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Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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muscles like this? posted:

Although you have to have an account for Hollywood After Dark because it involves strippers and Rue McClanahan from Golden Girls as a stripper and she strips.

And it is throughly gross :(

If your new and looking to just wet your feet, some of the highly recommended ones have been:

Transformers
Spider-Man
300
Matrix

Personally, I loved "I am Legend" and "Casino Royale"

Savantegarde fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Aug 19, 2008

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Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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liquorhead posted:

The Film Crew's 1st DVD was released after Rifftrax were already available.

I think they had filmed all of them pre-rifftrax though. When Rifftrax first came out I remember they were having the vote to see which filmcrew would be the first to be released.

I think barring some major shift in interest, film crew is pretty much done.

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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And it looks like Rifftrax is releasing its newest creation

iRiff
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs

rifftrax posted:

Just create and upload your humorous commentaries on anything, set your price, and we'll do the rest by hosting and distributing your content. You'll even get your very own product page to promote your iRiff. Best of all, you share in the sales of your iRiff! We will feature the best tracks on the RiffTrax home page and the funniest stuff will rise to the top based on our user comments and star rating system.

We'll be having contests with cash prizes, and the best iRiffs' artists will get invited to work with Mike Nelson and the RiffTrax guys, and get paid to make a RiffTrax Presents!


I'm actually pretty excited about this. The "Batman and Robin" fan written rifftrax, I thought, was excellent, (but most others were just all pissy because their jokes weren't chosen for the script).

Hopefully, some others are able to create some descent riffs and the whole idea doesn't get inundated with poo poo performers.

Ninja Edit: It's coming in October

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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Ainsley McTree posted:


Does anyone else have that same problem? I like the idea of the riff player, but getting it working isn't really worth the effort, it's just easier to use the mp3 track I think.

Yeah, it was such an common problem that they have an entire stickied thread dedicated to it here


Also, has anyone taken an interest in some of the other iRiffs that have been released? I just watched the sample for Incognito Cinema Warriors(which seems like the most direct MST3K copycat, with a human and two robots and a silhouette at the bottom) and the sample was pretty funny.

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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I wouldn't mind contributing with a small group of goons, but if there is a mass goon collective organization working on a single script, things might get...heated, and I'll probably do my own thing.

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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Krenzo posted:

I watched the iRiff of Speed, and it was hilarious, one of the best I've seen. My only problem is that the stupid riff player made the commentary track about 5 seconds early from the point the bus came in to play until the end of the movie. It was fine before that point. No amount of rewinding, fast forwarding, changing chapters, or restarting the program fixed it. I think I'm done with the riff player as it always seems to get out of sync. However, I've never had as much problems with it before. The only reason I prefer using it is because of the audio ducking.

Similarly, I watched the Lady Frankenstein iRiff by Incognito Cinema Warriors XP and it was hilarious (if you can ignore the blatant MST3k ripoff). I've even gone so far as to search for even more of their stuff.

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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Ainsley McTree posted:

Is this the first one without Mike? That'll be kind of weird.

well its a rifftrax presents... so no, its not the first one without Mike.

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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JazzmasterCurious posted:

Yeah the tracks are cheap, especially with the awesome exchange rate -- but renting a movie here is like $8 a piece so I don't bother.

8 bucks!? poo poo you could get a monthly subscription to Netflix for that amount.

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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So I've been re-authoring for quite some time now and the end result has always been pretty good with the exception that I cannot get the subtitles to work. I've been using the guide here and I've been through that entire thread looking for a solution.

Has anyone re-authored with subtitles? How the hell did you do it?

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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I always rent the rifftrax movies from netflix and whenever they do the new ones I always have to wait weeks before they become available to me. And Iron Man, The Happening, and now this one are all on long wait from Netflix.

Man its going to be forever before I get to watch a new Riff.


\/\/\/Yeah I just checked it when I added Kingdom of the Crystal Skull to my queue. All my rifftrax movies are "long wait" or "very long wait" status.

Savantegarde fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Oct 22, 2008

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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muscles like this? posted:

I will never watch an iRiff because I really, really don't care what anyone else has to say.

You're missing out. Some iRiffs I have seen have been excellent.

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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Revolvyerom posted:

Name one in particular for me to start from? I've been avoiding them so far.

Incognito Cinema warriors doing Lady Frankenstein is great, it's the closest thing to a MST3K episode you will come after the shows cancelation. The only downside is that its about a 7 or 8 dollar investment, but you get a solid download that includes the movie, rifftrax, and even some skits.

Also riffraff theater doing Speed was also very funny. I invested in their Tron, but although it had its moments that was a bit more meh.

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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Plavski posted:

The Two Towers was nothing but a string of obscure references to people. Just endless barrages of jokes that miss the mark and a ridiculous degree of people jokes. Every second joke was just saying an obscure name and it was quite, quite boring. You could tell they were really struggling for jokes and their energy was rock bottom. It seems like they just wanted to get this out of the way and the forced nature of the riff is probably the reason they still haven't done a Return of the King riff yet.

I think your copy of Two Towers riff must have been defective, because I remember the Two Towers riff being excellent and nothing like the abortion you just mentioned.

Different strokes, I guess.

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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Now who didn't see this coming from a mile away...


And two face is apparently half green. Lately their superhero riffs have been a dime a dozen, there last riff was X2 and now this. I wish they would do a little genre exploring...

Savantegarde fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Dec 4, 2008

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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I'm not pissed that they're doing Dark Knight, I just wish they would move away from the superhero genre once or twice a year. I just saw "The Strangers" the other day and thought how much it needed a good riffing. The Grudge was one of their first riffs and it was hilarious and it seems that they didn't do any other horror riffs after that. And that's a perfect genre to plug away from.

