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Gaseous Snake posted:Batman and Robin. Mike, Bill, and Kevin didn't write it and it shows. I really like the Batman and Robin riff. Much like The Room, the movie is so drunkenly inexplicable at every turn that it drat near riffs itself, taking the riffers along for the ride.
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Bedurndurn posted:I really like the Batman and Robin riff. Much like The Room, the movie is so drunkenly inexplicable at every turn that it drat near riffs itself, taking the riffers along for the ride. The Uma Thurman joke during the opening credits is so stupid yet brilliant. I can't help but love B&R.
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BisonDollah posted:Cheers guys. Any I should avoid? Inception isn't a bad riff but the actual film is really good and there's a lot of time they seem to be really struggling to find a joke. Twilight and New Moon are by far the best, the films are unbelievably hilarious and the in-jokes they build up ...line? are great. Eclipse is good too but I found it lacking by that point. But that might be because I marathon watched all three. And Birdemic is pretty much the funniest thing ever. Doubly so for the riffed version.
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Jul 24, 2011 22:08
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Has anyone had any luck playing a Rifftrax in Window Media Player while watching a Netflix Stream in the Browser? Tried to watch The Last Airbender that way, but it killed all the audio from the movie. While that wouldn't be a bad thing normally, I do need to hear the movie to know if it still synced.
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Jul 24, 2011 22:32
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Rirse posted:Has anyone had any luck playing a Rifftrax in Window Media Player while watching a Netflix Stream in the Browser? Tried to watch The Last Airbender that way, but it killed all the audio from the movie. While that wouldn't be a bad thing normally, I do need to hear the movie to know if it still synced. I've done this, but I used VLC media player instead of Windows Media Player. Worked just fine for me.
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bobservo posted:I've done this, but I used VLC media player instead of Windows Media Player. Worked just fine for me. I will try that instead. Thanks Bob Servo.
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Jul 24, 2011 22:54
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Rifftrax has come to Hulu! Featuring 5 VODs and 10 Shorts (Of which I own 3 VODs and 8 shorts, but hey) http://www.hulu.com/studio/rifftrax?sort=name 
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Jul 25, 2011 02:06
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Locutus of Bald posted:Rifftrax has come to Hulu! Featuring 5 VODs and 10 Shorts (Of which I own 3 VODs and 8 shorts, but hey) Huh, I knew they were trying to get on Netflix streaming but this is a good sign.
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Jul 25, 2011 02:21
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Locutus of Bald posted:Rifftrax has come to Hulu! Featuring 5 VODs and 10 Shorts (Of which I own 3 VODs and 8 shorts, but hey) This is the best news I've heard all day. Thanks!
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Jul 25, 2011 02:39
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Is hulu still free?
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Cubemario posted:Is hulu still free? Yes.
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precision posted:Inception isn't a bad riff but the actual film is really good and there's a lot of time they seem to be really struggling to find a joke. I wouldn't say that any movie is unriffable, but some are clearly better targets than others. Mike said himself in the recent Q&A that movies with lots of action are bad for riffing; I guess they're caught in a bit of a Catch-22 as popular blockbusters are likely to have more people buying the riffs, but those self-same movies actually limit what can be done with the format because they usually feature long action sequences.
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Payndz posted:I guess they're caught in a bit of a Catch-22 as popular blockbusters are likely to have more people buying the riffs, but those self-same movies actually limit what can be done with the format because they usually feature long action sequences. Thankfully, Twilight movies don't have that "action" problem. Just started on the Harry Potter riffs, and they're good but it really is hard not to think "I just wish Brad Neely had done Wizard People, Dear Readers for every film." Maybe they could get him as a guest riffer when they do Deathly Hallows... Also, The Happening is so bad I couldn't even make it through the riff in one sitting. Zooey Deschanel, you make the worst career choices. Stick to being an indie pop singer and That Quirky Girl (shut up, 500 Days of Summer is great).
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precision posted:Also, The Happening is so bad I couldn't even make it through the riff in one sitting. Zooey Deschanel, you make the worst career choices. Stick to being an indie pop singer and That Quirky Girl (shut up, 500 Days of Summer is great). Give it another try. Also, Zooey's biggest worst career choice is going to be her TV show this fall.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Give it another try. I made a drinking game out of "take a shot any time somebody says something "is happening" or "happened" or any variation thereof" and was trashed pretty quick, so that helped. I really cannot believe a studio saw that film and said "You know what? We should release this. This will make us money."
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precision posted:I really cannot believe a studio saw that film and said "You know what? We should release this. This will make us money." It'll be interesting to see if Shyamalan can get any worse after The Happening and Airbender.
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Jul 26, 2011 13:05
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CrumFUNist! posted:There will never be anything funnier than their Star Wars Holiday Special riff. I kind of want to get this but don't know where to get the Star Wars Holiday Special itself. The Happening is another one I'd like to get but think I'll wait until the dvd goes down in price.
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Jul 26, 2011 13:22
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Slasherfan posted:I kind of want to get this but don't know where to get the Star Wars Holiday Special itself. The video they use is at Google Video. I think it's this one. I hope so because you might be lost when they go to a commercial. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=323909610753051544
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BloodDesk UnderHell posted:The video they use is at Google Video. I think it's this one. I hope so because you might be lost when they go to a commercial. While they don't give you a link to the video they do mention how long its supposed to be so if you match that up its fine.
