

#ROCKY BALBOA SPEECH GORILLA MOVIE#
Like how Clint Eastwood was never in a movie with John Wayne or Rocky Balboa never fought Mike Tyson.

Sometimes there are those combinations that are so perfect, yet don’t happen. So in honor of Fathom Events bringing us the RiffTrax crew taking on MST3K classic Giant Spider Invasion on August 15 and 20, here’s a handy guide to the history of RiffTrax Liveand their many shows.

It would be replayed a few days later, but that was it. Using Fathom Events, they would do a live broadcast of a movie riffing (plus a lot of other stuff, making it more like a variety show) across the country. In 2009, they tried a little experiment called RiffTrax Live. Using public domain movies and releasing mp3 commentary tracks for blockbuster movies, RiffTrax garnered a major following, eventually leading to a library of bad movies of better quality. It gained steam thanks to the help of his old running buddies Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, as well as celebrity guests like Neil Patrick Harris and Joel McHale. Ten years later, long after MST3Kseemed gone for good (thankfully, it wasn’t!), Mike Nelson created his own take on bad movie riffing called RiffTrax. If MST3Kworked so well on TV and gathered such a fanbase, it would probably be an extra great experience to enjoy its style in a movie theater surrounded by other laughing fans. While it’s gone on to find love in the aftermath, the whole situation was handled badly in many ways and it ended up being a box office dud. In 1996, Universal Pictures released Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie.
