Michael J. Nelson Returns to Riffing On Film on Rifftrax.com
August 17, 2006 by
Attn: Mystery Science Theater 3000 Lives! Sort Of
If you are a Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan, a fan of bad movies, or just a Michael J. Nelson fan you will be thrilled with Rifftrax.com. Legions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans were left bereft of their weekly fix of a humorous running commentary on atrociously badMichael Nelson has moved his incisive and hilarious commentary that he perfected on Mystery Science Theater 3000 away from television and his robot pals onto the internet. Taking advantage of the rush to provide consumers with new technology long before it has been properly thought out, Michael Nelson is providing solo running commentaries on Rifftrax.com to movies that many may well consider a step up from such typical MST3K fare as The Puma Man and The Giant Spider Invasion.
I disagree on this point, however, seeing no improvement between movies about guys who turn into flying superheroes with no obvious connection to a puma and a movie featuring Patrick Swayze as…well, as pretty much anything. I’m hard pressed to come up with a Patrick Swayze movie that doesn’t belong on MST3K, being skewered by Crow and Tom Servo.
On Rifftrax.com you can find Michael J. Nelson giving his thoughts on the intricacies of Road House, or as he calls it “the best movie ever made about a world famous bouncer.” As I said, Rifftrax and Nelson are taking advantage of the latest leap in technology, the iPod and similar, but less well-hyped, portable digital music players. How Rifftrax.com works is that you download an MP3 file that contains a full length humorous riffing by Michael J. Nelson on a certain movie.
Michael J. Nelson rose to fame as the second host and head writer of Mystery Science Theater 3000. His new project, RiffTrax, can be seen as picking up where the cult show left off.
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