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Oh, and just to note — the above I sent to Conor (who nicely emailed me just in case I didn’t see his response on this thread).
And, yes, I think people can have opinions both pro and con about the ad and express them. I’ve never said anyone *shouldn’t* express their opinions that I disagree with (apparently that particular position is only taken by those who like RT — they like RT but don’t believe in free speech. Hmmmm, perhaps that explains the target audience more than they know).
Thanks #99
You expressed my thinking a lot better than I did.
@99- Actually, it’s more like seeing an advertisement for the band Wings saying “The Beatles are back!” Some people like Wings better than the Beatles, so they might not mind. As for the rest of us….
Mike ‘ex-genius’ Kelley,
Your anti-rifftrax posts are getting really tiresome. Particularly coming from someone who keeps insisting that it’s based on substantial evidence, when you freely admit to only listening to one feature rifftrax out of the eighty or so that they have done. And yes, we all know that you have seen the shorts.
Imagine that I had seen some MST3K shorts but only one complete MST3K episode. And yet, this did not stop me from posting on every MST3k thread and criticizing the quality of MST3K. How seriously would you take my criticism then?
Hey….it’s like 50 degrees outside :shock:
It’s still February too!
Let’s all go outside and play Hide n’ Seek! I’ll be IT! You guys go hide……….
1 Mississippi
2 Mississippi
3 Mississippi
4 Mississippi
5 Mississippi
READY OR NOT HERE I COME…….
OH…I almost caught Mike “ex-genius” Kelley…
But I tripped over that dead horse he’s been beating :mrgreen:
Graboidz, I like the way you think.
about the hide and seek stuff that is
To the guy/gal that said it takes 3 days to make your own DVD… Check out this thread here:
http://forum.rifftrax.com/index.php/topic,413.0.html
Within that thread you will find many helpful people that have been making RiffTrax DVDs since the first release. You should be able to knock down that 3 days to 2 hours.
Yeah seriously, three days to make a DVD? I’m a very hardcore Rifftrax fan; I do a reauthor for every one of them. The end product is a DVD, with menus, and the Rifftrax integrated into the product. You get a menu, like this one –> http://www.mstabosz.com//Rifftrax/Menus/Iron_Man/Iron_Man_Main_Menu.jpg
which you can slide in any DVD player and watch easily. It takes me, all told, about 6 hours, with large chunks of that being time spent AFK waiting for processes to finish (exporting the combined audio track from Audacity takes like 45 minutes).
It’s cumbersome, but not a three day affair.
I’ve made a few of my own Rifftrax AVIs. It takes, literally, less than two hours. And most of that is waiting for stuff to load on my 7-year-old computer. The time I actually sit at my desk and work on it comes to much less than an hour.
I’ve bought all the CT releases, and many of the Rifftrax releases. It’s obviously more fun for the viewer if you don’t have to do the sync-ing step. And I do like that CT can track down the kind of old, really cheesy movies that MST3k would do. But I also thoroughly enjoy many of the Rifftrax. All of these people are writers which have provided me with many laughs over the years. Laughs that in some cases have helped tremendously when I’ve been going through tough times. Oddly enough, I wish all of them well, and I enjoy most of what all of them are doing.
And for those who like the kinds of movies that MST3k used to do, rifftrax is also providing a home for “iRiffs”, where other groups can do whatever kind of riffing they enjoy on whatever kinds of movies and public-domain shorts that they want to riff on. I think that’s great. Admittedly the quality of those varies quite a bit, but I’ve enjoyed many of the iRiffs that I’ve bought. And you can tell these new groups of riffers are going through the same learning curves that happened in the early days of MST3k. It’s fun to see them get better as time goes on.
All of these groups (CT, Rifftrax, iRiffs) are just trying to supply people with some laughs. If you want to live your life sulking around and miserable, well, there’s always the news programs for you to watch. Me, I could use a few extra laughs.
To Connor @ RiffTrax:
Setting aside this budding “MST3K meets Jaws” flamewar aside for a moment, the question arose somewhere in this thread asking how RiffTrax is able to post a sample of movie with riffing without aquiring the rights to the movie. I really am curious how the legalities work. Could you enlighten us?
I think the answer is that it falls into the “for review purposes” type of exception that lets you should clips from movies on TV shows. It all depends on the context.
If there’s a crime inspired by the Joker, the news can show a clip of a scene. But they can’t just say “We ran short tonight, here’s two minutes of the Joker!”
That should be “show clips,” not “should clips.”
Wtf. I’ve watched nearly every Rifftrax and NONE of the movies have been good. Dark Knight is BORING.
>shakes head<
This is why we can’t have nice things.
“Wtf. I’ve watched nearly every Rifftrax and NONE of the movies have been good. Dark Knight is BORING.” watch out joe sixpack, criticizing TDK is blasphemy! heath ledgers performance is up with the angels dont you know? but criticising rifftrax is easy and fun.
“do you get the point” is my new catchword-philosophy
TDK is a $2,000,000 turd.
This was no boating accident!
Several iRiff-ers have had their youtube clips pulled down as some kind of copyright violation, and they usually can get them put right back up by saying something along the lines of:
“This is a sample/advertisement for a product, and that product does not include any of the copyrighted material. In fact that product requires the customer to go out and obtain their own copy of the copyrighted material, using the standard sources for buying that copyrighted material”.
I think YouTube or the original owner gets upset because they assume the iRiff will also include the original movie.