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Will there ever be a downloadable version of that Norman short that aired before the NotLD live show because I was late and missed it and still have yet to see it 
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Nov 15, 2013 22:18
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Will there ever be a VOD of Santa With Muscles? We had a VHS of that once, and we watched it before we really ventured into VOD turf. I will take another look at it, we're always looking for Christmas themed releases. I worry that it'd be too slapsticky, I imagine there's lots of Home Alone-esque mayhem but I'm sure we could work with it. Only problem is we'd probably wait until next December to release it.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Just found out that sadly, we of the Great White North will be missing out on SCCTM. Goddammit.. I knew it was a mistake to get attached to attending the live events. 
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Will there ever be a downloadable version of that Norman short that aired before the NotLD live show because I was late and missed it and still have yet to see it I think so. I believe there's a 90 day window before we can release the live show on our site and it usually takes a bit longer in case there's an encore. But we just put the other three Normans up and I'm sure we'll complete the quadrilogy. We'll have to record a studio version though, we didn't do that before the live show. I thought there was a fifth Norman, but it turns out the one called "Beloved husband of Irma" is just the same thing as the b&w bathroom one, which we got as just "Norman Krasner". So disappointed, I thought we had one left in the hopper.
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rereedrumr posted:I think so. I believe there's a 90 day window before we can release the live show on our site and it usually takes a bit longer in case there's an encore. But we just put the other three Normans up and I'm sure we'll complete the quadrilogy. We'll have to record a studio version though, we didn't do that before the live show. 
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I've heard that you guys make much more on the VODs, but can you guys please keep doing a few new releases each year (aside from Harry Potter, Twilight, and Avengers)? I love the VODs (I'll give you TWO REASONS why), but stuff like 300 or Fast and Furious were absolutely hilarious.
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Yes, I too love the movie Riffs that aren't VOD as well. I have purchased a few movies just because they have a Rifftrax feature riff (Thor, I'm looking at you). I'm glad that you guys are finishing the Harry Potter series, and bought that Deathly Hallows Riff so quickly. (Bonus for the people who haven't bought it yet, it's great.)
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Xylorjax posted:I've heard that you guys make much more on the VODs, but can you guys please keep doing a few new releases each year (aside from Harry Potter, Twilight, and Avengers)? I love the VODs (I'll give you TWO REASONS why), but stuff like 300 or Fast and Furious were absolutely hilarious. I'm not sure if we'd make more on a VOD. For everyone who buys it because it's easier, there's probably someone who doesn't want to spend ten bucks. What I think is more related to the shift in movie types is just the utter sameness of all the movies that we'd be able to do as MP3s. For a while, we did pretty much every big summer movie you could ask for, but they all just start to run together. So many of them are superhero movies, or action movies that might as well be superhero movies, that all run over two hours and build to a thirty minute destruction-o-rama showdown. (We started breaking up the Transformers-esque movies into ten sections instead of five, just because whoever would get stuck with the last fifth of one of these movies just got utterly screwed, trying to make jokes about exploding rubble as the exploding rubble sequence entered its eighth minute.) It just got hard to get excited about doing a movie like Pacific Rim or Dark Knight Rises knowing that it was all going to be fairly familiar ground. And then if by any chance it was one that people just decided they weren't interested in, it was kind of deflating. Plus, once you run out of the movies you actually like such as Star Wars, LOTRs, etc, there were less things to be excited about. VODs at least have the opportunity to keep the source material fresh. Insane found footage bigfoot movie to David Carradine schlockfest to mad scientist movie to giant spiders to blaxploitation (hang on, getting choked up about my beloved kidnapped daughter, and I'm done.) None of them are overlong and there's never a budget for a whole city to get destroyed. Plus, as streaming starts to become even more prevalent than it is, it will be nice to have these VOD titles ready for people, as streaming Harry Potter is sadly probably never a reality. That said, I don't think we'll ever be done with big modern movies, because we keep hearing this exact request. We'll of course have to finish Harry Potter, after a break of course. And hopefully, working with Sony and other studios on stuff like Starship Troopers opens the door for hopefully other titles getting the treatment, hopefully as VODs. Thank you for referencing Guy From Harlem.
