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Aug 18, 2006 18:10:01 GMT -5
Post by Afgncaap5 on Aug 18, 2006 18:10:01 GMT -5
I just downloaded "The Fifth Element" (sorry I'm late, my e-Check took a while to clear), and watched it. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but was a bit dissapointed that Mike didn't keep riffing. It seemed especially unusual, consider the track itself continued to play until after the credits ended.
Now, I know that not everyone enjoys credits, and Mike might be among them. But you know, some of my favorite riffs from MST3K come from when they sit and watch the credits after the movie ends.
So if it isn't too much trouble, I'd like Mike to keep riffing through to the bitter end.
However, before I make the wish so that the little Cinema Sprite behind me can hear it, I have to ask: would this be torturous for those of you who hate credits? Torn between not wanting to sit through lots of rolling text, but also torn between not wanting to miss Mike's commentary?
But hurry up. Reely the Cinema Sprite is getting eager to grant this wish or leave me alone. Says he needs to head up to Michigan where a person's going to wish that Keanu Reeves had never been born.
Ah, the life of a Cinema Sprite...
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Aug 18, 2006 18:17:24 GMT -5
Post by gammer on Aug 18, 2006 18:17:24 GMT -5
I enjoy the credit riffing too and I wish he'd do it all the time. However, I bet it would be real hard to keep it original and come up with jokes for the credits in every movie.
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Aug 18, 2006 18:22:41 GMT -5
Post by CBG on Aug 18, 2006 18:22:41 GMT -5
I enjoy the credit riffing too and I wish he'd do it all the time. However, I bet it would be real hard to keep it original and come up with jokes for the credits in every movie. ...how many Experiments have you seen? This is standard fare for them/him.
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Aug 18, 2006 18:25:31 GMT -5
Post by Afgncaap5 on Aug 18, 2006 18:25:31 GMT -5
"So they have a guy who just grinds out keys all day?"
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Aug 18, 2006 18:26:36 GMT -5
Post by mrtorso on Aug 18, 2006 18:26:36 GMT -5
I enjoy the credit riffing as well. The Roadhouse credit riffs were pretty good and I was a little dissapointed at the lack of credit riffing with Fifth Element. I wonder if it will come down to running times with Rifftrax. Maybe the shorter movies will get full riffing from opening credit to end while the longer run times only get it for the opening and movie itself.
--Ian
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Aug 18, 2006 18:30:55 GMT -5
Post by CBG on Aug 18, 2006 18:30:55 GMT -5
Pow Wow, the Indian boy, Loved all the animals in the west… We will, We will, Rock You!! TUSK!Well they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles and They ran through the places where a rabbit wouldn't go. Gypsies, tramps and thieves we heard it from the people of the town… TUSK!!High on a hill lived a lonely goatherd Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo… Here comes Santa Claus, Here comes Santa Claus, Right down Santa Claus lane… TUSK!!!Give it away, give it away, give it away now… Give it away, give it away, give it away now… I’ve got a brand new pair of roller skates, You’ve got a brand new key… TUSK!!!!Admiral Halsey notified me, he had to have a berth or he couldn't get to sleep And the cats in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little boy blue and the man in the moon… In your Easter bonnet with all the frills upon it… One night in Bangkok makes a strong man crumble… Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry When I take you out in a surrey, We were merely freshmen… Oh, Susanna, oh don’t you cry for me, ‘Cuz, I come from Alabamy with a banjo on my knee. TUSK!!!!!
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Aug 18, 2006 19:05:55 GMT -5
Post by Hugh Beaumont on Aug 18, 2006 19:05:55 GMT -5
To Mike's credit, if I were in his position, I wouldn't really look forward to trying to come up with riffs for the end credits if I were the only person doing the writing. It seems like an undertaking better suited for a few people, rather than one.
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Aug 18, 2006 19:44:42 GMT -5
Post by gammer on Aug 18, 2006 19:44:42 GMT -5
To Mike's credit, if I were in his position, I wouldn't really look forward to trying to come up with riffs for the end credits if I were the only person doing the writing. It seems like an undertaking better suited for a few people, rather than one. Exactly my point.
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Aug 18, 2006 20:14:54 GMT -5
Post by Isaac S. on Aug 18, 2006 20:14:54 GMT -5
I definitely prefer the riffing to continue through the credits. Some of my favorite moments from MST3K were during the end credits (i.e., the customer service call after Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, the interview with Rick Sloane after Hobgoblins) and I really enjoyed the riffing during the Roadhouse credits. I was really disappointed that that didn't happen in The Fifth Element or Star Trek V.
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Aug 19, 2006 1:05:53 GMT -5
Post by Afgncaap5 on Aug 19, 2006 1:05:53 GMT -5
To be fair, though, it'd be difficult to do something like the Rick Sloane interview if you don't have the shadowrama to go along with it. Besides, his only foil character is disembaudio, and as lovable as that magic voice is, I don't think it has the vocal range to pretend to be a different person...although it did *claim* to be a few famous rappers in The Fifth Element...
To be honest, I wouldn't need it to be riffing all through the credits. I'd almost prefer for Mike to just talk about the movie itself for a minute or so, maybe throwing in the occasional riff.
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Aug 19, 2006 6:25:36 GMT -5
Post by mrbasehart on Aug 19, 2006 6:25:36 GMT -5
There's a little bit of riffing between Kevin and Mike at the end of the Star Trek trax, so I support others' views that for it to succeed (on a continuing basis) there needs to be a foil for Mike to work with.
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Aug 19, 2006 14:35:24 GMT -5
Post by Isaac on Aug 19, 2006 14:35:24 GMT -5
It doesn't really matter.
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Aug 19, 2006 16:10:40 GMT -5
Post by CBG on Aug 19, 2006 16:10:40 GMT -5
I enjoy the credit riffing too and I wish he'd do it all the time. However, I bet it would be real hard to keep it original and come up with jokes for the credits in every movie. ...how many Experiments have you seen? This is standard fare for them/him. An addendum... Many times the Brains did not riff in the closing credits. Usually the closing credit riffs happened when the movie ran short, and they needed to fill the remaining minutes; so, since there is not necessarially the 'time frame' with Riff-Trax associated with an Experiment slot, I guess it's an option Mike has seen fit to take or not. I prefer closing riffs, or expansions on a theme like "Rick Sloane" or "Tusk!". Thank you.
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Aug 20, 2006 2:44:34 GMT -5
Post by Afgncaap5 on Aug 20, 2006 2:44:34 GMT -5
I actually think that a good number of the films where they don't riff any closing credits are simply the movies where no closing credits exist. It's seemed, to me at least, that they felt they should give credit to the original creators of the movies (case in point: they always showed the opening credits to Commando Cody, even though it's likely that the audience had already seen them.)
Unless by "not riffing" you're referring to times when they just ignored the credits to do their own joke, a la Mike's experiment with forced perspective, or Pearl bringing in the repairman to fix the theater's pain output, or the closing credits where they just laugh all the way through them (which one was that? I know I've seen it, but I can't remember which one it happens in.)
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Aug 20, 2006 4:23:32 GMT -5
Post by Arizona Warwilf on Aug 20, 2006 4:23:32 GMT -5
End credits are so small these days . . . 'specially if there's any CGI. Makes 'em hard to read if you've only got a darn big TV. Maybe that's why. Why make fun of names if no one would be able to read said names?
::shrug::
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