Seraphin, you must know of Ed Wood since it may be that no-one did bad better than he. An excellent source of bad movies was 50s Hollywood and Ed Wood wasn't the only one; he was arguably the best of the worst, tho. (WIKI: Ed Wood)
I'm not sure who directed it but there was an unforgettable piece of work named "Teenagers from Outer Space" so that led inevitably to teenage romance with the space aliens and "Star Wars" couldn't hope to keep the depth of that that going.
"Robinson Crusoe on Mars" was a delight for the Rockhouse over the last three or four days but it won't ever show up on the program for the Academy Awards.
As you have now discovered, MST 3K is an excellent source of bad movies and the Rockhouse is ever grateful such sources exist. It seems MST 3K must have been around for at least twenty or thirty years
After seeing some of the video which has been floating around with your troupe, I'm hopeful we will see some of that here on Ithaka. Any video I have created has been thirty or forty years out of date relative to to you and your troupers ... but ... the video which has been produced already is right on the beam. It's wild material.
There's a long-time favorite quote from Benjamin Disraeli when he said, "When I feel like reading a book, I write one."
Your troupe has already been approaching video that way ... so let's see 'em. I know it may not be possible because it's become so complicated in ruling which video may appear in which place but hopefully that can work out.
The thought doesn't travel for too far since people polarize quickly as to whether "B" movies are a worthless imitations of real movies or the other side which isn't so hard about it. The Rockhouse provides clear Symps to the "B" movies since such movies fill an unusual genre which will almost always diverge from mainstream thinking.
The "B" movie philosophy has always been it shouldn't take millions to make a rubbishy movie such as "Terms of Endearment" since a film like "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (Ed Wood) can be made for peanuts. Other masterpieces from the 50s, otherwise known as the Grand Age of Bad Sci Fi, included "I Was a Teenage Werewolf," "Devil Girl from Mars," "Attack of the Crab Monsters," and so many others.
That comes to the perennial lament that there are so many trash movies ... but so little time to watch them.
I'm not sure who directed it but there was an unforgettable piece of work named "Teenagers from Outer Space" so that led inevitably to teenage romance with the space aliens and "Star Wars" couldn't hope to keep the depth of that that going.
"Robinson Crusoe on Mars" was a delight for the Rockhouse over the last three or four days but it won't ever show up on the program for the Academy Awards.
As you have now discovered, MST 3K is an excellent source of bad movies and the Rockhouse is ever grateful such sources exist. It seems MST 3K must have been around for at least twenty or thirty years
After seeing some of the video which has been floating around with your troupe, I'm hopeful we will see some of that here on Ithaka. Any video I have created has been thirty or forty years out of date relative to to you and your troupers ... but ... the video which has been produced already is right on the beam. It's wild material.
There's a long-time favorite quote from Benjamin Disraeli when he said, "When I feel like reading a book, I write one."
Your troupe has already been approaching video that way ... so let's see 'em. I know it may not be possible because it's become so complicated in ruling which video may appear in which place but hopefully that can work out.
The thought doesn't travel for too far since people polarize quickly as to whether "B" movies are a worthless imitations of real movies or the other side which isn't so hard about it. The Rockhouse provides clear Symps to the "B" movies since such movies fill an unusual genre which will almost always diverge from mainstream thinking.
The "B" movie philosophy has always been it shouldn't take millions to make a rubbishy movie such as "Terms of Endearment" since a film like "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (Ed Wood) can be made for peanuts. Other masterpieces from the 50s, otherwise known as the Grand Age of Bad Sci Fi, included "I Was a Teenage Werewolf," "Devil Girl from Mars," "Attack of the Crab Monsters," and so many others.
That comes to the perennial lament that there are so many trash movies ... but so little time to watch them.
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