Where are the blockbuster movie riffs????

[Edward J Grug III]

It's easier to nuke a tv dinner than it is to fix a home cooked meal, too.  Just saying.

Completely agree that it's easier. Not sure what else you are trying to imply though.

[k1]

Speaking of Blockbuster riffs...

Going to reauthor Karate Kid 3 today.

If that counts as blockbuster.  Well... bargain bin at a Blockbuster video anyway.

[Danecho1967]

It's easier to nuke a tv dinner than it is to fix a home cooked meal, too.  Just saying.

Completely agree that it's easier. Not sure what else you are trying to imply though.

It's not a deep analogy, really. 

Sometimes you want convenience and sometimes you want something that is made from better ingredients.  The VOD's are good enough, but all of the movies are really crappy.  The thing that has kept me a fan of Rifftrax is that (and I think this has been said a few times in this thread and others) some of the best Rifftrax are of movies that I actually like quite well on their own, like the LOTR movies, or Jaws or Casablanca.

So, there's nothing wrong with a tv dinner, but who wants to eat them every day?  Sometimes, I want something different, and it's okay to spend a little effort on it.

[Edward J Grug III]

Cool, certainly no one has suggested that you are wrong to.

You did just list a bunch of the riffs I am least interested in though.

[Danecho1967]

What's your favorite mp3 Riff?  Mine is ID4, and I can enjoy that movie all by itself too.  I'd take it over any of the VODs I've seen so far.

That doesn't mean I'm saying VODs suck.  I'm just making a case for mixing it up a little.

[Pak-Man]

Let me try an analogy:

Let's say you have a store, and the left half of the store has really good stuff, and the right side has a different brand of really good stuff and you have a store rule:

You can buy from either side of the store, but if you buy from the left half of the store, we're going to ask you to run back into our storeroom and restock whatever you purchased. If you buy from the right half, you can just grab it and go.

If you REALLY love the brands on the left side of the store, you'll go to the extra trouble. It's not like it's an impossible task, and it's worth the extra effort to get the brand you love. Most people, though, are going to shop from the right half of the store, because even though they CAN run back and restock, they don't want to have to.

[Danecho1967]

Let me try an analogy:

Let's say you have a store, and the left half of the store has really good stuff, and the right side has a different brand of really good stuff and you have a store rule:

You can buy from either side of the store, but if you buy from the left half of the store, we're going to ask you to run back into our storeroom and restock whatever you purchased. If you buy from the right half, you can just grab it and go.

If you REALLY love the brands on the left side of the store, you'll go to the extra trouble. It's not like it's an impossible task, and it's worth the extra effort to get the brand you love. Most people, though, are going to shop from the right half of the store, because even though they CAN run back and restock, they don't want to have to.

That's an okay analogy, I guess.  I think a better one would be that the pre-built model cars are sitting next to the un-built model cars.  Some kids just want to go home and play, while others enjoy putting their model together.

An argument can be made that more kids will want the pre-built cars, because they just want to go home and play, so you would want to stock those more often.  However, when the kid who likes to build his model cars drops by your store and sees that you haven't put a new car on the shelf in half a year, he's likely going to show a little frustration.

Again, I'm just saying that it would be nice for the guys to mix it up a little.

[Danecho1967]

I personally don't really think it's as either/or as its being made out to be.

It's not "either/or" to me.  I like the VOD's, although, at $10 I buy them less frequently.  I also REALLY like the blockbuster riffs, and I pretty much own all of them that I want.  I'm looking forward to another, even though I know it will be either Twilight or another comic book movie.

[TheUnabeefer]

I personally don't really think it's as either/or as its being made out to be.

My only real complaint is that Rifftrax themselves seem to have made it an either/or thing. Wait, forget that... there hasn't been a choice at all.

Here's another analogy: You really like bread, but then you also like gophers too. Sometimes you eat a lot of bread while watching gophers and other times you watch dogs run around. Then once in a while you eat ice cream instead of bread... or perhaps both together.  Then some Jehovah's Witnesses knock on your door so you have to pause your VHS copy of Heidi and tell them to go away. Instead they do a dance and throw up on your shoe, so you call the cops and they are hauled away. By this time, you've lost all interest in Heidi and decide to watch Growing Pains instead.  But before you do, you decide to grab some more bread and ice cream out of the trash, but there's nothing but mold and coffee grounds so you eat that and a cup of milk too.

