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Heroin, it turns out, is bad. The Terrible Truth lays waste to the all-too-common myth that regular heroin use is a healthy part of a balanced diet. Professional scowler Judge William B. McKesson guides us through a case study of Phyllis Howard (no relation to Curly) who tries marijuana and quickly begins vacuuming up Charlie Parker-levels of Mexican black tar heroin.
Kevin, Mike and Bill ride this pony for all it's worth.
NOTE: This is an experimental DRM-free short! Use it anywhere, anytime! Or just buy it and throw it away - who cares - it's DRM free! That's right, we hate DRM just as much as you do (we blame The Man), and so we offer this experiment in total freedom. We ask (timidly, hat in hand, our eyes moist with grateful tears) that you not post it or pass it on. If this is successful, there will likely be more DRM-free video content on RiffTrax in the future.
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With purchase you get an iPod-compatible MP4, Zune-compatible WMV, and High-quality DivX and MPEG-2 formats.
Enjoy!
Remember, we did this FOR you guys. So please don't pirate it - if this goes well there will be more. Let us know what you think.
and the good ol' linky-link (http://www.archive.org/details/Terrible1951) to the original short on the Internet Archive.
Mucho cool. I can now watch on my ipod when I travel as well as the Divx dvds.
Thank you.
And if anyone messes this up by pirating...... well, remember Clint Eastwood's characters meltdown at the end of "Unforgiven" when he threatened to kill everyone? Well..... consider yourself warned.
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so in other words, this best not be showing up on youtube.
Correct.
If the response to this is good we'll do more. But if it shows up on YouTube and tor-rent sites, then, the chances of this happening again become less likely.
A great short, made even better by being able to get it full screen without Divx's wierd little window toolbars and junk.
Oh, and if you find any pirates spreading it around PSL, don't shoot them. I have much more painful ideas in mind.
Quote from: RoninFox on February 29, 2008, 06:00:34 PM
Oh, and if you find any pirates spreading it around PSL, don't shoot them. I have much more painful ideas in mind.
I give you my power of attorney.
This is excellent news. I bought the first short before I understood that it was DRM crippled, but I wasn't too concerned cause I was all of a dollar in the hole and giving an extra dollar to Mike and the guys is the least I can do. But I certainly wasn't about to buy any more of these.
And now this! I'm very happy, and while I think the fade-outs of the background sounds to make room for the riffs was handled a little drastically, this was good and fun. Plus I can put it on my PSP - yay.
"Oh, be fair. There's a stopoff at cocaine".
Well done - and don't give up on the idea just because it shows up in pirated form - compare the sales to the DRMed shorts and base the decision on that. A lot of piracy is done by people who wouldn't buy product in the first place, and thus doesn't affect the bottom line.
The only negative I see is that the original audio was dubbed all the way down when the riffers speak and to me it made it a little confusing. I ended up going to archive.org and getting the original video and mixing in the mp3 like in the other shorts released before.
thanks for this. seriously. personally i prefer the old public domain stuff to the new films, so i could watch this stuff all day.
sadly, this is bound to be pirated... so im not getting my hopes up for too much more of these goodies.
Thanks for the DRM-free short! I bought the first short (the Christmas one), but it was such a huge hassle to get the DivX player to work (it kept telling me to update to the newest version, no matter how many times I did just that) that I gave up on the shorts. I'm certainly happy to buy this DRM-free one, though! Now I can stream it to my TV via my Xbox 360 -- who wants to watch these on a computer monitor anyway?
I knew you guys would come through for the honest fans. Maybe I'll buy this one twice.
Ah, I love these old shorts. I mean, please keep on keepin' on with the newer movies, yes please. But a steady stream of shorts as audio snacks between the big beefy meals of full-movie riffs is more than welcome.
Idle thought... any chance of getting some of the special guest riffers to do a short while they're in the studio? I mean, while you got them there. I'd love to hear Neil, Fred or Al tackle some of these. Actually, I'd love to hear them on again on another movie period. But a movie/short combo... mmmmm.
M "Assuming You Can Tear Al Away From His Hellacious Tour Schedule Again" Sipher
DAMN my slow internet! ME WANT NOW!
