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Mister Kingdom posted:I'm watching Abraxas now and it's like watching Future War. Dear God...
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That actually sounds like an apt description. As bad as Future War is, it does succeed in coming off as a sci-fi movie and having action-related stuff happen.
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Sep 4, 2011 08:11
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SO I decided to get back into Rifftrax. I have no real reason to stop watching them, just kind of forgot about it. Do they still have the Rifftrax player or did they give up on that buggy thing?
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Sep 5, 2011 02:46
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Just got done watching Abraxas and man, that was a pretty goofy goddamn film. Of course the strangest part was how they apparently decided to adapt Fourth World but the only thing they took from it was the idea of the Anti-Life Equation and a bastardization of Motherboxes.
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Sep 5, 2011 03:14
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BigRed0427 posted:SO I decided to get back into Rifftrax. I have no real reason to stop watching them, just kind of forgot about it. They have a new version of the Rifftrax Player. Haven't used it myself, since it doesn't support blu-ray yet, but you can get it here. It has a list of all movies it's currently supporting on the page.
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Sep 5, 2011 03:36
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Where's the changelog?
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Sep 5, 2011 04:35
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I never thought this would happen. I just used 'can't we get BEYOND the thunderdome?'. I was actually in a discussion that involved thunderdomes, but neither Mad Max or MST3K. I absolutely love the Twilight, Harry Potter and Star Wars Rifftrax but haven't seen too many standalone films, especially not recent ones. What are the essentials from the last couple years?
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Sep 6, 2011 11:54
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Buh posted:What are the essentials from the last couple years? Battlefield Earth Planet of Dinosaurs Beowulf Casablanca Jaws House on Haunted Hill Star Trek (2009) Willy Wonka I also highly recommend The Day after tomorrow and Saw. They're Rifftrax Presents, but don't let the name fool you. It's Kevin and Bill riffing without Mike.
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Sep 6, 2011 13:46
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The X-Files: Fight the Future riff with Mary Jo and Bill is an underrated classic - they have a great laconic chemistry together. Plus, you know, the womany perspective. And from Mary Jo, too. 
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Sep 6, 2011 16:27
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Cubemario posted:Where's the changelog? It's a completely new version, built from the ground up. It doesn't have anything to do with the first, crappy player from several years ago.
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Sep 6, 2011 16:52
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rereedrumr posted:It's a completely new version, built from the ground up. It doesn't have anything to do with the first, crappy player from several years ago. Oh, it's the same one that's been out for months now.
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Sep 6, 2011 20:35
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Vicissitude posted:I also highly recommend The Day after tomorrow and Saw. They're Rifftrax Presents, but don't let the name fool you. It's Kevin and Bill riffing without Mike. The Alien riff is also really good. I wish that Bill and Kevin would do all the Alien movies. I'm not asking that they do Alien Vs. Predator, but at least Alien 2 and 3.
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Sep 6, 2011 23:47
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Shadley Puffin posted:The X-Files: Fight the Future riff with Mary Jo and Bill is an underrated classic - they have a great laconic chemistry together. Plus, you know, the womany perspective. Don't forget special "Not the Bees!" riff from Kevin. 
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Sep 7, 2011 14:35
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Also Santa Claus and the Icecream Bunny. That and Planet of Dinosaurs are the two I can never watch too many times.
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Sep 7, 2011 20:09
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Vicissitude posted:Don't forget special "Not the Bees!" riff from Kevin. The Case of Tommy Tucker short has a really good "Not the bees" joke because of the riff "Wicker Man: The Musical!"
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Sep 7, 2011 21:39
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Rifftrax related: Netflix just added a couple Gamera MST3K's to instant play this morning. They are all previously unavailable on DVD, so its very possible a lot of you haven't seen them before!
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Sep 8, 2011 16:56
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The latest DVD set they released had all the Gamera episodes in it.
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Sep 8, 2011 18:47
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RagingBoner posted:Rifftrax related: Netflix just added a couple Gamera MST3K's to instant play this morning. I haven't seen a better version of these episodes outside of lovely tapes I traded for in the 90s and lousy rips online. Loving this. Now bring on Time of the Apes.
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Sep 8, 2011 19:38
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bobservo posted:I haven't seen a better version of these episodes outside of lovely tapes I traded for in the 90s and lousy rips online. Loving this. I just had to look this up, and I see these episodes are from season 3. I'm guessing those original UHF episodes are gone forever (not that they were the best, from the few web rips I could find)?
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Sep 8, 2011 20:15
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RagingBoner posted:Rifftrax related: Netflix just added a couple Gamera MST3K's to instant play this morning. Not in Canada though 
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Sep 8, 2011 20:57
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IUG posted:I just had to look this up, and I see these episodes are from season 3. I'm guessing those original UHF episodes are gone forever (not that they were the best, from the few web rips I could find)? Yep. The first 3 KTMA episodes have never surfaced. The 5 Gamera movies from the newest DVD set are all from season 3 of Comedy Central. The KTMA eps will apparently never be on DVD. Not that I mind. The less Josh Weinstein, the better.
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Sep 8, 2011 21:37
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IUG posted:I just had to look this up, and I see these episodes are from season 3. I'm guessing those original UHF episodes are gone forever (not that they were the best, from the few web rips I could find)? Well, there hasn't been an official DVD release of many episodes, and the recording technology available at the time means you're lucky to find something better than passable VHS quality. It's a real treat to see these episodes as they originally aired.
