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Post by callipygias on Oct 1, 2007 12:21:56 GMT -5
Heroes is about 90 minutes long, doesn't require any extra time than a film. But are they going to do more? I really liked the Rifftrax for Lost, but talk about a cliffhanger! And I don't want to watch Lost without the Riffs, so unless they do more, I'm permahung. Heroes sounds very cool, so I'm afraid of being double-hung.
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Post by BathTub on Oct 1, 2007 13:35:58 GMT -5
Very very unlikely.
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Post by Jackie Frost on Oct 3, 2007 12:41:44 GMT -5
for example, daredeil they made a lot of references to ben and jennifer having a kid, but how could they not? current pop culture is pretty much impossible to leave out of rifftrax. Yeah ...but can't they do bad movies and refer to pop culture? What about that awful movie 'Valentine' - I finally got a chance to watch it. Or Ultraviolet or that new Bean movie. Surely there are tons of bad movies they can review and still refer to pop culture. Am I right?
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Post by strangefate on Oct 7, 2007 21:54:03 GMT -5
I prefer Film Crew myself. I find I don't really enjoy seeing current movies and TV shows riffed as much. The material itself isn't as inherently funny. Maybe if they did some straight to video stuff but...Casino Royale, Predator, Lost? Those shows aren't even that bad and they're certainly not funny on their own.
Wild Women of Wongo, Killers from Space, etc, however are goofy to the extreme and the riffing seems right at home.
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Post by Pierre Trudeau on Oct 9, 2007 0:48:44 GMT -5
Yeah ...but can't they do bad movies and refer to pop culture? ... or that new Bean movie. Surely there are tons of bad movies they can review and still refer to pop culture. Am I right? I loved the new Bean movie! It was classic Bean and I ENJOYED IT! That is all! I just felt the need to defend it.
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Post by MSTJedi on Oct 11, 2007 21:50:09 GMT -5
Yeah ...but can't they do bad movies and refer to pop culture? ... or that new Bean movie. Surely there are tons of bad movies they can review and still refer to pop culture. Am I right? I loved the new Bean movie! It was classic Bean and I ENJOYED IT! That is all! I just felt the need to defend it. The problem with doing a comedy movie, even though it may not actually BE funny, is that it's supposed to be funny. Making fun of a movie that's already making fun of itself just doesn't work all that well. They learned their lesson during MST3K with Catalina Caper.
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Post by Roz on Dec 25, 2007 6:26:53 GMT -5
Yeah, I have to agree with most of you. While it's been a little bit since my last Rifftrax, I did find the constant Pop references a bit of a turn off.
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Post by ciredark on Dec 25, 2007 9:05:33 GMT -5
The Internet related jokes seem a bit forced from time to time. It seems unlikely to me that they have a great wealth of knowledge of web-born-lulz, with the exception of all the Shnappi stuff (which, once I finally got, still wasn't funny). It just comes off as trying to hard to play to their audience.
"They're a bunch of internet dorks, and we're selling this on the net, so we'd better add some LOL and ROFL and a ZOMG!!11! or two"
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Post by pslowner on Dec 25, 2007 9:37:35 GMT -5
I could not disagree with the topic of this thread more, but that is what makes the world go around. With all the choices we have, there should be something for everyone.
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Post by Hugh Beaumont on Dec 26, 2007 2:05:22 GMT -5
The Internet related jokes seem a bit forced from time to time. It seems unlikely to me that they have a great wealth of knowledge of web-born-lulz, with the exception of all the Shnappi stuff (which, once I finally got, still wasn't funny). It just comes off as trying to hard to play to their audience. This I agree with. I would much rather hear them write riffs that reflect their own expansive knowledge and personal senses of humor. If that includes a "go to the Dells, ride the ducks" riff, then so be it. I'd much prefer that to a topical Britney Spears joke, or an "LOL cat" reference or whathaveyou. God bless 'em, I don't mean to nitpick, but it just feels unnatural and, thus, not funny.
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Post by mrtorso on Dec 26, 2007 15:13:56 GMT -5
The Internet related jokes seem a bit forced from time to time. It seems unlikely to me that they have a great wealth of knowledge of web-born-lulz, with the exception of all the Shnappi stuff (which, once I finally got, still wasn't funny). It just comes off as trying to hard to play to their audience. "They're a bunch of internet dorks, and we're selling this on the net, so we'd better add some LOL and ROFL and a ZOMG!!11! or two" So playing to the audience is a bad thing?
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Post by Mighty Jack on Dec 26, 2007 18:22:02 GMT -5
The Internet related jokes seem a bit forced from time to time. It seems unlikely to me that they have a great wealth of knowledge of web-born-lulz, with the exception of all the Shnappi stuff (which, once I finally got, still wasn't funny). It just comes off as trying to hard to play to their audience. This I agree with. I would much rather hear them write riffs that reflect their own expansive knowledge and personal senses of humor. If that includes a "go to the Dells, ride the ducks" riff, then so be it. I'd much prefer that to a topical Britney Spears joke, or an "LOL cat" reference or whathaveyou. God bless 'em, I don't mean to nitpick, but it just feels unnatural and, thus, not funny. See, none of that feels force to my ears. And something like the "Don't taze me Bro" line was the funniest thing in the Star Wars special.
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Post by BathTub on Dec 26, 2007 21:21:59 GMT -5
The thing is too these guys aren't luddites, they've been online for a long time, at least as far back as Timmy Big Hands (2000ish). wwww.filmcrewonline.com is Kevins site. At least both Kevin and Mike have had personal sites before ( www.michaeljnelson.com and www.ayearatthemovies.com/ respectively), even if they eventually got sort of abandoned after a while. And they asked Erik (torgosPizza) to set up the rifftrax blog ( blog.rifftrax.com/ ) for them to use. And considering some of the horrors they have dug up already for display there I don't think they are unfamiliar with how the internets work.
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Post by McCallum on Dec 27, 2007 2:55:40 GMT -5
Just thought Id point out that in the one minute thirty second CT trailer, there is an Amy Winehouse joke. Id consider that a 'current pop culture reference'.
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Post by Hugh Beaumont on Dec 27, 2007 3:04:47 GMT -5
Right, BathTub, but it still doesn't sound... natural coming from them. I mean, if that's just genuinely where their senses of humor are now, then so be it. The corners of the internet that I'm native to are really out-there and filled with memes and bizarre, twisted humor and to see these guys throw out seemingly forced references to the latest popular internet jokes... I'm just not feeling it.
Sorry, it's hard to explain and I don't feel that I just did so properly. I do give the guys credit for embracing the internet pretty well. It hasn't gone unnoticed.
And McCallum, the Winehouse reference bothered me, too. It also sounded a bit forced. I could be wrong.
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