Tell us about your first experience of “MST3K: The Movie.”
I was living in the Philadelphia area on April 19, 1996. I took the day off from work and my buddy Geoff went to the very first showing at the one theater in town where it was showing. A large line formed behind us, and by the time the movie started the place was almost completely full. The crowd loved it, laughing uproariously throughout, and applauding at the end.
Then Geoff and I jumped in his car and we hit I-95 and headed north to New York City. We got there in time to join a lot of our NYC-area AOL MSTie buddies for the 7:30 show (completely jammed, raucous laughter and applause). Afterwards we went out for pizza and later we hung out until the wee hours. It was a great day.
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Never saw it at the movies. Wasn’t in any theaters near me that I could find, so I waited. The sad thing is, I don’t even remember now how I saw it the first time. I don’t remember if I saw it on HBO or Showtime (whichever one was playing it) or if I waited to rent it on video.
I only remember thinking that it wasn’t nearly as good as the better episodes of the series and I was disappointed.
It’s grown on me (but only a little); it has it’s moments, but over all it kind of drags, it’s not a laugh-a-minute type of deal.
Do I still own the movie? Oh, sure. :roll: I recently bought the new DVD release when I started getting back into the show by reading and posting on this site. I was hoping it wasn’t as bad as I had thought, and it’s a little better to me now, but I still don’t think it’s up to par with the series.
MST3k: The Movie is actually the first time I “got” the show.
I was maybe ten the first time I saw the show at a friend’s house. He wasn’t enjoying it, and neither was I, mainly because the humor was flying over our underdeveloped heads. Some years later (I want to say 2000), I snagged my first job at a local Hollywood Video. After watching everything of interest in the store, I picked up MST3k:TM on a whim. It’s been love in an elevator ever since.
In fact, I not only convinced my boss to order more tapes (VHS was still #1 back then), I did the same with a mom and pop store when the dvds started hitting.
Like Chris (post #9) I saw the movie at the great Charles Theater in Baltimore. My wife and I went with a couple who were on their first date. I assume it was the opening weekend, since we were huge fans. It was a good date movie, as our friends ended up getting married. They live far away now, but we still talk MST3K on the phone almost every month.
My wife and I saw the movie the first time on opening night in a tiny theater in Washington, D.C., the only theater near suburban Maryland showing it. The place only seated about 150 people, but our showing and the ones before and after ours appeared full. Lots of laughter during the movie. We had a great time and went back to see it again in a few days at the same theater.
I was actually able to see MST3K:TM in theaters. My father and I go every year to Atlanta to see a Braves game. We had just discovered that there was a Johnny Rockets restaurant in Phipps Plaza Mall, after eating we wandered over to see what movies might be playing in the multiplex (which, where we lived in South Carolina, big multiplex theaters were just being built). To my amazement they had the MST movie. My dad is NOT a fan, but since he knew how much I loved the show and that it was only playing in select cities, he bought tickets immediately. I am not sure he enjoyed it all that much, but he certainly enjoyed me having fun (I was 16 but basically turned back into a kid again instantly). And after almost 2 hours of MST fun we went back to book shopping and baseball – GREAT DAY!
The Movie had an extremely limited run here in Australia. So far as I know it was shown in exactly one cinema in exactly one city (it has appeared in some other locations some time later, but that was long after “initial release”). That city was Sydney, and I live in Melbourne. Oh well, thinks I, that’s only 1000 km to drive! I arranged for a day off work, travelled half-way to visit a friend in Canberra (this friend being the person who introduced me to MST3K) and stayed overnight, the next day we travelled together to Sydney and met up with another friend there; caught the evening session (loved it), drove back to Canberra (getting there quite late, naturally); then I drove back home the next day. 2000 km round trip, and well worth it, of course.
Some people say I’m mad, but I don’t see it.
