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What things have we learned stone cold?

Started by TriffRax, July 09, 2015, 04:18:19 PM

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MerryWanna

I learned that apparently, monitor lizards are basically vegetarians. (Keep in mind: these are lizards of the genus Varanus, which includes the Komodo Dragon. Monitors rip the flesh from things. Getting one to actually eat that gloop Stone/Huff was feeding it would be impossible without tranquilizers and a feeding tube in the freaking real world.)

I learned that Nazi bikers are even stupider than I could have imagined them to be.

I learned that apparently Kevin is getting tired of singing along with the music in a film. Oh, please, let this not last long. I miss that...a LOT.
"Ever feel like you're dragging a big bag of meat around?" -  Kevin, The Curse of Bigfoot

MerryWanna

Quote from: CJones on July 09, 2015, 07:03:07 PM
I learned that Rifftrax will still bleep out the word "shit" in their riffs, even when a character in the movie said the same word literally 1 second ago.

This has been a gripe of mine for a while. If you're riffing a movie with full nudity and profanity, why censor the riff?

TOTALLY agree - particularly in view of the fact 'shit' has been used in riffs in quite a few past incidences. It's simply silly to bleep that word out especially nowadays. And especially in a freaking ultraviolent biker movie! I mean...shit!
"Ever feel like you're dragging a big bag of meat around?" -  Kevin, The Curse of Bigfoot

Trekker4747

Aren't lizards cold-blooded? Don't cold-blooded animals need to eat a whole lot less often than warm-blooded animals?  I mean. he's not feeding the lizard this crap every morning is he?  Once a week, maybe, but even that's probably a bit often.


Raccoon Cohabitator

I dunno, I think the bleeping adds to the comedy most of the time. One of my favorite examples is in the Last Slumber Party:

Tommy: "What a a stupid bitch."
Mike: "Aw, but what can I say, I love that dumb <bleeeeep><bleep> of a <bleeeep> anyway."

Trekker4747

It can be humorous in some cases, like in "your imagination fills in the gaps with funnier things than we could come up with" type of situations.  But there's been times where the use of a curse was called for, no ambiguity was necessary for comedic effect and the curse was used.  Spring to mind now is "McBain" where a character says with, something along the lines of "tell him they're fucking with the wrong guy!" and Kevin riffs, "Tell them to try fucking with... instead!"   No bleep, and was humorous.

There's been a few other cases of the curse being allowed to fly.

MrTorso

Quote from: Trekker4747 on July 14, 2015, 12:43:10 PM
It can be humorous in some cases, like in "your imagination fills in the gaps with funnier things than we could come up with" type of situations.  But there's been times where the use of a curse was called for, no ambiguity was necessary for comedic effect and the curse was used.  Spring to mind now is "McBain" where a character says with, something along the lines of "tell him they're fucking with the wrong guy!" and Kevin riffs, "Tell them to try fucking with... instead!"   No bleep, and was humorous.

There's been a few other cases of the curse being allowed to fly.

"Bullshit Captain!" from Star Trek V is pretty good!
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Darth Geek

Quote from: MrTorso on July 14, 2015, 08:37:11 PM

"Bullshit Captain!" from Star Trek V is pretty good!
Yes! Best line in that whole riff.


Tony Farms AKA Puma Man

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I learned that Lance Henriksen is good even in complete crap like this.

As an aside, the first 3/4 of this film is your run-of-the-mill action flick, and even Bos isn't completely terrible (at least compared to Billy Ray Cyrus!).  But holy hell, once they got to the courthouse, they ramped up the stupid to an almost mind-boggling degree.

And how did they get Ice's body back?

abosch

I learned that someone made a 1980's version of Hellcats.

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