http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax-presents/die-hardA brand new RiffTrax Presents starring Matthew J. Elliot!
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Only one film dared to confront the twin menaces facing America during the 1980s—terrorism and aggressive male-pattern baldness—and that film is Die Hard. So it's fortunate that I'm writing about that particular movie, or something would seem to have gone terribly, terribly wrong—like an emu wearing a Stetson, or anything involving Tom Green.
This fearless fly-on-the-wall documentary charts the everyday struggles of vest-wearing cop John McClane, a man who swears like a longshoreman with tourettes and who, we imagine, has real problems getting insurance coverage for any aspect of his life, since he can't seem to walk across the street to use the automatic teller without becoming involved in some sort of automatic weapon-related unpleasantness.
When Alan Rickman takes John's annoying big-haired wife hostage, only one response is appropriate. But instead of sitting on the couch in his underwear, scratching himself and watching Phil Donahue, McClane improbably decides to rescue her. And the surprises don't end there! Unless you've seen any action movie made since Die Hard, in which case, they pretty much do.
http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax-presents/die-hard
Great! I am a big fan of his previous efforts! :clap:
Sure, 3 days after I delete all the individual files from my Riff Raff Theater reauthor. Hooray timing!! Looking forward to it.
Whoa, out of the blue one (at least for me).
Sample looked pretty funny . A lot of dead air, but this is the first single-riffer sample I've heard so maybe that's normal. And the stuff that's there is really funny. I may just give this one a try.
Quote from: Relaxing Dragon on April 10, 2009, 07:25:00 PM
Whoa, out of the blue one (at least for me).
Sample looked pretty funny . A lot of dead air, but this is the first single-riffer sample I've heard so maybe that's normal. And the stuff that's there is really funny. I may just give this one a try.
If the dead air thing bothers you... then you might have issues with his riffs. He's not a rapid-fire sort of riffer. All of his previous riffs were pretty representative of how this one sounds. Personally I've never had any issues with his riffing style, but there are some who might have a problem with it in that respect.
Quote from: Piobman on April 10, 2009, 08:27:15 PM
Quote from: Relaxing Dragon on April 10, 2009, 07:25:00 PM
Whoa, out of the blue one (at least for me).
Sample looked pretty funny . A lot of dead air, but this is the first single-riffer sample I've heard so maybe that's normal. And the stuff that's there is really funny. I may just give this one a try.
If the dead air thing bothers you... then you might have issues with his riffs. He's not a rapid-fire sort of riffer. All of his previous riffs were pretty representative of how this one sounds. Personally I've never had any issues with his riffing style, but there are some who might have a problem with it in that respect.
Piobman
I can promise you that this is my most Riff-intensive commentary to date - the recording studio in Manchester had to keep an oxygen cannister on hand for some sequences (although it may have been helium - does it seem like my voice gets higher near the end?) If the sample doesn't reflect this, it's only because I thought it was necessary to select a two-minute sequence without any cussing, and, as you'd expect, in a Die Hard movie, that's a ****ing nightmare. I hope you enjoy it.
Matthew
Into my shopping cart you go!
Now there are two cuts of this movie, is this the cut with the extended sewer traversing scene?
Quote from: Ebichu on April 11, 2009, 04:15:34 AM
Now there are two cuts of this movie, is this the cut with the extended sewer traversing scene?
Probably the regular version.. I used the 'extended' sewer version with RRT's and it threw it way off..
EDIT: Confirmed.. Do Not Use the Extended Sewer version.
Quote from: matthew j elliott on April 11, 2009, 03:58:50 AM
Quote from: Piobman on April 10, 2009, 08:27:15 PM
Quote from: Relaxing Dragon on April 10, 2009, 07:25:00 PM
Whoa, out of the blue one (at least for me).
Sample looked pretty funny . A lot of dead air, but this is the first single-riffer sample I've heard so maybe that's normal. And the stuff that's there is really funny. I may just give this one a try.
If the dead air thing bothers you... then you might have issues with his riffs. He's not a rapid-fire sort of riffer. All of his previous riffs were pretty representative of how this one sounds. Personally I've never had any issues with his riffing style, but there are some who might have a problem with it in that respect.
Piobman
I can promise you that this is my most Riff-intensive commentary to date - the recording studio in Manchester had to keep an oxygen cannister on hand for some sequences (although it may have been helium - does it seem like my voice gets higher near the end?) If the sample doesn't reflect this, it's only because I thought it was necessary to select a two-minute sequence without any cussing, and, as you'd expect, in a Die Hard movie, that's a ****ing nightmare. I hope you enjoy it.
Matthew
Very cool.... I loved your previous stuff and look forward to this one as well. Yippe kiya and all that good stuff.
