Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Riffing

Everyone has seen a bad movie and it might be human nature to respond to something that is attacking you with mockery. While you could do this yourself for my money nobody has made an art from out of it like the creators of Mystery Science Theater 3000.Beginning in 1988 as a public access show in Minneapolis the show was pick up by comedy central just the the local station was to close. The show grew in popularity as time went by it used increasingly worse movies. Some of the more well known movies that where lampooned where Hobgoblins (1987), Monster a go-go(1965),and likely the most famous Manos The Hands Of Fate (1966). After a successful ten season run with one hundred and ninety eight episodes and a movie the show ended. Now many of the show's former actors and writers now are apart of the internet servise rifftrax which makes fun of modern movies but you have to download it from the website. But you don't have to watch or listen to anything to make fun of a bad movie its easy enough to do it on your own, I even find myself making fun of movies that I like.

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