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It's Time for Rifftrax
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Flighty DameRegistered User regular
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Y'all remember MST3K? Do you remember wishing they'd sometimes cover more mainstream movies, rather than exclusively bad B-movies?
Well have I got the website for you! Welcome to Rifftrax, the website created by MST3K's Mike, Kevin, and Bill!
Not only does the site have pre-synced B-movies and shorts with the goofs built in, there are also downloadable """""riff tracks""""" which only have the jokes. You sync these with a DVD/ Blu-Ray/ Whatever of the movie in question and enjoy!
Personal favorites of mine include:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSAb9M51mJw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Ttzco07yg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wof0bttY7NQ
They also host live riffing movie events broadcast in theaters! The next one on the docket is Miami Connection on October 1st:
Do you like Rifftrax? What are your favorite ones? Any that you wish they'd do *cough*thefinalHarryPottermovie*cough*?
Well have I got the website for you! Welcome to Rifftrax, the website created by MST3K's Mike, Kevin, and Bill!
Not only does the site have pre-synced B-movies and shorts with the goofs built in, there are also downloadable """""riff tracks""""" which only have the jokes. You sync these with a DVD/ Blu-Ray/ Whatever of the movie in question and enjoy!
Personal favorites of mine include:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSAb9M51mJwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Ttzco07yghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wof0bttY7NQThey also host live riffing movie events broadcast in theaters! The next one on the docket is Miami Connection on October 1st:
The year is 1987. A gang of ninja bikers (or are they biker ninjas?) takes control of the Miami cocaine trade, and only the martial arts rock band Dragon Sound can take them down!
If you took everything from the 80s, threw it in a blender, then ran the resulting goop through an inter-dimensional translating machine - what you'd get wouldn't be nearly as hilarious, weird, and oddly charming as Miami Connection. It's impossible to explain, but impossible to forget.
Do you like Rifftrax? What are your favorite ones? Any that you wish they'd do *cough*thefinalHarryPottermovie*cough*?
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MST3K is great
(This may surprise you guys, but I really like MST3K.)
That was also a good one.
Still doesn't top the power glove from future force though.
I would try to watch them from time to time and then just get bored of the movie and stop, or decide i was digging the movie and then just try to watch the movie without them.
Although re-watching them just reminds me how strongly I disliked most of the little filler skits. Best new Rifftrax feature, no skits
But on the flip side...
Say, does anyone remember when Mike-era MST3K was on the SciFi channel, and the network demanded that the skits have a narrative arc? Those were dark times
It was pretty heavy
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Also, this is the best one:
They've got that sort of Weird Al "oh, dad" quality to them that still makes them charming even when they fall flat
As I got deeper into the show, I found my appreciation of them growing. The characters are all fairly well-defined, personality-wise, and everyone plays off each other in very specific ways that make the interactions themselves entertaining, even when the subject of the sketch isn't particularly solid.
And I don't know how I could've forgotten
Cause it was Manos
I was a little young to really appreciate MST3K while it was on the air (I was 10 when the series ended), but I remember catching episodes of it on TV once in a while. Then a friend in high school was really into the show, and that got me watching episodes regularly. MST3K has become a part of my perfect nostalgic vision of 80s/90s cable, it has that weird low-budget sci-fi/public access feel that informs all of my false memories of cable from the time before/right after I was born.
Rifftrax is funny, but it can't replicate the nature and feel of MST3K simply because it's a much different premise and format.
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Werewolf was one of the first MST3K's I ever saw, and this closing scene, specifically, just slayed me.
they really only work on bad movies or movies that are sort of too hollywood for their own good
The ones for the matrix sequels are pretty funny.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
Yeah, they seem to shy away from movies that are genuinely entertaining or intentionally humorous these days. The LoTR riffs suffered from both a long format and the fact that the movies were good in the first place.
The Harry Potter riffs and the Twilight riffs work better. The HP series isn't 'bad,' necessarily, but it lends itself more to riffing with a shorter run time and more 'stuff' going on in the background to joke around with.
HOWEVER. The Jurassic Park riff with Weird Al is fantastic and I highly recommend it, even though I think JP is beautiful all by itself
It was 4 hours long.
I would come home, grab the VHS from the VCR in the living room, bring it into my room, hop back in bed and watch the MST3K Sci-Fi repeat that recorded that morning. I had stacks and stacks of tapes with 3 episodes per. In college, I had a class with a guy who had Comedy Central episodes and Sci-Fi episodes that they had lost the rights to and he dubbed them for me. It was cool. I really love MST3K.
Rifftrax is fun, but yeah, I don't think them doing actual good movies works. The Troll 2 and Willie Wonka ones are really really really good, and those are Mike before Kevin and Bill joined up. The Rifftrax shorts, though, of which I have purchased many discs of, are 100% perfect. I've actually got this DVD a buddy of mine burned, he went and took every short from every episode of MST3K, put them in order, in separate chapters and burned them on a DVD. It is a magical disc.
My wife, girlfriend at the time, and I went to one of the "live" Rifftrax things at a theater for a crappy 60's movie. A lot of fun. Those are the movies I enjoy seeing riffed.
Are we gonna have this fight? I'm a Mike man. Joel is great, but he's like the father, keeping the bots in check, not being too mean, a nice guy. Mike is the uncle, he's there to smoke cigs with his nephews, give them a swig of beer and shit on the movie just as hard as they do.
Mike and Joel are both great in their own unique ways. I don't consider either one superior to the other.
This is not a universal statement, incidentally. Mike is clearly the superior one on TWA.
They actually (somehow) got the rights to sell that one pre-synced now! I dunno how opposed you are to paying twice for the same material, but it's super convenient. I also like revisiting that one from time to time.
Their shorts collection has grown HUGE since I last looked, by the way.
Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen has a very Mr. B Natural vibe