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Got a preview up of something me and some guys worked on for iRiffs, once that part of the site is up. We went with a short just to get the kinks out before we go with something longer. Superman in Japoteurs. We'll fix the low movie sound later.
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DoombatINC posted:The writing is funny and delivery is good, so kudos on that, but that one fella needs to remember to take his mic out of the box before using it. Yeah, I know. I hadn't really recorded anything before, so it took me some getting used to. The quality on my end gets better after the first minute or so.
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Oct 4, 2008 05:26
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Behonkiss posted:Rifftrax.com has been redesigned, the Rifftrax DIY has come back, and the iRiff system is underway. Unfortunately it's taking them for-loving-ever to approve my iRiff video 
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Nov 11, 2008 10:53
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My iRiffs Superman in Japoteurs is finally up. C'mon! It's only a buck! Give it a shot!
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Nov 12, 2008 07:34
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Behonkiss posted:Gonna chime in and say that my iRiff for Labyrinth is out: I watched your sample and... is it wrong that I have that song on my iPod? I'll definitely pick yours up, since I've been looking for an excuse to finally sit down and watch that movie. quote:Any other goons working on iRiffs? The Superman in Japoteurs iRiff I did has done pretty well, holding a spot as the top short for a while. Right now we're working on Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins, a 40-minute animated atrocity that video stores had as a free rental as a way to promote the MK movie. Luckily, the sound and delivery issues from Japoteurs have been improved on immensely. I'm probably going to do a quick rushjob of Frosty Returns for the holidays and charge the minimum for it because I hate that special with a passion and need to get it out of the way. Anyway, rather than just self-shilling, has anyone looked at any iRiffs that turned out to be pretty good? There's a couple by Cartoon Chaos that I found hilarious. So far he's done Grampy in Be Human and Gabby Goes Fishing. Someone covered Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, which I thought was an inspired idea, but the sample comes off as really weak. A shame.
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Nov 28, 2008 01:40
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Revolvyerom posted:Name one in particular for me to start from? I've been avoiding them so far. The Grampy in Be Human one in my post above is worth a try. The guy has a very unique, loud and intense style to him that I enjoyed. Plus a lot of it comes from the source, a bizarre Betty Boop cartoon where a farmer horribly brutalizes animals until Betty summons an old man to show up, kidnap the farmer and torture him just as badly. It's pretty messed up. Luckily nearly all of these have samples to look at first, so it isn't a total crap shoot. Edit: I'd also suggest mine, but while the jokes have gotten good enough reviews, enough people are cheesed about the sound issues that I wouldn't want it to sour the whole iRiff concept for you. Gavok fucked around with this message at 12:12 on Nov 28, 2008 |
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Nov 28, 2008 11:55
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For those interested in trying out the iRiffs, word a warning: don't touch the Spider-Man cartoon ones. Basically, some guy posted twenty Spider-Man cartoon parodies on the site for a dollar each. The sample shows it as a 30 second Fensler Film/Juggernaut Bitch knockoff with Spider-Man instead. Which I suppose could be decent for a full on episode at that price, depending on your taste. Only for that dollar, you're getting 30 seconds of the audio from that sample. You're supposed to find the episode off YouTube, find the specific scene and watch it that way. Only because he messed with the footage, it's impossible to sync up. So he's giving away something for free and then asking you to pay him a dollar to recreate it with pieces that don't fit.  (No, I didn't waste money on it. I waited for someone else to find out the hard way)
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Dec 4, 2008 22:39
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Finally got my holiday iRiff up. Check out our take on Frosty Returns, the godawful follow-up to Frosty the Snowman. Only 75 cents. As for other holiday iRiffs, there's a really good take on the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas out there.
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Dec 18, 2008 12:04
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I totally forgot. I'll fix.
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Dec 18, 2008 20:17
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I hit the encore show tonight. Even as an encore, there was still a fairly impressive showing.
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Oct 9, 2009 07:13
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I could have gone without the swimming short, but who knew Christmas could be so nightmarish? Cripes!
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Dec 17, 2009 04:09
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Mister Kingdom posted:"Rudolph, I need you tonight." I was even thinking how normal and decent that short was up until the halfway point. Then it got more and more ridiculous. My theater was in tears at the "I need you tonight" line.
