Apparently Joel has started a Kickstarter to get MST3K back on.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/bringbackmst3k
>>62693296
MST3K is the lowest form of humor and if you like it then congrats, you let Let's Plays happen.
>>62693297
>if you like it then congrats, you let Let's Plays happen
If you're talking about the whole "people talking over something" aspect, then I'm sorry to tell you that news reporters and sportscasters kinda best them to it by a few decades.
>>62693296
Frankly I loved the show back then but Id rather let it die with dignity then parade around it's corpse.
>>62693296
1. not /m/
2. namefag
3. its stupid
4. its not /m/
>>62693299
If Rifftrax was any indicator then I'd agree. The first handful were alright but they started pandering hard and fast. I'll give it a try if it gets funded, but I'm not holding out hope for it to be a return to form.
Shouldn't be too surprised though. Between this, Twin Peaks, and X-Files all returning in the next year or so it's basically late '80s/early '90s revival season.
>>62693301
Im just really tired of old series being revived. I don't care if it's movies or games or whatever.
MAKE SOMETHING NEW! Seeing a kick starter like this is basically screaming we ran out of ideas.
>>62693300
>has robots as main characters
>not /m/
Were shitposters on /m/ always this retarded?
I want to get hyped, but Jim Mallon poisoned the well pretty badly with his terrible The Bots Are Back stuff, and Joel's not doing much to impress with things like claiming there might be old Brains making guest appearances while they all say they won't.
And Joel's got a decent-sized list built up of projects that never went anywhere, like Gizmonic Antsite, that weird CG cartooning over existing movies project, Statical Planets, The X-Box/TV Wheel.
If they had come out swinging with the new cast riffing a PD short just in the theater or something I'd be a lot more open to being interested. It's very odd to see one of the cheapest-looking shows ever asking six-figures up front.
On the other hand it's not like the absence of this would mean more Cinematic Titanic, so it's not really hurting anything.
>>62693298
The actual practice is millenia old; you would have people write down commentaries and analysis of written texts on the side of pages and have done so since at least Roman times. These would then either be reproduced for new editions/copies of these works or even given new books all of their own.
>>62693304
Joel said on reddit that we're going to be seeing more videos detailing the new actors. Maybe a new riff session isn't out of the question.
Incidentally we had another thread but it got deleted because... someone doesn't like kickstarter I guess. /m/ has had mst3k threads for ages.
>>62693305
yeah, even most of MST's specific shtick of "talk over the movie to get more entertainment" was a thing with It Came From Hollywood and showings of Rocky Horror, and some of the old horror hosts did goofy stuff visually interacting with the movie too
>>62693306
yeah if there was more concrete stuff it would be a lot easier for me to get into this
very original spanish-language show unrelated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOBksjsfs6k
>>62693298
>inane irl shitposting is the same thing as the news
Ebin
dunno what it might mean, but I went to watch KTMA version of Time of the Apes on youtube and Shout Factory popped it
Are you looking forward to jokes about Gamergate
>>62693309
The season 3 version is still there.
I notice that several episodes are only available in bad vhs quality now, since youtube is selling the DVD quality versions.
There's always the torrent.
>>62693304
Here's the pie chart Joel just released explaining the costs. Kickstart keeps a substantial percentage of the donations for themselves, apparently Joel is doing all the shipping and distribution himself, and the movies he has planned for the new show are all copyrighted.
>https://twitter.com/JoelGHodgson/status/664941051417751552
>>62693310
Depends on which side they're on. If they joke about getting Five Guys, I'm okay with it. If they joke about nerds in the basement smashing Barbie dolls, I'm out.
>>62693313
they're not going to be on your side
>>62693303
then discuss the robots, fuckhead
>>62693304
Also, who would be writing? I mean, Mike was the head writer for almost the whole run.
>>62693314
I didn't expect them too. Famous nerds cling to their fame because they're afraid of being ostracized again like they were in their youth, so they'll happily become bullies if that's what it takes to fit in with the cool kids.
>>62693317
Maybe you shouldn't take jokes like that so personally.
>>62693318
There's a difference between joking and bullying, especially when all you're doing is repeating the same stereotypical insults that have been made about nerds and geeks for ages.
>>62693319
You can argue that the jokes are stale and I will agree with you there, but calling it bullying is really stretching it.
Like I said, try not taking it so personally. It's just a joke.
>>62693296
>get MST3K back on
Just let it stay dead. Fond memories are much better than highly-anticipated but disappointing revisitations. Pic related.
>>62693301
Where's my Quantum Leap?i just want more scott bakula in drag and i don't think it's gonna happen on NCIS that often
>>62693321
Funny that, Joel agrees with you.
>But even if everyone comes back, we'll never be able to reproduce the magic of how those old episodes feel to you. No one ever could. People usually think that the “best year in music” was they year they turned eighteen. In the same way, the “best year of MST3K" – for you – will probably always be the year you turned 13, or 16, or 18, and your parents finally sprung for the good cable package. To misquote Rick James, nostalgia is a helluva drug. We can't compete with your memories, and it would be kind of silly to try. But we can try to make something that today's kids (and adults!) can discover, that will give them the same feeling you once had. And hopefully give you long-time fans something new to enjoy, too. That's the goal, anyway.
