Because the weather has been pretty lousy here all day, and because I am nothing if not a glutton for punishment, I just finished watching Star Trek V: The Final Frontier for the first time. (I’d seen bits and pieces over the years but never the whole thing.)
Man, that’s an awful movie. The experience was made bearable only by Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy’s very funny RiffTrax commentary. I’m looking forward to sampling some of the other tracks in their catalogue. Although with selections like Crossroads and Roadhouse, maybe “looking forward to” is a poor choice of words.
It would be interesting to see how their commentary on Top Gun stacks up the against the Mister Sinus Theater* commentary I saw live when I was last in Austin, four years ago. And I do own a copy of The Matrix, which Nelson and Murphy also riff on…
Right now, though, I need to go scrub out my eyeballs to try and remove the stain of Shatner.
* How was I not aware until now that they’d been sued by Best Brains in 2004 and subsequently changed their name to the Sinus Show? I guess if I actually read any of the e-mails they keep sending me…
The RiffTrax commentary to Star Trek V is *great*. The only other one I’ve heard so far was the one for X-Men, which wasn’t anywhere near as funny (possibly because X-Men isn’t anywhere near as bad of a movie). I’m told the Roadhouse one is terrific.
I have never heard of RiffTrax. I think we’re going to tackle “the Matrix” tonight, I’ll let you know how it goes. Thanks, Man!