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Dec 17, 2009 04:28
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I found this two part interview Marvel.com did with Bill Corbett. Of course, the guy has to be a Marvel fanboy just for dropping a goddamn Toxin reference in the Happening Riff. This is the important part: quote:Marvel.com: The latest live event was a Christmas-themed special. I went to the "Plan 9" special, and I was amazed at how well it worked in a live setting, because "MST3K" and RiffTrax are relatively quiet experiences. But it was so much fun in the theater. Is this going to become a regular thing? I also got a kick out of how Brian Michael Bendis (Marvel's top writer guy who practically redefined Daredevil over the course of five years) told Corbett how much he loved the Daredevil Riff.
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Dec 23, 2009 07:44
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I always thought the Coily short from the tail end of MST3K was the most batshit insane short they've ever done. Then they go and show a short that's the exact same plot only MORE INSANE! That Lynch line was brilliant. Also, did anyone else's theater applaud at the "DID YOU KNOW? Vampires don't sparkle!" screen?
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Oct 29, 2010 03:35
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Behonkiss posted:I want to see this bizarre short everyone's talking about. There are actually two bizarre shorts. The first one is about a witch who appears in the grocery store to force everyone to buy cheaper and more awful products. Like how much money you could save on powder milk in comparison to regular milk. Also features one of the stupidest looking kids in any Rifftrax short. The other one is, like I said, like a drug-fueled remake of Case of Spring Fever. With Spring Fever, when you get past the silly idea of doing a short about how great springs are, it's a harmless and even competent short. In a cartoony way, it kind of works. The Paper and I takes all the same ideas but goes out of its way making it ten times crazier. I really can't understand what they were thinking when they made it.
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Oct 29, 2010 04:41
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 The new Mortal Kombat game just came out so me and some other guys finished up our iRiff on Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins. It's a lovely animated movie they released on VHS for free rentals at video stores to promote the then-upcoming MK movie back in the 90's. It's 40 minutes long with terrible, repeated 2D animation and even worse 3D animation during Raiden's flashbacks for starters. We're charging a buck for the mp3, but to hell with it. Here's the whole thing for you.
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Apr 19, 2011 09:06
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IUG posted:Speaking of live shows, how come this thread isn't more lively with the discussion of the live show tomorrow? I've prepared by watching the Rifftrax stuff for the Room and Planet of the Dinosaurs for the first time. The bearded dude with the deep voice in Planet of the Dinosaurs is one of my favorite MST3K/Rifftrax movie characters.
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Aug 17, 2011 04:12
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Maxwell Lord posted:I actually think the movie was almost good. It was clearly a bargain-basement Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, but on that level, it delivers a lot of weird and fantastic things in an eventful (if confusing) storyline. Makes no loving sense but it's not dull at all. I agree. As a kids movie made in the early 60's, I thought it was decent. It's just incredibly riff-worthy because it's balls-to-the-walls bonkers from start to finish. The place was about 90% full where I saw it. I think one thing that helped a lot was explaining the concept behind the Lowtax daughter shorts before showing them. In the earlier shows, they would just show them and nobody in the crowd would get it. Getting the idea of what it's supposed to convey got a huge reaction this time. Plus it slayed when they paid it lip service during the actual movie. The dragon knights scene is probably the highlight of the show, though the Kanye reference was great too.
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Aug 18, 2011 04:32
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Rochallor posted:Was the "Be right there" line a reference to anything, or just a funny thing the dragons knights that weren't like dragons said? No reference. Just them being very, very slow. The preview factoids got a lot of great reactions, though the one about Andre the Giant dying of a heart attack got a loud, angry groan.
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Aug 18, 2011 04:40
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Finished watching Abraxas. As a movie, it's completely terrible. I at least thought that Jesse Ventura starring in some kind of cross between Terminator 2 and Jack Kirby's Fourth World would be fun on its own in a cheesy way, but it's the most boring action movie I can recall seeing. Ventura has zero presence and by playing the robotic role, he loses all his charisma. The villain has no menace despite his size and the sci-fi idea falls flat. Action sequences and fights are laughably bad and the softcore porn jazz soundtrack doesn't help. It does get hilarious during the climax where they start playing this song instead. The riffing is pretty great. It starts off pretty slow, but the second half is pure gold. The wrestling jokes are more sparse than I figured (there are a ton of things to make fun of Ventura for, so it's understandable), but are strong. There are a lot of good hole-poking with the plot (like how there's no such concept as rape in that world and how that kid ages nine years over the course of five). Probably the two best laughs I got were the "Is this the story that Abraxas was telling the kid?" scene and Ventura running around like a chimp.
