The Rifftrax thread

Randy Quaid: "I picked a hell of a day to quit drinking..."
Bill: "Really? I was just thinking I picked a hell of a day to not kill myself!"
Mike: "Day's still young, Bill."

Hahahah.

I only have a couple of these still -- they're hella productive and I like that. I have to hear what they do with Raiders since I know they love the movie (check Kevin M.'s opening essay to his Year at the Movies book).

Watching the one for Raiders Of The Lost Ark right one.

"This thing's a piece Jacques, better hope Snoopy doesn't shoot us down"

"I guess in this movie the primitive weapon always triumphs. God forbid the Nazis discover a really splintery 2 x 4."

"Oh great fan boys. Look I told you I don't give a damn who shot first"

"Indiana Jones... Meet Dusseldorf Strauss! My god I hate your arm!"

Haha, what was the context of that one?

This would have made watching Raiders of the Lost Ark a few months ago much more enjoyable.

Haha, what was the context of that one?

During the truck chase. ("Trucks! Why did it have to be trucks?!")

Watching Transformers

"Not so much a muscle car as it is a gristle car"

"Number 5 is alive... and a TERRORIST!"

"The Iron Giant is drunk and belligerent... 'I ALWAYS HATED YOU PEOPLE!'"

"We were dispatched to forcibly update your Strokes t-shirt"

"The proud men of the JARGON CORPS"

"That's what Emile Zola used to call Cezanne. Hey cube boy!"

"We were dispatched to forcibly update your Strokes t-shirt"

This I believe.

Watching Casino Royale tonight...

"Hey you know what they call this movie in France, right?"

"Lemme guess... Casino Quarter Pounder?"

*rim shot*

I am pleased to see they've got a new RiffTrax Player thing -- I am NOT pleased that there's no Mac version. Cripes.

"BOND SMASH!"

Cloverfield:

"Rob got a hold of Beth - she knows where the afterparty is."

faves so far: Terminator 3, Battlefield Earth and Transformers

also good: Road House

Is there a Cinematic Titanic thread?

About to watch Rifftrax Cloverfield tonight. Will report back...

"It's feeding time at the Maxim zoo!"

"This guy's life coach is Toby from The Office"

"It's feeding time at the Maxim zoo!"

That does about sum it up.

"The film has become Diogenes searching for a non-narcissistic character."

"Sign of a bad party - someone yelling 'PARTY!'"

Heads up Los Angeles]...

The American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave. at 14th St. in Santa Monica, Calif., will present Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett live, riffing on Ed Wood’s PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE Sunday, Nov. 2, with two shows – 5 and 8 p.m. Tickets are $27, $26 for students and senior; $25 for members. Tickets are available at www.fandango.com.

I know! I'm terribly tempted.

I see a certain Indiana Jones movie is the next target.

i love how a good chunk of 'battlefield earth' is just the guys laughing at the movie

Tickets are $27, $26 for students and seniors. What the hell is the point in a price cut like that? A $1? What's that get you, three pieces of popcorn?

Watched The Happening w/Rifftrax yesterday. Kind of redundant, considering the movie riffs itself. But still, very funny.

Can't wait for the Crystal Skull.

Much as I love said film in question, this is more than an appropriate target, and this a more than appropriate introduction:

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

Wish they would do live telecasts like the Oscars, or Monday Night Football

Meanwhile, I'm going to go see Joel Hodgson and crew live tomorrow night. Should be great!

THEY'RE DOING TWILIGHT:D

My sister had a severely crappy day so we bought the Twilight one. It was magnificent! I've shamefully never bought a Rifftrax before and it's super-fucking-weird to hear the MST3K dudes talking about the ShamWow guy and Twitter.

But seriously this was great. "They can't even work up the energy for furtive mumbling anymore!"

Really like most of these, but they seem to have a blind spot (explained by Nelson's politics, I guess) when it comes to stupid fucking jokes where the only discsernable punchlines are simply 'this actor or character is a homosexual'.

Watching the one for 'Firewall'. CHRIST what a horrible movie; I had to stop it at 20 mins in b/c the actual flick they were ripping on was too horrible to watch.

'Casablanca'. This oughta be interesting.

So...the latest mailout is about their riff on The Room and I'm all, 'Wait, what?'

Then I read this.

Then I saw this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCj8sPCWfUw

My world is changed.

Yeah, The Room has been the viral beer/weed-fest staple for awhile now (I passed by the billboard every day on my way to work). This will finally get me to go see it.

Still, the best of these is Dangerous Men which HAS to be riffed on if there's ever a proper DVD release. Check out these:
http://www.stomptokyo.com/movies/d/dangerous-men.html
http://www.laweekly.com/2007-04-19/film-tv/born-to-be-rad/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JfeDPRJ9IM

Watching the "Transformers" one now, which was actually kind of ho-hum until all the Autobots make their appear (and hour in!) and then:

"It's like the Village People meets Radio Shack!"

