Rotor just incompetently stumbles through rows of chairs, not understanding what objects are, but gently unclips the velvet rope barrier without a pause.
IMDB: "The actor who played Shoe Boogie, the jive-talking Native American janitor, is uncredited. To date, his identity has not been verified." I choose to believe Shoe Boogie is not a fictional character.
Plot twist: He wasn't an actor. He just showed up at the set, they mistook him for an actor and accidentally filmed a conversation between him and the woman. And since film material is expensive, it made it into the film.
Your idea of jive is from tv my friend, that is not jive it's just a stereotypical inner city black accent ...you wouldn't understand a word if it was jive. Haven't you seen airplane? Joan cleaver speaks perfect jive
It's kind of like when some friends just get together and make a time machine one weekend so one can go back in time and hang out with dad David Carradine.
This is my favorite Rifftrax movie of all time. Skunk hair lady. The gas station crate with the magic exit. "HERR DOCTOR!!". White supremist. The gas station hostage lady who suddenly starts doing martial arts. Too many other great moments to list. This one was so funny that I almost couldn't handle it. My stomach was hurting from laughing! 🤣🤣🤣
@@Popebug , Because I'm making a stupid joke, so I'm not terribly worried about exact accuracy. "Texas coffee always has a little beef in it," is apparently different enough of a quote that it warranted you making a comment just to correct me?
The emblems on ROTOR's helmet are made with 1980s iridescent Harley Davidson stickers. I remember seeing them in gumball vending machines. Stay classy, ROTOR.
I'm by no means a Rifftrax pro but I can honesty say I've seen 90%+ of their collection. ROTOR is one of my favorite Rifftrax movies of all time. I just about die during the board room scene with the Beach Boy references. No matter how many times I watch, that scene puts me in tears. Especially when they make the Madonna Vogue references. I always lose it there. So happy they uploaded it.
That chain of Beach Boys references in the conference room reeks of one writer just deciding to mess with things, forgetting he did it, and then being too late to change anything.
Ah, a scientist-cop detective who also manages a full on cattle ranch and heads a complicated robotics research project, likely when he's not presiding as a judge and teaching at college of course. He has to save time to run the kitchen at his restaurant as well as practice for the Olympics. A real down to earth protagonist.
I figure MST3K and Rifftrax will never have a HUGE fanbase because a lot of their movies are too painful. Rifftrax definitely has a wider universe of movies though, including the non-painful ones. It just hasn't been around as long as MST3K.
I laughed SO hard at the 3 supposedly 'tough guys' walking into the bar. The mulleted muscle head that takes off his suspenders one by one and then feels the need to rip off his shirt only to get bitch slapped by ROTOR is priceless. "Don't call me by my slave name....I AM ROTOR!"
@@TheVampirePredator Haha thanks for that fun fact. I don't understand how movies like this get made. The endless overdubbed dialogues and how Coldiron gets blown away by a shotgun at the end-almost like he knew it was a piece of trash movie and wrote that part in. Still, it was rich pickings for the Best Brains crew.
So much of this movie is hugely nostalgic for me. I moved to Dallas from Eastern Europe right around the time this movie was made, and this is exactly how things looked there.
"So, where are the other six people who we will also be feeding with these steaks?" Awww...poor Bill's never been to Texas. The correct line is, "So, now that we've got my dinner set, what are you going to eat?"
Countless Beach Boys references, lady wrestler/mathematicians, Milton quotes, The scenic East Texas countryside, and meaty coffee this movie has it all.
FTR, the scientists at The Beach Boys meeting are named: Dr. Brian from the Wilson Institute of “Hawthorne” ‘Dr. Carl” also from Wilson Institute. ‘Dr. Al” at “Jardine” university Malibu Dr. ‘Bruce’ at Johnston Labs
I'd say they're tied with RLMs best of the worst They both cover the same dumpster fire movies, from ROTOR to samurai cop, Miami connection, and apply their own unique styles of comedy Now all we need is Rifftrax doing surviving edged weapons hahah
Everyone wants to talk about Shooboogie. No one wants to talk about the meeting scene with a half dozen Beach Boys song titles shoehorned into the dialogue for no reason.
