Kevin: "How can we dance when our beds are burning?"
The bald, Uber-Immortal Giant resembles lead singer Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil, thus prompting Kevin to begin singing their song, "Beds are Burning."
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The comic book portrayed Spartans as white, perfect specimens against deformed, dark, Asiatic hordes.
The war happened, the bullshit comic did not.
FACT: Xerxes was a light-skinned, short, fat guy with a long curly beard, a dome-shaped hat, and a long purple and gold robe.
Go ahead, make a time machine and show the film depiction of the Persian army and the king to the Royal Guard. You'll be lucky to get away with an akinaces to the gut.
Hate to rain on your parade, but Spartans were pretty much trained like modern special forces. And LOL. The Immortals and one or two weird things were the only 'dark and deformed'.
If it was rascist, hey would have made the movie with on of their intents being 'WOW, LETS BE RACIST AGAINT PERSIANS!"
If you don't like it, don't watch to movie or read the comic.
All these people like you need to stop bitching about "OMG THIS MOVIE IS RACIST!" Its just a movie/comic.
Right, special forces that practiced eugenics and kept a fascist state in order to keep their large slave population at war.
The racism was in some ways subconscious by the morons who made it, but I find it a little suspect that the Persians are portrayed as darker than the Greeks, even though Iranians and Greeks look pretty similar.
Ah, the classic, idiotic "Don't read it" thing. Right, I should also not look at the cockroaches in my grandma's house.
Tell me, do you know where the word Aryan comes from? Central Asia. Persia. India. The Persians and Greeks looked very much alike. Have you ever even SEEN an actual Persian or Greek?
BTW, Arabian IS white. Or at least Semitic, which is certainly not subsaharan African.
300 was the most boring slowest meandering movie I've ever sat through, and I like gory action movies. Hell I liked the new Rambo movie, same thing, just gorier and faster. 300 looked like it was edited on cough syrup...
I know it was insanely historically inaccurate and basically an excuse to show a bunch of shirtless savages kick ass. Nonetheless, I liked 300. *shrug*
Man, I can just picture the theater in front of this clip. As much as I loved the g-novel, this movie really needed this treatment. And who better to choose?
Amen. The fact that "Meet the Spartans" actually held the #1 spot at the box office -over fucking RAMBO!!- tells me that humanity as a species peaked sometime in the 20th Century, and we're now slowly devolving back into chimps.
If they did a Rifftrax for Meet the Spartans, it'd probably just be 70 minutes of the Film Crew bitterly weeping. As much as it deserves a good drubbing, I don't want them to riff it because I don't want any excuse to put that execrable trash in my DVD player.
You joking me Right, Really? I mean, sure maybe Rambo isn't a "Classic Classic", but come on, where can you go wrong with a guy shooting like a hundred people in cool and crazy ways (The big freaking gun near the end), also the ending so thrilling and perfect, makes me want to see it all again.
"So it was Carl fighting the Romans in Masada in 73 AD...." ("Van Helsing" reference, and David Wenham was in that movie as Friar Carl and...ah, you get the idea.)
i dont get the arguement. "its not historically accurate!!" well of course its not, its a damn action movie with monsters. they obviously were not going for historical accuracy by putting an insane giant monster guy.
Well, they use historical names and a historical situation, but the rest has nothing to do with real history.
If you want to put in a giant monster guy, go the Italian Peplum films and say it's myth. Otherwise, you risk demonizing the historical Greeks and Persians.
Youre talking about the one with the American Revolution, right? I did see it, they were showing how silly it all was. I don't think they were saying you should be offended. Otherwise you'd find the actual RC parody offensive, since they also used historical names / events for fiction.
Yes, but they were making fun of people who thought that 300 was historically accurate, sharing my concern that some people would think that 300 actually showed real history.
who, exactly, thinks that in real history a scottish greek and other superhumans fought against a 10 feet tall brazillian persian emperor with giants and monsters and pre ninja ninjas in pre kabuki kabuki masks with pre samurai samurai swords?
whoever actually thinks this is how it went down is stupid, and it is my firm belief that we should not live our life accommodating for the possible perils the stupid may face.