Wow. 55 Chapter stops. New record. Now I'm glad this is a Rifftrax Presents offering so I don't have to add in all the chapter stop subtitles.
Quote from: RVR II on April 11, 2009, 05:37:13 AM
Quote from: Ebichu on April 11, 2009, 04:15:34 AM
Now there are two cuts of this movie, is this the cut with the extended sewer traversing scene?
Probably the regular version.. I used the 'extended' sewer version with RRT's and it threw it way off..
EDIT: Confirmed.. Do Not Use the Extended Sewer version.
Thanks RVR!
Quote from: Ebichu on April 11, 2009, 12:14:45 PM
Quote from: RVR II on April 11, 2009, 05:37:13 AM
Quote from: Ebichu on April 11, 2009, 04:15:34 AM
Now there are two cuts of this movie, is this the cut with the extended sewer traversing scene?
Probably the regular version.. I used the 'extended' sewer version with RRT's and it threw it way off..
EDIT: Confirmed.. Do Not Use the Extended Sewer version.
Thanks RVR!
That's what 'guinea pigs' are for.. ;D
Bought. Now all I got to do is go rent Die Hard.... again.
Quote from: ManUnderMask on April 11, 2009, 04:37:26 PM
Bought. Now all I got to do is go rent Die Hard.... again.
You mean you don't own this one? I thought everybody owned this kick-ass movie!
Quote from: Piobman on April 11, 2009, 07:24:21 PM
Quote from: ManUnderMask on April 11, 2009, 04:37:26 PM
Bought. Now all I got to do is go rent Die Hard.... again.
You mean you don't own this one? I thought everybody owned this kick-ass movie!
I own it. Only on blu-ray though. Since i re-author i gotta buy it again
Oh good, a "Send in the Clowns" riff. That "send in the cars" line was just begging for it. :)
Quote from: Piobman on April 11, 2009, 07:24:21 PM
You mean you don't own this one? I thought everybody owned this kick-ass movie!
I only saw it for the first time about a month ago. They were showing it last year at a midnight showing but I got sick so we didn't go, so on a whim one night my younger brother and I rented it and loved it so much that the next day I bought the Riff Raff Theater version AND we watched the other three, which includes the unrated version of Die Hard 4, or as I call it, Die Hard 4.
Hell, I hadn't seen Beverly Hills Cop until a few months ago, and we just got done watching all of the Lethal Weapon movies. I'm way behind the times.
Quote from: MrTorso on April 11, 2009, 07:53:03 PM
Quote from: Piobman on April 11, 2009, 07:24:21 PM
Quote from: ManUnderMask on April 11, 2009, 04:37:26 PM
Bought. Now all I got to do is go rent Die Hard.... again.
You mean you don't own this one? I thought everybody owned this kick-ass movie!
I own it. Only on blu-ray though. Since i re-author i gotta buy it again
I envy you... never watched the blu-ray version. If only I had money and wasn't so broke!
Just finished watching this and I HIGHLY recommend it.
I love his sardonic "one off style". Some of his comments had my laughing out loud like an idiot.
Really good.
Watching now. Couldn't help but notice the 74 cents for a gallon of unleaded. God bless the Reagan years.
Quote from: Lemming Howard on April 16, 2009, 01:23:46 PM
Watching now. Couldn't help but notice the 74 cents for a gallon of unleaded. God bless the Reagan years.
I noticed that and I also notice the gas prices in "werewolf" where Tom Servo sees the prices of over $2 a gallong and says "look at those gas prices, what is this Port-Au-Prince"?
"He looks about as tough as the National Enquirer crossword puzzle," Hah!
Buy this!
A reference to "I'm Dickens he's Fenster." That takes me back.
I'm sure MATTHEW J ELLIOTT is a good guy, but he's not funny.. I saw his previous riff and the sample for this, it just doesn't do it for me.. I was about to buy it.. until I heard his voice.
Matthew is a damn funny man, damn funny indeed.
Great riff.
Another excellent riff from Matthew J. Elliot.
I like his riffing, its a very different style then what anyone else does (and of the course having the accent only accentuates it more).
I was surprised that he would do Die Hard as very different from his first two riffs (House of Wax being one my favorites) but it works well.
On somewhat unrelated note, I catch Imagination Theater on the radio whenever I get the chance (www.harrynile.com) and I can't help but smile whenever I hear one the stories was written by "M.J. Elliot" Recently I heard both "The Death of Sherlock Holmes" and "The Two Watson's" and they were both great and I've never even been remotely interested in Sherlock Holmes before.
Okay I'm rambling now, to summarize - buy the riff!
