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precision posted:Teenage Strangler has got to be one of the most baffling films they ever riffed It's one of my favorites. No matter how many times I watch it, some of the lines still kill me. "I love it when you act like Der Fuhrer, honey! Let's commit the marriage act!"
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Junkie Disease posted:WHEN THE HELL CAN I REWATCH THE LIVE SHOWS? I'm still irritated at Wiseau for not letting them sell the live version of The Room.
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Jul 11, 2018 18:01
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So I stumbled across an old episode I don't think I'd ever seen before, San Francisco International. It's pretty hilarious. While no doubt running an airport is a big job, Parnell Roberts elevates it to impossibly smug levels. I wish they'd gotten to do more of these kludged together 70s TV movies. (There's the Master Ninjas and Riding With Death. Am I forgetting any?)
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Jul 21, 2018 17:42
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Unkempt posted:Is that the one where they take a bunch of bureaucrats or investors or something up in a plane and pretend it's going to crash just to show them that safety is important? Because gently caress those guys. Yeah, it's the Senate like above, but you must understand that Robert Parnell has the most important job in the world and possibly scaring people into heart conditions is worth it. Mike and the Bots' hilarious punching down of the kid whose parents are getting a divorce so he steals a plane is one of the funniest things I've come across in a while.
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Jul 21, 2018 22:11
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Ms Boods posted:Ooooh, there's a dense smug rolling in. Mother: "It's just that sometimes married people-" Crow: "-break up because of their kids."
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Jul 22, 2018 01:07
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Paingod556 posted:While people are talking about it- showed it to my pilot friend as recommended by this thread. She, too, will be singing the stock footage song "Da da da da da, EAT IT MOVIE!!!"
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Jul 22, 2018 10:42
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So... in other old episode news... High School Big Shot might be one of the most depressing works I've ever seen. As Mary Jo might say, it sat on my head and lightly bounced up and down.
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Jul 25, 2018 01:25
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Ballz posted:Hello sir or madam, may I interest you in a feel-good film called The Girl in Lover’s Lane? Ah ha, you can't fool me! I know all about Big Stupid and the very nice girl murdered for Drama. Mister Kingdom posted:What makes it worse is what happened to its star, Tom Pittman. Oh, wow. Yikes. Not even trying to go for comedic understatement... just wow.
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Jul 25, 2018 01:49
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drrockso20 posted:That actually brings up a good question, how would everyone in this thread handle being in the role of Joel/Mike/Jonah, assume that this version of you isn't aware of MST3K prior to being nabbed Probably not unlike Mike in that I would make a few escape attempts to keep them on their toes, although I expect they would go about as well as trying to climb a rope ladder down to Earth.
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Jul 25, 2018 12:56
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Caught Chuck Norris' opus 'Breaker Breaker' on RiffTrax's Twitch channel. Holy wow. He's a... drifter? I dunno? Who engages a town of rednecks run by law enforcement that makes Hazzard County's look professional. Also he has a baby blue van with a golden eagle painted on the side.
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Jul 28, 2018 00:34
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Everything Counts posted:Do they play the whole movie on the Twitch channel? They used a guy in a gorilla suit to distract from the nudity at the Starship Troopers live show so they use that to hide the rare occasions a woman is seen undressed, but other than that if it's one of their movies you can buy by itself they run the whole thing, complete with shorts and even a collection of 'best of' jokes for the big Hollywood stuff they do just the jokes for. No clue on the schedule. They recently released as part of the recent live show Kickstarter the magnum opus A Talking Cat!?! which I'm looking forward to. It has a cat that talks! The very idea is absurd! Cats can't talk! They're also releasing Ready Player One's riff soon which... means I have to watch Ready Player One. I did not think this through.
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Jul 29, 2018 03:47
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Hired always makes me laugh with "We want you to be happy with your next ten cars!" Joel: "TEN CARS?"
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Jul 30, 2018 02:13
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Gavok posted:They took out the sex scenes from Samurai Cop as well. I think they also removed a rape scene out of Guy From Harlem and took out a really uncomfortable racist bit from Dark Power. You know, I'm glad they learned their Sidehackers lesson. quote:A Talking Cat!?! is a special kind of bad, best explained with its IMDB trivia page: I watched the preview for the RT version, and just the 'animation' for the Talking Cat(!?!)'s mouth is hypnotic.