I love how Coldyron keeps saying his robot policeman is "judge, jury, and executioner" even though that's not how law works...it seemed like thoughtless action movie cliche regurgitation at first, but after seeing him thwart that gas station robbery(?), I think he's genuinely unaware of the judicial system
Coldyron is one of the most bizarre protagonists I've ever seen in a movie. He acts less human than the killer robot. I also love that the foreshadowing with Shoebuggy and the blood eagle thing makes absolutely no sense because none of the characters who later killed the robot that way were even there. I guess the line about Coldyron having visited a reservation was supposed to tie into that?
Coldyron is the least human-like character in a film with two robots. I guarantee both ROTOR and the police droid could have come up with a more natural analogy than the skeletons in a tin coffin thing. (And hello from a fellow Retsu fan)
@@TheRealJabbergeist Every "joke" in this movie sounds like it came from a foreign language, got run through Google Translate, and then was left to fend for itself. :/
Also it drove me crazy because what they described as the Blood Eagle was just being drawn and quartered. The real blood eagle is a norse invention, and FAR far worse.
You're looking for sense in this mess? 1) Sonia stops to talk to the cop who just murdered her fiancée after fleeing him initially. 2) The car she leaves in after Coldyron gets his ass kicked? Whose _is_ that? It wasn't hers or his. 3) He has time to call Steele, have her fly in, check into a hotel all while Sonia can't stop to sleep. He didn't give Sonia a # to call for help, nor has a way to shut off his killer robot remotely. He knows his robot can follow Sonia. Why not send her to where they can trap ROTOR? He & Steele talked for _hours_ about what to do. They needed to fly her in to _talk?_ There's more, but...
"LOOK AT YOU. YOU GOT BOTH EYES COMING OUT OF THE SAME HOLE." Mike: "Does that mean she's tired???" Kev: "WHAT HOLE?!" kills me every time,! 😂 As a texan I have never heard that saying anywhere 😂
As a French Canadian, I have heard it many times. L’expression avoir les deux yeux dans le même trou signifie « avoir l’esprit engourdi par la fatigue, avoir le regard vague ».
@@Here_is_Waldo I know their phone call was painful to listen to, but it established the guy’s corruption pretty well and Coldyron basically threatened to reveal it after dealing with ROTOR.
It's amazing to me just how revealing this movie is of the writer's worldview. The necessity or methodology of ROTOR is never called into question, the only problem is that it was activated too early. And the gas station scene really gets me. Coldyron instantly clocks that the youths who walked inside were criminals set on robbing the place, and knows that the only course of action is to threaten the driver, beat up a guy on the phone, then get ready to shoot a man dead. And then a cop tells him that he 100% did the right thing. And according to IMDB, his other credits were pretty much all in the art department for kids cartoons in the 80s and 90s. Wild.
It's certainly one of the lesser flubs in here, but it amuses me that there's a dramatic closeup of the clock hitting 5:00 and then Coldyron wakes up at... 4:50. Man's got a time machine for a snooze button! (Come to it, I'd like one of those...)
The amusing thing about this whole movie is not only do the day/night shots never match up, but the opening scene clearly shows Sony dead, Coldyron half beaten to death and it's at night, but the end of the movie Sony is alive, Coldyron barely has a scratch and it's daytime. Oh, don't forget that everything you're watching is just a narration of events he's telling to the... lawyers?... so he told them things that there is no way he would ever have known.
@@chillydawgg4354 lol yep, the whole movie is a mess. Strangely, it was supposed to be a comedy, but the studio wanted it more serious. That's why there's so much random humor in it... like the guy with the buck teeth getting his head fried.
It may be common but that's what helps to make it funnier and more common, as an inside joke between fans :) Have you or anybody else out there been to the restaurant? We don't have them where I live. I'm guessing it's a steakhouse but is it really that bad? And why? Please let me know if you get a chance. Cheers from Canada
@@steveharvey2102 It's a buffet place, it's not _bad_ but it's also really not very good. It's the kind of place you go like... after football practice or something, when you need a lot of food and you aren't picky about it. They're really nostalgic for me because we didn't have them were I lived as a kid, but they did around my grandparents, so we always went there when we visited. As a kid I loved it, not so much now. :D
@@steveharvey2102Golden Corral is a chain buffet. Certainly inexpensive for a buffet, and the food quality reflects just that. Granted, it's not all that bad considering Buffets are a rare sight, and its value is undeniable; but some would consider it 'trashy' since they cook in large quantities - increasing likelihood for undercooked/overcooked food... But as a buffet, you're encouraged to grab a new plate of food - if your appetite isn't demoralized after biting into raw or tough meat. In my opinion, I like the breakfast buffet for all the bacon I can manage to eat - or eggs n steak, even if it is only scrambled eggs. Considering the value, if you don't mind cheap steak, then you can fill up on protein/calories easy.
