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Solid riff of a short cheesy BW space adventure. They keep their rapport and style from the shorts, more conversational and more regional influence than the 3 riffer Rifftrax (I assume Rifftrax is a singular or plural as the situation dictates).
Er, yes, their first feature film. But don’t worry, it STILL has outdated straw-man 50’s female stereotypes.
Eric J:
Sigh. Would you prefer if Bridget and Mary Jo riffed a more contemporary “womens'” movie?
Or do you just despise Rifftrax and have nothing better to do with your time than make trolling posts?
If by chance it’s the former, please post some suggestions of films you would like Bridget and Mary Jo to tackle.
If it’s the latter, you are pathetic. Go spend your time elsewhere.
I like rocket movies. I like Mary Jo. It’s a winning combination. More, please. — A Fan in Central Texas
Boy, those spacesuits from “Abbott & Costello Go to Mars” were just about everywhere, it seems.
Rolling desk chairs in spaaaaaaaaaace! Another great round of riffing from the ladies! :)
No, because the forthcoming Gravity riff is for just another “chick flick” according to Mr. J, due to the fact that the top-billed female star has more face time than any man in the film, and that makes it the same as those 1950s-era shorts, somehow.
Wow.
It sounds like Eric J. is really cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. :-/
Great to see them do a whole movie.
Now if they can just get Trace and Frank on board, And maybe Jerry and Sylvia.
And Josh. I miss those Dean Martin impressions.
Well, I’m sort of hoping they could riff a movie just….because it looked a little strange, and not because they had to deliver harsh punishment on an earlier generation for its unenlightened views?
It would sort add a little variety, but, again, these are female standups we’re talking about, so that’s not likely to happen any time soon.
(I’ll appreciate that it’s probably funnier than Amazon Women on the Moon’s parody–which isn’t hard to do–but I dunno, maybe cinephilia, even bad cinephilia, is one of those guy things like grilling or car repair? I’m not even going to bring up the Stooges thing.)
He’s also a giant hypocrite who bashes Mike Nelson and the Rifftrax crew over stuff like kickstarters and doing convention circuits but it’s perfectly ok when Joel does the same thing.
I’m so excited that Mary Jo and Bridget have finally released their first feature!!! I love those wonderful ladies of mirth! LOVE that it is also a cheesy B&W space movie! I purchased… I downloaded… I watched… er, well I gonna watch… Is that right?! Me watch? Anyhow… I’m GONNA watch it tonight (Saturday)!!!
I really wish they would put these out on DVD. Some of us are streaming impaired.
Ditto. I’ve always wondered why they didn’t riff this one on MST3K, but I daresay this will probably be even more fun.
Crap! I just realized you can click through To purchase from here and(I assume)support this site. Will do from now on!
Matt Croc:
Eric J. should just post on the MST3K reboot board.
He’s a pest here and he knows it.
Would love to see Bridget and Mary Jo do more features and then have them,as well as the shorts they’ve riffed,put out on dvd.And since Trace and Frank are going out riffing movies,then I think Bridget and Mary Jo should do the same thing,if possible.And maybe once in a while,have the riffers switch off..Would be interesting to see Mike,Bridget and Bill do a Rifftrax Live or Kevin and Mary Jo do a short or a feature as well..the possibilities are endless.
Gobi and Gary, you might already be aware of this but if not, Rifftrax does offer a “Download to Burn” option when you buy any of their VOD’s, and that’s what I always use because I’m not a guy who likes to watch movies on the computer/phone. I prefer sitting down in front of my TV for that. Even if you don’t consider yourself very computer savvy, it’s a really easy process. With any sort of basic consumer-level DVD-burning program such as Popcorn, you just put a blank dvd in, drop the .ISO file that you downloaded from Rifftrax into your queue, click burn and VOILA! Any Rifftrax VOD now on DVD for you to watch at your physical media convenience. I find that it’s best to set it to burn at the slowest speed (usually 2x) to absolutely minimize any chance of glitches when burning. I think that you can also burn these files just using the Disk Utility application that comes with Macs, so lots of options there!
Thanks, I’ll look into that. I have Roxio, would that work?
Cinephilia is not a guy thing. And apparently, when a man — a standup male comic like Joel — riffs these very same kind of movies, you think it’s great, but when women do the same thing with the same kind of movies, suddenly it’s contemptible. Wow.
Okay for once, ignoring how much I usually don’t like EricJ’s posts, I’m actually going to sort of agree. I think it’s great that Bridget and Mary Jo get along and like riffing next to each other and everything, but I have noticed that pretty much every short/movie they’re doing seems to deal with female-related themes of sorts. Even Gravity, while a great movie of its own merits and not a “women’s movie” as EricJ puts it, is still female led. I don’t know if the movie choices are up to them or the main guys, but I hope they’re not putting themselves into a box they’re not willing to get out of. If they want to focus on female-related movies predominantly I don’t have an issue with that at all, but I hope that if they want to do a movie just because they think it will be fun, they can just do it and nobody would think anything of it. They’re just as capable of being funny as the guys are, and I hope that however they’re choosing their material that’s still being reflected and not that they’re just sitting at the “girl’s table”, so to speak.
