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Sydney Bottocks posted:Just to add to this: seeing Vader force choke the Karate Kid followed by Thor staking the Twilight vampire, wasn't all that funny the first time I saw it, and by the 900th time it's beyond annoying. Add in the fact the song theorizes that it's a fun prank to play Rifftrax on unsuspecting people, as if the draw wasn't Mike, Kevin, and Bill, or Mary Jo and Bridget. It's like "Do you even know who your audience is?"
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flatluigi posted:I know it's the same people, but the vibe of basically everything Rifftrax turns me off of it so much that I haven't been able to sit through a full thing of anything they've done, and I'm a huge MST3K fan. I can't remember if it was in this thread or a blog post on tumblr somewhere but somebody out there explained their discomfort with the shift from the dopey yet punchy tone of the Joel era to the sharply sarcastic but increasingly mean-spirited tone of the Mike era, and it really put into perspective at least part of why Rifftrax can rub me the wrong way. It also doesn't help that when they started as small fish with no direct downloads/streaming options, I had no easy access to movies to sync the riffs to, so I never really engaged with their business model to begin with.
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My first exposure to Rifftrax was seeing Rifftrax Live for Starship Troopers in the theater. It was wonderful, and the energy of seeing it in a group like that is not to be ignored. But yeah, my subsequent experiences with it have been very hit or miss, and for some reason I'm less forgiving when that happens than I am when a MST3K episode doesn't gel.
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John Murdoch posted:I can't remember if it was in this thread or a blog post on tumblr somewhere but somebody out there explained their discomfort with the shift from the dopey yet punchy tone of the Joel era to the sharply sarcastic but increasingly mean-spirited tone of the Mike era, and it really put into perspective at least part of why Rifftrax can rub me the wrong way. Yeah they definitely found a nice middle ground between the two for Jonah in comparison
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One of the better RiffTrax VODs I recommend is The Wizard. On the surface, it's already known as a novelty movie, acting as a commercial for Nintendo (namely Mario 3 and the Power Glove) and to a lesser extent Universal Studios, but beyond that it's such a strange movie. Stuff like how Reno has a video game side area in its casinos with pre-teen cigarette girls or there being a scene where an old man in a powder blue speedo is standing prominently in the background or the random Tobey Maguire appearance.
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Gavok posted:One of the better RiffTrax VODs I recommend is The Wizard. On the surface, it's already known as a novelty movie, acting as a commercial for Nintendo (namely Mario 3 and the Power Glove) and to a lesser extent Universal Studios, but beyond that it's such a strange movie. Stuff like how Reno has a video game side area in its casinos with pre-teen cigarette girls or there being a scene where an old man in a powder blue speedo is standing prominently in the background or the random Tobey Maguire appearance. Then there's the competition itself which appears to have just three games. The adults in the movie who have no issue with three children taking buses and hitching rides with no adult around. The bounty hunter driving around in a wreck of a car and not being noticed. People carrying around an NES system and just plugging it in to people's TV at random. There's more, but wow.
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Reince Penis posted:There's some good stuff. Have you tried Roadhouse? Fun in Goddamned Balloonland. Maxwell Lord posted:Rifftrax's true strength is in finding weird psuedo-educational shorts that make the ones on MST look downright normal. I STILL DON'T KNOW IF CORN IS A GRASS. I actually prefer the Rifftrax Live version of Manos to the MST version a little. More of it has to do with the reaction to "WHY DON'T YOU GUYS LEAVE US ALONE.... ô_O" than I care to admit EDIT: I forgot I slapped a highlight reel together to try and sell my dad on watching it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVNv_xisAZk Rev. Bleech_ fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Jan 4, 2018 |
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Mister Kingdom posted:The adults in the movie who have no issue with three children taking buses and hitching rides with no adult around. This, I believe, was the producers pandering to their audience. Because let's face it, kids the age I was when that movie came out would see such a world as paradise.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Rifftrax's true strength is in finding weird psuedo-educational shorts that make the ones on MST look downright normal. Oh, most definitely. I own a fair few RT movies, but I own a ton of RT shorts. A lot of the recent ones with Bridget and Mary Jo are particularly great.
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I feel like rifftrax has generally been getting less good the more they focus on using obscure movies they can do VODs of. Aside from truly exceptional episodes like Guy From Harlem, they rarely reach the heights they attain in such classics as the Twilight commentaries
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precision posted:I feel like rifftrax has generally been getting less good the more they focus on using obscure movies they can do VODs of. Aside from truly exceptional episodes like Guy From Harlem, they rarely reach the heights they attain in such classics as the Twilight commentaries He is THE HELL from Harlem!
