Updates

This week marks the (possibly temporary) end of AfterMST3K.  It began as an exercise in looking over recent projects instead of keeping up with the weekly episode guide for KTMA episodes over at the venerable Satellite News.  Unfortunately I am not much of a self-promoter so I never built much of an audience here.  After keeping it up over the summer, which being my first attempt at a blog was by no means guaranteed, real life intervenes and I will not be available for the next 2-3 weeks.  After that, well, the KTMA season has also run its course, and I fear I am falling behind watching MST3K itself now!  There are only so many hours in the week, alas. 

So, in about a month I will see if the spirit moves me, at least enough to post semi-regularly.  There are a lot of episodes still to cover...

Thanks to anyone who's come across this blog, I hope you enjoyed it or it at least encouraged you to check out some Film Crew, Rifftrax and/or Cinematic Titanic projects yourself.  The possibility remains that Joel's plan to reboot MST3K itself will happen, and if so, I know we'll all be looking forward to it.  And if you'd like to read more episode guides, I would suggest MightyJacks MST3K Review site, which I enjoyed as well.

Thanks for watching!

Updates

So we reach a one-month-later point.  Hope some of you have enjoyed looking back at these films!  I think the Film Crew and early Cinematic Titanic movies were some of my favorite post-MST work by both groups.   Coming up i'll finish taking a look at Film Crew, and continue with Cinematic Titanic in order of release.

If my write-ups are not quite up to Satellite News (let alone the Amazing Colossal Episode Guide!) standards, i can only say that i'll keep trying!  Unfortunately most of the things we'll be looking at have less (and then even less) of the skits, characters and other things that can be discussed with old MST episodes, so i've focused more on the movies themselves.  I encourage anyone stopping by to leave a comment.  That sense of shared enjoyment is part of the whole experience!

Upcoming schedule:

1. July 14: "Wild Women of Wongo" (Film Crew)
2. July 21: "The Wasp Woman" (Cinematic Titanic)
3. July 28: "Giant of Marathon" (Film Crew)
4. August 4: "Legacy of Blood" (Cinematic Titanic)

See you next Monday!

edited to add: i will also try to catch the Rifftrax Live of "Sharknado" on Tuesday, and will post a quick notice about it if i make it! 

edited again to add: sorry, the live show was a bust!  The show stopped about a half-hour in and couldn't continue due to technical difficulties.  We'll see if i can make it to another show this summer.

Introductions

Welcome to AfterMST3K, an experimental (and rather bare-bones) blog for mutual viewing and discussion of the riffed movies of Film Crew, Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic.  I am going to try having regular viewings and (hopefully) discussions during the next 2-3 months, while venerable Satellite News  is covering the KTMA “Season zero” episodes of MST3K.  After that we will see if this blog has more life.

I’m not going to pretend to be some Rifftrax/Cinematic Titanic Superfan.  But I have enjoyed some of the productions from both groups, and want to try giving the MST3KInfo Episode Guide treatment to some of the episodes they’ve created, and after Sampo at Satellite News announced they would not be dividing their time between old and new material, i thought i might as well try to do something myself.  Believe it or not Film Crew launched in 2005-6, making it about 8 years old already!  And frankly i was more interested in this than MST's KTMA episodes.  I get it, but when I think that CT literally lived and died within the time we were discussing the “Green Slime” pilot for the second time, I really began to feel guilty that I was still looking at old things and not giving their new work a chance.

My schedule for the upcoming weeks is intended to alternate equally between Rifftrax/Film Crew and Cinematic Titanic.  Obviously the output from Rifftrax is much larger than either of the others, so to give myself some guidelines:
 

• All Film Crew releases
• All Cinematic Titanic releases
• Rifftrax releases that are VOD and/or DVD, and of those only the 3-riffer versions.
• Chronological order (of release)

So here we go.  I have never run a blog so bear with me!  I am hoping to get comments about what other viewers liked/disliked, so i am going to try to make the comments easy to post, and hopefully we will not get the spam that proliferates on untended blog comments.  Please leave any suggestions for more or less coverage and we'll see what people want to do!

Tentative schedule:

1. June 16:  “Hollywood After Dark” (Film Crew)
2. June 23: “The Oozing Brain” (Cinematic Titanic)
3. June 30: “Killers From Space” (Film Crew)
4. July 7: “The Doomsday Machine” (Cinematic Titanic)

See you next Monday.