RiffTrax does Episode IV...

Finally! A good excuse to watch the special edition! ;)

http://www.mst3kinfo.com/?cat=23

Yeah, I think it is awesome they are doing the OT. Now we'll have the entire PT, the HS and the OT with riffs.

Even A New Hope special edition is not as bad as Clone Wars 2008 or Indiana Jones IV which deserve to be made fun of without mercy.

Films Like Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars 1977 should never get the MST3K treatment.  They are too good.   Films like Cloverfield, Godzilla 1998, Transformers by Bay, and Armageddon far more deserve to be ribbed.

I also find it funny that these no talent clowns who have never made a film feel like they can make fun of George Lucas who though best years are behind him still made the oot and raiders of the lost ark. 

Can i pay for a rifftrax by George lucas where he makes fun of these people for making money off of him and having no lives?

The whole thing with mystery science theater 3000 was that they were supposed to make fun of bad, or campy films that were either in the public domain or were cheap to buy the rights. 

I also saw that they did rifftrax for the Dark Knight and Iron man probably the best films of 2008.  What the Ang Lee hulk or hulk remake were not available.

So i saw they did indy 4.  The Matrix sequels deserve to be ribbed but not the first film.  Lord of the rings does not deserve to be ripped to shreds despite not being in line with the books. 

eragon defintely deserves to be made fun of.  But Harry Potter are well made films.  and x men 1 and 2 and spiderman 1 and 2 are good films but the third parts should be made fun of.

The prequels, they were not good star wars movies, should be made fun of. 

The 2004 special editions and greedo shooting first 1997 versions of star wars should be made fun of but only the new scenes added.  The old original trilogy stuff is good imho, okay maybe the ewoks in jedi deserve ridicule on Lucas part just like Jar Jar. But to me the Worst change of all was Hayden in Return of the Jedi. Oh and of course George had to put Jar Jar saying weesa freeee!.

skyjedi2005 said:

Films like Cloverfield, Godzilla 1998, Transformers by Bay, and Armageddon far more deserve to be ribbed

..for her pleasure.

Sorry :D

Lighten up, Skyguy! Life's too short!

FYI, many of the people who worked on the MST3K have made movies, and not just the big screen version of the show, which was nearly ruined by studio meddling.

These "no talent clowns" as you call them have brought me and many other people years of laughter, and they have the accolades and awards to show for it.

I love Star Wars, but there is no harm in poking fun at it once in a while. One might as well get upset over Hardware Wars. Or Robot Chicken! (And George gave his blessing to both.) There's a rifftrax for the Holiday Special too.

I take it Sky is not an MST3K fan.

Personally I think there was a lot of talent put into that show, and rifftrax does a decent job of carrying on that tradition. Though I must admit, crappy movies make for much funnier riffs than good ones. Which I think is one reason I don't find rifftrax nearly as funny as MST3K. Most the movies rifftrax does are typical hollywood regurgitation, none of it very good, but none of it even close to half as bad as films like Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, or Mano: Hands of Fate.

skyjedi2005 said:

The 2004 special editions and greedo shooting first 1997 versions of star wars should be made fun of but only the new scenes added.  The old original trilogy stuff is good imho, okay maybe the ewoks in jedi deserve ridicule on Lucas part just like Jar Jar. But to me the Worst change of all was Hayden in Return of the Jedi. Oh and of course George had to put Jar Jar saying weesa freeee!.

I don't know if anyone actually got this, but I did this weekend it was hilarious.  A great deal of the jokes were about the Special Edition (upon entering Mos Eisley "Oh so this is what Mos Eisley looks like! Boy the movie wouldn't have made any sense without these shots" "Yeah, no one would have liked it ever!"; "It's great that Lucas could realize his vision for this scene: out of focus brontosaurus butt.").  A whole bunch of them were about the prequels (And this is my counterpart R2D2: "I stood by your mother as she died."; "Luke's laying the sand!  His father would have hated that!")

The scariest joke came shortly after the crawl ended: "My question is, how are you watching this DVD when you told everyone online you were gonna throw it out and only keep the theatrical version, huh?"  It's like they're watching us...  Hi Mike!