Had an absolute blast last night. They first did a pair of shorts and a commercial. The first short was "comedy" short subject called "Welcome Back, Norman!" that made absolutely no sense and had no point. But it was hilarious none the less. Next was the commecial, an insane commercial for California prune juice which featured a "weathered Orville Redenbacher wannabe" drinking 2 glasses of prune juice (ugh!). The final short was "At Your Fingertips: Cylinders" demonstrating all of the worthless crap you can do with cylinders.
The feature itself was a complete riot. I have seen Manos a few times via MST3K but the RiffTrax riff was all new. The picture did look better but whether it was the restored version or not I do not know. The riff itself was bananas. Highlights include the "Hachimama!" when Torgo was spying on the wife, which sent the crowd into convulsions, the Master ordering Torgo to stand up, taking a full 32 seconds (followed by Kevin's quip "Oh, don't get up Torgo!"), and what is sure to become classic a, the "Redneck Twilight" sketch with Bella and Edward as arguing rednecks. "When are you gonna make me on-uh-those vampiiires?" "I told you when I fixed up the truck, woman, now get off my back!" "I'm just sayin' is all that if I had them vamprific powers I would use them to get the broke washin' machine off the lawn!" "Why don't you get wonnuh yer werewolf friends to do it fer ya!" And so forth. :) The next RiffTrax Live is in October and is riffing Birdemic, which if you have not heard of, please go Google it. I am seriously considering watching that one as well. On an unrelated note, next week Fathom Events through TCM is screening Singin' In The Rain for one night only! Holy cow, that would make for a great date night movie. Also, TCM has screenings coming up through Fathom for The Birds, a Frankenstein/Bride of Frankenstein double feature, and To Kill A Mockingbird. All worth seeing on the big screen. On Aug 16, 1:08 pm, Luke Jaconetti <[email protected]> wrote: > Tonight RiffTrax is going to be simulcasting a live riff of the > classic MST3K target Manos, The Hands Of Fate! > > What makes this even more exciting than the normally already very cool > live riffing is twofold: Firstly, this is the first time this group > of riffers (specifically Mike and Bill, who were not on MST3K in > season 4) and writers are handling this film, which means that it > should be a new riff track. Secondly, from what I understand this is > going to be using the restored "work print" of Manos, meaning the > picture should be a lot better than the standard public domain print. > > I have my ticket; anyone else going? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
