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Oh wow. I'm watching the Transformer 3 riff and two things are obvious: Shia LeBoef's character is nauseating - like, all opinions of the actor aside he's an amazingly unpleasant lead. And, the voices of the robots are so over the top I honestly can't tell sometimes if it's a riffer making a joke or actual dialogue.
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Silentgoldfish posted:Oh wow. I'm watching the Transformer 3 riff and two things are obvious: It took me three god drat days just to watch the rifftrax for that. Not even rifftrax made it so I could watch it in one sitting. I'm having a similar problem with ID4 right now.
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Akileese posted:It took me three god drat days just to watch the rifftrax for that. Not even rifftrax made it so I could watch it in one sitting. I'm having a similar problem with ID4 right now. I'm having that problem with Abraxas. I'm loving the riffing but the movie is so bad. And I've watched Setting Up A Room like four times!
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Dec 6, 2011 06:43
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I avoided Transformers 3 until the riff came out, and christ that movie is insulting to the audience and the characters. The Autobots let Chicago get attacked and thousands of people die just to prove the point that humans need them and the Decepticons will never go away. Then they murder a bunch of Decepticons in cold blood, many injured and begging for mercy. Michael Bay had the pure loving balls to invoke 9/11 imagery in this piece of horseshit, and seemed to think it would come off patriotic. This really was the final 'gently caress you' to any fans of the original franchise.
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Dec 6, 2011 07:37
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I had that problem with the rifftrax of HP: Order of the Phoenix. It's not that it's a horrible movie, it's just that that evil woman who serves as the replacement to Dumbledore gets on my nerves so much that I have to turn it off. I mean, that's sort of their intent, but they did too good of a job. Still haven't worked up the effort to watch the riffs of Transformers 2 or 3.
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Dec 6, 2011 07:55
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Silentgoldfish posted:Shia LeBoef's character is nauseating - like, all opinions of the actor aside he's an amazingly unpleasant lead.  . Seriously? This is our hero? Movie, I demand to see your supervisor!
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Dec 6, 2011 10:27
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Payndz posted:The bit where his (non-Transformer) car gets caught on the security bollards and he just sits there and literally screams for about five solid seconds is utterly "His career summed up in five seconds."
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Dec 6, 2011 16:22
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Payndz posted:The bit where his (non-Transformer) car gets caught on the security bollards and he just sits there and literally screams for about five solid seconds is utterly Mother fucker, I cannot believe I actually watched this on my screen as that poo poo went on. Did someone look at the previous movies and decided, "No. He needs to be...douche-baggier. MORE."
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Dec 6, 2011 21:51
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Tae posted:Mother fucker, I cannot believe I actually watched this on my screen as that poo poo went on. Did someone look at the previous movies and decided, "No. He needs to be...douche-baggier. MORE." 
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Dec 6, 2011 23:27
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T3 was just so loving terrible in this special Michael Bay way, it was difficult to watch even with the rifftrax. I posted a few kind words in the is it really that bad? thread, but I'm sure everyone already knows the drill by now. Just typing the above made me want to watch this a few times The other two I recently watched are "Island of Dr. Moreau" and "Laser Mission", both of which I thought were solid riffs and can be recommended. I've been meaning to ask though, is that Nick Nolte that they're constantly referencing throughout the different riffs? If not, who is it then, and if so, why? The first few times I thought it was McNulty (of the Wire, would make sense with the alcohol references), but it doesn't sound likely any more.
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Dec 6, 2011 23:51
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Just so you guys know, you can get a riff that's compatible with the new player for free right now when you download said player. And it's OSX compatible!
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Just so you guys know, you can get a riff that's compatible with the new player for free right now when you download said player. Oh poo poo, thanks man! Go to hell, my previous plans for the rest of the night! Also, I'm glad they fixed the player so I can stop being a dick who buys riffs the day they get released and then waits 3 days to download a synced file because I'm a huge loving babby and can never sync that poo poo myself. For Transformers 3, I opened up two instances of VLC like a jackass and then had to resync every time I got up to go to the bathroom. fake edit: Checking through the list of free riffs to choose from and I'm fairly sure The Bourne Identity is the only riff here I haven't seen.
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Locutus of Bald posted:fake edit: Checking through the list of free riffs to choose from and I'm fairly sure The Bourne Identity is the only riff here I haven't seen. I have the opposite problem. The only riffs I have seen on that list is Birdemic and Inception. I have no idea what to pick! 