I didn't care for it the first tiem I wattched it, but I gave it another shot (I was going to have a late fee on the DVD rental so I figured I might as well get my money's worth)
I'm glad I did, it was much better this time out. There are rough spots and I think it's the lesser of his 3, but there are many quality riffs to enjoy.
My review Die Hard (http://www.geocities.com/opheliaskiss01/MightyJack/MJ2/Rifftraxpresents.html#diehard)
Quote from: RVR II on April 11, 2009, 05:37:13 AM
Quote from: Ebichu on April 11, 2009, 04:15:34 AM
Now there are two cuts of this movie, is this the cut with the extended sewer traversing scene?
Probably the regular version.. I used the 'extended' sewer version with RRT's and it threw it way off..
EDIT: Confirmed.. Do Not Use the Extended Sewer version.
I just tried syncing mine up tonight and everything was fine until 1:43.24 "Second 'its gonna go!'" sync line. That line and the rest are out of whack.
Does this correspond to the version with the Extended sewer scene?
How can you tell the difference in the two versions?
Quote from: gammer on April 22, 2009, 08:10:31 PM
Quote from: RVR II on April 11, 2009, 05:37:13 AM
Quote from: Ebichu on April 11, 2009, 04:15:34 AM
Now there are two cuts of this movie, is this the cut with the extended sewer traversing scene?
Probably the regular version.. I used the 'extended' sewer version with RRT's and it threw it way off..
EDIT: Confirmed.. Do Not Use the Extended Sewer version.
I just tried syncing mine up tonight and everything was fine until 1:43.24 "Second 'its gonna go!'" sync line. That line and the rest are out of whack.
Does this correspond to the version with the Extended sewer scene?
How can you tell the difference in the two versions?
That sounds about right. When you're using DVD decripter you have to use the version that's a minute or less shorter. It's been a while since I did mine but I think in IFO mode it defaults to the longest file, which is the branching version which I believe was number 2. Just switch it to the 1st one and you should be good.
Quote from: Raven on April 22, 2009, 09:41:46 PM
Quote from: gammer on April 22, 2009, 08:10:31 PM
Quote from: RVR II on April 11, 2009, 05:37:13 AM
Quote from: Ebichu on April 11, 2009, 04:15:34 AM
Now there are two cuts of this movie, is this the cut with the extended sewer traversing scene?
Probably the regular version.. I used the 'extended' sewer version with RRT's and it threw it way off..
EDIT: Confirmed.. Do Not Use the Extended Sewer version.
I just tried syncing mine up tonight and everything was fine until 1:43.24 "Second 'its gonna go!'" sync line. That line and the rest are out of whack.
Does this correspond to the version with the Extended sewer scene?
How can you tell the difference in the two versions?
That sounds about right. When you're using DVD decripter you have to use the version that's a minute or less shorter. It's been a while since I did mine but I think in IFO mode it defaults to the longest file, which is the branching version which I believe was number 2. Just switch it to the 1st one and you should be good.
Ah crap, when I ripped mine I did notice the shorter version, but assumed it was the slightly longer one that was used.
Thanks...I'll go back and re-rip.
Quote from: gammer on April 23, 2009, 05:39:12 AM
Quote from: Raven on April 22, 2009, 09:41:46 PM
Quote from: gammer on April 22, 2009, 08:10:31 PM
Quote from: RVR II on April 11, 2009, 05:37:13 AM
Quote from: Ebichu on April 11, 2009, 04:15:34 AM
Now there are two cuts of this movie, is this the cut with the extended sewer traversing scene?
Probably the regular version.. I used the 'extended' sewer version with RRT's and it threw it way off..
EDIT: Confirmed.. Do Not Use the Extended Sewer version.
I just tried syncing mine up tonight and everything was fine until 1:43.24 "Second 'its gonna go!'" sync line. That line and the rest are out of whack.
Does this correspond to the version with the Extended sewer scene?
How can you tell the difference in the two versions?
That sounds about right. When you're using DVD decripter you have to use the version that's a minute or less shorter. It's been a while since I did mine but I think in IFO mode it defaults to the longest file, which is the branching version which I believe was number 2. Just switch it to the 1st one and you should be good.
Ah crap, when I ripped mine I did notice the shorter version, but assumed it was the slightly longer one that was used.
Thanks...I'll go back and re-rip.
The longer one has one scene added that is just the grid being turned off in two stages instead of one. It's pretty pointless and that scene is in black and white so it makes no sense to watch it anyway. I don't think every dvd of die hard has that option, which is why he didn't do that one. If you didn't want to re rip everything check out the Riff Raff theater thread for how many seconds of silence to add and where. I think they got it figured out somewhere in that thread.
Any news on a PAL version?
We just watched Die Hard and we continue to LOVE Matthew J Elliot's work!
Don't stay away so long this time Matthew!
