The Film Crew: Hollywood After Dark
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Actor: Bill Corbett, Film Crew, Kevin Murphy, Mike NelsonBrand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC VIDEO DIST.
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-10
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Vivendi
Product features:
- Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett, 3 of the brilliantly insane minds behind Mystery Science Theater 3000, reunite to unleash their warped sens of humor on the cinema of yesteryear. Charged with the task of giving all movies their own commentary tracks, The Film Crew valiantly steps forward to tackle the best of the worst. Rue McClanahan stars in this drama from 1968 as a young actress at
DVD Reviews of The Film Crew: Hollywood After Dark
DVD Review: Great!...but try Cinematic Titanic as well!!
Summary: 4 Stars
The output is great if not stellar, but to be fair, you can't separate the talents that were writing the original scripts for Joel/Mike and the bots without losing some of the shizzle...
I've purchased the other DVDs by this group as well as most of the MST3K boxed sets to replace my aging library of comedy central and SciFi channel recordings. They are like my children now..all equally loved but for different reasons...
If you haven't tried it yet,Cinematic Titanic is where Joel, TV's Frank, Trace, Pearl, and J. Elvis went to keep the genre going...they are also doing live shows around the country and it is a lot of fun...I saw them in Cleveland with my 17 year old who has now fallen for the MST3K curse...
DVD Review: The Film Crew: Hollywood After Dark... Keep the lights off.
Summary: 4 Stars
The Film Crew: Hollywood After Dark: 7 out of 10: Since the cancellation of the beloved Mystery Science Theater 3000 (greatest show ever), fans have been waiting for a comeback.
The short-lived Film Crew is just that. Staring Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy (former voice of Tom Servo), and Bill Corbet (former voice of Crow) the Film Crew promises to deliver the old magic back.
In some ways it does. The riffing is certainly up to the old standards. Hollywood After Dark is a horrible grainy grind house film featuring Golden Girl Rue McClanahan as a stripper.
The boys riff in vain but honestly, the movie was so slow and talky that there are places where riffing simply does not help the cinematic pain. For example the endless stripper scenes (no nudity and the woman look like Wal-Mart shoppers) provide very few laughs. There are only so many jokes you can make about cottage cheese thighs.
Since The Film Crew is a DVD exclusive creature, they were not restricted in content (unlike the television counterpart). I wish they had experimented on a more adult exploitation film such as one of the Ginger masterpieces. Though claims have been made that their riffing is more adult in nature, I really did not notice despite Hollywood After Darks stripper theme.
Had this been a MST3K episode, it would have likely been a middle of the road one. Moreover, truth be told, I miss the robots and the silly sci-fi set-up. The film crew does contain a lunch break where the boys engage in some of the most painful comedy I have ever scene. (Admittedly, some of MST3Ks commercial breaks were just as painful)
The Film Crew is better than nothing, but alas it is a somewhat faded copy of the originals magic.
DVD Review: Script writing with a magnetic poetry kit
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000, but I was a little late to the Film Crew party. I heard about the series back when it was announced but for some reason it flew under my radar.
Recently I read some good reviews of the series, especially ones that compared it favorably to the seasons of the sci-fi channel run of MST3K. I decided to break down and pick up a couple. "Hollywood After Dark" was the first one I popped in.
Right off the bat I can say that this episode is very much like a MST3K episode, especially during the movie segments. The film is a dreary tale of good people gone bad in Hollywood. There is stripping. There is a caper. There are good intentions gone wrong. It all ends with three dead bodies and money scattered on the side of the road.
The writing is probably the worst part of the movie. There are whole lines that make no sense at all. The Film Crew points out some of their favorites and wonders at one point if the script was written using a magnetic poetry kit.
The camera work and direction are attempting to be arty and noir in several places but all this ends up doing is slowing the movie down and making things look harsh and cold.
The acting is not horrible, but not quite average. Rue actually isn't bad, but the real find are the strip scenes. They are bizarre and seem to go on forever! There is no complete nudity here, but it gets uncomfortably close on a number of occasions.
With all that said, the movie is solidly bad, but unfortunately doesn't have quite enough for the Film Crew to work with. The result is that riffs come at a measured pace. It's not a bad track, because the riffs are solidly funny, but the movie is so dreary that it doesn't offer enough for them to work with.
There are three host segments. The introduction gives us the premise of the series, and reveals why this film in particular is chosen. The middle segment occurs with Bill wanting to conduct a lunch meeting in a very corporate way, Mike and Kevin are not amused. The concluding segment has the three of them attempting to recreate the final battle at the end of the film with other props. It's about as goofy as what you had in MST3K, so if you enjoyed the host segments there you'll probably like them here.
What struck me most was that watching this episode of Film Crew really felt like a natural continuation of MST3K. I kept waiting for the exiting the theater sequence. The humor was solid and while the movie didn't offer the best material to work with it was bad enough to make me laugh.
For a first effort in a series this is four stars easily. Compared to other MST3K episodes or Rifftrax material, this is closer to a three star effort - so I say 3.5.
DVD Review: Why didn't they make more!????!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Again. Why didn't more get made!? Probably because nobody bought these I am a guessing...sigh.DVD Review: Sub-par outing from folks who can do better
Summary: 2 Stars
After MST3K, Mike Nelson and company needed something to do. And after 10 years of a steady Mystery Science Paycheck, they needed something to put food on the table as well. Their first post-MST3K foray, the Film Crew movies, are unfortunately just a limp, not-terribly-funny retreat of the MST3K concept. The host segments are downright painful to watch. OK, it's fun to see what Brain Guy looks like sans makeup, but their hearts just aren't in the host segments. When they get into the movie, you can imagine that it's Mike and the bots, what with the voices and all. But this movie is such a stinkbomb that even a MST3K-lite treatment can't keep you from pressing "info" repeatedly to see how much of the hour and 18 minute running time is left. Unless you are desperate for more MST3K at all costs, avoid. If you can't stay away, rent this rather than buying it.
Description of The Film Crew: Hollywood After Dark
Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett-three of the brilliantly insane minds behind the cult classic TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000-finally reunite to unleash their warped sense of humor on the cinema of yesteryear as The Film Crew. Charged with the task of giving all movies their own commentary tracks, the Film Crew valiantly steps forward to tackle the best of the worst, starting with Hollywood After Dark.Rue McClanahan (Golden Girls) stars in this drama from 1968 as a young actress attempting to make her Hollywood debut, who falls into the seedy underworld of stripping when she's exploited by her unsavory producers.MiSTies rejoice! Three of the brilliantly cracked minds behind the Peabody Award-winning comedy program Mystery Science Theater 3000 have reunited for The Film Crew, a DVD-only series that provides a similar skewering to some uproariously bad B-movies. Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy (the voice of MST3K's Tom Servo) and Bill Corbett (who replaced Trace Beaulieu as Crow T. Robot) are the Film Crew--three affable guys who've been hired by a jovial yet clueless billionaire to provide "commentary" for atrocious films. Of course, the Crew's "commentary" is more cutting than informative, and for the most part, the guys' jabs are as smart and pop culture-savvy as the ones on MST3K, and it certainly helps that their target, a miserable 1968 slice of sexploitation starring a youthful Rue (The Golden Girls) McClanahan, is nothing short of atrocious. Parents should probably note that the gags are a little more "adult" than the ones on MST3K, but for the most part, this is harmless-- if hilarious--stuff. The disc's sole extra is an amusing poem by Corbett which extolls the virtues of lunch in verse. --Paul Gaita
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