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Fun in Goddamned Balloonland. It's so loving strange. I love the slow motion meltdown the guys have during the course of this weird, weird "educational" movie. Rev. Bleech_ posted:I STILL DON'T KNOW IF CORN IS A GRASS. Hell, same. Highly recommend the SF Sketchfest Night of The Shorts (there's three of them) Rev. Bleech_ posted:I actually prefer the Rifftrax Live version of Manos to the MST version a little. More of it has to do with the reaction to "WHY DON'T YOU GUYS LEAVE US ALONE.... ô_O" than I care to admit I generally love all the RiffTrax Live. There's not very many (since they can't get rights to package and sell), but the live version of Samurai Cop is fun as hell. The outro music Kevin wrote (and performed by the guys) is really good. Samurai Cop Rockin' Action Theme! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMzoRxx38qg
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precision posted:I feel like rifftrax has generally been getting less good the more they focus on using obscure movies they can do VODs of. Aside from truly exceptional episodes like Guy From Harlem, they rarely reach the heights they attain in such classics as the Twilight commentaries And I actually prefer the more obscure movies because I have no interest in sitting through riffs of modern stuff. I also prefer my entertainment to be combined into one easy-to-swallow capsule, though, rather than having to pay for two separate things.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:I STILL DON'T KNOW IF CORN IS A GRASS. why doesn't kathy eat breakfast why loving tell me already, educational short
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:And I actually prefer the more obscure movies because I have no interest in sitting through riffs of modern stuff. I also prefer my entertainment to be combined into one easy-to-swallow capsule, though, rather than having to pay for two separate things. Yeah, this is me. I remember back in MST3K's heyday that everyone wanted them to do modern films (and I guess there was a taste of that with the Oscar special where they riffed the trailers) but I've had zero interest in watching them riff on modern stuff, even if its terrible. Five or six years ago on Hulu they had a bunch of the obscure Rifftrax VODs on the service (Planet of Dinosaurs, some other old movies and a bunch of shorts) and I really enjoyed those because they felt more like old MST3K 
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:And I actually prefer the more obscure movies because I have no interest in sitting through riffs of modern stuff. I also prefer my entertainment to be combined into one easy-to-swallow capsule, though, rather than having to pay for two separate things. I actually enjoy making my own riffed movies with the MP3s rather than trying to sync them or use the player.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:I STILL DON'T KNOW IF CORN IS A GRASS. Proteus Jones posted:Hell, same. http://billcorbett.tumblr.com/post/28450247475/yes
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Timby posted:The Rifftrax of R.O.T.O.R. is truly something special. yeah both of those are top gear
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Not to keep the Rifftrax derail going, but I'll definitely put in a word for both the Samurai Cop and Miami Connection RTs, I think they're both great.
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Kingdom of the Spiders is great, especially Mike's reaction to Shatner's character explaining why he's called Rack. "YOU'RE. loving. KIDDING. ME."
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Oh, most definitely. I own a fair few RT movies, but I own a ton of RT shorts. A lot of the recent ones with Bridget and Mary Jo are particularly great. And of course they introduced us to that most beloved character of upbeat, happy individuals everywhere: Norman Krasner.
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Well, when your most famous roles were filmed in Minnesota by Minnesotans, you're not going to have a big head.
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Edward Mass posted:Well, when your most famous roles were filmed in Minnesota by Minnesotans, you're not going to have a big head. 
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Regular edition Blu-rays for Season 11 are up for pre-order.
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Junkie Disease posted:Fred Willard with Mike doing Mission to the Moon nearly killed me "Looks like a manatee got caught in a car crusher."
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thelaughingman posted:Just watched side hackers for the first time. What the hell kind of ending was that!? You think the ending's bad, wait until you hear about the scenes they had to cut out to make it appropriate for the show. That film was a learning experience for MST3K about screening their films beforehand.
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Command Ant posted:You think the ending's bad, wait until you hear about the scenes they had to cut out to make it appropriate for the show. "For those of you playing at home, Rita is dead."
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I'm watching Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell for the first time in forever, and I just noticed none other... ...than Miguel Ángel Fuentes, better known as Vadinho in The Pumaman! It's great when you can still find something new in an old show. *EDIT* Wait, one of the stars of this movie is Trump's ambassador to Denmark? Keromaru5 fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Jan 12, 2018 |
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https://twitter.com/FrankConniff/status/951899419301072896 If I was there I could be boring Frank with so many mundane stories about my life 
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The mads' tour is stopping by again here next week. Last time they signed my Tom Servo, not sure I have anything else that'd be good to sign.
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Reince Penis posted:https://twitter.com/FrankConniff/status/951899419301072896 is wrestling superstar Virgil right outside of frame
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