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Luigi Thirty posted:Oh yeah I forgot, test audiences said that Ibanez should have died instead of Dizzy because she betrayed Rico by leaving with Zander while Dizzy followed Rico into the Mobile Infantry. Verhoeven on the original DVD commentary track: "The audiences said, 'The slut should have died!'"
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Think about how often in life the people who "should die" live forever. I mean, Dick Cheney plugs himself into the wall at night, but 10 years ago we had Bob Hope, Johnny Cas.....
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Dr_Strangelove posted:Verhoeven on the original DVD commentary track: "The audiences said, 'The slut should have died!'"
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Aug 21, 2013 16:00
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muscles like this? posted:Killing Dizzy in the first place seemed kind of pointless. It happens so late in the movie Rico barely reacts to it. Also I love that we're still picking this movie apart. 
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Aug 21, 2013 16:19
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Evil Mastermind posted:Not to mention that he puts Michael Ironside out of his misery, but lets Diz pretty much bleed out slowly. They only ripped his legs off. He could have survived.
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Aug 21, 2013 17:42
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Yeah, he could've replaced the guy at the front desk from the beginning of the movie. This is for all you new people, I only have one rule. Fill out these forms.
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Aug 21, 2013 18:42
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Dizzy probably would have survived if Rico hadn't yanked that claw out of her and sped up the bleeding process. They do have medics, unless they only use them in boot camp.jedibeavis posted:Yeah, he could've replaced the guy at the front desk from the beginning of the movie. This is for all you new people, I only have one rule. Fill out these forms. Welcome to the Pencilnecks.
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Command Ant posted:Dizzy probably would have survived if Rico hadn't yanked that claw out of her and sped up the bleeding process. They do have medics, unless they only use them in boot camp. Nope, remember perfect chin was in the totally-not-Star Wars healing tank when Dizz and TEEEEETH told him he was "dead". If he hadn't pulled the pincher thing she could have probably sci-fi healed.
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Honestly I wish the movie followed the big tooth fiddle playing sidekick instead. What's his story? Why did he join the army? Where did he learn how to play the fiddle? Why, at the end, is he still a private?
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Aug 21, 2013 22:48
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Because in Rico's Roughnecks when a Corporal rises to Sergeant in 30 minutes the position of Corporal and Lieutenant vanish.
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Wandering Knitter posted:Honestly I wish the movie followed the big tooth fiddle playing sidekick instead. What's his story? Why did he join the army? Where did he learn how to play the fiddle? Why, at the end, is he still a private? Rico offered him a promotion and he turned it down. I could talk about Starship Troopers all day. It's perfect.
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precision posted:I could talk about Starship Troopers all day. It's perfect. Yup. I'm kinda sad they didn't have a post-show song like they did with Manos (I though the song was funny, not the music video involving scenes from the Manos sequel  ) - I tweeted the guys this song about a week before the show (spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen Starship Troopers, I guess?):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThrVQKl04Ak 
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Well, if we're going to post music videos about Starship Troopers... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvpJXpNTNOA
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Command Ant posted:Well, if we're going to 
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thexerox123 posted:I actually like those parts too, I'm surprised that so many people hate them. Include me in this club. They at least do what they can to distract from the mind numbing horror of what's taking place on screen, and I thank them from the bottom of my heart for it.
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Any of the VoD since Cool as Ice worth getting? My brother got me Dr Who and the Daleks a while back, but debating on getting some of the other ones with the new BACK2SCHOOL coupon code for 10% off. Also how is the Wraith of Khan riff that is only 2 bucks right now?
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Totally worth $2. The Apple is pure madness, and Psycho 2 is hilarious. Either is an excellent purchase.
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I cannot recommend Viva Knievel enough.
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I'm so excited to see that they are fixing the audio mix for the replay of Starship Troopers... it gives me more of an excuse to go with my buddy who had to miss the Live show.
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Kingdom of the Spiders is really good, but the movie's abrupt ending is disappointing.
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Ben Affleck is the new Batman, so everyone set aside $3.99 for what's sure to be the best Rifftrax ever.
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Ben Affleck is the new Batman  Did no one at DC see Daredevil?? I mean, don't get me wrong, I like Ben Affleck in some films, and he's certainly come into his own as a director, but he is most certainly not the actor when I think "Dark Knight".
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Look, you're my worst enemy, so don't take this the wrong way but, in 20 years if you're still livin' here, comin' over to my town, making your jests, doing riddles, I'll fuckin' kill ya. That's not a threat, that's a fact, I'll fuckin' kill ya.