>>62693323
>But we can try to make something that today's kids (and adults!) can discover,
>Today's kids
Oh lord, it's gonna be horrible
>>62693324
I know /m/ is a concentration of nostalgia and whining about new things, but please have some sense of self-awareness.
>>62693324
>today's kids (and adults!) can discover
>can discover
>discover
Not necessarily appreciate.
>>62693316
CT did fine without him.
RT is doing lazy with him.
>>62693323
>People usually think that the “best year in music” was they year they turned eighteen.
Who are these people?
I wasn't even alive during the best years of music.
>>62693324
I've been watching mst3k since I was a kid. One would have to be in their mid-late 40s for that to not be the case.
>>62693312
>$750,000 for a silhouette in front of an old movie that they talk over
>brief skits with plastic robots in a cheap set
Dude just release paid downloads of audio commentary for modern shitty movies, like the Mr. Plinkett Star Wars ones except not shit. They're cheap to make and people will download them for movies they actually like.
Fuck it I'll do it myself. I'm gon be rich nigga.
>>62693327
>CT did fine without him.
Yeah, obviously. CT worked so well for Joel that he has to trudge back up the shambling corpse of MST3K to even have a shot against Rifftrax.
>>62693483
you mean rifftrax?
>>62693516
I was thinking more modern and not hipster best of the worst B-movies. They want a new audience, right? There's plenty of garbage cinema in the past 20 years to work on.
I always liked mike better.
>>62693572
there are rifftrax for a wide variety of movies, from blockbusters to b-movies.
>>62693572
So rifftrax. You should take a look at their catalogue.
>>62693649
Whelp, thats my week off work sorted.
Smell ya later faggots, I gots me some new media to consume!
>>62693680They're shit, mostly
>>62693723
this
thanks to the internet Mike found the minimum of effort needed and he sticks to it
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/bringbackmst3k/posts/1413188
>And the new mad is Felicia Day. It's being filmed in LA and written by "remote" writers who won't actually be physically working together. Nobody from the original show is seemingly involved other than Joel.
>And the new mad is Felicia Day.
I'm done.
>>62696999
Source or fuck off.
>>62697143
Turns out it's unspecific rumourmongering. Ah well.
>>62696999
>Nobody from the original show is seemingly involved other than Joel.
this and female mad is true
no word about who female mad is yet but I've heard the Day rumor too
>>62697173
I mean, that would be pretty much the end of the world. The writers all being independent would suck too. Maybe it's too much to hope for that they'd just grab a bunch of flyover nobodies again and make something charming.
I hope the host and bot voices they used for the Kickstarter video are just placeholders. Didn't care for them.
>>62697366
I know it isn't him but the host voice in the video sounded like tim heidecker
>2 million dollars
>3 episodes
Is this a fucking joke?
>>62693483
>modern shitty movies
>implying cheap B-movies aren't more fun
>>62696999
>>62695780
This actually gave me more hope for this. He seems like he wants to work with as much of the original crew as possible.
>>62697707
The real question is who would come and work with him. I figure Mike, Bill and Kevin are pretty safe at Rifftrax (though as others have said, I wouldn't mind them working a bit harder either).
I think it'd be great to have Trace back. Don't know how much I care about any of the others.
>>62697707
Eh...
>>62693312
I think 1 mil for 20 episodes sounds good
>>62697777
Joel did say once the funding was secure, he would make official invitations to original crew to come back.
>>62697777
That's kinda harsh. Joel's talking like he wanted to see if it would get off the ground before he talked to anybody, but since he's already got so much else set up, it's weird if he didn't even chat with Mike about it before going ahead.
>>62693302
Twin Peaks is the exception though. It was never really finished and Lynch making it ensures it will be better than all of the crap out there now, old and new.
>>62693297
heres your reply
>>62696999
>>62697143
>>62697173
https://twitter.com/search?q=felicia day
Scroll down. It's a rumor. It's a likely rumor. She's also a major kickstarter backer, web video expert and she knows Joel
>>62699314
Does she have acting experience? I thought she was just an internet feminist.
Atleast pearl is a precedent for a female villain. I would be more upset over a female or minority host.
>No Trace
>No Kevin Murphy
>No TV's Frank
>No Mike
Instant drop
>Felica Day
Lightspeed drop
>2 million for 13 episodes of talking shadows infront of a movie projection
what a joke
>>62693296
No thanks, I'd rather assholes didn't talk and ruin classic shitty movies. Hated that fucking show.
>>62699561
You wish.
It's $5.5 million for 13 episodes, $2 million only gets you three
>>62699595
Name one movie they watched that wasn't complete shit outside of maybe This Island Earth.
>>62699561
Buying the rights to the movies is costly.
Why the fuck does it cost 2 million dollars to do this shit? Doug Walker does this shit for pennies.
