Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax

What is your opinion on MST3k/Rifftrax

  • 1. Love it more than life itself and will sacrifice my first born child to glorify it's name

    Votes: 84 21.8%

  • 2. Love it

    Votes: 224 58.2%

  • 3. Meh

    Votes: 50 13.0%

  • 4. Hate it

    Votes: 9 2.3%

  • 5. What the fuck is a MST3K?!

    Votes: 18 4.7%
  • Total voters
    385
I think it's a Bill Corbett thing, but regardless of whoever keeps writing it I find that "IM AN INSANE ELF!" and variants on it very annoying.

Favs include, but aren't limited to
K02 Revenge of the Mysterons From Mars
K09 Phase IV
K10 Cosmic Princess
K11 Humanoid Woman
K17 Time of the Apes
K19 Hangar 18
K20 The Last Chase
K21 The Legend of Dinosaurs
103 Mad Monster
104 The Corpse Vanishes
106 Robot Monster
108 Project Moonbas
109 Robot Holocaust
110 Moon Zero Two
112 The Black Scorpion
201 Rocketship XM
208 Lost Continent
210 King Dinosaur
211 First Spaceship On Venus
212 Godzilla vs Megalon
213 Godzilla vs The Sea Monster
301 Cave Dwellers
The Season 3 Gameras and the other Sandy Frank repackaging of Japanese SFX crap
303 Pod People
309 Amazing Colossal Man and the other BIG movies but not so much Tormented
311 It Conquered The World
320 The Unearthly
321 Santa Conquers The Martians
401 Space Travelers
402 Giant Gila Monster
404 Teenagers From Outer Space
405 Being From Another Planet
406 Attack of the Giant Leeches
407 The Killer Shrews
413 Manhunt in Space and the other Rocky Jones
418 Attack of the the Eye Creatures
420 The Human Duplicators
422 The Day the Earth Froze and the other Scandanvian / Russo fantasies
423 Bride of the Monster and the rest of the Ed Wood works
424 Manos
506 Eegah
510 The Painted Hills
511 Gunslinger
513 The Brain That Wouldn't Die
514 Teenage Strangler
515 Alien From LA
519 Outlaw of Gor
521 Santa Claus
524 12 to the Moon
602 Invasion USA
603 The Dead Talk Back
604 Zombie Nightmare
606 The Creeping Terror
609 The Skydivers and the other Coleman Francis movies
612 The Starfighters
616 Racket Girls
624 Samson vs the Vampire Women
701 Night of the Blood Beast
702 The Brute Man
705 Escape 2000
706 Laserblast
Assignment Venezuela
801 Revenge of the Creature
804 The Deadly Mantis
810 The Giant Spider Invasion
812 The Incredibly Strange Creatures...
816 Prince of Space
817 Horror Of Party Beach
822 Overdrawn At The Memory Bank
903 Pumaman
904 Wurrwilf
905 The Deadly Bees
906 The Space Children
907 Hobgoblins
908 The Touch of Satan
909 Gorgo
910 The Final Sacrifice
911 Devil Fish
1005 Blood Waters of Dr Z
1006 Boggy Creek II And The Legend Continues
1009 Hamlet
1011 Horrors of Spider Island
1012 Squirm
1101 Reptilicus
1102 Cry Wilderness
1103 The Time Travelers
1104 Avalanche
1105 The Beast of Hollow Mountain
1106 Starcrash
1107 The Land that Time Forgot
1109 Yongary
1112 Carnival Magic
1113 The Christmas That Almost Wasn't
1114 At Earth's Core
1201 Mac and Me
1202 Atlantic Rim
and I still haven't finished season 12
 
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Coleman Francis said:
GaryInMotion, who was I think a sound guy in Hollywood, had his YouTube account banned around 12 hours ago. All he did was post the full versions of movies on mystery science, with the theater silhouettes removed, the cutscenes in the spaceship removed, and he kept the entire, unedited movie the way it originally was. No scenes edited out for content and time, so they'd have a few extra scenes with no riffs because these were parts that mst cut out when the show aired the films. He kept all the riffs in of course, but he fixed the sound of the films so you could hear everything better, and he used much higher quality cuts of all the films than mst used on television.

None of his stuff was monetized, he just did this because he was a fan who enjoyed doing it, spending around 20 or so hours editing each episode. He had done close to 100 entire episodes.

Here's an interview paste magazine did with Gary at the beginning of June: https://www.pastemagazine.com/comedy/mst3k/mst3k-cinema-edition-youtube-mystery-science-theater/

This is very disappointing. I had been a fan of Gary's edits since the very beginning, when he only had around 3 episodes finished on his channel. He called them MST3K, Cinema Edition's.

Fuck YouTube, man. Gary and American Renaissance were the only 2 things that I really looked forward to watching on a regular basis and just in the past couple days, they're both gone.

