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I know it was mostly because of the movie choice but I laughed harder at this riff then any riff since I first was introduced to Rifftrax.  Easily a 10 except the Disembaudio and folk song filler parts during the sex scenes.  I understand that's all they can really do at those parts so its not like its their fault.  But I still have to give it a 9 overall.  This is definitely in my top 5 though.

Ranking this one was VERY difficult.   I was laughing the entire time, but I also laughed at it unriffed too.

I can see why the guys did not want to riff over sex scenes, so the Disembodio skits were pretty darned clever.

I gave it a solid 9/10

Haven't watched it yet, but I'm a little disappointed to hear the sex scenes didn't get any riffs. Some of the visuals beg for them.

Quote from: MattMcClowry on June 19, 2009, 07:07:02 PM
Haven't watched it yet, but I'm a little disappointed to hear the sex scenes didn't get any riffs. Some of the visuals beg for them.

There are some comments directed at the visuals. But I thought the way they handled it was great.

Really good rifftrax. Even though this movie did cause some serious mental anguish... at least they made it fun! One of there strongest riffs to date. The sex scene gags were just okay for me, but everything else was gold. Hunting down a copy of this movie for the riff will be worth the effort!

It kinda took me back to MST days- horrible movies Ive never heard of being riffed on.   :clap:

Appropriately bad movie and the Riff was pretty good, but, seriously, a little Disembaudio goes a long way.

It isn't the best ever, that crown goes to the SW Holiday Special, but I did give this 'trax my 2nd 10. Bravo, guys!

10 thumbs up!

Yeah I kind of FFwd the skits the second time, the first time they were funny- but yes a little DE goes a long way.

You people are WEAKLINGS!!!  The Disembaudio bits were my favourite part of the whole thing.  I laughed my arse off every time they came back in.

The Wendy/Walter part especially made me laugh. I don't know if they did it on purpose, but electronic composer Wendy Carlos used to be Walter Carlos....  coincidence?!

You're tearing me APART, Lisa!!

I gave it a 10.

The Good:

- The classic formula: Ego with money makes a pretentious film where he does everything including boinking the girl half his age -- and the crew rip it apart. It's what made MST3k great, and it's what makes Rifftrax great.

- Mike's Tommy is so dead-on that I thought some of those comments were actually from the movie.

- The singing at the end to pass time during a final gross scene. I wish more of the cover-ups where that fun.

The Not Bad, but Not as Good:

- I agree that a little Disembaudio is usually enough. That the bits dragged on and on and were hard to hear above the bad music didn't help. I was hoping for a little more of the mentioned "warning" to the sex scenes than Dis's family showing up with tranny jokes. At least towards the end they were actively trying to think of anything else than what was going on screen by singing.

- Room jokes before they happen in the movie. Not everyone is familiar with this thing, so watching this for the first time was a little confusing. Just because they can get away with tormenting first-timers at a Rocky Horror showing doesn't make it a good idea.

Quote from: TheUnabeefer on June 21, 2009, 09:06:38 PM
The Wendy/Walter part especially made me laugh. I don't know if they did it on purpose, but electronic composer Wendy Carlos used to be Walter Carlos....  coincidence?!

I'll bet that is what they were referencing.  Although didn't Wendy Carlos start the other way and go from man to woman?

Popping my freshly burned RiffTrax of The Room in the DVD player right now....... Be back in an hour and half if I survive.......

Quote from: MrTorso on June 23, 2009, 08:58:29 PM
Popping my freshly burned RiffTrax of The Room in the DVD player right now....... Be back in an hour and half if I survive.......

Via con dios, Senor Torso.  You seriously might not return.

My girlfriend wanted to watch this movie................I wanted to watch paint dry.......I still feel like I could have gotten more from the paint. And now I will never know...the emptiness I now have inside is....is....TEARING ME APART!!!   :'(

Rounding up this scored  a 10 from me, it wasn't perfect but it was quite fun with no real lulls (I GREATLY enjoyed their varied ways of covering the sex scenes).