Well, it's like if Mexico made a film about the American invasion, and portrayed president Polk as an ape-man with an army of blood-drinking werewolves, while Santa Anna would have a halo around his head
its not quite the same, since frank miller isnt greek, but regardless i think you should lighten up. if forrest gump OFFENDED you by its lack of historic value, then...well, to paraphrase the theme song: tell yourself its just a movie, i should really just relax.
and i do want to see the blood drinking werewolf americans versus angel mexicans movie RIGHT NOW!
im American and i don't have a problem wit that. people are always going to make the side they're on look great and their enemies look like crap. besides, frank miller didn't portray the persians as dark because he was racist. it was for artistic reasons. and helped get the point across that he was on the side of the spartans
No, darkness has nothing to do with race. There have been many evil people with light skin, and just as many with dark skin. Inversly, good knows no difference between black, white and every color inbetween. Besides, this battle is based on historic truth (With a fantasy twist). It was NATION against NATION, not race against race.
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I'm just saying that it's a little too convienient that the Persians are all much darker (or deformed) than the Greeks here. Xerxes himself looked like Brian Blessed, and most of the ambassadors, for example, were Medes and not Africans.
Point of interest = dark has always meant evil. Ex: In old westerm movies the bad guys were always in the black hats and the good guys were always in the white. Black is the traditional color of mourning. In melodramas, the villains usually wear black and the heroes wear white. What I'm saying is that, historically, black has been associated with evil. That doesn't mean that people with darker skin are evil, it just means it's a device used to denote evil.
naah its not racist.... dude gone wit the wind is obviously racist. frank millers comic wasn't meant to be racist. like i said dark in artwork usually means evil or demonic. he wasnt trying to make them black. jus demonic and by the way im an African American
Actually, historically it IS accurate. Because its portraying the actual events that happened... in a comic book. The whole thing is a stupid arguement, and Im totally with you Zodiac.
You know, I loved the movie when I first saw it (questionable politics and morality aside), but I couldn't help thinking how easy it would be for Mike Nelson to tear it apart.
when Mike Nelson said the giant line i went into one of those laughing fits where you are forced to close your eyes and the tendons in your neck seem so taut that may snap because of the laughter coming out of your torso.
by the way, 300 was way over-rated. it was good at best. however, don't tell the hardcore fan boys of the film that or you'll regret it.
Yeah, you know, I saw a nice, Wachowski-like period piece. That's it! It was okay by me, but it didn't make a quarter of the impression on me that it seems to have on others.
If there was ever any big Hollywood flick deserving to be skewered by Mike and Co., it's this one. 300 is exactly the sort of movie that would be a weekly broadcast on "The Fascist Asshole Channel", alongside TRIUMPH OF THE WILL and TOP GUN.
Yes, it's not like entire books with differing interpretations have been written on the topic. Nah, we can totally give an easy and unequivocal definition in less than 500 characters.
Hate to burst your bubble, but fascism has nothing to do with corporations.
"a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism."
Dictatorship. Meaning a central authority that controls everything, including but not limited to.. private corporations. Benefit of the state over all - including its own citizens.
I agree with these people.I saw this movie, and left the theatre (ok so I can't spell it, bite me)feeling very dirty. This movie was horrid in every way and it just makes this riff even better. I might have liked it if they didn't over use the freakin slow-mo fight thing. Matrix "started" it and they killed it, this movie was just beating a dead and rotting corpse that was once a horse. Oh, and, PACKERS! WHOO!
I imagine it's might be, but I might have just had a bad experience with it since I was sitting like three rows from the screen and there was a loud drunk behind me so I am going to have to see it again. But I got the basic thing from it. It was funny b/c it was ridiculos, but not worth the hype in anyway.
I loved this movie, and I can't wait to see it fully riffed. RiffTrax doesn't exclusively use bad movies; they just use movies that are easy to riff. Believe it or not, it *is* possible to make fun of something you like.
The other reason is that MST3K could only afford the rights to low-budget movies (many of which were already really bad). When RiffTrax came along, Mike could use better known films because they were simply selling a commentary track that is played along a separate DVD. Plus they could avoid legal troubles with the big studios by keeping the movies and RiffTrax separate.
I'm a realist, I know there is no hope... but MAN i wish they would do a New MST3K series... Bring it back again... Like Doctor Who... Mike Nelson could regenerate and the robots could be...ah.... his buddy... or something... I dunno I lost my train of thought... MST3K RULES!! But until they bring it back... RIFFTRAX RULES!! WOO!
You act like 300 doesn't deserve to be riffed, when it has the most ridiculous antagonists, its over the top acting, and overused slow-motion sequences.