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Sep 2, 2011 03:36
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That actually sounds like an apt description. As bad as Future War is, it does succeed in coming off as a sci-fi movie and having action-related stuff happen.
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Sep 4, 2011 08:11
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Setting Up a Room is very, very high on the list of "why does this even exist?" I can accept the existence of What is Nothing more than this. Whatever its point was, at least it tried to make it over the course of maybe 8 minutes and the kids occasionally emoted. Setting Up a Room is 27 minutes of the most droll interactions ever put on film. It's mind-destroying madness. Despite all the boring pointlessness, the real big laugh comes from a major blooper that they decide not to acknowledge or even remove in any way.
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Sep 10, 2011 10:25
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RagingBoner posted:I just watched it. This is about as high on the "what the gently caress was that even about?" scale as that one short about the little girl who didn't like to eat breakfast.
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Sep 14, 2011 01:21
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Laser Mission, much like Abraxas, is a movie where the basic description makes it sound like one of the most awesomely bad movies of all time, but the movie itself doesn't match up to how great it should be. Not only is Borgnine only in the movie for like 10 minutes total, but there's not a single laser in it at all. None. What exists of the plot is hard to even understand because half of the time, you can't even hear the actors. The best part is how much the movie loves and is dependent on the Mercenary Man theme song.
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Oct 7, 2011 05:46
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Just watched Warriors of the Wasteland. This one is definitely must-see. I'm not even sure if the riffs were so great, but just watching that movie was an experience. It's a perfect cocktail of a watchable bad movie. Badly directed, bizarre outfits, cheesy acting, crazy story details, funky cars, ridiculous deaths, plenty of "haha, really?" surprises and an atmosphere that mixes dull with pretty out there. The main villain's death... oh my God... It's movies like this where the riffs don't even need to be funny (though they were). They just need to exist. Movie also features the most random rear end shot you'll ever see in film. I did NOT see that one coming.
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Nov 17, 2011 12:00
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muscles like this? posted:Sooo, you think you've seen weird Riffshorts before? You've sat through the "At Your Fingertips" series, laughed at "One Got Fat" but nothing could prepare you for "Lets Pretend: Magic Sneakers." The story of an incredibly filthy boy playing on some train tracks, finding "magic sneakers" and is then chased by an insane blue man. The soundtrack is a jangling discordant noise and what little dialog is screechy. Frankly I believe this is the strangest short they've done. At least the other strange things they've watched seem to have some kind of purpose. This one just tells kids to do incredibly dangerous things. I just saw this one. Good God. I've been meaning to get around to watching all the Rifftrax shorts (I got most of them on DVD, I just need to find the time) and putting together a comprehensive list of the most batshit insane. This one is definitely top 5 material.
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Nov 18, 2011 05:21
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I don't know... Join Hands; Let's Go is also probably in the top 5, but it's the same flavor as Let's Pretend: Magic Sneakers. They're both extremely weird shorts that are in no way educational, have bizarre attempts at humor and make you wonder why the gently caress they even exist in the first place. Magic Sneakers, on the other hand, has this disturbing edge to it with the music and the unexplained dirtiness of the kid. Join Hands is relatively wholesome in comparison.
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Nov 18, 2011 09:50
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thedaian posted:I'm pretty sure that's brand new. You can watch Magic Christmas Tree on Hulu, and it sounds like they've added more stuff in addition to that. I ended up picking up the entire VOD for the hell of it. I'm about to check out Magic Christmas Tree and you guys can probably just save your $10 and check the Hulu link. The animated short they watch is pretty great, albeit too short (and incredibly racist), but the rest is them watching old toy commercials like at Rifftrax Live. It's a little amusing, but little more. They do try something a little different where they watch an ad for a train set that's under the guise of "The Joe DiMaggio Show". Instead of riffing on it, Bill leads them into a really enthusiastic commentary. So yeah, the opening 15 minutes that isn't Magic Christmas Tree isn't worth the money considering the rest of the VOD is on Hulu.
