#WHENS THE RIFFTRAX

[paper-mario-wiki]

alright look i know my following is not the target audience for this kind of post but i wanna at least point something out about a scene in the Fallout show that i haven't actually heard a single person point out or comment on.

spoilers ahead.

in the scene where the ghoul is rewatching his old movie, specifically the scene where he originally protested about killing the villain.

the first layer is the obvious one: he is talking directly to himself. "you were strong, ugly, and you had dignity. i'll give you two out of those three." he remembers what happened at that shoot just as clearly as we did, and after he literally tells himself to his face "you're strong, ugly, and have no dignity" followed by him killing the man he originally wanted his character to save. this, of course, coming DIRECTLY after the person he sold into slavery earlier that day sparing him with life saving medicine while he's on the ground and telling him to his face that he only lives on because someone stuck to their humanity. very heavy! i bet he feels like shit, which he probably should because he's kind of a jerkoff! (but in a cool way that i like to watch)

the SECOND layer is the one i find way more interesting. the phrasing of his final line we didn't hear before was so dripping with importance that it felt like i was reading RPG dialogue and story relevant words were highlighted. "i hope you like the taste of lead you commie son of a bitch". as we'd already seen in episode 3, he despises vault-tec for everything he knows they are responsible for while he was their face. moreover, it's made clear that he doesn't just resent himself for being used for their image, but he resents the fact that he was the face of the propaganda which drove the war fever that caused the end of the world. the wild west ideal caricature of masculine wisdom from the movies as the spokesperson of the company who stood to profit from the purposeful decimation of the human race. he became The Ultimate Jingo.

and i really enjoyed how brief yet informative that detail was! i really enjoyed how the directors tell you what the characters are thinking intuitively and effectively through the camerawork and those little details make the whole thing a lot more fun to mull over and consider as a part of the whole of Fallout! i think it's neat.

[swan2swan]

Jurassic Fandom (and canon) doesn’t talk enough about how they transplanted the embryos into ostrich eggs for incubation.

Ostrich eggs would have to be sourced from, well...ostriches.

Which suggests that there would also have been a flock of ostriches kept somewhere on the island.

[mutio-von-mutio]

‘it is as the prophecy has foretold - the cat has barfed and i have stepped in it’

[z0mbiekin]

Some mods in a discord server got mad I was playing Fibbage with the users in a voice chat and muted me for ten minutes

Worth it B)

[dollsahoy]

Who messes with the internet Looks good on almost everything Who has a computer No need to study Study for what? Who messes with the internet Get rich without leaving home Who has a computer You don't need anything else Study for what?

only with more repetition and in Portuguese. From 2006 and looks it. Driving drums and distorted guitar.

[general-sleepy]

*jolts straight up in a cold sweat* Breaker! Breaker! is just Dogville as a 70s trucker movie.

[forthegothicheroine]

Thoughts on Batman and Robin 1997 (with Rifftrax) after all these years

It's a comedy, I'll get that out of the way so that I don't sound like an angry fan raging against puns on principle. Good? Good.

1966 Batman puts this in a bit more context, since that's the clear model. But Batman 66, at least in it's best episodes, did have funny jokes! This really doesn't!

I want to say the problem is that they're trying to combine Batman 66 and the Animated Series and that doesn't work, but another work did pull it off perfectly- Batman the Brave and the Bold, one of my favorite cartoons ever. I guess it helped that they had Paul Dini, the heart of the Animated Series.

Joel Schumacher has deservedly become a bit of a punchline, but he did make some good movies- The Lost Boys is one of my all time favorites. This did not have to be so bad.

I have to imagine this finished product did not look like anybody's goal. It feels like so many independent bad ideas alongside each other.

They probably cast Arnold to play Freeze because the guy in Batman 66 had a German accent. Still, I keep thinking "Why isn't he Bane?" because that would have been the obvious cast- not necessarily good, but obvious. Did someone leave all Bane's lines on the cutting room floor and they had to give their big star the role with dialogue?

Poor Uma, doing a self-conscious Mae West impression. I bet she could have been a perfectly fine Poison Ivy.

Even for a comedy, I really don't get why Poison Ivy wants to blanket the world in ice. Won't that kill all the plants? And if her ultimate plan is to repopulate the earth with flesh eating plants, what the hell flesh will there be for them to eat? That's some Thanos-level environmental planning.

They're clearly trying to replicate Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman with Poison Ivy, going from a nerd to a bad girl. While that part of Batman Returns is a bit 90s pop feminism- why would getting thrown off a building make you a sexy jewel thief, and why would she be snooty towards mugging victims?- I genuinely believed that anger had been in her all along. Ivy has one scene as a nerd and then a totally new personality.

