UPDATE! We've now added a second copy of the movie for the same low price! A new "Filmmaker's Commentary" track by the writer and producer of Final Archive explains some of what we went through in making the film and lays out some of the pitfalls new filmmakers can run into so you'll never have to make a movie this bad! Two commentary tracks, one funny and one educational ... all for one crisp dollar!
6 years ago, I raised a bunch of money to make a science fiction short film entitled "Final Archive." There were only three problems with doing this:
1) I didn't know what the hell I was doing as a writer.
2) I didn't know what the hell I was doing as a filmmaker.
3) I didn't know what the hell I was doing as an editor.
The end result was a movie so bad I swore I would never let anyone see it EVER.
Until Rifftrax came along!
Final Archive is the quietly pretentious short film about a space station that looks like an office building, special effects that would make Stargate Atlantis blush, and accents getting more brutalized than when Dick Van Dyke insulted the entire United Kingdom in Mary Poppins!
Final Archive! "We made a movie so bad, we had to riff it ourselves!"
Join the only all woman riffing team 3HotRiff as we take on the worst science fiction short film of all time!
PS. Did I mention that one of my 3 riffers, Vanelle, was IN this movie? Heh.
PPS. I own the full rights to this movie so if you lose your minds and decide YOU want to take a crack at riffing it, contact me through the Rifftrax Roundtable message board! There is no charge to riff this horrid movie, all I ask is that you link to this page when you sell your riff.
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Comments
Nice riff... lots of attitude and funny riffing. I look forward to hearing more riffs!
OK, the movie sucked a little bit. Well,maybe a lot. But the commentary by writer/producer Dexter Goad was Outstanding! I learned a lot from his commentary. Just as he learned a lot from making this movie.
The movie obviosly wasn't made with worldwide distribution in mind. It had a low budget and probably brought people into play who all had a lot to learn. So what if it was obviously shot in a building and not a mockup of a star ship. Sometimes you just have to look beyond the obvious and enjoy a film for what it is. Did George Lucas have a Death Star in his backyard when he started messing with his parents Super 8 movie camera? The movie had a story line, it was science fiction and the uniforms weren't that bad. I think it was a good first shot for a beginning writer/producer. I'm sure long lasting relationships were formed from this first venture into film making. You can't walk if you don't take that first step and you're even going to fall a couple of times once you start running.
i was only able to access the 3 riffers. I thought they were a little over the top.I see Roadie had a cameo in the beginning.This laptop tells me something is not compatible to access the commentary.I finally gave up and admitted defeat in trying to download the proper program necessary to access this part.From what i could ascertain the movie needed a little tweaking.Oh well lessons learned.Better luck next time.If at first you don't succeed keep trying until you get it right.
Thanks for the comments, guys!
Josangel, when I've had problems playing these riff files in the past I used the free video player called VCL. So far I've been able to play everything from this site with it. You can find it here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Thanks it worked.Your commentary was greatl.Sounds like you gained a tremendous amount of knowledge since you did this.All the best in your future endeavors. Btw the Chief sent me here.
I'm not going to rate as I didn't listen to the riff (I look forward to riffs from them in the future, though), but the commentary is very interesting & fun for anyone interested in making movies, especially on a low budget. The only advice I'd add is you might want to start with a comedy; even if it's bad, it might accidentally be bad in a funny way, at least gaining you some laughs inadvertently. Also, all hail John Foutz!
Michael T Bradley
Ice on Mars