List the top 10 films you'd want riffed

[gothsnob]

Here's my top ten 

10. Armageddon
9. I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry
8. Switchblade sisters (oh, that was just HORRIBLE!)
9. any Quentin Tarentino movie
8. American Beauty
7. Billy Jack (though I have to say it's one of my favorites, I would still love to see a riffing)
6. Any show produced by VH1.
5. Weekend at Bernies
4. Any Brady Bunch show (oh man, that would be a SO funny!)
3. Any Everybody Loves Raymond episode
2. Any Friends episode....
1. Decline of western civilization, part 2:The Metal Years (oh, this is just BEGGING for a riffing -- a bunch of clueless, talentless, drunk hair metal queens speaking their minds)

[Katie]

It
Kind of scary in it's own right, because I hate clowns, but other than that it's great riffing material

High School Musical
self explanitory.. so much to make fun of there.

Any Harry Potter
It's just one of those things.. I love em, but I'd still love to see them riffed.

Days Of Thunder
honestly, I'm a NASCAR fan, and I hate Tom Cruise... I just wanna see their race-related riffing (non sidehacking anyway) and any chance to poke at cruise is good.

Jurassic Park, any of them
dinosaurs rawr! fun movies, but definitely room to be made fun of

Snakes On a Plane
oh come on, does this need explanation?

Dante's Peak For some reason, as a kid me and my brother watched this movie at least once a week.. I watched it the other day and thought "this is stupid"

Mary Poppins
I dont even know.. I had to perform this, and it's just a weird premise.

Failure to Launch
I riffed it in theaters for real..

Hitch
honestly im running out of ideas, and i remembered watching it in math 2 or 3 years ago..

[mrbasehart]

Hitch
honestly im running out of ideas, and i remembered watching it in math 2 or 3 years ago..

You watched Hitch in math? That's...odd.   

[Katie]

Hitch
honestly im running out of ideas, and i remembered watching it in math 2 or 3 years ago..

You watched Hitch in math? That's...odd.   

my teacher was freaking awesome, he was 23, and didn't give a crap.. plus im really good at math so it wasnt a big deal regardless.. i think it wa towards the end of the year.. or something?

he also gave extra credit for doodling on HW.


I'm going to be a math teacher now.

Not even joking.

[Minnesota]

he also gave sextra credit for doodling on HW.

hmm, now that sounds interesting

[Tank]

The Grinch (Jim Carrey version)
Apollo 13
Die Hard With a Vengance (great movie, but some potential)
Hustle & Flow
Swordfish
2 Fast 2 Furious

[Just Kimmie]

The Lost Boys!!!!!
Trading Places
License to Drive
The Doors (1991 Oliver Stone)
Nightmare on Elm Street
ANY James Bond flick (especially Roger Moore ones)
The Breakfast Club
Stand By Me
Ghost
Batman (1989)

[rm31d]

I could not decide on an order...

Moulin Rouge
Last Action Hero
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
Survivor (there must be a DVD somewhere)
Paint your Wagon
The Postman
Batman Begins- deserves it for Katie Holmes alone
Newsies
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera
Howard the Duck (it's getting a DVD.  No, really.  It is.)

I'd also to know who greenlit that "kid's flick"  All Dogs Go to Heaven.  What was the pitch like?

"Okay, this dog dies, rises from the crypt, has nightmare visions of his own damnation, and then dies again!  It's a children's animated musical comedy!"
"I love it!  We can put it on lunch boxes!"

[Pak-Man]

Well it's been so long since I've posted my top ten riffs, I've forgotten what they were, so here's my list update:

1) Double Dragon (100% Pure Riffing Gold!)
2) Gingerdead Man (It's like an old episode of Nickelodeon's "Are You Afraid of the Dark," only with cussing and blood. :^) Also, Gary Busey)
3) House of the Dead (I don't care how you're supposed to say his name. He's Eewie, and he'll always be eewie. :^))
4) Transformers: The Movie (The animated one. Or the new one. I don't care. Just give me something to connect Rifftrax to all my obsessions in life. :^))
5) Indiana Jones and __________: (It's one of the only HUGE franchises left that hasn't been touched yet.)
6) The Hulk (It was a good movie, but, by golly, it was a riffable one. :^))
7) Street Fighter (It BEGS for it!)
8 ) Robot Jox (Robots battle for US control of Alaska!)
9) Batman and Robin (Need I say more?)
10) Super Mario Brothers (What if the mushroom kingdom was actually a big city, where fungus grows on everything, lizards evolved into men, Yoshi's just a regular dinosaur, Toad's a hippy, and Bullet Bills is a night club? )

[Minnesota]