And I wish people would move away from a good move = bad riff mentality, I'm pretty sure that rule has been violated enough times that it no longer can be considered valid.

quote:

EDIT: oh and don't go to the Rifftrax forums. Currently they're fighting about the riff being in poor taste because Heath Ledger died.

Some of those people are loving insane.

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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I have to admit, the small section introducing the Dark Knight Riff is pretty hilarious.

quote:


If you can spare a minute, think back on the greatest work of cinema that you have ever seen. Did you think about The Dark Knight? No? Then you are a moron. Because while you were out doing whatever it is morons do...demolition derbies or...croquet, (we wouldn't know, we loved The Dark Knight), The Dark Knight pimp-slapped Andy Dufresne, spat in the Godfather's face and gave Charles Foster Kane a big ol' wedgie on its way to becoming the greatest movie of all time.

All this in spite of the bat suit causing our hero to grumble like the offspring of Tom Waits and Cookie Monster. There is nothing at all silly about that. We here at RiffTrax regret even having to point out that he sounds like your Great Aunt Vivian sending you out for her third pack of Pall Malls of the day. Because The Dark Knight is not just a superhero movie. It's a gritty crime drama about political corruption and the choices men make that just happens to involve a superhero. A superhero millionaire that dresses as a bat whose voice sounds like your cat heaving up a hairball into your slippers who battles a guy with half a face named Two-Face.

Despite all this, Mike, Kevin and Bill are ready to take on...(reverent pause)...The Greatest Movie of All Time.*

*Source: The Internet

It reminds me of the thread we had a while back in which people were debating whether or not Dark Knight should get the best picture Oscar. And all the hyperbole remarks being made by some of the faithful.

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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tvgm2 posted:

Glitter is also pretty good.

For me Glitter was the worst riff. I don't know if the movie was just that bad or if the Mary or Mike wasn't on her/his game or what but I couldn't finish it in one sitting.

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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muscles like this? posted:

New short up, Christmas Toy Shop. Its very strange but doesn't hold a candle to the bizarreness of A Visit to Santa.

To be fair, though, can anything really hold a candle to "A Visit to Santa" in bizarreness?

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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Mister Kingdom posted:

C3PO: "I am C3PO, human-cyborg relations and this is my counterpart, R2D2."

Luke: "Hello."

Kevin: "I stood next to your mother as she died."

ha that's glorious.

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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Mister Kingdom posted:

I liked Michael Elliot's Riffs.

Me too. I wonder if and when he will come back.

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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Well I got the iRiff "Friday 13th" because it seemed to be getting nothing but praise on Rifftrax.com and just some thoughts for anyone who is thinking of picking it up.

First, from a riffing standpoint, it's pretty solid. There were several laugh out loud moments and many of the jokes were ok. The riffers have kind of a cool gimmick and they don't rely on it too much.
However, from a technical standpoint, it's an abomination. Their track is so quite that I had to digitally manipulate them to make them louder, but also the movie track to make it softer. And their own track loses sync, I have no idea (aside from sloppiness) how they managed to do that but it made reauthoring annoying and even so my end result sounded de-synced at some points which sucks.

Overall, the fact that this riff has a higher score than Incognito Cinema Warriors and riffRaff theaters, both of which have awesome iRiffs, smells like shenanigans to me.

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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Trinexx posted:

My current best method is DVD Decrypter, BeLight/Besweet, Audacity, IFO edit, DVD shrink, then finally Nero.

Pretty much what I use, but instead of Nero, I use ImageBurn. If IFO edit has a problem then I switch it over to a lighter program known as muxman. However, muxman doesn't handle subtitles very well, but IFO edit also doesn't really do that great of a job either so :/ (subtitle ripping still seems more of an art than a science).

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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fenix down posted:

I missed it. :(

It was awesome :(

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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Jesus, it has felt like rifftrax and this thread have been in moratorium forever.

Good to see some new stuff being produced

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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Alexandr posted:

What the gently caress is with the lack of new Rifftrax lately? Is it so much to ask for a movie every once in a while?

Honestly, the last one they did was like a month ago (jaws) and that one wasn't very good.

But they said they are doing twilight soon, I haven't seen the movie (mostly because I'm not a thirteen year old girl) but from what I hear its pretty bad, so it ought to excite those who only enjoy the riffs to bad movies, and I cannot wait.

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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Mister Kingdom posted:

I was wondering what happened to Rifftrax Presents.

Well, it's back: Die Hard w/Mathew J. Elliot.
Fantastic. Gonna pick this up immediately.

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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IShallRiseAgain posted:

Looks like Tron is going to be the new riff coming out.

That's actually an iriff group called Riff Raff theater doing Tron. And its been out for a while.

Edit: oh I guess it isn't Riff Raff theater but some other people (I've never heard of) doing a rifftrax presents of Tron.

Savantegarde fucked around with this message at 06:39 on May 21, 2009

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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Is it too soon to do Flight 93?

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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Hey you can't use the holocaust in your cheesy superhero movie.

Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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Favorite MST3K: Girl with the Golden Boots. I nearly die everytime that girl just "appears" in the middle of a scene and crow goes "oh look here I am!"
(to all you die hard MST3Kers I may have gotten the exact quote wrong, I'm sorry)

Favorite Rifftrax: The Happening. All of M Night Shamalamadingdongs movies should have been riffed by now after that success.

I'm still waiting for my drat DVD of "The Room" to come in. I want to laugh :(

Savantegarde fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Jun 25, 2009

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Savantegarde
May 28, 2006

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Just to let you guys know, woot.com is having an amazing deal on some MST3K bundles right now.

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