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What Did You Think?Theater a bit more full than in recent shows (I wasn’t here for MST3K reunion show, so I don’t know how full it was, but maybe the increase is a residual effect) — maybe half full — in suburban Scranton.
I liked this one a lot. It was up there with “Jack the Giant Killer,” which I think was one of their best. Great short (“Time to visit that guy he can’t quit!”) and a truly crazy movie (“I’ve seen things no mouse should see…”). What did you think? (“We don’t need any more ladders!”) 58 Replies to “What Did You Think?”Commenting at Satellite News
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That one dude really was 2\3rds catfish!
Jack the Giant Killer. When I was in kindergarten, I used to go to a place for after-school care, and they showed us that movie. However, I only remember the first ten to fifteen minutes (maybe that was all that they showed us). I watched it again a few years ago. One awesome movie.
The movie was a bit of a slog; both me and my wife dozed off. Without host segments to break it up (like with Godzilla vs the Sea Monster), the movie is just too tedious. The riffing was decent, but I won’t remember any of the lines. Well, maybe the old man’s grunt as New Kirk is evacuated…. :-)
Full house in Lansing’s Celebration Cinema. Pretty lively crowd. My love and I were excited by the upcoming TCM showings for Dr Strangelove and The Shining. Guy sitting next to me wondered, what, nobody’s excited for Breakfast At Tiffany’s?
I enjoyed the riffing but I don’t feel like there was a standout line. Mothra hit a pretty sweet spot of being just about interesting enough to watch on its own without being so good that the riffs felt cheap.
My love did object that it’s standard in a giant-monster-disaster-movie to have the monster show up as late as possible, so that sniping about that is unfair or at least genre-unaware. I think that’s fair enough except that most giant-monster-disaster-movies include at least a taste of incoming destruction and rampages early on so the audience doesn’t fall asleep before the monster really gets there. Different tastes.
I wonder if it’s just the crumminess of the translation, which I’m assuming was done by two guys in Elizabeth, New Jersey, working from a Japanese dictionary in about a week’s time. But it feels like there are a lot of potential character points set up but not quite paid off. For example, was Comedy Journalist’s thing of finding the mouse meant to foreshadow that he’d have a kindly affinity toward exotic creatures like the Mothra Twins or possibly Mothra herself? Was camera-shy scientist’s bit about the click of a camera sounding to him like a guillotine meant to set up or even infect the photojournalist who would go on to not take pictures of the big Mothra Resolution on the airfield? Maybe those early scenes were meant to just establish these as people with likable quirks and I’m reading into it things that shouldn’t be there.
I do also wonder about New Kirk City. Were the filmmakers riffing on New York without getting too specific, or did they know that in the Anglosphere there are towns named Newkirk and that sounded good to them, and the prop builders (reasonably) didn’t know that’s a single word?
It does seem odd so much of Mothra’s mothy rampage would be over New Kirk City in the land of make-believe. It seems like part of the point of a giant-monster-rampage movie like this is to see your home nation’s landmarks get demolished. It’s an interesting and distinctive choice.
Regarding the short, so, when did we decide washing hair more than once every two weeks was advisable? I’m honestly interested by shifting standards like that.
Oh yeah, after the show my love and I played the Star Trek pinball machine in the theater’s arcade. I got a ball to go skimming off the warp ramp and get stuck between a couple pieces of plastic. Sorry about that. Both of us went on to win replays.
There’s an interview up with Mike and Kevin at avclub.com.
They discuss “Mothra,” kaiju, colorization, and their upcoming RiffTrax Halloween event.
http://www.avclub.com/article/exclusive-rifftrax-revives-carnival-souls-live-hal-241173
Clifton, NJ AMC about 3/4 full. Empties were mainly the lower level seats. Video image had on and off static and flicker. The staff did try to fix this by turning off video for a few seconds (this lasted about a minute) thinking the trouble would go away when the video was back up. No dice. Usher apologized saying it was the feed and we could get refunds if things got worse. I think the bulk of us stayed as the problem didn’t worsen. Kind of like watching an old VHS tape.
Anyway, tech issues aside, I had a blast! A talking bar of soap for the short! I too reacted like the Rifftrax crew when the narrator said that girls should wash their hair twice a week. ?!? The riff about the kid from “A Christmas Story” getting his mouth washed out with soap was predictable but funny none the less! The main movie was also great. The main bad guy in the film was named “Nelson” and guess who was targeted at times! One of the biggest LOL’s was for the riff about Woody Allen paying big bucks for the Mothra Twins! Great callbacks with a “PACKERS!!!” riff along with “TUSK!” and “IT’S!” (Monty Python related). Of course that mouse in the room scene got a Richard Gere riff! BTW, when the local churches ring their bells I’m now going to think some big-ass moth is going to show up!
