LOC- The 50 Most Requested Rifftrax of 2012

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5. Street Fighter: The Movie - (1994) - 86 points
(7 of 17 lists. Highest ranking - #6 Doc Smith and Stan Simpson)
   
Directed by Steven E. de Souza
Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raúl Juliá and Ming-Na Wen

Place on 11's list: #35
Place on 10's list: #11
Place on 09's list: #17
Place on 08's list: #6
Last year's #5: Jonah Hex - (2010)

Synopsis:
"Col. William Guile leads an army of soldiers into the country of Shadaloo to find traces to lead him to General M. Bison, who has captured many people including three missing soldiers. Among them is Carlos "Charlie" Blanka, in which Bison decides to turn into a hideous mutant. On the other hand, Chun Li is a reporter who seeks revenge against Bison for the death of her father years ago. Then two small time hustlers Ryu and Ken, are arrested along with Sagat, a powerful arms dealer and Vega for dealing of illegal weapons. Guile recruits them in order to find Bison's base. Now Guile, T. Hawk, Cammy, Ryu, Ken, Chun Li, Balrog and E. Honda have three days before Bison murders the hostages and takes over the world."

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It gave birth to many a catch phrase! Well, okay. Just one actually.

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4. Air Force One - (1997) - 97 points
(6 of 17 lists. Highest ranking - #1 Ispep)
   
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen
Starring Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman and Glenn Close

Place on 11's list: #12
Place on 10's list: #14
Place on 09's list: N/A
Place on 08's list: N/A
Last year's #4: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace - (1986)

Synopsis:
"The President of the United States is on a journey home after making a speech in Moscow. But on the journey, Russian hi-jakers take over the plane, disguising themselves as newspaper reporters. They want the President to ring Moscow and release General Redek. But they think that the President has escaped in the pod. But the president is really still on board air force One attempting to regain control of the plane and to rescue his wife and daughter."

Up Next:
Sigh.

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3. Dune - (1984) - 98 points
(6 of 17 lists. Highest ranking - #1 Anais and Gojikranz)
   
Directed by David Lynch
Starring Francesca Annis, Kyle MacLachlan and Sting

Place on 11's list: #9
Place on 10's list: #2
Place on 09's list: #5
Place on 08's list: #10
Last year's #3: Watchmen - (2009)

Synopsis:
"It is a distant galaxy in the far future. The year is 10191. Arrakis is a desert planet, Arrakis is the only source of 'Melange' a vital drug used by the Guild Navigators for space travel from star system to star system. Two rival families, The Atreides and The Harkonnens, fight for control of the mining operations of Melange on Arrakis. When his father Duke Leto Atreides is assassinated by the evil Baron Harkonnen. Duke Leto's son Paul and Paul's mother Lady Jessica flee deep into the desert and are befriend by the Fremen, natives of Arrakis. Due to the influence of the 'Melange' Paul learns he has special powers and he can see into the future. Paul unites the Freman and forms a army of warriors and leads them into battle against Baron Harkonnen and the corrupt Emperor Padishah Shaddam IV who is in league with the Harkonnen's and vows to avenge his father and sets out to liberate Arrakis and it's people from the Emperor's rule and fulfill his destiny."

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Uwe Boll is a bit more faithful to his sources than this was.

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2. Super Mario Brothers - (1985) - 120 points
(9 of 17 lists. Highest ranking - #1 Stansimpson)
   
Directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel
Starring Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo and Dennis Hopper

Place on 11's list: #1
Place on 10's list: #8
Place on 09's list: #43
Place on 08's list: #12
Last year's #2: X-Men III: The Last Stand - (2006)

Synopsis:
"This is the story of two hard working Italian plumber brothers named Mario Mario and Luigi Mario, who befriends a young paleontologist named Daisy. She uncovers a massive find of mysterious new dinosaur bones. While exploring the tunnels where dinosaur fossils lay, saboteurs hired by the Mario Bros. rival businessman, Anthony Scapelli, to break some underground pipes. Meanwhile, in a hidden world called Dino-world, King Koopa's land is running out of water and going through problems so he sends Spike and Iggy to kidnap Daisy! Now the Super Mario Bros. find themselves the only hope to save the Earth from invasion then challenge a diabolical lizard king and they must battle giant reptilian goombas, outwit misfit thugs and undermine sinister scheme by taking over the world!"

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Our #1 choice! Which received no #1 votes... Will it be the subtly hinted at "2012"? Find out soon!

[Russell]

I totally voted for Con Air. It's a guilty pleasure of mine

You only put it on there because you were hoping the guys would make fun of hair dryers.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back the Iron Man 2 Dancers as they lead us into our final entry!


Oh, heck, here's the Captain America dancers too!


And lest we get protests, here's one for the ladies.


And just to get people yelling at me.


Oh, and here's...


Oh. Yeah. Our number one choice....

