Thanks for the write up and some of the upcoming features seem pretty interesting, Thanks Luke!
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Luke Jaconetti <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
