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Darth Ronson posted:It's awesome. So awesome in fact I knocked up a couple of desktop wallpapers.. OH HI DARTH RONSON. How could you miss "Sit down. Have some plaid!"? SG-83 posted:I just watched Transformers 2 for the first time, with RiffTrax of course. The commentary was so brutal and vicious, just one OH HI SG-83. Yeah, I sat through Transformers 2 in the theater. It was loving excruciating. That movie should have had a warning label on it. Which is odd because I kinda liked the first one as a cheesy action movie.
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So Michael Bay thought just packing the entire movie with incredibly unfunny CGI robots would be a good idea? After the 4534543th loving explosion you just can't possibly care anymore. Even with the rifftrax (even a very funny rifftrax) that movie was horrible. That movie had almost as many different robots as it had extras!
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Pooned posted:So Michael Bay thought just packing the entire movie with incredibly unfunny CGI robots would be a good idea? After the 4534543th loving explosion you just can't possibly care anymore. Even with the rifftrax (even a very funny rifftrax) that movie was horrible. That movie had almost as many different robots as it had extras! I don't have the editing software to test my theory, but I'm positive if you cut out all the completely superfluous poo poo like the parents, the roommate, megan "open-mouthed dull surprise" fox, the 486 fart jokes, and the minstrel-bots, you'd be left with 20 or so minutes of pure awesome robot destruction. Then you just cut the obnoxious dialogue and set the whole thing to a Pantera album and you'd have the most badass music video ever, as opposed to the worst piece of bloated blockbuster poo poo ever made. The same can be done for the first one, just cut out any female or black characters and you have a tight, almost decent movie.
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Tony Danza Claus posted:I don't have the editing software to test my theory, but I'm positive if you cut out all the completely superfluous poo poo like the parents, the roommate, megan "open-mouthed dull surprise" fox, the 486 fart jokes, and the minstrel-bots, you'd be left with 20 or so minutes of pure awesome robot destruction. It's 39 minutes long. Which means that over an hour and a half of a movie about transforming robots does not actually feature any transforming robots.
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Payndz posted:I made a version of the first film that only includes shots with actual robots in them - you know, the Transformers of the title. This may be a nitpick, but it seemed that, in the second movie, the robots appeared to have way more parts in robot form than they could possibly have in their not-robot form.
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Tony Danza Claus posted:The same can be done for the first one, just cut out any female or black characters and you have a tight, almost decent movie. I would really rather see the results if someone did this with The Color Purple.
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I was just thinking how awesome it would be if they did a riff of Juno. Anyone know if that's in the works?
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I have one they need to do. Gamer. Jesus christ that's the worst loving movie. How do you make a drunk dude wielding a machine gun that shoots grenades that shoot multiple person-seeking rockets that explodes a person into a fountain of gore BORING. Seriously how the gently caress.
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Too bad they don't riff serious drama though. Something like a Lars von Trier movie. It takes real talent to make a dark, gritty movie funny.
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Mister Kingdom posted:This may be a nitpick, but it seemed that, in the second movie, the robots appeared to have way more parts in robot form than they could possibly have in their not-robot form. The idea of Shia and Megan being ground up by whirling robot parts when they get into the car is oddly appealing.
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Payndz posted:They did in the first film, too. The first time Bumblebee turns back into a car, the cabin's completely filled with machinery.  Click here for the full 925x300 image. That would be a definite improvement that might have made the movie actually worth watching.
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Sheldrake posted:I would really rather see the results if someone did this with The Color Purple. In all seriousness, watching a Transformers movie is about as racially sensitive as whipping your slaves.
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I finally got around to the Troll 2 VOD. I have been so comforted by the MST3k voices in the past that I feared Rich's voice would be jarring to my apparently sensitive sensibilities. Quite the contrary I found it to fall in quite well and the movie overall is really well riffed. Of course it's perfect riff fodder as it makes no loving sense at all.
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Payndz posted:The idea of Shia and Megan being ground up by whirling robot parts when they get into the car is oddly appealing. Bear is driving car, how can that be?!