Aye to that. Let's also leave out the disgusting portrayal of the Persians, one of the world's great civilisations. And the fact that there WEREN'T a million Persians invading Greece.
Should rename this as "Let's Watch - 300"
anythingnew 7 months ago
toenails shape as razors!
arnie240 1 year ago
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wow. this isn't funny at all. these guys are coasting. And what's with the "Cerebro/Magneto" thing? not funny at all
carbonlaminate 1 year ago
@carbonlaminate the cerebro/magneto thing is a running joke in the rifftrax series that started after they did x-men
jakeesrey 1 year ago
"Oh that's right! We got a giant! Let's see what HE can do!"
JamesOhGoodie 1 year ago 2
"They have served the dark will of Persian kings for 500 years..."
"They deserve a raise!"
"OK, who took my happy mask?"
"They may be immortal but they could use a ladder."
"They're very creative with dead guys."
And my favourite:
"Have we got anything like....oh, that's right, we have a giant, lets see what he can do!"
I think this one is by far the best RiffTrax.
CrichtonSphere 2 years ago 8
I can't stop laughing at "They deserve a raise" and "Eleven and one this season alone"
hollyhuffstutler 2 years ago 11
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Cinematic Titanic
Yabbablabba 2 years ago
I hope the Rifftrax guys will do "Watchmen" (another Zack Snyder
film) when it comes out to DVD and Blu-Ray later this year.
tscastro114 2 years ago 8
stupid shot at 1:45 the immortals are running in a close conga line, 1mph jog.
butchdeadlift10 2 years ago 4
it's great, but it needs the silhouettes of mike, goel, and tom servo in front
Deadeye777 3 years ago 12
I expected them to say "Hulk smash!" when the giant showed up.
TimothoNuva 3 years ago 2
let's see what else we got OH we have a giant, let's see what he can do!
migkillertwo 3 years ago 30
I actually watched this thing for the first time a few days ago. Ye gods, it's worse than even I expected.
textthing 3 years ago 4
Hey, who took my happy mask? lol
shamrockduck 3 years ago 18
Man I miss the clip with "This is S'part of a balanced breakfast!"
I laughed til I cried!
vlcupper 3 years ago 13
This is by far my favorite RiffTrax. Absolutely hilarious.
"Oh yeah that's right we have a giant! Let's see what he can do."
magicalmaniac77 3 years ago 40
"The deadliest fighting force in all of Asia...."
"The Russian volleyball team?"
Peptuck 3 years ago 14
WHO TOOK MY HAPPY MASK!!!!
xtreembordom 3 years ago 18
a racism debate on a rifftrax vid....my faith in humanity is officially gone out the window.
saberman610 3 years ago 12
What? Come on, is this the first time you've looked through the Youtube comments? That's nothing compared to the depravity I've witnessed.
omegagilgamesh 2 years ago 3
Oh man was this a good rifftrax for a really bad movie.
soiledshortz 3 years ago
What is that lump anyway? Did they implant a bomb?
jelloegg 3 years ago 2
Must be an infected wound.
Kemonokami 3 years ago 2
Even worse.
jelloegg 3 years ago
It's what we like to call an abscess. A cross between a pimple and Rush Limbaugh.
Kemonokami 3 years ago 4
Who's he?
jelloegg 3 years ago
Your obviously a Democrat.
EmilyGreene1984 3 years ago
Eeeeeeeeeyup!
Kemonokami 3 years ago
Isn't using the words "pimple" and "Rush Limbaugh" in the same sentence kind of redundant?
Tareltonlives 3 years ago 10
Exactly.
Kemonokami 3 years ago 9
Bill: "Ladies and Gentlemen, Midnight Oil!"
Kevin: "How can we dance when our beds are burning?"
The bald, Uber-Immortal Giant resembles lead singer Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil, thus prompting Kevin to begin singing their song, "Beds are Burning."
For more RiffNotes on RiffTrax, visit riffnotes blogspot.
riffnotes 3 years ago
Wow, it'd be even better to see those three little silhouettes on the bottom right.
deathpoet666 3 years ago 6
Gooood times.
nupinoop296 2 years ago
Hey! Who took my happy face mask???
XDD
BelovedCaptain 3 years ago 3
what do we have here o we have a giant lol
HippiesRbad 3 years ago 3
They're basically pre-ninja ninjas
saiyanprince09 3 years ago 18
With pre-Kabuki Kabuki masks
Tareltonlives 3 years ago 18
And using pre-samurai samurai swords.
