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The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Kickstarter is nearing its end, and project lead (and series creator) Joel Hodgson is concluding the campaign in a big way: with a celebrity-filled celebration.
On Dec. 11 – the campaign's final day – Hodgson will host a live countdown party at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles. MST3K: The Final Countdown is an eight-hour telethon that will start off at 2 p.m. PT with a screening of two of Hodgson's personal favorite episodes of the original series. The video, which you can check out at the top of the page, is currently live – although don't expect to see anything until this Friday, when the event begins.
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Various web sites report that 14 new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K for short) have been made available on the Netflix streaming service. Older episodes can also be seen on Netflix. Each is 90 minutes long, and has intermissions. During the show, fictional characters—including puppets—give humourous running commentary while a B movie is shown.
A trailer advertises the new episodes; another video advertisement shows MST3K's treatment of the beginning of an episode of Netflix's Stranger Things.
According to the show's official site, the new season is permitted to be seen in "the U.S., U.K., New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, and Canada."
Coverage:
Rotten Tomatoes
The Colorado Springs Gazette
comicbook.com
New York Times
Gizmodo
Related stories:
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 Successfully Crowdsources its Comeback
Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday December 11 2015, @12:35PM
Tom Servo: "No celebrities were harmed ... we think."
Crow: "Are you sure? It certainly looks like some of them were semi-comotose!"
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday December 11 2015, @12:52PM
8 hours but just 2 movies? Is that filler or will there be more than just Hodgson's 2 favorites?
I watched a good portion of the Thanksgiving streaming event but the booze kicked in eventually.
As for the new cast/voices for this revival, I will judge it when it comes out. I have been happy with Rifftrax [rifftrax.com] as an MST3K replacement. The Miami Connection, To Catch a Yeti, Radical Jack, Alien Outlaw, R.O.T.O.R., Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny, Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen, and The Dark Power are all good picks. You can stream/download them for $10, or torrent them if you're naughty.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Friday December 11 2015, @12:57PM
For Christmas, nothing beats the original MST3K episode of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, and if you're into something a little slower and more disturbing, the MST3K for Santa Claus (1959)... featuring Lucifer.
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday December 11 2015, @04:22PM
What? No Pod People? [wikia.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Friday December 11 2015, @07:39PM
If we're going to devolve into listing good MST3Ks:
Cave Dwellers [youtube.com]
BOggy Creek 2
Laserblast
Future War
Space Mutiny
Operation Double 007 (featuring Neil Connery)
any movie in any form by Coleman Francis [wikipedia.org]
Time Chasers (the director is trying to make a sequel)
Pumaman
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(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Friday December 11 2015, @11:46PM
You can add:
Bride of the monster - featuring Bela Lugosi in one of his last appearances in film.
Deathstalker and the Warriors From Hell
(Score: 2) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Friday December 11 2015, @10:12PM
You and your chat friends would have silhouette avatars and screen-share a bad movie listening to each other heckling it.