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Posted by Sampo, on November 3rd, 2012 Alert regular “Sitting Duck” writes:
Let’s talk about the movie titles. Specifically how well they reflect the content of the film. Sometimes the title actually has something to do with the film. Other times not so much. My pick for a most appropriate title would be “Bloodlust!” As a review of the episode I once read noted, there is blood (what with all the human hunting), and there is lust (what with Balleau intending to keep Betty and Jean as his own mini-harem). As for a least appropriate title, I would go with “The Dead Talk Back.” As Mike and the Bots noted when they started to leave the theater at the end, the dead never talked back (what with the whole thing being a load of fakery).
The titles that always bother me are “Stranded in Space” and “Space Travelers.” Neither one accurately describes the movie in question, and much better describes the other one.
Your thoughts on titles?
Posted by Sampo, on November 2nd, 2012 Update on Joel’s “How to Have a Job Like Mine” tour:
Saturday, Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. Pepitos Parkway Theater in Minneapolis. More here.
Sunday, Nov. 4, at the Icon Lounge, 402 N. Main Ave. in Sioux Falls, S.D. Social hour at 5:30 p.m.; presentation at 6:30 p.m. Cost: $20. More here.
UPDATE: Joel gets interviewed at Minneapolis CBS affiliate WCCO. (“The Gizomcrat?”)
Euan Kerr of Minnesota Public Radio talks with Joel about the show.
Here’s an interview with Joel pegged to the South Dakota show.
Posted by Sampo, on October 31st, 2012
Posted by Sampo, on October 27th, 2012 Our episode guide discussion focused on a movie with LOTS of stock footage and that’s a topic we’ve never gotten into, so let’s do it.
Let’s hear about your favorite/most memorable use of stock footage in a MSTed movie.
And while we’re at it, are there any movies that didn’t stock footage where it might have helped? Discuss.
For my favorite use of stock footage, I need only say two words: Hitler building.
Have at it!
Posted by Sampo, on October 26th, 2012 An open thread for your thoughts on tonight’s RiffTrax Live.
A few thoughts, such as seals:
* My theater in the Scranton area was a less full than for the Manos showing. Maybe about half full this time.
* To answer the question, I and a few other people chuckled at the golfer joke.
* My rough unscientific guess is about 30 percent of the Birdemic riffs were new.
* Fave riff from the short: “Time to soap up the ol’ junk again…”
* I still don’t get the point of these movies. Where they a prelude to some sort of motivational talk?
* Gotta get me a shoulder squirrel.
* Only one short. Is this the first time for that? It reflects that fact that the movie is, among many other awful things that it is, much too long. I’ve talked before about this phenomenon: there is a point — I find that it is somewhere around the 70-75 minute mark, were casual fans start to feel like, “well, that’s enough of that,” whereas hardcore fans are happy to continue. This movie starts to get really really crazy right about that point, so people just blasted through it for the most part, but a second short would have made for too long a night.
* There were a LOT of moments where the riffers had to hold for (or talk over) people laughing at the actual movie. I think, having probably seen it a dozen or more times, they’d sort of forgotten how riotously unintentionally funny the movie is the first time you see it. A really good example was the times that some character would successfully hit one of the birds and they would drop–bloop!–out of the sky like the wire holding them up had been cut. That happened many, many times and the audience in Nashville–and in my theater–laughed just as hard each time, something I’m not sure the riffers were expecting. “Good!”
* Bill takes the prize for the biggest flub (“play with my PCP”) but he ad-libbed like a pro and of course Mike and Kevin had his back.
* Fave riff: “Yeah I’m gonna be late, I’m stuck behind some knob who doesn’t know how to walk.”
UPDATE: Chris Griffy of Examiner.com has a review.
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