MerelyAFan 3 years ago 18
"Hey, who took my happy mask?"
brrrenna 3 years ago
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Um, are you noticing that this video is MAKING FUN of said racist movie?
Tareltonlives 3 years ago
How is it racist?
Its based on a comic book thats based on a war that actually happened...
Go ahead, make a time machine, aand stop some spartans yelling "STOP! THIS IS RACIST!"
Marthix 3 years ago
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The comic book portrayed Spartans as white, perfect specimens against deformed, dark, Asiatic hordes.
The war happened, the bullshit comic did not.
FACT: Xerxes was a light-skinned, short, fat guy with a long curly beard, a dome-shaped hat, and a long purple and gold robe.
Go ahead, make a time machine and show the film depiction of the Persian army and the king to the Royal Guard. You'll be lucky to get away with an akinaces to the gut.
Tareltonlives 3 years ago
Hate to rain on your parade, but Spartans were pretty much trained like modern special forces. And LOL. The Immortals and one or two weird things were the only 'dark and deformed'.
If it was rascist, hey would have made the movie with on of their intents being 'WOW, LETS BE RACIST AGAINT PERSIANS!"
If you don't like it, don't watch to movie or read the comic.
All these people like you need to stop bitching about "OMG THIS MOVIE IS RACIST!" Its just a movie/comic.
Marthix 3 years ago
Right, special forces that practiced eugenics and kept a fascist state in order to keep their large slave population at war.
The racism was in some ways subconscious by the morons who made it, but I find it a little suspect that the Persians are portrayed as darker than the Greeks, even though Iranians and Greeks look pretty similar.
Ah, the classic, idiotic "Don't read it" thing. Right, I should also not look at the cockroaches in my grandma's house.
Ever heard of "Birth of a Nation"?
Tareltonlives 3 years ago
Like I said before;
Its not hurting you. Theres no reason you and several others have to flip a shit like little 12 year olds over a movie.
Marthix 3 years ago
Whatever you say, D.W. Griffith.
Tareltonlives 3 years ago
umm. the spartans were white. and the persians were dark arabian colored. sounds like the comic book got it right.
animeisart1 3 years ago
Tell me, do you know where the word Aryan comes from? Central Asia. Persia. India. The Persians and Greeks looked very much alike. Have you ever even SEEN an actual Persian or Greek?
BTW, Arabian IS white. Or at least Semitic, which is certainly not subsaharan African.
Tareltonlives 3 years ago 3
yup. my friend tommy. real names ahmad. ur point?
animeisart1 3 years ago
Wow, thanks for that honey. I wholeheartedly agree...lighten up, people.
brrrenna 3 years ago
11 to 1 this season alone.
EHH246 3 years ago 3
This one's hysterical. I love 300, but it's storytelling narrative just begs for farce.
BloodylocksBathory 3 years ago
ah yes we got a giant on our team lets see what he can do
Y2Jfan45 3 years ago 2
The Russian volyball team?
atticwarrior 3 years ago
*as the dead guys fall*
Mother!
NUTCASE71733 3 years ago 5
"Oh, thats right we have a giant, lets see what he can do!"
LMFAO! Mike is still king!
Priest84 3 years ago 5
"Huberis which is Greek for Huberis" LMAO!!!
:3
MuppetMan246 3 years ago
Eleven and one, this season alone!
The big ball dupe!
DrGregoryHouseIT 3 years ago 2
300 is a terrible film, glad they riffed it.
anvilofcrom 3 years ago 4
Why the hell is there a debate on fascism going on? It's just a Rifftrax video. You should really just relax.
"Oh that's right, we have a giant! Let's see what he can do!"
Dagger33 3 years ago 9
"Just repeat to yourself, 'It's just a show,
I should really just relax!'"
"They're immortal, but they could use a ladder!" XD
ElveeKaye 3 years ago 4
toenails sharp as razors!
WinnieThePooh54321 3 years ago 3
freakishly high blood presure!
eskimo02 3 years ago 3
I was actually crying with laughter while I watched this! I have never seen anything so funny in all my life.
BoglinPictures 3 years ago 3
"Mother!"
BlazikenYoshi 3 years ago 8
funny, these should be way way longer
300 was the most boring slowest meandering movie I've ever sat through, and I like gory action movies. Hell I liked the new Rambo movie, same thing, just gorier and faster. 300 looked like it was edited on cough syrup...
misconduckt 3 years ago 2
you can get the full movie with their commentary on their website =]]
greeneyesthepirate 3 years ago
No you cant!
powerfulnun 3 years ago
"We got anything left? Oh yeah, we have a giant! Let's see what he can do!" HAHAHA!
