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What, exactly, are the rules of this nothing?

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Well then, how about this one?

Fuck Lucas, if you're not watching the original theatrical version (yes you can find a torrent of the before-George-Lucas-raped-your-childhood version which is quite good) you aren't seeing the real thing.

It doesn't sound like he was fan to begin with since he talks about seeing it last at 9 years old? But, then he says he saw Jedi as a senior in high school? Okay, so New Hope comes out in 1977 and he's 9 years old.

By the time "Return of the Jedi" came out, I was a senior in high school.

Jedi came out in 1983. That's 5 years. So he was a senior in high school at 14? Not impossible but pretty unlikely.

Yea, I'm a fan of the original trilogy and it was sad to see George Lucas turn in to his own characters (young Lucas = Anakin, old Lucas = Vader). I still have PTSD from the first prequel which came out when *I* was a senior in high school, so I won't be in line at the theater for the new movie any time soon, but, it's also okay to make fun something when done well (there are 3 Rifftrax of the original movies) but this is supposed to be "commentary", filed under "tech culture"? Really? This is a poorly written editorial and some how ended up on /.

Michael J. Nelson has done just that.

Licensing was one of the biggest hurdles of the original show. They had to buy licenses for every movie for the episodes that aired on the Sci-Fi channel and Comedy Central. Some episodes have never been released on disc because of licensing restrictions. There were also plenty of movies that they never riffed because the owners refused to license it at all, or set a prohibitively high price (we're talking decades-old, low budget movies).

That is why Rifftrax was the most ingenious solution to the licensing issues. Created by the cast and writers of the later episodes of MST3K- they sell a stand-alone audio track of the riffs. This circumvents the licensing issues entirely and even lets them do new releases which would have been impossible in the original show. The downside is that you need to have your own copy of the movie and follow the instructions, or use the free app they provide, to sync the audio from the riff track to the movie. It's pretty easy, but the extra steps probably turn some people off.

Cinematic Titanic which also has the people from MST3K that don't hate him. As a huge fan, this sounds fishy.

There's also the much MUCH more prolific and IMO funnier Rifftrax. The timing is interesting considering that RIfftrax just started bringing back old MST3K episodes every Monday with a new intro video by Mike Nelson. I backed one of the Rifftrax Kickstarter's and I don't regret it (I even have an mp3 I made of Kevin Murphy saying my name from one of the reward tiers.

I don't really know what caused the rift between Joel and Mike/Kevin but it seems clear that there is one. Personally, while he has his moments, I don't think Joel is as funny.

I use avidemux and audacity to add Rifftrax to movies. Basically copying out the existing audio, merging the rifftrack with the movie audio in to one track and then putting it back in as a separate audio track so the original audio is there too if you want to watch the movie without jokes (pretty rare for me actually, but it's nice to have options ;)).

Someone else already suggested OBS, I've used that too for recording gaming video. It can be pretty intensive and it takes some fiddling to make it workable but it's not bad.

Zero Punctuation from The Escapist and Ben Croshaw is fucking hilarious - these are short, fast paced game reviews done in flash animation if you're not familiar.

Red Letter Media for Half in the Bag, Best of the Worst, and of course Mr. Plinkett. These are movie reviews, commentary and sometimes satire from movie buffs. The most well known (and the reason I still regularly check back) are the scathing several hours long multi-part dissections of the Star Wars Prequels there are some for a few other things as well but the eloquence and insight in the Star Wars Prequel diatribes is really something spectacular and worth watching (it will put in to words what you probably felt).

Even further removed from blogs... Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic where two different ventures from the cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000 continue doing what they did sans puppets. I prefer Rifftrax of the 2, and collect them both.

Is that lipstick makes a woman look hot, but it's kind of gross when you actually kiss them.

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A problem most of us here will never know.

Is that lipstick makes a woman look hot, but it's kind of gross when you actually kiss them.

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If you can't make a date with fraud, you should at least shake hands with danger.

(One of the funnier RiffTrax imho. Worth the purchase price.)

You can find pirate copies with the audio already synced but you should donate to them anyway. It's a new release and hilarious.

Check it out I have no affiliation; I'm just a fan.

The RiffTrax Live riff (could be a pre-recorded one from last month) of Super Troopers is in theaters tonight, September 12th! (Oh hi) Mark your calendars for the live riff of Night of the Living Dead in theaters on October 24th.

I wouldn't say no one is still showing them:

Cinematic Titanic
Rifftrax
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (okay, no ones still showing this).
http://www.rockyhorror.com/participation/showtimes.php

It's so awful it isn't even worthy of MST3K treatment.

How about a RiffTrax? They're the same MST3K guys, BTW.

I'm waiting for OS X Liger (bred for its skills in magic!)

Draw a rectangle, you say?

http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/drawing-beginners-rectangle

http://blog.rifftrax.com/2009/01/31/bacon-stupidity/

You feed a sedentary fat person 2000 calories of whole wheat bread, bananas, carrots and low-fat yogurt a day, and you'll get diabetes, depression, sleep apnea, atherosclerosis, congestive heart failure and stroke. It's not the calories that matter, it's the carbohydrates.

Based on a true story, Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system (which is unlike being born with AIDS). As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment.

Later on in the movie, he attends a normal school by using a mobile device fitted with a monitor, microphone, and speakers.