Good crowd at the Commerce Center on Rt. 1 in East Brunswick. Once again, we were in one of the deluxe theaters with the recliners.
The short was funny, with the guys playing up the creepiness of Soapy (“…especially after going to the toilet.”). I agree that it would’ve been better if Soapy suddenly altered reality a la Coily.
I saw the original Japanese version of “Mothra” at BlobFest a couple of years ago. It’s actually a pretty good movie. It takes a while to get going, but it turns out OK. And, let’s face it, Bulldog is pretty much the human hero in the movie.
The riffing was fine, though it seemed like they cranked down the sound of the crowd laughter from the Bellacourt. It’s tough to judge which riff got the biggest laugh, but, when Nelson grabbed the girls, the joke, “Do you know how much Woody Allen will pay for you?” was close.
The pre-show cards were funny, though I though Mos Def was fine as Ford Prefect. I did like the P.S. to the “It’s a Wonderful Life” quote.
Two questions: first, I noticed that they didn’t show any of the credits for “Mothra” beyond the title; was that some sort of copyright issue? Second, is Mike going to grow a beard to fit in with bewhiskered Kevin & Bill?
I understand the filmmakers wanted Rolisica (or however Nelson’s country is spelled) to be a parody of both Russia and the U.S., and how uncivilized they were compared to Japan, hence their oblivious courting of Mothra’s wrath.
And “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is OK, provided you avert your eyes and stop up your ears during the scenes with Mickey Rooney.
I got a laugh from the guy next to me when they previewed “Snowdon”, with the supposedly-important interview with Edward Snowdon and Oliver Stone live from Moscow. I asked, “What, did Snowdon shoot Kennedy?” And we all chuckled over the upcoming LIVE game of “Dungeons and Dragons”.
Half-full, if that, at Fallen Timbers in Maumee, OH. This was a very underwhelming one for me. I loved the short, but the movie was difficult to sit through–I found much of the dubbing difficult to understand, and the guys stepped on quite a few of the film’s lines. I had a few big laughs toward the end, but after the short it was mostly just halfhearted chuckles. Didn’t get a lot of big laughs from the audience on my end, either, so it felt more low-energy than shows in the past (and I’ve been to the majority of them).
Pretty full house at the Regal Hamburg Pavilion in Lexington, KY. I mean, it was in one of their smaller theaters and we had to put up with the rumbling from the sound systems in adjacent theaters leaking in, but hey.
I liked it. It did sort of drag a bit in the middle (around the point where caterpillar-Mothra was crawling through the ocean), but it was good stuff overall. This was actually the first time I’d ever seen the original Mothra. And now that I have the full context, the Mothra scenes in Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster seem… even more hokey and out of place, really. How did we get from this movie to THAT?
This was a rather silly movie to begin with, even, but still.
Funny story after the show: On the way out, a group of us passed by a theater employee who asked us what movie we just got done watching. I’m pretty sure this is something he’s required to do, of course, but we still answered him with various responses of “the Rifftrax show”. When this didn’t get a response, we changed it up to “Mothra”. This stopped him for a second, until he came back with “Wait… they were seriously showing MOTHRA???”. We could only answer with a hesitant “yes”.
There were about 25 people at the AMC Orange Park 24, which is a good crowd for that theater. It could be interest from the reunion show or interest in Mothra in general, but it worked. Great show as always, despite the movie being so slow. Really, the only suspense was where Bulldog rescued the baby from the bridge (by the way, when I saw the Japanese MP I kept hoping for a Cornjob riff). Mike was a good sport about the Nelson jokes, but I got the impression Kevin wasn’t completely comfortable with the “grandpa” jokes. It could just be that he was acting annoyed for the cameras, but now that he’s getting older it might be bothering him just a bit. That was my impression, anyway.
The Woody Allen line got a big reaction, but two of the biggest came from Florida riffs. This is Lynyrd Skynyrd’s hometown, so the plane crash riff got a big laugh, and yes, Mothra would be right at home with some of the bugs we have around here.