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Mike and friends left you a little hint, if you didn't have your pals at SomethingAwful to ask:quote:Because we taped ours off of the television set, and our NV-9300 doesn't have an "edit" function printed on one of its dozens of plastic piano key-style switches, we just left the commercials in there. But, yeah, two hours along, that's probably it. edit: I almost forgot, but Google Video is getting shut down soon, now that Google owns youtube. I've better get to Bobulus fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Jul 26, 2011 |
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Jul 26, 2011 18:27
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There is no "legit" source for the holiday special. However, you can torrent a pre-synced rifftrax version. As far as morals go: the film exists, much like the KTMA MST3K episodes, as a circulation. No one is releasing it, and the copyright is negligible. So torrent it pre-synced, and just buy/donate the riff.
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Jul 26, 2011 18:43
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I would not want to advocate  , even for something you can't buy anywhere, on SA, but, yeah, I already bought the riff mp3. I'm just talking about securing my purchase for the future, once the google video is gone.Your method will work, though I won't condone it. 
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That's pretty much the only legal grey area rifftrax. All the others are copyright protected by Rifftrax and the film studios, so you will get spanked for downloading them pre-synced. Plus, gently caress you if you don't pay for the riff. Yeah, it's a crime or whatever to download, say, Inception, but that movie made a trillion billion dollars and I won't cry over Chris Nolan losing a few bucks. You're really stealing from Mike et al. when people do that. But, again, no one is losing money from the circulation of Holiday Special or the KTMA episodes of MST. Hell, Joel himself encourages that stuff.
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Is the holiday special going to be funny to someone who doesn't give a gently caress about Star Wars in general? All the recent riffs didn't seem too attractive to me. Otherwise, I'm waiting for 2012 or some other ridiculous piece of poo poo movie to get ripped apart.
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mobby_6kl posted:Is the holiday special going to be funny to someone who doesn't give a gently caress about Star Wars in general? All the recent riffs didn't seem too attractive to me. Otherwise, I'm waiting for 2012 or some other ridiculous piece of poo poo movie to get ripped apart.
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Jul 26, 2011 20:03
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Oh lord, the did another entry in the "At Your Fingertip" series that gave us the Grass short.
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mobby_6kl posted:Is the holiday special going to be funny to someone who doesn't give a gently caress about Star Wars in general? Oh, the only thing related to Star Wars is the characters. We've got bizarrely-dressed holographic acrobats, unintelligible wookie arguments, grandpa wookie getting a hologram peep show, Evil Ned Flanders and one of the Golden Girls singing a song to drunken aliens to drive them out of her bar.
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Vicissitude posted:Oh, the only thing related to Star Wars is the characters. We've got bizarrely-dressed holographic acrobats, unintelligible wookie arguments, grandpa wookie getting a hologram peep show, Evil Ned Flanders and one of the Golden Girls singing a song to drunken aliens to drive them out of her bar. Also my favorite part of the Rifftrax...the commercials. I love the fact they also mock all the poorly aged 70s ads.
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Basically, fans of Star Wars aren't going to have a clue what's going either, so you're in good company.
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I'm watching Aesop's Sound Fables - Frozen Frolics and I have no clue what the gently caress is going on. Up next, the infamous grasses short!
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Bobulus posted:Basically, fans of Star Wars aren't going to have a clue what's going either, so you're in good company. I never watched it until recently (well, I might have seen it when it aired, but I think I blocked it out) and it is truly one of the weirdest things I have ever seen, bar none.
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Jul 27, 2011 14:56
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I really want to know if the opening credits list 'R2-D2 as... R2-D2!' because they couldn't get Kenny Baker to do it or cheaped out with an RC-controlled puppet or something.
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Jul 27, 2011 16:07
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Watched The Ice Cream Bunny again, and this time for some reason Bill's New York mole absolutely cracked me up. "And besides, he coulda applied for municipal heating assistance from the may-oar's owar-fice!" But still, nothing can compare with this.
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Jul 28, 2011 10:38
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OK, the Harry Potter riffs definitely get better with each installment. Bit of a rock start on the first two, I'd say, and it doesn't help that the movies are all so padded out with 20-40 minutes of "celebrating" and "additional dialogue". And Quidditch. God drat, gently caress Quidditch (and I say that as someone who didn't notice it being bad when I watched the un-riffed HP movies whenever they'd hit HBO).
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Holy gently caress you guys weren't kidding about the Star Wars Holiday Special, what a bizarre mess! Having recently seen the Ice Cream Bunny riff, I have to say that Bunny almost made more sense than this, to the point that I thought the riff sometimes wasn't able to top it. That is not to say that it's a bad riff though, it was good fun.
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They should do a Riff on The Apaches, I think that short is Public Domain.
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So, it turns out that watching the Star Wars Holiday Special melts your brain. How in the hell did the idea of having it revolve around Chewbacca's family who speak subtitleless Wookie the whole time make it past the first seconds of that idea's existence? Who gives out names on their hosed up planet? Why in Shiva's name did the Empire order all it's troops to watch Bea Arthur sing and tend bar? And that fantasy hologram, what the gently caress? And the dead eyes of every Wookie, and the cartoon about Boba Fett and our heroes apparently put out by the rebellion, and everything about Life Day. What in the nine hells drove them to put in a pointless scene where Lumpy decides to walk on the railing thousands of feet above the ground? How did this poo poo get made?
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Jul 31, 2011 05:51
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My guess: "It was the 70s" + "Cocaine is a Hell of a drug" = Star Wars Holiday Special
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Jul 31, 2011 06:22
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Is there anywhere to contact Rifftrax and make a suggestion? I think this would make a good riff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0GyRz_lOQA
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precision posted:My guess: "It was the 70s" + "Cocaine is a Hell of a drug" = Star Wars Holiday Special The only problem with that is Carrie Fisher already snorted all the cocaine.
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