Greetings RiffTraxians and Doctor Who fans! If you're here tonight, it most likely means you indulged in the digital goodies section of RiffTrax Live: Doctor Who, The Five Doctors! If not, there's an encore performance on August 24.
If you liked the show and enjoyed the comics in the digital goodies, be sure to check out the Storybook series in it's entirety! You can read all chapters for free here on SugarRayDodge.com, or you can buy physical and digital copies using the links immediately to the right of this post!
You can also order 2017 autographed special editions of these books if that's your thing. Last day to order them is 8/31/17, to keep them special, you see. This is also the only chance you'll have to order hardcover editions, as they are not available during any other time. All special editions purchased in August ship in September, and don't worry if you placed a pre-order for August delivery, those will be in your hands very, very soon.
I want to thank everybody at RiffTrax once again for being so supportive of me, Storybook and the RiffWiki and allowing me to contribute to the Live Shows in this way. This is the 10th RiffTrax Live show I have contributed to, it means a lot and I am always very grateful. Thanks to everybody who went to the show tonight and I hope you'll stick around for more Storybook action, as Volume 4 has already begun development! Thanks again for visiting!
P.S. For all you n00bs, here's a short video all about the Storybook series...
Welcome once again to the audience of RiffTrax Live! If you're here, you probably followed the link from the Digital Goodies page where you can download Guardiana's Guide to Summer Safety, but if you haven't we're still happy to have you, sort of. This is the 9th live show in a row RiffTrax has done me the honor of allowing me to contribute to the show in this way. It is truly always such a thrill to come back and share what I can with the audience.
If you like what you saw in GG2SS, you can pre-order a copy of the book it will be collected with, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Storybook, the third volume of the Mystery Science Storybook series. You can also pre-order special editions of volumes 1 & 2 if you do not already have them, ALL BOOKS WILL SHIP IN AUGUST 2017!
"Room Full of Spoons
is not just a documentary, it is a journey. It is a brilliant
recounting of the emotional roller coaster ride one man went on with a
mysterious stranger named Tommy Wiseau."
For more than a decade, cult film
enthusiasts have had a complicated love affair with what many
consider to be the worst movie ever made, Tommy Wiseau's The Room.
So much fun has been had at
public screenings that traditions have been established during
viewings that surpass those of even the legendary Rocky
Horror Picture Show. RiffTrax
has even dedicated two separate MP3 commentaries for the film, as
well as featured it during one of their 2015 live events. And while
it is an experience unlike anything else you'll have in a movie
theater, the mystique of it's creator, the one and only Tommy Wiseau,
rivals and almost surpasses the reputation of the film itself.
So
what makes Wiseau such a compelling figure? There have been so many
mysteries surrounding the man, and when pressed for answers, Wiseau
always deflects. One would think that simply asking “where are you
from” ought to be responded to with a simple answer. The film
purportedly cost six million dollars to produce, where did that money
come from? Again, no answers were forthcoming from Wiseau, in fact he
becomes defensive and hostile when the question is put to him.
Tommy's mystique is largely a product of his own actions.
In
2013, Tommy's best friend and co-star, Greg Sestero, wrote and
published his account of the making of The Room,
entitled The Disaster Artist.
This book went a long way to answer many questions about what it was
like to be on the set during the creation of the film, but it left
the questions regarding Wiseau ambiguous and unanswered. This is
where the documentary Room Full of Spoons
takes over. Directed by a long-time fan and one-time friend of
Wiseau, RFoS goes on an extensive journalistic investigations to
finally answer the two biggest mysteries.
As the
documentary's narrative follows the quest for answers, it also gives
us a much deeper insight to the experiences of most of the cast
during production. One of the things you recognize instantly, and is
one of the documentary's biggest strengths, is how absolutely
wonderful these men and women are. Despite the absurdity of
everything going on around them, the cast remain dedicated to putting
on the best performance they can. They were every bit as dedicated to
making the film a success as Wiseau was. All these years later, the
movie is still a huge part of their lives. One would expect them to
be bitter, and understandably so, but they aren't. They have embraced
their status of being a part of something that has brought many
people so much happiness, which has only made the fans love them even
more.