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IUG posted:Yes, I too love the movie Riffs that aren't VOD as well. I have purchased a few movies just because they have a Rifftrax feature riff (Thor, I'm looking at you). I'm glad that you guys are finishing the Harry Potter series, and bought that Deathly Hallows Riff so quickly. (Bonus for the people who haven't bought it yet, it's great.) Glad you liked it. I thought that the thing someone posted in this thread about the shifting Harry Potter color palate was amazing. My favorite line in this one was tying Neville's quip on the train into the first Apple keynote after Steve Jobs passed away.
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rereedrumr posted:VODs at least have the opportunity to keep the source material fresh. Insane found footage bigfoot movie to David Carradine schlockfest to mad scientist movie to giant spiders to blaxploitation (hang on, getting choked up about my beloved kidnapped daughter, and I'm done.) None of them are overlong and there's never a budget for a whole city to get destroyed. Plus, as streaming starts to become even more prevalent than it is, it will be nice to have these VOD titles ready for people, as streaming Harry Potter is sadly probably never a reality.. Who (or what) were your inspirations when it came to writing the book?
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Mister Kingdom posted:Any chance you'll ever do Blade Runner? I'm not even a huge fan of that movie (the book was better!) but I would love to see this as well. Maybe other "cult classics" movies as well.
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rereedrumr posted:I'm not sure if we'd make more on a VOD. For everyone who buys it because it's easier, there's probably someone who doesn't want to spend ten bucks. What I think is more related to the shift in movie types is just the utter sameness of all the movies that we'd be able to do as MP3s. Interesting. I hadn't considered the sameness factor but that makes total sense. As long as we get some of each I'm good. So how did you end up working with Mike? Want ad in the afternoon edition of the old-time newspaper? Payoff from a blackmail scheme? Fallout from a speed dating session gone oh so right?
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techknight posted:Goddammit.. I knew it was a mistake to get attached to attending the live events. Apparently it's a scheduling issue with Cineplex, and hopefully this will be the only time it happens. As a side note pleasepleaseplease do The Hobbit as an mp3 and get the VOD rights to Yor - The Hunter From the Future ASAP because oh god if any movie had it coming...
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I just finished watching the Star Wars Holiday Special riff. I was not prepared for the Deep Hurting, not in the least. Mike and the 'Bots' were barely enough to help me muscle through the whole thing. Jesus Christ, Art Carney why won't you just shut the gently caress up 
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rereedrumr posted:Glad you liked it. I thought that the thing someone posted in this thread about the shifting Harry Potter color palate was amazing. My favorite line in this one was tying Neville's quip on the train :into the first Apple keynote after Steve Jobs passed away. Rereedrumr, what sort of a portfolio would one have to provide as their application to write for Rifftrax? I've been trying to put one or two together for an iRiff, but I just don't have the voice for it. I seem to be better on the writing side than the performing.
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rereedrumr posted:People ask about Schindler's List a lot. I think everyone agrees that it would pretty much be in very poor taste and very poorly received. We did however riff Cool As Ice, which has the same cinematographer as Schindler's List! (Would it be a challenge? Of course. But not in the 'fun' sort of way Casablanca was. The source material would overpower any jokes. Think about how many people say they tune out riffs in a movie like "Thor" for being 'too good', then imagine us joking about a well made film about the horrors of WWII.) So what you're saying is, even if it comes out, we'll never get a riff of "The Day the Clown Cried"? You've ruined christmas. Oh, and yes please keep doing VoDs. Not just for convenience, but because riffing that sort of 70s/80s schlock just has something your modern-day blockbuster doesn't.
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IUG posted:Yes, I too love the movie Riffs that aren't VOD as well. I have purchased a few movies just because they have a Rifftrax feature riff (Thor, I'm looking at you). I'm glad that you guys are finishing the Harry Potter series, and bought that Deathly Hallows Riff so quickly. (Bonus for the people who haven't bought it yet, it's great.) Deathly Hallows is coming out? I've been holding off on the final two films until I could watch them with Rifftrax. E: I'll grab Part 1 right now. I also need to see if the last part of Twilight is up. That Fucking Sned fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Nov 17, 2013 |
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Yeah they released part one a few weeks ago. Twilight has been finished for like a year.
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Even with the Riffs the Holiday special is only watchable if you skip most of the musical numbers(not Bea Arthur's though).
