I watched the Casablanca riff from RiffTrax
– the first classic they’ve taken on unless you’re some geek who considers The Empire Strikes Back a classic (and there are no geeks at IMAO) – and it was pretty funny. There’s actually plenty to make fun of with Casablanca just with all the silly hats. Still, it was a while since I last saw Casablanca and there were a couple times I was trying to listening past their comments to the actual dialogue.
Just like with MST3K, I’ve started to notice some running jokes that appears between all the riffs. Like most riffs seems to have one joke at the expense of Ron Paul. I wonder if his supporters flooded their RiffTrax forum? Those guys sure knew how to make friends and influence people.
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Wow, you mentioned the Paul,
and none of his rabid fans have
rushed in to fill the comment vacuum.
I like the guy, compared to 80-90 % of the other Congressmen, but that’s not much of an endosement.
I dunno if I’d like a riff on Casablanca, it has riff-worthy moments, but I prefer the MST3K treatment of lousy movies.
I finally got around to checking out RiffTrax this weekend and I loved their riffs on Empire Strikes Back. I’m too young to remember MST3K, but these guys were really funny. I’ll have to try some of their others when I have a chance.
Andrew,
Get on that before Viacom takes all the episodes off youtube.
Here are some good ones for you (full episodes, so you need about an hour to ninety minutes free):
“Hobgoblins”: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8291833495775182240
My personal favorite, “The Final Sacrifice”: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8894237701600036478
“Mitchell” (Back in the older days with Joel): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2667241501139414571
“Space Mutiny”: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8590533394044637016
And there’s plenty more floating around out there.
Frank,
Just attempted to post a large-ish comment. Please moderate. Kthnxbai.
and there are no geeks at IMAO
Does this mean that I have to leave? I was a geek before you were born, Frank; back then, we were called nerds or dorks.
SVJ,
I think you were grandfathered in, as you are old enough to be Frank’s (and mine for that matter) grandfather. So no worries you old coot.
Casablanca had a horrible script. But regardless of the horrendous cheesy dialogue the acting was excellent.
Oh, and I am Shocked! Shocked! to see I missed this post yesterday.