Terri and I watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory last night. While we were watching it, we also played the RiffTrax MP3 from RiffTrax.com
featuring Mike Nelson
(former host of MST3K) and Neil Patrick Harris
(of How I Met Your Mother and Doogie Howser, M.D.).
I ran across RiffTrax after a friend, Eric, sent me a link to Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager
on YouTube. After watching several Chad Vader episodes (which I also highly recommend), there was one where Chad Vader goes to help make the RiffTrax for Star Wars: Episode II. I looked into RiffTrax and so we tried this one out. It was very funny.
Anyway, I just wanted to share that in case you like making fun of movies, you should definitely be interested in RiffTrax. The only difficulty is keeping it the MP3 file synced up with the DVD and that wasn't bad at all, particularly once I figured out a trick to their "Advanced Synchronization Technology." Basically, there's a voice on the track that says a line from the movie every few minutes. If correctly synced, you should hear that at the same time as the line is said on the screen. I've found if I pause the MP3 player right after that when it's read and then set the DVD playback to before the line I start the MP3 player immediately after the line is read. That might actually be a tip in the README file that comes with the audio file, but I read that a week ago, so I didn't remember it last night.
Anyway, if you're looking for some comedy, I highly recommend RiffTrax. They're only $2 to $3 per audio file and if you rent the movie from Digital Shelf
, you're only out $3 to $6 total.
Cheers.
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