If Batman didn't have a girlfriend I wouldn't think anything of it, but him having one who only shows up for one public scene and one private one where he ignores her makes her look like a professional beard.

I remember when Hush was coming out and we were all super excited to find out Ivy's pheremones also worked on women. In retrospect, it's nuts that was ever in question. Why wouldn't all those beauty queens in the auction scene also go nuts over her?

Doesn't the guy who makes her Poison Ivy end up in the New Guardians and fight Snowflame? It feels like that should be in this particular movie.

The nipples on the Batsuit are, in fact, incredibly distracting.

Grant Morrison pointed out how weird it is that Alfred would have designed and made a form-fitting leather and rubber suit for his own niece and yeah, that is weird.

God bless Alfred, the only person trying to act.

To be continued...

[antinativefaves]

Your Fave Is Anti Native: Rifftrax

Apparently Twilight doesn't have enough material for Rifftrax to poke fun at and they need to resort to racism when it comes to the Native characters.

And this is just for the first Twilight movie. There's four more and even more Native characters in each one, so I'm sure the racism gets increasingly worse. I don't care to find out.

Also they called the Native boys "ladies" because they have long hair in the first film. Because of course they did.

[miscellanyofmusings]

Rifftrax Sentence Starters

“______, didn’t I dispatch you to hell earlier?”

“ ______, shut up forever.” 

"Alright. That does it. I officially have no idea what we're looking at, why we're here, or even who I am anymore."

“And I pray that I never have to emote any more than I just did. I'm exhausted.”

“And if you're ready, _____, may I offer you a wide-awake nightmare?

“Aw man, I thought we could trust the slimy loser.”

“Being a creepy evil creep is a reward in and of itself.”

“Bland? I mean, honey? Can I make you some bland milk? I mean, warm bland? I mean, warm milk?”

“Careful, they might miss at you.”

“Die! Die in a fire! Live again and then die!”

“Did you guys just see that or has my brain fully melted?”

“Do you think you can do me the teensiest favor and just kill me now?”

“Feels like an NPR audio essay is about to break out.”

“Forgive me, Father. I killed like eight guys today.”

“Fuck you. Pay me."

“Having knowledge about things is not really my specialty.”

“He died as he lived: looking dumb as Hell.��

“He has all the fighting skills of a sock monkey."

“Hell is other people and stuff.”

“I’m condescending for no reason, got it?” 

“I've tried nothing—And it's not working!"

“I can’t answer your question because that would acknowledge you exist.”

“I can’t live with myself knowing there’s something out there I haven’t murdered.”

“I don’t want to oversell it, but it will fill you with sadness.” 

"I find words difficult because I can't punch them."

“I have a two part question. One, will I ever feel joy again? Two, what did I do to deserve this?”

“I hope you like really tough burnt meat and shitty scotch.”

"I love it when a plan sort of slowly congeals together."

“I thrive on your ignorance.” 

“I tripped and fell up five flights of stairs and landed here.”

“Is your torture basement even up to code?”

“It’s not what you said; it’s that you exist.”

“It irritates me too that I can defy logic, time, and physics."

"It is pleasant to be happy because it increases our amount of gladness."

“Let's carpe diem and mumble and mope like we've never mumbled and moped before!”

“Mind if I dial up the gay?”

"Never have I cared so little about so few for so long."

“Nothing calms a kid more than a poster of a deranged clown.”

“My philosophy is to see how many Pop-Tarts I can eat in two minutes.” 

“No, don’t, ____, please! Seriously! I will kill all your enemies! Please!”

"No good story ever starts with ‘so there I was, pouring gasoline all over the dead girl’s body.’”

"Oh good. Something else for the Gallery of Things That Should Not Be."

“Oh, thoughtless sociopath, you’re my best friend.”

“Okay, so I’ll take that ominous cryptic answer as a firm yes.”

“Our hero— again, fighting like a sociopathic four year-old.”

"Please don't ruin this moment by surviving!"

“Rush in blindly! A plan can only hinder us!"

"Screaming? Laughter? At this point, what's the difference?"

“So where do you think you’re gonna dump my body?” 

"So…You give up here often?" 

“Society as we know it would disintegrate if people knew the truth about whatnot.”

“Thank you, most boring sounding person in the world.”

“That’s a very friendly murder threat.”

“That sounded a lot more menacing and less gay in my head.” 

“This is my bullshit lecture!” 

