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OK.. I gave it a 8

Not consistent but enough to enjoy it ;D

Only listened to the intro so far, I think this is going to be a good one, who knew dis was a BSG fan?

Don't think I'll be able to wait for the time it takes to re-author (ducking will probably take over an hour on such a large file) so I'll be doing it the old fashioned way tonight using the ipod + portable speakers....

Damn you Google Street View!

Great rifftrax :)

Quote from: MartyS (Gromit) on April 22, 2010, 12:11:17 PM
Only listened to the intro so far, I think this is going to be a good one, who knew dis was a BSG fan?

Haven't listened yet but I'm guessing he's rooting for the cylons?

A solid ten!  It's a nine for the comedy and a bonus point for going very very light on the anti CGI jokes.  I mean, they had more CGI jokes in the Titanic riff which at least took place on Earth.  So mega kudos for not going overboard with the obvious!

Maybe it was the long layoff, but this riff really made me laugh out loud a lot.  You know, there are smiling a lot riffs and then there are laughing out loud riffs.

I gave it a 9.  The first half-to-full hour gave me a chuckle here or there.  It seemed like it was gonna be a solid 8 all the way through.  But then, when Neytiri showed up, it was a 10 for the next hour.  By the third hour ( ::)), it wasn't a 10, but it was still very good.  I was more interested in the action at the end than the riffs, but the jokes were fun just as well.  So, overall I gave it a very nice 9.  I just wonder had I broken it up into different viewings that maybe I would enjoy it more.  I dunno.  Such a looong movie.

Also, I have to give special credit to the guys for including jokes that include things such as the baby from Jim Henson's Dinosaurs sitcom, Duke Nukem Forever and Minkus from Boy Meets World.  I can't imagine them writing these jokes obviously aimed for a generation younger than them (i.e. me), but I have to give them major cred for putting so much faith in their supporting writers (and the writers themselves of course).  Who keeps contributing these very Gen X jokes?  Conor?  Sean Thomason?  I know there's a list somewhere.  I've got my eye on you, funny people!

Loved it. It didn't deliver consistently, but there was a nice flow to the humor, with the big uproarious laughter coming and going like the tide. Not a bad rhythm for 3 hours of riffing. Solid 8.

That was pretty close to perfect, I haven't laughed that hard since the Star Wars Holiday Special, so have to give it a 10.

If the AVATAR riff were compared to an individual episode of MST3K, which episode would be the most appropriate in terms of the style and tone of the humor?

I also gave it a 10, although it's not my favorite... they did a really good job of hitting most of my problems with the movie (I didn't care for it), although I wish they had mentioned some things that struck me as odd, like... Navi are a good size bigger than humans, though the box of matches Jake carries looks normal sized in his hands, the rifles always seem the same size if a human or navi is carrying it and apparently they had 2,000 navi sized throat microphones in that one trailer to equip for the final battle.

Quote from: Blaine on April 23, 2010, 07:00:30 PM
I also gave it a 10, although it's not my favorite... they did a really good job of hitting most of my problems with the movie (I didn't care for it), although I wish they had mentioned some things that struck me as odd, like... Navi are a good size bigger than humans, though the box of matches Jake carries looks normal sized in his hands, the rifles always seem the same size if a human or navi is carrying it and apparently they had 2,000 navi sized throat microphones in that one trailer to equip for the final battle.

Good catch on the matches,  they also were a bit inconsistent in the size relationship between the navi and the humans sometimes, and the arrows and the humans.   For the guns I figured when as navi they were just hand carrying the big tripod mounted guns, and I only think the navi leaders were wearing the microphones.  It's never explained but I think all the avatars had those devices to record stuff as they walked around, or else how did they get the video back at the lab after Sully flew over the sacred tree.

Quote from: Blaine on April 23, 2010, 07:00:30 PM
I also gave it a 10, although it's not my favorite... they did a really good job of hitting most of my problems with the movie (I didn't care for it), although I wish they had mentioned some things that struck me as odd, like... Navi are a good size bigger than humans, though the box of matches Jake carries looks normal sized in his hands, the rifles always seem the same size if a human or navi is carrying it and apparently they had 2,000 navi sized throat microphones in that one trailer to equip for the final battle.

Uh, that would be explained by "The humans made stuff to Na'vi scale in preparation for the mission." Like how they made oversize sets for the Hobbit scenes in Lord of the Rings. Notice the guns the humans were carrying were human-sized. I call that good planning by everyone involved with the avatar program.

...and now I want a giant box of matches. Dammit.