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Mister Kingdom posted:Any chance you'll ever do Blade Runner? We always used to talk about it in the early days, I think we were just discouraged by all the different cuts that exist of it out there. It was hard to tell what the version that everyone would have would be. For a while wasn't the 'good' version only available via bootleg? I watched it during a cold study in college where they gave you a cold and locked you in a hotel room for three days, my memories from that time are a touch Jack Torrance-y.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Apparently it's a scheduling issue with Cineplex, and hopefully this will be the only time it happens. I would guess that both of these will happen some day. Once we get up the nerve to tackle the Hobbit's length. And Yor is something we keep looking at then forgetting about. I'll see if it's something we can make a priority. That and that awesomely over the top violent "Deadly Prey" movie are ones we should have done by now.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:So what you're saying is, even if it comes out, we'll never get a riff of "The Day the Clown Cried"? You've ruined christmas. Well that might be a whole different animal, who knows. That could be the kind of stunt that might be worth doing it. Hard to know until anyone besides Harry Shearer has seen it though.
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How's the video quality on the Holiday Special VOD look? Debating whether or not I should double dip on it.
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Xylorjax posted:Interesting. I hadn't considered the sameness factor but that makes total sense. As long as we get some of each I'm good. It was a very, very strange circumstance. I was living in San Diego, and had quit my first job after college which involved working at a glasses lens manufacturing company. It was like the box factory in Springfield, I never saw the lenses, they were made down in Tijuana. But we would do stuff about backorders and other soul-crushingly tedious stuff. It started as a temp job, then lasted too long. So I was unemployed, and hoping something better would come along. In college, some friends and I had started a fake holiday called National High Five Day, which we declared would happen annually on the third Thursday in April, and you should just go out and high five a bunch of strangers. It has got some good press over the years, and on this particular year, 2006, I believe the third Thursday was 4/20. A woman emails me to say that she thought it was a a neat idea, and in her signature it says "Legend Films" and the address was in San Diego. So I wrote to her and told her I lived there, and did they have any openings for the kind of person that would make up something like NH5D. They were feeling generous, I suppose, and thought I could help out on marketing, as well as some basic editing and stuff, as well as shipping Shirley Temple DVDs to old ladies, which was a funny little side business they ran. They also produced DVDs that had commentary by Mike, since the CEO and Mike had a mutual friend. And then one day, Mike decided to move there and give starting what would end up being RiffTrax a shot. I was probably shipping a Shirley Temple DVD at the time and figured, I need to be part of whatever this is going to be. So I made sure to bring my A-game, and make sure he knew I was funny. "Oh what am I listening to on these headphones? The Ricky Gervais podcast, as I have quite the good taste in comedy." I ended up right around that time making a video that went pretty viral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t12qml7up-o and getting something funny I wrote published in a local alt weekly. So I could at least show I could write and do weird stuff. Fortunately, we ended up having compatible styles, and in the early days, Mike was writing those riffs all by himself. I would go to the recordings to record Disembaudio lines and one day he asked if I wanted to write on Crossroads. It took a little while for Legend for find someone else to do the Shirley Temple DVDs and other stuff, but once they did, it was all RiffTrax all the time. TLDR: A couple of coincidences of titanic proportions, but also good old fashioned showing someone you could be funny.
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fenix down posted:I'm happy with any new material, but the VODs are pretty great and I'm glad the crew is still enjoying making them. Silent Rage is my favorite so far - Chuck is just so romantic. Yeah, Silent Rage is great. It has absolutely no idea what kind of tone it wants to commit to. I think it was just a desire to write something longer that I could be proud of. I hadn't really written much if any fiction since College, either Riffs or skits or funny little blog posts. So I wanted to prove I could do it. Somehow I got the idea that a whaling ship could be a funny setting for a story, and then thought that having a fish out of water on that ship would work too. At some point as I was kicking the idea around, I picked up a book called The Art of Fielding, which is technically 'about' baseball, but has a very strong Melville theme/subplot. So after that, I thought I should just do it. I'm pretty happy I did, I think it turned out pretty funny.
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rereedrumr posted:I would go to the recordings to record Disembaudio lines and one day he asked if I wanted to write on Crossroads. You're the voice of Disembaudio? Neat!