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Overwined posted:I finally got around to the Troll 2 VOD. I have been so comforted by the MST3k voices in the past that I feared Rich's voice would be jarring to my apparently sensitive sensibilities. Quite the contrary I found it to fall in quite well and the movie overall is really well riffed. Of course it's perfect riff fodder as it makes no loving sense at all. The best guest riffer (sorry Lowtax) was Weird Al. Jurassic Park was classic. Troll 2 would be second. The guest riffer on Spider-man 3 (some comic book guy) wasn't very good and I was surprised that Richard Cheese was just okay on Ocean's Eleven. But the best ones are always the tried and true Mike/Kevin/Bill ones. Mike works so much better in the straight-man role with Kevin and Bill being silly. Mike solo just doesn't have the same feel to it.
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Tony Danza Claus posted:The best guest riffer (sorry Lowtax) was Weird Al. Jurassic Park was classic. Troll 2 would be second. I really gotta check out that Weird Al guest riff. When I saw that he had done one I thought to myself there'd be no way that was unfunny. You know who I think would be a great, albeit far-fetched, guest riffer? Mike Rowe. That guy has some serious on the spot sarcasm skills.
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Overwined posted:I really gotta check out that Weird Al guest riff. When I saw that he had done one I thought to myself there'd be no way that was unfunny. If I was going to pull a Top Ten List out of my rear end, it would probably go: 1. The Day After Tomorrow 2. Titanic 3. Twilight 4. Jurassic Park 5. X2 6. Transformers 7. Transformers 2 8. The Happening 9. The Matrix Revolutions 10. Troll 2 Batman and Robin was the worst. And I'm not brave enough for Glitter or Crossroads.
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Watched the Maniac riff tonight and man that is probably the strangest movie they've EVER done. It starts out like a standard horror movie with a crazy professor who creates a drug that can bring people back to life but it quickly goes off its rails when his assistant (who was a vaudeville impressionist) murders him and takes his place (using his mastery of impressions.) That's not even getting into the weird stuff. Also next time I talk to an ex-girlfriend I apparently need to confront her about her time traveling ways as one of the characters looked just like her, just with dyed hair.
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Tony Danza Claus posted:The guest riffer on Spider-man 3 (some comic book guy) wasn't very good That's no comic book guy, that's Minnesota's own James Lileks, a scholar of midwestern kitsch
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That seems like a good top 10 list (I still need to see Titanic and Transformers 2), but any list that leaves off "The Room" is no list to me. That movie is loving ridiculous.
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Tony Danza Claus posted:And I'm not brave enough for Glitter or Crossroads. Glitter is fair, but I've never been a big Mary Jo fan. Crossroads is pretty good for a Mike solo effort.
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Guess what Three Frames had up the other day? OH HI TWITCHING!
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Ninja Bob posted:That seems like a good top 10 list (I still need to see Titanic and Transformers 2), but any list that leaves off "The Room" is no list to me. That movie is loving ridiculous. Also no Road House, easily the funniest for me even though it's a solo riff. There's just so many classic lines there.
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Anybody listened to DRAG ME TO HELL yet, aka where the gently caress was Bruce Campbell? Only two week to the Wierd Al xmas show. I'm going to the Tysons Corner AMC in virginia http://www.ncm.com/Fathom/Comedy/RiffTrax_Xmas.aspx?utm_source=RiffTrax_RTxmas&utm_medium=HomepageLink&utm_campaign=RTxmas_Fathom%2BPage Also, where was Ted Raimi in DMTH? Serious question, he was in the credits as a Doctor but you never saw him. Wonder if that gets pointed out in the riff.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:That's no comic book guy, that's Minnesota's own James Lileks, a scholar of midwestern kitsch James Lileks's midwestern brand of snark is amazing. It's like if you crossed the MST3K guys and/or Dave Barry with Garrison Keillor.
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Ninja Bob posted:That seems like a good top 10 list (I still need to see Titanic and Transformers 2), but any list that leaves off "The Room" is no list to me. That movie is loving ridiculous. Also you can't leave off the Star Wars Holiday Special. The B&R riff crashed in the second half, but the first half, especially the L'eggo my Eggo line, is great.
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mobo85 posted:James Lileks's midwestern brand of snark is amazing. It's like if you crossed the MST3K guys and/or Dave Barry with Garrison Keillor. I will not have you insult James Lileks by conflating him with Garrison Keillor, sir.
