Thoughts??

[Janitor]

I hit the floor laughing during the dueling shatners "Spaaaaaahk spaaaaaaaaaaaahk spaaaaaaaaaahk" and then when Kevin mimic'd Shatner actually doing it "SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHK"

[Rude]

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I actually saw this movie in theater the night before it was released, and i really liked it... still do. The riffs were great though. But why go back to the Star Trek well so soon? My little theory involves a mix-up between Mike and Kevin on just which film Kevin was supposed to actually watch when preparing for ST5. I picture him showing up in San Diego with pages of jokes for the wrong film... but ultimately deciding that they were just too good to throw away!~ Star Trek VI: Jokes From The Back Burner!

Anyway.... all black-helicopter (spaceship?) conspiracy theories aside, i think this is the best project to feature all three guys, and it's certainly one of my favorite Rifftrax in awhile~ I love it when the guys sound like they're cracking themselves up in the studio. They were definitely cracking me up! I was home alone and getting over the flu, but laughed out loud quite a few times~

Also this Rifftrax marks the maiden voyage of my new high-speed lightscribe DVD burner! Good times~

-Rude

[BathTub]

Grr silly friends who want to watch this next week, lol. 

[kodiakthejuggler]

First off, I'd like to say thank you for saying the "Spaaaahk!!" joke the minute Shatner walks on screen! I know I'll do the same for the rest of my life!

I watched this trax with a group of friends, and not one of them laughed at any of the Schnappi jokes, so I guess they had no idea what it meant. I wanted to enlighten them, but I thought better of it. It's bad enough I forced them to watch Star Trek VI   


This track was a lot of fun, but not as good as the best ones. Still, it had all three riffers, which makes it special in my book. 

[Digger Smolkin]

Hm, I think there was a bit of a quality control failure on this one - a lot of stuff was said seemingly just to fill a silence, with no consideration for whether it was actually funny or not. Lots of puns, non-sequiturs, and rather nasty personal attacks on the actors (so, you have no love for William Shatner, we get it). A few of the remarks were among the lamest I've ever encountered in MST3K/RiffTrax history (that honour might go to the "pretending my husband's not gay" remark about Iman - very poor indeed).

I guess the problem might be that, unlike Star Trek 5, 6 is a pretty decent movie. It was jarring for them to desperately keep insisting the movie's a dog when, patently, it's not. It seems a bit senseless to riff it when there are many perfectly awful Michael Bay and Joel Schumacher movies out there going criminally unriffed.

[DoctorZ]

Did anybody at Rifftrax read the 65 pages of horrible "Uranus" jokes in the thread of the same name on the MST3K discussion board?  Just asking.

[Janitor]

Hm, I think there was a bit of a quality control failure on this one - a lot of stuff was said seemingly just to fill a silence, with no consideration for whether it was actually funny or not. Lots of puns, non-sequiturs, and rather nasty personal attacks on the actors (so, you have no love for William Shatner, we get it). A few of the remarks were among the lamest I've ever encountered in MST3K/RiffTrax history (that honour might go to the "pretending my husband's not gay" remark about Iman - very poor indeed).

I guess the problem might be that, unlike Star Trek 5, 6 is a pretty decent movie. It was jarring for them to desperately keep insisting the movie's a dog when, patently, it's not. It seems a bit senseless to riff it when there are many perfectly awful Michael Bay and Joel Schumacher movies out there going criminally unriffed.

Tough crowd!

[Tony Farms AKA Puma Man]

My favorite riff for no reason is when the Klingon ambassador dies and Bill says "Can I have his coat?"

Just he way Bill says it is so funny to me.

[6079SmithW]

When they were doing the run of space object jokes with Bones and Shatner in the Klingon barracks, I was hoping for a "space heater" line, just because they did it on Newsradio and it was great.

[Don W]

"I got this jacket way before the thriller video"

That line cracked me up!

[Digger Smolkin]

Hm, I think there was a bit of a quality control failure on this one - a lot of stuff was said seemingly just to fill a silence, with no consideration for whether it was actually funny or not. Lots of puns, non-sequiturs, and rather nasty personal attacks on the actors (so, you have no love for William Shatner, we get it). A few of the remarks were among the lamest I've ever encountered in MST3K/RiffTrax history (that honour might go to the "pretending my husband's not gay" remark about Iman - very poor indeed).

I guess the problem might be that, unlike Star Trek 5, 6 is a pretty decent movie. It was jarring for them to desperately keep insisting the movie's a dog when, patently, it's not. It seems a bit senseless to riff it when there are many perfectly awful Michael Bay and Joel Schumacher movies out there going criminally unriffed.

Tough crowd!

Sorry, I guess I did lash out a bit in my disappointment; my expectations for a Mike/Kevin/Bill triple-header are always stupidly high. Being a geek, I guess I'm given to Comic Book Guy "Worst Episode Evurrr!"-style outbursts.

Still, out of all the RiffTrax released so far, only 2 have been a let down for me, so that's a pretty damn excellent hit ratio.

[SecretAgentSuperDragon]

I thought this was the best one as of yet.

I loved the very clever quip by Bill: "You can't spell warrior without one EYE."

[fishbulb]

My theory:

Since this was a marginally better movie than Star Trek V, the guys spent more time mocking the worn-out original cast than they did in Star Trek V.  Therefore, I think that complaints from people who didn't like the riffing on Star Trek VI will come from people who are particular fans of Star Trek.

Luckily, I'm not one of them.  I thought it was hilarious.  Also, that's the greatest number of times I've typed "Star Trek" within 3 minutes in my entire life.

[SecretAgentSuperDragon]

Well I'm a pretty big fan of the Original Series, but not like a nerd-level fan. I actually love to laugh at all the corny things in the episode, like the Big-Head Talosians and Spock frollicking on Omicron-Seti III. I know that Mike feels the same way too, and so that is what makes this rifftrax all the better.

[gammer]

I have my 'take' now posted on my fansite

oh, and my free preview too