First up: “Killers from Space.”
It’s been a while since I’ve clicked that “Film Crew” category box…
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It’s Film Crew February at RiffTrax
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I do like the premise of Film Crew, it makes the characters a tad bit more simpatico if they’re watching these films under duress.
And Bob Honcho is great.
The Film Crew was fun. And the movies were just right for riffing. I’m glad Rifftrax is making them digitally available.
Although some of the Film Crew films seemed to be picked with, er, ready-made jokes in mind, so MK&B didn’t have to strain themselves too hard for riffing material.
Can’t remember how many Marty Feldman jokes we got in KFS, but once Peter Graves’s name showed up on the credits, let the BIOGRAPHY! riffs begin…Can they beat their last record set by Parts: the Clonus Horror?
(Interrupted only occasionally by the Bill Corbett drive-by Mission: Impossible riff.)
Even if their having to watch annoying films sent by an annoying boss is not the same humorous duress as watching brain-frying movies sent by mad scientists–Which is why Cinematic Titanic abandoned it in favor of live concert videos.
FC sort of represented the missing link between the “Make it stop!” humor of MST3K, and the bored, arrogant “C’mon, movie, do something!” humor of Rifftrax. (Causing more divergence between the two show philosophies.)
EricJ, we know you don’t like RiffTrax, Mike, Bill, Kevin, The Film Crew and whoever else may be involved in their efforts. WE GET IT ALREADY. Thank you. Just let it go, please! No one says you have to watch them and like them, ok?
“COOKIEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!”
One can’t help but wonder if some of the Astron Deltans’ giant insects and reptiles survived the nuclear blast (“Oh, great, maybe they’ll get BIGGER…”) and went on to menace humanity entirely devoid of context.
EricJ is just unhappy that Rifftrax makes tons of money and is so successful. In the meantime
Cinematic Titanic didn’t make it. For the record, I like both.
This one has a personal favorite riff: “It’s time to meet your maker on the Muppet Show tonight!”
Yeah, those googly eyes were a really bad design choice.
I love this episode. I was really bummed with Film Crew stopped producing material.
Well, just think what it might have been like with the THE Eye Creatures. WITH googly eyes.
BTW, that business with Peter Graves’s drugged account proving that his “hallucinations” were real…?
TRUTH SERUM DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!
Actually I’ll come out and say it. Eric has to watch a full length Rifftrax for every anti-Mike/Rifftrax comment he makes.
super naughty riff – “you took forever, my jaw hurts”
I have no objective reason for not liking the Film Crew, but it just did not work for me. I love MST3K, Rifftrax, CT, ICWXP, Elvira, but FC, nooope.
Not entirely on-topic, but it’d be even less on-topic in the MST3K thread:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014LHPGPG/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
A non-Rifftrax release DVD *with* optional Rifftrax? How does that work? And will it work again, and again, and again, and…?
Got these a few years ago when Shout had the four film bundle for $12, I think.
Good to see RT’s keeping them in print.
This is my favorite of the four.
Any word on whether or not these will include the extras from the DVDs? People shouldn’t miss out on Bill’s masterpiece, ‘Ode to Lunch’ (Which I believe was on Hollywood After Dark?).
I loved the Film Crew’s headsets. They were sick.
I mean “sick” the way the youngsters mean it nowadays while describing various extreme sports that rushes all available blood to the head.
I love how the aliens carefully explain their plans to Peter Graves and then put him in a trance so that he forgets everything they told him.
I THINK what’s going on here is that this has a Bruce Dern commentary track and the promotions people are using the word “RiffTrax” generically. Protect your copyrights, guys!
They’re aliens. They don’t think like us. They don’t act like us. They don’t REact like us. That’s why we call them ALIENS. ;-)
Nope. The description says “Optional RiffTrax Commentary by Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett”. Dem’s the guys.
Whenever there is something Mike/Kevin/Bill related in a thread I always make a bet with myself how many comments in will I see EricJ having something negative to say – this time I bet that he’d be in the first 10 comments, and I was right!
I don’t even have the words anymore for a person who actually spends their money on and their time sitting through something they LOATH – so to quote Bill Engvall, “Here’s your sign.”
As far as Film Crew goes – this episode was one of their best, but at the time I preferred the commentary tracks to the “big name” movies, so I’m not sure I really gave it a fair shake.
I consider the Film Crew series on average better (as movies for riffing) than
the average MST3000. However, the image of Rue McClanahan stripping ( and worse,
the African-American woman’s interminable dance) can still bring flashbacks: “Saigon, am I still in Saigon?” :)
As touches noone’s life, then leaves notes, seems completely official:
“This special edition is re-mastered in HD and features audio commentary by the RiffTrax® trio and ex Mystery Science Theater 3000 legends, Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett.”
Does it get any more official than that? Call off the lawyers, boys, you’re just about to sue yourselves.
Glad to see Film Crew re-released; those were definitely some of the best post-MST efforts for me, particularly the “we’ll do sketches” efforts instead of “people only want to see riffing”. Let’s hope Cinematic Titanic gets released digitally again too!
Still, it was Film Crew’s only “generic” film, i.e. not SF, fantasy, or horror. Some of MST3K’s best efforts resulted from those, but I’m not sure how many like that Cinematic Titanic and Rifftrax have done. I can see how it’d be hard to make selections of which ones to riff because there are SO FRICKIN’ MANY of them — lots of them in the public domain. For every (random example) “Amazing Colossal Man” there are probably at least a hundred (again, random example) “High School Big Shot”s.
Yep, I own it and it’s got the Rifftrax commentary.
Yeah the Incredible Two-Headed Transplant disc with RiffTrax on it is old news, not sure why people are questioning it.
Everyone needs a hobby.
Same here. I guess I’m a dinosaur, but I like being able to get the Rifftrax stuff on dvd. I wish more of their work was on dvd.
I bought the four Film Crew dvds back when Shout first issued them. I really like them, although I think Killers From Space was the dullest of the bunch. The movie’s just too boring, and except for the goofy eyes, it doesn’t offer much opportunity for great riffs.
I also thoroughly enjoyed the Bob Honcho character. So sad that Mike Dodge is no longer with us.
It’s easier to just buy DVDs than to go through the whole and I’ve already lost interest in describing the process needed for most Rifftrax stuff. ;-)
Well, as the one who raised the topic, all I can say is that last week was the first I’D heard of it, and I wanted to share.
BTW (just making conversation at this point) as I’m sure some here know, there was, against all odds, a second two-head film in the 1970s, The Thing with Two Heads (1972). Two films isn’t really enough to constitute a genre like blaxploitation, martial arts, rape-&-revenge, and so on, but then, how many two-head films have we seen since? Two is a lot compared to none. ;-)