Um, doesn't it kind of defeat the whole spirit of riffing if the movie is actually good, or at the very least competently made? I mean, sure, I can understand making fun of Attack of the Clones, but Alien? Shit.

One of the defining traits of the Joel era of MST was that the movies weren't merely obscure or mediocre B-movies; they were berserkly awful cinematic abortions with no technical or artistic merit whatsoever. Joe Don Baker as a sex symbol? Sidehaxploitation? A crummy Japanese ripoff of Planet of the Apes? The only rational response was to riff.

That's what's great about Cinematic Titanic: so far, the movies have been up to (or is it beneath?) the standards of the old MST. Take The Oozing Skull, a horror movie from the early '70s about a mad scientist who transplants the brain of a Middle Eastern dictator into the body of a hideously deformed backwoods simpleton. Just summarizing the flick is an insult to rational thought. It feels like 1991 all over again!