That's the whole thing, they got surprisingly little blowback from the people in the movies they were mocking, because everyone involved knew they were made badly on a shoestring budget as shovelware
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The Joel Era is very much in line w/horror host shows of the '70s and '80s -- Elvira, Morgus, (Son of) Svengoolie. Some ridicule but mostly affectionate. Movies' badness the point of watching. Mike Era is more about ridicule. These movies are bad and we're here to mock them.
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And that arguably is the RiffTrax ethos as well. Could be competent or even decent movies... we're still gonna make fun of them. Always seemed a bit more corrosive to me. YMMV.
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I sincerely love bad art for what it is and it brings me more genuine joy and mirth than the vast majority of "good" art. I hate when people who seem to share my little hobby are in it to be mean.
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To be fair that venom has always been there. The Medveds' Golden Turkeys books -- generally considered the first mainstream celebration of "bad" movies -- have an unpleasant nastiness when you reread them today. The chapters on Ed Wood & Glen Or Glenda -- yeesh.
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Honestly, modern nitpick criticism bears almost no resemblance to MST3K. It was just so... wholesome? Oddly enough, the closest thing I can think of today is CinemaWins, which, aesthetically speaking, couldn't be more different.
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I never liked Riff Trax because, imo, they started going after popular movies for traffic/clicks sake
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That's not why. They started out on when online video distribution wasn't a thing quite yet. They went for popular movies because they only distributed a commentary track, and there's no business model in doing that for obscure films when no one owns the DVD.
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