DKaidian 4 years ago 3
I know it was insanely historically inaccurate and basically an excuse to show a bunch of shirtless savages kick ass. Nonetheless, I liked 300. *shrug*
hichief 4 years ago
what do we have left, oh yea we have a giant!
BatOtaku13 4 years ago
AWsome!! THe RUssian Volleyball TEAM!!! MORE!!!
Antonkvit 4 years ago 2
"Who took my happy mask?"
HillDueceua 4 years ago 4
This is my favorite Rifftrax to date...that and Battlefield Earth. When you get all 3 together, they're hilarious.
Xerxes: [puts hands on Leonidas' shoulders] Mmmmmm, Your soooooo Tense.
That's my fav. line.
The more I see video footage of these guys, I grown more addicted to them.
snipercheez 4 years ago 2
MORE!!!!!!
jaytech3000 4 years ago
Can anyone answer this question:
When you pay 3.99 on the site for a movie. Do you just get the audio?, and do you have to sync it with the movie?
nickstarks 4 years ago
nevermind i just read the FAQ
nickstarks 4 years ago
Man, I can just picture the theater in front of this clip. As much as I loved the g-novel, this movie really needed this treatment. And who better to choose?
InchonDM 4 years ago
That two-minute clip had more laughs in it than ANYTHING I've seen connected to that soon-to-be-released comedy abortion "Meet The Spartans".
ctdsnark 4 years ago 20
But Mike, Bill, and Kevin are actually FUNNY, unlike anyone working on "Meet The Spartans."
thefuery 4 years ago 5
Right you are! ...They really need to bring Mystery Science Theater 3000 back to TV.
Eva118 4 years ago 4
No question. Well, that might have to wait, but Cinematic Titanic is another step in the right direction.
RRVCrinale 4 years ago 3
Amen. The fact that "Meet the Spartans" actually held the #1 spot at the box office -over fucking RAMBO!!- tells me that humanity as a species peaked sometime in the 20th Century, and we're now slowly devolving back into chimps.
Unclephart 4 years ago 4
i heard meet the spartans was REALLY bad.
twinturbogod 4 years ago
it got a 3% rating on rotten tomatotoes dot com
ilduce565 4 years ago
I hope the guys at Rifftrax will poke fun of that movie next. (When it comes out on DVD and/or Blu-ray.
tscastro114 4 years ago
If they did a Rifftrax for Meet the Spartans, it'd probably just be 70 minutes of the Film Crew bitterly weeping. As much as it deserves a good drubbing, I don't want them to riff it because I don't want any excuse to put that execrable trash in my DVD player.
Unclephart 4 years ago 3
You joking me Right, Really? I mean, sure maybe Rambo isn't a "Classic Classic", but come on, where can you go wrong with a guy shooting like a hundred people in cool and crazy ways (The big freaking gun near the end), also the ending so thrilling and perfect, makes me want to see it all again.
Oh god help us all.
Dinodain 4 years ago
Eughchh!! The very commercial for that film curls my toenails the wrong way!
albee1000 4 years ago
agreed
ilduce565 4 years ago
I'd actually add to this film...
"So it was Carl fighting the Romans in Masada in 73 AD...." ("Van Helsing" reference, and David Wenham was in that movie as Friar Carl and...ah, you get the idea.)
LaDracul 4 years ago 3
Thank god they had that giant, it was getting far too quiet in that fight. We needed more guttural screaming.
regularguy5mb 4 years ago 3
That, and they hadn't finished pissing on history yet. If the movie would have gone on the Persians would have sent out a dragon.
Tareltonlives 4 years ago 3
Followed up by the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!
albee1000 4 years ago 4
i dont get the arguement. "its not historically accurate!!" well of course its not, its a damn action movie with monsters. they obviously were not going for historical accuracy by putting an insane giant monster guy.
theZodiacDigital 4 years ago
Well, they use historical names and a historical situation, but the rest has nothing to do with real history.
If you want to put in a giant monster guy, go the Italian Peplum films and say it's myth. Otherwise, you risk demonizing the historical Greeks and Persians.
Tareltonlives 4 years ago
Well I think what Zodiac is saying is that they put in a giant scarred troll that stands like 10 feet tall.