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On my 4th attempt to watch Transformers 3. I'm loving how ruthless they are, but poo poo, this movie insufferable. And I watched Buffalo Rider in one sitting. e: I'm watching Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Can anyone who reads/watches this poo poo and actually cares explain why the bad guy, Snape, was hanging out with Volemort and Harry fought him in the last movie, but now no one remembers any of that and he's still teaching at the school in the obviously-evil "defense of the dark arts" position? Which is where the villain of every movie was working. Did I hallucinate him being the villain, or did literally no one making this movie notice it? The Anime Liker fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Dec 8, 2011 |
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Tony Danza Claus posted:On my 4th attempt to watch Transformers 3. Once you get to that scene with Shockwave and the whole collapsing building, then you suddenly realize there's still 45 minutes left. It has to be the hardest movie I've ever attempted to watch in one sitting. Independence Day is also pretty tough being two and a half loving hours long.
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Transformers is so weird, because it's impossible to sit through yet makes billions of dollars  And ID4 is the perfect length and a goddamn American classic   Tony Danza Claus posted:e: I'm watching Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Hahaha, I have this exact same problem. Same thing with that blond evil/jerk boy's dad. He's clearly evil, hangs around with Rhinoplasty-zebub, yet no questions asked. Dissapointed Owl fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Dec 8, 2011 |
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ID4 is the best movie ever made and Mike Nelson should be ashamed of making fun of it.
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Tony Danza Claus posted:e: I'm watching Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I've not read the books, but in the first part of Deathly Hallows they say how they have someone deep in the organization. That person later becomes the Minster of Magic after the previous one is killed. They also make Harry something like the FBI's most wanted. They're in control of the government of wizards so to speak. Plus, no one besides Harry and all the Death Eaters saw Dumbledor get killed. They know that Death Eaters did it, but not exactly who I imagine. EDIT: Is there a Harry Potter thread that's active now? I have my own questions about Harry Potter and I don't want to derail the Rifftrax thread about. (Like why Voldermort calls Harry's mom a muggle). IUG fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Dec 8, 2011 |
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Dec 8, 2011 04:37
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Tony Danza Claus posted:On my 4th attempt to watch Transformers 3. It's hard to remember, having read the books, what the movies leave out. It can be bad, and Order of the Phoenix had the worst pacing of any of the movies. Harry saw Snape with Voldemort in Goblet of Fire, the fourth. It's explained in Order of the Phoenix that Snape is a double agent for Dumbledore at great risk to himself. It's a point of contention between Harry and Dumbledore through Half-Blood Prince, and we see what happens there. Harry learns the truth behind the whole backstory in Deathly Hallows. That's pretty much it. If you're really interested, read the books. That's where the actual story is. Half-Blood Prince may be my favorite of the movies, though, just for some wonderful pacing and ambiance. And subtlety, dear god, actual subtlety in one of these movies. EDIT: Harry Potter thread is in Book Barn, IUG. Voldemort should probably call Lily a mudblood, the same as they call for Hermione, but for such a hardline racist, the two are kind of interchangeable.
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IUG posted:EDIT: Is there a Harry Potter thread that's active now? I have my own questions about Harry Potter and I don't want to derail the Rifftrax thread about. (Like why Voldermort calls Harry's mom a muggle). He did? When? You mean mudblood?
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Practical Demon posted:It's hard to remember, having read the books, what the movies leave out. It can be bad, and Order of the Phoenix had the worst pacing of any of the movies.
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I'll ask in that thread (tomorrow after I sleep) again, as to not derail. But no, I'm Goblet of Fire in the graveyard scene he calls her a muggle. Watched it again to confirm it the other day. Rifftrax question that I had that no one answered before: do the Rifftrax for the Star Wars blurays still sync up with the new changes?
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A technical question re: Blu-rays - should you use the NTSC riff whatever region you're in? I noticed that the UK Transformers 3 BR had a different (longer) running time than the DVD, which I'm guessing is down to BRs not being affected by the differences in frame rate between PAL and NTSC.
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Just watched the Birdemic: Shock and Terror. Great riffing, terrible, terrible movie. made me want to become a climate change denier.
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RandolphCarter posted:Just watched the Birdemic: Shock and Terror. Great riffing, terrible, terrible movie. made me want to become a climate change denier. Climate deniers, such as seals.
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Man the riff for The last Airbender is fantastic. "Such as the water under the ocean".