It
also addresses questions regarding specific quirks and themes of the
film. What is up with those highly uncomfortable and lengthy love
scenes with Juliette Daniel? Does Claudette really have breast
cancer? Why does Mark literally attempt to murder Peter, and then
seconds later everything is okay? What's the deal with Denny's
perving on Johnny and Lisa? What was the extent of his relationship
with the drug dealing thug, Chris R? Why are they playing football in
tuxedos? Many of these questions are answered as well as can be
expected, but ultimately we will probably never know all the answers,
if for no other reason than such answers simply do not exist.
The
film also chronicles the journey the director went through from first
being introduced to The Room,
to the setting up of a special screening where he actually meets the
man he has idolized for more than a year, their growing friendship
and promises of future collaborations, including the very documentary
in which this is taking place. But things don't go as planned, and
it's discovered that Tommy's behavior is erratic and his friendships
one-sided. In his quest to achieve higher levels of creative success,
Wiseau leaves behind him a trail of betrayed, one-time friends once
he feels their usefulness to him has run out. He becomes elusive and
somewhat psychotic, many times even going as far as launching smear
campaigns against them, a fate which befell the director of Room
Full of Spoons.
Now
for the big questions. How was the film financed? Who would possibly
six million dollars into a project that nobody would even think would
become as successful as it was? Through following a breadcrumb trail
through legal documents and social media, the definitive answer to
this question has never ever been so close to being uncovered, but
you will have to watch the documentary to find out just how far this
trail led them.
And
THE biggest question of all, who is Tommy Wiseau and where
does he come from? Any time he
is pressed on this topic, Tommy always answered that he is an
American. It is obvious that he has a deep love for this country and
believes it is the place where people can come to make their dreams
come true and you can't really blame him for that because it is true.
I accept his self-identification as an American because I, too, am a
proud and patriotic American. However, it is clear Tommy is not from
around here. So many absurd theories have been bandied about in an
attempt to fill in the missing pieces. But this is where Room
Full of Spoons sets itself apart
from everything else. It doesn't theorize, it provides the answers.
Not just any answer,
but the answers. This
film definitively answers the question of who is Tommy
Wiseau. The answer is,
surprisingly, a very simple one, but again, to know this answer you
must watch the film.
Room Full of Spoons
is not just a documentary, it is a journey. It is a brilliant
recounting of the emotional roller coaster ride one man went on with a
mysterious stranger named Tommy Wiseau. It is, by far, the best told
story through the art of documentary film in the past decade. If you
are a Room fan, this
is absolutely essential to fully comprehend and appreciate what
really happened in California in 2002 and 2003 when this truly
historic film was created. You will not be disappointed, rather you
will walk away feeling inspired to go make your own dreams come true.
Welcome to the pilot episode of the RiffWiki.net Podcast! As a way of
introducing what this podcast is going to be, we have compiled two
interviews from 2015 conducted for RiffWiki.net on YouTube, and combined
them to bring you this episode. The first interview is with the
RiffMaster himself, Michael J. Nelson, and the second is with Conor
Lastowka and Sean Thomason, senior RiffTrax writers. You can see all
their awesome riffs at RiffTrax.com!
Listen to the other shows on the is.media network at http://is.media
The new episode of ICWXP is out today! There's lots of cool extras on the new DVD, including a of my own contribution brought to life by Rikk and company and a interview between Rikk and myself about the show and other topics. Check it out today!
SRD brings in the best female riffer on
YouTube, Edgey Berzerker, for SRD’s Movie Night #8: Cobra! What do you
get when you combine these two crazy individuals, Sylvester Stallone and
Golan/Globus Productions? Absolute beautiful insanity and the most fun
you will ever have while watching a movie!
