The MST3K thread, revisited

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:21 am

greg wrote:Does anyone here like watching terrible movies that aren't done by MST3k?

Sadly, yes. I am a connoisseur of "le bad cinema". The worse, the better. That was why I started watching MST3K in the first place. I was flipping channels around 1990 or so, and The Amazing Collossal Man was playing. I thought, "Oh cool, I haven't seen this since I was 10. Awesome!" It took me a minute to notice the wee little guys at the bottom of the screen, slagging that poor piece of crap. I've been hooked ever since. I've got to admit, I saw The Last Chase, Being from Another Planet, Squirm, The Incredible Melting Man, I was a Teenage Werewolf, The Return of the Creature, The Deadly Mantis, and probably a bunch of others well before MST "did" them.

Speaking of crap films not done by MST:
Has anyone else seen Razorback? It was an early eighties Jaws ripoff featuring.... a giant pig. And that younger guy from "Trapper John, M.D."

Mind boggling....

greg · Post by **greg** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:35 pm

Does anyone know the name of the movie that had a giant rabbit, a giant chicken, and a giant something else silly? I never saw this one. It's not an MST3K episode, but it sounds like it would've made a perfect episode.

And yes, it's a tragedy that MST3K never did Star Crash. I've already developed my own script for jokes during that movie with a friend of mine. Great stuff.

Gydocker45 · Post by **Gydocker45** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 8:39 pm

greg wrote:Does anyone know the name of the movie that had a giant rabbit, a giant chicken, and a giant something else silly?

I think the name of that movie is "Food of the Gods". Yeah, that movie would have been perfect fodder for Joel/Mike and the bots.

Sundance · Post by **Sundance** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:18 am

ArrogantBastard wrote:Or Manos.

...The Hands of Fate? lol

I have them all on tape and i'm slowly buying up the DVD boxsets. Some of my friends and i also do MAT3k (Mystery Anime Theatre 3k) to really bad anime from teh 80s. We watch them as many times as we can stand and get the scripts written out then we film them to a blue screen and show them at NDK (Nan Desu Kon). NDK is our Local Anime Convention in Denver. It draws about 5000 people and is still growing.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 8:23 am

Haha. I would love to see that MAT3K. What shows do you riff?

FatalError · Post by **FatalError** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:39 am

I am one of the guys who writes for MAT3K (Mystery Anime Theater 3000). Currently we have done the following (all horrible English dubs):

SHOW 1: Magical Princess Gigi
SHOW 2: Robotech the Movie
SHOW 3: Lensman
SHOW 4: Garsey's Wing
SHOW 4.5: Silent Mobius

We plan on refilming them this year, I just need a better system to edit them on.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:01 pm

L-Lensman? How... how could you? I LIKED that one.

Then again, I saw the spanish version, dubbed straight from the japanese original, uncut and uncensored.

And to think all those anime movies were shown on channel 13 on saturdays to fill empty slots because there was no sports event to be broadcast back then.

greg · Post by **greg** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 7:58 pm

Wow, I've never seen Robotech: The Movie. I heard it uses animation from Megazone 23.

Hey, this is getting way off-topic, but has anyone heard of Seishun Shitemasu? In the early 90's it was a group headed by Peter Payne, the guy behind j-list.com or whatever it's called. They did hilarious fan-dubs of anime.

"Robotech III: Not Necessarily the Sentinels" uses footage from Gunbuster. Minmay is now a general in the RDF and Annie from the New Generation is a teenager mecha pilot. They're fighting some new breed of Invid or something. Since the artwork is done by Mikimoto, it really fits.

"Laputa II" uses animation from Nadia, which fits since it's fairly similar in concept to Laputa.

"Kimagure Orange Road: The Apocalypse" (I think that's the title) mixes animation from KOR, Megazone 23, and Akira. Very hilarious. Basically, Kasuga and Ayukawa are married and their son is Akira.

They also did "Ranma 1/3: Notes From The Closet" which unfortunately I don't have. In it, Ranma changes into his girl form and hangs out in bars at night in drag. Kasumi is a cocaine addict, and Kodachi gets raped. Very funny stuff, and this one also includes Japanese commercial spoofs of stuff like Ultraman. I wish I got this one on tape when I had the chance...

greg · Post by **greg** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:30 am

Over the weekend I picked up the Reefer Madness DVD. It's an anti-marijuana propaganda film from the 30's or 40's. This one is colorized and it features MST3K-style commentary by Mike Nelson! I disapprove of marijuana use, but even I have to admit that its portrayal in this movie was completely silly. It was only $10 at Fry's Electronics.

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:45 am

Aww, come on Greg...

MST3K + ganja = good times

I'm just kidding, man. It's been quite a while since I enjoyed anything other than a good pint or a bit of good scotch..

I finally got to see episode #810 "Giant Spider Invasion" last night. This one makes "Touch of Satan" look like Citizen Kane.

Mike: "This film tested really well among sexual predators."

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:47 am

Why the hell can't they release 'day the earth froze'...that 'total failure' song is the funniest thing I've heard in my life.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:36 am

MST3K has been my thing lately. I’m enjoying the DVD episodes on many levels:

* The riffing
* Bad special effects and sets are hilarious to watch without the riffing.
* Despite the bad storylines, dialogue, effects, etc., the movies themselves can be very entertaining.

