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Started by BathTub, January 29, 2008, 01:07:20 PM

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9 / 10. Truly hilarious, but it got really slow about half way through. The riffs at the beginning were going at a nice, steady pace, but they really dropped off after a while. Every joke was hilarious, though. No fillers here.

May I be the first to say, this RiffTrax kicked ice.

Chaos

Yeah... when we had all the scripts turned in and processed, we topped the scales at roughly 6200 total jokes. EASILY 4000 of them were in the first hour of the film. Everybody seemed to run out of momentum halfway through, so pickings for the last half of the film were EXTREMELY thin.
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David

Quote from: Chaos on January 29, 2008, 02:36:12 PM
Yeah... when we had all the scripts turned in and processed, we topped the scales at roughly 6200 total jokes. EASILY 4000 of them were in the first hour of the film. Everybody seemed to run out of momentum halfway through, so pickings for the last half of the film were EXTREMELY thin.

Next time, half of us should start watching the movie at the halfway point.

Bob

Quote from: David on January 29, 2008, 02:43:32 PM
Quote from: Chaos on January 29, 2008, 02:36:12 PM
Yeah... when we had all the scripts turned in and processed, we topped the scales at roughly 6200 total jokes. EASILY 4000 of them were in the first hour of the film. Everybody seemed to run out of momentum halfway through, so pickings for the last half of the film were EXTREMELY thin.

Next time, half of us should start watching the movie at the halfway point.


If for nothing else, for mental health reasons.

bratpop

8. Maybe 7. The riffs that were there were great, but it was just too thin. I felt like it reflected badly on the riffers and only served to justify the skepticism.

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Quote from: Chaos on January 29, 2008, 02:36:12 PM
Yeah... when we had all the scripts turned in and processed, we topped the scales at roughly 6200 total jokes. EASILY 4000 of them were in the first hour of the film. Everybody seemed to run out of momentum halfway through, so pickings for the last half of the film were EXTREMELY thin.
I understand. After about the first 8 minutes, it was hard for me to motivate myself to continue writing.

RVR II

A '9'!

Very Funny Stuff submitted for this :clap: :clap: :clap:

There were some 'dead spots' that prevented the Perfect 10, but Awsome none the less


Moyer78

#10
"7" but I almost gave it a 6.

I did think long and hard about that score, especially since this is a fan written Rifftrax. First the good. There was some great individual jokes, some really pee your pants funny one liners in there. I think some of you really came through in the funny department. Congratulations.
      Now for the bad.  I do agree with what others have said that there are a lot of missed opportunities and dead space towards the end. My favorite Rifftrax usually build towards the end so that some of the best jokes are at the the climax of the movie. "Battlefield Earth" or "Independence day" for instance are hilarious at the end because the of the way they are written. One joke flows into another, the Riffers can play off each others jokes, and in general I believe makes for a better Rifftrax.
      This was a series of great individual jokes, funny by themselves, but one joke had nothing to do with another (there where a couple of exceptions I realize) and therefore not as good as a regular Rifftrax. This wasn't anything that you writers did wrong, but just the nature of having 6000 individual jokes to chose from.
      Maybe in the future if Rifftrax does this again it could be a collaboration between the Riffers and the fans so that Mike, Bill, and Kevin could still write there own jokes, or maybe mold a fan written riff into an even better one.

Jonny Jit

I voted one star.

I tried to submit a script.  I had help.  We said screw it.  This movie is terrible.  I know it was a popular choice for Rifftrax to do, but I never really wanted it.  What the Rifftrax fellas do is tough work.  This thing died about half the way through.

All this release proved to me was the obvious.  Mike, Kevin and Bill know what they are doing, so shut up!

If you ever do a fan based Riff again, try one about 80 minutes long, because that's all the time fans have got to give.

Personally, I will pay the money for you, Rifftrax, despite any criticism I may present.  It's still money well spent for me.

Thank you Rifftrax in advance for hopefully never doing this again, except for shorts which would be fun or give the fan editors more time to compile a script, which I know they didn't have (time that is) you (the editors) did a great job with the material you had to work with.

My dos pesos,

Jonny





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bettertomorrowamy

I wanna give it a 9/11 just for Guiliani's sake, but I'll give it a 8/10 for sanity's sake.
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SuperMappy

easily a 9 out of 10.

My only complaint, as mentioned by others before, were the deadzones between riffs. Otherwise excellent work all.

TheUnabeefer

I gave it an 8.  I definitely agree with the dead space near the end.  There were a few spots I forgot there was even a riff....

Although, the movie isnt much to work with, really... it's a pile of horse dookie.   But, I laughed a LOT though, so I can't give it any less than 8.


I think they should try a fan-written riff once more, with Red Dawn, seeing as how that's so often requested...  since the fans want that done, they should write the riff script.  Only THIS time, the 3 riffers should have more leeway to expand on the script, and maybe even come across as if they are truly being froced to not only WATCH the movie, but upset that they HAVE to read these fan-written lines....  almost as if at gunpoint!!!

Either way, there were many times I forgot this was fan written.  8/10
...and there he was, reigning supreme at number two.  The One... The Only... The Unabeefer.