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I'm not sure why anyone would riff Night of the Living Dead, one of the classic movies of all time. That is one where you should just shut up and watch the movie. When and where did this happen?
Inactive Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka - Deadbeat (emphasis on "Dead") founder of Something Awful, forced out of his own community, on his second divorce, stuck his dick in crazy, "Birth Giver"
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Leonard Helplessness
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I can sympathize; I watched some Rifftrax Live stuff including of truly shitty movies, like Birdemic. All the Rifftrax people just stood hunched over their scripts expressionlessly reading out their lines.
They also do riffs of movies that are generally considered to be good. From what I’ve observed, those are for lonely people who want to watch a movie at home but don’t have any friends. From the previews I’ve seen, all the jokes seem to be some variation on “But what if these two men are sexually attracted to each other” which gets old pretty damn fast.
They also do riffs of movies that are generally considered to be good. From what I’ve observed, those are for lonely people who want to watch a movie at home but don’t have any friends. From the previews I’ve seen, all the jokes seem to be some variation on “But what if these two men are sexually attracted to each other” which gets old pretty damn fast.
I think Mike wants to be a good friend to Lowtax out of pity, but it's clear that he has no room for Lowtax in his life professionally. But I don't think Lowtax can see the the difference between that.
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They'll do any movie that's public domain, like NOLD. If it's out of copyright they can sell the movie and riff together, which is much more profitable than selling just the riffing soundtrack to play over copyrighted movies.
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You either laugh at MST or you don't, and if you don't, unironic congratulations on not watching a bunch of obscure shitty B movies.
The problem with the RTL is that they can be really hit or miss on the live movies. I really enjoyed Krull, but they had some Mexican mutant octopus movie that got a few laughs out of me but was generally not a great use of two hours and twenty bucks. And I saw one with some recent Casper Van Dien movie, and I put that one around a MST episode you'd rank as "average" - I didn't hate it, but regretted spending the price of movie ticket on it.
They also really enjoy flogging a dead horse, I think they've done Manos about 20 times.
You're confusing RiffTrax with the MST3K Netflix reboot. RT tries to be funny.
But their "new release" stuff is very hit and miss. Off the top my head, Their riff of Jaws is pretty good, Roadhouse was great. The Avengers one was ok. Independence Day was a solid "meh", which I had honestly expected better. They also did some riffs on some NatGeo shows for April Fools and those were hilarious.
The other issue with RiffTrax is that it is more than just Mike, Bill and Kevin. They have other people and the are just not enjoyable. Their Batman vs. Superman riff has a bunch of these other people rotate in; I got it for free and I overpaid. I overpaid by a lot.
They also had some british twink who did (o.g.) Red Dawn with only him and Mike, and the "oh I just assume this is normal in america" got really fucking old.
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Battlefield Earth is my all-time favorite. It's one of their funniest riffs, but they had to pull it from the store because the edit of the movie that they riffed on was replaced by a studio repair job and their version went out of print, so the riff doesn't match up the dialogue and action anymore. It's easy to find a combined version on torrents, though.
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Yeah, BFE was also great, only slightly ruined by just how garbage the movie is. Anyway, Battlefield Earth is available from their site as VOD with the riffs.
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The movie itself is so deranged that it reads like a rejected John Waters comedy. It's a bad movie and not in the lovable so-bad-it's-good sense, but it sure provides a lot of easy layups for jokes. I'm really glad to see it's widely available again.
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Talking about Rifftrax and MST3K is more interesting than Lowtax himself. That's what I'm gathering from this page of his thread.
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You might say the MST and RT talk has vindicated the thread.
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I downloaded it and I'm rewatching now. The cow scene holds up.
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It's actually crazy to think that just by virtue of owning the domain lowtax has been in the fringes of alt/geek culture or whatever you want to call it for decades but he's so fundamentally unlikeable that it never got him anywhere.
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He could have had Wil Wheaten levels of fame but now he streams shitty videos to 40 people while drowning in boxed wine and opioids.
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I remember when I first saw MST3K, I had never heard of it before. It was on one of their "Turkey Day" marathons. A couple bros and I had gone out of town for a job and were getting overtime plus holiday pay, which amounted to triple pay, plus a per diem, and then the job didn't materialize, so we were stuck in a motel room for the day with nothing but a couple cases of beer and some weed. We already watched obscure shitty B movies and mocked them, and then flipping through channels came across this shit and it was some of the funniest stuff I ever saw. I specifically remember This Island Earth. Ironically, this is another of those movies that MST3K did that isn't actually a bad movie.
Anyway I think a lot of whether you like MST or not has to do with whether you've ever done this kind of thing yourself. It almost simulates having friends again.
Not so good it's bad but so good it's really horrible. They're generally at their best with completely irredeemable shit like this. BFE is sort of unique in that you wonder why the fuck it was ever greenlighted (other than cult stupidity), but other good examples are Manos: the Hands of Fate, a low budget example, where it's completely incomprehensible that anyone actually spent time making it. Ed Wood movies are a middle ground, movies where they're absolutely terrible, but somehow, you can get that they were labors of love.
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This has always been the thing about him-- he isn't particularly (intentionally) funny, he's always been an ass to pretty much everyone, and he's always acted like he's earned everything he has (well, had) when in reality it was plainly obvious that he simply rode on the shoulders of much more talented and creative people.
All he had to do was be a bit less of an insufferable prick to people, and he'd still be rolling in the money. Alas...
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Now there's someone less likable than Lowtax. Although arguably Lowtax isn't even that bad in the grand scheme of things, he has no reach, no prospects, and no future. All he can really do is fuck up his kids some more which is bad, granted, but at least nobody actually takes him seriously. Also he doesn't desecrate the very concept of beer.
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No idea.
It would really suck, because they dont make places like this or Old SA anymore.
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Monkey Cheese is what the goons called random humor and it was getting old in the early 00's
I said today in the SA thread. Lowtax is a annoying prick, asshole. But when bullied he becomes a pussy and shuts down. When he cucked to ZDR it hurt him bad.
Now he coulda had a moment of clarity and told the hugboxers the could ether be less faggot, leave or have findom relationship with SA. As in they keep giving him money and they can have their box.
he chose poorly
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I don't know about you, but I'd rather listen to Wil Wheaton prattle on about bullshit than listen to Lowtax.
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Finally listening to the MATI Logan Day interview and it sucks what happened to her but damn, there really ain't much going on up there. Muh goon workers collective! No wonder she was manipulated by the Ambien Mangosteen Wonder for so long, it wasn't exactly hard. Kudos to Noolay for that labor of love.
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