Mike and Joel et al. focused primarily on male-led movies. Was that a problem? Did they put themselves into a box?
If it seems I feel strongly about this topic, I do. It’s as if everything men do is considered normal and right, but women have to do it all better and differently to be considered worthy. I do like that we can have a discussion about it here without attacking each other.
I think Mary Jo and Bridget are both too forceful to “just sit at the ‘girl’s table'” and I find it unlikely that they’d let “the menfolk” pick their material for them without at least insisting on some input. When they announce that it’s a problem, I’ll believe it.
In the meantime, I’ve really enjoyed having them riff on various “womany” shorts – they did a kickass job on “Prom, It’s a Pleasure,” “Phoebe,” and “Oh, Boy, Babies!” with personal stories and commentary that Mike, Kevin & Bill wouldn’t have provided. Plus, MJ & Bridget hit some points that I know wouldn’t have been mentioned. I can’t wait for them to do more!
On another note, I watched Cat-Women on the Moon, loved it, and want to watch it again soon. But I wondered if anyone else who’s watched it noticed the color “blip” at around 38 minutes. It looks like a single frame, and I haven’t yet been able to isolate it. It certainly seems intentional; any ideas what it is?
You’re missing the point, rather glaringly and willfully: It’s not about “Eww, girls wanna play baseball too!”–MJ was hilarious as a team player on CineTitanic, which was a mixed ensemble–it’s just that when MJ&B take the riff stage to do “their” material, it comes down to the sort of jokes that male and female comics tell.
Call us guys “emotionless”, but that gives us the outside-observer ability to stand back, look at something strange AS something strange, and say “Is it just me, or does that look really stupid?” For female comics, OTOH, there are no jokes, but social issues–Their ability to be funny has to somehow be seen as striking a blow back against whatever in society they think is holding them back, or unattractive people back, or independent 10’s women back, or striking back against whole obnoxious social classes of women they resent, or striking back against lingering hypocrisies and legacies of the Patriarchy, or whatever conspiracy theories one finds convenient to put blame on other people besides one’s self. (Would I be right in guessing MSTie’s gender, if s/he jumped for the “hypocritical” conspiracy theories of male fans “against” female comics, right off the bat?)
I’ve seen CWotM, and it’s classic iconic cheesy riffable 50’s material, but because it’s classic iconic cheesy riffable 50’s material, not because I’m striking a passively-hostile avenging comic blow against chauvinistic 50’s postwar male attitudes that made the Amazon Women on the Moon fantasy so prevalent in B-movies. (The script is almost remake similar to Missile to the Moon, to the point that some viewers think Missile was a retitled Cat Women, and the RT Guys had no problems with Missile, apart from their usual difficulties. Fire Maidens of Outer Space, in the Joel era, also had much more riffing fodder to work with than just social grudges.)
It would be nice to see MJ&B take on more features if they can change the broken record, but I’m not expecting it to happen because the problem just seems to go all the way down to the comic DNA. Which is too bad, since they’re both funny in ensemble when they can be comics, but not when they feel they’re pursuing their “duty” to be FEMALE Comics.
i think Bridget & Mary Jo need there own Rifftrax theme music.
Okay, I’m sorry, but Mary Jo’s outfit needs a MUCH wider neck and they should have altered the artwork accordingly. There. I said it.
Bridget and MJ pick and have picked every single title themselves.
Comedians write comedy based on their experiences. If (as you state) all female comics write about are social issues, then maybe those issues are based on their life experiences, which IMO points to another problem: the concept that men’s life experiences are the norm, and women’s experiences are somehow outside that norm, different, and in some opinions less than or not as important or universal.
I’ve listened to an interview where Mary Jo explains how disturbed she was when on the stand-up circuit she was referred to as a “female comedian” instead of just a comedian, “as if the audience needed to be primed or warned”. Maybe it’s time to stop labeling comedians by gender, race, or other personal characteristics. After all, can you pick out the riffs that Bridget and Mary Jo wrote for MST? If you can’t (aside from possibly one or two like I can tell some of the NY-specific references that I’m pretty sure Frank contributed, or the classical music riffs from Mike), then there may not be the huge difference you’ve been conditioned to see.
Or, y’mean, as the comic maxim puts it, “Guy comics tell jokes, female comics complain with funny timing”?
Maybe that’s a discussion best saved until after the Ghostbusters reboot comes out, where we can make a more quantitative comparison between Bill Murray and Melissa McCarthy.
(One of the gender differences in comedy is that guys grow up realizing that if they look stupid in public, it’s their own fault—and craft their life-experience observations accordingly—but for females, if they look bad in public, it’s somebody ELSE’S fault for unfairly expecting them to look good!)
Haven’t heard enough of Bridget in action to pick out the guitar licks, but you can tell MJ’s style after a few CineTitanics, where they pretty much did their own material–
Has some of the more gleefully-nasty character-punishing riffs (which does add to the stereotypes a bit), although a little more in fun than the smug bile that Mike’s delivery could give them in the episodes, and she’s made a trademark out of how none of the new generation ever get her old movie-line riffs anymore. (It was her, she brought the Hitchcock refs, she’s evil!)