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Vicissitude posted:Rereedrumr, what sort of a portfolio would one have to provide as their application to write for Rifftrax? I've been trying to put one or two together for an iRiff, but I just don't have the voice for it. I seem to be better on the writing side than the performing. Well, that is a tough question. Mostly, I would want to see that you're funny, and that you've done funny writing in the past. So any sort of portfolio of things you've written would at least let us know that you're talented and motivated. We are currently giving a few people a try out though, so I think we're going to be fairly busy trying to see if any of them work out for the foreseeable future. If you have anything you'd like me to look at, email me at conor AT rifftrax.com. It's not going to be something that we're able to take action on for a while though, and if all of these people work out, it might not be for even longer, so please don't be upset if I don't get back to you.
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Neurion posted:You're the voice of Disembaudio? Neat! I sing at weddings. Hit me up.
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rereedrumr posted:We always used to talk about it in the early days, I think we were just discouraged by all the different cuts that exist of it out there. It was hard to tell what the version that everyone would have would be. For a while wasn't the 'good' version only available via bootleg? I watched it during a cold study in college where they gave you a cold and locked you in a hotel room for three days, my memories from that time are a touch Jack Torrance-y. The final cut is the way to go. It's readily available. The reason I asked mainly is that I have a friend who, I think, gets slightly offended when Rifftrax takes on any of his favorite movies (ie Harry Potter). He asked in a semi-kidding manner, "Well, how would you feel if they did Blade Runner?". I said, "I'd love for them to do it. It wouldn't change how I feel about the movie."
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Senior Woodchuck posted:What are the odds on an encore for Santa Claus Conquers the Martians? I would expect there not to be one. I feel like there's been encores for less than half of our shows, and the seasonal nature of this one would lead to believe there probably won't be one. I think encores are pretty much 100% dependent on how many people buy tickets to the first one, to determine whether or not Fathom thinks they can get theater owners to give us a screen for one. But I think that the one night only, live showing is part of the appeal to Fathom as well. Encores are just icing on the cake, if and when they're possible. rereedrumr fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Nov 17, 2013 |
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Mister Kingdom posted:The final cut is the way to go. It's readily available. The reason I asked mainly is that I have a friend who, I think, gets slightly offended when Rifftrax takes on any of his favorite movies (ie Harry Potter). He asked in a semi-kidding manner, "Well, how would you feel if they did Blade Runner?". I said, "I'd love for them to do it. It wouldn't change how I feel about the movie." A reasonable attitude, given that subjecting yourself to our commentary is 100% optional, and does not affect any other copy of the movie in existence other than the one you are currently watching. I'm guessing that if you think otherwise, you probably misunderstand what we do as just insulting a movie for two hours. I wouldn't want that either.
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Thanks for letting me clutter up your thread over the weekend guys. Just as a reminder, if you want to check out my book Gone Whalin', you can get it here: http://amzn.to/1bYuUwJ Just $2.99 on Kindle! Tell your friends! It's funny! I'll keep lurking, so feel free to bug me if there's anything else RT related you need. Until then, have a happy Life Day.
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rereedrumr posted:A reasonable attitude, given that subjecting yourself to our commentary is 100% optional, and does not affect any other copy of the movie in existence other than the one you are currently watching. I'm guessing that if you think otherwise, you probably misunderstand what we do as just insulting a movie for two hours. I wouldn't want that either. Have you seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6fx0gVQLjo That dude just doesn't get it at all. Yes, I understand that Godzilla is part of the Japanese culture, but it's still a guy in a rubber suit kicking over models. That still doesn't mean you can't enjoy it.
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rereedrumr posted:Well, that is a tough question. Mostly, I would want to see that you're funny, and that you've done funny writing in the past. So any sort of portfolio of things you've written would at least let us know that you're talented and motivated. Groovy. I got one for the David Attenborough-narrated Planet Earth that I thought was good. Another half done one is the Watchmen Ultimate Cut. Probably out of the running since it's, what, 3 hours long? Still... Titanic 
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rereedrumr posted:And Yor is something we keep looking at then forgetting about. I'll see if it's something we can make a priority. That and that awesomely over the top violent "Deadly Prey" movie are ones we should have done by now. A) HOW CAN YOU FORGET ABOUT YOR?! It has Reb friggin' Brown (Smash Lampjaw!) using a dead giant bat as a hangglider so he can kick a purple caveman in the face and being a one man genocide machine in a postapocalyptic landscape!! B) If it becomes a priority, that is possibly the best thing I've heard all day long, and considering it's my birthday, that makes it all the sweeter. 
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