So, if this experiment works, is there any chance that the older shorts will be released this way too?
Always a possibility...
Quote from: Raven on March 03, 2008, 05:48:04 PM
Quote from: torgosPizza on March 03, 2008, 04:52:24 PM
Always a possibility...
Any violators found so far?
We ask as we prepare the razor blades, lemon juice, and salt...
Quote from: RoninFox on March 03, 2008, 06:55:33 PM
Quote from: Raven on March 03, 2008, 05:48:04 PM
Quote from: torgosPizza on March 03, 2008, 04:52:24 PM
Always a possibility...
Any violators found so far?
We ask as we prepare the razor blades, lemon juice, and salt...
... and an unriffed copy of Battlefield Earth.
Quote from: Raven on March 03, 2008, 09:41:08 PM
Quote from: RoninFox on March 03, 2008, 06:55:33 PM
Quote from: Raven on March 03, 2008, 05:48:04 PM
Quote from: torgosPizza on March 03, 2008, 04:52:24 PM
Always a possibility...
Any violators found so far?
We ask as we prepare the razor blades, lemon juice, and salt...
... and an unriffed copy of Battlefield Earth.
Some fates are worse than death.
Quote from: BassBone on March 04, 2008, 02:04:03 AM
Quote from: Raven on March 03, 2008, 09:41:08 PM
Quote from: RoninFox on March 03, 2008, 06:55:33 PM
Quote from: Raven on March 03, 2008, 05:48:04 PM
Quote from: torgosPizza on March 03, 2008, 04:52:24 PM
Always a possibility...
Any violators found so far?
We ask as we prepare the razor blades, lemon juice, and salt...
... and an unriffed copy of Battlefield Earth.
Some fates are worse than death.
And being forced to watch Battlefield earth with Fran Dresher on their right and Harvey Firestein on their left.
Isn't that considered cruel and unusual?
By the way my roommate says Battlefield Earth "wasn't that bad." Needless to say I give make fun of him all the time.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
As a non-Windows user, I was having to make do with the MP3s and the Internet Archive files and synchronising them manually, which could be occasionally frustrating. And as a DRM hater, I'd have done that even if I had been a Windows user. For that matter, if I were inclined to distribute said Rifftrax, which I'm not since I'd like them to make more, that's what I'd do too. :P
So yes, Rifftrax guys! Turn away from the dark side! Look into the bottom of your hearts and see the joy that lurks within! Also, it was a funny riff (almost as funny as the actual video), so that helped.
Quote from: torgosPizza on March 04, 2008, 04:52:27 PM
Isn't that considered cruel and unusual?
By the way my roommate says Battlefield Earth "wasn't that bad." Needless to say I give make fun of him all the time.
I had a roommate who said that about the unriffed version of Pod People actually. He said he cried at the end.
Quote from: skenderberg on March 06, 2008, 02:31:10 PM
Quote from: torgosPizza on March 04, 2008, 04:52:27 PM
Isn't that considered cruel and unusual?
By the way my roommate says Battlefield Earth "wasn't that bad." Needless to say I give make fun of him all the time.
I had a roommate who said that about the unriffed version of Pod People actually. He said he cried at the end.
Did you punch him in the face and take his milk money?
I love BFE. It is one of my favorite movies.
What rifftrax did and say on their "riff" was unnecessary and disgusting..
Awesome. DRM bad. Rifftrax good. Much thanks.
"But if it shows up on YouTube and tor-rent sites..."
Look, it probably will. But don't let that stop you. The important thing isn't if one or two idiots are seeding, what matters is that the number of leechers are going to be close to zero, because most Rifftrax fans are smart enough not to ruin a good thing. (Same with Cinematic Titanic -- fans know if they pirate it, they aren't *getting* an episode 2.)
Here's hoping this is a sign of good things to come. Just think, in a few months we might have enough DRM-less shorts to string together on a DVD-R and gather around the TV instead of hunching over the computer. ;D
P.S. Man, I need to plug this on my site. I haven't wanted an experiment to succeed this much since those two bra-heads hooked a Barbie doll up to a Government mainframe to create the perfect woman. What was that called... Bride of Frankenstein. Yeah.
