Reb Brown from MST3K's Space Mutiny in one of the best bad movies of the 80s, a very funny 1983 film about a very blonde, very stupid caveman who fights both dinosaurs with an axe and robots with a laser gun.
He wanders around aimlessly and every single civilization he comes across, he destroys completely, with fire and with flooding. There's no thought process to this, or to this film. Yor destroys simply because he is.
He is accompanied by the jealous, spiteful Kallah, who has some crazy 80s hair going on, and attempts to kill anyone else who hits on Yor. There's also Pag, an old man who loves his hemp. There are evil blue cavemen, and evil grey cavemen. It's nice that evil is color coded.
It all ends up in a sci-fi city for some reason, with the ridiculous villain The Overlord, who probably likes to play Dungeons and Dragons, and some pretty pathetic future people.
By the end of it, our hero has killed everyone who isn't him and doomed the entire future of humanity, as his epic 80s Queen-like theme song plays! Yor! Hunter from the Future!
Commentary by Garrett Gilchrist.
Not currently on DVD, but easy to find online. Although I have the VHS, the copy of the film I used specifically for this riff is a widescreen AVI taped off of Turner Classic Movies and found on a pirate torrent website. You can probably find that exact same AVI yourself. This track should sync to any other version as well. The film has been released on DVD in Germany.
Comments
Funny! Some really clever lines, and thanks for using some of my stone-age rip-offs of the MST3K Blast Hardcheese gag. I'm glad we have iriffs for obscure stuff like this, I just wish it was easier to get a hold of!
According to your posts, you did this by recording a bunch of lines and splicing them into a riff later. Sometimes this shows through: audio can be softer or sound slightly different between one riff and the next.
It's extremely joke-dense, maybe too much so, but that is much, much better than being too sparse. One thing with stuff being dense is that you can miss some funny moments from the movie or even a set-up for the next riff. I don't remember that happening too much here tho. Also it kind of betrays the "I'm making this stuff up as I go along" mystique.
I think you could do well with some guest riffers to play off of. You've got your film making hobby and surely a few of your friends from that would like to help out next time. Just a thought. Thanks!
Dude, you just managed to Riff one of my favorite bad movies from the 80's, a film so absurd that it truly must be seen to be believed. I assure you, I will be downloading this and watching it promptly. Lucky for us I have (and cherish) the VHS!
This was Hilarious!!
I can't believe this movie got missed when I was growing up.. Well, actually I could..
Check out Star Crash as well!- RVR II
The songs were a nice touch and cracked me up. I think parts of this riff would have benefited from a co-riffer rather than bouncing jokes back and forth off yourself. It also seemed at times there were too many jokes in too short a time. But as the movie went on the riff ratio evened out and worked well. There were plenty of puns which made me chuckle.
I would also say this one probably should have an Explicit Content label due to the multiple uses of "f***".
Let me get this out the of way first...the jokes are good. Some of them REALLY good. Clever running gags (especially the final act with the resistance fighters dressed like Santa's elves), and almost every goofy aspect of the movie that could be commented upon is commented upon.
As David mentioned, though, it's clear that there's splicing going on; not just by the sound quality, but the sheer density of gags. While few (if any) commit the sin of "important dialogue overrun," there's barely a moment of silence to enjoy some of the jokes before the next one comes in. If there were multiple riffers, this may not be such a problem (especially since some of the jokes are tailor-made for two people to do), but from a solo riffer, some of them don't work as well. Another matter is the delivery style; your voice lends itself to the sort of laidback, mellow riffing one used to hear from Joel, but the written material is definitely more reminiscent of the faster, punchier delivery from later MST3K, and as such you get more jokes running together simply because your delivery doesn't allow time for them to all fit. It's sort of a strange critique to give: your delivery is enjoyable, and your jokes are enjoyable, and they work, but occasionally the two different styles mismatch.
It is still pretty damn funny, though, and I'd love to see what you do next.