Wow… I wanna say I saw it the first weekend or very close to it. I know me and my boyfriend (at the time) saw it twice at a theatre way out of my way in the city. I was giddy beyond belief, a giddiness that wouldn’t be repeated until this past summer upon seeing ‘Star Trek’ on opening night. I remember roaring when Tom swore, and pretty much laughing loudest of anyone in the place – I’m a MSTie, and I had to represent, dammit! Learning later on what a limited run the movie had, I consider myself very lucky to have seen it on the big screen at all.
Small theater on Geary Blvd in San Francisco, opening weekend. To my shame, completely lost it to streaming tears and shrieking, girlish laughter at “Cal…I farted.” Hadn’t done that since Mr. Creosote threw up on the back of the cleaning lady.
Wandered into a comic shop the day—Before? After? Can’t remember—and freakin’ Trace B was there, signing posters. Asked him to sign one to “Dickweed” and gave it to an acquaintance; Trace didn’t seem to get the reference. Crow puppet was there as well; never realized until then that Crow’s eyes were glow-in-the-dark yellow.
As the movie came NOWHERE NEAR a movie theater in my area, I had to wait until the vhs came out. And I think I drove my local video rental place crazy asking for it again and again and again and again.
I quickly made up for it, though. I own a tape copy, the dvd, a bootleg dvd, and a dvd of the outtakes/deleted scenes somebody videotaped at the ’96 convention. (I was at the convention and saw it first hand, as well.)
Oops, made a mistake. It was 13 years ago, so excuse my memory lapse. Re-looked at release dates and realized:
I saw it for the first time at the convention, which was freakin’ awesome. 4,000 misties packed together watching our favorite thing in the whole wide world.
The VHS was released the following April, and I rented it again and again and again before I was able to buy a copy for myself. I then got the DVD when it was released a little bit later. Then got the NEW version this year, and got a bootleg and a dvd of the deleted/extra scenes.
I was in the Navy stationed in Silverdale, WA in 1996. When the movie came out I was in the third month of a 3 month patrol. When I got back to dry land in early May, I could not find it playing in any local theater. I widened my search and finally found 1 theater in Seattle playing it. It was a small art house theater at the University of Washington. The theater was on the second floor of an old building above a coffee house or restaurant. Being in the military, I couldn’t just take off and go see it whenever I wanted. my supervisor new how much I liked the show because on patrol when I was off work, I was in the crew’s lounge watching vhs copies of the show. He let me off work early one day so I could take the ferry across Puget Sound. I managed to get there the day its run ended. I was the only person in the theater and still had a blast.
I got the VHS screener before it was out officially too. We had a used music store called Plastic Fantastic in our area and they had a couple of the screener videos mixed in with the vhs (dvd was still a couple years away) for like $3.
I saw it as a “Midnight Movie” at the University of Florida in fall, 1996. I’d only seen bits and pieces of MST3K on TV at that point (no Comedy Central until years later), but I knew enough about it to want to see it. So, a group of us all went, and we laughed hysterically. I wasn’t laughing too hard after the movie, however, as I was planning on walking my de-facto “date” back to her dorm afterwards (and hoping she’d ask me to stay for a bit!), only to have another friend insist on joining us. Can you say “third wheel?” Fortunately, two other friends ended up coming along as well, probably just to make sure I didn’t kill him!
The first time I had seen it was on home video. I rented it, after becoming afan of the series sometime in 1998. Problem is I wasn’t aware of the Comedy Central-era yet, so I was confused by the appearance of Dr. Forrester, and why Crow’s voice sounded a little different. I think I even ignorantly commented on Crow’s voice, and Dr. F on some MST3K message board years ago.