They are not going for historical accuracy, just trying to make blood-action.
So no one should get offended, as they aren't being serious
NecrosisOfLight 4 years ago
Once again, they should have thought of that before putting real names on people and places. Ever seen the Robot Chicken Parody?
Tareltonlives 4 years ago
did you get offended by forrest gump as well? because i doubt it was historically accurate and they did use historical names and places.
theZodiacDigital 3 years ago
Why yes, I DID hate Forrest Gump with a passion. Mind you, it wasn't as racist, but still stupid and annoying.
Tareltonlives 3 years ago
Youre talking about the one with the American Revolution, right? I did see it, they were showing how silly it all was. I don't think they were saying you should be offended. Otherwise you'd find the actual RC parody offensive, since they also used historical names / events for fiction.
theZodiacDigital 3 years ago
Yes, but they were making fun of people who thought that 300 was historically accurate, sharing my concern that some people would think that 300 actually showed real history.
Tareltonlives 3 years ago
who, exactly, thinks that in real history a scottish greek and other superhumans fought against a 10 feet tall brazillian persian emperor with giants and monsters and pre ninja ninjas in pre kabuki kabuki masks with pre samurai samurai swords?
whoever actually thinks this is how it went down is stupid, and it is my firm belief that we should not live our life accommodating for the possible perils the stupid may face.
theZodiacDigital 3 years ago 4
Well, it's like if Mexico made a film about the American invasion, and portrayed president Polk as an ape-man with an army of blood-drinking werewolves, while Santa Anna would have a halo around his head
Tareltonlives 3 years ago
its not quite the same, since frank miller isnt greek, but regardless i think you should lighten up. if forrest gump OFFENDED you by its lack of historic value, then...well, to paraphrase the theme song: tell yourself its just a movie, i should really just relax.
and i do want to see the blood drinking werewolf americans versus angel mexicans movie RIGHT NOW!
theZodiacDigital 3 years ago 2
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I wasn't offended by Forrest Gump; it just sucked.
Tareltonlives 3 years ago
well good, so then you shouldnt be offended by 300 either
theZodiacDigital 3 years ago
Forrest Gump wasn't racist.
Tareltonlives 3 years ago
im American and i don't have a problem wit that. people are always going to make the side they're on look great and their enemies look like crap. besides, frank miller didn't portray the persians as dark because he was racist. it was for artistic reasons. and helped get the point across that he was on the side of the spartans
animeisart1 3 years ago
So dark=evil, eh? Good to know that. I'll just led the billions of non-Caucasians know about that. Hey GUYS!
Tareltonlives 3 years ago
No, darkness has nothing to do with race. There have been many evil people with light skin, and just as many with dark skin. Inversly, good knows no difference between black, white and every color inbetween. Besides, this battle is based on historic truth (With a fantasy twist). It was NATION against NATION, not race against race.
Tassadarky 3 years ago 2
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I'm just saying that it's a little too convienient that the Persians are all much darker (or deformed) than the Greeks here. Xerxes himself looked like Brian Blessed, and most of the ambassadors, for example, were Medes and not Africans.
Tareltonlives 3 years ago
Point of interest = dark has always meant evil. Ex: In old westerm movies the bad guys were always in the black hats and the good guys were always in the white. Black is the traditional color of mourning. In melodramas, the villains usually wear black and the heroes wear white. What I'm saying is that, historically, black has been associated with evil. That doesn't mean that people with darker skin are evil, it just means it's a device used to denote evil.
angrypizzagirl 3 years ago 3
i suppose you consider the yin-yang racist too?
anonymousguyperson 3 years ago 3
I suppose you don't consider "Gone With the Wind" racist either?
Tareltonlives 3 years ago
naah its not racist.... dude gone wit the wind is obviously racist. frank millers comic wasn't meant to be racist. like i said dark in artwork usually means evil or demonic. he wasnt trying to make them black. jus demonic and by the way im an African American
animeisart1 3 years ago
Actually, historically it IS accurate. Because its portraying the actual events that happened... in a comic book. The whole thing is a stupid arguement, and Im totally with you Zodiac.
