I love the songs of MST! The music was always top-notch on that show, with clever lyrics and catchy tunes. I have sung many of them for my friends and they crack up laughing every time!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for uploading the videos of this interview! I adore this show and hearing the experience of making it helps me understand why it was and still is so good. Kudos to the interviewer for allowing Kevin and Mike to talk so freely, without interruptions. Too many interviewers today could take a lesson. We watch these videos because we want to learn about/from the interviewees…not hear them being constantly interrupted by the two cents of the interviewer. Well done!
Manos was one of the worst, but Red Zone Cuba is absolute proof that the devil exists. I cannot sit through one viewing of that movie without falling asleep, even with the MST treatment. Coleman Francis was definitely on various pharmaceuticals when making his films.
Wonders just what movie Kevin was freaked out by, looks over "recommendations", sees "The Cinema Snob: Child Bride". DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I'm trapped in a nightmare!!!!
Thats so true and awesome what Mike was saying at the beginning. Me and my lil sis grew up watching MST3k with our grandmother, and she never had to change the station for us 'kids', we just blinked a couple times on some jokes and that was that, we kept on laughing together. It's fun to go back and see them, and now I get the jokes I didn't when I was little. XD lol And it's kool to know I can watch it with my kids one day. =3 BEST show ever!
Topical? Maybe, but it just goes to show you...when you run..out of slits.....you run...out of pier... One of ,y favorite ballsy comedy moments of all time :P
I've always wanted to sit in on a writing session, or at least see (recorded?) what one looks like. I've written books/poems/songs for years, but it's always been just me doing the writing. I'm super curious as to how that process works out in a group dynamic. :)
I've done fan films along these lines. You have a typist who writes down everything that is said and a room of people (4-6, more than that becomes too much to manage). The movie gets stopped every 30 seconds or so as multiple lines get shouted out and you have to keep pausing to get everything down and the right timecode recorded. Then you rewind it because dialog got missed and continue. If you don't say anything for a few minutes while everyone else is you start wondering how funny you are and if you should really be there. Then you come up with something everyone loves and it's back to normal. Takes about 2-3 times the length of the movie to get through it. We would do 2-3 passes on the movie over several days, trying to get different people involved each time to widen the range of humor. Then you watch it 2-3 more times to thin out lines (you have far more than you need) and get the ones you keep correctly timecoded. You end up with about 750 lines for a movie. At this point you never want to watch the movie again. But you have to film it, and then there's the premiere... >.
Love all the MST3K shows, just wondering, as I have been watching some of the interviews of the Joel & Trace and then interviews with Mike & Kevin and they never seem to talk about each other, is there a riff, pardon the pun, between them? I understand that Rifftrax & Cinematic Titanic are sort of competitors, but just wonder if they all still get along...
It's probably for the best that they didn't do a Child Bride episode. I can't imagine how they could have written jokes or built sketches around that movie. The Snob did a good job, though.
@rwaggs62 they get asked that a lot nowadays...there's no animosity, and they don't cross over much in the answers to their questions because they stay focused on commenting about their own projects, they tend to just keep it at that because they're grown-ups each party is filling a unique niche, they're all enjoying what they do, and the movie-riffing needs of the fans are thoroughly fulfilled
Ooh...gotta break tape and go shower right now....I'll get to part 3 after. LOL (I am kinda curious what the movie was, though. Not that I'd like it but THEY brought it up!) lol
Neptune Men and Fu Manchu are my personal worst. I can barely watch those movies riffed without giving up. At least Manos is so incompetent it becomes a usefull how-not-to guide for moviemaking, but those two movies are just empty voids of nothingness.
@cj397 Well, yes, probably on some level, but everything looks rosier in retrospect. That's why they can never return the show, because it was a perfect snapshot in time of a bunch of hungry artists turned loose on a cool concept. Everyone is older now, and they have different needs and ambitions. It was really great while it lasted. Ten years of quality shows is a rarity in TV.
ninten360 RiffTrax has done a few. In particular, Santa Meets the Ice Cream Bunny, which barely even deserves to be called a movie, and Rollergator, which is probably the crappiest movie I have ever seen (shot on what looks like a cheap home video camera, stars a completely cheap-ass purple baby alligator puppet that makes wisecracks in a very annoying voice and raps(!), and features the always stellar Joe Estevez as the villain!). The guys have made it pretty clear that Rollergator is the worst movie they’ve ever done on RiffTrax- that should tell you enough.
