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Rifftrax Live: "Manos, the Hands of Fate" was wonderful!!! They're doing another in October: "Birdemic" -- the clips they showed look phenomenally awful in a so-low-budget-even-Syfy-won't-touch-it way! Can't wait!
There was a slide show playing on the screen when I came in before the actual show, with "movie quotes" and "movie haiku" and so on, hilarious stuff. Samples:
"Just leave the baby near the dingo cave. C'mon, the beer's getting cold." -- A Cry in the Dark
plot for next Die Hard film: Bruce Willis sends a bad guy into ComicCon wearing a t-shirt that says, "I think
Firefly is overrated."
Joss.
Whedon.
(hold for thunderous applause) -- and everyone DID! was hilarious!
Haiku for Transformers 2:
No no no no no
No no no no no no no
No no no no no.
Haiku for Manos:
Manos: Hands of Fate
You paid money to see this
What is wrong with you??
The guys were shown live onstage from Nashville, with a blownup painting from the Master's home behind them and some devil dogs. They received pizza from Torgo, of course, and did a shoutout for some local filmmakers making "Manos, the Hands of Fate II: Return to Valley Lodge". (Yeeek!) Then they had two absolutely hysterical shorts:
"Welcome Home, Norman" -- apparently intended to be a short comic piece from the '70s, it portrays a buttoned-up-70s-style salesman coming back to his hometown airport and trying to navigate the parking lot. The guys ripped it so many new holes it probably is on life support right now, from mocking Norman's "catchphrase" (Uuuunnnnnnngh!) to slamming every single thing that Norman did.
"At Your Fingertips: Cylinders" -- another educational short from the late 60s or early 70s. Lots of long, soundless footage of little kids making things with glue, paper, and cardboard tubes. Some absolutely hysterical riffs on this one, including a Catherine the Great joke. Must be seen to be believed!
"Manos" itself, I have to admit, was not riffed as wonderfully as in the original MST ep...but for being all-new and original, they did good. Highlights were the "White Trash Twilight Sketch" where Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy gave the perpetually-necking couple in "Manos" lines a white trash version of the characters from "Twilight" might sound like...rapidfire and hilarious, and I think the line "When are you gonna move that washin' machine outta the front yard?" "Why don't you get onea yore werewolfs ta do it?" was when I lost my voice from laughing so hard. Sometimes they simply played the movie, with the guys' voices overdubbed, and sometimes they showed a splitscreen, with Mike, Kevin, and Bill shown on one side and Manos on the other, and several times they didn't say ANYTHING...they just let the film run and stared at it like "Well???" -- which proved hysterical. Riffing by nonriffing! New technique! Kevin especially had a priceless look on his face at one point, waiting for the movie to DO something. He also sang, which was lovely -- man's still got a voice! Repeated uses of the joke "Uh...LINE?" and "Actors to the set, please..." worked well.
Am hoping this one will be released on their site...am sure bootlegs already abound. It was hilarious and well worth the money to see. I encourage anyone considering the next show to go!
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