The "I'm secretly a baby" line got me! 🤣 Also, I'm not sure if anyone else gives props to the theme song for Rifftrax, but I was slightly disappointed that it wasn't on this one. It's really catchy and short enough to not get overplayed/annoying. Whoever wrote and performed it knocked it out of the park!!!
One of the things that makes this movie bearable to watch is the warm fuzzies I keep getting when I see Dallas footage from the 1980s. I keep spotting buildings I recognize that a lot of the time have been demolished.
I've seen this one on Pluto so many times, but this is the first time I've watched it in 1 sitting. Holy smokes this is so good. The cast is incredible... Southern character from a Hannah Barbera cartoon should get an extended universe.
So, my room mate has been harping about Rotor for years. Holy crap... there are no words. Part of it is he never mentioned it was filmed in Dallas I think I've worked at or around the corner from every location in the movie. Hell, the convenience store robbery was not far from my house. Who paid for this.. thing?
Do we all remember the opening scene? Don't forget that that scene was meant to occur chronologically between ROTOR blowing up, and Coldyron giving his parting monologue to the interrogators at the end of the movie.
Don’t forget the sequels ROTOR in space, ROTOR goes Medieval, ROTOR vs The Aliens, ROTOR goes Outback to a Steakhouse in Australia. ROTOR, Mall Cop. Shoplifters will be destroyed!
1:05:11 as a Houstonian, I was surprised how pleased I was to hear the correct 713 area code referenced. Never thought I'd hear it used in a movie, to the extent that ROTOR can be called a movie.
Wow! Incredible. I love so much Rifftrax. So entertaining, yet intellectually stimulating. I love the feeling of solving their constant clever little wit puzzles. Thank you!
What makes it even better is that almost no one else is ADR'd. Also I totally get why the RLM guy's called him back problems, there's just something about his posture and the way he moves that makes him look like he's recovering from major surgery.
According to IMDB: "The movie's release was delayed by almost two years due to financial problems. By the time director Cullen Blaine was able to find the money to finish post-production, several members of the cast, including lead actor Richard Gesswein, either could not be tracked down or refused to return for ADR dubbing, forcing Blaine to have other actors overdub all of their dialogue."
Strangely, it's spelled "Coldyron" with a "y". But that would mean they should pronounce it "coldee ron" or "coll dyron" not "cold iron". It's amazing on how many levels this movie doesn't make a lick of sense. Also, it's just not the same when the robot doesn't dance to "White Lines/Cavern". Damn you, Red Letter Media!
Love this particular riff, I've been watching these guys since the days of mst3k as a kid. Obligatory comment is obligatory as this is one of the few pleasures in life that I will always support as best I can. The passion they have for their work and their fans is noticable, so it's the least I can do to keep them in the green and reward the joy they bring. Keep up the good work ❤🤗
RIP Coldiron. The greatest cop/robotics engineer/cowboy/stump blower/grimacer who ever lived.
That gets senselessly blown away at the end.
@@tomservo5347 The whole movie is senseless
The poor man's Dirty Harry.
.who's Stump?
@@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55 *begins slow clap*
Rotor just incompetently stumbles through rows of chairs, not understanding what objects are, but gently unclips the velvet rope barrier without a pause.
IMDB: "The actor who played Shoe Boogie, the jive-talking Native American janitor, is uncredited. To date, his identity has not been verified." I choose to believe Shoe Boogie is not a fictional character.
1:24:23 Earl G. Bugler was real as well!
Plot twist: He wasn't an actor. He just showed up at the set, they mistook him for an actor and accidentally filmed a conversation between him and the woman. And since film material is expensive, it made it into the film.
Your idea of jive is from tv my friend, that is not jive it's just a stereotypical inner city black accent ...you wouldn't understand a word if it was jive. Haven't you seen airplane? Joan cleaver speaks perfect jive
i think if you really look...deep down, inside...we are all shoe boogie
Shoe boogie was a "Shoe in" for this movie.
"I don't know what any of that means" Mike:"I'm just a schmo who taught a robot to see through time" must be one of the funniest lines in all comedy
MY DENIM DID NOTHING!!