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Jul 30, 2018 22:21
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How did I not know RiffTrax did a film by the Time Chasers people that's a super-spy thriller (air quotes as needed) called Pressure Point? Oh, my.
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Aug 4, 2018 01:40
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Dungeon Ecology posted:hows the riffin? It's a target rich environment since despite how hard they try, it's still starring the guy who is exactly opposite of what you would picture when you think 'hardcore international secret agent' (who is possibly wearing a woman's shirt) in Vermont that cannot be hidden from how Vermont it is. It's more good-natured ribbing than savage if that helps. They don't go at him like they do, say, a James Nguyen film. They do get in some nice Time Chaser references, too. Ms Boods posted:Rifftrax have several films by this director (David Giancola)! There's also Radical Jack and Icebreaker. Oh, man, he did Radical Jack? That's a favorite. When they had a big sale some months back I bought it and The Guy From Harlem and, ooh. /chef's kiss. quote:The best part of Pressure Point for me was when, during one of the driving/traveling scenes, I realised they were driving around Wilmington, DE, exactly on one of my old city-commute routes (me: 'Um, that looks exactly like the railway station on MLK Boulevard...huh, cos it is.') It is impressively of New England in all respects.
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Aug 4, 2018 12:44
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muscles like this! posted:The lead from Time Chasers shows up in an incredibly minor role in Pressure Point. So does Bob Evil. (Bob Evil: "Escort them out my office!" Crow: "You mean out of your mezzanine, sir?" Kills me every time.)
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Aug 4, 2018 16:16
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I think Campbell talks about that in one of his books and basically was just there to hit his mark and bark and got to enjoy a ski resort at the same time. Nice work if you can get it!
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Aug 4, 2018 18:15
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Watching the live RiffTrax of Time Chasers which had stuff not in the MST episode. Remember the cabbie from Noo Yawk Noo Yawk? They left in his scenes, which were shockingly racist.
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Aug 5, 2018 17:09
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Barry Bluejeans posted:You can't say something like that and then not provide details, horrifying as they may be. Remember the cab ride in the escape from Bob Evil's foyer? The full scene has him talking about 'ragheads' and then as an added bonus pretends to know karate to distract the guards to Chin and Guess Jeans can sneak into the airport. As Mike says, "It's no wonder we cut him the first time around."
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Aug 6, 2018 05:34
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My favorite is the cinematographer Janusz Kamiński from Cool As Ice going on to become Spielberg's go-to guy and doing Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan.
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Aug 7, 2018 02:01
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Raskolnikov38 posted:god i wish flying out of SFO was as entertaining or nicotine stain yellow-brown as it is in that movie Is it not even infested with made-for-TV hippies?
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Aug 12, 2018 02:56
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Mister Kingdom posted:Space Mutiny Live is now available from Rifftrax. How does it compare to the original?
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Aug 12, 2018 23:53
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Cemetry Gator posted:You know, one thing I hope we get more of with the upcoming season are the juvenile delinquency films. I just watched the Violent Years, and it's the right mix of absurdity and melodramatics to be great for prime riffing. Another favorite is I Accuse My Parents, although there it's the parents fault. Except it's not because Jimmy is a compulsive liar and winds up with mob ties, like you do. Basically 50s and 60s morality plays are my jam.
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Aug 13, 2018 16:29
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Paper Kaiju posted:The only one I really enjoyed was Girls' Town, and that's mainly because the titular institution is actually pretty progressive by standards of that era. I see what you did there. Hellcats is another fun one, although I was surprised at just how many musical numbers you could get away with while being indentured to a teenage work camp. Kitten With a Whip might fall into this category too, but I love it regardless. Dawgstar fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Aug 13, 2018 |
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Aug 13, 2018 18:17
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Ms Boods posted:I Accuse My Parents is awesome because it's a 1940s morality play -- made in 1944. Jimmy is [supposed to be] just about the same age my dad was when the film was made. I've got photos of him wearing similar clothes, but sadly, he didn't end up with mob ties because his parents gave him lots of money (in 1944 he ended up in the Mediterranean on a supply ship). Did he at least meet a cherubic short order cook who put him back on the right path?
