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....Yes and? What does Joel have to do with Rifftrax
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May 19, 2017 02:36
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I'm still mildly shocked Mike and Bridget have never riffed something together
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Jun 11, 2017 15:21
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Overwined posted:I really wish there was a Rifftrax-type thing for the oceans of soft-core porn feature length movies out there. You know, the kind of dreck that's churned out largely for direct to video or premium cable late night programming. Sometimes it has a horror element mixed in with really awkward attempts at titillation. As an aside, I find the titillation bookended by really hamhanded displays of violence to be both disturbing and kind of hilarious. It's something that you can find in a ton of "mainstream" horror movie, too. One day the 2000s Teenage Caveman will be rifftraxed One day
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Jul 10, 2017 23:28
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So okay, you might actually need to know the VERY basics of this. The Doctor of Doctor Who is a magical space alien of a group called the Time Lords, who are themselves quasi magical space wizard scientists. They have the ability to regenerate a certain number of times when they grow too old or are mortally wounded. Once they hit that limit, that's all there is to it and they die. The Doctor has a best friend/lover/hated arch rival/fuckbuddy named the Master who is also a Time Lord who is out of regenerations himself. He fights a bunch of bad guys including robot people who are allergic to gold, Nazi R2D2s that like to shout, and some really lovely looking other things. Now the whole point of this special is that it's about the Five Doctors up to this era of the show meeting up. So I'll give you a very quick run down on all of them. The First Doctor is not in this special, instead his replace, the Furst Doctor, was brought in. He is old and cantankerous and doesn't do a whole lot. He brings his granddaughter along with him. The Second Doctor is a clown who is much more clever than he likes to let on, and enjoys playing musical instruments. He is bringing along an old military friend of his the Brigadier. The Third Doctor is a dandy who is basically James Bond but on a BBC budget and saying really silly alien words with made up kung fu. He is bringing Sarah Jane Smith, who is basically The Girl That Travels With The Doctor personified. The Fourth Doctor is a wax statue. He is bringing with him copious amounts of stock footage and a winning smile. The Fifth Doctor is a long suffering idiot who means well. Nothing good ever happens to him. Except getting a little boy killed, that was a pretty good day for him. And that is all you need to know!
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Aug 16, 2017 17:36
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He'd also been on the show for like, near a decade, so he was pretty burnt out on the show. He later admitted it was a mistake though I'm not so sure.
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Aug 18, 2017 04:22
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Here's the thing about Classic Who. It was and has always been on a Government budget. So take any sci fi show of the era, literally any one of them- this has maybe a fraction of the budget if you're goddamn lucky. The show looked its best in the late 60s and early 70s because the budget to production values were just skewed enough that it mostly got away with it. Like, super late 60s, early 70s Who looked fairly similar to Trek in the 60s because everything looked lovely. Then the mid 70s hit and production values skyrocketed for other shows while the budget for Who remained the same. This thing was made in 1983. That is so far beyond their weight class that it's almost not funny, because the budget was STILL the same as it was in the 60s. The scripts, one of the best things you can say for early Who, also suffered a loving lot. The fact that most of the actors involved in this particular thing hadn't been on the show in over a goddamn decade. The Third Doctor bowed out nine years previous, and the Second Doctor was last in the show eleven years previous. It's kind of like if some one made a Star Trek reunion show right now, but with the budget from the 60s series, and all of the actors had to reprise their roles, with the dead actors being replaced by people without a tenth of the talent and they don't look a thing like them either. And they try to do it super serious about a really stupid story.
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Aug 18, 2017 06:26
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I will say, if you like old school scifi and can stomach serials from the good ole days, 60s Who can be pretty goddamn great. Power of the Daleks was recently recreated with flash animation and it still holds up. If you're curious about why, all I'll say is that the British government are loving morons who decided "hey, these film reels are taking up a lot of space, how about we just burn them?" Just, like with comic books, Who got dumber the longer it ran. And, you know, budget stuff.
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Aug 18, 2017 16:12
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To be fair The guy is a piece of poo poo who can't write to save his life. So you know, fairs fair.
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Aug 31, 2017 00:52
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muscles like this! posted:As far as I know he was basically a guest writer and not in the room for every episode. Yeah that's why the new season was good Trust me, it would have been as bad as some nerds try to make it sound if he was.
