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The beginning of the latest riff, Lady Mobster, is kind of weird. The head mobster gives a timeline of 15 years and then they make a point of giving the little girl a big scar on her cheek and then when it gets to the "present" it has been 20 years and the scar is gone.
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Dont worry Im sure that will be explained in Lady Mobster 2: Girl Mobster
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Mar 8, 2020 04:53
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muscles like this! posted:The beginning of the latest riff, Lady Mobster, is kind of weird. The head mobster gives a timeline of 15 years and then they make a point of giving the little girl a big scar on her cheek and then when it gets to the "present" it has been 20 years and the scar is gone. I wouldn't be shocked if the explanation was in the twenty minutes or so they cut from the movie before they riffed it.
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Mar 8, 2020 06:27
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Maby Lobster is a superior movie IMHO
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Mar 8, 2020 06:35
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Is it a buy it ASAP riff or a buy it on sale Riff in a week or two riff?
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Mar 8, 2020 12:14
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It's very dull in my opinion, I would not recommend.
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Mar 8, 2020 12:32
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 I like the new Hijacked Flight 285 but I feel like there was a lot of missed opportunities to point out how much 90s Anthony Michael Hall looks like 90s Michael J Nelson
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Mar 10, 2020 15:19
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It was definitely weird to see transitional period Anthony Michael Hall where he wasn't looking like a kid but still hadn't turned into the adult version yet.
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Mar 10, 2020 18:43
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The kickstarter has one of the Amityville VIP pledges available, if anyone was hoping to get that
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Mar 10, 2020 20:33
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Listening to the Moon People episodes on 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back, the bland dialog and blow-by-blow coverage of the protagonist's daily life makes it feel like they're reading the book version of Birdemic.
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Mar 10, 2020 22:04
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Was watching an older riff, The Bride and the Beast and man, it was loving WEIRD. It stars Brak from This Island Earth as a great white hunter who gets married. There's this bizarre subplot about the wife having a past life as a gorilla that has NOTHING to do with the rest of the movie which is about the hunter and his wife going to Africa and observing a bunch of stock footage.
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Mar 14, 2020 03:13
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Gnome de plume posted:Listening to the Moon People episodes on 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back, the bland dialog and blow-by-blow coverage of the protagonist's daily life makes it feel like they're reading the book version of Birdemic. So, if I'm a Mike Nelson fan will I enjoy this podcast without having read the terrible book?
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Mar 14, 2020 03:45
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I haven't read a single one of the terrible books they've done, and the podcast is still excellent. Though I'll admit, Shadow Moon sounded so painful that even only getting it secondhand from them was rough going. Sean Penn's second book probably would have been a step up in quality.
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Mar 14, 2020 06:03
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It's a good podcast. Though if Connor starts talking and it seems like he's going to be a while, go ahead and fast forward. You won't miss anything.
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Mar 14, 2020 06:18
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Cool thanks! I didn't even realize they were doing other books I thought it was only Ready Player One.
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Mar 14, 2020 20:37
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Some of the books they did make Ready Player One look like goddamn Shakespeare.
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By popular demand posted:Some of the books they did make Ready Player One look like goddamn Shakespeare. Armada, for instance.
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Mar 15, 2020 01:32
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A Big Dark Yak posted:I haven't read a single one of the terrible books they've done, and the podcast is still excellent. I haven't read the latest book yet but Shadow Moon was the hardest to get through by far.
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Mar 15, 2020 04:07
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Velvet Smooth sure has a crazy ending. Also it is one of those movies where the main character's involvement seems completely unnecessary.
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Breadallelogram posted:I haven't read the latest book yet but Shadow Moon was the hardest to get through by far. Moon People is nice and easy. Short and completely stupid.
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Mar 15, 2020 05:01
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Velvet Smooth feels like a movie that had a very talented fight choreographer, but nobody in the cast (outside of the pool cue guy) was in any way talented enough to pull it off.
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Mar 16, 2020 02:38
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The fight choreographer was the guy who played King (the numbers guy with the afro/rattail combo.)
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Mar 16, 2020 03:39
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The part of Julie and Jack where the movie reveals that all the dates happen in VR was hilarious. "What? WHAT? WHAT?"
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^ There's a special place in my heart for Julie and Jack. It truly stands out among bad movies IMO in the gulf between the concept he was reaching for and the execution. It is kinda agonizing to watch on a moment-to-moment basis though.A Big Dark Yak posted:Though I'll admit, Shadow Moon sounded so painful that even only getting it secondhand from them was rough going. Sean Penn's second book probably would have been a step up in quality. Oh no, I need to listen to this now! I had all three of those books sitting on my shelves in high school (and I ostensibly read them at some point!) but it's one of the few books where I don't even have a vague recollection of what it was about, like even in the broadest sense. Now that I'm looking at the description apparently it was a Willow tie-in and the only thing I remember from that movie is Val Kilmer, so maybe that's why it didn't land.
