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Demp posted:It was like that in my showing too. Joffrey gets no love, I guess.
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cams posted:This was the one bit I didn't get, haven't seen GoT. The Riff was hilarious. The unseen capture of Jack and the gang was loving hilarious. And that "What is Nothing?" short was genius.
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It's fairly low brow, but Mike's delivery of the Hagar the Horrible joke was great.
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fenix down posted:That's alright, I don't think anyone got the Joffrey joke at my theater either. Same with the "sponge-worthy" reference. I didn't get those either but when the squinty faced minion was running around talking about "The Master" I was a little heartbroken they didn't call him Torgo. It seems like they don't want to reference MST3K ever which I guess I get.
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Who loves us more than Mike, Kevin, and Bill? Nobody.  Rifftrax.com posted:Our new release Abraxas: Guardian of the Universe follows the heroic exploits of a galactic defender, played by Jesse Ventura, who comes to Earth to--wait, wait, that can’t be right. Jesse Ventura? The washed-up 80s wrestler known primarily for his feather boas and conspiracy theories? No, no way. Who would let THAT GUY guard a universe? Forget that, who would even let him guard some small part of the universe? Say, a state of the United States of America, a state with a population of roughly 5.3 million, perhaps located in the Midwest, with an area of 86,939 square miles, famous for its thousands of lakes? Totally implausible, the world just isn’t that silly. I'm sorry, but this looks both epic and amazing!
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Aug 24, 2011 00:09
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Ensign_Ricky posted:I'm sorry, but this looks both epic and amazing! Thankfully, it's going to be VOD.
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Aug 24, 2011 00:56
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Well, that does look amazing. What I wanted to ask however, is what's with the shorts? I get the whole rifftrax thing, of course, but the actual videos... Who would make something like "Drugs are like that" and who would watch that? Who would find "County Fair" educational? Hilarious as they are, I think I'm just missing the some of the cultural/historic context here.
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mobby_6kl posted:Well, that does look amazing. I still have idea what was the point of the turkey counting short. It's not education at all!
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Aug 24, 2011 01:41
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mobby_6kl posted:Well, that does look amazing. Are you talking about the shorts as they were made, or the shorts after they were given the Rifftrax treatment? Because I have all the Rifftrax Shorts DVDs, and have them all on my iPhone. I got to watch something during my dinner break (since I'm the night guy, and the only one on break at that time).
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Rirse posted:I still have idea what was the point of the turkey counting short. It's not education at all! I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the calendar short.
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RandolphCarter posted:I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the calendar short. Yeah, that one is extra bizarre because everything in it is just so remedial. The weirdest thing about the shorts is just the sheer volume of them. For over 40 years companies were just cranking these things out about any and every subject.
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mobby_6kl posted:Well, that does look amazing. Look, Mrs. Johnson's 1963 3rd grade class needs something to do for five minutes during 4th period!
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RandolphCarter posted:I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the calendar short. The calendar short is my favorite because you can't "learn" to use a calendar. The whole concept is just so preposterous and belabored.
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Universe Master posted:Look, Mrs. Johnson's 1963 3rd grade class needs something to do for five minutes during 4th period! How else are they going to learn the danger of homosexuals?
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In terms of sheer madness, the "nothing" short from Jack the Giant Killer blows "one got fat" and "the calendar" out of the water. As for why they exist: film studios were given government grants provided they produce educational films. So, at year's end, at the big Christmas party, just after Bob Executive is done snorting a line of coke off his secretary's tits, Gene from Accounting would come in and remind the bossman that they can't close up for the holidays because they have to turn in some films to the fed or they'll have to repay the grant. Bob curses under his breath at his flaccid whiskeydick and tries to focus his eyes on Maggie's tits, and when Gene repeats himself Bob throws a highball glass at him and yells "loving make it yourself, can't you see I'm busy?" And that's why "Drugs are Like That" is a story about how drugs are like fun things and somehow a perpetual motion machine is involved. Poor Gene isn't very creative and, never having kids of his own, has no idea how to reach them.
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Am I the only one who thought Pirates of the Carribean riff to be really bad? I hardly laughed and I didn't get half the jokes, many of them were obscure to me.
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Cubemario posted:Am I the only one who thought Pirates of the Carribean riff to be really bad? I hardly laughed and I didn't get half the jokes, many of them were obscure to me. I heard before in this thread to avoid the Pirates riff.
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Tony Danza Claus posted:In terms of sheer madness, the "nothing" short from Jack the Giant Killer blows "one got fat" and "the calendar" out of the water. Well, now this makes perfect sense! Unlike, say, the Rectangle or Boxes shorts that I just saw. Wow.
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Vicissitude posted:Jim Belushi as a principal? Get out of town! That movie was awesome. It totally kicks the poo poo out of all the "badass teacher" movies after it.
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Kingtheninja posted:That movie was awesome. It totally kicks the poo poo out of all the "badass teacher" movies after it. Oh, I'm not disagreeing. I'm just pointing out that using it as a selling point is old hat.
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Just got both the "At Your Fingertips" shorts.  Is it weird that I actually hope that there are other shorts in the series?
