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With respect to filmmakers with an outsized sense of self-importance, I'm amazed that RiffTrax was ever able to license a single Scott Shaw movie (Rollergator) considering how litigious, pompous, and protective he reportedly has been. There has to be some kind of story there.
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usenet celeb 1992 posted:With respect to filmmakers with an outsized sense of self-importance, I'm amazed that RiffTrax was ever able to license a single Scott Shaw movie (Rollergator) considering how litigious, pompous, and protective he reportedly has been. There has to be some kind of story there. Shaw's bio on his website is a must read: https://www.scottshaw.com/kansai.html "In the 2001 film Undercover X (aka No Boundaries), Shaw plays an undercover LAPD detective named Truck Baker, a cross between action star Chuck Norris and The Dude from The Big Lebowski." RiffTrax MUST do that at some point.
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Jan 28, 2024 04:16
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Isn't he also responsible for Ghost Baby? So he probably just likes money. 
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Jan 28, 2024 04:19
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quote:There has to be some kind of story there  is
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Jan 28, 2024 05:36
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Decided to put on Dancin': It's On! last night to watch something while I go to bed. Ended up wide awake by the end laughing my rear end off. I feel like I need to make people watch it, it's so
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Jan 29, 2024 02:46
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One I enjoyed recently is the very volleyball-deficient volleyball movie Spiker which turns into an espionage movie towards the end? Also maybe sponsored by a chain we never got but seems delightful in Souplantation.
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Jan 29, 2024 05:05
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One thing I've always found bizarre about Spiker is how it starts out following the one guy but then he quits the team and is just gone from the rest of the movie mostly.
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Jan 29, 2024 05:34
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It’s also a movie mostly about training to make the Olympics, I don’t know if they even do it because they filmed the finale in a random gym
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Jan 29, 2024 08:17
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muscles like this! posted:One thing I've always found bizarre about Spiker is how it starts out following the one guy but then he quits the team and is just gone from the rest of the movie mostly. It's a movie if I wonder where the full version explains more but... honestly the full version making some of these movies makes sense is kind of rare. Mostly it's just 'the same but longer.'
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Jan 29, 2024 15:24
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TheOneVader posted:Decided to put on Dancin': It's On! last night to watch something while I go to bed. Ended up wide awake by the end laughing my rear end off. I feel like I need to make people watch it, it's so I cannot believe Dancin': It's On cost twelve million dollars to make.
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Jan 30, 2024 18:27
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Finally got around to watching Paradise Motel. I think we owe The Room an apology.
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Feb 4, 2024 01:38
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The industrial accident short in Grimtrax is just magical. Still, Shake Hands With Danger has that goddamn guitar riff that will never be topped.
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Barudak posted:The industrial accident short in Grimtrax is just magical. Man, I can hear it when people talk about it.
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Feb 4, 2024 14:47
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*buh now nanna now nowwww*
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Feb 4, 2024 16:09
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They put out a new app, this one actually lets you watch vods instead of just being designed for mp3s. Also the new app has a random button which could be helpful for me seeing as I've been buying stuff from them since 2007 so my library is kind of big.
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Feb 7, 2024 06:15
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muscles like this! posted:They put out a new app, this one actually lets you watch vods instead of just being designed for mp3s. Also the new app has a random button which could be helpful for me seeing as I've been buying stuff from them since 2007 so my library is kind of big. So THAT explains why the old app got a new name.
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Feb 7, 2024 07:19
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muscles like this! posted:They put out a new app, this one actually lets you watch vods instead of just being designed for mp3s. Also the new app has a random button which could be helpful for me seeing as I've been buying stuff from them since 2007 so my library is kind of big. They just made my Plex server obsolete!
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Feb 8, 2024 21:14
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Rusty Kettle posted:They just made my Plex server obsolete! Why, are they pre-syncing and streaming just the jokes Riffs now too?
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Rusty Kettle posted:They just made my Plex server obsolete! Nah hopefully I'll be the one to do that (I'm writing a replacement, Plex has been on a steady downward spiral with so many bugs they don't give a poo poo about, they just seem to want to turn into another lovely streaming platform at the expense of what Plex used to be)
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Any idea how jellyfin is? I know I've heard people talk about it as a plex alternative, but I've never used it myself.
