What's the next RiffTrax? - VOTE!

[SmilinJackRoss]

That's my bad, I made the poll in a hurry and didn't really put the proper explanations in the title.  Now that it has served it's purpose, let's let this thread drift away into the depths....

[Sharktopus]

Both would be good, but I voted for Fellowship. Episode I has George Lucas screwing up a franchise that he created, and, well, I never really cared all that much about, while Fellowship has Peter Jackson screwing up the greatest fantasy novel ever written. The amount of obvious plagiarism in all three films deserves to be riffed (okay, so the "allusions" to previous Tolkien adaptations might have been lost upon some modern viewers, but did Jackson really think that he could rip off famous shots from Hitchcock's Psycho and Vertigo, and no one would notice? Now, really...)

I really have to question the use of the word "plagiarism" regarding a licensed (and loving) adaptation of a novel. Also, define the difference between "ripping off famous shots" and utilizing a technique pioneered by a previous filmmaker. Is the new Battlestar Galactica ripping off Hitchcock when they use the "Vertigo effect" to illustrate faster-than-light travel? Or for that matter, is virtually every film made after 1915 ripping off D.W. Griffth? (The execrable political content of Birth Of A Nation notwithstanding.)

[Justin]

Is the new Battlestar Galactica ripping off Hitchcock when they use the "Vertigo effect" to illustrate faster-than-light travel? Or for that matter, is virtually every film made after 1915 ripping off D.W. Griffth? (The execrable political content of Birth Of A Nation notwithstanding.)

Thank God you clarified that.  I've had suspicions you were a Klansman for some time now.

[Conor]

Well this topic is certainly no longer relevant.