The Official and Very Rifftastic Mystery Science Theater 3000 Thread

[galleywest]

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If you can get through the unriffed, original version of Manos, you're a braver person than most of us.

I'd have posted the unriffed version of, say, Monster A Go-Go, but that might constitute an actual war crime under international law.

Ye gods, the humanity! Monter A Go-Go is one that I sat through but doubt I could ever sit through again, and certainly not unriffed. You could tell the guys were even in considerable pain with this one.

As for what I've seen unriffed, I think Overdrawn at the Memory Bank might be the only one. It was a Wonderworks thing, and I watched most of those.

I think my favorites tend to be some of the really goofy, terrible sci-fi epics from the 80s/90s (Outlaw, Alien from LA, Future War) and my least favorites tend to be things like the 1950s space movies or the westerns. Of course, keep in mind that I would still watch any MST3K over almost anything on tv or in theaters today, so my ranking MST3K is like ranking how much better I like adorable kittens than adorable puppies.

 

[Redfern]

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For Trekker and Possum, I'm guessing the vendor may have been Sledge_RipRock?

That's him. One of the best people I've ever dealt with when it came to prop replicas.

Apparently, he's still making them because I popped to eBay to refresh my memory. How many of those puppies do you think he's built?

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[BoredShipCapt'n]

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One of my favorite moments from the early years of the show and a song that - once stuck in your head - you can't get rid of, nor do you really want to.

So many Sandy Frank syndications that could have come from, but I'm thinking that was Godzilla vs. Megalon.
"Amirite?"

Sandy Frank, Sandy Frank, he's the source of all our pain!
Sandy Frank, Sandy Frank, gads about the house all day!
Sandy Frank, Sandy Frank, thinks that people come from trees!
Sandy Frank, Sandy Frank, gets horrid movies from Japan!
Sandy Frank, Sandy Frank, Spielberg won't return his calls!

 

[cooleddie74]

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You got it! Well done.

Or as the lead character who designed and built Jet Jaguar might put it: "You said it, my little hardbodied bachelor friend!"

 

[Trekker4747]

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New Rifftrax released today:

"Fever Lake" starring....er... "performed by" Corey Haiom, Mario Lopez and Bo Hopkins (making his third Rifftrax appearance.)

LINK

 

[galleywest]

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New Rifftrax released today:

"Fever Lake" starring....er... "performed by" Corey Haiom, Mario Lopez and Bo Hopkins (making his third Rifftrax appearance.)

LINK

Oh yes, I'll be watching this. I loved their riff of Cool as Ice--WOW that was an awful, awful movie. I hope this one is too.

Hey, what was the name of the movie where the guys kept re-naming the main character things like "Buff McLargeHuge"? It was a space movie from the late 80s or so. I think it was also the one where the main love interest looked like she was about 20 years older than the protagonist (but still was dressed like Space Olivia Newton-John).

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

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^ Space Mutiny.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHlJ2voJHY[/yt]

 

[cooleddie74]

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I wonder if the Vanilla Ice movie was ever considered by the MST3K writers and producers and they just couldn't get the rights back when the show was on the air? The film was released in 1991 when Joel was still the host and the show still had almost eight years to go before it would be cancelled.

The studio might have said: "Vanilla Ice and a really bad movie or not, we're not granting permission and even if we did you probably couldn't afford our price." The studios are very protective of many of their movies even if they suck (and they know it).

 

[Trekker4747]

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Many names of David Ryder T-Shirt:

LINK

 

[Unicron]

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I started watching kind of later in the sci-fi run when a lot of the stuff was from the last few seasons. There's quite a bit of good stuff there, including some of my all time favorites (Space Mutiny, The Final Sacrifice, and Pumaman). Jack Frost, Invasion of the Neptune Men and the 1959 version of Santa Claus are also good, in no small part because the latter is just damn weird. It's almost on the same level of insanity as Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, but at least that film's light hearted enough that it's hard to take seriously.

 

[cooleddie74]

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You know, in restrospect Manos is not the worst movie ever screened on MST3K. It's terrible and it's one of the most inept and badly-exectued films ever committed to celluloid, but when you've seen Monster A Go-Go, The Beast of Yucca Flats, The Castle of Fu Manchu and Red Zone Cuba Torgo and The Master suddenly don't seem as bad.

At least there's a dark, eerie and creepy story idea behind Manos. With a far more competent director and much bigger budget it could have been something much better. The rest are just absolute messes with little or no existing plot and even worse directing and characters, and the Fu Manchu movies were considered fairly big-budget and flashy for their time so that film is an even bigger disappointment for being so bad.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

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Did MST3K ever do the Star Wars Holiday Special?

 

[galleywest]

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^ Space Mutiny.

Thank you! How could I forget?!

I have a Christmas exchange with my friends this year, I think someone might be getting that t-shirt, so thanks for posting it Trekker4747.

To my knowledge MST3K never did anything with the Star Wars Christmas Special, but Rifftrax has got you covered: riffed SWHS.

Speaking of this, I have to say that I really enjoy some of the things that Rifftrax does. I like that their format allows them to comment on recent commercial blockbusters, pointing out how silly some of the stuff can really get. As I mentioned earlier, their treatment of the Twilight series was wonderful, and I would never, ever have made it through the Transformers movies without the riffing. Oh good lord, those movies were loooooooong.

 

[cooleddie74]

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Did MST3K ever do the Star Wars Holiday Special?

No, but I think the guys in Rifftrax (Mike, Kevin and Bill) might have.

 

[galleywest]

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Did MST3K ever do the Star Wars Holiday Special?

No, but I think the guys in Rifftrax (Mike, Kevin and Bill) might have.

Don't steal my thunder, man!!

 

[cooleddie74]

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Don't steal my thunder, man!!

 

[Trekker4747]

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Did MST3K ever do the Star Wars Holiday Special?

No, but I think the guys in Rifftrax (Mike, Kevin and Bill) might have.

Don't steal my thunder, man!!

Rifftrax did, indeed, tackle the Holiday Special.

Interestingly, when they first take it on they released it as a "traditional" Rifftrax, one you play along with your copy of the movie. They sort of, "subtly" suggested you get your copy of the Holiday Special from a Google Video version that was on-line (that had the commercials and other aspects in it that caused it to line up correctly.)

But now, it's available as a full VOD download (with the Riff and the subject itself together.) Which means somewhere along the line they got some form of permission from Lucasfilm to commercially release The Holiday Special, making it the *only* legal, viable, copy one can own. (Though it's still sourced from the VHS copy transfer recorded in 1978.)

 

[galleywest]

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Putting Space Mutiny on today while I do chores around the house. What else should I watch?

 

[cooleddie74]

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"The Hellcats."

Ross Hagen (without chili peppers, though), biker gangs and music sequences with the best drunken dancing I've ever seen in a biker movie filmed in 1967.

 

[Trekker4747]

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I plan on watching San Francisco International sometime tonight or tomorrow. A good, solid, funny one over a made-for-TV movie/pilot in the 1970s. Lot's of funny moments and small-joke references in it.