{"id":2643,"date":"2013-04-15T20:35:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T00:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2013-04-15T20:35:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T00:35:02","slug":"funny-insightful-commentary-on-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/funny-insightful-commentary-on-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny &#038; insightful commentary on movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are 3 different groups commenting on movies in an interesting way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rifftrax<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The people who made the TV show <strong>Mystery Science Theater 3000<\/strong> are still doing the same thing except they&#8217;re not on TV anymore. They make sound files that you can play while you&#8217;re playing a movie &#8212; each one typically costs $3.99. The people in the Rifftrax audio comment on the movie in a funny and informed manner. There are Rifftrax for some famous movies and some not-so-famous ones.<\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve heard the Rifftrax for <strong>Avatar<\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/the-avengers\/\"><strong>The Avengers<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; they&#8217;re both very funny, and they show you that those movies probably aren&#8217;t quite as good as you first thought. Here&#8217;s their web site:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifftrax.com\/\">Rifftrax<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How it should have ended<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These are short animated videos (2 to 3 minutes) that show you how movies should have ended, if they were written better. You might be amazed at how many plot holes there are in famous recent movies, plus a few classics. In the ones for superhero movies, Superman and Batman have a little conversation in a cafe at the end &#8212; that&#8217;s always fun.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s &#8220;How Casino Royale Should Have Ended&#8221; and &#8220;How Aliens Should Have Ended&#8221; for example. Here&#8217;s their web site:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howitshouldhaveended.com\/\">How it should have ended<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Everything wrong with&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These are short clip videos (3 to 6 minutes) that go through everything that&#8217;s wrong with a movie. The makers, who go by CinemaSins, are very thorough. There&#8217;s a counter in the corner that counts the number of &#8220;sins&#8221; in the movie as they go through them. There are also some &#8220;Conversations with Myself&#8221; videos where both sides of an argument are presented, like whether you should (have to) read the book before seeing the movie.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s &#8220;Everything Wrong with The Hobbit in 4 Minutes or Less&#8221; and &#8220;Everything Wrong with Inception in 4 Minutes or Less&#8221; for example. Here&#8217;s their YouTube channel:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CinemaSins\">CinemaSins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are 3 different groups commenting on movies in an interesting way. Rifftrax The people who made the TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000 are still doing the same thing except they&#8217;re not on TV anymore. They make sound files that you can play while you&#8217;re playing a movie &#8212; each one typically costs $3.99. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2646,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions\/2646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}