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I have climbed the mountain.

For their Christmas release this year, Rifftrax has put out a video on demand riff of Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny, from 1972. This is, in no uncertain terms, a masterpiece. The movie is so perfect Mike and friends had to edit two songs out so we wouldn't die from too much perfection. It's also on Youtube I believe un-riffed for those not in the capitalistic spirit this holiday season.

The story is this: in 1971, there was a small amusement park in Florida called Pirates World which had old Coney Island and NYC Worlds Fair rides and hosted lots of rock concerts. Life was good. Then, Disney World opened and their days were numbered. In response, the park did the only thing it could:

They surrounded a horrible Thumbalina movie shot around one of their live theater productions with a wrap around story about Santa stuck in the Florida sand and how the Ice Cream Bunny came and rescued him proving Mickey Mouse is a pussy.

Buy this. Watch this. Your world will never be the same...

1,627

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Wait, so the Jews killed Moby Dick too?!?

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Maybe the computer thinks your memory is just that bad?

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SpaceX has done good, no doubt about that, although the fact they ARE the first highlights how hard this stuff actually is. The number of failures are many, and the powerpoint presentations promising the solar system are legion. Going by history, I'll pay attention to SKYLON when they're fully funded and bending metal smile

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Are they commentaries that have been released? smile It just hit Netflix this week, so if you had I couldn't have seen it until now regardless.

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Just saw this new DVD on Disney's animation department from 1980-94. Well recommended, and again makes me want to see an original cut of Black Cauldron before Eisner edited it . Oliver and Company was the first Disney movie I went to see in theaters as a teen, and hitting at the same time as the anime wave made me love animation again.

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I think they all have to have SOMETHING for the hearing impaired, so if there's no subtitle option there have to be closed captions.

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After hearing you guys comment on no subtitles for either this or Reservoir Dogs... have you tried just using the closed captioning on the TV? That's how I got subtitles on Reservoir Dogs while listening to you guys.

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This is going to be interesting on my end because the only copy of the movie I have at the moment is one where I added an iRiff to the audio, so along with the faint dialog I'll hear faint mocking while listening to you guys do your thing.

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Teague made some good suggestions. My one beef with the site is I'd like to know which commentaries are syncing to a PAL version of the film. I can make a guess, based on a .uk web site, but it saves time to have that information right up front smile

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I'm a non drinking non social atheist anyways, so fun was never in the equation smile

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After Armageddon, I think some controls would be needed in the drinks department for something like this. A designated commentator maybe, who would stay sober and could toss anybody having a bit too much off of the couch smile

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And if you have people dropping out and coming in to take over, we could see what a Teague-less commentary is like smile

Maybe you could do the animated Hobbit the week before.

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You probably would have liked it better with a framing sequence, like in The Wizard of Oz where we find it was a dream where as in the book it was real. Maybe we discover it was a grandfather telling the kids what he did during the war. Or a fake title card where we learn this is from a recently discovered un-produced 1942 script. Because that's what I think this is, a war time movie where the actors get to win all the victories the actual military at the time isn't doing yet.
(haven't seen the movie yet, just going by the reports)

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To be fair, there was no forum when the first episode came out (or at least few of us were here) and we don't bother going back to comment on old episodes. Now, the fact everyone is ignoring the Reservoir Dogs thread in favor of this... smile

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Wait, I think you've come up with a new tshirt idea- "Down in Front: DIF-ing movies since 2009"