As for the hair-washing advice, I got the impression that was for little girls, not grown women. And it came in the days before hand-held hair dryers, when older girls and women would have to wash their hair in the afternoon or early evening, roll it up in curlers, and wait for it to air dry. So it’s not surprising they wouldn’t want to do that any more often than necessary. I remember a popular line from that time, “I just washed my hair, and I can’t do a thing with it!”
There were around 100 people at the Regal 21 in Boise. I was really confused when I walked into the auditorium and it was the middle of the show, had to double-check my ticket and the clock to make sure I hadn’t gotten there late. I caught a manager in the lobby and let them know. Fortunately, they were able to re-start it right at the start.
I didn’t think it was one of the better live shows but it had enough good laughs that I won’t complain. I’ll take a cheesy Japanese monster movie over another Sharknado any day! Soapy The Germ Fighter was good fun but not as hilarious as Paper and I or Measuring Man or Doorknob the Superhero.
On a technical note, this show looked better than the other live shows I’ve been to (which is nearly every one of them). Did they finally upgrade to 4K video? The sound mix was excellent, too. My only (very minor) complaint is that I hardly heard any of the live audience’s reaction. If there’s too much of the audience you can miss jokes and movie dialogue but when I don’t hear it I feel like the jokes aren’t landing. It’s a tricky balance, to be sure.
Favorite riff: Why didn’t they just call it Chris Pine instead of New Kirk?
In the town where I live, the theater that used to show Rifftrax Live shows no longer does, so I ended up driving up to Bloomington, IN to see it. There was about 30 people in the theater.
I really enjoyed the short. As for “Mothra”, well, I watched the movie itself for the first time a few weeks ago and honestly, it was kinda tough to get through without dozing off. I hate to say it, but that’s kind of the way I felt about the Rifftrax version. To me, there wasn’t anything that really stood out as “belly-laugh” funny. However, don’t take that the wrong way. I think that overall, it was enjoyable. I don’t know if I’d put it high on my all-time favorites list, but it was good.
What is their deal with “Carnival of Souls”? It’s a pretty decent little movie. It’s not ‘horrible’ and it’s not ‘incompetent’. Those are words you use about “Manos” or “Catalina Caper” or “Birdemic”. “CoS” is way better than any of those. Even the people criticizing it in the Comments don’t have anything much worse to say than it’s boring. I didn’t think it was, but they’re entitled to feel that way. ‘Horrible’ and ‘incompetent’ … I really think those are, objectively considered, just not remotely applicable terms.
Joseph, the dub was written by Peter Fernandez, and I’m assuming his team at Titra Productions (who did all those Godzilla and Hercules movies back then) did the voices. I think you’re just reading too much into it; Toho’s best monster romps had memorable human (or alien) characters to go with the guys in costumes smashing miniature cities. Frankie Sakai (who played Bulldog) was a popular comedic actor and I guess they just wanted to show off his comic skills.
Other cast notes: Jerry Ito (Nelson) also played Roberto Okamura in “Mighty Jack”, and Robert Dunham, the King of Seatopia in “Godzilla vs. Megalon”, played a Rolisican official. Non-MST related: Kyoko Kagawa (Michi, the female reporter) was in such classics as “Sansho the Bailiff”, “Woman in the Dunes”, and “Shall We Dance?” Hiroshi Koizumi (Chuzo) played scientists in numerous Toho sci-fi flicks. Emi & Yumi Ito (the Little Beauties) were a popular singing duo. And if you didn’t recognize Takashi Shimura as the catfish-lipped editor, you need to brush up on your Kurosawa.
Oh, the Rifftrax presentation? Personally, I would have said that Mothra should have moved on from Newkirk City to LeBeauville and General Burkhalteropolis. I didn’t think it was Mike, Kevin & Bill’s strongest effort, but still a solid B.
“Carnival of Souls” is in the same boat as the Russo-Finnish fantasy movies. They’re imaginative and well-made enough to be enjoyed on their own. But they’re also from so far out of deep roving left field that they provide good riffing material. Not all riffed movies are, by definition, awful.
Went to the one in Savoy, IL. It was going well until about the end when the signal was lost due to a big thunderstorm. Although I got a refund, I will have to wait until the dvd/stream comes out because I used a vacation day for the event and I don’t have any extra for the rerun :cry: . Oh well. Live & learn.
(obligatory “RT cribs from the Golden Turkeys like a kid writing his school report out of Wikipedia” complaint):
Yeah, why Mothra? I mean, yes, the acting’s a bit silly, but if J&tB couldn’t find that much outstandingly hilarious about the Twins in their one Sea Monster scene, what did M&tB think they were going to do with a whole linked-universe spinoff side-story of them? (Yes, Toho was doing it fifty years before everyone imitated Marvel.)