I just got to that line, paused to check the comments, sure enough - I'm not alone. That was god damned hilarious 😂
It's kind of like when some friends just get together and make a time machine one weekend so one can go back in time and hang out with dad David Carradine.
One of the funniest lines in all of rifftrax/mst history
@@Jesse__H same
It’s simply amazing that they came up with this protagonist and thought he’d be likable, interesting, OR relatable
I'm part of a small community of fandom that wanted ROTOR to do well.
We're known as the ROTOR Rooters.
😁
🤓 Pretty sure this comment wins the internet.
Rotörheads
NICE!
This comment gives me "Scooter Brothers" vibes.
“Hey honey let’s go see Robocop at the movie theater.”
“Baby, we have Robocop at home.”
Robocop at home:
(sorry, that meme without the final line was making my eye twitch 😖)
Robocop at home? I’d buy _THAT_ for a dollar!
@@RustyMuck I get the reference, but for ROTOR that'd still be too steep a price for me. Maybe a nickel?
ikr wtf?
@@RustyMuck And you'd get .99¢ in change.
This is my favorite Rifftrax movie of all time. Skunk hair lady. The gas station crate with the magic exit. "HERR DOCTOR!!". White supremist. The gas station hostage lady who suddenly starts doing martial arts. Too many other great moments to list. This one was so funny that I almost couldn't handle it. My stomach was hurting from laughing! 🤣🤣🤣
"In Texas, all coffee has a little beef in it."
Yes. Texan-certified true statement.
How do you misquote something you literally just heard?
@@Popebug ,
Because I'm making a stupid joke, so I'm not terribly worried about exact accuracy. "Texas coffee always has a little beef in it," is apparently different enough of a quote that it warranted you making a comment just to correct me?
I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT Black Rifle Coffee Company coffee.
@@erniemiller1953 🤣🤣🤣 as a BRCC drinker, I can confirm this.
Texas, 1/3rd the size of Alaska but 100% Head fully up its own ass..with beef
I have no earthly idea how anyone would be able to sit through this movie without the riffs, Mike, Kevin and Bill are absolute MVPs
I've done it. Not saying it didn't hurt, but I did.
If you're really into nostalgia for Dallas in the '80s it's got a certain charm.
This is a fun bad movie. It’s non stop absurd crap. It’s not dull.
Ask Kieran from Rental Reviews... it's a Thanksgiving(?) tradition for him!
Just watching the RLM takedown was painful...funny, but painful
The emblems on ROTOR's helmet are made with 1980s iridescent Harley Davidson stickers. I remember seeing them in gumball vending machines. Stay classy, ROTOR.
That's some movie magic right there.
I am so glad you posted that, because I was thinking the same thing. So wonderful.
@@Popebug 58:48
Had these stickers as a kid, definitely got them from gumball machines
Indeed. I got a few of these from the sticker machines at pizza hut as a kid.
I'm by no means a Rifftrax pro but I can honesty say I've seen 90%+ of their collection. ROTOR is one of my favorite Rifftrax movies of all time.
I just about die during the board room scene with the Beach Boy references. No matter how many times I watch, that scene puts me in tears. Especially when they make the Madonna Vogue references. I always lose it there.
So happy they uploaded it.
Birdemic is really good!
"Let me lay it out plain for you son."
"62 year old son."
Bill's mooning thing was insanely funny "I tripped over my bunched-up pant legs! Ow, my arm, head and knee..." 🤣
That chain of Beach Boys references in the conference room reeks of one writer just deciding to mess with things, forgetting he did it, and then being too late to change anything.
Wouldn't it be nice if those references actually made sense?
Glad I wasn't the only one. I counted four.
@@stevenwatchorn9816 I get around 10 laughs a minute watching that terrible ADR.
God only knows. I thought it was going to go on for ever.
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Ah, a scientist-cop detective who also manages a full on cattle ranch and heads a complicated robotics research project, likely when he's not presiding as a judge and teaching at college of course. He has to save time to run the kitchen at his restaurant as well as practice for the Olympics.
A real down to earth protagonist.
You forgot how he's also an Olympic Gold Medalist.
He's so... relatable.
One of the least likeable protagonists ever. The crack about test audiences demanding his death probably was close to the truth.
I like your solo polo.
You forgot "shot to death."
I’ll never understand how Rifftrax doesn’t have way more subscribers than they do.
