Riff Raff Theater

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RIFF RAFF THEATER - DIE HARD

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iRIFF BY: Riff Raff Theater (Created January 22, 2009)

Die Hard may qualify with some of you as a "quality" flick, but think about what it brought you: The star power neccessary for Bruce Willis to make Hudson Hawk. The premiere of Severus Snape. The man who went on to direct Speed. And every cringeworthy action flick cliche? It was spawned HERE! How can you pass this up? We certainly didn't, and neither did the dozens of writers who came along for the ride.

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Re: Audio issue?

Submitted by DavidPinkston on 10 June 2009 - 5:05am.

The movie and riff are two separate things. When you actually play them together, you can make the riff as loud or quiet as you want, and the audio level on the riff was pretty consistent throughout when I played it.

funny, but audio issue?

Submitted by Prof. Numbers on 9 June 2009 - 9:42pm.

The riffs are funny. On the sample, the movie was too quiet.

A solid 9 in my book!

Submitted by NYFalcon1981 on 18 May 2009 - 4:01pm.

I greatly enjoyed this effort! It scored a 9 in my book, VERY high quality recording sound wise, I enjoyed the variety in riffs thrown at us, from the obvious Harry Potter-Snape references to calling VHS a primitive attempt at Blu Ray. Very fun and I hope they keep up the good work.

It's crap

Submitted by NathanielChristie on 28 April 2009 - 5:56pm.

You would think with a group of 28 people could come up with something funny, but your wrong. This commentary was very static, there was no chemistry or style to the jokes. It didn't even sound like the guys were in the same room while recording. I will say one thing I use this with my own riff track as example of what not to do. After about 30 min in I wanted to shut it off and watch the movie without the "riff".
Shame on you, it takes alot of time and talent to write funny jokes, and this is the best you can come up with. Anyone who thinks that this is funny has no idea what funny is and should just watch there Darma and Greg DVDs and stop encouraging mindless humor.

Decent stuff.

Submitted by Thrifty on 24 April 2009 - 5:13pm.

I'd give it a 3/5, The audio quality was fine, on par with official Rifftrax. Riffing itself didn't really wow me, but it's hard to wow me if Mike Nelson or Bill Corbett aren't involved. I got some chuckles, but no hearty guffaws. I liked the Matthew Elliot Rifftrax Presents better.

Good stuff

Submitted by SethPaul on 16 March 2009 - 5:55pm.

Good track all around: wide range of references, good emotional delivery, and decent running gags. Only a few spots of dead air where something really could've gone in for a good zinger make this not quite a 5 (though certainly well above a 4). Al-a-ka-grooch!

I was sceptical

Submitted by Raven on 20 February 2009 - 5:43pm.

I was a little concerned about riffing on Die Hard, because I didn't think the movie really deserved the riffing treatment but this one didn't disappoint. I think the only reason that Speed would be considered better was because that's a bad movie and this is a good movie (and come on. Riffing on Keanu is so easy), but the riffs were both top notch.

Die Hard vs other RiffRaff's.

Submitted by GaranceDrosehn on 20 February 2009 - 7:55pm.

FWIW, I'd agree that "Speed" is a better riff track, but then I think "Speed" is possibly the best iRiff done by anybody so far in iRiff'ing history. I do think "Die Hard" is a better riff track than "Tron", at least for the laughs I got out of it. One thing I like about the riffing here is that pretty much all the riffs are definitely for the movie we're watching. I'm starting to find even some official Rifftrax annoying when they throw in some "generic riff" which really doesn't have much to do with what is going on in the movie at the time.

Not as good as Speed

Submitted by Invader_Quirk on 18 February 2009 - 7:10pm.

Speed is a much better Riff Raff Theater release, but this one was enjoyable. There were some very funny, laugh-out-loud moments, but not a lot of them. The deliveries were excellent for the most part (with a few strange exceptions), and the Riff Raff guys did all they could, but the jokes submitted just weren't quite as strong this time. More obvious/filler jokes than I would've liked. Worth a watch, but if you're only going to buy one Riff Raff release, make it Speed.

Pretty Good

Submitted by TristanBowersox on 18 February 2009 - 7:31pm.

This was a bit of a let down compared to Speed, which was glorious, but there were still several laugh-out-loud moments. Sound quality is very professional and their voices have decent energy. There were a few lines where the deliveries sounded lackluster or maybe a better word would be "canned," but they were in the vast minority. The jokes themselves were well-varied in style (one of the benefits of having a writing staff of a couple dozen) and there were few if any noticeable dry spells.

Great riff for a great movie

Submitted by GaranceDrosehn on 15 February 2009 - 9:59pm.

Yes, that's right, I do like the original movie "Die Hard" --- but I'll also say that this riff track is a good companion to the film. Another good collection of lines from the crowd-sourcing method of Riff Raff Theater. I've watched this several times, and each time catch different jokes that I somehow missed in the earlier trips through it. Nice sound quality and well-placed riffs. I have no reservations in marking this as a 5-star riff.