, I saw two of the three SF performances on the current Mystery Science Theater 3000 live tour. (The third was a matinee of the Friday show.) Joel Hodgson, the originator of the whole thing, has said this is his last go-round with it as the central figure live (and likely for good), so while ticket prices for close seats were up there, ultimately I felt I had to go for it. And it was well worth it -- the presentation was a stripped-down and engaging affair, almost like the theatrical equivalent of the earliest actual episodes, though with an eye towards careful cleverness in how to showcase the robots, add extra visual elements and so forth, all while keeping the core of making fun of some trashy movies (_No Retreat No Surrender_ on Friday, _Circus of Horrors_ on Saturday). There was also something of it feeling just so right -- MST3K is probably the TV program I ultimately love the absolute most, and where time casts certain lines and things in new and not always better lights, I can't sit with those people who seem to think it was a blight on moviegoing and criticism and so forth. It comes out of a place that doesn't really exist anymore -- late night UHF broadcasts of cheaply made and cheaply acquired films and the sheer befuddlement of seeing them, combined with the Vampiras et al of the world on various local stations as the hosts of bumper segments -- and has become its own origin point for a slew of other approaches in turn. Nearly thirty years is a long time to fly the flag for anything when there's so much more to learn and discover, but even if we're not talking the from-when-I-was-six Tolkien and Star Wars interest I still have -- and, say, Schulz and Peanuts before then, the ultimate lodestone -- it all seems to move beyond nostalgia towards transcendence in its own way. I've only ever seen Joel once before live during a filming of his pilot _The TV Wheel_ back in the mid-1990s, so there was that too, while this supporting cast did a solid job, and Joel made more than one comment -- perhaps underlined by the fact that Netflix has dropped the revival -- that this was 'the future' of MST3K, and it's a little noteworthy that Emily Marsh, to the right of Joel in this shot, was set up the _No Retreat_ performance as, quite possibly, the next person in the jumpsuit alongside the bots. If it took over 50 years to get to Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor, then 30 for the equivalent here is an improvement. Maybe the future'll be more productions like this? Maybe something through Shout Factory's own channel? Who knows? But all I can tell you is that I had a good time, and it was especially nice being among 'my people' in the crowd -- a whole mix, older and younger, and by no means not all middle-aged white dudes like yours truly. I think we all had that slight look about us that knows we're not glamourpusses or bros or whatever, we're just people. That suits the show as its best too, and I'll always be grateful. Towards the not too distant future, in whatever form it holds.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link

I can't sit with those people who seem to think it was a blight on moviegoing and criticism and so forth. It comes out of a place that doesn't really exist anymore -- late night UHF broadcasts of cheaply made and cheaply acquired films and the sheer befuddlement of seeing them

Absolutely OTM, and yet I have come to a place of total comfort being an advocate on both sides of this debate.

🚶‍♂️💨 (Eric H.), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link

The Buddha of MST3K

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 21:59 (four years ago) link

Interesting:

http://www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=28884

In brief: Susan Hart, who has the rights to five of the remaining eleven or so episodes not formally rereleased, is apparently on the verge of a deal with Shout Factory.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link

two months pass...

We watched the 'Mac & Me' ep last night, pretty fun, I guess they still have it. Any recommendations out of the other 12 that are on Netfix?

change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link

cry wilderness

Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link

the mac & me episode utterly slayed me

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link

I second Cry Wilderness, which is an enjoyably bonkers movie on top of all the riffing.

Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link

i never came back to pick up the final six episodes. can't remember which were funniest/best in terms of riffing, but just in terms of movie selections, Cry Wilderness the most jaw-dropping of the first batch, and pretty much all of them have the right "feel" to be MST movies. i think Time Travelers and The Christmas That Almost Wasn't were the toughest to get through. i never really fell in love with the cast or the pacing of riffs but i got more used to both as it went on... maybe a little of that is like a "getting used to Mike after Joel" thing, but it never quite shook a certain 2010s "bad movie podcast / bad movie youtube channel" energy that just isn't for me. still totally glad it happened though.

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link

Yeah they're compelled to fill all the empty space with jokes. It comes off too blatantly as pre-written, where the pacing and delivery of the original run maintained the illusion of quick witted reactions on the fly.

Evan, Thursday, 23 April 2020 22:05 (four years ago) link

Agreed with that. But yes Cry Wilderness and Mac and Me both agreeably insane. Avalanche was an amazing botch of a film. Generally speaking all the film choices were good, it was the end results that were varied -- the 12th season/six episode run had the advantage of none of the shoe-horned cameos or the clumsy Max/Kinga dynamic, it was more just breeze through it all.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 April 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link


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