RiffTrax adds new titles, including "X-Men"

posted by Tygrrius @ 5:39 PM

A number of new movie titles have been added since we last checked in with Mike Nelson's RiffTrax: X-Men (with Bill Corbett), Halloween (with Kevin Murphy), Top Gun (with Bill Corbett), Point Break, and Crossroads.

Each movie-length rifftrax commentary, in the style of Mystery Science Theater 3000, can be downloaded for a reasonable fee.

As an example of the rifftrax humor, the site synopsis of X-Men is as follows:

On the shadowy periphery of society lives a secret organization of mutants – despised, deformed and loathed, they live in fear of a nation that holds them in contempt. They are comic book fans.

Nelson served as writer and host of MST3k. Murphy voiced Tom Servo, while Corbett voiced Crow T. Robot in later seasons after the departure of Trace Beaulieu.

Riffing on such high budget, mainstream blockbusters as X-Men and Crossroads would not have been possible within the restrictions of MST3k.

Since the rifftrax are meant to be played at the same time as a DVD that the downloader already owns or rents, acquiring rights to the riffed movie is no longer an issue.

Since Star Trek V: The Final Frontier has already been riffed, it is only a matter of time before episode one of another space franchise is taken on.

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