Anyways, in terms of the rifftrax, solid 10. This really felt like an MST3K episode, with all the obscure-to-slightly-obscure cultural references. I certainly didn't expect to hear that R.L. Stine quip. I was especially glad they kept the long, drawn-out ranting riffs to a minimum here, coming on the heels of the endless stuttering jabs in the Transformers 2 riff which started to bug me near the end. You can tell they took their time to get this one right. Bravo, guys. Bravo.

I haven't seen this movie until today. I guess this was probably cool to see on the big screen, but I'm honestly bored to tears. Don't know if I can even finish to rate the riff.

I don't think the riff writers are getting enough love for avoiding 5,000 riffs about the CGI.  Who here believed they would be so restrained after how many they did in Titanic and the SW riffs?  Maybe you guys did but I sure as hell didn't.  I was really impressed they went a different way.

I actually found this one to be a bit hard to rate... At first I was leaning towords 8, but I found myself watcing it again and again. I gave New Moon a 10, and I've watched this at least twice as many times, so in the end I decided it deserved a 10 as well.

I also gave Titanic a 10 (definitely another of my fvaorites). I may be in the minority here, but I actually enjoy the James Cameron Mega-Blockbusters. And Rifftrax just makes them that much better.

"Robot Knife Fight..."

I have no idea how they come up with enought material for ten hour movies like this.    What a tribute to the writers!

I gave this a solid 9.

I gave it a 6... I don't know why, but I wasn't that thrilled by it all.  There were some pretty funny parts, but I think the immense drag of the movie just brought it down a bit.  Made it even more difficult to actually enjoy the riffing.

I dunno, maybe after a couple more viewings I'll re-rank it.

I gave it a six. A few great jokes, but not consistent.

I just gave it a six too.  I don't know what everyone liked about this one.  I sometimes get tired of the constant references to other films they've riffed, but it doesn't bother me too much if they are in the context of the scene.  There were a few times in this one where the reference had no context, and didn't make any sense to me.  Maybe I'm missing something: a spaceship is flying away and someone says something about stopping by Hogwarts.  Also there was a line about Over the Top that seemed a little weird, something like "that's what I call over the top" or something. 
I have loved all the riffs from the last few months except Avatar, but I don't only complain, I'm gonna go give the Goblet o' Fire one a 9 (or a 9.5 if I can) right now!

Quote from: poopoopeepee on May 24, 2010, 09:58:00 PM
I just gave it a six too.  I don't know what everyone liked about this one.  I sometimes get tired of the constant references to other films they've riffed, but it doesn't bother me too much if they are in the context of the scene.  There were a few times in this one where the reference had no context, and didn't make any sense to me.  Maybe I'm missing something: a spaceship is flying away and someone says something about stopping by Hogwarts.  Also there was a line about Over the Top that seemed a little weird, something like "that's what I call over the top" or something. 
I have loved all the riffs from the last few months except Avatar, but I don't only complain, I'm gonna go give the Goblet o' Fire one a 9 (or a 9.5 if I can) right now!

"Oh hai. previously-riffed-movie."

5

Too much low brow garbage (poop, piss, dragon semen--- you guys are little obsessed with the boldily fluids on this one), not enough of the clever, observational stuff that I prefer.

I gave it another shot tonight (I'm packing for a move and this was the only thing I had in my laptop bag. So it was this, or stare at the walls) Still pretty m'eh overall, though I felt it was stronger down the stretch - I enjoyed the references there (Ax-Men, Crusty the Clown, Sandford and Son, etc).

To go out on a positive... When a pilot tells GI-jerk that the Navii were firing on them, Bill adds, "and they've brought out a small boy with a sling"  - ha, ha - I don't know why, but ever since the days of MST, I've always liked a good Bible related joke (ala, my favorite riff in Jack Frost).

Good Riff but it still couldn't keep me in the movie. Avatar was mindless painful drivel. After the first 2 hours and I realized they still had act 3... I had to turn it off and watch the next day. I was even drunk... I had low expectations, but this was too much. Nothing really made any sense... the plot was completely stolen from dozens of other storys.... I can't think of a single redeeming quality. Not since Transformers has anything stunk this bad. I'd rather have watched a 3 hour podrace.

The jokes were good, I'd have voted 10 if it was good enough to keep me in for act III. Anything that could make this watchable would be a 10.

www.avatarsucks.com

One of the best ones. The movie has just the right combination of senselessness and delusions of grandeur for riffing.

"Got anything you want me to genocide up?" is a sentence I wish I could work into conversation more often.