I saw it at the Kendall Square Theater in Cambridge. First show, opening day. There was a long line that stretched outside and everybody was happy and excited to see it, it was a really great pre-show atmosphere. As the Kendall was only one of two theaters showing MST3K: The Movie, (the other was on the other side of the state) there were a lot of people who dove an hour or two to see it, which led to a kind of “we’re the best fans!” (but in a happy way, not in a snobby way) attitude. When we were seated, they theater played some cheesy 90’s sci-fi action music (remember, this was before theaters had 1/2 hour long pre-shows) and we made fun of it and all of the trailers, getting into the spirit of the show. As soon as the movie started, though, everybody switched from riffing mode and enjoyed the hell out of the movie. It was a great time, and one of three movies which I love (the other two being Shakes The Clown and The Boondock Saints) that I consider myself lucky to have seen in the theaters, because not many others got to.
I also remember a movie reviewer (Peter Keough, who I could never stand) for a free weekly here in the Boston area reviewed it and loathed it calling it “homophobic”. I don’t remember much homophobia going on in the movie, but I knew if this guy hated it, it probably was going to be great, which it was.
I got to see TM as a VHS rental from Blockbuster first. Later, I got to buy the original DVD, which I still have to this day (despite my thoughts of selling it on eBay when I learned of its selling power).
I don’t think it is great, but it’s a decent movie. The mere fact that they got to do a movie at all makes me more than willing to overlook the subject matter.
I wasn’t in one of the few cities where it opened the first wknd, so my friend Bill suggested we use some frequent flyer miles he had to go to a city that did. Chicago and Minneapolis were the closest, so we flew to the Twin Cities and saw the movie at the Guthrie where MST3K: The Movie premiered a few days earlier. Then, we went to the Mall of America (per state law, all visitors must do so) and flew back the same day.
I am also the proud owner of an MST3K: the Movie LASERDISC. My wife tracked it down at a warehouse in Atlanta, and gave it to me as a Christmas present.
I have no recollection of when I first saw it, but I remember learning about it in the theater from a preview with what I want to say was The Lion King. One line burned the movie into my memory: “I’ve lost my toupee and girdle and can’t leave my room.”
Later, I saw it in a video store and rented it. I must have watched it every day for the 5 days I had it. I was hooked and I’ve since used it to introduce my friends to MST3K.
I saw in a local theater…..there may have been eight people in the theater….it was there for one week and it was gone. gone like no one could see it anywhere in denver. it did not even make the rounds of the dollar theater. zippo advertising, nil, nada. while i did enjoy the film it sufers from the hollywood touch and painful lack of joel and frank.
Ahh, memories…
I was visiting my grandparents for a month in New York, and there was a little store/deli that had a sizable movie rental section. In their new releases was MST3K: The Movie, so I immediately rented it. For years, I was obsessed with seeing what this series was about; I had caught glimpses of it when I would visit relatives in other parts of upstate New York, but never got to see a full episode. I laughed myself silly for the three days I had that tape, and would remember nearly every riff to this day.
Later that year, I managed to get my parents to rent it and watch it with me. We were on vacation in a log cabin and it was rather dreary for most of the stay…except for that morning when they put in the tape. I swear, to this day they’ve never laughed so hard together at a movie. The rest of the trip we were reciting lines from the movie.
I was 5 when it came out so I don’t have the best memory of it, but I do know that my dad and my uncle took my older brothers and I to see it the first weekend. A while later when we got it on VHS was practically like the first time I saw it, because I didn’t remember the theater experience.
Naturally I was a huge fan and I remember there being clips from some of the host segments online. I was pretty young but I remember being completly shocked when the movie came and went and I didn’t know a single thing about it!
Later on my Dad found the movie on VHS and gave it to me for a birthday. It was the only MST3K I was able to watch for years until I could afford the DVD’s.
I literally lived on an island in the middle of the ocean for 11 years (1990-2001) and missed the entirety of the series (two TV channels with no hope of cable) and thus hadn’t even heard of the show until my brother rented a copy of the Brain that Wouldn’t Die during one summer vacation. I didn’t really understand the premise at the time (as I entered the room and started watching after the intro).
One year later, my cousin had bought the movie on VHS. We watched, we laughed, and I got officially hooked on the series as a whole. God bless MST3K.