Thank you! I've been adverse to any video content on a computer screen since xbox media center dropped into my lap back in the day. So nice to be able to just toss this onto the home network and stream it on the tv. Especially given that the main computers here are all running linux, which most DRM isn't exactly easy to run with.
As a side note, this is the first short I've bought. Specifically because of the previous DRM issues and the fact that this one lacks it.
Quote from: zeus on March 06, 2008, 04:49:59 PM
(Same with Cinematic Titanic -- fans know if they pirate it, they aren't *getting* an episode 2.)
Except for us 5.8 billion non-Americans, who haven't even got an episode 1 yet. :P
Apply for a Visa.
Quote from: skenderberg on March 06, 2008, 02:31:10 PM
Quote from: torgosPizza on March 04, 2008, 04:52:27 PM
Isn't that considered cruel and unusual?
By the way my roommate says Battlefield Earth "wasn't that bad." Needless to say I give make fun of him all the time.
I had a roommate who said that about the unriffed version of Pod People actually. He said he cried at the end.
Poor
ETTrumpy!!! I mean, he was soooo wacky!
Quote from: Scott M Davis on March 06, 2008, 04:03:08 PM
I love BFE. It is one of my favorite movies.
What rifftrax did and say on their "riff" was unnecessary and disgusting..
Um... You're not a Scientologist, are you?
Quote from: Scott M Davis on March 06, 2008, 04:03:08 PM
I love BFE. It is one of my favorite movies.
What rifftrax did and say on their "riff" was unnecessary and disgusting..
Even if you are a Scientologist, BFE is a terrible movie in many ways. I hope you are kidding.
Okay I am tech retarded. I thought this would be another riffed video to download, not just a commentary. Was I supposed to get a DIVX download? All I got was a commentary file download which means I have to do the old sycnh with archives.com style thing.
Quote from: pezdrake on March 07, 2008, 07:13:55 PM
Okay I am tech retarded. I thought this would be another riffed video to download, not just a commentary. Was I supposed to get a DIVX download? All I got was a commentary file download which means I have to do the old sycnh with archives.com style thing.
There should be an avi file, an mp4 file and a wmv file as well as DiVX and the mp3 commentary.
Yeah, in your My Files folder you'll see versions available that will hook up to your iPod or Zune, as well as a high quality DivX file and MPEG-2 (that's ready to burn to DVD).
Quote from: Raven on March 06, 2008, 03:55:20 PM
Quote from: skenderberg on March 06, 2008, 02:31:10 PM
Quote from: torgosPizza on March 04, 2008, 04:52:27 PM
Isn't that considered cruel and unusual?
By the way my roommate says Battlefield Earth "wasn't that bad." Needless to say I give make fun of him all the time.
I had a roommate who said that about the unriffed version of Pod People actually. He said he cried at the end.
Did you punch him in the face and take his milk money?
I probably should have. He proposed to my sister shortly thereafter, and on the very first date. Fortunately, she was smarter than that. He eloped with someone else the very next weekend, and I never saw him again.
QuoteThere should be an avi file, an mp4 file and a wmv file as well as DiVX and the mp3 commentary.
Nop just the zip file
Cathy-Petaluma-riff.zipSo how do I get this fixed and have the wmv file sent to my downloads?
Quote from: pezdrake on March 08, 2008, 07:09:04 AM
QuoteThere should be an avi file, an mp4 file and a wmv file as well as DiVX and the mp3 commentary.
Nop just the zip file Cathy-Petaluma-riff.zip
So how do I get this fixed and have the wmv file sent to my downloads?
Oh. You've got the wrong riff. This is for the Terrible Truth.
OOps!
Quote from: BassBone on March 08, 2008, 07:15:51 AM
Quote from: pezdrake on March 08, 2008, 07:09:04 AM
QuoteThere should be an avi file, an mp4 file and a wmv file as well as DiVX and the mp3 commentary.
Nop just the zip file Cathy-Petaluma-riff.zip
So how do I get this fixed and have the wmv file sent to my downloads?
Oh. You've got the wrong riff. This is for the Terrible Truth.