"Transformers!....Robots in Disguise....huh? Guys I hate to say this but I could use a pod race right about now, a montage of Stallone washing his truck, anything!"

Watching "The Sixth Sense" one tonight. So far, kinda enhhhh

A lot of bad things have come “from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan,” but we feel it’s safe to say that this one came straight from his colon. What is there to say about The Last Airbender that isn’t already said by its Rotten Tomatoes rating of 6%? A whole lot, as it turns out. It’s becoming apparent that the true genius of M. Night is finding a way to make the wrong creative decision at any given moment. Dialogue, casting, music cues, every choice in the film suggests that the once-acclaimed director has given up Alfred Hitchcock as his inspiration, and replaced him with a certain T. Wiseau. And, frankly, we couldn’t be happier. But, Mr. Shyamalan: we worked with Tommy Wiseau, we know Tommy Wiseau, and you, sir, are no Tommy Wiseau.

The first time I saw Transfomers was with the Rifftrax riff...and I am so glad I had that because I don't think I would have made it through without them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H15TT8CKltM

I am really psyched for the Last Airbender rifftrax, and I would otherwise never watch that movie.

Watching X-Men 2 tonight...

"I just can't get over four simple words: 'John Stamos was here.'"

The first time I saw Transfomers was with the Rifftrax riff...and I am so glad I had that because I don't think I would have made it through without them.

Oh man, I couldn't even then...when my husband was watching these I kept going in and out of the room, compelled by the funny but repelled by the fucking pain of Transformers a movie.

Their Megan Fox riffs dulled a lot of the pain, tears into laughter etc

The rifftrax for the Last Airbender is hilarious HOWEVER this movie is so soul-destroyingly awful that the rifftrax can't make up for how horrible this movie is. And I say this as somebody who loves both Transformers rifftrax. This may be the worst movie I have ever seen in my life -- you have been warned.

Boy in the Plastic Bubble Rifftrax is great

OMG I have to see that! I was briefly fascinated by that movie when I was little.

Twilight: Eclipse Rifftrax was excellent per usual. Twilight: Eclipse was more leaden and annoying than I remembered.

http://kat.ph/rifftrax-grey-s-anatomy-t4570433.html

Here's a previously hard-to-find but classic couple of Rifftrax

Mike Nelson & Bridget Jones's do the first two episodes of Grey's Anatomy.

The first one especially is great fun.

BTW in August they're doing another live in theaters event … MANOS.

http://rifftrax.tumblr.com/post/20014970615/rifftrax-live-manos-the-hands-of-fate

omgomgomg *pees on rug*

Hahah given the imminent Blu-Ray of the workprint, how appropriate.

I wanna go now! Can we go now?

No, we have to wait until the Master returns.

Oh, so you take care of the place.

can I just post this whole thing...

it makes me cry laughing every time...

So... so I told Gary that I was going on this vacation so he goes "well then I'm going hunting with Jeff next weekend." well that's when we were at Knives and then Lou sang 'Fernando' and then Gary oh he sings so good oh you should meet Jeff some time do you like Barry Manilow songs I know the farmers need rain but when it's damp like this my hair just explodes just ex-PAH-LO-des ooh ooh feeling kinda gassy McNuggets you know they make me so gassy all that grease and all it really helps if you drink eight-ten glasses of water a day did you know that sometimes I drink five sometimes I drink nine just to make up for the other three I didn't drink coffee and diet drinks don't count either you know this is pretty country isn't it you know it's really kind of a blessing in disguise that I didn't get accepted to college you know I'm going to have to revise my twenty-year plan but did I tell you about my 20-year plan okay well okay listen here in year one this is the year when I'm going to take off those extra seven pounds you know that's equal to seven pounds of butter haha so it's like I'm wearing seven pounds of butter ha and well uh oh where was I oh oh yeah so my aunt and uncle here they did celebrate their twentieth anniversary and my uncle wanted to sing 'Sunset Sunrise' and he wanted *me* to sing it and I haven't sung that since Cindy's wedding and well she never thanked me for that... well she's really busy and all.

Hahahah. I love the silent counterpoint to that while Tom is going off -- Crow and Joel looking awkwardly around trying to ignore it and then Joel twirls his finger in the 'cuckoo!' gesture.

yes!

So many endlessly great lines in the original riff!

"Look, can we drop off Tim Weisberg now?"

He's got Earl Campbell thighs

Arise my wives...and iron my work shirt!

"Arise my wives...and hear the will of Manos!"

*pause*

*gabbling*

"What was I THINKING?"

hahahah

The new pope has not been chosen.

Still remember a slew of friends absolutely dying at this one first time I made 'em see it (including our own Elvis Telecom):

http://initforthekills.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/manos_painting.jpg

"It's a Frank Frazetta of Frank Zappa."

