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BisonDollah posted:Cheers guys. Any I should avoid? Inception isn't a bad riff but the actual film is really good and there's a lot of time they seem to be really struggling to find a joke. Twilight and New Moon are by far the best, the films are unbelievably hilarious and the in-jokes they build up ...line? are great. Eclipse is good too but I found it lacking by that point. But that might be because I marathon watched all three. And Birdemic is pretty much the funniest thing ever. Doubly so for the riffed version.
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Payndz posted:I guess they're caught in a bit of a Catch-22 as popular blockbusters are likely to have more people buying the riffs, but those self-same movies actually limit what can be done with the format because they usually feature long action sequences. Thankfully, Twilight movies don't have that "action" problem. Just started on the Harry Potter riffs, and they're good but it really is hard not to think "I just wish Brad Neely had done Wizard People, Dear Readers for every film." Maybe they could get him as a guest riffer when they do Deathly Hallows... Also, The Happening is so bad I couldn't even make it through the riff in one sitting. Zooey Deschanel, you make the worst career choices. Stick to being an indie pop singer and That Quirky Girl (shut up, 500 Days of Summer is great).
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Mister Kingdom posted:Give it another try. I made a drinking game out of "take a shot any time somebody says something "is happening" or "happened" or any variation thereof" and was trashed pretty quick, so that helped. I really cannot believe a studio saw that film and said "You know what? We should release this. This will make us money."
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Jul 26, 2011 02:43
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Bobulus posted:Basically, fans of Star Wars aren't going to have a clue what's going either, so you're in good company. I never watched it until recently (well, I might have seen it when it aired, but I think I blocked it out) and it is truly one of the weirdest things I have ever seen, bar none.
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Jul 27, 2011 14:56
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OK, the Harry Potter riffs definitely get better with each installment. Bit of a rock start on the first two, I'd say, and it doesn't help that the movies are all so padded out with 20-40 minutes of "celebrating" and "additional dialogue". And Quidditch. God drat, gently caress Quidditch (and I say that as someone who didn't notice it being bad when I watched the un-riffed HP movies whenever they'd hit HBO).
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Jul 29, 2011 11:55
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My guess: "It was the 70s" + "Cocaine is a Hell of a drug" = Star Wars Holiday Special
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Jul 31, 2011 06:22
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mobby_6kl posted:Previously I found that rifftrax don't work for me with good movies like the Matrix, where I just end up wanting to watch the film itself Memento is the worst case of this. Turns out it's kind of hard to make fun of a movie that's just really good. There were some halfway decent jokes but at the end of it I was just kind of like "...and they made a riff of this why, exactly?" Was it because they'd done The Dark Knight or...? I think The Prestige could have probably worked better, if they really want to attack the Nolan. On the other hand, Transformers 2. Wow. I had heard the legends speak of how absolutely terrible that film was, but I dared not venture near it lest I lose 2.5 hours of my life. And boy, was everyone right. There is no loving point to that goddamn film, at all, period. The riff made it bearable, but only just barely.
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Aug 7, 2011 21:17
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Just watched it, I think it's actually better than the Eclipse riff, though it does lose steam toward the end as a movie in which nothing happens turns into a movie where somehow even less is happening.
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IUG posted:No surprises, but on Facebook Rifftrax just announced they will eventually riff The Avengers. Honestly, I'm not that big a fan of the "good movie riffs" (assuming Avengers is as decent as reviews are indicating). Like, the Memento riff had a few good jokes but mostly just kept distracting me from enjoying the film itself. The exception is the Harry Potter movies, which I enjoy well enough on their own (my daughter loves them, okay?) but the riffs just take them to the next level. I hope they do The Hunger Games though. Good flick, but lots of room for jokes.
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Apr 27, 2012 20:03
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In other news, Rifftrax makes Captain America actually worth watching as anything other than "Here's something to kill time until the Avengers comes out". e: literally cannot believe the fakeness of the "scrawny Steve Rogers"
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May 14, 2012 22:09
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Really? When I saw it in the cinema I remember thinking that it was rather well done actually. It wasn't seamless by a long shot, but it fooled several people who didn't immediately recognize Chris Evans. I dunno. His head is so biiiiiiiig though. It's "jarring".
