NBC’s Today show takes note. Hey, Today, why not have Mike on the show?
UPDATE: They also, for the second year, had a poll for the “Worst movie of all time” the results of which are here.
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RiffTrax Reveals ‘Worst Movie of 2013’/’Worst Movie of All Time’ Poll ResultsRiffTrax announces the “Worst Movies of 2013,” based on an poll of fans.
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Not sure if I should be happy for RiffTrax or embarrassed for the Today Show… Ah, who am I kidding? Did you see what they made Matt Lauer wear on Halloween?
I keep talking myself out of and then in to agreement with Sharknado’s inclusion on the list. It was bad so it should be there. It was SUPPOSED to be bad so it shouldn’t be there. It was over-hyped, thus becoming popular, so it should be there. I’ve never laughed so much in my life so it shouldn’t be there. ARGH!
@2 I agree 100%. Seems silly to include a movie that is so obviously bad on purpose.
Is it just me, or is the second annual “Worst Movie of All Time” poll made slightly less enjoyable by the fact that movies on the list from the previous year could be included? There are a lot of retreads. Most notable is that the Twilight franchise was number one in both polls. Is that really what we think is the worst movie of all time? Admittedly, with riffing or not the only one of the whole mess I’ve seen is the first one. It was…a mediocre movie I felt. I think I misunderstood it in that I thought it was SUPPOSED to be kind of an abusive relationship. The kinds teens have that never are supposed to go anywhere. That early on I never would have guessed that they get married and it eventually gets into werewolf-baby love territory. But even with that, Twilight worse than Red Zone Cuba or The Starfighters? Come on, the Twilight movies are over. Let’s rant about something else now.
I really don’t get the inclusion if Iron Man 3 on the Worst of 2013 list (and, to a lesser extent, Man of Steel). Was there some organized campaign to get it on the list? Just general Superhero backlash?
Just saw RIPD on a plane. Wow. Just wish it was high profile enough to get a rifftrax.
@5 I’m not surprised Man of Steel is there, it’s a love it or hate it movie with both sides being pretty passionate, but yeah, Iron Man 3 was at worst average. Must be a backlash, knee-jerk “threequels suck”, or some Shane Black/RDJ hate.
You can tell the lame comics who didn’t see “Lone Ranger” (at ’13 #10), since they’re the ones outside the theaters still making the jokes about “A western in 2013, sure, kids love that..”
Nonononono: The reason Ranger flopped was NOT that we “got a Lone Ranger movie in 2013″…The reason was that we didn’t get a Ranger movie in 2013–Could someone please figure out and tell us what the hell we DID GET??
(And apparently the “people who didn’t see RIPD” include the RT crew–
C’mon, even the people who saw the trailer were making their own play on MIB-plagiarism jokes–“Men in Blank”, “Men in Off-Slate Gray”)
@5, 7 – Why all the IM3 hate?
Oh, I dunno, if I had to grab straws, how about taking what was generally considered one of the more upbeat and hi-energy franchises of the Marvel movie canon, and switching directors to an overstylized outsider who had never read the comics but was an old buddy of Downey’s…And whose knowledge of “Superhero movies” pretty much began and ended with all the Warner critic-hype, which meant directing one meant pasting in the entire script to The Dark Knight Rises with the names scribbled out–Complete with blowing the hero’s lair to smithereens, traumatizing him for life and make him think of quitting and taking up turkey farming, and cluelessly stripping away all the unique identity of a relatively cool-concept villain in the print comics just to turn him into a generic 9/11-Fear untouchable terrorist-at-large of no particular weird-Nixon-voiced ethnicity.
Maybe it’s just the fanboy in me, but I call do-over.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present EricJ, better known as Dr. Sheldon Cooper.
In terms of Iron Man 3 being on the list, there’s a number of reasons why this film ended up in the “Ten Worst Films of 2013” list. Among them:
-The fact that the film is basically the Marvel version of The Dark Knight Rises (a film that is very overrated IMO);
-Most of the Iron Man action being basically Tony controlling the armor by remote (rather than wearing it);
-The need to include a child character;
-A certain spoiler that upset many Marvel Comics fans.
I disagree about Episode 1 being on that list, it’s a pretty good movie and Jar-Jar isn’t as bad as people over-hype him to be. For the most part that list is just an ad for Rifftraxs. Super Mario Brothers doesn’t really belong on that list either, while not great there are movies far worse than it.
I saw Iron Man 3 recently. I’m glad I didn’t make it out to see it in the theater. I see why people are so mad at that film. It’s got a twist in the middle that just terrible. I’m sure I wouldn’t ranked it on the top ten list of worst movies, but it had problems. There’s a scene in it that you have to question in it of how it happened and if that guy is dead or not. He probably was, but considering how greatly the villain was set up in the beginning, it’s just awful what the filmmakers did.
You think they’d make it about Tony Stark’s alchoholism like in the comic, too. He drinks to forget how he nearly died in the Avengers movie. Avengers was really a superhero movie like you’ve never seen before and to follow it up with this film isn’t good. There’s really no reason for Stark to be around in the next Avengers film, too.
I bet After Earth was as bad as they say. It seemed to have a vibe somewhere south of Wild Wild West. I saw part of that film on a plasma screen tv about 99 or 2000 and I’m still trying to wash it from my mind. :)