Overall, the movies on MST3K aren't that bad. They're bad enough to be riffable, and good enough to be watchable. For example, the two biker movies they did are far from the worst biker movies. Think of a movie as nihilistic and bleak as Sidehackers. Now take out the talented cast and add in a Colonel Sanders cameo and you have biker movies that are too bad for MST3K. Compare The Brain That Wouldn't Die with Geek Maggot Bingo. Compare Space Mutiny (80s cheese) with Star Odyssey (pure unadulterated boredom).
Rifftrax man! better than ever and with actually legitimate films now, like Jurrassic or LOTR, but also still doing terrible films like the one with the mummy Servo says is the worst film ever (thing from another world or something) like twilight and shit.
I don't get people's beef with Child Bride. I admit I don't care for the nude scene, but other than that, what's there to cry about? The protagonist is on an anti-child marriage campaign, everyone loathes the villain who's trying to marry the girl, and he even gets shot dead at the end by some good Samaritan when he tries to have his way with her. After watching this, I'd be in the mood to celebrate.
"You guys watch Joe Don Baker movies?".
I love the songs of MST! The music was always top-notch on that show, with clever lyrics and catchy tunes. I have sung many of them for my friends and they crack up laughing every time!
After the interview, Mike should have carried Kevin out in his arms.
An absolute tragedy that this show got cancelled. At least we have rifftrax
Thank you, thank you, thank you for uploading the videos of this interview! I adore this show and hearing the experience of making it helps me understand why it was and still is so good. Kudos to the interviewer for allowing Kevin and Mike to talk so freely, without interruptions. Too many interviewers today could take a lesson. We watch these videos because we want to learn about/from the interviewees…not hear them being constantly interrupted by the two cents of the interviewer. Well done!
Manos was one of the worst, but Red Zone Cuba is absolute proof that the devil exists. I cannot sit through one viewing of that movie without falling asleep, even with the MST treatment. Coleman Francis was definitely on various pharmaceuticals when making his films.
I'm Cherokee Jack!
I started watching as a teen. What's great is that the series got funnier as I got older.
Wonders just what movie Kevin was freaked out by, looks over "recommendations", sees "The Cinema Snob: Child Bride". DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I'm trapped in a nightmare!!!!
Thanks so much for this. I'd give anything for one more Turkey Day Marathon.
Thats so true and awesome what Mike was saying at the beginning. Me and my lil sis grew up watching MST3k with our grandmother, and she never had to change the station for us 'kids', we just blinked a couple times on some jokes and that was that, we kept on laughing together. It's fun to go back and see them, and now I get the jokes I didn't when I was little. XD lol And it's kool to know I can watch it with my kids one day. =3 BEST show ever!
Is their a petition somewhere we could sign to get them back on the air? I love these guys!
you can tell so easily that they miss the whole experience of making the show so bad
We should all live lives that are as nostalgic about the work we’ve done.
the cinema snob just reviewed child brides.... wow.... they were not kidding. holy shit...
Topical? Maybe, but it just goes to show you...when you run..out of slits.....you run...out of pier...
One of ,y favorite ballsy comedy moments of all time :P
I've always wanted to sit in on a writing session, or at least see (recorded?) what one looks like. I've written books/poems/songs for years, but it's always been just me doing the writing. I'm super curious as to how that process works out in a group dynamic. :)
I've done fan films along these lines. You have a typist who writes down everything that is said and a room of people (4-6, more than that becomes too much to manage). The movie gets stopped every 30 seconds or so as multiple lines get shouted out and you have to keep pausing to get everything down and the right timecode recorded. Then you rewind it because dialog got missed and continue. If you don't say anything for a few minutes while everyone else is you start wondering how funny you are and if you should really be there. Then you come up with something everyone loves and it's back to normal. Takes about 2-3 times the length of the movie to get through it. We would do 2-3 passes on the movie over several days, trying to get different people involved each time to widen the range of humor. Then you watch it 2-3 more times to thin out lines (you have far more than you need) and get the ones you keep correctly timecoded. You end up with about 750 lines for a movie. At this point you never want to watch the movie again. But you have to film it, and then there's the premiere... >.
one dislike.... joe don baker?
Joe Don Baker is Mittens ...he's a cop
Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters is brilliant writing. Kudo's to them both. Love the 3 Stooges filler too.
I remember the lead singer for Crash Test Dummies. His name is Brad Roberts.
@GianniStunato Very gratifying to see talented people so genuinely humble.
