As a child growing up in the nineties, I am a massive fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and its modern incarnations: Joel Hodgson’s Cinematic Titanic and Michael J. Nelson’s Rifftrax. There is just something about making fun of hilariously bad movies. In this day, social media has provided many ways to express our opinions of films, whether masterpieces or the bottom of the barrel. However, a very innovative way to get that old MST3K feel has been created using a combination of Twitter and Netflix.
As a child growing up in the nineties, I am a massive fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and its modern incarnations: Joel Hodgson’s Cinematic Titanic and Michael J. Nelson’s Rifftrax. There is just something about making fun of hilariously bad movies. In this day, social media has provided many ways to express our opinions of films, whether masterpieces or the bottom of the barrel. However, a very innovative way to get that old MST3K feel has been created using a combination of Twitter and Netflix.
Twitflix serves as not only a way to watch movies on Netflix with your friends (especially for me since the Xbox 360 app no longer has party mode) but to make fun of movies with them. The process is rather simple: Through the use of the hashtag: #twitflix, or joining the site’s Twitter list, you and others make jokes about the movie that is scheduled (usually taking place on Sunday or Wednesday).
I myself participated in this new form of entertainment several months ago during a double feature of old Vincent Price movies: The Masque of the Red Death and Dr. Phibes Rises Again. I will say right away that it does take some getting used to. If your computer or Twitter app lags a little, the jokes may be off somewhat. However, once you get used to the format, it provides quite the entertaining way to enjoy some pretty bad movies with like-minded individuals around the world.
This new form of entertainment just goes to show the potential social media has when it is in the hands of intelligent and creative people. If you are a fan of the B-Movies, the old time “drive in” movies, or just a fan of taking jabs at movies (all in good fun, of course) and have a Twitter account, I say follow this group. As a form of entertainment through social media, it has massive amounts of potential.
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