Mystery Science Theater 3000 Swayze Style
 

I mostly caught bits of Mystery Science Theater when my big bro was watching it, but I heard a cool segment on the radio the other day with writer/commentator Michael J. Nelson. MST3K movie selections were always limited to B-movies because of copyright laws. Now, they have found a way to bypass that problem with home DVD rentals. Guilty pleasure titles like Point Break, Cocktail and Crossroads now have downloadable commentaries. You rent the DVD (or pull it out of the super secret hiding place behind your porn), download, for a fee, the commentary track from RiffTrax.com, follow the cues for exactly when to start your DVD, and voila! More cheesy movies to watch with Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy.

Enjoy!

MST3K!
 

Listen to young Babette, he or she speaks the truth! Clever Nelson has carved himself a nice little niche of late. I like the stuff he does with Legend Video as well. Funny. Original. Igniminious.

The preview of "Star Trek 5" is pretty darn funny. :)

Thanks for the link!

Dude. DUDE!

I have to admit, I like the MST3K, and that Star Trek was pretty funny also. Some remarks are stupid, but some can hit you pretty hard funny!

I needed to do some massive thread necromancy and give this my official thumbs up. RiffTrax is fantastic and easy to use. We tried it with Transformers the other night and laughed our arses off. We picked up a couple more that we'll probably get to over this weekend.

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Is this really the first time you've heard about this?!

It was in 2006 when I posted it.

Okay. I would have thought as much. Heh.

But I can see the concern since GD is usually very behind the times in terms of technology.

By the way, in addition to RiffTrax, there's also Cinematic Titanic, which are actual DVDs with the movies and the funny all in one again! Hooray! (CP posted this a few weeks back, but it's worth repeating.

Interesting, I somehow missed CP's Cinematic Titanic link. We'll have to check it out. In the meanwhile, RiffTrax really works well for us, since we have somewhere close to 600 DVDs now, which includes pretty much all the choices RiffTrax gives.

The only downside was taking a break in the middle, which won't be happening again any time soon. While it wasn't incredibly difficult to re-sync, it wasn't exactly a piece of cake. Thankfully they have little markers in the RiffTrax mp3 that help the resynchronizing process. But yeah, most of these movies are those that we've seen before. Unless it's something major, we're not pausing it again.

How very cool!
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Great idea.

I've downloaded and enjoyed a number of these Rifftrax. I particularly enjoyed all three Star Wars prequel trax, as they give that trilogy of ignominy exactly what it deserves. I also gave a spin to their riffs on the Star Wars Holiday Special, which is not officially available, but which their description none-too-subtly guides you to download from Google Video. even with the Riffing, the special was hard to get through. What a desperately awful slice of Seventies agony that is.

Not sure which of the 5 MST3K threads to put this in.

It seems that the former crew has been throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. Just got a recommendation from Netflix for yet another post-MST3K incarnation.

The Film Crew, comprised of Mike, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy, apparently has been doing bits for TV and DVDs, and they also released 4 DVDs of them doing commentary on 4 bad movies.

Yep, I've seen all four The Film Crew DVDs. They recapture a little of the MST vibe by providing a story framework and host segments for Mike, Bill and Kevin. The setting isn't nearly as much fun as the Sattelite of Love, and there are no puppets, but the discs are all right, certainly fun for fans. So far, the Rifftrax have proved more entertaining, to me at least.