There are several of these episodes that are just laugh out loud hilarious. One of my favorites is XXX, closely followed by Top Gun. Soon there's going to be a Matrix Rifftrax as well, which should be freaking amazing. The Roadhouse Rifftrax is also one of my favorites.

Even though the thought of watching Crossroads might make you twitch in one eye, check it out with Rifftrax. The worse the movie is, the funnier Rifftrax gets.

MITCHELL!

do you know about CINEMATIC TITANIC?

It's a similar concept, put out by Joel Hodgson (Joel, of course), Trace B. (Crow, Dr. Forrester), Frank Connif (TV's "Frank"), and Mary Jo Pehl (Pearl Forrester). Instead of sync'ing with a film, the CT productions are full video downloads.

From Wikipedia:

You can download an interview Joel did with the SOUND OF YOUNG AMERICA podcast a few weeks ago to hear more. I have always been a bigger Joel fan than a Mike fan, and always loved Trace and Frank, so I am much more excited for CT. I wish Kevin Murphy would be a part of this as well, but I guess that's just the way the cookie crumbles.

EDIT:

Here's a link to the trailer for the first film.

For anyone who missed it when it came out, the Rifftrax for The Star Wars Holiday Special is excellent. I can't imagine anyone making it through that abomination without it.

They've also created a Rifftrax Player. It's a program you install on your computer that plays the DVD and the Rifftrax file at the same time. It works extremely well, making it far easier not only to start the movie/Rifftrax at the same time, but also to allow you to remain synced up even when pausing for a bathroom/phone break. It even lowers the volume of the DVD while the hosts are talking. Nice!

Also new are the video-on-demand options. They're mainly limited to the kind of 50's-era shorts they used to great effect in the early days of MST3K. At 99 cents apiece, they're a nice change of pace from the longer tracks.

Wakachickawakachicka..

I'm just talking about Mitchell.

Checked out Transformers and the Lost pilot episode out so far and it's been definitely worth it. 300, Bourne Identity and Raiders of the Lost Ark are already qeued up. I'm looking forward to the LotR gig, but I need to rent the theatrical version of Fellowship from some place for that purpose since I only have the Extended Edition - same for everyone else I know.

I guess the advantage is that you don't have to watch some horrid trash like Girl in Gold Boots at the same time as listening to their jokes. *shudder*

Not saying you CAN'T make fun of something... just don't really see the point. MST3K makes crappy movies watchable with the jokes... RiffTrax takes some big budget crappy movies and adds comments, which makes sense. I just don't get the point in mocking something like RAIDERS. YMMV.

Are you arguing that Star Trek V is a "good" film?

Because it's funny.

ps. Other people on the internet find things funny that you might not.

Back on topic, I laughed harder at the Matrix Reloaded Rifftrax than I had at any Rifftrax before it. Amazing. Rifftrax just seems to keep getting better as time goes on.

I'm probably committing some kind of geek sin here, but I couldn't stand the movies they used for MST3K. Most of them were so bad that even the mocking didn't make them watchable. I rented a bunch of them recently on Netflix and fell asleep during nearly every one. Watching something that I actually like and know get made fun of puts new value into the film. And there are lots of things that are already good and entertaining standing on their own. It doesn't mean they're not deserving of being made fun of in some way. I find Raiders just as entertaining as everyone else. Sure doesn't mean that the occasional witty joke about something in the film, or the exposure of a ridiculous Hollywood convention or cliche that just doesn't work anywhere else, isn't deserved or entertaining on its own.

It seems like you're assuming that the movie has to be so bad that you would never watch it without the MST3K commentary. I don't think the premise of MST3K, or RiffTrax has to be limited to that at all. I think it works better than ever on movies like this. I've watched, know, and even like some of these movies. It makes the jokes that much funnier. I could give 2 sh*ts about Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. It's easy to make and listen to pejorative remarks about something you don't care about.

Maybe you ought to.

Again... where did I ever say this "wasn't funny"? Don't "straw man" me, bro.

You said you aren't sure you understand the point of making fun of good films. So either you don't think it'd be funny or you don't understand the point of it being funny. Can you really blame people for assuming you meant the former?

Haven't watched Spider-Man 3 yet since pretty much everyone I know complained about it. Well, I guess, now that this one is being covered by Rifftrax as well, I finally can rent the movie.

Like you, I snoozed through a number of MST3K episodes, but there's something about watching a movie that you know and may actually like that changes the experience. A word of warning though, I've watched a few of these and afterwards felt like, "Holy crap, how did I ever like anything about this movie?" So don't watch any where they might tear apart a favorite of yours.