For real. People just don't know about them I guess
People probably google MST3K and just end up at Joel’s inferior reboot stuff.
I think it should be changing now that they’re posting full episodes
Most people don't know what it is. MST3K isn't even that well known and Rifftrax is even less known, although I prefer Rifftrax by a lot.
I figure MST3K and Rifftrax will never have a HUGE fanbase because a lot of their movies are too painful. Rifftrax definitely has a wider universe of movies though, including the non-painful ones. It just hasn't been around as long as MST3K.
13:59 Dude doesn't just leave his sunglasses on when he enters the building, he waits until walks into the boardroom...and THEN puts them on.
"Is it his [footprint]?"
"..Well, it ain't Pee Wee Herman's."
*"You have something to SHARE WITH THE REST OF US, AMAZING COLDYRON?!"*
The small metal griffin thing was so ridiculous I was crying. I would try his sauces for sure though.
To the movie's credit, it did beat both _RoboCop 2_ and _RoboCop 3_ to the punch in answering the question "Hey, what if _RoboCop_ sucked?"
Hey, Robocop 2 had its moments
@@jeffredfern3744 What it did not have, for some reason, was Shoe Boogie.
@@jeffredfern3744 The final battle was all kinds of awesome.
To the movie’s discredit [insert wtf you just said here] .
Robocop 2 was amazing. Though definitely not as good.
I laughed SO hard at the 3 supposedly 'tough guys' walking into the bar. The mulleted muscle head that takes off his suspenders one by one and then feels the need to rip off his shirt only to get bitch slapped by ROTOR is priceless.
"Don't call me by my slave name....I AM ROTOR!"
Fun fact: The muscle guy WAS ROTOR. That’s why you never see the ROTOR stand-in’s face during the fight scene.
@@TheVampirePredator Haha thanks for that fun fact. I don't understand how movies like this get made. The endless overdubbed dialogues and how Coldiron gets blown away by a shotgun at the end-almost like he knew it was a piece of trash movie and wrote that part in. Still, it was rich pickings for the Best Brains crew.
So much of this movie is hugely nostalgic for me. I moved to Dallas from Eastern Europe right around the time this movie was made, and this is exactly how things looked there.
Really? And you weren’t tempted to move back?
@@fromthecheapseats7126 lol for real. I would choose any depressing ex-soviet bloc country over Dallas.
What part of Eastern Europe?
@@Youcifer Poland, with 10 months in Italy along the way.
@@krowochron Cool! :)
"So, where are the other six people who we will also be feeding with these steaks?"
Awww...poor Bill's never been to Texas. The correct line is, "So, now that we've got my dinner set, what are you going to eat?"
Maybe they couldn't use it because Joel patented HIS line from "Earth vs. the Spider": "I've got a candy bar! What are YOU gonna have?"--hilarious...
I don’t know why, but Kevin going “not the pplies!” Gets me every time.
Countless Beach Boys references, lady wrestler/mathematicians, Milton quotes, The scenic East Texas countryside, and meaty coffee this movie has it all.
FTR, the scientists at The Beach Boys meeting are named:
Dr. Brian from the Wilson Institute of “Hawthorne”
‘Dr. Carl” also from Wilson Institute.
‘Dr. Al” at “Jardine” university Malibu
Dr. ‘Bruce’ at Johnston Labs
Shoeboogie too.
Lady wrestler / mathematicians? Intriguing...
@@Swybryd-Nation I caught the song titles, but I didn't catch the band member names.
Mike, Bill, and Kevin are the best comedians ever. They are the Mary Tyler Moores of movies. They take a nothing movie and make it all worthwhile.
Well said.
Mary Tyler Moore? How OLD are you?
@@charlottecorday8494 Is there an age limit for enjoying Rifftrax?
@@donkrouskop1743 41, according to my father
I'd say they're tied with RLMs best of the worst
They both cover the same dumpster fire movies, from ROTOR to samurai cop, Miami connection, and apply their own unique styles of comedy
Now all we need is Rifftrax doing surviving edged weapons hahah
My son and I yelled “noooooo!!!” when little Alphie rolled off the desk. Then both of my eyes went into the same hole and I couldn’t finish the movie.
...
_WHICH HOLE???_
The firehose of Beach Boys references is the most confounding thing in a movie PACKED with confounding things.
What are you talking about, it makes total sense to reference a band from California in a movie shot in Texas.