The movie they're talking about is called CHILD BRIDE..Very weird and bad movie..
ya thanks mike, the movie child brides . . . did you guys like fire and punish who ever brought that one up geees
Love all the MST3K shows, just wondering, as I have been watching some of the interviews of the Joel & Trace and then interviews with Mike & Kevin and they never seem to talk about each other, is there a riff, pardon the pun, between them? I understand that Rifftrax & Cinematic Titanic are sort of competitors, but just wonder if they all still get along...
It's probably for the best that they didn't do a Child Bride episode. I can't imagine how they could have written jokes or built sketches around that movie. The Snob did a good job, though.
@rwaggs62
they get asked that a lot nowadays...there's no animosity, and they don't cross over much in the answers to their questions because they stay focused on commenting about their own projects, they tend to just keep it at that because they're grown-ups
each party is filling a unique niche, they're all enjoying what they do, and the movie-riffing needs of the fans are thoroughly fulfilled
Mr.Murphy, I feel the same way you do when I talk about or make references to sonichu
They filmed this on the set of Manos the hands of fate .... you can tell by the curtains
or is it . shotgun wedding by Ed Wood witch the guys riff all his other movies
Ooh...gotta break tape and go shower right now....I'll get to part 3 after. LOL
(I am kinda curious what the movie was, though. Not that I'd like it but THEY brought it up!) lol
All these years later, they're still trolling on the Crash Test Dummies.
Neptune Men and Fu Manchu are my personal worst. I can barely watch those movies riffed without giving up. At least Manos is so incompetent it becomes a usefull how-not-to guide for moviemaking, but those two movies are just empty voids of nothingness.
@cj397 Well, yes, probably on some level, but everything looks rosier in retrospect. That's why they can never return the show, because it was a perfect snapshot in time of a bunch of hungry artists turned loose on a cool concept. Everyone is older now, and they have different needs and ambitions. It was really great while it lasted. Ten years of quality shows is a rarity in TV.
I would give my eye-teeth to work on something with these guys
That guy looks (and sounds) like Paul Giamatti.
Picking on Joe Don's face again!
@anemicroyaltea69 Type the Cinema Snob Bride Child, then you can know what the film was about
@kakashi76767 Thanks, I'm going to have to check that out.
"Which gives you a clue to the title..." "Shhh!"
funniest men on the planet
@breerex123 Its a 1938 movie called Child Bride, I can explain but the Cinema snob does it best. Just google it.
Kevin was right, we freaks wanted to find it.
perfect place to end it haha, we need to shower
ughhh... besides Child Bride, it's hard to imagine movies that were worse then ones that ended on MST3K
ninten360 RiffTrax has done a few. In particular, Santa Meets the Ice Cream Bunny, which barely even deserves to be called a movie, and Rollergator, which is probably the crappiest movie I have ever seen (shot on what looks like a cheap home video camera, stars a completely cheap-ass purple baby alligator puppet that makes wisecracks in a very annoying voice and raps(!), and features the always stellar Joe Estevez as the villain!). The guys have made it pretty clear that Rollergator is the worst movie they’ve ever done on RiffTrax- that should tell you enough.
Overall, the movies on MST3K aren't that bad. They're bad enough to be riffable, and good enough to be watchable.
For example, the two biker movies they did are far from the worst biker movies. Think of a movie as nihilistic and bleak as Sidehackers. Now take out the talented cast and add in a Colonel Sanders cameo and you have biker movies that are too bad for MST3K.
Compare The Brain That Wouldn't Die with Geek Maggot Bingo. Compare Space Mutiny (80s cheese) with Star Odyssey (pure unadulterated boredom).
damn, you serious?
@cocosilk
THIS!
Neptune men really, really, really, sucks! I wonder what the Japanese people who saw this back then though?
He kinda looks like Servo too... Wierd.
If you really squint your eyes, he sounds like Tom Servo too!
amazing how i just read your comment, thats exactly what would happen to me when i was little
now im 18, and i get every joke. ha
That makes you 28 now. Damn!
Rifftrax man! better than ever and with actually legitimate films now, like Jurrassic or LOTR, but also still doing terrible films like the one with the mummy Servo says is the worst film ever (thing from another world or something) like twilight and shit.
Nowhere near as great. Have to admit I'm biased because i was young child when first saw MST3k.
and not as bad as.... "Manos, the hands of Fate" ugh, that was a horrible film
I don't get people's beef with Child Bride. I admit I don't care for the nude scene, but other than that, what's there to cry about? The protagonist is on an anti-child marriage campaign, everyone loathes the villain who's trying to marry the girl, and he even gets shot dead at the end by some good Samaritan when he tries to have his way with her.
After watching this, I'd be in the mood to celebrate.