What's that? An entire 90+ minute show for only $1.50? That's right! Matt and Jon from Philistine Productions present "Best Friends B-Movie Bonanza!" For this first episode, they have chosen the 80's video legend "Deadtime Stories," a drive-in style anthology kinda like "Creepshow" without any of the qualities that made it good. It's like "Tales from the Darkside"meets "Growing Pains," served with a side of jellied-Quarterflash. Join Jon and Matt, two guys who love sweaters and bad movies, as they swallow a triple dose of 80's camp.
Also, one of the actors in the movie was briefly on "Family Ties!" Isn't that great?...no?...
*The episode has been split into two parts to maintain picture quality. Hey, it's still cheap.
Comments
The skits alone are worth the $0.75 per file, the riffing is great, the cheesey video quality is straight from the 80's which makes it even more fun to watch. I loved the opening song.
A lot of fun, can't wait to see more from you guys!
I'm in some serious awe of this stuff. Just a damn near home run out of the park. A lot of iRiffers (myself included, I think) have a tendency to overwrite at times. What's insane is these guys overwrite and it's STILL good. Their personae are just so damn engaging that you (usually) don't care. A couple of times things go on a bit too long (the "Pi" parody here was brilliant for about the first half, then just kind of kept going--though the ending made up for it), this is still just ... wow. Something to aspire to for sure. Make sure you play part 1 first. I accidentally played part 2 & was like, 'THESE PEOPLE ARE TALENTLESS HACKS; THIS MAKES NO SENSE.' Then? CHAGRIN. Anyway, you can tell these guys have worked together before; chemistry just oozes out of every pore. I hope they do more stuff. Tough to pick a favorite line because there are SO FRIGGIN MANY, but it's probably personally a toss-up between "Take this knife and END YOUR GODDAMNED LIFE" and "That had a gooshy, soppy ending." "Just like daddy's midnight massages." (and there's a line that starts with interracial that i'm not even sure i can put in here, but it had me laughing pretty loud)
Michael T Bradley
Ice on Mars
Hey, thanks to everybody who commented/ downloaded our show. We seriously appreciate the kind words, make no mistake!
I'll be honest...I used to be one of those people who would watch MST3K and skip over the skit segments (I've changed in recent years). But this show was different...the riffs themselves were entertaining (the middle story I think overall was the strongest), but what I liked best were the skit segments. Clever, entertaining, and well done despite a low budget, my favorite scene has to be the weird film between segments one and two.
The only thing I actually didn't like was how differently the two characters were portrayed in the skits compared to the movie itself; outside the movie, they're friendly, overly optimistic, and almost hopelessly naive at times. During the movie, the riffs are geared toward the same, sarcastic comments we all know (and love, don't get me wrong), and that seems to work against the established characters. I understand one can hardly be optimistic and make fun of something at the same time, but it seemed a little jarring at first. Before you get the wrong impression, I LIKED the guys outside the movie, and was actually hoping to see more of their antics.
The price is right, though, and I certainly didn't walk away unsatisfied. Looking forward to more in the future.
We much appreciate the constructive criticism, very helpful. We have actually been thinking about this for episode two (the 1996 video cheese ball "Alien Species.")