@@JeonardShadby505😂
That's like something I would do if I made a movie. Shoehorn them in there no matter what. I've always liked the Beach Boys.
Everyone wants to talk about Shooboogie. No one wants to talk about the meeting scene with a half dozen Beach Boys song titles shoehorned into the dialogue for no reason.
God only knows why they put those references in, since Dallas isn't even near a beach!
All I wanna do is have fun fun fun.
You don't say 'creep creep' unless you're quoting TLC.
Well the screenwriters had to entertain themselves somehow. Otherwise they'd have to write a decent script.
Excellent use of their time.
“Sounds like a Star Trek episode is starting”
“Captain’s Log, I’ve...been...shot in the head”
I can’t deal with the robot cops wearing little police hats on their massive robot oblong heads. This movie rules.
I love how Coldyron keeps saying his robot policeman is "judge, jury, and executioner" even though that's not how law works...it seemed like thoughtless action movie cliche regurgitation at first, but after seeing him thwart that gas station robbery(?), I think he's genuinely unaware of the judicial system
Coldyron is one of the most bizarre protagonists I've ever seen in a movie. He acts less human than the killer robot.
I also love that the foreshadowing with Shoebuggy and the blood eagle thing makes absolutely no sense because none of the characters who later killed the robot that way were even there.
I guess the line about Coldyron having visited a reservation was supposed to tie into that?
Coldyron is the least human-like character in a film with two robots. I guarantee both ROTOR and the police droid could have come up with a more natural analogy than the skeletons in a tin coffin thing.
(And hello from a fellow Retsu fan)
@@TheRealJabbergeist Every "joke" in this movie sounds like it came from a foreign language, got run through Google Translate, and then was left to fend for itself. :/
Also it drove me crazy because what they described as the Blood Eagle was just being drawn and quartered. The real blood eagle is a norse invention, and FAR far worse.
Shoeboogie!!!
You're looking for sense in this mess? 1) Sonia stops to talk to the cop who just murdered her fiancée after fleeing him initially. 2) The car she leaves in after Coldyron gets his ass kicked? Whose _is_ that? It wasn't hers or his.
3) He has time to call Steele, have her fly in, check into a hotel all while Sonia can't stop to sleep. He didn't give Sonia a # to call for help, nor has a way to shut off his killer robot remotely. He knows his robot can follow Sonia. Why not send her to where they can trap ROTOR?
He & Steele talked for _hours_ about what to do. They needed to fly her in to _talk?_
There's more, but...
Mike: "I don't want to seem like I'm judging someone else's work..."
Bill: "Mike. You're famous for it."
That's not even close to what he said.
"LOOK AT YOU. YOU GOT BOTH EYES COMING OUT OF THE SAME HOLE."
Mike: "Does that mean she's tired???"
Kev: "WHAT HOLE?!"
kills me every time,! 😂
As a texan I have never heard that saying anywhere 😂
I still can’t believe that line was said. It is the most nonsense expression I have yet to hear in a movie like this xD
I don’t think anybody from anywhere, speaking any language, has ever heard that expression.
But we in Texas have heard the words PAWKing Lot quite a bit.
Also a Texan, with parents that are WAAAY Texan, and I've also never heard that.
Must be a ft worth thing
As a French Canadian, I have heard it many times. L’expression avoir les deux yeux dans le même trou signifie « avoir l’esprit engourdi par la fatigue, avoir le regard vague ».
The 'heated' phone exchange @19:05 between Coldiron and the bad guy is really a duel of who has the worst teeth!
You mean Buglar?
I literally woke up today, went on prime video and looked up ROTOR. Totally forgot how much I loved this movie. Thanks boys!! See you tonight!
“They’ve got the wrong ROTOR!”
I've watched this a million times already!!
Am I going to watch it a million more, you bet. Thanks for posting you guys rule!
Having watched it a million times, have you worked out what the ending means yet? Because I have no damned idea why Coldyron got shot.
@@Here_is_Waldo I know their phone call was painful to listen to, but it established the guy’s corruption pretty well and Coldyron basically threatened to reveal it after dealing with ROTOR.
This is likely the pinnacle of riff-worthy movies.
More than Samurai Cop?
@@theboombody A great riff, but the x factor for me is that R.O.T.O.R. was, for at least part of its production, an effort to make a serious movie.
