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Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K

posted by martyb on Thursday November 12 2015, @12:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the snide-commentary dept.

http://www.avclub.com/article/joel-hodgson-bringing-back-mystery-science-theater-228190

We've got movie sign, MSTies: Joel Hodgson, a.k.a. "Joel," has officially launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring back Mystery Science Theater 3000 after 16 years. (It was canceled in 1999.) The campaign quietly appeared on the MST3K official website earlier this morning, confirming suspicions raised by vague promises of "big news coming soon" on the Rifftrax and MST3K social-media channels. The campaign has the rather lofty goal of $2 million, which Hodgson says will enable him to make three full-length episodes of MST3K to shop around to TV networks and streaming platforms. With three additional episodes per $1.1 million raised over the original goal, that's $5.5 million for a full 12-episode season. But if Zach Braff can do it, so can Joel and the bots.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday November 12 2015, @11:11AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday November 12 2015, @11:11AM (#262102) Homepage Journal

    it was a US Air Force training film in which a fighter-bomber pilot was learning to drop bombs in the desert.

    Being the real USAF, he was dropping real bombs. The way that looks on film is quite unlike the Hollywood special effects - you don't see much flame but there's lots of circularly-expanding shock wave.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2015, @03:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2015, @03:41PM (#262182)

    it was a US Air Force training film

    Well, if you ever watch it again, just be sure to put on your poopy suit first!

  • (Score: 1) by termigator on Thursday November 12 2015, @05:59PM

    by termigator (4271) on Thursday November 12 2015, @05:59PM (#262259)

    I always liked when they showed old shorts and educational films. The king and queen of posture. Kids rodeo. Drunk driving. etc.

    I thought some of their best stuff was the short and educational films they riffed.