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Aug 31, 2017 04:05
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The problem is the most pronounced in the first episode, though even there I think it calms down a bit by the end. By the middle of the season it's pretty much on par with late era MST3K pacing wise
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Aug 31, 2017 04:25
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muscles like this! posted:So the "Dr Who" movies are on Amazon and is there an explanation as to why they exist in the first place? The Daleks were loving gigantic popular across the world. That's why they got lavishly recreated and given big budget props and faithfully adapted That punk Doctor is just lucky to have been associated with them
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Nov 4, 2017 19:52
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I wonder what, if any, of the Netflix series they're going to air tomorrow I kind of hope it's going to be one of the more lowkey ones like Beast of Hollow Mountain
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Nov 23, 2017 02:55
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I would assume none since they're actively trying to make money off it? They might see it as free advertising We'll see Regardless I expect an announcement tomorrow. The timing is too perfect not to
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Nov 23, 2017 03:15
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Evil Mastermind posted:Is there any reason to not just merge the threads? I can't imagine that there's a lot of people who only like one of MST3k or Rifftrax, but not the other. A fair number of people here dislike season 11 while most of the people in the MST3K thread liked it and that might spark some stupid debates. Plus they are fundamentally different productions, even if they are uniquely related. If we had more active Riffing shows, I could see merging them together but we only have the two. Unless you count Rooster Teeth's Theater Mode series which you shouldn't
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Nov 24, 2017 22:55
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Gavok posted:So I have good news and good news. The good news is that the riff for Batman v. Superman will hit on Wednesday. The other good news is that the Mads (at least) will be joining in. You have my attention I say this liking the movie, for the record. Theatrical cut?
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Dec 16, 2017 03:38
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This is actually the version of the movie I owned I never saw the Sandy Frank version until MST3K
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Jun 2, 2018 03:06
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admataY posted:you know , For all the raised brows about Eric Roberts casting in the role of " cat " I can absolutely buy him as someone whos asleep for 20 hours of the day and lick his balls in the remaining 4 . Dude basically just does acting as a hobby to pay charities He can lick his balls as long as he likes
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Aug 17, 2018 18:06
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muscles like this! posted:As someone who mainly watched the original back in the day I find it a little off to have movies where the puppets are the heroes seeing as in the first couple they definitely were not and would just straight up murder people. Well they started fighting Nazis so you know Don't worry, nowadays they're just being funded by Nazis
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Oct 11, 2018 20:25
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I would argue that now is the best time in the world to mock and belittle American Nazis, actually
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Nov 6, 2018 01:47
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By popular demand posted:Just wanted to that "Ready Player One" is a movie by and for basic bitches, but that the Riff is terrific. Want a movie that misunderstands or just plain doesn't want to engage with any single thing that it references and almost always goes for the most obvious nerd poo poo ever? RPO is your movie
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Nov 17, 2018 22:58
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By popular demand posted:BTW this guy uploads old mst3k soundtracks attached to higher quality grabs of the movies, sans host segments and such. This is Kind of amazing and I love it but also it suffers so much without some of the segments Like, Prince of Space is a near perfect episode because everything works from start to finish so removing that takes something away...but getting to have the riffing over better quality versions of the films is excellent
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Nov 23, 2018 19:47
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muscles like this! posted:The latest RLM video is a breakdown of what tapes they actually have in their library and quite a few of them have been featured on MST3K and Rifftrax. So if you wanted to see the actual box art for stuff like Pumaman it's worth a watch. Also they have about 80 copies of Nukie on VHS
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Mar 3, 2019 17:30
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Man, I want them to riff the Last Dinosaur it's perfect
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Apr 23, 2019 04:49
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Jet Jaguar posted:I remember begging my parents to stay up and watch this when it was on really really late one night. Mostly I remember the giant drilling machine and the way-out theme song. Tsuburaya actually, which is close enough. They're the company founded by the guy who did all of the special effects work for the Godzilla movies for the 50s and 60s, and the two companies still have a very close relationship. Creator of Ultraman and a bunch of other properties, as well. The fact that it was Tsuburaya bodes well to it maybe getting a Rifftrax release one day
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Apr 23, 2019 04:55