My theory dates back to when Michael Medved pretty much retired from the Golden Turkeys hoo-hah, to become one of Siskel & Ebert’s snotty and despicable replacements on their old PBS Chicago series:
One episode, they tried to do an old “Hey, how about a few old Golden Turkeys for old times sake?” segment with Medved, and the fire had clearly gone out. He’d moved on, watched the original GTA been merchandised out of its original appeal, and basically went through the emotions–Blah-blah, Lost Horizons, gorilla with space helmet, you know the drill…
The only new movies he’d added to the canon since the last book had been Mothra–just because it was, like, so silly!–and Wild Women of Wongo.
For M&tB to do one would be coincidence…
It’s public-domain, ie. free. Which you can also say about Manos.
About half full at the Virginia Center 20. I particularly liked the slide about 12 Angry Men. Aside from the fact that Juror Eight’s shenanigans were totally illegal, a lot of his reasoning was based on half-backed assumptions.
It was also something to hear Weird Al performing I Lost on Jeopardy. I remember the music video back when it was shown on Friday Night Videos. I probably even have it on a videotape somewhere.
Perhaps it’s just me, but it looked like Soapy wasn’t wearing any pants.
At the AMC in Tysons Corner VA the operator had a little trouble with the sound during the slide portion, but it was sorted out thanks to one brave audience member that got cheered on his return. The short was very good and destined to be a classic. As for Mothra? It was good; the gents had good material but Ms. Mothra needed to show up earlier. I kept thinking Nelson the bad guy resembled Steve Buscemi. Best line of the night: “Willie Whistle-Yes he Will!” from Kevin.
In Albuquerque the theater started it late and then aired it half way through the show( a full hour) so it was 45 mins long. They gave us free movie passes and then repaired from the real beginning for those who wanted to stay.
Anyone else get disturbed by Soapy when he said to the kid “lie down and close you eyes. Yea that’s right”. I was thinking Soapy is a sicko.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought there was a lull in the middle. The movie itself looked really good. We watched episode 213 before the show and that story was much harder to follow.
I thought the short was awesome, and Mothra started with very strong riffing and trailed off. My theater (Oakdale, MN) was full of people laughing, a little too eagerly at times, perhaps.
Those recliners are a blessing and a curse. I kept wanting to doze off halfway through the feature.
The preview for the role-playing broadcast made me do a facepalm. I used to role-play when I was a teen, so it’s not the fact that they are gaming, it’s the fact that it has become a spectator sport that makes me question how long this civilization will remain a going-concern.
As for Juror 8, a lot of us would like to have him in our corner if we were ever wrongly accused of anything. His “half-backed” speculation was necessary to counteract the speculation of the prosecutors. While the juror behavior may technically be illegal, it seems to follow the spirit of the law if not the letter of it. The reason we have the 6th amendment is to protect us from an overreaching/tyrannical government. When public prosecutors are more concerned with getting a case off the books than whether or not the accused is actually guilty, the right to a trial by a jury of ordinary citizens is necessary to counteract that abuse of power. Admittedly, juries can be crooked, too. The way the system is designed and the way it actually runs are two different things.
Remember what Sheriff Geronimo said, “Let me set you straight about the law. Of course the lawman must obey the law, but the law must be just. There’s lots of bad people out there using the law for their own things. Some of us gotta stand up for justice.”
I still thought the slide was funny, though.
MEATBALLS FRIED IN LARD!
There were maybe 40 people at the showing in Milford, OH (just east of Cincinnati.) The MST3K reunion was on screen when I walked into the theater, and it kept playing well past 8 p.m. Then a Dish Network channel guide came up and switched from a channel playing the reunion to a channel playing the live Mothra show. They were deep into the Soapy short, so the projectionist hit “Start Over” on the guide and fast-forwarded through the slides to the start of the show, 30 seconds at a time. No picture during this, just sound. A theater employee came in and told us they were having technical difficulties, but it seemed like a different sort of difficulty to me. Eventually everything was right and we saw the whole thing without another hitch. The audience to their credit was patient and the rough start didn’t keep away the giggles and laughs.
For me, the short was hilarious and the movie was better than I expected. I do hope they find more modern bad movies, like The Room, Birdemic and Miami Connection, for the live shows. I suppose it’s a money issue, and the older movies are generally cheaper or free, as someone above pointed out. I just love the riffs on movies that I probably saw on USA Up All Night at one time. The Rifftrax for Samurai Cop, ROTOR and Rock N’ Roll Nightmare are favorites. I’ll still be at Carnival of Souls, though.
