Competing awesomeness

It's rare that things that you loved in the past come back in a new way to make you happy again. But thats whats happened for me with my discovery of Cinematic Titanic. I was a pretty big fan of the show Mystery Science Theater 3000 back in the early 90's. It was a great way to while away those super hung over Saturday mornings in Milwaukee. I'd laugh and hold my head from the pain and occasionally vomit, all the while having a good time. Then Joel Hodgeson left the show and I was really bummed. Mike Nelson, the shows head writer came in to replace Joel but it wasn't the same anymore. Then the show took a weird turn and had a weird subplot that I never full grasped so I stopped watching. I had been a long time fan of Joel's way back from when he did his stand-up routine on SNL. So I kept expecting something new after MST3K but nothing ever showed up. Then about a year or two ago Mike Nelson popped back on the scene with his new online MST3K experience called Rifftrax. I actually love these. They are pretty damn funny and they are cheap. Basically Mike and some of his cronies do the MST3K treatment to more recent movies. You download the mp3 and play it as you watch along with the movie. It sounds weird but it's actually cool. Of course you can find the audio married to illegal rips of the movies online, too. That makes it easy to watch the movie/rifftrax on your iPod on the train. I read that this was such a problem that someone suggested that Rifftrax accept donations from guilty thieves and they do actually have a donations place on their site I think.

That brings me to this weekends find. I discovered that Joel Hodgeson got together with some of the old MST3k bunch and made a new show called Cinematic Titanic. It's pretty much the same as MST3k but the silhouettes are much more intricate and there actually 6 people doing a live take on the whole movie instead of little chunks. There is some weird stuff going on where they pause the film and have funny distractions but I really enjoyed the first movie. After reading the site I just figured out that this series is just being released on DVD and hasn't even had it's premiere party yet! Well I'm looking forward to a lot more of these. They are funny as hell.

Thanks Joel and company. You made my day! Check out the trailer on the CT website. It'll give you a good idea of the hilariousness.