Former Host and Writer of MST3K Launches RiffTrax
dougman writes “Today James Lileks mentioned his ‘friend and all-around comic genius/good egg Michael J. Nelson’ called, to tell him about his brilliant new project, RiffTrax. Here’s the pitch: ‘…free-lance commentary tracks. Bottom line: Mystery Science Theater 3000-style commentary for big famous beloved movies like Titanic or The Matrix. The hitch: you have to provide the movie. It’s genius: no worries about copyright. You buy the commentary tracks for $1.99, rent the movie or get it out of your collection, load the commentary on your iPod or burn it to a disk, then watch them together in true you-got-peanut-butter-in-my-chocolate bliss. … The first movie is Roadhouse.” Cool! I voted for The Matrix as the next one to be riffed.”
While I (and many others I know) preferred Joel, Mike was not without his share of funny moments too. Without Crow and Servo it just might not be the same, though.
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I loved MST3K (Mystery Science Theater 3000) and if the commentary is good I would definately pick this up to go along side one of my movies. That was one of the shows I missed the most… and the seasons are on my wish list.
Plus Amazon has a number of the episodes available singley… but the prices are cheap enough to just get the seasons.
Tags: Humor, Interesting, Movies, Television, Wishlist