To me this had a great chemistry or team feeling if you will.  As others have said it has that old school MST3K feel (Werewolf maybe?), with a terribly silly movie, strong riffing (the comments about Lisa sitting around the house, and our visitor from Braziliromanislovakia.......stan)

A very fun riff that ranks high on my list, well done all!

Quote from: Courtney on June 23, 2009, 09:00:36 PM

Quote from: MrTorso on June 23, 2009, 08:58:29 PM
Popping my freshly burned RiffTrax of The Room in the DVD player right now....... Be back in an hour and half if I survive.......

Via con dios, Senor Torso.  You seriously might not return.

Wow... just wow! It was a pretty solid trax and man is the movie hilarious on its own.   There are some gems in this flick. I loved the Disembaudio gags. I will have to watch this a couple more times to fully appreciate just how bad a movie it was.

That was crazy. Great RiffTrax but the movie..man the movie. I think to sum up the "feel" of the film, all you need to do is watch the flower scene. Seriously, what in the world? Time for an avatar change. Oh, hi Denny.

Quote from: MrTorso on June 23, 2009, 10:46:19 PM

Quote from: Courtney on June 23, 2009, 09:00:36 PM

Quote from: MrTorso on June 23, 2009, 08:58:29 PM
Popping my freshly burned RiffTrax of The Room in the DVD player right now....... Be back in an hour and half if I survive.......

Via con dios, Senor Torso.  You seriously might not return.

Wow... just wow! It was a pretty solid trax and man is the movie hilarious on its own.   There are some gems in this flick. I loved the Disembaudio gags. I will have to watch this a couple more times to fully appreciate just how bad a movie it was.

Try not to overdo it.  I watched it 5 times, and now my brain is stuck in a loop of trying to rationalize it.

Quote from: Thrifty on June 22, 2009, 04:53:03 AM

Quote from: TheUnabeefer on June 21, 2009, 09:06:38 PM
The Wendy/Walter part especially made me laugh. I don't know if they did it on purpose, but electronic composer Wendy Carlos used to be Walter Carlos....  coincidence?!

I'll bet that is what they were referencing.  Although didn't Wendy Carlos start the other way and go from man to woman?

Yeah, Wendy started as Walter and changed to a woman.  He/She also did an album with Weird Al!!!

The best part of this movie/RiffTrax is the fact that my wife's name is Lisa. So many lines to drive my wife nuts with.....

Quote from: MrTorso on June 24, 2009, 04:17:37 PM
The best part of this movie/RiffTrax is the fact that my wife's name is Lisa. So many lines to drive my wife nuts with.....

You may need to contact them.....

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Wow... I'd never thought I'd see a Rifftrax with jokes about cancer, suicide and softcore sex!  And it all worked!  I gave it a 9 and I'd say its in my top ten favorite riffs without question. I loved the Disembaudio bits, I was wondering how they were going to handle the sex scenes when I watched the movie unriffed. The idea of the guys cracking jokes over that just seemed a bit... creepy.

That was a letdown.  Yeah, I laughed a few times, but I thought the movie was not nearly as funny with the Rifftrax than without.  On the plus side, thousands of people were just forced to watch the unholy abomination that is The Room! So RIfftrax has that going for them, which is nice.  On the other hand, Disembodio's voice makes children cry tears of infinte sorrow.

I liked it, but I can't say I laughed much more at the movie unriffed than riffed. It's so inherently hilarious that a professional riffing feels superfluous. And, not to pile on, but they should have just riffed straight through the soft-core porn scenes. The Disembodio skits were more irritating than funny (mind you I found the flesh much less disturbing than Wisseau's attitude towards women- could you imagine dating him?)

Amazing! I'm gonna buy a dozen autographed copies from Tommy and give them to everyone I know. :P

I have to go with the best ever! :highfive:
I have never laughed at a Rifftrax so hard before that my wife had to run out of her work room to see if I was having some sort of seizure.

