It’s on Netflix right now. Looks like they got the money to make just 6 episodes this year, but I could live with just a few episodes every so often instead of having to have a bunch.
I will be gone most of the day for Thanksgiving, but I might be able to catch the first one tonight. Anyone else watching?
I liked the last season, by the way. It roughly equaled the quality of the original show for me. A few good ones, a few OK ones, and a couple snoozers.
I’ve read several articles and interviews, and the deal seems to be that the casual Netflix viewer might be intimidated by the 12 episode commitment when most other series run from 6 to 9 episodes. By shortening the number of episodes they hope to draw in those viewers.
I thought ep 1 was hilarious. And it helps that…and maybe its just the movie was cut that way by MST3K…the acting was actually very good. Or…ernest. The actors really seemed to be putting their best foot forward. Someday I’ll make a thread about less than sterling movies that the actors refuse to mail it in on. Return of the Living Dead III would be on that list.
So far on Episode 2, Atlantic Rim, I haven’t seen a riff about how lead bill Graham Greene has a frigging Academy Award nomination.
Thanks for the heads up. Right now I’m doing my annual Thanksgiving viewing of Dawn of the Dead (I used to work retail;)), but I’ll check it out afterwards.
That’s what I first thought when I logged into Netflix, but no, the Gauntlet refers to seeing the six movies back to back.
They seem heavy on the knockoffs of real movies. The first one’s blatant ripoff of ET was pretty funny.
I’m resisting the urge to watch them too quickly.
BTW, was the Turkey Day marathon on Netflix? The NY Times article seemed to indicate it was on somewhere else. Anyone know which shows were included? Joel seemed to indicate that they had a lot of Season 1 shows in there.
I really loved watching MST3K in it’s old late night time slot. I’m curled up on the sofa, kids in bed, and even my wife was asleep. The house was dark and so quiet. Even the cheesy commercials made late night viewing unique. Sometimes I fell asleep before it ended. Great times.
Watching it online isn’t the same. Hard to get that same vibe from a computer screen.
I kinda miss Mike and the original bot voice actors, I tend to watch Rifftrax more these days. It has both Mike and the original bot voice actors with no skits or fluff, just movie and commentary.
ETA: Amazon Prime has quite a few Rifftrax movies for free, that’s where I watch it.
i watch it on my smart Blue Ray player. But Acorn doesn’t work on that, so we watch that on my laptop hooked up to the TV with an HDMI cable, and it looks great.
Just watched the second one. The riffing is better than in the first season, with fewer obvious Internet jokes. But they missed out on the opportunity to riff on the geographical cluelessness of the movie. Guys, New Orleans is not near any kind of ocean beach. Plus it is unlikely that too many girls would be sunbathing in bikinis on that non-existent beach during Mardi Gras.
The writing seems dumbed down compared to the original MST3K.
Hey, let’s give the dude a break. Not everyone knows how to watch internet shows on their TV. Yes, it can be done, but it does take a bit of savvy to figure it out. And it helps to have some recent tech purchases. We’ll all get there eventually, okay?