Taken from this clearly superior essay:

http://initforthekills.com/2011/09/27/who-would-win-the-master-manos-the-hands-of-fate-vs-lord-summerisle-the-wicker-man/

I had to put my glass of water down just now

it KILLS me

"You can have the top up or a birthday present. It's your choice, honey."

As noted above, MANOS is almost here

http://boingboing.net/2012/08/13/michael-j-nelson-interview.html

The only live Rifftrax video I've seen was Jack the Giant Killer, and I was surprised how well it worked (which doesn't come across in the badly selected sample clips). Thought this was right up there with the very best of the MST3K sword & sorcery movies such as Jack Frost. One of my all-time favourite Rifftrax.

yeah that was fun. Bummed that I ended up missing Manos

It was a blast. They're doing Birdemic live this week!

I'm watching the Dark Knight one, and there's a scene where Bruce Wayne is analyzing the bullets with a computer, and they say "Try AUTOEXEC.BAT!" I LOL'd.

Hi, does anyone have an idea how to fix this problem: Few years back I downloading pretty much all of the rifftrax movies using bittorent, (salving my conscience by purchasing all the B-movies and 'shorts' from their site as well). These were all saved onto a hard-drive in the flat I was renting at the time.

But due to unforeseen circumstances I was dragged away at short notice to begin working on an urgent reconstruction job. Took longer than anticipated but all turned out well in the end. Except for one thing - my treasured hard-drive was nowhere to be found. No problem- I'll just download them again - but apparently not, at least for Virgin users. This was one of my most cherished possessions - I could handle losing an mp3 collection that I could gradually rebuild, but my rifftrax collection seems irretrievable!

Is there any conceivable way I could retrieve these? (I can still access some sites that claim to have them, but they aren't the type which inspire confidence)

After looking for weeks, and only half a day after posting the above, I seem to have finally found one that has zero pop-ups, including those worrying pop up boxes that ask you to click ok without it being clear what exactly you're about to click - this one's just direct download of any or all the entire collection. Couldn't be happier (at least till I find out tomorrow my pc's infested with malware)

Hi, Bob Executive. Which way is business?

Finally been delving into a lot of these when it comes to the random/trashy movies they've been doing that you can just buy the full package for -- suits me! When it comes to recent efforts, Superargo and the Faceless Giants was definitely amazing in a 60s/spy/superhero combination, and Ruby was some 70s exploitation pain.

bunch of these on amazon prime....the Chuck Norris CB radio/trucker fad vehicle "Breaker Breaker" is really great

Yeah Hulu's got a slew as well. I like kicking them the cash directly but it's nice to have some fallbacks too.

Apropos: http://www.avclub.com/article/exclusive-rifftrax-takes-another-hitchcock-clone-d-248249

“One of the things that delights us from the James Ngyuen canon of films, is that all of his characters are Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are dumb as rocks and deal with very round numbers,” explains Corbett. “The main actress in this one is a super-genius scientist who built a clone in a few months, but she seems more like a waitress at Chili’s.” Nelson adds, “She mentions to our hero that she started up the company several months before and they just finished their first clone. Good lord, that is rampant progress. They clone a human being two months after starting their cloning company. They got a little VC capital and went right to work.”

I appreciate this:

So why do filmmakers like Ngyuen and Wiseau let the RiffTrax guys have their way with their art? People like getting their names out there,” explains Murphy, “especially if they’re not the best filmmakers in the world. There is no such thing as bad press.” “It’s all in good fun, and there’s an enlightened self-interest at work,” adds Corbett. “Not to be too crass, but the enlightened self-interest does sometimes come in the form of money.”

And holy hell, Mike mentioning wanting to do a Neil Breen film! That would be gold. For the unknowing:

Neil Breen, filmmaker

i'm surprised they havent already!

Quick note that their Kickstarter for live shows this year wraps up in a few hours:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rifftrax/rifftrax-live-17-samurai-cop-beach-party-and-myste

Even if you kick in only a dollar, you get ten shorts plus a couple of standalone riffs soon to come, so there's that.

This could be good.

https://www.fathomevents.com/events/rifftrax-live-doctor-who

Just posted on their Drip feed by one of the key behind-the-scenes staffers:

Hello everyone, Conor here. We recorded a new RiffTrax last week, and it's one of my favorites in a long time. An utterly ridiculous movie starring Mario Lopez called The Journey: Absolution. There is a lot to say about it, and we will have more for you soon, but one of the first things that stands out is that The Journey: Absolution is quite possibly the most shirtless movie we've done since Top Gun. Since a healthy portion of this shirtlessness takes place in a military locker room, this does not go unacknowledged by us throughout the riffing.

"It's an Eric H. fantasy!" < / Servo >

Live riffs for the years -- Space Mutiny gets a revisit, then...Krull. I can't wait for THAT one.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rifftrax/rifftrax-live-2018-space-mutiny-and-krull