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rereedrumr posted:Anybody listened to DRAG ME TO HELL yet, aka where the gently caress was Bruce Campbell? quote:Cameo: [Ted Raimi] Sam's brother makes an off-screen cameo as a doctor. Their brother Ivan (also the co-screenwriter of this and several other Sam Raimi-directed films) really is a practicing doctor of osteopathic medicine. I watched the preview of the DMTH riff and decided to pass. The preview just wasn't funny at all. It felt way too forced like they were just trying to make funny comments to make funny comments because they picked a bad film to riff. DMTH itself is not a bad film at all. It's tongue-in-cheek in the first place and more of a comedy than a horror movie so it doesn't lend itself to being good riffing fodder like something like Transformers 2 does. It would be like if they tried to do a riff of Army of Darkness. It just wouldn't work.
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Turmoil posted:It would be like if they tried to do a riff of Army of Darkness. It just wouldn't work. There already is a riff of Army of Darkness. It's called the commentary of the Director's Cut. Bruce's impression of Sam Raimi kills me every time.
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Ninja Bob posted:That seems like a good top 10 list (I still need to see Titanic and Transformers 2), but any list that leaves off "The Room" is no list to me. That movie is loving ridiculous. The movie is funnier by itself. The segments where you had 5 Disembaudios talking over each other is just grating as hell. If you mute them, though, it's probably #11 if I expanded the list. RoadHouse would be #12. The Dark Knight #13. etc. And I haven't seen the Star Wars Holiday Special (with rifftrax)
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Tony Danza Claus posted:And I haven't seen the Star Wars Holiday Special (with rifftrax) They do their best, but that thing is so painful, it's STILL hard to sit through it, even with a funny Rifftrax.
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Tony Danza Claus posted:The movie is funnier by itself. This is very true. Tony Danza Claus posted:And I haven't seen the Star Wars Holiday Special (with rifftrax) Please do. It's really good. Such a horrible 'movie'.
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Tony Danza Claus posted:The movie is funnier by itself. I would never have considered watching most of the movies that have been riffed so far. I am able to disconnect myself from the riffing and decide whether or not I would like the movie if watched on its own. So far, I haven't run into one. This is not to say the movies are all bad, just that I wouldn't have watched them without the Rifftrax (like the Harry Potter movies - I don't dislike them, they just don't appeal to me, but they seem to be well done). There is no way I could have watched The Room without the riffing. Agreed on the multi-Disembaudios. A little of him goes a long way. Also, the Star Wars Holiday Special is a must see. In the past, I'd only been able to watch no more than 10 minutes at a time.
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Interesting, I didn't know that "Off Screen cameos" were something that existed. I watched Drag Me To Hell, thought it was drat funny. Lots of The happening references. Mike: More leaves blowing in the wind? I'm shocked nobody has asked her if she likes hhhhhawt dogs. Bill: hhhhhhawt dogs...
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Mister Kingdom posted:I would never have considered watching most of the movies that have been riffed so far. I am able to disconnect myself from the riffing and decide whether or not I would like the movie if watched on its own. So far, I haven't run into one. This is not to say the movies are all bad, just that I wouldn't have watched them without the Rifftrax (like the Harry Potter movies - I don't dislike them, they just don't appeal to me, but they seem to be well done). Well they've got to do something while Tommy Wiseau's naked rear end is on the screen, thrusting away. I thought the Disembodio sketches were better than the 'There's a Hole in My Bucket' sing along, but to each his own.
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Is the Star Trek Rifftrax any good? I've never listened to one before and am thinking of watching it with the missus tonight...
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Jagtpanther posted:Is the Star Trek Rifftrax any good? I've never listened to one before and am thinking of watching it with the missus tonight... It's not bad, but not their best work. Get Twilight or The Happening instead. This is the ONLY time I will ever recommend either movie.
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Jagtpanther posted:Is the Star Trek Rifftrax any good? I've never listened to one before and am thinking of watching it with the missus tonight... I really liked it - both the Riff and the movie.
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Wow you people seem to dismiss the best one. Reign of Fire. Worst movie ever. And they make it a complete joy.
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