One more thing, I liked the banter between the guys throughout this Mothra show. The stuff about Bill’s colonoscopy was hysterical, followed by Kevin’s “Mike and Bill, go to hell.” That was my biggest laugh. Kevin is a great sport.
25% full in Constant Friendship, Maryland. Some of our regulars were missing, but school is starting, so there may be vacations. We liked it overall. It wasn’t quite the level of the last few shows (reunion omitted for obvious reasons) but I enjoyed the older feel of some of the movie riffs. My wife was audibly outraged by the “every two weeks” hair washing, and spent most of the ride home talking about it. We left excited for Carnival of Souls. No, it’s not necessarily a bad movie, but it’s so intensely creepy, so different from modern horror, and has a lot of conveniently dialogue free portions, that it should be even better than the version on Hulu.
I have a question/thought for the masses about one riff, though. They made a Gordon Lightfoot crack at one point. I’ve heard Lightfoot/Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald riffs on Rifftrax, Cinematic Titanic and MST3K. I’m not sure when the earliest instance of a Lightfoot riff was, but it occurred to me that Lightfoot might just be the longest running, active riff going. I’m not counting callbacks like Torgo or Tor Johnson, but just jokes that they keep making. My question is, just when did they start making Lightfoot riffs? Is it pre-Gorgo? And, as an aside, why was that song so traumatic?
Mequon, WI (Milwaukee) theater. 1/3-1/2 full. Great vibe to the crowd, save for the one guy who would occasionally, loudly repeat a riff as he laughed (fortunately not enough to make me want to punch).
Man, I always forget how slow and nonsensical Mothra is. Still the guys did their best. And being in Milwaukee, good reaction to the Packers riff, sad reaction to the Skynard riff.
Loved the “Out, damn spot” riff myself. I’m always a sucker for ironic Shakespeare riffs.
For those commenting about the D&D show: I hope you realize that while they’re playing an actual game of D&D, it’s about just watching a group of people having fun playing a game. It’s not being treated as a spectator sport. It’s also not a new thing as there are several podcasts with famous/semi-famous people who love D&D doing it.
Carnival of Souls seems a bit of a downer for a festival crowd, but maybe I’ll go see it. The DVD version was good in spots and the movie is seriously weird, but less crappy than say, Soultaker.
Soapy was the subject of an ICW episode. You can probably see it for free on AgonyWolf’s YouTube channel by now. Joe Bob says it has gratuitous bubble fu and zero robot breasts. Check it out!
Well, that was fun.
Not the best. Not the worst.
But fun.
Which, sometimes, is enough.
I didn’t go to this one, but I have seen Mothra, many years ago. It is dull dull dull.
I was waiting for a “love child of Raul Julia and Peter Lorre” riff myself.
Pretty much agree with the great short, slow in the middle movie opinion. Even my theater seemed quieter than usual. Not sure how much of that had to do with the lack of audience sound mix from the live show.
My favorite riff was one of the first, in the short, regarding washing your hair every 2 weeks: “I guess that’s enough to keep the squirrels away.”
I would have gone back to an Edward G Robinson impression every time Nelson’s henchman appeared on screen.
It was about half-full in Peoria. I thought it was great, one of their better ones.
I loved the “Packers won the Super Bowl!” callback. It elicited quite a few “Packers!” from the audience. The other callbacks were fun, too, like the Gamera reference, the “Tusk!” riff and others.
Saw this one, only my third Rifftrax Live, in my neighborhood Cinemark in Davie, Florida. The awesome Reunion show was a very tough act to follow, but I’d still put this one in the very good almost great category. The short was hilarious but Mothra really dragged so the big laughs were at times far and few between. Extra naughty riff: Do you know how much Woody Allen would pay for them?!” I also loved we don’t need any more ladders and Japanese Vince Lombardi. Instant classics! There were many more I can’t remember now. Can’t wait for the Halloween show!
It was alright. The short was great (we also thought Soapy was either wearing a flesh-colored leotard or no pants at all!), but the movie was a bit dull in parts & the majority of the riffs didn’t land like they should to make up for it. Not their best live show, but not their worst, so still pretty fun, all in all.