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1. Watchmen - (2009) - 126 points
(8 of 17 lists. Highest ranking - #3 Sugar Ray Dodge)
   
Directed by Zack Snyder
Starring Jackie Earle Haley, Billy Crudup and Malin Akerman

Place on 11's list: #3
Place on 10's list: N/A
Place on 09's list: N/A
Place on 08's list: N/A
Last year's #1: Super Mario Brothers - (1993)

Synopsis:
"It's the 1980's and it's a different world. Superheroes have been outlawed, the only ones still in operation under direct control of the United States government. Suddenly, those heroes both still in action and retired find themselves targets by an unseen enemy, who wants to kill them one by one. A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, the film is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the Watchmen?"

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Nothing! It's over! Catch everyone again next year!

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Thanks everyone! And, for those who are curious, the iRiffs available for this year's entries:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Stargate
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/solarminite-riffs-stargate

Flash Gordon
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/cosmic-joke-flash-gordon

Godzilla
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/quiptracks/quiptracks-godzilla-1998

The Incredible Hulk
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/fireriffs/fireriffs-presents-incredible-hulk

Congo
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/treacheriffs/treacheriffs-congo

Temple of Doom
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/drawback-productions-presents-indiana-jones-and-temple-doom

Hackers
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/one-man-band/hackers-one-man-band

X-Men Origins
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/jonah%E2%80%99s-turn-spins-x-men-origins-wolverine

Superman IV
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/disciples-golan/superman-iv-quest-peace

Street Fighter
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/celluoid-shinobis/street-fighter-celluloid-shinobis

Dune
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/ryans-riffs-dune
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/ronin-fox-trax/ronin-fox-trax-dune
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/some-guy-riffs-dune
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/spoony-experiment-dune

Super Mario Bros
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/cinemasochists/super-mario-bros
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/super-mario-bros
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/emergency-riffcast-system/super-mario-brothers

Watchmen
http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/watchmen

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Oh for Pete's sake.

Please unflag my last post which mentioned which nominees had iRiffs available. Geez.

[Russell]

I guess you could find yourself a worse codpiece than Disembaudio.

[Watchman]

Wow. Very few of mine on there, even though I'd suggested a fair number of them in other threads & "what got next" polls.

Anywho, here's my list, which I'll name Poles Apart. Bold= made the LOC. Italics= "why didn't more people vote for this?!" (I'll be sparing, I'll only italicize what I'd like discussion on.)

1. The Haunting (1999, Liam Neeson)
2. Alone In The Dark (2005, Uwe Boll's)
3. 8MM
4. Atlas Shrugged
5. End of Days
6. Collateral Damage
7. Def-Con 4
8. Capricorn One
9. The Exorcist
10. Highlander 2
11. 8 Heads In A Duffel Bag
12. Supernova (2000)
13. Alien Vs Predator
14. The Devil's Advocate
15. Event Horizon
16. Galaxy of Terror
17. Pet Sematary
18. Conan the Barbarian (2011 remake)
19. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
20. Cannonball Run 2
21. Boondock Saints
22. Super Mario Bros
23. Princess Bride
24. Sayonara Jupiter
25. Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
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Okay, so I only italicized Atlas Shrugged. From the clips I saw I The Colbert Report, this movie looked about as entertaining as (but less than) a rightwing Birdemic (minus the birds & environment, mainly focusing on much more lavish boardrooms & offices [funded by the trickle-down from a few untaxed Washington Republicans pretending to be Tea Partiers.]). And even if MKB are conservative, I highly doubt they'd reject AS on this basis; most conservatives think the movie's an artless snoozefest; or "shit" as more commonly described. ("Where's Dennis Miller & Chuck Norris when you need them?")

[Johnny Unusual]

Here be my listy!

1. The Box
2. V for Vendetta
3. Nosferatu
4. Starcrash
5. Barbarella
6. Superman IV: the Quest for Peace
7. The X-Files: I Want to Believe
8. Speed
9. Star Trek – The Motion Picture
10. Poltergeist II
11. Watchmen
12. Super Mario Bros.
13. The Ewok Adventure: The Battle for Endor (with Wilfred Brimley)
14. The Ewok Adventure: Caravan of Courage
15. Excalibur
16. Star Wars – The Clone Wars
17. Psycho
18. Rocky
19. You Got Served
20. Godzilla (1998)
21. Frankenstein (1931)
22. X-Men Origins - Wolverine
23. Halloween 2 (the old one)
24. Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within
25. The Green Slime

Not a lot from mine, but still a good list.

[Artie]

List Time

1. Showgirls
2. 2012
3. Tron Legacy
4. The Giant Claw
5. Hackers
6. I Know Who Killed Me
7. Season of the Witch (2011)
8. The Apple
9.  Risky Business
10. Watchmen
11. Star Trek: First Contact
12. National Treasure
13. Terminator 2
14. Terminator
15. Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
16. Waterworld
17. Air Force One
18. Starship Troopers
19. Interview with a Vampire
20. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
21. The Wizard
22. Johnny Mnemonic
23. Gymkata
24. The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
25. Ravenous

I'm surprised 2012 didn't make the list, being that's it's 2012 and all....

[Johnny Unusual]

Oh, by the by, since I forgot to say it:

Good list Compound, and thanks for hosting it.

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I'm surprised 2012 didn't make the list, being that's it's 2012 and all....

I honestly forgot about it until I was making the banners.Whoops.