Resurrecting the past...

[Thom_Serveaux]

I'm sure that a lot of you have for years lamented not being able to acquire one movie in particular, that was riffed a long time ago, in an industrial park far, far away. I'm talking about, of course the Maltese Falcon of MST3K fandom, 'The Green Slime'. In the past, we were told, for the most part that one of the main reasons that it wasn't ever released was that they (Joel, Trace, et al) were too embarrassed by it. That it was one of their earlier works, and wasn't very good, in other words it wasn't, I guess up to the very high standards that they have set for themselves. While this is very laudable, it is increasingly frustrating for us die-hard fans. Many of us would rather watch the worst performance of the CT or RT crew over the best that Hollywood can churn out. This got me to thinking, if the CT crew still feels this way, then perhaps a compromise can be reached. If they can't (or won't) make a copy of the original MST3K version, then why not give the fans the benefit of their vast and varied experience, and band together and take a second crack at it? If you're like em, (and I know I am) many here would snatch a copy up faster than you can sampo. The biggest obstacle, as I see it, would of course be discovering who at this time still holds the rights. Does MGM still hold them, or perhaps, due to the passage of time, have they perchance, lapsed into to public domain?

[CM916]

I'd love to see it. Now, I was very very drunk at the time but I did think K-04 was an awesome episode. If they will never let us see the pilot, they ought to give the same movie another shot now.