Celebration Cinemas in Lansing, MI was totally packed; I know this because we were sitting next to an obnoxiously shrill scream-laugher / amateur riffer (I thought by this point people attending these Rifftrax live shows had realized that this is a major faux pas), but there were no more available seats in the house that we could find to relocate to. Ah well…
Earliest was when they first started having movies with ships in storms (GvSea Monster?), and why–It was a big Canadian tragedy the year Lightfoot wrote it, and he wanted to ironically homage coastal sea chanteys…Cultural content, you know.
Lightfoot made a 50th-anniversary(!) tour through our college-town last spring, and I know one family member who listened to the albums back in…the day, who cracked up when I sent them the old SCTV sketch from the time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utp2XYEPnYY
Actually, strike the earlier theory: We know that RT is pretty much in the business of nudging and fan-winking old cult MST3K episodes, but with Toho’s lock, they’re obviously not going to be doing Vs. Sea Monster any time soon.
Oddly, Toho’s tyrannical hold on the 60’s Kaiju titles only extends to the movies Godzilla was actually in (and War of the Gargantuas, for some reason), but the two side monsters’ solo movies, Mothra and Rodan, slipped through the loophole. Sony had them at some point, but not sure now, and they’ve always been one step away from public domain.
This was basically “The RT version of Godzilla vs. Megalon we could…..afford–Uh, let’s sing the Jet Jaguar fight song anyway?”
(Toho and Shout also have a lock on Daiei’s Gamera movies, so Michael Feinstein was unable to offer any musical accompaniment.)
I skipped this one, primarily because I find early-period kaiju movies to be, as others have noted in this thread, dull dull dull. I much prefer the gonzo, kooky late-Showa period Godzilla movies (Godzilla vs. Megalon, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla) and, of course, the beloved Gamera movies. For one thing, you usually get to the monster action a lot quicker in them, and two, they’re just so out there, man.
I didn’t want a repeat of the Rifftrax showing of Notzilla. Oh my God was that a death march of tedium.
Secret Fairies: Travolta and Cruise cracked the place up. “And now…Gwar” was funny. Ripping Fort Worth got a big laugh here in Austin. But as much as I hate to knock the Rifftrax gang, ICWXP did “Soapy” first and much, much better. I mean, c’mon guys, how can you riff such a creepy, nightmare-inducing short and not one joke about the fact that Soapy’s got no pants?
Oh, I forgot to mention another hilarious riff, something about Hello Kitty Trapper Keepers. Good stuff!
LOL!!!!!
Did you have this same complaint when MST3K was doing so many of the “Golden Turkeys”? I’m guessing not, because those were mostly in the Joel era of the show.
Sound difficulties in Fort Myers made it almost impossible for me to hear the movie dialog. Combined with the dullness of the flick, it was a real slog. I did get a kick out of the fact that the newspaper editor also played the head samurai in Kurosawas “The Seven Samurai.” The New Kirk City thing just looks like it was the standard “Engrish” kind of mistake you find on English signs in Japan. I figure the dubbing crew just used New Kirk City in the spoken language to stay consistent with the signage in the model city.
All in all, I was bored.
This is the 4th time in the 2 years I’ve been going to them at that theater that they’ve started the feed live instead of playing from the beginning and we’ve wound up watching 10 minutes or so in the middle of the movie.
I had a great time with my wife. I lost it with, “All hands at attention… That’s all.”
About half full in Harrisburg, PA.
My personal favorite riff:
“Attention all hands …
… that is all.”
120 in Flint, MI. This one was good- not great. Still- I would take any Rifftrax show over a $150.00 ticket at DTE in Detroit to see David Crosby eat a Mcrib.
Nowadays that phrase can have a whole new meaning. I don’t know if they’ve gotten around to riffs on that film, though.
Have shows in the past been less than 2 hours?
Felt like there needed to be another short or something.
Seemed a little less satisfying than the last few.
Really surprised at how quickly Carnival is announced and happening.
If it was announced earlier, I must have forgotten.
I didn’t worry about getting there 30 mins before because there is usually another movie still finishing or the preshow is not showing. A lot of times a few people or none at all will be there. This time I got there maybe 15 before and the preshow was already going and a handful of people were there.
Yes, I kept waiting for a Soapy “no pants” or Winnie the Pooh style riff.
Oh yeah, the catfish actor is actually a very respected actor who was in a lot of Kurosawa movies.
I really enjoyed myself. And I feel like the only person here who actually likes the original MOTHRA movie!
Yes, Soapy was not wearing any pants. Yes, that was the most disturbing thing about the short for me.