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Feb 9, 2024 00:44
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I'd never heard of that. God drat it that's drat near identical to mine. It even has a feature I've always wanted: the ability to access your ebooks and comics remotely without setting up an old-school FTP server.
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Feb 9, 2024 17:11
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I saw something called the rifftrax 24 hour riffathon on youtube yesterday around three, but when I looked again at seven it was gone.
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Feb 9, 2024 20:38
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Rifftrax runs an official stream 24/7 on Twitch. Edit: They're currently showing the live-action Aladdin movie starring Barry Bostwick as the genie, and a bunch of very white people in traditionally non-white roles.
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WhiteHowler posted:Rifftrax runs an official stream 24/7 on Twitch. Now they're doing Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. Oh, no, not the original but the 1991 remake starring the Redgrave sisters. Bridget and Mary Jo do the riffing, it's great.
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Bedurndurn posted:Any idea how jellyfin is? I know I've heard people talk about it as a plex alternative, but I've never used it myself. Been using Jellyfin for a couple years now, and it's great. Though, the default music feature isn't all there yet, and Roku and Samsung TVs are a step behind other devices and mobile in terms of compatibility, so there's that. To tie it in, Rifftrax metadata is hit or miss, but tvdb scrapes some if you name the files the way it expects. BaronVonVaderham posted:I'd never heard of that. Completely open source, too, so if you have some technical skill, they wouldn't turn you away.
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The Cut of Your Jib posted:Completely open source, too, so if you have some technical skill, they wouldn't turn you away. Nah it's written in C#, I'd rather have molten lead poured down my throat.
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Golden Bee posted:I saw something called the rifftrax 24 hour riffathon on youtube yesterday around three, but when I looked again at seven it was gone. It got copyright struck almost immediately . Your best bet is the twitch stream.
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Feb 10, 2024 03:40
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New flick 'Spy High' looks great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfL4tIJWbGo
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That looks incredible. I was gonna say the 90s can do no wrong, technically it's a 2000 movie, also good. I gotta see Dancin: Its On also, holy moly
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Spy High is very good. Incredibly dumb tech movie. I have no idea what was going on but the dog steals the show. And anytime I can say that about one of these movies, you know you're in for a treat.
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Heavy Metal posted:That looks incredible. I was gonna say the 90s can do no wrong, technically it's a 2000 movie, also good. The better the bad movie the older it looks than it actually is.
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MassRafTer posted:The better the bad movie the older it looks than it actually is. The Artist looks ancient.
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Golden Bee posted:The Artist looks ancient. For anyone who watches bad movies with friends, it's harder now with streaming since the year is listed at the title screen but an incredibly fun game is to ask everyone to try to guess what year the movie was made about 10-15 minutes into the movie. People will rarely guess right and almost always guess much older than it actually is. You'll see a movie full of K Cars and mullets with Ronald Reagan on the TV and everyone will guess 1985 and then howl "HOW?!?!?" when you reveal it was released in 1998. Even after people catch on they'll still rarely get it right. I've watched hundreds of movies with a friend and if I throw out the question he'll still miss by 5 years most of the time.
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As a big Slim Cessna's Auto Club fan, Vengeance of the Dead has been a delight
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What's with this current sale letting you save like one dollar, but not on Spy High. Well okay I'll wait until next time for Spy High, that precious dollar will become half a Dr Pepper. I grabbed The Brain From Arous and Dancin': It's On. I remembered seeing footage from Brain in a movie somewhere, wiki says it's probably Ernest Scared Stupid, that fits.
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Dancin' It's On is a great watch (with riffing). My wife is a retired dance teacher, and while she agrees that the plot, dialog, and acting are incomprehensibly terrible, the dancing and choreography are excellent and make the film an extra-fun watch for her. She will also watch The Apple whenever it comes on the Rifftrax Twitch stream for much the same reason.
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Very cool! I also love dancin' films, especially Breakin' and Breakin' 2. (Electric Boogaloo)
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I finally got to see Charade which Mike and Bridget riff and it's a delight. For starters the movie is good - Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Walter Matthau, James Coburn - and it's clear this is much more of a roast than a rib.
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Double post but: The guys went to Golden Corral. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3VswiEiYfS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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Those guys have some cool voices. I know, somebody's gotta say it. Imagine going to a restaurant and you sound like Tom Servo, that's a superpower.
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