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May 14, 2012 22:31
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BrooklynBruiser posted:I'd probably go with... Somehow I missed that they even had one for Willy Wonka. I'm so on that poo poo. The other night a bunch of us watched all the Twilight riffs (second time for me) and I stand by that they are collectively just about the best thing they've done. The first one is kind of the best, because it's the most legitimately terrible movie on its own, but Breaking Dawn Pt. 1 comes close and you can bet I'm excited as gently caress for Pt. 2, especially from what I've read about the film itself. Watched The Hunger Games riffed finally, didn't think it was that funny, another case of "movie isn't bad enough for a good riff", though not as bad as the Memento riff in that regard.
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Nov 26, 2012 00:58
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I'm watching Casino Royale for the first time... ever!... and now I have to watch it riffed because holy poo poo what the gently caress is this last half hour and why does it exist?!
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Dec 24, 2012 04:40
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Is the Avenger riff good if I actually (gasp) liked the movie? I've had pretty bad luck with blockbuster riffs of good movies; off the top of my head, Planet of the Apes, Iron Man, Dark Knight, a few more.
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Golbez posted:It was a good Rifftrax but it needed more shorts, and even they couldn't make that movie completely bearable. At least Manos was entertaining; this occasionally crossed the line from "entertainingly bad" to "why am I wasting my time with this." Nonsense, Birdemic even without the riff is incredibly hilarious.
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Feb 2, 2013 18:33
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McBain is truly baffling. It looks and sounds like a really low-effort TV movie from about 1983. And that cover of "Brothers in Arms" they used for the opening credits.  Excellent riff though.
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Feb 3, 2013 17:29
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I've watched the Twilight movies with riffs in excess of 6 times each. They're just so terrible. Amazingly so.
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Mar 4, 2013 00:25
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:America was coming off the cocaine high that was the 80s. It was a weird time. At the time of filming, Vanilla Ice was actually "addicted" (his word) to Ecstasy.
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Locutus of Bald posted:Brief reminder that the much anticipated riff of The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part II will be released on Thursday.  This is the Best News.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:That joke's been made since the movie's title was known and has nothing to do with MST3k specifically Yeah I did a literal spit-take when the first "beyond Thunderdome" MST episode aired (it was one of the Sci Fi Channel seasons I think) because I'd been annoying people with that joke for years.
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Mar 14, 2013 20:58
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But will we ever learn how "da girl" is "liking the rain"?!
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Mar 16, 2013 15:33
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This school only teaches Biology and volleyball? My wife's bringing her co-worker's copy of Breaking Dawn 2 when she gets off work, I am all a-twitter with anticipation. 
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I think it's probably harder to write jokes for films like The Avengers or whatever because they're just not that inherently bad and don't have much in them that lends itself to being funny just because it exists. That's why the best feature riffs are the Harry Potter and Twilight series. The Potter films are actually pretty good, but the jokes practically write themselves when you have wizards playing wizard football and Alan Rickman being Alan Rickman. So I don't think it has anything to do with piracy, it's just that the feature riffs tend to be most popular when the movies are incredibly silly, and maybe there haven't been a lot of those lately? Who knows. All I know is Breaking Dawn 2: Obvious Subtitle Joke is easily one of the best riffs they've ever done. Bill constantly bringing up the actual lore about How Vampires Work was amazing, ripping on Emmett was amazing, the Jacob stuff was uh... yeah that was something all right. It's also a good movie to play "riff or script?" with lines like "Stupid wolfy thing!" and "Blink, breathe, slouch: got it". Also holy poo poo the "twist" at the end. I mean just holy poo poo. I can't believe a movie did that. And we got to see Alice feed Dakota Fanning's head to a wolf.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:How can a huge franchise like Twilight have such terrible special effects? I thought the same thing, the vampire running effect will never not be terrible and hilarious. One more thing re:piracy - the VODs almost certainly get pirated more because nobody has to manually merge the Riff and the film. So I stand by my statement that as soon as Hollywood makes some more silly poo poo, we'll get some more super riffs. They've made jokes about The Hobbit in the last few riffs, I'm pretty sure they'll riff it. How could they not? And I seriously hope they weren't kidding about riffing the Fifty Shades of Grey film when it comes out, if only because: quote:American Psycho writer Bret Easton Ellis has also publicly expressed his desire to write the screenplay for the film. 
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Also, apparently Emma Watson is in the running for the lead, so, we could expect just a bajillion Harry Potter jokes. OK, the book is poo poo but with that, and Angelina Jolie wanting to direct, and Ellis, it could end up one hell of a polished turd. Now just complete the Mobius Strip and cast Pattinson as Grey. You know you want to, Hollywood!