“Wait a minute, I thought you said ‘pass the time,’ not ‘destroy all hope in the universe.’” 

"We are reconciled now through the cleansing power of violence."

“Well, that was neither fun nor interesting, but at least it gave us no new information.” 

“Well, time to pretend I know stuff.”

"Well, whoopty-shit."

"Welp... Forgone conclusion ain't gonna forgone conclude itself."

“Who can resist an asshole?”

“Women, right? Always like, ‘This seems fatally stupid!’ Blah, blah, blah.’”

“Yeah, I do feel my own mind drifting through thoughts of Socrates—in that I want to drink hemlock and die.”

"You're a lying liar who lies! You lie!"

“You're not allergic to severe acid burns, are you?”

“You taste like libertarianism and cigars.”

“Your evil is reassuring.” 

“Your violent, misogynistic criminal vibe lets me know I can trust you.” 

[brokehorrorfan]

The Girl from Rio will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on September 26 via Blue Underground. The 1969 sci-fi/action spy movie is a loose sequel to 1967's The Million Eyes of Sumuru.

Jess Franco (Vampyros Lesbos, A Virgin Among the Living Dead) directs from a script by Harry Alan Towers (The Mangler). Shirley Eaton, Richard Wyler, George Sanders, and Maria Rohm star.

The Girl from Rio has been newly restored in 4K from the uncensored camera negative with Dolby Vision/HDR and 1.0 DTS-HD MA sound. The first pressing includes an embossed slipcover.

Special features - including a RiffTrax edition of the film - are detailed below.

Special features:

The Girl from Rio: RiffTrax Edition - Riffed by Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy (new)

Audio commentary with film historians Nathaniel Thompson and Troy Howarth (new)

Interview with Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco author Stephen Thrower (new)

Additional scenes from German version (new)

Rolling in Rio – Interviews with director Jess Franco, writer/producer Harry Alan Towers, and star Shirley Eaton

Trim reel

Poster & still gallery

Bisexual super-villain Sumitra (Shirley Eaton) launches a diabolical plan to enslave the male species with her army of lusty warrior women. But when Sumitra kidnaps a fugitive American playboy, she crosses a sadistic crime boss (George Sanders) and ignites a battle of the sexes that will bring Brazil to its knees in more ways than one. Get ready to experience director Jess Franco at his most erotic, exotic and bizarre.

Pre-order The Girl from Rio.

[ijuststareatstuffhereok89]

**Hey, I passed 500 followers!**

Like, how? lol I really want to thank you all for being so supportive of my works. I can't even begin with how much love I feel right now.

So, to celebrate, I'm announcing a celebratory collaborative series I am calling: Silver Tongue, Silver Screen.

The Idea: In the next day or two, I'm going to put out a 500 word prologue introducing Loki and a Y/N. They're going to find themselves falling into a crazy situation: they're being thrown into the middle of different movies! How do they get out of it? What movies and characters do they interact with?

That part, my friends, is where you come in!

When I post the prologue, I will invite anyone and everyone to send a movie title prompt to my inbox. JUST a movie title. I will, of course, take care of the rest ;) This will be different from my Music Festival in that each request will be ultimately a chapter in the larger story. When the full fic is complete and put onto my AO3, anyone whose submission was done so with a name will get a mention at the top of the chapter. Nonnys are welcome, but just know that you won't get a credit if I use your prompt.

RULES: 1- Please stick to films most people will have at least heard of. Honestly, the more iconic (whether for good or for bad) the movie, the more I can work with. 2- Some chapters may be fluff, some comfort, some smut. Where your movie title goes after you leave it is at my discretion. 3- I will not be writing non-con, dub-con, dark elements (unless the movie prompt requires), or for XXX-rated movies. 4- I only know of a few non-English films, and they are nearly all in French, so unless you think Loki and Y/N would somehow have fun jaunting around Jean de Florette or that bizarre Mexican Santa vs The Devil movie that Rifftrax covered, please stick to English-language flicks. 5- I reserve the right to not include an ask if I have too many or if I can't draw a ton of inspo from it.

So, look for the prologue, and that will be your signal to begin sending those movie titles! Once the prologue goes up, prompts will be open for TWO DAYS! So get thinking about what movie you want to wander through with Loki!*

*I also get that y'all probably wanna walk with him through Princess Bride or Titanic (and I'd so accept those) but let's do some cool genre mixups!

