Michael J Nelson, MST3K alumnus and Nobel-prize-winning author, has launched a new site: RiffTrax. It's MST3Kish, in that you download a custom commentary track for a movie, and play it back while you watch the film. Similar things have been done before (both in all seriousness by the actual makers of the movie and by amateurs who think they're 'all that') but Nelson's new endeavor bring the fun of MST3K back without the pain of hoping SciFi re-runs one you haven't seen before. My concern would be synchronization: as someone who has gone insane over the timing involved in encoding a DVD, even a slight playback delay results in damaging any hope of comedic timing by the end. Anyhoo, good luck Nobel Laureate Nelson, and I hope it's more successful than Timmy Big Hands.
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