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How Was the Show?An open thread for reports from Tuesday night’s Cinematic Titanic show in San Francisco.
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‘Amazing’ isn’t a big enouh word. The meet and greet, with autographs and photos, was delicious icing on a sweet, sweet, funny cake.
Just got back, no meet and greet for me. Long line. I’ve been to the Castro Theater a bunch of times but never have I seen it packed to the gills like this. Looked sold out to me.
Great show (Danger on Tiki Island) but man was it hard to decipher the first 5 minutes. Our riffers started a little too enthusiastically, shouting loudly in an echoey room. Eventually they calmed down, but I still missed every tenth joke or so due to the acoustics. Lots of sexual double entendres and few four-letter words. Some MST callbacks “We can’t have nice things”, Gilligan’s Island walking music. And “flogging the dwarf” which I’d read here before assuming it was a dirty joke, was not: there is a man seen flogging a dwarf in this movie. Good times.
Warm-up was fun, but recycled at least 50% from when they were here a year ago.
I had the time of my life and laughed until I turned purple ..this was my first show Ive been to. It was one of the best days of my life to be honest..the movie riffs were great and contained dirty jokes which TV wouldnt let them do
Of course meeting them was the highlight and pics, and autographs…
Just a great evening..
It sure is great hearing about how funny Cinimatic Titanic is. Nevermind that I don’t get to experience it. I get enough satisfaction hearing how funny the event was.
Absolutely hilarious. The best MST show I’ve seen, and I’ve seen Rifftrax three times and now CT twice. Big, big laughs. I have to say, though, Frank’s song “Convoluted Man” really isn’t funny. He did it last year, and it wasn’t funny then. Still one the best nights I’ve had in some time.
“Wow. She’s hornier than an early Chicago album!” Classic riff.
Frank was having trouble get the LOL from the fans , but he was humble about it and got laughs that way..I heard convoluted man before too..
The riffs were great. When Joel did the intro , I had mentioned to mom that the monster looks like the Michelin Man & Joel said that too ironically..
Still meeting them was what it was all about…and I will never forget last night ever..
The Titans seemed really “on” last night, more so than when I saw them do East Meets Watts in Seattle last year. The movie was really, really horrible. My fave riff was Mary Jo’s “Oh, she’s thinking about it.”
The line moved pretty fast for the meet & greet, a lot faster than Seattle. Great evening. :grin:
One more thing I wanted to add is the crowd laughter during the movies own lines (no riffing parts) where the bald man in the yellow PJ bottoms walks like 20 feet and just said “Good Morning” to John Ashley and Co…the whole theatre was in stitches
No riff needed…
And Beverly Hills horny facials were priceless and there were no riffs, but the fans laughed there too
Acoustics were a bit of a problem (sometimes it was hard to hear the riffers over the movie and vice versa), but the show was fun overall. The warm-up was a mix of old and new material, and included more jokes about century-old politics than I would have expected. My favorite part of the movie was the scene where the scientist got his butt kicked by a tiny moth.
To echo the other comments, it seems like there were a few technical issues with the show. First it seems like maybe there was gain on Joel and Frank’s mic. Joel doesn’t riff too loudly most of the time so it didn’t effect him as much as Frank who had a few of his lines from the beginning of the riffing rendered difficult to hear. Meanwhile, Josh and Trace had their mics really low. Being the pros they are though they were able to pretty quickly adjust their voices and made the technical issues not so bad. There was also a bit of skipping of the DVD toward the end of the film, but it didn’t really detract in anyway from the show.
All in all a great show; probably my second best live riffing experience (after the first time I saw the titans at the Ford in LA and slightly better than Rifftrax at the same festival two years ago).
As much as I love the DVDs, and I hope they continue to release them, live in a theater is definitely the best way to experience movie riffing. Well, maybe the second best, but getting the MST3k writing room into your living room while watching a B movie on TV late on a cold Wednesday night is a feature the iPad doesn’t have… yet.
The show was fantastic, as always.
But, I’d like to take a moment to say something to the dude who sat next to me, and offered his own, deeply unfunny riffs at the top of his voice.
Dude,
I know, it’s fun to leave your house, right? It’s not a thing you do often, because the world is a strange, mysterious place, filled with people who want to give you a wedgie, steal your lunch money, not to mention g-g-g-girls! (EEK!)
And I’m sure that your love of all things MST3K is just as powerful and all-encompassing as mine, and 95% of the other people at the Castro last night. It’s fun to see your heroes live and in person, especially after years of seeing them on old VHS copies in your parents’ basement. You’ve probably seen every episode a hundred times. Even San Francisco Confidential. Not to mention the countless Rifftrax, and countful CT discs.
You’ve probably watched so much MST3K related material, that you consider yourself quite the little “riffer” yourself. I bet your friends would die laughing at the bon mots you toss at your own favorite cheesy movies, if you, you know, actually had friends.
