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Started by RVR II, October 18, 2011, 05:14:40 PM

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RVR II

October 18, 2011, 05:14:40 PM
8 Solid as always but not completely awesome IMO :o

NRRork

#1
October 19, 2011, 12:04:13 AM
9/10

The PRINCE may have been Half-blood, but it was pure-blooded riffing all the way! (God, that sounds like something the anchors of Entertainment Tonight would refuse to say because it sounded too bubbly!)

Well, at any rate, very funny,
I used to have an image here, but Photobucket got cheap about remote linking. I guess I'll have to think of something witty instead. Which I will. Later. It caught me by surprise, in all honesty. It's hard to be clever on command, I mean, YOU try it. Be funny: NOW! See, tough. So, gimme a bit, 'kay?

OlTrustyLegs

#2
October 19, 2011, 08:58:03 PM
Goblet of Fire is still my favorite (I'm not sure if screaming "we must annex the Sudetenland" is ever going to be beat), but this one had some bloody good lines.  I voted 8.

Thrifty

#3
October 20, 2011, 08:02:00 AM
Giving it a 2.  I'm 2 hours and 10 minutes in, and I think I've laughed once.  Their Harry Potter riffs are always pretty awful.  The jokes rarely seem to relate to the movie, and when they do, they're just retreads of jokes from early Harry Potter riffs.  I was less than thrilled when this one was announced; I haven't like the HP riffs since about the 2nd installment.

I guess there's two more to slog through.

Danecho1967

#4
October 20, 2011, 11:41:26 AM
I'm torn between getting this for the weekend or one from further back in the catalog.  Are all of the riffs like the sample?  Long setup by the movie followed by a quick joke from one of the guys?  I like it better when they can get some quick-fire stuff in there, and there wasn't anything resembling that in the sample.

FWIW, the "Second Unit Skit" from one of the early Potter movies is one of my all-time favorite riffs.  The Riffs of Potter films, while not my favorites, have always been pretty solid to me.

CJones

#5
October 20, 2011, 03:47:43 PM Last Edit: October 20, 2011, 03:59:02 PM by CJones
I'm not going to vote just yet. I won't rate something until I've seen it at least three times. However, I struggled to get though this even once. Although in the end I'm sure I'll be more generous than Thrifty, I have to largely agree with him. Even though I mostly liked the previous HP riffs (especially Chamber of Secrets), I'm quite sick to death of HP at this point, and was disappointed to see yet another one being released less than a year after the last (which seems like only yesterday), instead of Logan's Run, Transformers 3 or something unexpected.

My initial impression is that this is my least favorite Harry Potter riff to date, I'm sorry to say.

ShadowDog

#6
October 20, 2011, 05:47:10 PM
I thought it was hilarious. I'd easily give it an 8 or 9. Have to watch it again before firming that up.  I'm so busy with work these days I don't have time to do more here than lurk once a month but there was so much negativity for what I thought was a hilarious riff that I had to chime in my two cents.  Another great installment, can't wait for HP 7!
"Did she just say Chipping?"

eegah

#7
October 21, 2011, 06:26:04 PM
I have no idea what ol' "Seventy Sheds" was smoking, this one was great. No real extreme laugh out loud moments, but very steadily funny and clever all the way through. I'm not a big fan of the HP riffs, but I really liked this one.

MartyS (Gromit)

#8
October 21, 2011, 08:54:23 PM
I've got to go 7 on this one, a little too much recycling for me, and only a few big laughs.   

It's probably that there are so many of these now that it's too easy to predict the riffs in each situation.

Watchman

#9
October 22, 2011, 06:54:21 PM
Quote from: MartyS (Gromit) on October 21, 2011, 08:54:23 PM
I've got to go 7 on this one, a little too much recycling for me, and only a few big laughs.   

It's probably that there are so many of these now that it's too easy to predict the riffs in each situation.

That should be a new thread. "Predict-A-Riff". (or is that too demoralizing?)

Thrifty

#10
October 22, 2011, 07:23:24 PM
Quote from: eegah on October 21, 2011, 06:26:04 PMI have no idea what ol' "Seventy Sheds" was smoking, this one was great.

I was eating rotisserie chicken.

D.B. Barnes

#11
October 22, 2011, 07:30:13 PM
Quote from: Thrifty "Seventy Sheds" Jackson on October 22, 2011, 07:23:24 PM
Quote from: eegah on October 21, 2011, 06:26:04 PMI have no idea what ol' "Seventy Sheds" was smoking, this one was great.

I was eating rotisserie chicken.

:D

Next thing you know, you'll be adding a hip talking dog to your rankings.
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AbsoluteDeicide

#12
October 23, 2011, 04:32:42 AM
Quote from: NRRork on October 19, 2011, 12:04:13 AM
9/10

The PRINCE may have been Half-blood, but it was pure-blooded riffing all the way! (God, that sounds like something the anchors of Entertainment Tonight would refuse to say because it sounded too bubbly!)

Sounds more like a Gene Shalit review to me.

Bob

#13
October 23, 2011, 06:23:22 AM
I gave it a good solid 8.

And man, the movies themselves just keep getting worse.   If I had to watch that unriffed I would have had to shank someone.

RVR II

#14
October 23, 2011, 06:40:53 AM
Quote from: Bob on October 23, 2011, 06:23:22 AM
I gave it a good solid 8.

And man, the movies themselves just keep getting worse.   If I had to watch that unriffed I would have had to shank someone.
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