If MJ doesn’t want to be pigeonholed into the stereotype of a “Bitter self-martyring female comic”, then perhaps moving away from the 50’s prom and Betty Crocker shorts might be a helpful start. That’s sort of what’s creating the idea to begin with.
Oh, boy, am I glad I took a double dose of Noengage this morning.
Cat-Women on the Moon is a lovely, cheesy little movie, and it’s worth checking out…Mary Jo and Bridget do a great job of riffing it.
I hope they do more. Shorts, movies, whatever, I’ll watch them, because they make me laugh. I can’t ask for more than that.
You’re wrong about the riffs on Cinematic Titanic, Eric. Every script got line assigned so it was totally random who wrote the riff compared to who actually said it.
Cat-Women on the Moon was great. It led me to track down the remake which the 3 guys riffed, Missile to the Moon, a few years after Mike riffed it with guest Fred Willard. You wanna do your compare and contrast, do it there. I thought Mary Jo and Bridget did a great job and add new strangeness to the riffs. I don’t think the guys have ever compared a spaceship to a tampon before.
Thank you for staying in-character, EricJ. You were starting to sound rational there for a minute.
I scrolled pat THREE EricJ posts without reading!!!!! I think I might get the hang of this! YAY!
Ha ha, RAD gave know-it-all his comeuppance
Hey EricJ and everyone, “All I really wanna do is baby be friends with you.”
To be fair, I wasn’t saying they were “sitting at the girl’s table”. Only that it could look like that’s the case from the eyes of an outsider. There’s precedence for thinking that way too, even if it’s not by any of the MST3K alumni: When the Nostalgia Critic started the Nostalgia Chick, she was supposed to pretty much be a female version of the Critic but did all of the nostalgic “girl’s stuff”. It didn’t exactly work out well, and before long Nostalgia Chick became her own entity and was better off for it.
But all of this is moot anyway, since it’s now been made clear that…
And I think that settles that: Bridget and Mary Jo will riff whatever they want to riff, which is exactly the way it ought to be. It seems that they want to do female-themed material, which, as I said, I have no issue with. And since they are making the choices themselves, it should be a given that if they want to do something off-theme they’ll just do it. I hope that when that day comes, it’s not that big of a deal. It shouldn’t be a big deal.
What a surprise EricJ probably hates women too. Shocker.
Totally agree with you, and I’d like to think it WON’T be a big deal. IOW, 99% of the posters here will be perfectly happy to see whatever MJ & Bridget do.
I don’t care about the other 1%.
EricJ – ask for him by name whenever you’re looking for consistently odious, inaccurate observations.
Droppo:
DON’T ask for him by name.
Ignore the troll.
Cool, I have always thought Bridget did not get enough airtime and will definitely check this out. The only full sized riffing I remember from her was the episodes of Greys Anatomy.
@Gobi and anyone else: I found I can stream downloaded files easily from my laptop to my PS3; hopefully your Roxio works similarly, if it can find your PC as a “media server”. I have been watching many more Rifftrax since i got this worked out.
Oh look, EricJ is back with his near-zero upvotes. Never take a hint!
Thing is, MK&B are no strangers to mugging like idiots on their RT covers either, but MJ&B seem to be pushing in our face that the chief reason we will find Cat Women funny is the social tweak of “Greetings, dominant white-male travelers! We exotic beauties are here to serve your chauvinistic 50’s fantasies with our tight lycra suits and offer you home baked goods!”
And considering how (comparatively) little we got of that in the equally cheap/ridiculous Fire Maidens From Outer Space, if’s THAT’S all you can find funny about the premise, it’s a question of what direction you’re looking in. It’s the question of the joke you want to tell versus the even better joke that’s there to tell, and like the old comic saying, nothing kills a joke faster like wanting to tell it.
This was a fantastic release — so MJ and BN will be in a future live show, right? Right?
I’m almost surprised that MST never did this film. It’s certainly short, but this is some top-notch Comedy Central-era cheese right here. It’s actually kinda charming at points.
It is interesting to note that the comments on this topic outnumber the last Weekend Discussion Thread on the order of 2 to 1. Statisticians would refer to that as a significant aberration. Perhaps it is time to return to the Clam Flowage and enjoy the experience of MST3K and it’s descendants? — Jay
That’s only because the bear showed up and people think that if they poke the bear he will go away, but the bear just uses the poking as fuel for is delusional and nonsensical ravings against all things Rifftrax. I figured out a few threads ago that the bear may have a certifiable mental condition, and decided I will no longer engage the bear. I hope everyone else will do likewise.
So go ahead and subtract the 21 posts that are bear related, and the numbers aren’t that bad.
I think you mean “nothing kills a joke faster than desperately not wanting to enjoy it.”
Deep, heartfelt sigh. — Jay
Bear?
Jackass is a better description.
Or….maybe just because we haven’t met enough surprise MSTies. I mean, was kind of a tough weekend topic–I’d like to, but…I haven’t. :(