>>62699463
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO17DBwO_5s
>>62699683
Gamera
Gamera vs. Gaos
Gamera vs. Zigra
Gamera vs. Guiron
Gamera vs. Barugon
Godzilla vs Megalon
Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
Mighty Jack
Hangar 18
The Magic Voyage of Sinbad
Manos: The Hands of Fate
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
The Beast of Yucca Flats
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Jack Frost
Time Chasers
Gorgo
Final Justice
>charging thousands of dollars over the maximum Kickstarter allows to collect
So there's no trace on the money you shovel to these Jews. I smell scam. Their rewards are shit too.
>>62693296
This is old news. Keep up.
I hope J. Elvis Weinstein comes back. Although Kevin Murphy is the better Tom Servo, Weinstein's Tom was the highlight of the KTMA-TV episodes.
>>62693323
>today's kids
Got news for you, Joel....they've been watching their own brand of MS3K for a while now and it features retards on Youtube screaming while playing Minecraft. You can't compete.
>>62697731
>I think it'd be great to have Trace back
He's already confirmed he won't be
https://twitter.com/TraceBeaulieu/status/664660662191177728
>>62701100
Fuck, man. I hope it's just that he's got better things to do and that The Movie isn't still coming between him and the other guys. That mess wasn't worth it.
>>62699879
Thought it might not be bait until The Beast of Yucca Flats. Then Time Chasers made me sure.
>>62699683
Phase VI or whatever that movie with the ants is called.
>>62693312
Jesus christ Joel are you a jew or something?
>>62701271
Trace actually did Dr. Forrester again in a short bit for a MST3K DVD box set and was in Cinematic Titanic. So he's not adverse to going back.
Probably got a desk job somewhere that is better steady income than a pie in the sky Kickstarter idea.
>>62693312
That's bullshit. A lot of those old movies are cheap as fuck to get the rights to make fun of. That's why local tv stations air that shit all the time for people in nursing homes.
>>62693483
>>62699561
You still have to pay the cast, crew, and distributor at the end of the day, Spielburton.
>even in the ‘90s, an episode of MST3K cost us between $100K-200K, and with inflation, everything costs more now.
>>62701711
From Joel:
>when MST3K started, we were able to get better rates. As the show got more popular, licensing cheesy movies suddenly began to cost us a lot more.
>>62700308
This whole thing gets sadder the more I think about it. I hope he's not broke
>Jonah Ray and Felicia Day
>>62693297
Put worm on the hook next time.
>>62697777
>The head writer of the series, one of the key reasons it worked, is not involved
>>62693296
>Apparently Joel has started a Kickstarter to get MST3K back on.
I'm not that excited about this news sensei.
I get to watch the old episodes every Friday at midnight on RetroTV. It is great nostalgia. But it is hard for me to imagine them bringing this show back. I don't see it being any fun. Especially if they are trying to redo the same show.
I would have been more excited if they were trying to do something new.
>>62693680
Enjoy! Their Twilight and Harry Potter riffs are the best.
>>62693723
>>62693812
Nah, Rifftrax are great. Some of their riffs are lackluster but MST3K had some lackluster episodes.
>>62705255
>Twilight and Harry Potter riffs are the best.
There are so many RiffTrax I would call best
>The Star Wars prequels
>The X-Men Trilogy
>Terminator 3 and 4
>The Star Trek movies
>>62693302
They did make something new, Cinematic Titanic.
>... Huh. Well that's different.
Who has the best delivery in MST3k history and why is it always Crow?
>>62693313
The Rifftrax guys have ripped on GG quite a few times already.
It like the kids in this thread didn't see any of the Cinematic Titanic stuff with Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Mary Jo Pehl, J. Elvis Weinstein...
>>62705638
It's just not the same without crude puppets in silhouette.
>>62705638
Are you saying it was good? Because I didn't like the episodes I saw and a few people in here had bad things to say about it too.
>>62693313
>I'll only watch it if they affirm my pre-existing beliefs!
This is why goobergabber jokes are better left off the docket.
>>62693324
What age did you discover MST3K at? Twenty-five?
>>62707686
Mike Nelson and his wife are hardcore conservative Christian, the rest of the cast and writers were the usual entertainment industry liberals. This kept things nice and apolitical on the old show.
In today's polarized climes I can't see anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders getting hired to do the new MST3K. For liberals it'll still be funny but much more cringey. For gatorgibbers you may want to stick your head in the oven now.
>>62707924
>This kept things nice and apolitical on the old show.
no, not really
>>Day The Earth Froze
>The worst misfortune the people ever knew
>"The Reagan-Bush administration"
and occasionally they'd just be oddly wrong, like when Sinbad (not sinbad) was giving the merchants' wealth to the people and they riffed how "it's just a bandaid for the economy... trickle-down economics"
when it's like, exactly not trickle-down at all
they did bitchy about left stuff too, plenty of Kennedys cheap shots, I think I remember a couple Dukakis jokes, but they definitely did get political
>>62708037
Maybe "apolitical" was the wrong word. Lighthearted? Non-ranty?