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Pooned posted:Man the riff for The last Airbender is fantastic. It's fantastic. "The Daily Show's senior 'Taking A Role For The Paycheck' correspondent."
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Finally made it through Transformers 3 on day three. God drat was it a slog. The Rifftrax barely helped. It's been a long time since I've seen a movie that was just plain mean-spirited. The villains are barely competent, the good guys are all complete assholes that let a huge city be destroyed to prove a point, and there's Shia and not-Megan Fox in the middle of it. And it goes on forever. I don't remember why they initially went to Chicago, what happened before that, or really anything except that there was a Transformer on the moon. This movie gave somebody in my town permanent brain damage, and that's the best review I can give.
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I'm honestly beginning to wonder if Bay makes his human characters so horribly, despicably unlikable on purpose to make the giant CGI robots seem noble and interesting in comparison. I'm pretty sure he just tells all his human actors to take his scenes full of inappropriate racial, sexual, and scatological "humor" and crank up the scenery chewing to 11 (or in Shia's case, 23) so that he can finally fulfill his dream of a talking robot Oscar winner for Best Actor.
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A friend and I were watching the first one, as I always said that was the one that was halfway close to decent. We got to the drat being raided and we just gave up, even with the Rifftrax. I remember watching the second movie back when it just came out on DVD or something, and me and my girlfriend at the time just could barely endure that movie. I can't/can believe they're making a 4th.
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IUG posted:I can't/can believe they're making a 4th. God is dead.
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Universe Master posted:I'm honestly beginning to wonder if Bay makes his human characters so horribly, despicably unlikable on purpose to make the giant CGI robots seem noble and interesting in comparison. I'm pretty sure he just tells all his human actors to take his scenes full of inappropriate racial, sexual, and scatological "humor" and crank up the scenery chewing to 11 (or in Shia's case, 23) so that he can finally fulfill his dream of a talking robot Oscar winner for Best Actor. Bay needs to get actual goddamn writers to do his scripts rather than whatever twentysomething flavours of the moment with good agents are pushed in front of him. Nobody's going to hold up the first Bad Boys or The Rock as masterpieces of cinema (and I love The Rock), but they had solid plots and characters with personality and motivation, and had been developed over years rather than being thrown together in a couple of months to meet a pre-decided release date. The human characters being so horrible might, just maaaaybe, be because Michael Bay is also a horrible person and he thinks that's normal. Which makes the whiny, screaming, angry, entitled, arrogant, prickish Sam of TF3 even worse because he's possibly Bay's avatar.
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Getting reminded that the same guy that made The rock (best action movie ever made) and Crimson Tide also made Transformers 3  Edit: Oh my god how did i get those wrong. Pooned fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Dec 11, 2011 |
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Pooned posted:Getting reminded that the same guy that made The rock (best action movie ever made) and Crimson Tide also made Transformers 3 Actually, you know what's really worrying? Don Simpson may have been the factor that made Bay's first two movies infinitely better than his others. Don loving Simpson. He may have been a paranoid, drug-hoovering rear end in a top hat who called in focus groups of Teamsters to choose his female stars on the basis of their "fuckability", but at least he spent time developing scripts.
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Payndz posted:Crimson Tide was Tony Scott, not Bay. (It and The Rock were both produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, though.) This is accurate. Bruckheimer without Simpson or an artsy type = poo poo. Bay without Bruckheimer = unspeakable poo poo. But Bay + Bruckheimer + Simpson = gold.
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They've just released the Plan 9 From Outer Space LIVE show on Bluray. Which is a shame, because the Christmas Shorts LIVE show was much better and would've been more appropriate for the time of year
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Dissapointed Owl posted:They've just released the Plan 9 From Outer Space LIVE show on Bluray. Got an e-mail about this earlier, and I'll definitely be purchasing this. Haven't seen Christmas Shorts Live, but I saw Plan 9 Live in theaters and it was loving hilarious.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Got an e-mail about this earlier, and I'll definitely be purchasing this. The Christmas Shorts Live was the funniest Rifftrax related thing they've done.
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I bought a couple of riffs earlier this month and got a $5 worth of gift certificates which I thought was pretty cool. But now I bought some more riffs and got $4 worth of gift certificates, but didn't redeem my previous certificate to shop for thinking I could save them up and now it seems like the previous ones disappeared from my account? Do I have to use them when I put in an ordered? I checked the Help page but didn't see anything.
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