I woke up to get a glass of water and was about to put on one of Gary's shows to listen to for a few mins, before I went back asleep for this last couple hours and they were all gone. Looked at his Twitter and had it confirmed. I'm so aggravated, I can't even go back to sleep.
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That's the state of copyright law for you. Doesn't matter that he wasn't making a dime off of posting these movies, the fact that someone elsewhere might not be making that dime is all that matters. Not that I condone the guy's channel getting banned for posting old schlocky B-movies, but I would see it as an "only a matter of time" situation. Between the movies themselves and the riffs overlaid on top, someone would eventually bring down the hammer to prevent him from freely hosting copyrighted material. Hard to say that it would be fair use either, considering it's using even more of the original source material than MST3K themselves used.

It'll never happen, but I really wish someone would drastically overhaul our copyright laws. The DMCA was written two decades ago when the internet was far different from how it is today, and thanks to Disney's incessant lobbying, it takes decades for works to enter the public domain, if not over a century. Until that day comes (if it ever does), we should all keep circulating the tapes. Perhaps Gary can start torrents of his edits, much like the Star Wars Despecialized Editions.
 
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Anyone else listening to the 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back podcast with Mike and Conner Lastowka? It’s a book club podcast for shitty books that started with them reading Ready Player One, and they are currently enduring legendary fanfic abomination My Immortal.

The best books they’ve done, for the quality of discussion, have been Armada by Ernest Cline, The Mister by E.L. James, and to hear he sheer disgust and anger that the horrendously ugly thoughts behind the book, Sean Penn’s book Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff. My Immortal has the potential to join them, but it’s too amateurish to really get them on top form so far.
 
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Coleman Francis said:
Despite his stupidity, he definitely had luck on his side. All the stupid shit he does throughout the movie, all the chances he had to end the whole ordeal, he keeps letting this teenage girl play him like a fiddle the entire time. And in the end, he still has all the luck. He's completely exonerated from all negative consequences and looks like an innocent, unwilling victim rather than a really stupid, compliant victim.
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He would have fit right in with the Kennedy administration.
Jesus Goldstein said:
The Rebel Set (more beatniks than The Beatniks)
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Dish of Ice Cream - Don't tempt me!
 
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Final Sacrifice was copyright claimed by the director “from a line of great anuses”

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Anyone have an archive? I only just started downloading them from YouTube :/
 
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Haven't been following the reboot, but apparently Gypsy is no longer politically correct and has been replaced with "GPC"
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I recall hearing that was in the works for a while now.
Like most collaborative works the more the collaborators get distant from each other the more the work goes to shit.

was watching RT Icebreaker (some 2000 shit fest about skiing or something) and at one point Bill just starts getting pissed about YOU'RE BRUCE CAMPBELL DAMMIT DO SOMETHING and it's probably the most I've laughed at Bill ever.
 
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I'm not entirely sure what happened to the live Rifftrax shows that were supposed to come out this year because I kept forgetting to check for news. They might have already happened or got broadcast online or something, I dunno. However, they're doing a live riff of Jack-O broadcast to theaters this Wednesday:
Glad to finally be able to watch another live show, yet another thing I've been missing due to the Wu Flu.
 
Sir Wesley Tailpipe said:
Anyone else listening to the 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back podcast with Mike and Conner Lastowka? It’s a book club podcast for shitty books that started with them reading Ready Player One, and they are currently enduring legendary fanfic abomination My Immortal.

The best books they’ve done, for the quality of discussion, have been Armada by Ernest Cline, The Mister by E.L. James, and to hear he sheer disgust and anger that the horrendously ugly thoughts behind the book, Sean Penn’s book Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff. My Immortal has the potential to join them, but it’s too amateurish to really get them on top form so far.
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I've been listening to them, and their current books is Stephanie Meyer's blatant cash in novel that tells the story of Twilight from the vampire lad's point of view and this one, I could not follow along with them by reading the book which is just as well because this thing apparently takes ages to go through - there's a part where the vampire uses his powers to read a character's thoughts, the readers are treated to a three-page flashback and then our vampire hero decides "eh, nothing important". Plus Stephanie Meyer describes a baseball game as if she were only vaguely aware that a game called baseball existed but couldn't be bothered to really research any of the most basic rules or slang.
 
starborn427614 said:
The Harry Potter riffs are consistently entertaining.
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Yeah, I was surprised with how much I enjoyed their Harry Potter riffs. I thought they'd end up with a lot of repetitive material that they'd run into the ground of the course of eight films but they stayed consistently entertaining throughout the series.

Speaking of running a joke into the ground, which shitty millennial writer on their staff keeps adding Nick Nolte jokes and impressions into their scripts? It was in Ready Player One where I first heard it but it's been in at least three other of their rifftrax. I don't know if it's meant to be some sort of ironic "lol is this so unfunny? lmao" bit or if the writers actually think they're hilarious.
 
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