It's like that.

[Danecho1967]

I personally don't really think it's as either/or as its being made out to be.

My only real complaint is that Rifftrax themselves seem to have made it an either/or thing. Wait, forget that... there hasn't been a choice at all.

Here's another analogy: You really like bread, but then you also like gophers too. Sometimes you eat a lot of bread while watching gophers and other times you watch dogs run around. Then once in a while you eat ice cream instead of bread... or perhaps both together.  Then some Jehovah's Witnesses knock on your door so you have to pause your VHS copy of Heidi and tell them to go away. Instead they do a dance and throw up on your shoe, so you call the cops and they are hauled away. By this time, you've lost all interest in Heidi and decide to watch Growing Pains instead.  But before you do, you decide to grab some more bread and ice cream out of the trash, but there's nothing but mold and coffee grounds so you eat that and a cup of milk too.

It's like that.

That's not an analogy, it's a space station.

[Darth Geek]

I personally don't really think it's as either/or as its being made out to be.

My only real complaint is that Rifftrax themselves seem to have made it an either/or thing. Wait, forget that... there hasn't been a choice at all.

Here's another analogy: You really like bread, but then you also like gophers too. Sometimes you eat a lot of bread while watching gophers and other times you watch dogs run around. Then once in a while you eat ice cream instead of bread... or perhaps both together.  Then some Jehovah's Witnesses knock on your door so you have to pause your VHS copy of Heidi and tell them to go away. Instead they do a dance and throw up on your shoe, so you call the cops and they are hauled away. By this time, you've lost all interest in Heidi and decide to watch Growing Pains instead.  But before you do, you decide to grab some more bread and ice cream out of the trash, but there's nothing but mold and coffee grounds so you eat that and a cup of milk too.

It's like that.

So...it's like drugs, then.

[Danecho1967]

I personally don't really think it's as either/or as its being made out to be.

My only real complaint is that Rifftrax themselves seem to have made it an either/or thing. Wait, forget that... there hasn't been a choice at all.

Here's another analogy: You really like bread, but then you also like gophers too. Sometimes you eat a lot of bread while watching gophers and other times you watch dogs run around. Then once in a while you eat ice cream instead of bread... or perhaps both together.  Then some Jehovah's Witnesses knock on your door so you have to pause your VHS copy of Heidi and tell them to go away. Instead they do a dance and throw up on your shoe, so you call the cops and they are hauled away. By this time, you've lost all interest in Heidi and decide to watch Growing Pains instead.  But before you do, you decide to grab some more bread and ice cream out of the trash, but there's nothing but mold and coffee grounds so you eat that and a cup of milk too.

It's like that.

So...it's like drugs, then.

Yeah, but what isn't, really? 

[ShadowDog]

I personally don't really think it's as either/or as its being made out to be.

it is when ALL their new products are VODs.

[MartyS (Gromit)]

I personally don't really think it's as either/or as its being made out to be.

My only real complaint is that Rifftrax themselves seem to have made it an either/or thing. Wait, forget that... there hasn't been a choice at all.

Here's another analogy: You really like bread, but then you also like gophers too. Sometimes you eat a lot of bread while watching gophers and other times you watch dogs run around. Then once in a while you eat ice cream instead of bread... or perhaps both together.  Then some Jehovah's Witnesses knock on your door so you have to pause your VHS copy of Heidi and tell them to go away. Instead they do a dance and throw up on your shoe, so you call the cops and they are hauled away. By this time, you've lost all interest in Heidi and decide to watch Growing Pains instead.  But before you do, you decide to grab some more bread and ice cream out of the trash, but there's nothing but mold and coffee grounds so you eat that and a cup of milk too.

It's like that.

So...it's like drugs, then.

Yeah, but what isn't, really? 

Well, we know there is one type of macaque that isn't.  But everything else, pretty much...

[MartyS (Gromit)]

Well, I thought the Japanese and Rhesus macaque were the same because of the way Mike read them in the short (darn drugs!).  But looking them up they are different.  So there are two things that we know are not like drugs.