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Sep 8, 2011 22:37
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Tony Danza Claus posted:Yep. The first 3 KTMA episodes have never surfaced. Supposedly, Jim Mallon has them. The story is that they are on 3/4" U-Matic tapes and he claims he's waiting to find a decent machine to play them on. The tapes are now 22 years old. I don't know how much longer he can wait.
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Sep 8, 2011 23:42
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There's no reason to suspect the tapes are unplayable. 22 years, unplayed in an archive, is nothing. Much BBC material only exists as amazingly old, mistreated tapes in shoddy formats. Disintegrating tapes that you have to bake in a kiln to play back. Home recordings from the mid 60s (sometimes from dudes who engineered their own recording equipment). Stolen copies found after 40 years in someone's basement. These are things which have been released on DVD. Film is even crazier, they have recently restored a COLOUR film from 1902 which had literally rotted to pieces. Finding a machine to transfer the tapes professionally won't be cheap, though. I can see how nobody would get around to it when they have copyright issues AND are considered the weakest episodes.
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Sep 9, 2011 08:08
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Buh posted:There's no reason to suspect the tapes are unplayable. 22 years, unplayed in an archive, is nothing. He didn't say they were unplayable, he just doesn't want to risk damaging them. Actually, Mallon is just a dick.
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Sep 9, 2011 12:50
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The KTMA episodes suck rear end anyways. I've watched all that have been available and they are pretty terrible. Not even nostalgia saves them. Saying that, it would be nice to complete the collection.
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Sep 9, 2011 14:15
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Mister Kingdom posted:Actually, Mallon is just a dick. He certainly is, but I think it'd be kind of a bitch to get the rights to some of the movies they showed on KTMA now (MGM owns quite a few of them IIRC), and a boxset of those episodes would probably sell horribly.
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Sep 9, 2011 16:39
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The KTMA episodes are terrible and even completionists shouldn't bother.
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Sep 9, 2011 20:19
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weekly font posted:The KTMA episodes are terrible and even completionists shouldn't bother. I agree. I tried sitting through some of them and I just couldn't. Tom's voice was just too different and unfunny.
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Sep 9, 2011 21:05
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I used to poop all over Weinstein but he basically created Servo's persona and was just a teenager when he was on the show. These days, he really pulls his weight alongside the MST3K vets on Cinematic Titanic.
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Sep 9, 2011 23:10
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I don't have a problem with him but those early episodes are still not that great for other reasons. Mostly pacing as they hadn't exactly learned the right ratio of riffing to movie yet.
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Sep 9, 2011 23:17
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That's because they didn't script the jokes, it was all on the fly and it shows.
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Sep 9, 2011 23:22
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GreenNight posted:That's because they didn't script the jokes, it was all on the fly and it shows. And yet, J. Elvis says this was what made the show so great. I've seen all the available KTMA shows and they are extremely painful to watch. The first "official" season is light years ahead and it can be clunky at times.
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Sep 9, 2011 23:44
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The new short has been released: Setting up a Room Can't wait to watch this one. Judging by the preview, it looks pretty strange 
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Sep 10, 2011 00:04
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Mister Kingdom posted:And yet, J. Elvis says this was what made the show so great. Great for him cause he was a lazy rear end that didn't want to learn a script or watch the movie a dozen times to write down jokes.
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Sep 10, 2011 00:43
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There's a new short out today, called Setting Up a Room. It's about two women who set up a kindergarten classroom. It lasts 27 minutes. http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/setting-up-room
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Sep 10, 2011 01:07
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SnipeBob posted:The new short has been released: Setting up a Room http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI0uJfpKUPM&feature=feedu I...I think I need to purchase this and show it to my fellow student teachers...
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Sep 10, 2011 04:14
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They will never forgive you... this is an unbelievable short. I really can't fathom how it ever made it past the earliest pre-production stage. Rifftrax released a short of them reacting to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI0uJfpKUPM Twenty seven minutes. 
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Sep 10, 2011 05:12
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No one will ever make good money out of the KMTA but I do hope they're digitised, just to placate that restless part of my brain that needs everything to exist somewhere (so that I can never, ever watch it). Thanks for the earlier recommendations, now to shamelessly beg for more! Rifftrax just sent me a $5 gift voucher - seems they do that if you don't get any for a year or something. This calls for shorts! I already know and love One Got Fat, Drugs Are Like That and the one with the kid whose soul had been smothered with ennui. Anything on that level recently?
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Buh posted:Rifftrax just sent me a $5 gift voucher - seems they do that if you don't get any for a year or something. This calls for shorts! I already know and love One Got Fat, Drugs Are Like That and the one with the kid whose soul had been smothered with ennui. Anything on that level recently? Both the At Your Fingertips shorts are all kinds of  , and if you haven't seen them get the Calendar and More Dangerous than Dynamite shorts. Jesus.edit: Ok, you have to get Setting Up A Room. Holy. gently caress. Completely worth it for Kevin slowly going further and further insane. Also, the idea of the horrifying alternative: Setting Up The Room. edit 2: I swear to god, if they end up showing us this un-Riffed in class I will go on a murderous rampage. 
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