"The Guy From Harlem" New VOD Available NOW!!!

[Thrashalla]

http://www.rifftrax.com/vod/guy-from-harlem

The Guy from Harlem is the first blaxploitation film we've ever riffed. Why? To quote the temperamental yet ultimately quite sensitive gangster Harry De Bauld, a character you will grow to love as much as we do - "well, it's...it's kinda personal." Okay it's not actually personal at all, it's just that the movie is really, really funny. It trades most of the sleaze, grime, and, well, exploitation that you expect from the genre for dopiness, sexual situations that fail to lead to actual sex, a clumsy confused sweetness, and more botched lines per minute than anything we've ever seen.

As you'd expect from the title, The Guy from Harlem is set entirely in Miami. The makers of Casablanca almost used the same approach, with early drafts titled The Dude from Somewhere Other Than Casablanca. It's the story of private eye and titular Guy, Al Connors. Al's a man with such a reputation that when it's time to protect an African queen/princess/wife of a chief of state (her title changes pretty much every time it comes up) the CIA goes straight to his dingy shag-carpeted office and begs for help. Later, when gangster Harry De Bauld's daughter is kidnapped by the sinister Big Daddy, and his own criminal organization is just "too upset!" about the whole thing to deal with the situation, where do you think he goes? That's right. To the guy who's the best at being from Harlem there is, baby.

Join Mike (what you say?), Kevin (that cat's a bad duuuude), and Bill (get on down!) for The Guy from Harlem!


http://www.rifftrax.com/vod/guy-from-harlem

[mrbasehart]

Holy shit! Really?!?  I saw this a couple of weeks ago and thought this would be perfect riffing material.  Totally awesome!

Now do Samurai Cop.

[Thrashalla]

No more MPEG 2 format?

Try again, we just had to hit the switch.

[David]

Thanks, it's there now. (Deleted the other post cause it got fixed so fast).

Yeah, blacksploitation is a huge, virtually untapped source for riffing. I can't wait.

[Conor]

We have an in depth discussion video of why we love this one so much coming tomorrow. It's my favorite of the year, probably an all time top ten one we've done for me.

[Bob]

Oh dear god that preview is perfect!    This will be mine tomorrow!!!!!

[fodder650]

What you all get to look forward to

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One of the best jokes in the movie is also one of the better simple throwaway lines

[Edward J Grug III]

THis is one of those threads that doesn't allow 'likes' again.

[losingmydignity]

I was so glad to see this in my email today instead of the expected Avengers. Can't wait. The weekend belongs to this and Hunger Games.

[Thrashalla]

Just a heads up - we are aware that there is some black video (ha!) after the little intro. I had to make a last minute change to the video and that glitch made its way in. There should be new files up sometime tonight along with the streaming version. Right now, the whole movie is there - you just have a fast forward a couple mins.

As I said, should be taken care of tonight.

[Compound]

Okay, my "Burn to DVD" copy goes from the intro to several minutes of silent darkness to Lou Ferrigno walking over to the girl on the couch. Is this working as intended or am I missing a scene or two? I've tried this in both Windows Media and VLC. I just want to make sure this is the abrupt opening mentioned rather than a disc error.

[Thrashalla]

See above, my friend. We posted at nearly the exact same time.

[Bob]

Hmmmm, so is it safe to assume that if I downloaded the MPEG-2 and iPad files on 10/5 at 9am CST, they are the updated and correct files?

Burning the DVD now and just saw this.

[Thrashalla]

They were uploading over night, so I'm not too sure about exact time frames - they are all up now, though.

[Bob]

They were uploading over night, so I'm not too sure about exact time frames - they are all up now, though.

Awesome, then timing is cool.....

That is, unless I blow my lines.