Cinematic Titanic!

Have I talked about this before?

Truthfully, I'm too tired to push a button and check my old posts, so I'm just going to go ahead and sally forth....

As many of you regulars know, I have gone on and on about the many virtues of the classic show "Mystery Science Theater 3000", the inherent humor within and the hilarity as provided by Joel Hodgson, Mike Nelson, Crow, Tom Servo, Gypsy, Doctor Forrester, TV's Frank, Pearl, Bobo, Brain Guy and the regular gang of idiots.

Anyway, after the show's cancellation in 1999, things looked bleak for all fans of Shadowramma film riffing, until Hodgson came back into the Thunderdome (so to speak) with fellow MST3K alumni Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Mary Jo Pehl and J. Elvis Weinstein (who played Doctor Erhardt in the KTMA and 1st Comedy Channel seasons) and created what was to be known as Cinematic Titanic.

So, what is the backstory on how to approach Cinematic Titanic? Here is the story from the horse's mouth: or rather Frank Conniff's, during an interview over at pegasusnews.com.

FRANK: Joel got the idea when he saw like a graphic of the 1939 World's Fair which had a time capsule in it. So the premise, loosely, is we're watching these movies and we're riffing on them specifically so we can put them in a time capsule, or a Time Tube as we call it, for future generations.

Now that's a concept I can get behind, as I feel most other MST3K fans can as well.

...not to mention fans of Mike Nelson's RiffTrax and The Film Crew guys.

Now, as a fellow fan of movie riffing of this type (as I know you must be, otherwise you would never have read this far), what can you do to support Cinematic Titanic? Simple: go visit their homepage and buy their movies and other merchandise they have available - it's scarce now but give 'em time....

"But wait", I can hear you asking; "is Cinematic Titanic any good"? A legitimate question, and to answer that, watch these trailers!

Here's one for their first project, The Oozing Skull:



Here's number two, Doomsday Machine:



And for their upcoming product in August, The Wasp Woman:



As you can see, all funny and all worth your time and hard-earned money. For the laughs and good memories of riffs past these will provide you, why not give 'em a shot?

Thanks, Joel and company, for keeping Shadowramma alive and keeping us, those who hunger for quality humor, fat and happy. ; D

Dope out. Now go and generously patronize Joel Hodgson and company!

-TGWD