Honestly, I was and still am a little put off by the movie. Not the riffs, really, which are great. But much like my other favorite tv shows that got a shot at the big time (Mr. Show, The Kids In the Hall, The State, etc.) I felt that it didn’t really capture the spirit of the original source. They’ve spoken extensively on their troubles getting the movie they wanted made, but really the host segments were beyond lame. And no theme song?? Who made that decision? Should have been a deal breaker and who knows, maybe if Joel was there it would have been.
Spectrum Theatre Albany NY Memorial Day Weekend. Wore my white beefy-t with the MST3K logo. I saw it five times in the short period it was there. Odd thing was that I could never find a video store in the area that carried the tape after it was released. I bought a copy. Always better to own.
I already posted a bit about my experience seeing “The Movie” under that entry, but I can add some more detail.
I actually cut out a fairly large advertisement for the movie from the L.A. Times. I had that saved somewhere. Wonder what happened to it?
Actually my co-worker at the video store I worked at saw it first. I was a bigger MST3K fan, but he enjoyed it for the most part (we had a very lengthy discussion about the plot to “Red Zone Cuba” once). The movie was showing in a theater that was near his friends house. So they caught it opening weekend.
The next time I saw him at work he told me how funny it was, and what theater it was showing at. I called my wife (girlfriend at the time… wow it was that long ago), and she got the times and we made plans to make the hour drive down there the next day.
It was a small multi-plex, and there were only about 15 other people there. As I mentioned, we were the only ones laughing for the first 15 or 20 minutes, but when the plane turned green the rest of the audiance got into it. Everyone left the theater smiling.
I ended up picking up the LaserDisc when it came out and it got regular play at home, until the player broke. :( I still have it stored away. I managed to finally get the DVD in the re-release (after kicking myself for passing it up when I saw the original release way back when). Watching it again with my wife was a nice flash back to our dating days as well as reminding us where some of our favorite riffs come from. I really enjoy “The Movie” and for me it’s one of my favorite episodes.
MST3K: The Movie was my gateway to Mstiedom! I still remember the Saturday afternoon in 1998 while dining on microwave teriyaki bowls when my friend Justin loaded the VHS cassette into his VCR and burned into my brain such unforgettable riffs as: “It’s the amazing Technicolor cheese wedge”, “There goes a stupid, stupid man” and the immortal “Normal Viewwww, Normal Viewwww…”
My first official encounter with the show had been a chance viewing of “Angel’s Revenge” a few years earlier(I was really just oggling the girlies), but like Josh in post #52 I just didn’t “get” the show until I heard Mike and the bots shill for “The Amazing Randooo!” during the closing credits. Terrible skits, great riffs, and wonderful memories, that’s MST3K: TM.
So am I the first person to post who WORKED at a movie theater that showed MST3k:TM? I don’t remember the exact first time I watched it, but since we–the staff at the Drexel Grandview movie theater–were in the habit of building up the prints and having a staff showing of most of our movies the night before they opened, this is probably what we did.
I can remember us having the movie for about 2 or 3 weeks, and attendance was not too great. I had been a huge fan of the show since 1990, so I just remember being so excited when people came in to see the movie–my first contact with the wider MiSTie community! Retail can be a drag, but during those few weeks I was always in a great mood to serve the MST customers.
I got to keep the movie poster we displayed, but have been kicking myself ever since that I didn’t bring it to the ConventionCon2 to get autographed. Still have it in a frame, in pretty good condition, though!
As far as the lines that stuck with me…. We always opened the doors to the theater (just a one-screen movie house!) as the credits started, then picked up the trash and cleaned up, etc. So I’ve heard the commentary over the credits COUNTLESS times, and those are the lines that I can recite almost right along with the film. (“Energy Park, providing a safe place for energy to play”; “The Amazing Rando!”; and the one I named my cat after: “Bix Skahill and his Big Band!”)