TheJayde 3 years ago
"Do we have anything le- OH, that's right, we've got a giant, let's see what he can do!"
tenshikain 4 years ago 5
"They deserve a raise"
"Toenails sharp as razors"
I love the voices they use for those first two lines XD
Caskrenian 4 years ago 5
who took my happy mask?
weyoun47 4 years ago 3
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You're a fag
shmoab 4 years ago
Yeah, stupid internet!
onomiyaki 4 years ago 2
lol... These are pre-ninja ninjas with pre-kabuki kabuki masks with pre-samurai samurai swords
H2Zman 4 years ago 6
you may need to get that lump checked out..lol
evilmonkey8206 4 years ago
maybe i will maybe i wont
sexymonkey303 4 years ago
This was a great movie to riff. It was totally cheesy. pre-ninja ninjas wearing pre-kabuki kabuki masks hehe
StareCalmo 4 years ago 4
This was a good movie. They just make it better.
Hakkai87 4 years ago 4
"MOTHER!" GREAT daffy duck joke.
chewythechibi 4 years ago 8
best one yet i hurt my side laughing
grumpherys 4 years ago
lol, lump.
NSB0953 4 years ago
"They may be immortal, but they could use a latter."
"Or as they're now known, the incredibly, perhaps EXTRA mortals." LOL!!
thevintagerose 4 years ago 5
"Eleven and one this season alone"
"The Russian Volleyball team?"
889654 4 years ago 2
"We got anything le-... Oh that's right, we have a GIANT."
I am now finally going to have to see this gloriously stupid movie, safely ensconced behind the wall of putrefying corpses that is Rifftrax.
eubiegk 4 years ago 2
I loved this movie, but the riffing on this was phenomenal. Not the best they've done, but it was hilarious.
DeadbyDawn87 4 years ago
Hey, who took my happy mask. lol
Aiglos 4 years ago 6
"Or, as they're now known, the INCREDIBLY-perhaps-even-EXTRA-Mortals!"
Truly brilliant riffing. God, this movie sucks.
Tareltonlives 4 years ago 2
They may be immortal, but they could use a ladder.
buttcountry143 4 years ago
300 was a visual masterpiece, and is in my mind the best film of 2007 so far. However I'd love to hear this riff
Curttehmurt 4 years ago
LMAO! Don't diss Dilios...though I can't stop smiling.
SilasCilice 4 years ago
Epic.
Drowzor 4 years ago
Love it:
"Uh, what do we have le--OH, WE HAVE A GIANT! All right, let's see what HE can do!!!"
I just about spit Coke out my nose at that point. 300 DESERVED the Rifftrax treatment. It was the most over-the-top overblown movie of the year. :)
tabascoman77 4 years ago 2
This film is for 15 year old boys. But it is an unintentional comedy. Which is probably a good thing. :)
Transformers217 4 years ago
I haven't seen 300 yet, but I might just rent the dvd and buy the RiffTrax, because they were having WAAAY to easy a time savaging it. HOLY CRAP.
anneshanna 4 years ago
You know, I loved the movie when I first saw it (questionable politics and morality aside), but I couldn't help thinking how easy it would be for Mike Nelson to tear it apart.
oancitizen 4 years ago
when Mike Nelson said the giant line i went into one of those laughing fits where you are forced to close your eyes and the tendons in your neck seem so taut that may snap because of the laughter coming out of your torso.
by the way, 300 was way over-rated. it was good at best. however, don't tell the hardcore fan boys of the film that or you'll regret it.
gje313 4 years ago
yeah, they'll be leaping out you in slow-mo with bare chest telling you this is SParta at the top of their adolescent lungs
RoninDave 4 years ago
Yeah, you know, I saw a nice, Wachowski-like period piece. That's it! It was okay by me, but it didn't make a quarter of the impression on me that it seems to have on others.
albee1000 4 years ago
"We got anything left-oh, that's right, we've got a giant! Let's see what he can do!"
Rogers1981 4 years ago
If there was ever any big Hollywood flick deserving to be skewered by Mike and Co., it's this one. 300 is exactly the sort of movie that would be a weekly broadcast on "The Fascist Asshole Channel", alongside TRIUMPH OF THE WILL and TOP GUN.
sophomorictrash 4 years ago
Oh goodie; another douchebag who doesn't know what "fascism" is.
Unclephart 4 years ago
> Oh goodie; another douchebag who doesn't
> know what "fascism" is.
Haha.
OK, I hereby challenge you to define it, just to see if you actually know what fascism actually is.
fuzzywzhe 3 years ago
Yes, it's not like entire books with differing interpretations have been written on the topic. Nah, we can totally give an easy and unequivocal definition in less than 500 characters.
