darkside

Rifftrax live event was awesome. The new short, Flying Stewardesses, was outstanding. Jonathan Coulton did two great songs and Lotax's shorts were ok. The riffs on Plan 9 were changed up quite a bit so it was definitely worth seeing this live. I will definitely be willing to pay the $14.50 for the next live event. Seeing live riffings with a crowd is really great and this ranked up there with seeing Cinematic Titanic live.

Only downside is I would have thought Veronica Belmont could have memorized the very few lines she had to say, but that really is a minor complaint. Great live show.

majorjoe23

I wanted to go, but had a meeting with our pastor about our upcoming wedding. I guess there's next time.

DJLinus

The live show was great! It was a different experience, watching it in a theater full of people. Usually when I'm taking in a MST3K/RT/CT, I'm by myself on the couch or bed, in my PJs (I like to watch them late at night as God intended).

I hope they do more of these in the future.

And I'm ashamed to admit that that was the first time I had seen Plan 9 all the way through. What a shitty movie.

story

My wife and I really liked the Rifftrax Live! event, too. The audience was full of 20-something hipster-doofuses and couples in their 50s-60s (we're 30 and 31). There were two idiot 13-year-old boys right behind us who spent the first fifteen minutes talking about how dumb this thing was, clearly not understanding what their parents had brought them to. When the satellite feed went out during the short, they said, "Good, this is stupid." My wife turned around and told them if they don't like it to leave or keep their comments to themselves. I was flabergasted... and turned on.

Chew

So, what did they do?

Trevor

Didn't you see that Dogmatica got turned on? The kids apparently got a show they weren't expecting. Hopefully they didn't make the same comments...

chuckd21

There was a guy in our row who thought he should join in on the riffing. The girls sitting behind him told him to shut up rather quickly.

Love the show, but my theater was dead. People here just didn't know what they were watching, it seemed.

billolmesdahl

I won the biggest geek award in my theater by showing up with my full-sized Tom Servo puppet.

chuckd21

People in my theater would have asked you "Hey what you doing with that there gumball machine?"

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

First one was good, second was eh. Worst part was, and apparently my theater agreed with, was the stupid stuff with him being on the phone in the beginning and the very end.

Everything else was good

Meglos

Very amused by their informative movie trivia "Did you Know?" cards before the movie started.

PixarFan1988

I watched the Rifftrax of Plan 9 From Outer Space last night. I was kind of disappointed by it. There were only a few funny lines, but the movie was just too boring.

darkside

I brought my 14 year old son, but he was raised watching MST3K reruns on tape and DVD and enjoyed it just as much as the 30 somethings that grew up watching the show on Comedy Central. He also loved Cinematic Titanic live.

story

Glad your son liked it, darkside.

No extra show in the theater, Trevor.

Chew, they said, "Okay, I'm sorry." Halfway through the movie, one turned to the other and said, "Are those guys going to make comments about the movie the whole time?" Ugh...

chuckd21

Just posted over in the DVD Bargains thread that there's a sale on Cinematic Titanic DVDs coming up: http://forum.dvdtalk.com/dvd-bargain...27-8-30-a.html

Trevor

^ Thanks. I've really enjoyed the 2 or 3 CTs I've watched.

Chew

story

Oh, I should add the boys were sitting in the middle two seats of a four-seat row, the row where the two outside seats each have a sign on them explaining that patrons are welcome to sit here yet if a person in a wheelchair enters the theater with an able-bodied companion to please give up the seat so they might sit together.

So these two plebeians are sitting in the center two of four seats so no one else can take the other two. The theater is packed, by the way, with people standing in the aisles until they finally find people who will move in to make room for them. A lot of Minnesota Nice going on. But not from these two. No, they decide to take all four seats by sitting in the middle. The parents who brought them (and who clearly didn't prep them for what they were in for) came down to say 'hi' before the show and the mom lauded the kids, "Wow, what great seats! This is a really good idea! You guys really did a good job!" We're praising 12-year-olds for choosing theater seats now?

The parents said they liked the seats so much they might come down to sit there, too. One of the boys says, "You can't sit there, it's only for handicap people." Clearly, this bright one didn't read the fifteen or so words on the sign on the seat, just saw the stickperson-in-wheelchair picture and made his best guess. The parents asked what they would do if someone wanted to sit there and the other boy said, "I'll just throw my leg up on the seat and pretend it's all lame and gimply." The parents laughed. Clearly, these are sensitive people who are proud to be role models to these young boys.

I don't care if they're only twelve and whether I shouldn't expect much maturity from that age. These boys were idiots, tried and true.

R. Hilton

Two brand spanking new Shorts compilations are now available at Rifftrax.com for $9.99 apiece.

chuckd21

Any chance we could lock this up and start an official Rifftrax / Cinematic Titanic / MST3K DVDs thread?

Jay G.

Looks like you've taken it upon yourself to start that thread:

Official MST3K / Rifftrax / Cinematic Titanic DVD Thread

mhg83

I'm just fining out about these rifftrax. Gonna watch the twilight one later on. Are there any Lindsay Lohan trainwrek films availabe? (Georgia rule or I know who killed me)? Those seem perfect for riffing.

xmiyux

The Twilight riff is my absolute favorite so far.

I know they riffed Crossroads which had Mariah Carey and Britney Spears iirc.

LeeVing

they riffed "Glitter" with Mariah Carey...and it was pretty good.

Darknite39

Don't miss Road House. I think that's the funniest one I've heard. The one for The Matrix was also memorable.