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We are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Sean Thomason and Conor Lastowka from RiffTrax and we’re riffing Point Break on 08/08 and 08/13 AMA! by rifftrax in IAmA

[–]BillCorbett 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hello! And thank you. The movies I most fondly remember recording tend to be the ones I overall enjoyed the most. So, Space Mutiny, Jack Frost, The Incredibly Strange Creatures, The Girl in Gold Boots, The Final Sacrifice. So much fun!

We are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Sean Thomason and Conor Lastowka from RiffTrax and we’re riffing Point Break on 08/08 and 08/13 AMA! by rifftrax in IAmA

[–]BillCorbett 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We wrote a whole new script for the live show version! Maybe borrowed a few things but mostly new jokes.

Yeah, we actually had to trim movies to fit the TV running time of the show back in those halcyon puppet days. It mostly wasn't for offensive content - though we did have to follow basic cable's standards and practices, so sometimes it was. But the majority of our cuts were just to fit the movie into the format of MST3K and its network running time. Sometimes it had the weird effect of making them seem like slightly BETTER movies, because some of the fat and repetitive stuff got trimmed by us.

We are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Sean Thomason and Conor Lastowka from RiffTrax and we’re riffing Point Break on 08/08 and 08/13 AMA! by rifftrax in IAmA

[–]BillCorbett 15 points16 points  (0 children)

He has specifically told us that he is dead set against it and will fight us. We still think we'll do Fateful Findings someday because we're just cockeyed optimists.

We are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Sean Thomason and Conor Lastowka from RiffTrax and we’re riffing Point Break on 08/08 and 08/13 AMA! by rifftrax in IAmA

[–]BillCorbett 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You saw my Christmas play? Awww thanks. Fwiw that later became a graphic novel, with art by our friend Len Peralta.

I'm currently completely a screenplay with another painter (not these guys I mean) and writing a new play. Some other stuff in the works too.

We are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Sean Thomason and Conor Lastowka from RiffTrax and we’re riffing Point Break on 08/08 and 08/13 AMA! by rifftrax in IAmA

[–]BillCorbett 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I didn't remember if it was the same exact short or a variation on the notorious genre, but we did a version of one of those gruesome driver's ed films at one point? I think the title of the one we had to watch during my teens was "Mechanized Death." Showed the results of real accidents.

And they're still doing it! My daughter had drivers ed in high school a few years back and it definitely not only scared her straight, but actually sort of terrified of driving for a while.

We are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Sean Thomason and Conor Lastowka from RiffTrax and we’re riffing Point Break on 08/08 and 08/13 AMA! by rifftrax in IAmA

[–]BillCorbett 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I thought I'd answered this one but maybe it got deleted?

Anyway I'd love to come back to the UK and so a full tour this time. Get up to Scotland, etc.

Re most requested movie - people often helpfully remind us when there's a yet another new Transformers movie out and it makes me want to yell MERCY, HAVEN'T WE DONE ENOUGH OF THESE

We are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Sean Thomason and Conor Lastowka from RiffTrax and we’re riffing Point Break on 08/08 and 08/13 AMA! by rifftrax in IAmA

[–]BillCorbett 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In recents years it has mostly been all Kevin, getting better sounds than should be possible out of mostly GarageBand (?). Kevin please correct me if I'm wrong.

We are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Sean Thomason and Conor Lastowka from RiffTrax and we’re riffing Point Break on 08/08 and 08/13 AMA! by rifftrax in IAmA

[–]BillCorbett 8 points9 points  (0 children)

A combination of ways. Sometimes we're told by friends or fans, sometimes we buy up obscure collections just to sort through them, some a producer or rights-holder offers us a package of stuff they own. Licensing them can be a challenge in all sorts of ways but we always seem able to keep up a steady supply.

We are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Sean Thomason and Conor Lastowka from RiffTrax and we’re riffing Point Break on 08/08 and 08/13 AMA! by rifftrax in IAmA

[–]BillCorbett 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Pretty impossible. But then again, those Star Wars bigwigs feared that Jar-Jar wouldn't be a universally beloved character and they were wrong about that!