@lokisgoodgirl @mochie85 @muddyorbs @mischief2sarawr @sarahscribbles @joyful-enchantress @jonquilclegane @xorpsbane @fictive-sl0th @wheredafandomat @holymultiplefandomsbatman @holdmytesseract @glitterylokislut @coldnique @chantsdemarins @lokischambermaid @lokisprettygirl @lokiprompts

[matt0044]

"Negativity sells" us on false control.

There's a double edge sword to negative videos even when they aren't full of it. On the one hand, it can feel validating to those who feel a thing is "bad actually" or has "fallen off." You're not crazy for disagreeing with the consensus and feeling confirmation bias is great.

However, there comes a point where some videos are made in a negative slant overwhelmingly because that's what sells. Not just in terms of what algorithms foist upon us but in terms of what grabs us alone. And... we've all be complicit in that. It's not to be "shameful" of."

Fact is that seeing something getting torn down and dunked on can be thrilling. We're all leading empty lives constrained by the cruel hand of capital, depreiving us of even basic control. That negativity gives us that sense of control by letting us join in on the "fun."

It connects with the negativity that we Middle Class citizens (if we can be called even that) are forced to reckon with on some level or another. We can't cut loose anywhere because we'd be arrested for public disturbance or possibly scaring somebody close to us.

So the aformentioned videos let you comment and chew apart the "bad thing" in what seems like a controlled environment. Even things that try to inject positivity like Defense videos have to be antagonizing in some form or another.

The result of this oversaturation sadly branches off into more... unfortunate incidently like creators of or those connected to the "bad thing" getting death threats. Social Media has toppled the Berlin Wall between fans and creators with all the consquences that come with it.

This is why I've pruned my YouTube video selection to be a a healthy balance. Yes, I like RiffTrax or classic crude white dudes dunking on a movie. Yet largely this is when it's less mean and like a comedic duo of a straight man (the critic) reacting to the silly man (the movie).

However, I generally want something that's not trying to make me feels like shit like I do in real life. Channels that tackle the turmetuous landscape of queer rights at least do well to show examples of how we're pushing back and not just taking it up the tailpipe.

I just... want to believe again.

[demonfox38]

In bosses that made my saliva taste like blood. Wooof.

Adol. Dude. I know I'm short on your best shield here, but cripes. Invest in some i-frames. Or, at least, learn to pop a healing potion like a Diet Cherry Pepsi when I press the "heal yourself, idiot" button.

I won by eventually putting the game on mute, popping on the "Galaxy Invader" Rifftrax movie, and just chilling the fuck out while winding circles around this demonic asshole.

[crowtrobotx]

Watching Rifftrax in bed as I often do when I begin to get eepy and I swear the running gag where a character will butcher a line, one of the guys will say “Haha oops I just said [repeats butchered line] should we start over” and Kevin will interrupt/yell “KEEP ROLLING!” never stops being funny. They do it like 4 times in Birdemic and I’m convinced this movie was shot in a single take.

[highly-important]

I am so out the loop, I didn’t realize there is a new MST3k season with a new host, Emily. I’m really loving her episodes, and I am a little obsessed with the new Crow. I think it was a good choice to hire a puppeteer who matches the energy of the character instead of just trying to do the voice.

I’ve been watching a lot of the older episodes as well. I guess I hadn’t realized what a comfort show MST3k is to me. Maybe it’s silly, but I love this theme of characters who are prisoners in an absurd and hopeless situation, but also completely make the most of it with humor and friendship. Like, I know it ain’t that deep, but it also seems an intentional part of the fabric of the show.

These two are like king and queen of the nerds.

I am also always really obsessed with when media puts story and character in places where it might not seem needed. Like, they technically don’t need to do any of this (eg: Rifftrax doesn’t and it’s still funny), but it’s the creativity and genius of Joel Hodgson to create this world and characters that really elevates MST3K and gives it such lasting impact.

I also just want to gush about the art direction of season 11. Kinga is apparently based on the Dragon Queen from Infra-man (I don’t know this reference) mixed with Lucille Ball. I love how Jonah’s yellow (jumpsuit and ship) contrast Kinga’s purples. I love Kinga’s bone branding (plus how it retroactively connects to the SOL) and the liquid film tech. I love how these characters live in a world that is as campy and artificial as the films they watch.

[thefloatingstone]

My favourite moments from the MST3K/Rifftrax guys' podcast reading Ready Player One was one guy going "the main characters a big fan of 80s movies."

And Mike goes "Oh like 'The Last Emperor' or 'Ran'?"

And the other guy goes "NOPE."

And my other favourite moment is when they reached the end and Mike said "I have been living in fear this entire book that he might make a very specific reference."

(paraphrasing)