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Behonkiss posted:Gonna chime in and say that my iRiff for Labyrinth is out: I know the lads used to timecode their riffs when working on MST3k - and I assume Rifftrax - but personally, I write in a format like this: "line of lovely pretentious dialog" my super funny and oh so cutting witticism here "another line of atrocious mind-numbing shittitude" more bitingly funny and hemorrhage inducing snipes here ALIEN FARTS IN MY GENERAL DIRECTION oh ho ho, paul ws anderson, you've done it again! How do you guys do yours?
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Lobsterboy posted:We cant go that way! WE DONT HAVE ANY HOT DOGS. The Happening is a very solid riff as the movie itself is such a perfect candidate for mockery. The thing is so overblown and hammy, with some of the worst dialogue and acting yet seen in a big budget motion picture. The Riff takes full advantage of these and actually has become one of my favourite riffs.
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Der Shovel posted:Yeah I love it for the same reason. I just can't get into it when they riff a good movie. It's just not the same as tearing into a real shitheap like The Happening. It's also why the Alien riff is pretty weak, a decent movie does not a good riff make. There are obviously exceptions, like the Lord of the Rings, as the Fellowship was a good movie and a good riff. Two Towers though was a good movie but a loving terrible riff.
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peer posted:Whaaaaaat? I didn't even make it halfway through the Fellowship riff, while the Two Towers one was excellent, one of my favourites (and I love the movie).
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Candy Dawn posted:So the Indiana Jones Riff was lame? I just got the DVD from a friend and wanted to Riff this sucker but not if it's not worth it.
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Der Shovel posted:I did, and it's loving disappointing as hell that they did it. The Dark Knight was one of the best movies of 2008, any riffing they'll get out of it is going to be really half-assed and not nearly as biting as doing Babylon AD or some other recent movie that was actually BAD. For example, I couldn't get into the Raiders of the Lost Ark riff, because god damnit, the movie is too much fun. It has a real sense of humour about itself and doesn't take itself seriously at all. Hence it's a loving awful target for riffing. Battlefield Earth on the other hand takes itself deathly seriously and is totally farcical on so many levels. The same rule applies to any M Night Shamalamadingdong movie. I can't help the sad nagging feeling that Rifftrax are really dipping into a bad area of movie choices. Rifftrax itself has to fight a bit harder than MST3k because unlike that show, Rifftrax doesn't have the natural charm of the robots and the situation. Rather than the conceit of being a guy and his robots trapped in space preserving their sanity, they are just three crotchety old guys shouting abuse like Statler & Waldorf. This can wear thin without good source material to work on I find. Granted, The Dark Knight might well be the greatest riff of all time and might completely blow my super-thick winter socks into a geostationary orbit, we just don't know yet. I think however, that my feet shall remain toasty for the time being. * Five of my very top rifftrax's btw guys.
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GreenNight posted:They do practically every big movie that comes out. I don't see how anyone is surprised. Don't loving buy it if it bothers you.
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fenix down posted:You are taking this a little too seriously.
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Savantegarde posted:Some of those people are loving insane.
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Der Shovel posted:I can only speak for myself, and I can honestly say I didn't think the riffs based on good movies (Memento, Iron Man etc) are as enjoyable as the ones based on turkeys (Star Trek V, Roadhouse, I am Legend, The Matrix Reloaded). 
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Including The Wankshank Redemption alongside the Godfather and Citizen Kain is screwed up. I'm really loving glad The Dark Knight spat in the face of that particular creme du crap.
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Western Backstroke posted:Oh god, I nearly forgot. The Day After Tomorrow featured a female version of Disembaudio, whose voice was shrill and grating. Adding to that her volume was nearly double the Riffers' so every time she came on all of us viewing would jump in surprise and then cringe as she chose the longest lines of dialogue to mimic
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JimBobDole posted:I love the Shorts. Good Eating Habits and Know For Sure are hilarious. However, no one here has mentioned yet how weird and disturbing Kitty Cleans Up is. Why they chose to riff that one is beyond me.
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So A New Hope is out. I have fingers toes and eyebrows crossed that this will be a good one. Of the recent riffs, I liked the Azkaban riff but hated the Dark Knight one. I personally found it the least funny riff they've done to date. I hope that was just an aberration though and ANH continues with the great history of Star Wars riffs.
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Just watched ANH. It's easily my favourite rifftrax so far. Not a bum joke in the movie and most are genuinely laugh-your-rear end off type affairs. It really is hilarious and on the button. If you buy only one Rifftrax this year, buy this one.
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LEIA: "Into the garbage chute, flyboy." MIKE: "She's said that more than once."