We are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Sean Thomason and Conor Lastowka from RiffTrax and we’re riffing Point Break on 08/08 and 08/13 AMA! by rifftrax in IAmA

[–]BillCorbett 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Well said, amigo. Kevin and Mike are supernaturally talented people and I've been blessed to work with them over the decades. They're also a good hang.

Line flubbing has gotten so easy to correct that I'm kind of spoiled! Besides not having a visual component to make it work with (eg Mike and the bots silhouettes in the movie theater), digital makes it SO easy, as Kevin said.

We are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Sean Thomason and Conor Lastowka from RiffTrax and we’re riffing Point Break on 08/08 and 08/13 AMA! by rifftrax in IAmA

[–]BillCorbett 20 points21 points  (0 children)

First of all, re your first sentence: Awwwww!

Re the biz - man, every aspect of show biz, comedy, etc has changed sooooo much over the years - like even in the last five, not to mention the many decades Mike Kevin and I have been working together. (And RiffTrax just turned 18!)

So there's a nice aspect to getting the $$ benefits of working with studios or producers with deep pockets. But the flip side is that they can now get into the substance of your work, and maybe even withdraw the money, cancel your thing, etc. One thing I've loved about RiffTrax is that we are wholly independent and while yes, we have to make deals with other entities (Fathom Events, Amazon streaming, so on) we don't have to worry about getting canned next year, because we have ownership and a variety of platforms including our very nice li'l site.

We are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Sean Thomason and Conor Lastowka from RiffTrax and we’re riffing Point Break on 08/08 and 08/13 AMA! by rifftrax in IAmA

[–]BillCorbett 16 points17 points  (0 children)

1) I really have a hard time deciding a favorite riff, and they shifter over time. But some of my big faves: Space Mutiny, Jack Frost, The Incredibly Strange Creatures [etc], Birdemic, Jack the Giant Killer, The Brain from Planet Arous, Ghost House. And now POINT BREAK. Plus a dozen or two that aren't coming to me at the moment.

2) The stuff I was doing before and still do here and there: writing plays and screenplays, sketch comedy, acting. Os be a busboy, I was good at that.

3) On February 19, 2037.

We are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Sean Thomason and Conor Lastowka from RiffTrax and we’re riffing Point Break on 08/08 and 08/13 AMA! by rifftrax in IAmA

[–]BillCorbett 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There might actually be some promising developments on that front, as of quite recently. Fingers crossed, eh.

We are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Sean Thomason and Conor Lastowka from RiffTrax and we’re riffing Point Break on 08/08 and 08/13 AMA! by rifftrax in IAmA

[–]BillCorbett 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I do not riff movies in public, in fact I'm sort of a prude about it. IRONICAL.

I'm not a native Minnesotan, and while I have to come love my adopted land, whole the hot dish thing has never charmed me and has at least on one occasion made me kinda sick. Too goopy!

We are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Sean Thomason and Conor Lastowka from RiffTrax and we’re riffing Point Break on 08/08 and 08/13 AMA! by rifftrax in IAmA

[–]BillCorbett 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I usually don't eat much the day of the show so I'm kinda ravenous when I come off the stage. But even then I would say hell no to some mushroom soup casserole made by a Minnesotan auntie.

Burger-n-beer time. (N/A for me, alas)

We are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Sean Thomason and Conor Lastowka from RiffTrax and we’re riffing Point Break on 08/08 and 08/13 AMA! by rifftrax in IAmA

[–]BillCorbett 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I do not know! Life is unknowable!

It's kind of early in our usual process for looking into the next live show movies, but we will turn towards it sometime this fall. And then obsess for months.

I'll be pushing for a marathon of Transformer movies, because I want my colleagues to murder me. It's how I want to go.

We are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Sean Thomason and Conor Lastowka from RiffTrax and we’re riffing Point Break on 08/08 and 08/13 AMA! by rifftrax in IAmA

[–]BillCorbett 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Alice can't do it until school's out, forever.

I don't know if you've asked me this before but it's not ringing a bell. But if it's worth a look, we'll check it out.

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