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Mar 21, 2020 08:27
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The RiffTrax kickstarter is about to end, and there is a Hobgoblins VIP spot available for anyone interested
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Mar 21, 2020 17:02
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Chomposaur posted:^ There's a special place in my heart for Julie and Jack. It truly stands out among bad movies IMO in the gulf between the concept he was reaching for and the execution. It is kinda agonizing to watch on a moment-to-moment basis though. The back half of the movie which is just Jack going to some place and getting a flashback about Julie is just so poorly done. Just flashback after flashback after flashback and none of them actually do a good job of saying anything important.
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Mar 21, 2020 18:49
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The new riff, Ninja Warlord is one of those old Chinese martial arts movies set during the Japanese occupation. So lots of tasteful portrayals of the Japanese, including the very odd choice of instead of having Japanese soldiers wear uniforms they're all dressed in karate gi.
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muscles like this! posted:The new riff, Ninja Warlord is one of those old Chinese martial arts movies set during the Japanese occupation. So lots of tasteful portrayals of the Japanese, including the very odd choice of instead of having Japanese soldiers wear uniforms they're all dressed in karate gi. And again they've chopped fifteen or so minutes out of the film.
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I hastily assembled this as a response to people saying RiffTrax Live's movie offerings decline every year. Here it is updated with 2020's results: 2020: 2 ($225,000, 8,446 backers pledged $475,595) 2019: 3 ($250,000, 8,618 backers pledged $539,351) 2018: 2 ($250,000, 9,436 backers pledged $501,807) 2017: 2* ($250,000, 8,602 backers pledged $430,620) 2016: 3** ($225,000, 11,686 backers pledged $620,999) 2015: 4 ($75,000, 3,842 backers pledged $250,303) 2014: 4 ($100,000, 4,887 backers pledged $265,011) *) 2 movies + Summer Shorts Beach Party **) 3 movies + MST3K Reunion Show
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Mar 22, 2020 01:04
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Ninja Warlord, there's no ninja and there's no warlord.
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Mar 22, 2020 01:57
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:And again they've chopped fifteen or so minutes out of the film. Is that good or bad?
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Mar 22, 2020 05:04
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Quicksilver6 posted:Is that good or bad? It's bad. They aren't even cutting for offensive content, they're just lopping bits out at random as far as I can tell. They started doing that a few years ago and there's no drat reason I can figure out for it in most cases.
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Mar 22, 2020 05:10
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Maybe it’s hard to be funny in certain segments? I can imagine some areas just not having good material.
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I still think it's entirely plausible that is the version of the film that was available for licensing. Like it's not rifftrax itself doing the editing. TV edits for time and the like
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Quicksilver6 posted:Maybe it’s hard to be funny in certain segments? I can imagine some areas just not having good material. I'm probably weird, but I feel like it's important to show the original filmmaker's incredibly incompetent vision in full. I've always seen MST3K/Rifftrax as both a celebration of really bad art and a vehicle for comedy. I know MST3K cut stuff for time/content (like the girl who gets raped and murdered in I think Sidehackers), but I love watching that MST3K (Cinema Edition) channel on youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0OWWbUlGv8Zb14I1N9FcL_NKJL2xGSek ) where you get the unabridged movie with the riffs thrown in. If we can watch Setting Up a Room, I find it hard to believe that there's less compelling things to edit out of any other movie.
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I love that Cinema Edition channel too, but from watching movies there I understand why stuff gets cut. A lot of it is not very nice to women or just straight out racist *cough*taxi-driver-in-time-chasers* cough* and it really kills the goofy, kid friendly vibe they're going for.
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Mar 22, 2020 16:02
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the racist taxi driver was a hilarious scene and I'm glad they included it in the live show
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Mar 22, 2020 23:02
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Tangentially related to Rifftrax: Bill Corbett is in the latest Dollop podcast.
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By popular demand posted:Tangentially related to Rifftrax: Bill Corbett is in the latest Dollop podcast. Oh I keep meaning to check out that podcast and forgetting. I love Bill 
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Lovely But Deadlyquote:Lovely But Deadly starts off fairly straightforward: a logger suffers an accident in Idaho so he sends his son to live with his wealthy aunt in California, where he succumbs to the temptation of drugs and swims into the ocean in search of a tuna, causing his sister to also move from Idaho and enroll in his high school to get revenge on the drug dealer by shoving his mouth full of homemade drugs at the prom, which does not kill him but somehow causes him to hang himself once he gets to the hospital.
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