Quote from: Edward J Grug III on May 03, 2009, 07:36:21 AM
Don't stay away so long this time Matthew!
I second that! We need more!
Quote from: MrTorso on May 10, 2009, 11:14:41 AM
Quote from: Edward J Grug III on May 03, 2009, 07:36:21 AM
Don't stay away so long this time Matthew!
I second that! We need more!
According to his Facebook, he's got a new one written, he just needs to get into the studio to record it!
That is good news.
Thanks, guys. I never intend to leave such a gap between new recordings because I love RiffTrax Presents so much - scriptwriting and book-editing take up a lot of my time - but I hope to have something new available shortly. I don't want to give any hints, but do you like 3 hour adaptations of Tolkien novels? Oh, they already did that? Crap, back to the drawing board...
Quote from: matthew j elliott on June 11, 2009, 03:36:59 AM
Thanks, guys. I never intend to leave such a gap between new recordings because I love RiffTrax Presents so much - scriptwriting and book-editing take up a lot of my time - but I hope to have something new available shortly. I don't want to give any hints, but do you like 3 hour adaptations of Tolkien novels? Oh, they already did that? Crap, back to the drawing board...
I was trying to think of the most "British" movie that I could think of, then it hit me, "Gymkata". Wait, you think a movie "starring" a US gymnast and filmed in eastern Europe is NOT British, well sir..... um....... never mind.
Quote from: matthew j elliott on June 11, 2009, 03:36:59 AM
Thanks, guys. I never intend to leave such a gap between new recordings because I love RiffTrax Presents so much - scriptwriting and book-editing take up a lot of my time - but I hope to have something new available shortly. I don't want to give any hints, but do you like 3 hour adaptations of Tolkien novels? Oh, they already did that? Crap, back to the drawing board...
The main Rifftrax crew just challenged themselves by doing "Casablanca". To match that, you should go for "Hound of the Baskervilles", or the Alistair Sims version of "Scrooge"!
Funnily enough, my original audition piece was a riff of the Basil Rathbone Holmes movie Dressed to Kill, AKA Prelude for Murder - one of four Rathbone movies in the public domain, for some reason. Maybe some day, I should unearth it.
(Cough) Bond film (cough)
Quote from: matthew j elliott on June 11, 2009, 11:35:45 PM
Funnily enough, my original audition piece was a riff of the Basil Rathbone Holmes movie Dressed to Kill, AKA Prelude for Murder - one of four Rathbone movies in the public domain, for some reason. Maybe some day, I should unearth it.
Ha! That'd be great! Sync it up to the version as restored by UCLA Theatre Archives, which was released on Mpi Home Video. I'd love to see that.
Excellent riff, Matthew. Very funny and alot of clever quips. :clap:
Every time I've watched Die Hard, it's alwasy bugged me in the end when McClane doesn't get medical attention. Shouldn't he be rushed to a hospital to get treated for his gunshot wounds and lacerated feet?? Not to mention the beatings he took...surely a cracked rib, a broken ankle from the elevator shaft fall... something? ;)
Anyway, I thought the pace of the riff was perfect. Great work Matthew; keep it up!! :)
Just to confirm, for anyone who's interested, my new RiffTrax Presents has been recorded and will be delivered to the good folks at Legend Films within the next few days. This one will introduce my personal synch software, the lovely MissEmbaudio.
Somebody make with an announcement already! :D
Quote from: matthew j elliott on July 27, 2009, 12:29:43 PM
Just to confirm, for anyone who's interested, my new RiffTrax Presents has been recorded and will be delivered to the good folks at Legend Films within the next few days. This one will introduce my personal synch software, the lovely MissEmbaudio.
Sweet.
Quote from: matthew j elliott on July 27, 2009, 12:29:43 PM
Just to confirm, for anyone who's interested, my new RiffTrax Presents has been recorded and will be delivered to the good folks at Legend Films within the next few days. This one will introduce my personal synch software, the lovely MissEmbaudio.
Tell me what it is now! Before it's too late! Too late is defined as "before Netflix ships me Hellraiser 7: Deader", so I can put the movie for your RP in there instead!
Quote from: matthew j elliott on July 27, 2009, 12:29:43 PM
Just to confirm, for anyone who's interested, my new RiffTrax Presents has been recorded and will be delivered to the good folks at Legend Films within the next few days. This one will introduce my personal synch software, the lovely MissEmbaudio.
Within a few days? Isn't there a 20 questions game in a few days? Maybe this will be the new release they announce.
Not that I'm saying another one of his riffs is a bad thing (haven't actually seen any of them yet, so I won't try to judge based off of a few minute sample) but I'd like to see an official release since it's been a while.
Awesome! I can't wait!
Great news! Can't come fast enough.