First you have a movie that is made by an eccentric genius so wrapped up in his own Californian reality that he assumes what he has made is immediately understandable, accessible  and important to a mass audience. That and if you continue to say your film is a masterpiece against all the evidence to the contrary, everyone will come around and  believe you, eventually.  Keep on dreaming Tommy, weirder things have happened!

Next we have a Rifftrax that is a superb effort because it's obvious to me that Mike, Kevin and Bill really enjoyed themselves producing this Trax.  They "Shined their Love" on this one.

I will further stick my neck out and say I liked the Disembodio bits as well.  I know a lot of people don't like it when Dis gets out of his job to just sinc up the Trax, but I like it when he comes in with his own material.  It's fun.   I have locked my car doors riding down the Interstate and made my friends suffer through his "Night Train to Mundo Fine" and I sing along!  What do you want?  I'm eeeeevil!!  ;)

I have to say, we turned down the Disembodio sketches and discussed the insanity of the movie instead. I understand why they went that way, but they really didn't work for us.

I gave it a ten.

My favorite parts were the parts with Disembaudio's friends and family.  That was classic.

Quote from: DoctorZ on July 23, 2009, 05:38:58 PM
First you have a movie that is made by an eccentric genius so wrapped up in his own Californian reality that he assumes what he has made is immediately understandable, accessible  and important to a mass audience. That and if you continue to say your film is a masterpiece against all the evidence to the contrary, everyone will come around and  believe you, eventually.  Keep on dreaming Tommy, weirder things have happened!

Oh Jesus.  I think we just saw Isaac's fate.

I think it says something that at least 5 people on this forum have compared this guy to Isaac so far.  I find it very funny.

Finally got this through Netflix and...wow.  Just wow.  Gave it a 9, another day I might rate it a 10, as riffs often improve the second or third time watching.  This is the kind of movie I expect one of my old roommates to make someday, just without the Europey accent.

The computer business is very competitve, WHAT KIND OF MONEY?!?, Keep your stupid comments in your pocket!! Just sooo many WTF chuckles are rolled out by the movie, the riffers are almost superfluous a lot of the time.... That's not to say that they don't bring some funny, lots of good riffs in this one. They handled the sex scenes about as well as could be expected without being creepy, although the only Disembaudio appearance that made me laugh was the bit about horse tranquilizers and hay. When it was all said and done, there were some good riffs and Mike did a great Johnny impression... but the movie itself did a good amount of the heavy lifting. I'm giving it a nine, with seven for the riff and two bonus points for the source movie going above and beyond the call of duty in providing unintentional comedy.

10! Great riff

I thought I'd share with you guys this video I stumbled upon on Youtube:

After hearing so many "Oh hi, so-and-so" quotes, I finally ordered a copy of The Room (you can't even torrent this movie) from Amazon (who now recommends bad romance tragedies because they think I like them) and the Rifftrax.
I rated this an 8 only because I found the Disembaudio segments to be so annoying. I normally love Disembaudio! But the arguments were loud and irritating. Otherwise, one of the best Riffs I have ever had.

Quote from: Lembach on January 11, 2013, 12:34:28 PM
I rated this an 8 only because I found the Disembaudio segments to be so annoying. I normally love Disembaudio! But the arguments were loud and irritating. Otherwise, one of the best Riffs I have ever had.

Yeah, we always mute that section. It also makes the movie not ideal to introduce newbies to, when it otherwise would be.

Quote from: Edward J Grug III on January 11, 2013, 01:44:36 PM

Quote from: Lembach on January 11, 2013, 12:34:28 PM
I rated this an 8 only because I found the Disembaudio segments to be so annoying. I normally love Disembaudio! But the arguments were loud and irritating. Otherwise, one of the best Riffs I have ever had.

Yeah, we always mute that section. It also makes the movie not ideal to introduce newbies to, when it otherwise would be.

Agreed.

We turned 300 off, the riff didn't work for us at all. Was the folk song skit from that as well? I don't remember it.