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Mar 17, 2013 19:44
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Furthermore, When they show Renesmee all grown up and with Jacob in the flashforward at the end, is it just me or didn't she look basically exactly like a younger, prettier Stephenie Meyer? Did she Mary Sue herself into both Bella and Bella's daughter so she could be with Edward and Jacob in her crazy head? Oh God now that I've typed that out it's far too plausible to not be true. This rabbit hole doesn't have a bottom. I also liked how the end credits included people who hadn't appeared since the first or second film. If you cut that 20 minute credit sequence and merged Part 1 and 2, the movie would be just over 3 hours, making the "two movie" thing so much more of a blatant cash grab.
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Mar 19, 2013 22:05
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At this very moment, there is a studio executive in LA who has just railed a giant line of coke and is calling Stephenie Meyer to insist she bang out a Jacob/Renesmee trilogy so they can start filming already. You know it's coming. Best not to fight it. Robert Pattinson, having just been called about reprising his role as Jacob's stepfather, is sitting in a bathtub staring longingly at a straight razor.
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Mar 20, 2013 09:32
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For all the times I've watched them, I thought the guys were just saying that Mustache Dad drinks Rainier because it's funny. I never noticed he actually does drink loving Rainier. I mean what, was the store out of Moosehead?
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Mar 21, 2013 00:46
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Vicissitude posted:What, did the entire series take place in the one month between her periods? Well you see, Jacob's highly developed sense of smell would allow him to detect the pheremones in her menstrual blood long after she had washed her panties- 
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Mar 21, 2013 17:57
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:And wolf boy is the only one that doesn't trash talk the movies Coincidentally, he's also the only one who hasn't had much of a career outside the franchise. I haven't seen On The Road, but Kristen was absolutely perfect as Joan Jett in The Runaways. She can act, it would seem.
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Mar 21, 2013 18:19
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Part of me kind of wants them to just keep most of that money, for all the entertainment they've given me.
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Mar 28, 2013 16:52
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Breaker Breaker is not nearly as good/insane as McBain or Buffalo Rider but it has some great jokes and really has the feel of a classic MST3K episode. Very much recommended.
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Mar 29, 2013 23:46
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Things I liked about the movies: You didn't like Mustache Dad? I thought that he did a pretty good job with the lovely material he had to work with. Pixie Vampire (Alice) was also not offensively terrible. I wanna say Dakota Fanning was OK too but I can't remember anything she actually said.
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Mar 30, 2013 16:45
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:edit: "David Lynch watched this movie and said 'What the hell?'" That joke works just as well for Cool As Ice, too. I mean you'd think a Vanilla Ice film would be pretty straightforward, but it's only slightly less weird than Super Mario Bros. I can only hope they decide to do Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em next.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:So now not only are they not showing Twilight, but they're neutering certain scenes in the movie they decided to do instead in order to keep it family friendly? It's really not a big deal, there are like three total seconds of boobs in the entire movie (I just rewatched it a couple days ago). Though I can't really figure out how they're going to make it any funnier, because it's already one of the funniest movies I've ever seen (and also one of the best).
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Starship Troopers 2 and 3 are so goddamn stupid, they're perfect for these guys. I hope they do them.
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I gave up long ago on trying to explain to people why Starship Troopers is almost literally a perfect film (for what it set out to accomplish). There seems to just be this big divide between people who "get it" and people who insist there was nothing to "get". Looking at that list, I can't believe I haven't gotten the Wicker Man riff (because I didn't know it existed), and I'm really surprised they haven't done Catwoman yet.
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I first saw Starship Troopers in the theater as a random "me and my buddy are high, it's noon, there's gently caress-all to do so let's go see a movie". It was fantastic. Days like those are also what resulted in me seeing Batman and Robin and Good Will Hunting, probably the two worst films I've seen in the theater. I think Independence Day happened because of that too, but that movie was alright.
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Jun 6, 2013 23:15
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I actually didn't watch Guy From Harlem until today. Easily one of their best ever. Jesus.
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Gaseous Snake posted:Speaking of Bluray, the MST3K movie is coming out in September. I always found it odd that the movie is one of the more mediocre episodes they did, especially compared to "the SciFi Channel years" which for my money are consistently the best seasons of the show and have a lot of my all-time favorite episodes. And those seasons came directly after the movie so 
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