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Paper Kaiju posted:Beast of Hollow Mountain isnt really that apt of a comparison, since the Dinosauruses are actually relevant to the story beyond the climax. Beast of Hollow Mountain is one of the most baffling movies I have EVER seen. It's like this weird lovely prototype for Valley of Gwangi and I don't understand it
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May 11, 2019 21:05
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Regardless he's a class act and that movie is made by him
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Sep 6, 2019 22:45
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Gavok posted:I watched Blood Theatre and... wow. Good Good
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Oct 20, 2019 03:11
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Just a warning, the latest RiffTrax VOD is missing 20 minutes of its 90 minute running time. That's absurd. Robo Vampire? Was it just a lot of rape or
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Dec 7, 2019 18:03
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Well that decided what I was doing with my gift card real quick
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Dec 27, 2019 22:51
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BDawg posted:I’ve been mainlining protest news all weekend and the Aladdin RiffTrax might be the most racially insensitive thing I’ve seen this weekend. Disney and racism, a tale as old as time
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Jun 1, 2020 01:40
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This isn't great That's about all I can say
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Jun 16, 2020 03:31
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:careful not to deify celebrities but yeah, bill has always seemed like a pretty good guy. i can’t get a read on kevin, but then again i don’t have twitter, so who knows I will allow Wow that doesn't read right I don't care if people are poo poo heads in private. I'm sure there are lot of people that I would disagree with or not like if I knew personal stuff about them that I wouldn't otherwise. If I don't know that they're a poo poo head, I'm not going to worry if they are or not. Kevin could or could not be, I don't know, and I'm not going to worry about it unless he brings it to the table. Which is the thing. If you don't like gay people but you keep it to yourself? Whatever, you do you. I'm not going to police your thoughts. If you make that part of your public platform or hang out with people that do that? That's a different subject. I was able to push a lot of doubts I had about Mike away because, whatever his views in that direction, he never voiced them and he didn't make them part of his online persona. Him collaborating with a poo poo head though, that makes him at the least shithead adjacent. That needs to be addressed, and only he can do that. I hate that Bill even has to be brought in on this, or that Kevin has to be looked at in any way because of this, but they are associated with Mike. Like I said "This isn't great."
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Jun 16, 2020 07:04
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:it’s impossible for one’s beliefs to not seep into their art eventually. it does matter. Oh I agree with that. Once it does, then I feel free and clear to tear into it. I'm just not going to worry myself to death if hasn't yet. I'd never be able to engage with any media otherwise if I had to do intensive background checks on every single creator, or live in paranoia for those that don't have any history of it but might just come out screaming racial slurs. Just with Mike, we, at least in this thread, have been...worried about that. I think we've had similar discussions before though without any evidence that he might feel that way. It's been mostly positive on that front as, I believe it was Bill, even had them edit out some transphobic jokes from earlier riffs.
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Jun 16, 2020 07:18
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Frank is great
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Jun 17, 2020 00:14
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That's about the best I could hope for and it could have been a lot, lot worse. Still a bit too "I didn't know that" but...I'll take that, at the least. And yeah Joel has been amazing about all of this.
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Jun 17, 2020 18:40
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I can kinda see how Mike would get along with this guy without buying into his worst beliefs. Or, charitably, knowing/realizing his worst beliefs. This is one of those types that so long as he minds his words and doesn't let the full facade show, he can come off as misguided but maybe reasonable enough. Then you take a peak past the polite mask and see the goblin show for what it is.
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Jun 17, 2020 18:49
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I can't tell if that's a joke or not
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Jul 8, 2020 21:05
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Dawgstar posted:It'd be interesting to look at their business model. I'm guessing the stuff where they can have movie + riffs makes the most money, which is why they don't trip over themselves to do Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor or something similar. Also, honestly, a big problem they were having for years before they started doing VODs? Big hollywood blockbusters are really loving samey and really bleed together
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:There's sixteen minutes of the movie missing from the RiffTrax version because I guess all their VOD releases can't be longer than 75 minutes now for no goddamn reason even though Mike and Connor can record two hours making fun of a few chapters of a book. Can't wait for them to abandon riffing movies altogether because they're too long and switch to just episodes of TV shows. What was in those 16 minutes
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