ArekExcelsior2 3 years ago
Why not? I can.
Every fascism system has socialized risk and privatized rewards for favored companies, and corporations determine national policy, not individuals.
The reason Americans are so loathe to define it simply is because it becomes readily apparent America is in fascism now.
fuzzywzhe 3 years ago
Apparently not.
Hate to burst your bubble, but fascism has nothing to do with corporations.
"a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism."
Dictatorship. Meaning a central authority that controls everything, including but not limited to.. private corporations. Benefit of the state over all - including its own citizens.
Sejscube 3 years ago
> Hate to burst your bubble, but fascism has
> nothing to do with corporations.
It has everything to do with corporations.
What is the economic system in every fascist country? Do you have any idea?
fuzzywzhe 3 years ago
State-owned and operated businesses?
NecrosisOfLight 3 years ago
> State-owned and operated businesses?
No, corporate owned state.
When corporations in such a system do well, owners of the corporations pocket the profits.
When corporations in such a system do poorly, tax payers are forced to keep the corporations from going insolvent.
What you described is communism.
What I'm describing is what our government just did with Bear Stearns and is going to do with many banks.
fuzzywzhe 3 years ago
So they were pre-ninja with pre-kabuki masks and pre-samurai swords? Lol!
The movie was dumb fun but history it ain't. The 60s film 300 Spartans was closer to the original event except for the stupid love story.
RoninDave 4 years ago
Which is an interesting connection, since it was because of that 60s film that was the inspiration for the graphic novel that became THIS fim.
noqa 4 years ago
the movie was good . it not stupid just because it wasn't historically accurate doesnt mean its a bad movie.
josueanthonylpz 4 years ago
That is one shocking film...
BarryDennen12 4 years ago
I agree with these people.I saw this movie, and left the theatre (ok so I can't spell it, bite me)feeling very dirty. This movie was horrid in every way and it just makes this riff even better. I might have liked it if they didn't over use the freakin slow-mo fight thing. Matrix "started" it and they killed it, this movie was just beating a dead and rotting corpse that was once a horse. Oh, and, PACKERS! WHOO!
scaper20 4 years ago
come on, its not that bad the movie was quite fun if you think about it.
josueanthonylpz 4 years ago
I imagine it's might be, but I might have just had a bad experience with it since I was sitting like three rows from the screen and there was a loud drunk behind me so I am going to have to see it again. But I got the basic thing from it. It was funny b/c it was ridiculos, but not worth the hype in anyway.
scaper20 4 years ago
Tonight we dine in HECK...
rjd279 4 years ago
"Have we got anything le- Oh that's right, we have a giant! Yeah, let's see what he can do!"
"Yikes! He may want to have that lump looked at!"
I've never actually heard a good explanation for that lump.
tacopylas 4 years ago
I loved this movie, and I can't wait to see it fully riffed. RiffTrax doesn't exclusively use bad movies; they just use movies that are easy to riff. Believe it or not, it *is* possible to make fun of something you like.
THEBOLSHEVIK 4 years ago
The other reason is that MST3K could only afford the rights to low-budget movies (many of which were already really bad). When RiffTrax came along, Mike could use better known films because they were simply selling a commentary track that is played along a separate DVD. Plus they could avoid legal troubles with the big studios by keeping the movies and RiffTrax separate.
shuboy05 4 years ago
I'm a realist, I know there is no hope... but MAN i wish they would do a New MST3K series... Bring it back again... Like Doctor Who... Mike Nelson could regenerate and the robots could be...ah.... his buddy... or something... I dunno I lost my train of thought... MST3K RULES!! But until they bring it back... RIFFTRAX RULES!! WOO!
BadXAsh 4 years ago 3
PACKERS!!!!!!!!!! (BTW are there any "Wooo! Packers!" riffs in this one? It seems like they would fit...
Raulbikcube 4 years ago
PACKERS!!!
albee1000 4 years ago
You act like 300 doesn't deserve to be riffed, when it has the most ridiculous antagonists, its over the top acting, and overused slow-motion sequences.
SPARTANS. SERIOUS BUSINESS.
Theo9874456 4 years ago
Aye to that. Let's also leave out the disgusting portrayal of the Persians, one of the world's great civilisations. And the fact that there WEREN'T a million Persians invading Greece.
textthing 4 years ago 4
and how would you know mister history
josueanthonylpz 4 years ago
the movie was great shut up!
josueanthonylpz 4 years ago