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Rirse posted:BACK2SCHOOL coupon code for 10% off I liked Kingdom of Spiders a lot and when I saw the ending it triggered a massive flashback that I had seen the end of that movie on tv when I was a child. Neither viewing caused me to have nightmares.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:
I'm actually reminded of a quote from Michael Keaton when everyone was making GBS threads on him for getting cast as Batman: "Wouldn't you want the guy you'd least suspect as Batman...playing Batman?" in reference to nobody thinking Bruce Wayne could be the Dark Knight.
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So, speaking of Batman in the Rifftrax thread, they're good at predicting the future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=R-emOpTpwTA#t=133 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=R-emOpTpwTA#t=185 (Same video, just two different times to pay attention to).
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While speaking about Michael Keaton, can we agree he was way better than the dope in Batman Takes Over?
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Looks like the Live shows coming to Canada thing is going to be a regular thing going forward. Their Facebook post about it mentions that Canadian tickets for Night of the Living Dead will be going on sale soon.
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muscles like this? posted:Looks like the Live shows coming to Canada thing is going to be a regular thing going forward. Their Facebook post about it mentions that Canadian tickets for Night of the Living Dead will be going on sale soon. Yay! 
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I like the Rifftrax crew and all, but I just don't know about riffing on Night of the Living Dead. For one thing, it's a legitimately great movie; you could easily riff on the first act, but after that, it gradually becomes more and more intense and horrifying. And how in the hell are they going to find comedy in that gutpunch of an ending? I dunno. Maybe it's just my love for the movie, but Night is such a great horror movie that riffing on it seems like a bad choice.
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ClydeUmney posted:I like the Rifftrax crew and all, but I just don't know about riffing on Night of the Living Dead. For one thing, it's a legitimately great movie; you could easily riff on the first act, but after that, it gradually becomes more and more intense and horrifying. And how in the hell are they going to find comedy in that gutpunch of an ending? They already have.
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While it's not an absolute rule, I think that the best Riffs are not a function of how bad a film is, but how seriously it takes itself. The Avengers give a sense of the challenge when the guys admit that that have to be able to give more and better jokes about a given situation than Robert Downey Jr. or the whole enterprise falls apart.
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NOTLD, Jurassic Park, Casablanca, The Dark Knight, Inception, and Casino Royale are all arguably good movies, and the riffs are all excellent. Especially JP. The only movie I've never finished the riff for is Jaws, because I just get way too into the movie and switch them off. BTW, they've also riffed Carnival of Souls and House on Haunted Hill, which are also great riffs to classic horror movie nerd favorites.
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:NOTLD, Jurassic Park, Casablanca, The Dark Knight, Inception, and Casino Royale are all arguably good movies, and the riffs are all excellent. Especially JP. They've also riffed the original Star Wars (I liked those) and the LOTR trilogy (haven't seen them yet). People have this thing about things they like getting riffed; It's not necessarily because it's bad, but because it lends it self to riffing possibilities.
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I'm watching the Daredevil Rifftrax for the first time... it's kind of hilarious how many Batman jokes there are in it. I'm only 20 minutes in, and I think there have been 3 so far.
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Have all of the previous lives been rebroadcast? I know Starship Troopers will be, but my question is about Night of the Living Dead: I can't make it to the live one, so I'm really hoping it gets rebroadcast.
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Starship Troopers is the first to get an encore release so soon. They did a Live! for Plan 9 earlier this year, and I think that was a rebroadcast of a show from a couple years ago--certainly felt like it, anyway. But it isn't something they do often.
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The first couple were actually rebroadcast about a week later. So this is just a reinstatement of a past policy.
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Even going back to MST3K the issue seems less whether or not the movie is bad (a few of the movies on MST3K were good!) but whether it provides material that you can joke about. Starship Troopers has giant bugs and spaceships and Dizzy's obsession with Rico and a few other things on top of the actual satire, so you can make fun of those without much trouble. Night of the Living Dead has zombies and a woman going crazy and people shouting at each other, etc. They might have trouble with Inherit the Wind or 12 Angry Men. Of course the risk with good movies is also the presence of genuinely emotionally powerful scenes and how do you handle that? I'll have to try the Jaws riff sometime because I don't know how you'd handle something like Chrissy's death, which is just brutal on its own.
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Maxwell Lord posted:They might have trouble with Inherit the Wind or 12 Angry Men. That's why they riffed Casablanca. To prove that they could riff a classic (although I didn't care for the movie myself). Mike once said they could riff movies like Passion of the Christ or Schindler's List if they really wanted to, but it would probably not work out as well as some superhero movie. A friend of mine doesn't care for Rifftrax because I think he takes the movies a little too seriously. He asked how I would feel if they riffed my favorite movie, Blade Runner. I said I'd love to see that. It certainly has its flaws and seeing it riffed would not change my mind about it.
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