If you're curious about the movie, this may make it more watchable...

Does "alternate audio tracks" include RiffTrax? Because I would be all over that.

Or more modernly, from guys named Mike, Kevin, and Bill

(At first I was just going to say something about MST3K -> RiffTrax, but they actually did do Armageddon!)

MST3K/Phantom Menace you say?

There are Riff Trax for all of the Star Wars movies.

Although, John Travolta is never the right guy to be in a scifi film.

Here, let me help you with that.

(And if you want more)

I know they make fun of good movies just as successfully but this movie is flawed on too many levels for me to get into. I'm not even talking plot or story at this point, just delivery, directing and acting. And that Rifftrax clip points out a few of them.

Hopefully I'm just missing your humor. If so, well played.

Speaking of MST3k...

http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/star-wars-holiday-special

This makes it a little more watchable. A Rifftrax for this particular Lake Video.

http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/star-wars-holiday-special

when you say participate, you mean steal copyrighted content right?
If not, what is the problem?

rifftrax can't be watched if DRM exists, neither can AMV's or mashup projects like fsFs

99% of the material on the internet is infringing. The only reason copyright hasn't been used to shut down the ENTIRE world wide web is lax enforcement.
your typical myspace page carries hundreds of infringing images, infringing quotes, infringing music, etc. etc.

Of course, this is the reason practically everything that becomes popular gets shut down. People notice "their" material on the site, whether it be images, videos, print quotes, whatever, and kill it dead "as an example".

I refer you to this writeup on the reason why copyright is out of control, and in direct opposition to modern cultural norms.

To sum up, please be more vigilant about all the material around you which is copyrighted, and avoid swallowing propaganda whole.

Actually, I saw a "clean" version of the Matrix in the US. They remove all of the swear words and references to god etc.

Excellent. Can they also remove references to "the matrix"?

I recall an excellent line by kevin murphy from rifftrax
morpheus: "as long as the matrix exists, humanity can never be free"
murphy: "you heard the man, everyone get your matrix dvd's and burn them immediately!"

Does mars also have holes and juices?

And has not nasa now added probes to the holes and juices?

A month or so prior to their itunes store launch, a patch mysteriously removed internet streaming for user playlists.

They could easily have designed "fairplay" to simply not allow this feature on protected tracks, but they completely removed it.

My friend used to serve web radio streams to small channels of 30 or fewer from itunes. It took 6 months for something comparable to show up on macupdate.

Then.. there's the utter gutting of imovie.

They dumbed it down to the point that it may as well be integrated into quicktime pro and scratched as a separate app.

Meanwhile, services have arisen which would have made excellent use of the old imovie.

Apple made some token updates and made it available from their site, but it has not been maintained for quite some time, and frequently crashes as you chop an audio clip beyond 30 pieces.

The closest thing that can replace it? Final cut express

200 bucks more for something with more features (and clutter) than you want for basic video editing, or a clone of quicktime pro with a different, more kludgy interface which can't do more than rudimentary splicing for youtube vids.

Thanks apple. The least that could be done is to open source imovie hd 6 since they're clearly not interested in maintaining it anymore, and they don't charge for it on their site.

Create a PAL version so our friends abroad can watch your iRiff. Using Audacity, (see above), go to Effects->Change Tempo and enter 4.271% Save this as your PAL version.

Yes, there is.

We don't need that anymore, we can just use services like http://rifftrax.com/

What will rifftrax have to riff on if they die completely?!

surely they must survive in some irrelevant form for us to mercilessly lampoon?!

Mary Jo (Pearl) did at least one rifftrax, actually: http://shop.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/glitter

Yes it did, and the RiffTrax of it is awesome.

He's selling feature-length commentaries as audio files to be played alongside the movies (and even a few scattered TV shows) at http://www.rifftrax.com/. Not always brilliant, but there are certainly some chuckles scattered in there, and at about $3/movie the price is right. Now if we could just get them all back together again, dammit...

I think this is great and will definitely be checking these out. I am a huge mst3k fan and am really pleased that many of the people that were involved with the show are putting out new material. For those who don't know, Mike Nelson and friends also have a project called RiffTrax where they do more popular and high profile movies like The Phantom Menace, Daredevil, and Cocktail. Also, I don't care if I'm starting a flame war: I prefer Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy as Tom Servo :)

Actually, Mike Nelson has been doing this for some time already with Murphy and Corbett (the later Servo and Crow) at Rifftrax. Looks like we've got a Joel/original-bots vs. Mike/new-bots slapfest a-brewin'.

But it needs to be mentioned anyway: For the last year or so, Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bridget Nelson, Mary Jo Pehl, Bill Corbett (and even Neil Patrick Harris) have been doing commentary tracks in mp3 format to accompany existing DVD releases. See http://www.rifftrax.com/ for more.

http://www.rifftrax.com/

Download mp3s, and start them up at the same time as your DVD....

It's not the whole MST3K crew, but RiffTrax have been around for a while and are extra awesome because they finally give the treatment to mainstream movies.

They are already on the case, well sort of!

http://www.rifftrax.com/

http://www.rifftrax.com/Html/Download_Fellowship.h tml

They are already on the case, well sort of!

http://www.rifftrax.com/

http://www.rifftrax.com/Html/Download_Fellowship.h tml