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Post by Katie on Dec 18, 2009 0:13:43 GMT -5
It was hilarious The Visit To Santa short had me laughing to the point of no return. haha, and Rudolph.. there are no words. "I need you tonight" ha great stuff. enjoyed it very much
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Post by doctorz on Dec 18, 2009 8:43:55 GMT -5
It was hilarious The Visit To Santa short had me laughing to the point of no return. haha, and Rudolph.. there are no words. "I need you tonight" ha great stuff. enjoyed it very much I can't remember seeing the Rudolph short when I was a kid, but I'm certain I've seen bits and pieces of it over the years. Jesus. The rubbery, squirmy animation, the obvious influence of too many newsreels of marching Nazis and their stadium howl fests, and the sexual double entendre's make this somewhere near the top of the pantheon of Rifftrax creepy Christmas shorts. I could go on and on. After viewing this show I can definitely say that Mike Bill and Kevin work actively for the death of all joy in Christmas and the Grinch could take lessons from them. I should try and stop them but..I am small and of no account.
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Post by pinkfully on Dec 18, 2009 10:29:53 GMT -5
Thanks for the link. I'm sure it's not secret now that the show is over, but I could be wrong.
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Post by Blue Raja on Dec 18, 2009 10:31:54 GMT -5
Just now getting some time to type this up (been non-stop around here since the show)! Anyway, I really enjoyed the show. Every short had at least a moment that made me laugh pretty hard, and several had many such moments. For whatever reason, I think "Christmas Rhapsody" (the one about the sentient tree) was my favorite. Can't tell you why, it just made me especially giddy with laughter. Maybe it was simply the silliness of a droll self-aware tree narrating through its being chopped down and decorated, I don't know. While I enjoyed this show immensely, for some reason the Plan 9 show worked for me a little better. I think having a short or two, and THEN a feature film just works better in a live format to me. Sometimes building familiarity (or "momentum," as some have put it) with a movie helps to enhance the experience with me, as opposed to the stop-start-stop-starting that watching a series of shorts does. As far as how our theater experience went (myself, my dad, and Skyroniter in our group), it was both an improvement over the last show and a "de"-provement at the same time. We had roughly the same amount of people that made the Plan 9 show (around 110, give or take), but the theater was twice as huge as last time, which made it feel emptier. Plus, as Sky already mentioned, they didn't cut the lights off until about 3 shorts in, which made it a bit harder to focus for that duration. And it seems we all experienced the muddled audio that came and went with certain shorts at the beginning - even during the Three Magic Words pork short with Weird Al, I could hardly hear what half of them were saying. Which was expecially sad, since I only ended up catching about 2 or 3 of Al's lines. On the upside, however, absolutely no blackouts or sync issues this time, as opposed to the load we had at the beginning of the last show, so that was a huge relief. That part, at least, ran very smoothly for us. It seems the same lines seemed to get the biggest laughs in most places. The "Rudolph, I need you tonight" bit of course being the biggest. "Here's Santa in Dallas" was always a favorite of mine from the "A Visit To Santa" short, and I'm very glad they kept that line for this show. But I agree with your take. The Plan 9 show actually felt kind of live. The place was packed and everyone in the audience applauded as if Mike, Kevin, and Bill were there in front of us. It felt very much like when I saw CT live. But this one felt much more like seeing riffing projected on a movie screen, as you said. But still, most of the time watching riffing projected on a movie screen with a sizable group of fans >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> watching riffing on your tv at home. Kudos to Mike and the gang for figuring out how to make this kind of thing happen. Hopefully they sold enough tickets to make another one possible. Sadly, I gotta agree here with much of what you said. For the life of me I can't figure out why, but this one did feel a little more "distant" than the Plan 9 show did to me. Still plenty enjoyable, but yes, something felt just missing in that respect. And ditto on the rest too, especially about them hopefully having enough success with this to continue on with this newfound format. I'll think of some more stuff later perhaps, but that's all I got for now. Glad I went, can't wait for the next show. And if they go with a feature-length film this time 'round, I'll be even more excited.
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Post by mrmeadows on Dec 18, 2009 13:04:08 GMT -5
For whatever reason, I think "Christmas Rhapsody" (the one about the sentient tree) was my favorite. Can't tell you why, it just made me especially giddy with laughter. Maybe it was simply the silliness of a droll self-aware tree narrating through its being chopped down and decorated, I don't know. Yes, this short especially had the feeling of something we might have seen on an old MST3K episode. "Here's Santa in Dallas" was always a favorite of mine from the "A Visit To Santa" short, and I'm very glad they kept that line for this show. I haven't seen all of the Rifftrax downloadable shorts...was "Visit to Santa" one of them? I just assumed this was all new material.
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Post by mst3ktemple on Dec 18, 2009 13:18:18 GMT -5
RiffTrax already did A Vist to Santa and Christmas Toyshop. They also had shared the creepy Holiday Havoc with Kevin in fishnets back in 2007.
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Post by doctorz on Dec 18, 2009 13:39:51 GMT -5
I never saw Kevin in fishnets until this show. I wish I never had. It's an indelible image in my brain now.
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Post by Skyroniter on Dec 18, 2009 15:01:59 GMT -5
The little ending thing with Mike and Bill puking is a couple years old.
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Post by mrmeadows on Dec 18, 2009 20:31:05 GMT -5
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Post by Continuing Legend on Dec 18, 2009 22:37:43 GMT -5
That's a weird sample. If I hadn't seen the rest of the short, I wouldn't find it funny at all. (I wouldn't get the 'no account' thing for one)
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Post by mrcleveland on Dec 20, 2009 16:16:40 GMT -5
I saw this at the theater last Thursday and one of my favorite shorts was "Christmas Dream" with the Rag Doll doing all that stop-motion and even though in the end it still shows the doll on the floor...the girl will probably have that doll by her bed with the other new toys.
And that made me want to make an episode of a TV Show I'm thinking of doing sometime in the future....
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Post by zombiewhacker on Jan 6, 2010 16:59:46 GMT -5
Not to sound crass, but how did this do, money-wise? Given its very limited engagement, no one expects Avatar numbers here, but I'm hoping it did well enough for our friendly trio that they'd be willing to do shows like these more often.
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Post by mrcleveland on Jan 10, 2010 18:17:36 GMT -5
Not to sound crass, but how did this do, money-wise? Given its very limited engagement, no one expects Avatar numbers here, but I'm hoping it did well enough for our friendly trio that they'd be willing to do shows like these more often. I think Mike, Kevin, and Bill should riff "Avatar"!
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Post by zombiewhacker on Jan 12, 2010 4:26:20 GMT -5
Oh, they WILL.
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