I'm gonna follow your lead and update mine as well, my opinions have changed a lot (and non of these are set in stone)

1. Red Dawn
2. Jurassic Park
3. Mystery Alaska
4. Batman Forever
5. Young Guns
6. Matrix 2
7. Spider-man
8. Electra
9. Titanic
10. Matrix 3

[bettertomorrowamy]

1.  Armageddon
2.  Rambo
3.  The Core
4.  The Patriot
5.  Mad Max:  Beyond Thunderdome
6.  CLIFFHANGER
7.  Judge Dredd
8.  Batman and Robin
9.  Red Dawn
10.  Lethal Weapon 3

[gbeenie]

4.  The Patriot

Which one? Steven Seagal or Mel Gibson?

[gbeenie]

This revisiting/revising our lists is a fine idea:

So, before I give my list, I wanted to talk about the underpinnings of my various choices.
For me, the space in these films where comedy fits are the yawning chasm between a film's desire (in some cases, even demand) to be taken seriously, and its ability to be taken seriously.
Sometimes, a film desire for seriousness is compromised by dated ideas or trappings, sometimes by sheer ineptitude. Most of my selections possess some variation on this idea. I just thought I'd lay it out up front, instead of having to explain thoroughly in each selection.


These are in no particular order:

Batman (1989) or Batman Returns -- I know there's a huge push to Riff Batman and Robin, but while there are a LOT of things about that TERRIBLE film to make fun of, the fact is that B & R is basically a comedy. Tim Burton's first two Batman movies, on the other hand, are, despite Burton's trademark "ghouls' funhouse" atmosphere, clearly meant to be taken seriously. This, combined with how the films have aged (despite my love for these first two Batman films, the passing years have given me ability to see the flaws with something of an objective eye), plus Burton's complete inability to laugh at himself, makes either of these movies ripe for the Riffing.

Invasion of the Bee Girls http://www.amazon.com/Invasion-Star-Creatures-Bee-Girls/dp/B0007R4T1M/ref=imdbpov_dvd_0/002-6559928-3633658 -- How this beautiful dish of cinema con queso somehow failed to be given the business on MST3K is utterly beyond me (maybe its semi-adult content was a factor); With its ridiculous plot, gratuitous nudity and one of the most stupid fight scenes in film history, it's time to correct this oversight. (p.s. The verb "ball" is very possibly the LEAST enticing word used to describe the act of sex in the history of humanity.)

Billy Jack -- SUPER-serious, and impossibly funny. From incomprehensible improv street theatre, to a supposedly naked woman's visible top (thanks to the film's "open-matte" transfer; it's never been issued in widescreen), to its vague "back to nature" philosophical musings, Billy Jack is a comedy treasure.

Soylent Green/The Omega Man/Planet of the Apes -- ANY post-apocalyptic film starring Mister Charlton Heston will fill the bill.

Zardoz -- Zardoz wants to be one of those "thoughtful" 70's post-apocalyptic "cautionary tales;" and, goddammit, it wants it like nobody's business, in spite of the complete lack of any concrete idea just what it is it's warning us about.

Godzilla Vs. Hedorah (a.k.a., Godzilla Vs. The Smog Monster) -- Thanks to MST3K, we've had all the Gamera we can possibly keep down. It's time to go back to the granddaddy of all rubber-suit monsters, which hasn't been done since MST3K's second season. This film's environmental "message" makes it a perfect candidate. Everybody sing: Save The Earth!

Braveheart -- I never understood the gay community being so up in arms about alleged anti-gay statements attributed to Mel Gibson. Watching this film, it's readily apparent that Gibson is deeply and hopelessly in love with a man; that man's name? Mel Gibson.

Carrie -- Still a great, terrifying film... and Riffable as HELL.

Akira -- If only to hear Mike, Kevin and Bill's multiple interpretations as to what the HELL the ending of this movie actually means.

Highlander 2: The Quickening -- I still don't understand how it's possible for a director to so completely misunderstand what it was that made his original film so beloved. And I certainly don't understand how he could so completely whiz the first film's charm and magic down his leg

[bettertomorrowamy]

4.  The Patriot

Which one? Steven Seagal or Mel Gibson?

Both I guess.  Is there a GOOD Steven Seagal movie?

[Tripe]

Billy Jack -- SUPER-serious, and impossibly funny. From incomprehensible improv street theatre, to a supposedly naked woman's visible top (thanks to the film's "open-matte" transfer; it's never been issued in widescreen), to its vague "back to nature" philosophical musings, Billy Jack is a comedy treasure.

Is that the one with the hook handed kid playing guitar or is that The Trial of Billy Jack? Either way great suggestion.