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Dec 21, 2011 06:52
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Just a heads up. Barnes and Noble does a buy 2 get 1 free sale on DVDs throughout January. I mention it because I've found it's a really cheap way to stock up on Rifftrax DVDs (shorts and VODs). The thing to remember is that for the VOD stuff, you have them look up/order the movie by title without "Rifftrax" being mentioned. You can at least see the box cover to verify.
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Jan 4, 2012 08:38
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From Facebook:Rifftrax posted:It's official: mark your calendars for August 16th, when Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy will revisit "Manos" The Hands of Fate live in theaters nationwide! Torgo is back, and he's lamer than ever! 
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Mar 27, 2012 18:32
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I just finished with Frankenstein Island and I have to say that the one-eyed laughing guy is one of my favorite characters in all of film.
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Apr 21, 2012 00:35
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One of my favorite "this movie is so dumb" moments is sadly ignored by the riffers. During the basketball scene, there's a line about how they're in the middle of a heatwave in the winter. That's over the line, but whatever. Then about 20 minutes later, there's a scene of Rod going to a pumpkin carnival that's blatantly there to celebrate Halloween. I think the sign even says that it's early October.
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Oct 26, 2012 06:27
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Ballz posted:Rifftrax teased their new holiday release with this: Somebody please make the gif go in reverse.
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Dec 4, 2012 10:25
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I've rewatched all the MST3K/Rifftrax/Cinematic Titanic episodes that are Christmas-related and ranked them based on four qualities: watchability, WTF factor, riff quality and overall Christmasness. This is what I've come up with. How Mike and Joel Saved Christmas: The Top 9 Holiday Riffs
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Dec 13, 2012 10:34
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CaptainYesterday posted:Having just read a review on the Santa Claus shorts RiffTrax is going to do, I honestly can't wait for the riffs. Especially how they talk about the gun-making music. I take it you were reading Wrestlecrap? Because I saw the article on it there, glanced at some parts but didn't want to spoil myself too much. I had no idea that the three Santa shorts are follow-ups to the MST3K Santa Claus movie. They even bring back Merlin!
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Dec 17, 2012 10:33
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muscles like this? posted:I'm pretty sure all the bits were just from Santa Claus, except for that one scene in Merlin's lab. The one in Merlin's lab with the Tada song was in the Santa Claus movie, but they cut the scene out for time for the MST3K episode. I demand a Pitch/Ogre team-up.
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Dec 26, 2012 02:47
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Paramus, New Jersey was sold out well in advance. I had a great time outside of how mind-numbingly repetitive the movie got in the second half and the annoying couple who kept laughing WAY TOO HARD at every little thing while trying to add in their own jokes. Finally, someone snapped and went on a lunatic rant at them to shut them up, so that was fun. Every Jake Busey joke slayed me.
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Aug 16, 2013 04:35
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Silent Rage was pretty great, but I'm disappointed that they cut it out with the Tom Waits jokes early on. I lost it over, "What's he building in there...?"
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Sep 13, 2013 00:28
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I'm writing up an article on the most bizarre/WTF Rifftrax shorts and I need suggestions. Here are some that I'm already aware of: - A Visit to Santa - Drugs are Like That - One Got Fat - If Mirrors Could Speak - Safety: Harm Hides at Home - Why Doesn't Cathy Eat Breakfast?/Petaluma Chicken - Christmas Toyshop (AKA the dog-faced spider from my nightmares) - Christmas Dream - William's Doll - The Calendar: How to Use It - Magical Disappearing Money - Join Hands, Let Go - Setting Up a Room - What is Nothing? - At Your Fingertips: Grasses - Paper and I I'm not looking for so much the best Rifftrax shorts, but the most head-scratching. The ones that make you wonder what the hell the people who made them were even thinking. I also seem to remember a short with a kid finding magic shoes, but I can't remember what it's called.
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IUG posted:Don't forget the Norman shorts. I don't really find the Norman shorts to be that weird, really. They're just unfunny, poor man's Mr. Bean episodes with the belief that making GBS threads on someone = hilarity. Totally forgot about the stop-motion eggs short. That's a must.
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