The Rifftrax thread

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

looking forward to Red Dawn

The Star Wars III one is awesome. So is the Crystal Skull. It's funny and something I never thought of before but maybe it's because they still capture that ol' cheesy b-movie magic that Lucas always said he wanted back in the original trilogies.

I really feel for the people who had to watch Crystal Skull without Rifftrax, but it is an awesome experience w/the Rifftrax.

Ha, I feel the same way about Twilight.

Batman & Robin rifftrax (which were supposedly fan-written online) has the jokes very few and far between and it makes the whole experience just slightly less painful than watching the movie without. I think there are a few points where maybe a full minute goes by without a single quip. It's a pity cos that movie is begging for it.

The first Lord of the Rings one is hilarious though. But these are really turning out to be hit or miss. Crystal Skull still my favorite.

OK, the one for the Star Trek reboot has been the best in awhile.

"Oh Hai old Spock, welcome to San Francisco!"

"Marvel at the exotic set pieces of the Star Trek universe!"
"Filmed on location at a self-storarge complex that was shut down after the owner followed a female customer home."

Their recent spoof of a short on illiteracy ended up really depressing me. It was so sad that those kids couldn't read that even the lols of Mike & co. could not cheer me up.

I was also really sad when they used the word "beaner" in their "Drag Me To Hell" track.

They did? I wonder if Mike living in San Diego is starting to bring out a wronger side to things.

That all said, great interview with the three about the live Reefer Madness in a couple of days. A selection:

Beaks: Thinking about movies you're going to get to in the future, movies that are richly deserving of the RiffTrax treatment... have you seen THE LAST AIRBENDER?

Murphy: I have. I was drooling in the theater as a matter of fact. I think it's going to be delightful fun for us. M. Night just can't make movies fast enough for me right now.

Nelson: I'm hoping for THE HAPPENING 2, but I'm not keeping my hopes too high.

Corbett: I'm thinking of bankrolling that one myself.

Murphy: I'm thinking of going to the theater to see CHARLIE ST. CLOUD. It might also be perfect. It's the kind of movie that might appeal to our TWILIGHT audience.

Beaks: Absolutely.

Corbett: What is this?

Murphy: It's Zac Efron, and he's moony and teary-eyed, and he's got a little brother who's a ghost. And he's got a teary-eyed girlfriend. It's all teary-eyed. And Zac just gets to moon at the camera with his giant bushy eyebrows. What else do you need?

Corbett: Now you're talking!

Classic

High School Musical
Jaws
The Matrix Trilogy
Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Daredevil
Cloverfield
Fantastic Four
Twilight / New Moon
LOTR
Jurassic Park
Crossroads
Over the Top
Terminator 3
Alien
Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Dark Knight
The Wicker Man
Missile to the Moon
Troll 2
Road House
Transformers
Ocean's 11
Drag Me to Hell
The Happening
The X-Files
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Fast & Furious 2009
The Day After Tomorrow
Star Trek V
XxX

Dud

Pirates of the Carribean
Iron Man
Avatar
Batman & Robin
Cocktail
The Island of Dr Moreau
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire
Firewall
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Memento
Reefer Madness
Paranormal Activity
Swing Parade
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Battlefield Earth
Dragon Wars
Eragon
Clash of the Titans

(most of the rest fall somewhere inbetween)

avatar was really, really weak.

will check out the indy one, though, hopefully it can redeem that POS

I think the Twilight one is the funniest I've seen. And the shorts are almost always great!

Twilight is definitely the best so far

Batman & Robin was so weak, and its kinda inexcusable because that movie deserves a massive riffing. There are so many stretches where they just don't talk and you're forced to watch this horrible film.

The Indy one is classic, so funny ive watched it multiple times, which i would've never done wo the riffs.

The LOTR ones are great, and I like the Harry Potter ones too. I think both Transformers ones were successful, and in fact, I kinda hope they do more Michael Bay movies.

LOL I basically wrote the exact same post a year ago.

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

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