Rank a Dawn of Commie Red!

[FordPrefect]

[honesty] Totally sucks that P.S. has passed... but I'm glad they got these last few Swayze films in. It probably would've been inappropriate otherwise. RIP. [/honesty]

Also, More Joel Mchale Trax please!!

It wouldn't necessarily be in poor taste. They riffed The Dark Knight even though Heath Ledger had passed away.

[Minnesota]

^^^ Good point.

[Captain Joe]

     I can sum up this riff in only two words, piss poor. Simply too dark a film to riff (in spite of the times). Not even the smartasstic comedy stylings of my Reptilian friend Joel McHale can save this venture. Some lines brought chuckles, but that's about it (The best part was the banter between Mike and Joel before the film). Three out of ten, and I'm being generous.

    A lot of forum members were screaming for this to be riffed, I hope you enjoyed yourselves. Guess I'm not into lizard humor. <-- I just find that fun to say. 

    I smell what Joel and his ilk are cooking, and it smells like Chicken Tetrazzini. That's the problem.

[ShadowDog]

I was going through my rifftrax the other day and realized that I'd somehow missed picking this one up.  I must have been ass deep in work when it came out or something, otherwise I don't know how the hell I missed it!  (I also noticed I missed ever getting Halloween so I corrected that as well)

Anyway, Joel amazed me in how good he was at this.  It doesn't look like Mike will ever repeat with a guest star and that's too bad because Mike and Joel McHale are simply wonderful together.  Joel's an obvious fan and it really showed.  They set a great tone at the beginning when Joel kept interrupting Mike and saying "pause".  LMFAO  What a great way to start a trax with a first time guest riffer.

The riff of the movie was hilarious.  10!  Lot of awesome lines and this is easily the funniest guest riffer trax since Weird Al did it.  Speaking of that, is it just me or were there moments where Joel sounded like Weird Al?  Their sarcastic high pitch riffs really reminded me of each other.

As for the movie itself.  I was 15 when I saw it in the theaters and boy has it not aged very well.  I can't imagine those of you too young to remember the Cold War watching this now.  I mean, back in the 80s we literally went to bed at night thinking there was a chance the world could end.  That's inconceivable now.  And maybe it's just me because my father was in the Navy and he was on one of the ships (The Newport News) that was part of the Cuban Missile Crisis blockade.  His ship was the one that searched the first transport out when they were taking the missiles back out.  So the Cold War was very real in my family growing up.  The expectation of WWIII was real to me growing up.  I don't think people who are in the teens or 20s now can imagine what that was like.

This movie fed on that fear.  Now that the fear has passed, a large part of this movie doesn't work on any level.  And I'm sure it must have been very hard to riff.

But you guys pulled it off!  Great riff and fantastic guest!  I sure hope Joel breaks the trend and comes back!  Weird Al finally came back for a short so we have hope!

[FordPrefect]

I was going through my rifftrax the other day and realized that I'd somehow missed picking this one up.  I must have been ass deep in work when it came out or something, otherwise I don't know how the hell I missed it!  (I also noticed I missed ever getting Halloween so I corrected that as well)

Anyway, Joel amazed me in how good he was at this.  It doesn't look like Mike will ever repeat with a guest star and that's too bad because Mike and Joel McHale are simply wonderful together.  Joel's an obvious fan and it really showed.  They set a great tone at the beginning when Joel kept interrupting Mike and saying "pause".  LMFAO  What a great way to start a trax with a first time guest riffer.

The riff of the movie was hilarious.  10!  Lot of awesome lines and this is easily the funniest guest riffer trax since Weird Al did it.  Speaking of that, is it just me or were there moments where Joel sounded like Weird Al?  Their sarcastic high pitch riffs really reminded me of each other.

As for the movie itself.  I was 15 when I saw it in the theaters and boy has it not aged very well.  I can't imagine those of you too young to remember the Cold War watching this now.  I mean, back in the 80s we literally went to bed at night thinking there was a chance the world could end.  That's inconceivable now.  And maybe it's just me because my father was in the Navy and he was on one of the ships (The Newport News) that was part of the Cuban Missile Crisis blockade.  His ship was the one that searched the first transport out when they were taking the missiles back out.  So the Cold War was very real in my family growing up.  The expectation of WWIII was real to me growing up.  I don't think people who are in the teens or 20s now can imagine what that was like.

This movie fed on that fear.  Now that the fear has passed, a large part of this movie doesn't work on any level.  And I'm sure it must have been very hard to riff.

But you guys pulled it off!  Great riff and fantastic guest!  I sure hope Joel breaks the trend and comes back!  Weird Al finally came back for a short so we have hope!

The problem with famous guests is they're normally busy with lots of projects. I imagine that doing more feature length podcasts isn't marked as high as something else which will get them way more money and exposure. I doubt it's a matter of Mike not wanting to have certain guest stars make return appearances. I'm not saying it'll never happen, it was nice to have Weird Al and Jonathan Coulton appear at the live shows, but that's what makes them guest stars and not regulars.

I disagree about the whole "end of the world" situation not seeming real to this generation. Sure the Russians don't seem like a real threat now, but the end times have been a constant concern to various members of our society for ages. I remember people being scared about Y2K and terrorists pretty clearly. Heck, I have a co-worker who seriously believes in the 2012 hype.

[ShadowDog]

Oh, what I meant was the specific threat of the Soviets destroying the world is no longer with us, which was the subject matter of this movie.  So that kinda takes a bite out of this movie's atmosphere.  Kinda of like how we can now only take a movie about Martians invading us so seriously, but back in the 40s and 50s when that felt more real, those movies felt more real.  That's all I was saying.

Good points about how busy guests stars are.  I'm sure that has a lot to do with it.

[AbsoluteDeicide]

I gave this a 6.  It only got a few laughs from me.

I've been a fan of The Soup for years (Joel is by far the funniest host) so maybe my expectations were a bit high.  It's cool Joel's a MST3K fan and all, but he didn't seem very on here.  It must be tough considering Kevin, Bill, and Mike have done hundreds of movies together, but I can't really excuse the mediocre writing, off timing, and missed opportunities.  Reguardless, I'd like to hear more of Joel because I'm sure he'd be great if he could find a groove.