Pandajuice wrote:

As for Rifftrax, I agree with Jeebus that it's not nearly as much fun riffing on big budget, mainstream movies. Half of the charm of MST3K was that they were riffing on really bad B movies that were pretty funny on their own. They really should go back to B movies, and that way, don't have to worry about huge rights costs.

Well they still do, at least the funny ones do. It's called Cinematic Titanic, and they pay for rights to bad movies still. Of course, because of the popularity of MST3K it costs a lot more money to get the rights to do it (Which is also why most of the episodes of the show aren't on DVD, the companies want too much money now).

And you know, not only do I not really like the idea of Rifftrax (And think it's the least funny cast members), but it's so cold and impersonal. They showed the Rifftrax for Plan 9 From Outer Space (Ooh, that's an original choice!) in theaters for one day only, and have brought it back by popular demand. But that's it, you pay to go to the theater and watch an episode of this. Cinematic Titanic, on the other hand, goes on tour and does this live. They're mic'ed at the front of the theater and are in the room with you for the whole movie. They were in the area for two days recently and even did a different movie each night. Also, before the movie, TV's Frank did about 20-30 minutes of standup which I hear was phenomenal.