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Post by Afgncaap5 on Mar 27, 2012 14:59:23 GMT -5
While I didn't just finish watching Frankenstein Island, I *did* just finish watching the true story of how that movie was selected.
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Post by MonsterX on Apr 5, 2012 0:59:00 GMT -5
The Galexy Invader and the Crater Lake Monster.
The riffing on both films was tight, but the characters in The Galaxy Invader were so loathsome that I actually had a hard time enjoying the commentary. The Crater Lake Monster however was delightful and I especially loved the stop motion monster.
So they were both good but yeah, I felt like I needed a shower by the time The Galaxy Invader was over.
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Post by Zombiejesus on Apr 5, 2012 13:56:20 GMT -5
I had the same problem with Mesa of the Lost Women. The characters were so hideous that I couldn't get into the riffing. Maybe this one will grow on me after subsequent viewings.
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Post by Joker on Apr 11, 2012 23:27:50 GMT -5
Frankenstein Island (1981)
A bunch of hot air balloonists crash on an island somewhere and have to venture inland to get materials to make a raft (because they're perfectly good inflatable raft is useless). They come across a bunch of hot native women descended from aliens (!) who worship a hologram or hallucination of Dr. Frankenstein (John Carradine in seperately filmed footage) (!!) and meet Dr. Sheila Frankenstein von Helsing (Katherine Victor, who played Batwoman in director Jerry Warren's The Wild World of Batwoman). She's working on a way of restoring her bedridden husband's bloodstream, which has something to do with a spinning pink ammo box. Meanwhile, two weird old guys run this operation outside the lab where they drop the occasional fistful of "embalming powder" into a bathtub with some guy submerged in it and give a captive guy (Cameron Mitchell) brain injections. Somehow all of this leads to a confrontation and massive crappy brawl where Frankenstein's Monster gets loose and there's something about a golden thread...
That's what I could discern of the plot. It seems like what some little monster kid would scribble down after wolfing down too much Halloween candy. At least Rifftrax makes the film watchable (when there's some light). Maybe it was three different films stapled together. Insanity, pure insanity.
Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
Somewhere in Mexico a guy goes to the middle of nowhere to become a financial backer for a scientist who has managed to put spider brains into people (!) and the guy wants nothing of it. He gets injected and later breaks out of an asylum, a hoplessly insane escaped mental patient. He is pursued by a nurse from the institution, but still manages to take a bunch of people hostage at gunpoint. He hijacks a plane, which promptly crashes near the scientist's lab. The begins an interminable sequence where these dull characters try to survive in the darkness.
The movie goes nowhere and these people could easily take down the crazy guy and disarm him quickly, so the whole film seems easily avoidable. It's great for riffing and a joke about a "human centipede" took me aback.
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Post by happyatmywork on Apr 18, 2012 15:28:07 GMT -5
I just made my second attempt to watch a Harry Potter Rifftrax (first attempt was Half-blood Prince, now I'm trying Order of the Pheonix). I just can't do it. I love the Harry Potter universe too much. I'm not saying the movies are beyond reproach, but I definitely found myself getting into them too much to enjoy the riffing. It's my curse I suppose.
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Post by Zombiejesus on Apr 18, 2012 19:52:22 GMT -5
Curse of Bigfoot: To say this movie was abysmal is to insult abysses. Take the directorial vision of Coleman Francis (just keep the camera rolling regardless if anything is happening), the "special" effects of an Ed Wood production, sloppy delivery of dialogue on par with some of the worst biker flicks of the sixties, along with acting that would be considered hammy if it weren't so damn bizarre - and you have this piece of tripe. The latter reasons made this easy to riff, the former (I call it the Francis Factor) made it difficult to keep it up. To paraphrase Josh Weinstein in CT's presentation of Alien Factor, the problem with riffing is sometimes it's just people walking through the g****** woods. But despite this, MKB remained frosty in the clutch.
I would have loved to see some reference to stew ingredients when the Johnny Longbonesque professor of monsterology delivered his lines as if every word he said were deserving of a Nobel Prize. And also insert the usual complaint about the overuse of toilet/wrecking it humor. Otherwise, this offering was another stellar effort.
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Post by Skyroniter on Apr 20, 2012 19:52:30 GMT -5
Top Gun
I'm way behind on trax but a friend suggested I watch this one again.
With just Mike and Bill involved, it's interesting the change in riffing pace. Seems much more conversational than the three riffer releases. My friend is right though... it is top notch funny! The movie itself is so contrived and cornball. Speaking of... I might try the most recent Twilight after.
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Post by Skyroniter on Apr 20, 2012 21:49:16 GMT -5
Halfway through Breaking Dawn and I suddenly feel the strong desire to apologize to Top Gun.
Sorry movie, I take back the mean things I said. You are fine cinema in comparison to what I'm suffering through now.
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Post by Skyroniter on Apr 20, 2012 22:40:58 GMT -5
I promise NEVER to have another negative word about that FINE movie, Top Gun.
