Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Next Generation

[merik]

Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy (the voice of Tom Servo) and Bill Corbett (SciFi Channel era Crow T. Robot) are back ripping movies, and they are as funny as ever. They're now called The Film Crew, and their first movie trashing - Hollywood After Dark, a cheap black and white flick from 1968 featuring a young Rue McClanahan as a stripper who looks a lot

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[spikedpunch]

Ooooooooooooooooohhh... I must get!

[merik]

Go for it! It's well worth getting ;-)

[dakhun]

Yes! Now that is good news. :-)
And also a good thing that they are ripping on old movies again instead of trying to do new ones. (which most people say is what killed the original show)

[merik]

It is good news, and it's nice to see they haven't lost their touch :-)

And also a good thing that they are ripping on old movies again instead of trying to do new ones. (which most people say is what killed the original show)

It is nice to see that they're doing old movies again, although I don't think that doing newer movies is a bad thing (there are certainly plenty of newer movies that deserve the MST3K treatment). But when MST3K moved to the SciFi Channel, the powers there were more restrictive and meddled more in the movies that got chosen for the show, and a lot of newer stuff got selected.

It's sad, though, that what killed MST3K on the SciFi Channel, and on Comedy Central, too, wasn't bad ratings. Both cable networks went through a change in management, and the new people in command didn't want to deal with a two hour long program that required negotiations for movie use rights for every episode...

[eyegorr]

I always thought that "Joel" was funnier on MST3K than Mike Nelson.

Cool, they released Night of the Lepus!???
Awesome!!

Godzilla:Final Wars deserves an MST3K treatment too.

[merik]

I always thought that "Joel" was funnier on MST3K than Mike Nelson.

Overall, I think I prefer the Joel episodes, too. But the episodes with Mike are fun, too. With either Joel or Mike as host, I think MST3K is better than almost anything on TV today.

Cool, they released Night of the Lepus!??? Awesome!!

I was happily surprised to find it, too. I think I'll be watching it a lot ;-)

Godzilla:Final Wars deserves an MST3K treatment too.

*chuckle* I got that movie a couple of months ago, but I haven't watched it yet. Sounds like it's going to be a fun movie ;-)

[porsupah]

Oooh.

I wonder if they've heard of Nukie.. I can't see the DVD rights being too expensive. =:D

[merik]

I wonder if they've heard of Nukie.. I can't see the DVD rights being too expensive. =:D

*grin!* When I read the description of Nukie in your LJ, I was kind of speechless ;-) I think I need to watch that movie sometime, just because it sounds so bad...

[foxymoonheart]

Oh goodness, I remember Night of the Lepus, hehe!

[merik]

*chuckle* It's certainly a memorable movie, although probably for all the wrong reasons ;-)