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Mo_Steel posted:"Porkin?! The fat guys name is Porkin?!"
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The video is oddly jerky. Kinda annoying they don't have the bandwidth to support it.
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VanillaGorilla posted:Apparently they're hosting from Mike's fuckin' HP laptop Having said that, my fears over these kinds of connection problems lead me not to buy this special. It's drat annoying to see it not working right as I'd've jumped at it if the connection was playing fine. Ah well.
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May 16, 2009 02:18
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Current thinking in the irc channel is that it'll be better once the free users jump off. This doesn't really make sense though as ustream is p2p so the more users the better, surely?
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May 16, 2009 02:22
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And now the sound has cut out.
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May 16, 2009 02:24
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Heh, 200 more people are in for the movie than for the short. I wonder if that'll slow things up even more.
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May 16, 2009 02:34
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jmaze posted:So... does the paid movie start in this room? How do we get validated?
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May 16, 2009 02:38
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This is a giant cock-up and no mistake. Hilarious how I didn't pay, but can hear it along with everyone else on the aforementioned site.
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May 16, 2009 02:42
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AlmightyBob posted:Off Air again 
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May 16, 2009 02:42
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AlmightyBob posted:I have to work tomorrow
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May 16, 2009 02:44
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Mister Kingdom posted:Foiled by their own success.
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May 16, 2009 03:00
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Some dude is trying to explain stuff on the video, but there's no sound. The stream was great though, smooth as hell. Bill just twittered: "So sorry re: Rifftrax Live. Yikes. Can't answer tech Qs, but @rifftrax can (eventually). Busy with ritual seppuku for remainder of night." Kevins: "Well hell. We had ourselves a Google-scale lockup - sorry to say no show tonight. Damned disappointed on this end. All apologies." Plavski fucked around with this message at 03:10 on May 16, 2009 |
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http://www.rifftrax.com/live WATCH NOW HAHAHA They just had the big fat tech guy come on, say he couldn't tell whether they were on air or not and blame ustream, then storm off for burgers. Hilarious. Update: Back up and working. In essence, they had problems with their server, ustream sucked for them and everyone is disappointed. They said they weren't gonna bother continuing with the broadcast if there were problems as it'd be a waste of time and upset some people. Everything is being refunded and they are gonna find another way to make it up to everyone. They say they'll do this again some time, but his tone made it sound like it wouldn't be for a good while. Plavski fucked around with this message at 03:20 on May 16, 2009 |
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muscles like this? posted:Has anyone heard what they're supposed to be doing for the people who paid yet? (other than the refund)
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drat, that extra $10 worth of Rifftrax stuff makes me wish I'd bought the tickets in the first place. Though I suppose I didn't have the disappointment everyone else did, so maybe that's better than money.
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muscles like this? posted:Whelp I just received confirmation on my reimbursement package so if you bought the ticket to the show check your FILES area in your profile and the movie should be there.
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May 20, 2009 23:10
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Mister Kingdom posted:Rifftrax Presents is doing Tron this week. I'm really not sure about this one... I tried watching the MST3k Hamlet again the other day and no matter how many times I watch it, it still doesn't work. Working on good subject material does not often make for a good riff. I still haven't managed to get through the Memento riff yet, I have to turn it off after 20 minutes. The film is too good to mock  I will be getting this one, for sure, but I really don't know about it.
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DoombatINC posted:What I'm probably most exited about with this is that you just know there's going to be at least one Overdrawn at the Memory Bank reference.
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May 27, 2009 22:50
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Emmitt Nervend posted:I've only dabbled in doppling Also, the Tron iRiff is actually quite funny. Also the Superman IV iRiff is genius, really fantastic. Speed, Die Hard (the RiffRaff version) and Minority Report are pretty good too. RiffRaff Theatre and the Disciples of Golan are about the only decent iRiffers I've found.
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May 27, 2009 22:55
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Emmitt Nervend posted:It's insane that there was a riff of Superman IV before III. iRiff or otherwise. Superman III is the most absurd movie I have ever seen.
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May 27, 2009 23:05
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The Casablanca riff is hilarious. Recommended.
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Ainsley McTree posted:Really? I wouldn't have expected it to be, Casablanca just seems like such a genuinely good movie, I wouldn't think there would be much room to make fun of it. Casablanca is a great movie, yes, but it's also enraptured by its own wonderfulness. Seeing the excellent job they did on this means that potentially one of my favourite movies of all time, Citizen Kane might get a good going over. It too is overblown, long winded and highly mockable - Orson trashing the room is hilarious out of context. Though if they touch The Third Man there'll be hell to pay.
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