Great discussion topic! I’ve enjoyed reading about everyone’s experiences :smile:
A local theater chain decided to dedicate one theater to show art and independant films. One happened to be MST3K:TM. The wife and I attended. While others lined up for Independence Day, We along with six others enjoyed a side splitting time. The best testament came from an off duty cop doing security who said this film he had seen repeatedly and loved more than the summer fare offered….
Yeah, I’m late to the discussion, but:
My first experience with the movie was my first experience with MST3K. My Mom caught the tail end of it on TV years ago when I was just little, and I came in at the very end. All I remember was that Crow’s big head and eyes kinda scared me at first, but the credits riffing was funny. I always remembered it, not really knowing what it was until years later my friend showed me The Incredible Melting Man on YouTube and got me into the show (he was never actually a big fan though, funny). Last year I finally got to see the movie in full on Space.
I had only seen maybe 4 episodes before seeing the movie when I rented it from Blockbuster and I have never looked back since. For me, since it was my first real experience with MST3K, it’s definitely in my top 5 “episodes” list.
I know a lot of people were saying that it wasn’t great and I have to agree with you on the host segments, but I still believe the riffing is top notch. I still quote it to this day. In fact I’m gonna go plug in the DVD right now.
I don’t remember which video store I rented MST3K: The Movie from. I know it was one of a few mom and pop stores in my area (long before Blockbuster moved in). But I watched it with my brother and we both enjoyed it. It was my first introduction into the world of Mike and the ‘bots and I never looked back. After that I began purchasing most of the Rhino VHS episodes one by one (Amazing Colossal Man was my first purchase). I still have the tapes on hand plus a still functioning VCR player. I now have two of the DVD packs in my DVD collection (Volumes 7 and 10.2, Prince of Space is my top fav between the two packs) and purchased the DVD version of MST3K: The Movie. It’s bare bones but well worth updating. Thanks to Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Trace Beaulieu, Joel Hodgson, and all the folks at Best Brain that made bad movies even more enjoyable. :mrgreen:
Mr. Q
I rememeber that I went see it in a theater near Columbus Circle(NYC) with a friend A week after it was released.We got on a Long Island Railroad train into Penn Station then took a subway to the movie theater.
I was really excited to see MST3K:TM And from the moment the film started I found myself laughing along with every riff.
And whenever I see MST3K:TM,either on DVD or on whichever movie channel is showing it on Directv.I feel as if I were in that theater in NYC all over again.Laughing along with Mike & the bots.
E.
It was my first exposure to the show, actually. I discovered it probably much as anyone else did, flipping through channels when the silhouette caught my eye. I think it was on STARZ! or some such movie channel, round the time Sci-fi picked up the show. I had no idea what it was, and as I listened the jokes immediately had me hooked. I remember just wanting to stick around to see if we’d see the guys out of silhouette; I always thought the smaller silhouette in the movie made it more mysterious.
A little background. I had run across “MST3K” for five years (1990-95) while channel-surfing and I never bothered to watch it for more than a minute before changing the channel. I just didn’t get it. But then the OJ Simpson Trial started sometime in 1994/95 and all the networks/cable channels went wall-to-wall OJ. Sick of even of the late night comedy shows doing nothing but OJ jokes one day I changed the channel. Comedy Central at midnight it was, and saw the intro of “MST3K” for the first time (Season 5, Mike 2nd half). DOH! :mad: The intro explained everything that I had been ignoring for years about ‘those robots talking in the bottom right corner’ every time I flipped through CC. I can’t remember for the life of me what experiment it was I saw that night in ’95 (it was definitely a Mike episode). But, two hours later, I was intrigued by what I had seen. I don’t even think I found that first “MST3K” show funny, but the simplicity of the premise and it’s execution simply floored me. I started watching the midnight showings of “MST3K” from that point on (before, during and long after the OJ media circus went away) and pretty soon got caught up with the mythology and all the characters. Fell in love, got one of my younger sisters (around 15 at the time) to watch and she dug it.