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Just got both the "At Your Fingertips" shorts. The Turkey Counting short is by the same publisher, but not part of the "At Your Fingertips" series. It's not in the same style, but it's a very weird short.
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Rirse posted:The Turkey Counting short is by the same publisher, but not part of the "At Your Fingertips" series. It's not in the same style, but it's a very weird short. Oh good, I picked that up too, just haven't watched it yet.
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Has there been any word on if or when Jack the Giant Killer will make it to DVD or digital download? I regretfully missed it in theaters.
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Behonkiss posted:Has there been any word on if or when Jack the Giant Killer will make it to DVD or digital download? I regretfully missed it in theaters. Hopefully it doesn't take a year like last year's show.
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Rirse posted:The Turkey Counting short is by the same publisher, but not part of the "At Your Fingertips" series. So is "County Fair", which like "One Turkey, Two Turkey" is inane singing about adverbs or something. I hope Mike, Kevin, and Bill are sitting on a goldmine of these ACI shorts.
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Huh, they apparently just added a new feature to their site which points out which movies they've riffed are on Netflix Streaming. Its kind of surprising considering their past issues with Netflix (who refuses to do a deal which would bring the feature length stuff to streaming.)
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Tony Danza Claus posted:In terms of sheer madness, the "nothing" short from Jack the Giant Killer blows "one got fat" and "the calendar" out of the water. I don't know about about the level of sheer madness in those. Nothing and calender are both perplexing and odd. There's no real reason for them to exist. Even if there was, no real reason why they should exist as they are. One Got Fat at least makes some sense. An attempt at a fun bicycle safety film! Sure! With monkey-mask wearing kids that will be picked off one by one by a whimsical narrator! Surely this won't be horrifying! After watching Paper and I a few more times however, I find that one to be disturbing. The graphic detail on how the paper is made just sounds wrong. Like they wrote it out with "TREE" and "WOOD PULP" and "PAPER" replaced with other, squishier words. Nodding off to bed while the paper bag goes though the process makes me think of awful things. Awful things. And the breakfast table scene, oh the breakfast table scene. It's bad enough for Billy to have to hear the story of how that demonbag came to be. Billy sits at the table, his parents enjoying a nice breakfast. There is the bag. It is always there. Every day, filled with lunch. He looks at the bag. The bag looks back. IT LOOKS BACK! It's face, odd and deformed. More then it was before it seems. It is only a matter of time before- "Do you know how many trees were used each month to create our wonderful paper products, Billy?" The bag is Clippy's cousin, spewing trivia and factoids at him. Billy eats some corn flakes. "Billy, paper is important. Very important. Make the others understand, Billy. Make them... appreciate." The bag commands, Billy obeys. The shrill voice will not leave him. "Make them." Make them. The bag can not be killed. He will just be reborn. Billy doesn't know it yet, but that was just a test. The bag will be back. There will be punishment. Box Prison. ACI huffs paint REDjackeT fucked around with this message at 08:52 on Aug 27, 2011 |
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"None of them take paper seriously...so we'll have to burn them down."
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muscles like this? posted:Huh, they apparently just added a new feature to their site which points out which movies they've riffed are on Netflix Streaming. Its kind of surprising considering their past issues with Netflix (who refuses to do a deal which would bring the feature length stuff to streaming.) The stick didn't work. Now they're trying the carrot. The Vin Diesel, Chronicles of Riddick, teacup-kill carrot.
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I'm downloading Abraxas now, and for some reason the file size is WAY bigger (like, double) than any of the other On-Demand movies I've downloaded from them, even though the run-time is only 90 minutes.
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Just finished New Moon. Mom, when did you start watching Twilight? Quiet dear, Mom's trying to watch.
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Finished watching Abraxas. As a movie, it's completely terrible. I at least thought that Jesse Ventura starring in some kind of cross between Terminator 2 and Jack Kirby's Fourth World would be fun on its own in a cheesy way, but it's the most boring action movie I can recall seeing. Ventura has zero presence and by playing the robotic role, he loses all his charisma. The villain has no menace despite his size and the sci-fi idea falls flat. Action sequences and fights are laughably bad and the softcore porn jazz soundtrack doesn't help. It does get hilarious during the climax where they start playing this song instead. The riffing is pretty great. It starts off pretty slow, but the second half is pure gold. The wrestling jokes are more sparse than I figured (there are a ton of things to make fun of Ventura for, so it's understandable), but are strong. There are a lot of good hole-poking with the plot (like how there's no such concept as rape in that world and how that kid ages nine years over the course of five). Probably the two best laughs I got were the "Is this the story that Abraxas was telling the kid?" scene and Ventura running around like a chimp.
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I wonder how they got the rights to do the VOD thing for Abraxas. Every other time they've done it its been for stuff that's in the public domain.
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muscles like this? posted:I wonder how they got the rights to do the VOD thing for Abraxas. Every other time they've done it its been for stuff that's in the public domain. I can't imagine the rights fee was too high. The producers were probably happy to get any money for it.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I can't imagine the rights fee was too high. The producers were probably happy to get any money for it.
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Armourking posted:After watching it, it has to be this. I'm watching Abraxas now and it's like watching Future War. Except it's not as good.
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