So your mom picked out your favorite outfit, gave you $25 bucks from her mad money jar, and drove you to The Castro. And you walked in, thinking, “This is it. Not only am I going to see my heroes, but I’m going to prove to everyone sitting near me that I am just as funny as they are. And then, I will have friends, and not spend my nights watching MST3K and making love to a sock.”
Unfortunately, and I hate to be the bearer of bad news here, your plan turned out to be a little specious. Look that word up. I’ll wait.
CT, like Rifftrax, and like MST3K, is a tightly scripted show. The people on stage watched the movie over and over again, and wrote and rewrote jokes until they were PERFECT. They didn’t just say the first thing that came to mind. Like you did. Over. And over. And over.
You did not do any of this. That’s why your chair, like all of ours, faced the stage. The people around you did not pay to see and hear you. I did not pay to see and hear you.
I’d like to share with you some of your own, homebrewed “riffs.”
“GLUG, GLUG, GLUG” (said when a character drank something)
“He’s like a dookie creature!”
“Yeah, RIGHT.”
“Nice bathing suit.”
See? See how those aren’t really jokes? See how they’re just things you thought and said? See how you’re not funny, at all, even a little bit?
A ticket to a live event, any live event, is a contract between you, the audience, and the performers. A contract that states, “We are all here to see these performers, and we will treat them, and our fellow audience members with respect.”
You broke that contract. People told you to SHHH. People chided you. PEOPLE GOT UP AND MOVED AWAY FROM YOU. You paid them no mind. You yapped through the whole freaking movie, and ruined it for my buddy, who had never seen CT before. I would say you ruined it for me as well, but I’m not ready to concede that much power to you. Instead, your incessant blathering reminded me HOW good CT is at their job. How difficult it is to come up with priceless line after priceless line. And what a pleasure it is that 20 years later, I can still see them do this job, live, in a theater with thousands of fans. I had an awesome time.
And I hope, I SERIOUSLY hope you had an awesome time last night. I hope you thought you KILLED it, and that people would finally understand your genius. I hope your mom picked you up, and you regaled with all of your zingers and one-liners. And I hope she laughed, as she always does, because in her heart, you can do no wrong. You’re her special guy. Her special, 27 year old guy who lives in her basement.
And later that night, as you released into your favorite sock, I hope you imagined a theater full of people cheering and laughing at your brilliance.
Because that is the only way that will ever happen. It will only ever happen in your imagination.
Regards,
Josh A. Cagan
Well, to be fair, “He’s like a dookie creature!” is kinda funny. Context, i guess.
“GLUG, GLUG, GLUG” actually sounds pretty funny, too.
– Gilbert T. GLUG
Glad I was nowhere near that…didnt hear anything ..just ‘LOL’ & ROFL basically…
It was the last night of my vacation in Frisco and we actually didnt had a clue what to do on the last day. Ive heard a few things about CT on mst3kinfo.com already so we decided to go to CT. It was and awesome night and probably the best finish for a vacation you can imagine. So I guess I have to say thank you for posting some news about CT earlier this year. Without that I would have missed this event for sure.
Trace sent a Tweet encouraging EVERYONE to attend the show in SanFran. Of course I’m in Ohio. He was channeling DR. F, that cruel fellow. :razz:
I loved it, even more than I expected. It was my first time seeing Joel, having attended only the MST3K live show in 1995 (Mike era). Watching the CT DVDs, I miss the in-character riffing that was much of MST3K’s appeal for me. That wasn’t an issue at all when seeing them live. Not a single dull unfunny moment. As others have said, there were moments in the movie itself that were laugh-aloud funny.
I’m sure glad I didn’t sit near the douche that Josh A. Cagan did. Was that the guy who yelled out “too soon” after Josh’s Abe Lincoln remark?
I’m going to see CT for the first time in two weeks in Milwaukee and I can’t wait! I just really REALLY hope I don’t end up near someone like Josh A. Cagan did. However, I am preparing myself for the worst, and I seem to attract idiots like that…
“Was that the guy who yelled out “too soon” after Josh’s Abe Lincoln remark?”
Now this one made me laugh out loud. Honestly this disruptive guy sounds talented.
@Badgerfansam, I wouldn’t be too worried. Between CT and Rifftrax, I’ve been to 9 MST-related shows (Oh, yes, I’m a nerd.), and this is the first time I’ve EVER come across a maroon like this kid. For the most part, audiences treat CT like golden comedy gods, which, of course, they are. You’re gonna have a blast.
jc
@Joshua Kahn: Not the same guy. But if you see promise in my guy, I will track him down, and after I pummel him to the thin edge of death with an upholstery hammer, I will send him to your house, where he can entertain you for the rest of your days. I see it going a little like this:
TV: Stay tuned for the Big Bang Theory!
That Guy: More like the Bang Your Mom Theory!
You: (fist in the air) CAAAAGAAAAAN!