Tom Cruise is the best ever actor in the world and that co-star lady is the best ever co-star lady in the history of film.
I need me some venom now!
Breaking Dawn
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Post by Prime Minister Jim J. Bullock on Apr 26, 2012 8:22:47 GMT -5
Galaxy Invader: The guys we're good as usual. but the characters in this film were so icky that it took away from the riffing for me. I do like however, how the guys riffed all the upscale cocktails at the sleazy bar.
7.5/10
Crater Lake Monster: Awesome, great riffs on the characters, the camera work, the cheap monster and the just general incompetence of the film.
9/10
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Post by Zombiejesus on May 2, 2012 21:35:32 GMT -5
Jack the Giant Killer: freakin' hilarious...that's all I have to say...
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Post by Crowfan on May 7, 2012 16:07:04 GMT -5
Jack The Giant Killer: had forgotten how funny last summer's live show was. "Seize the bone".
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Post by Joker on May 15, 2012 19:03:39 GMT -5
The Curse of Bigfoot (1976)
What seems to be an interminable Bigfoot story where the beast very gradually stalks a woman one spooky day-for-night actually turns out to be a cruddy film a teacher is showing to his high school class. The class is about mythological and cryptozoological creatures and the teacher relates another meandering story about lumberjacks stalked by Bigfoot in the woods. Finally the teacher's antisocial friend comes in to tell the students a tale from his past where he and a team of archeology students on an expedition to look for Native American artifacts in the mountains. This is actually footage from Teenagers Battle the Thing (1958), but instead of teens battling a shapeshifting alien or James Arness it's actually about these young folks unearthing some sort of mummy that comes to life to do pretty much nothing really. So naturally they have to destroy it.
This is one of those Rifftrax where it becomes a challenge to see how many jokes you can fit into long bouts of tedium. In other words it's the perfect movie for these guys. As the movie stretches on you wonder if the guys will just pass out from boredom. It winds up hilarious even as the film goes nowhere.
Rifftrax Live! - Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
Kerwin Mathews is Jack, a random miller who happens to have the skills to take out a stop motion animated giant who tries to kidnap a princess for an evil wizard named Pendragon. Jack is suddenly promoted ti knight and must protect the princess on her way to a convent. He fails spectacularly when Pendragon's "witches" attack the ship they're on and make off with the young woman. It's all part of a massive scheme for Pendragon to take control of England and somehow Jack has to defeat him with the help of a viking, some kid, and a leprechaun in a bottle.
After the boring existential short "What is Nothing?" there are two shorts by Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka with his 5-year-old daughter, Lauren, narrating them. The delightful insanity of a young kid's stream-of-consciousness story winds up being incredibly hilarious. Then they get to the feature which is an old Saturday matinee film that seems to have influenced lots of movies and video games to come. After Jack has to fight ineffectual armored guys with a bone whip. A joke about Castlevania is made, but Jack is more like Link in the Legend of Zelda games complete with a beneficial tiny person in a bottle. It would still be loads of fun without the riffs, but it's still hilarious.
Mutant (1984)
Two brothers wind up run off the road by rednecks on a trip out to the country and wind up in some sort of southern town. I know it's a southern town since there are tons of Confederate flags all over the local bar so it's either the deep South or a place in South Carolina where they really like their state flag. I also know it's the south as everyone is some sort of twangy stereotype and when one of the brothers disappears it's up to the remaining one (Wings Hauser) to find him in the steadily more empty town. It would appear that toxic waste has been sickening the local citizens to the point where they become zombies that secrete caustic acid from slits in their hands. An alcoholic sheriff, a local doctor, and Wings have to somehow survive the night against a horde of the infected.
Wings Hauser is like Bruce Campbell except without the charisma or charm. I'm sure that we'll see a lot more of him in future Rifftrax films. The film becomes survival horror at the climax where the protagonists are holed up in a gas station. WHen they started lobbing molitov cocktails at the zombies around the gas pumps I realized how stupid this was. If you're going to create bonfires around gas pumps you hade either a) run as far away as you possibly can to outrun the blast as the station explodes or b) walk away in slow motion as the place explodes behind you - depending on what kind of movie you're in. In real life this would kill you, but what do I know? I just work in a gas station.
Other than that there are tons of redneck jokes here with Kevin and Bill getting off the best ones.
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Post by ArtCrow on May 28, 2012 19:24:55 GMT -5
Frankenstein Island
Jerry Warren, how do you do it? I didn't think it was possible to outdo Batwoman in badness, but Jerry proved me wrong. Wow, is all I can say. On the plus side, there were scantily clad babes and the riffing was fantastic. Mike and the boys had me laughing hard.
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Post by Skyroniter on May 28, 2012 20:15:12 GMT -5
Frankenstein Island Jerry Warren, how do you do it? I didn't think it was possible to outdo Batwoman in badness, but Jerry proved me wrong. Wow, is all I can say. On the plus side, there were scantily clad babes and the riffing was fantastic. Mike and the boys had me laughing hard. I watched this one last night. Mr. Warren had it all going. Somewhere. |
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