Over the last 6 months I’ve slowly purchased all the DVD volumes and a couple of the single DVDs (Manos, Mitchel, The end is the Beginning).

My Favorites so far:

1. Cave Dwellers
2. Space Mutiny
3. Time Chasers (unbelievable that these guys tried to pull off a time travel movie with no budget!)
4. Pod People
5. The Girl in Gold Boots
6. Bloodlust

I've heard the DVD episodes thus far are not the best of, so I'm assuming if I enjoyed the above, the rest of the episodes will only get better.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:48 pm

From Satellite News:

"MIKE, SERVO AND CROW IN THE "CHEAP SEATS"
For the first time since 1999, Mike Nelson, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot will make a new appearance on television, riffing the March 14th episode of ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats with Randy and Jason Sklar. The episode will air at 10 p.m. Eastern Time. Get those recording devices ready!

You guys know about this?

Blue Lander · Post by **Blue Lander** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 2:37 am

I just read about it on MST3kinfo.com. I wonder if there's a possibility that they're testing out the idea of a new series, or if this is just going to be a one shot thing.

greg · Post by **greg** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:35 pm

For quite a while they'd said that they did not want to make any new episodes, but maybe nostalgia is catching up with them! They did say in an interview fairly recently that they would be up for a comeback. I would love for them to pick up where they left off, with Mike and the Bots in his house. I can just imagine Crow wearing a bathrobe with a cup of coffee, going out to pick up the morning newspaper off the driveway and turning on the sprinklers. Then they get kidnapped or something. That would be great. Probably no SOL, or maybe a SOLII.

I think both Comedy Central and the Sci Fi Channel are out of the question... who would pick up a new series? Maybe that all-guy station that shows Star Trek re-runs? (I forget the name...)

Blue Lander · Post by **Blue Lander** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 11:48 pm

SpikeTV? I guess that's a possibility. I can't think of any other network that it'd fit well on.

I think it'd be more realistic for MST3K to feature TV shows or something rather than movies. It'd be a lot easier to secure a half hour of TV time for a TV shows rather than two hours for a movie.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 12:13 am

Wanderer wrote:From Satellite News:

"MIKE, SERVO AND CROW IN THE "CHEAP SEATS"
For the first time since 1999, Mike Nelson, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot will make a new appearance on television, riffing the March 14th episode of ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats with Randy and Jason Sklar. The episode will air at 10 p.m. Eastern Time. Get those recording devices ready!

You guys know about this?

BEST NEWS EVER, BEST NEWS EVER, BEST NEWS EVERRRRRRRRRR!

PACKERRRRSSSSS!!!!!!!

Seriously though, I never expected the guys to get together in a million years the way they talked in interviews, they said they'd be willing *maybe* to do a reunion but only if they were offered some decent pay. Needless to say not many networks were making any offers and they just wanted to take a break after the Sci Fi cancellation anyways.

Their time away from the show has been good for them creatively though IMHO, Bill Corbett has been able to work on a bunch of plays, Mike wrote a bunch of books and that reminds me, I need to check out Kevin Murphy's A Year At the Movies.

I wonder how they'll set the episode, will it be in their modest MN apartment seen at the end of Danger Diabolik? Man, this is gonna be great either way.

MadSteel: I finally got to see episode #810 "Giant Spider Invasion" last night. This one makes "Touch of Satan" look like Citizen Kane.

Oh man, one of my favorite episodes ever. Saw it for the first time on Sci Fi way back in 1998. My fave lines:

Greasy farmer (this guy also has brief appearance as mob leader in Touch of Satan) to wife-

"You're so stupid you wouldn't know rabbit turds from rice krispies!"

Crow: "Snap, crackle, poop!"

After Greasy farmer talks to his idiot cousin Billy about the "diamonds"-

Crow: "Ha! Well met, sir! This battle of dry wits is now over."

Later when Billy is attacked in his car-

Mike in a Woody Allen voice: "A spider the size of a buick is attacking my Buick!"

Billy crashes his car in a garage/shed and runs as the car bursts into flames-

Tom: "Honey I'm home, Packers won the superbowl YAAAYYYY!!!"

A car sloppily veers
right into a spider -

Tom (laughing): When snowmobilers drive cars!

Crow: "Ya know, you really can't blame that on the spider..."

The end of the movie:

Crow: "When Barbara Hale gave her Oscar acceptance speech for this movie she said "VAAA-A-A-AAAANNCCE!"

Blue Lander · Post by **Blue Lander** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 12:46 am

Dylan1CC wrote: I wonder how they'll set the episode, will it be in their modest MN apartment seen at the end of Danger Diabolik? Man, this is gonna be great either way.

I assume it'll take place on the Cheap Seats set. Has anybody ever seen the show before? I hear it's sort of like MST3K except the do sports clips instead of movies. I wonder if the Skylar brothers will join in, or if it'll just be Mike and the bots. I've seen those guys on a few VH-1 specials, they didn't strike me as very funny.