Cut to opening night for “MST3K: The Movie” in ’96. Me and a girl that I really liked (we’d been friends for years) were driving back to NYC from Upstate NY and I asked her if she wanted to go see the movie. She’d never heard of “MST3K” and I explained the concept to her. She shrugged her shoulders and said ‘pass.’ Saddened at my movie suggestion being rejected I dropped her at her place near Tompkins Square Park and then drove like mad to Lincoln Center on 68th to make it in time for the last showing around 10PM. Place was about 50-60% filled and there were even couples dressed in jump suits. Movie was a blast, we laughed ourselves silly (‘recognize me now Ruth?’ got the biggest laugh, easily). Later that week I found out that the night I went to see the movie my friend went out and met a guy at a party that she ended up going out with. I know I probably didn’t have a shot in hell with this girl but I’ve always wondered what would have happened if I hadn’t gone to see “MST3K: The Movie” and she (maybe) had not met the guy she did that night. :neutral:
I saw the movie one more time in theaters. About 2 or 3 months after its theatrical release “MST3K: TM” was on for one week at the discount theater in NYC (they were underground on 50th between 7th and 8th Ave.). Just a coincidence that my two sisters and father were visiting me in NYC from Upstate NY so I took them to the next-to-last theatrical showing in all of NY. Unlike the dedicated crowd from opening night the 25 or so patrons were average people that had paid a couple of bucks to basically not be outside. The movie started slow for these folks and my father/younger sis (almost no laughs for 20 minutes except mine and my older sis). Then, around the time Cal begins the ‘Eggo Waffle’ experiment, the dike burst and as one everybody in the theater started laughing outloud. Even my humorless dad and younger sis (around 10 at the time) started getting into it. The power of “MST3K: TM” to win over complete strangers was proven to me that night.
Got the VHS a couple of years later and that’s been sufficient until recent airings of the movie on high-definition channels like HBO Family. Will not purchase any official DVD until we get deleted scenes, restored cuts and all the cool goodies cult movies get when re-released on home video nowadays. I’d rank “MST3K: TM” middle-of-the-road, neither the best or the worst “MST3K” experience. While the riffs are memorable and the overall package appealing to non-MiSTie folks there’s just a forced feeling on the non-theater comedy skits (not funny!) and it just feels wrong for a movie about puppets riffing on bad movies to actually have motion picture production values. IMHO of course! :wink:
It was fall of 1993 and I had just gotten back from some college class I don’t remember. I sat down in my dorm, turned the TV on, and tried to find something to watch.
I ended up on Comedy Central and was sucked in by three voices goofing on a pretty awful black and white Japanese monster movie called Gamera.
Many VHS tapes and DVDs later, I still watch.
My first post. I’ve lurked for a while, but I just couldn’t resist posting to this one.
I was a freshman in college. It was night–I don’t remember the exact date, but sometime in April. Sometime after 7:00, though. I got a call from one of my friends out of nowhere asking if I wanted to go see the new MST3K movie with her friend and her. Now, I’d been a fan of the show since about 1991 or so, so of course I said yes, and was terribly excited. I called my other friend, who brought her friend, and the 5 of us jumped into the car and drove to the Tivoli (a Denver landmark that at the time showed popular film. I think it might be an art-film house now. But I digress).
Unfortunately, not very many people were at the showing, but it was OK because the 5 of us made enough noise for the whole theater. I have not since laughed that much or that hard through a whole film. The five of us literally laughed hard and loud from the moment Dr. F first appeared on screen until the end of the credits. One of my best memories from college and I can still remember practically the whole night from start to finish.
I hadn’t watched the show in a while and I do remembering during the opening, “Where’s Frank?” But it was still a total blast. I think of the experience every time I pop the movie in.
Incidentally, when I mention MST3K, a number of my students recall the movie first and say how much they like it. Of course, what got me back into MST3K about a year ago was one of my students who was a hard-core fan bringing me DVD sets 4 & 5 to catch up on Mike episodes. :)
OK a little late but here we go….
