Mystery Science Theater 3000 was a great show and should have never been canceled. The show ran 11 years and grew a massive following of devoted fans.
For those of you living in the dark, for the past couple of years Rifftrax.com has been a service from Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett of MST3K. They produce audio commentary where they make fun of the movies. You can purchase these as mp3′s and watch them along with any movie they choose. Because they’re not breaking copyright they can riff any movie, The Dark Knight is their newest release.
Then, here is the news: Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, J. Elvis Weinstein, Mary Jo Pehl, and Frank Conniff have launched their own MST3K type business: Cinematic Titanic! Cinematic Titanic features the ORIGINAL Mystery Science Theater 3000 writers, with silhouettes in front of the screen, making fun of the movie. Giving the features a much more MST3K feeling. They also have live performances occasionally.
Will this be an epic MST3K bloodbath of the later writers versus the earlier writers!? Time Will tell. I’ve been listening to a lot of rifftrax (very funny), now I need to try cinematic titanic which seems very funny.
Here’s samples of both:
in other news:
I have been busy as fuck, how the hell is the married life?
It’s alright. We should hang out some time during the holidays. I’m free every weekend. call me.
have watched them both, and Rifftrax does make DVD’s of old movies too, like MST3K. Cinematic Titanic is good, I own one DVD, The Doomsday Machine, the only problem I have with them is they have 5 people cracking jokes and it just seems a bit much, whereas Rifftrax has Mike Nelson who was the best writer the show ever had along with Kevin Murphy who was the Best Tom Servo and Bill Corbett who was an OK Crow…MUCH more like MST3K than Cinematic, which has Josh & Mary Jo & Frank, who weren’t too memorable as riffers, although I would settle for Joel, Trace & Frank but 5 is just too much, it seems the jokes are forced more as in spreading 500 jokes around 5 people…I prefer Rifftrax but will watch both and support both…