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 1:12 am

Dylan1CC wrote:Greasy farmer (this guy also has brief appearance as mob leader in Touch of Satan)

I love that actor. His name is Robert Easton and he's been in a ton of movies over the years (72, to be precise), including Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (as the Klingon judge), Gods and Generals, and even Pete's Dragon. He's actually one of the best known and most respected dialect coaches in Hollywood.

I've always been fascinated by actors and crew people that are deeply talented, but still end up working on these cinematic dungheaps. I guess if you're a working actor/crew person, you take what jobs you can get. Heh, I know I do...

True story: Before I start working on a new film, I always like to watch Touch of Satan. It always makes me feel a lot better that a great cinematographer like Jordan S. Cronenweth (Blade Runner, Altered States) could work on such a terrible film. And do such a terrible job, as well.

PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:48 pm Post subject:
From Satellite News:

"MIKE, SERVO AND CROW IN THE "CHEAP SEATS"
For the first time since 1999, Mike Nelson, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot will make a new appearance on television, riffing the March 14th episode of ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats with Randy and Jason Sklar. The episode will air at 10 p.m. Eastern Time. Get those recording devices ready!

This is indeed great news. Unfortunately, I have no cable, at the moment.

Oh well, good thing there's newsgroups...

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 1:36 am

Interesting in fo about Robert Easton. I'm a big Andy Griffith Show fan and he was in an episode of that, "Irresistable Andy." He tries to woo Elly. Good actor, yes. The Andy Griffith Show is one respectable piece of entertainment he has done I can think of really. ha

greg · Post by **greg** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 7:54 pm

Did anyone get to see the ESPN special? I hope I can have my friend d/l it somewhere off the net...

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:25 pm

It doesn't air till next Monday. I'm gonna watch it at work and have a friend tape it too.

Check out the latest from Satellite News:

BACK TO THE FUTURE?
It's a world gone mad, we all know that, and just when the world starts to make a little bit of sense, something like this happens:
http://www.wilmingtonvermont.com/edgewood_insiders2.htm

Yes, "Time Chasers 2." Nothing may ever make sense again...

Thanks to Frank Koenen for the warning!

Ha. Sweet. With the Cheap Seats reunion and Rhino continuing to release MST3K, maybe stuff like Time Chasers 2 will be too much bad energy for an MST3K revival to resist. Chinderware lives!

"Hmmm, why don't I ditch this stupid time travel project, spend time with my hot gf and use my Commodore 64 monitor for a JAMMA rig screen instead?"

I'm a team player!

Blue Lander · Post by **Blue Lander** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:54 pm

Speaking of MST3K, yesterday I bought the MST3K Collection Volume 1 DVDs from Gamestop for 10 bucks. Not a bad deal! The only problem I have with it is that it's hard to hear the actual movie. Joel/Mike and the bots are loud and clear, but you can barely figure out what the movie is saying. Are the rest of the collections like this?

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:37 am

Even in the original broadcasts I found that sometimes the audio of the movie was muffled. I doubt this is Rhinos fault (though Rhino have certainly screwed up their fair share of releases).

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:59 pm

Just a couple more days 'till the MST3K Cheap Seats reunion.

Blue Lander · Post by **Blue Lander** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 1:22 am

I watched Cheap Seats last week, just to see what it's like. Basically they watch old sports reels, and make jokes about it. You don't see them watching it like in MST3K, it's just a voice over.

And to be honest, they're not very funny. Actually, they're not funny at all. I didn't laugh once when I watched it. I'm looking forward to seeing Mike and the Bots on the show, but I don't think I'll continue watching the show after they're done.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 1:39 am

There's a clip from the MST3K Cheap Seats ep below. The guys are back and they're just as funny as ever from what I can see of the clip. At the very least we can hope this generates enough interest to have them come back on Cheap Seats more. Clink on the link and watch the video clip for ""Creative Breaking Championships/K-1 Fighting"

http://www.cheapseats.tv/episodes.html#

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 1:48 am

D'OH, now I'm kinda disappointed:

Sat News: As we mentioned before, don't expect a full-blown riffing of the episode...Mike and the bots only appear for a few short segments. But it's the first new MST3K material since 1999, so get those recording devices ready!

hrm?

I don't remember them saying that before.

greg · Post by **greg** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:59 pm

hey, I called my folks and they said it's on the Classic ESPN station. It'll be on at 8pm Mountain and repeated at 11.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:49 am

Tonights Cheap Seats episode got rated #1 for Entertainment Weekly.com's "best of TV" for tonight.

http://www.ew.com/ew/listing/tv/wtw/0,6115,_3__,00.html

Cheap Seats (ESPN Classic) Good snark is hard to come by, so all hail the second-season return of the brothers Sklar (Jason and Randy, left) for ESPN's mocking homage to B-level sports. Riffing on clips from a creative-breaking competition (martial artists smashing boards in innovative ways!), the siblings zing one-liners on everything from The Karate Kid to pirate couture. Better yet is a cameo from the Mystery Science Theater 3000 crew, who bust on Seats, noting, ''A cable show where you make fun of other people's [clips]. It'll never last. B —Paul Katz