I was very lucky that my first viewing of MST3K:TM was on April 12, 1996.
I lived in Carpinteria CA just south of Santa Barbara. That morning I was checking the L.A. Times to see where I could find a theater playing “Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy” which opened that day, and then I notice a small article about a special screening of MST3K:TM one week early.
It was called “An Evening with Jim Mallon, Trace Beaulieu, and Mystery Science Theater 3000” moderated by Paul Cullum (of Film Threat), with special guest Rex Reason from “This Island Earth”.
I was amazed! And when I found out that tickets were available, me & my mom drove down to L.A. for the screening. We had never been to the screening room they had this in, so due to my fear of tons of SW mysties buying all the tickets we showed up very early got our tickets, and hung out until it started. It was in a small theater, maybe 300 seats at MOST, which made for a very nice experience watching this for the first time with almost nothing but total fans.
I remember almost passing out from all the laughing, just non-stop, and due to the crowd I was watching with, we all got all the inside jokes. After the movie there was the Q & A, and the weirdest moment was when Rex Reason came out, he had a young filmmaker with him, and while Rex was a really good sport, his hanger on reminded me of the relationship of Ed Wood & Bela.
After that there was autograph signing where I met Trace & Jim. Jump 13 years later, when I met Trace again at the CT show in Portland OR. I reminded him we met back then and he said “oh yeah, you were one of the two people there” great joke as the theater size, and attendance of that CT show was at least three times the size of that screening in 1996.
I saw MST3K:TM one more time on September 13th 1996 (Friday the 13th) at the Riviera art house theater in Santa Barbara, it was part of a “little gems” festival, and I brought a friend I worked with at the one Carpinteria video store “Videoworld”. I sware I might have laughed more that second time because I knew what jokes were coming.
A couple weeks later MST3K:TM came out on home video, I convinced my boss if he got at least one VHS copy for rent I would recommend it to everybody, (he got three copies) but for me I had my boss order the laserdisc copy, which he sold me at cost (under $30).
Again jump ahead 13 years, that laserdisc is what I had signed by the CT cast at the Portland show, everybody behind me in line noticed it when I pulled it out for them to sign, I don’t think Trace and the others had seen the laserdisc for a long time.
That’s it Neil (agentcooper) out
After reading most of these replys I can’t think of any show that has made as much impact aside from star trekon their fan base. MST3K has been off the TV for ten years now and it is still being discussed. It’s just amazing. I think I’ll pop in a dvd tonite….just reach with out looking and surprise myself. Push the button Al.
The first time I saw MST3K: The Movie was at an old boyfriend’s house at his high school graduation party. It had just come out on video tape. That was my first taste of MST3K. My family had only recently gotten cable. The relationship didn’t last long, but my interest in MST3K would be later reinforced by my college roommate and my husband. I now have seen and own every episode it is possible to own. I will always thank Matt for showing me the magic of MST3K.
Saw it at the Music Box Theater in Chicago, a small room (maybe 50 seats) not quite full. Probably the best moviegoing experience I’ve ever had — there’s nothing like laughing with a room full of fellow MSTies. I’ve seen it on video a few times subsequently and it remains enjoyable, but never as much as during that “live” screening.
I worked at the big blue video store chain. I got a screener copy of the movie before it was released on video and watched and still have it to this day. The movie for whatever reason never came near me to see in a theater or I would have been right there on day one. :wink:
My first Movie experience was catching it at some small theater in DC that I’d never heard of. They apparently were used to showing foreign/indie films, and many of my fellow attendees didn’t know what to make of TIE. (There were only a handful of MSTies there — we were the ones laughing while the others just gaped.)
I was traveling a lot back then, so I made a point of catching TIE whenever possible in different cities. My favorite was my second showing, at the University of Texas/Austin. Those folks knew what they were in for, and we had a good time.
I think I saw TIE six times in five different locations before Gramercy finally killed it off. But I scarfed up the original DVD the moment it was released!
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