Welcome patrons of RiffTrax Live: Samurai Cop! What an amazing show, amiright? Thanks for checking out the digital goodies and downloading your exclusive comic for the event!
I'd like to thank RiffTrax for, yet again, letting me contribute to the show this way. This marks the third year and seventh show in a row we have met like this, it means a lot to me as an artist and a fan to be a part of the show and I'm grateful every single time.
If you'd like to become a supporter of the series and help us reach our ongoing funding goals, be sure to check out our Patreon profile! Comics, if you can believe it, costs quite a bit of money to produce and if the series is to continue as we would like it to, we need a steady stream of income to cover our expenses. Even $1 a month helps and we have lots of cool perks for each and every one of our backers. So give it a looksee, whynot? [/panhandling]
Things have changed significantly for women in the industry of professional wrestling since 2014. That’s thanks to a deep roster of committed, athletic women who refuse to be bound by the old stereotypes made popular by the ’90s Attitude Era and that lingered on decades past their welcome. From about 1999 until all-too-recently, the typical woman’s match would involve the words “cat fight” and/or “bra and panties.”
What made America’s sports entertainment titan WWE change its approach to women’s wrestling? In 2014, a revolution of sorts began to stir down in NXT, WWE’s developmental promotion. Triple H, a veteran of the Attitude Era and son-in-law of WWE CEO Vince McMahon, guided NXT to recruit some of the best female wrestlers he could find and groomed them to change the way the world looks at women in the industry. The most famous of these women are the self-styled “Four Horsewomen,” Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks, Bayley and Becky Lynch, but it goes beyond just them in the new era of many women becoming full-fledged superstars. Let’s take a look at all of the key players in this brave new world of non-sexualized female wrestling.
SRD’s Movie Night is BACK BACK BACK! And boy do we have an entry for the
ages! It’s the 1978 cult classic STARCRASH! This will be the first time
Vinny and Chris have seen this disaster piece, while Dave has seen it
once before. We won’t spoil any of it for you because it must be seen to
be believed!
Okay, so this will be a quick post about something I feel is important to say, because this thing has completely taken over my immediate world, but I won't say too much because I'm going to be writing about it in a more in-depth and comprehensive way on a website with far more reach than my personal blog. Consider this a preamble for what is to come soon...
A few hours ago, I watched what is probably the best new documentary I have personally seen in at least five years. It's called Room Full of Spoons,directed by debut filmmaker Rick Harper. It documents and explores the making of the cult phenomenon The Room, starring and written by the legendary Tommy Wiseau.
Now, there have been so many projects parodying and examining The Room phenomenon since it's release in 2003, but there have always been a lot of unanswered questions, a lot of mysteries surrounding it. Many of these mysteries were put to bed with Greg Sestero's amazing book, The Disaster Artist, but most of the big ones remained. Where is Tommy from? What's his life story? How did he get six million dollars to bring The Room into existence? These are questions most of us had long ago concluded would remain mysteries.
However, Rick Harper, a very dedicated fan, decided that he would be the one to not only make the single most comprehensive and definitive exploration into the world of The Room, but also to answer all the lingering mysteries of surrounding Wiseau himself. And he succeeds in spectacular fashion. Most projects like this simply acknowledge the mysteries and offer no answers, but this is where Room Full of Spoons sets itself apart. This. Film. Has. Answers!
Not only that, Room Full of Spoons is easily the most compelling and engaging documentary of this decade, and that is not hyperbole. All fans of The Room need to see this, support it and spread the word.It's up for pre-order now, and believe me when I say it is absolutely worth it. It will not disappoint you, rather it will surpass any expectations you have.
Well, another great year at RiffTrax
has come and gone. Before we launch headlong into the future, let's
take a look back at what can arguably be the best year in RiffTrax
history, and hand out the awards for the Third Annual RiffWiki.net Riff
of the Year, Live Show of the Year and RiffTrax Presents of the Year. Read the full article on RiffWiki.net!
