The idea of the original MST3K being a "takedown" of the movie is really off the mark, and is a distortion of the MST3K spirit that got locked in when RiffTrax and stuff started riffing on actually popular movies with lots of fans MST3K was about making movies *nobody liked* funhttps://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1219008813061242881 …
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Gamera was, IIRC, the main exception because in Japan tokusatsu is serious business in Daiei was actually kind of offended.
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*and Daiei
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I believe the original pitch was a video of them riffing on “The Godfather.” The only reason they did those old b-movies was because it was so much cheaper to license. The idea of “lampooning bad movies” was never the goal.
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Sure, but I've seen Frank Conniff and Trace Beaulieu's act and they both say they're against riffing on good movies
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Not only that, the movies found an audience that loved these films that otherwise would have languished in obscurity. The short lived MST conventions invited a lot of the actors/actresses in the films they lampooned.
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