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Aug 13, 2018 19:01
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Simplex posted:The plot to I Accuse My Parents isn't really terribly different than movies like The Freshman or Mickey Blue Eyes or probably dozens of others, which follow the same basic formula of love-struck, naive guy does dumb poo poo and gets in way too deep with the mob. It would probably be a half decent movie without the ridiculous courtroom framing story. But without the courtroom framing story it would barely be an hour long. Also just the remarkably earnest nature is hilarious, especially from Jimmy himself. Since we're among friends here, I've also always been amused by 40s and 50s' era movies' depictions of public intoxication.* ("Ah, yes, Mrs., um, Lush, was it?") *See also the drunk DJ from The Giant Gila Monster. ("Boy, alcoholism sure is a hoot.")
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Aug 13, 2018 21:39
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Reince Penis posted:There's a great rifftrax of The Last Shark, an italian Jaws rip off from 1980. And they put up the MST3K version of Devil Fish, too. You'll recall it as a look into the intensely erotic lives of electronics repairmen and many Italians pretending to be Floridians. Here's a question - has RiffTrax ever talked about doing a Neil Breen film, or is it just too easy? (Or have they done something like 'I'm Here... Now!' and I just didn't notice, which is very possible.)
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Aug 18, 2018 20:35
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rydiafan posted:So I never watched any of the RiffTrax vods. I started with them way back when they were just the MP3 that you would play along side a mainstream movie, and by the time they started doing their own stuff on the things they could get the rights to I had kind of moved on to other hobbies and TV shows. I've gone to every single live show, but I never got around to watching any of their online stuff recently. I found out about their twitch channel yesterday and I watched a few hours of it while doing chores around the house. One of the things I saw was Fun in Balloonland, so I guess my question is what did we do to make God forsake us? Fun in Balloonland does fundamentally alter you at the spiritual level.
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I keep almost picking up the latest RiffTrax release, being the horror flick 'Ice Cream Man' but that is a LOT of Clint Howard leering and mugging at the camera.
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Aug 19, 2018 00:07
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X-O posted:There’s actually a few distinct eras of Life with Rifftrax. Life Pre-Ice Cream Bunny. Life Pre-Fun In Balloonland. Life Pre-Rollergator. And Life Pre-A Talking Cat?!?. All make you descend to a whole new level of insanity. Oh, God, Rollergator. One might think from the capsule description of 'talking baby alligator who raps and thinks he's funny is being pursued by a skateboard ninja sent by Joe Estevez' would lead to the valid conclusion of 'this motion picture will not be very good.' You do not realize it, but you have uttered an understatement that offends God Himself.
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X-O posted:Well that capsule leaves out two of the most maddening parts of the film. It’s all shot on the same VHS Camcorder your dad had in the early ‘90s, and it has the same 15 second loop of a ‘score’ that plays for the entire film. The noodling acoustic guitar followed me for days I'd seen it.
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Aug 19, 2018 18:52
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Oh, my. Monster A Go-Go. Not so much a movie as a random collection of scenes that are sort of related and it's all a dream anyway. Even Manos or Wild World of Batwoman doesn't pull that.
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Aug 20, 2018 22:05
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Powered Descent posted:Much like how there are two inaccuracies in the title Future War. Or Teen-Age Strangler which features neither a teenager who strangles nor somebody who strangles teens exclusively.
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Aug 21, 2018 12:53
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Hobgoblins is just a classic all around. It even starts strong with examining the perils of accidentally turning somebody on.
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Aug 22, 2018 14:23
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Gavok posted:Prune? But that's the name of the song! That's Daran Norris? Holy crap. He was awesome as the public defender in Veronica Mars.
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Aug 23, 2018 14:24
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Krull was a lot of fun. I forgot how much of the dramatic finish at the end was just the prince guy holding his hand out while things happened.
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Aug 24, 2018 03:42
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Yeah, nobody's ever been able to actually point Sorkin out in the movie. There was supposedly a cast photo floating around out there, but turns out it's from Days of Our Lives. Nobody's thought to just ask her, I guess.
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Aug 24, 2018 18:34
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"He sleeps with me, then he busts me!" "First things first!"
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Sep 3, 2018 22:27
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"This chase scene makes 'Driving Miss Daisy' look like 'Bullitt.'"
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Dixville posted:Or Boggy Creek 2: and the legend continues Aw, man, that reminds me of the outhouse flashback and the hillbilly running to it with the Sears-Roebuck catalog and now I'm sad. "Oh, no! The South is going to do it again!"
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