It's amazing to me just how revealing this movie is of the writer's worldview. The necessity or methodology of ROTOR is never called into question, the only problem is that it was activated too early. And the gas station scene really gets me. Coldyron instantly clocks that the youths who walked inside were criminals set on robbing the place, and knows that the only course of action is to threaten the driver, beat up a guy on the phone, then get ready to shoot a man dead. And then a cop tells him that he 100% did the right thing. And according to IMDB, his other credits were pretty much all in the art department for kids cartoons in the 80s and 90s. Wild.
It’s the same philosophy that gave us RoboCop, but then the writer and director made it a little deeper and more interesting.
One of the BEST in RiffTrax's catalog
This whole movie reminds me of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. I love it.
Did you remember to bring the shortbread?
Look, it's Sonia! She's been trapped in a crate, though she's still alive, unbelievable as that seems...!
This was one of my first Rifftrax and it's still one of my favorites
"How big is ROTOR? SOOO big! So big" LMAO! Gets me everytime.
Coldyron's voice triggered my ASMR. nearly fell asleep with all his exposition in the beginning.
"Introducing someone you'll never hear of again".
The overdub on the main actor is so damn painful!
The phony Native American character is pretty painful, too.
12:50
“When I was a kid we didn’t have fast movies! We had to wait three or four hours for something to happen!”
It's certainly one of the lesser flubs in here, but it amuses me that there's a dramatic closeup of the clock hitting 5:00 and then Coldyron wakes up at... 4:50. Man's got a time machine for a snooze button! (Come to it, I'd like one of those...)
I caught that from the jump but was surprised that the crew didn't crack any jokes about it.
“Clearing these stumps for pasturelands has always been a chore.”
Bill: “So you can see why I decided to invent killer robots!!” 😂
With this HD transfer, the suckiness comes through with great clarity
Lol I thought this was a foreign film with all the bad ADR 😂
So many wasted pixels...
Jokes aside, the soundtrack for this movie SLAPS
not wrong
9:10
“What are we doing in the open door tonight…sharing a feeling we both know…
I just wish it had a drum machine…
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ROTOR’s “weakness is Coldyron’s weakness.” But what killed ROTOR was being lassoed, and that was one of the cowboy scientist’s strengths!
Ah, but being exploded is one of Coldyron's weaknesses, so it was ROTOR's as well. Very clever of them.
@@Here_is_Waldo True. Pity angry phone guy wasn’t there with a shotgun to shoot ROTOR in the back! Would’ve saved a lot of low speed chase time.
I love how they all just laughed at Coldyron dying.
It's one of the most hilariously awful plot twists of all time.
@@kanna-san. And yet so gratifying at the same time
It's like the end of Alien Factor on Cinematic Titanic.
The amusing thing about this whole movie is not only do the day/night shots never match up, but the opening scene clearly shows Sony dead, Coldyron half beaten to death and it's at night, but the end of the movie Sony is alive, Coldyron barely has a scratch and it's daytime.
Oh, don't forget that everything you're watching is just a narration of events he's telling to the... lawyers?... so he told them things that there is no way he would ever have known.
And who was the shotgun guy in the beginning scene? I don't remember him being in the final fight scene with the rotor
@@chillydawgg4354 lol yep, the whole movie is a mess. Strangely, it was supposed to be a comedy, but the studio wanted it more serious. That's why there's so much random humor in it... like the guy with the buck teeth getting his head fried.
@@chillydawgg4354 Well, you know, this is Texas. There's shotgun guys just roaming the streets at random.
ROTOR on Rifftrax for free? It's my lucky day!
We. SEE. Him!!! And I love how the storyline about the girlfriend just gets dropped. Word has it she’s still asleep on that tacky loveseat.
57:56-So funny! 😂
"They developed fully operational sensor recall but didn't think of a remote control with an off switch".😂😂😂
42:21 "You wanna go to the IHOP?"
"Golden Coral's new slogan."
Perhaps seen as common by some fans, but I love when/how that riff is used. 😄
It may be common but that's what helps to make it funnier and more common, as an inside joke between fans :)
Have you or anybody else out there been to the restaurant?
We don't have them where I live.
I'm guessing it's a steakhouse but is it really that bad? And why?
Please let me know if you get a chance.
Cheers from Canada
@@steveharvey2102 It's a buffet place, it's not _bad_ but it's also really not very good. It's the kind of place you go like... after football practice or something, when you need a lot of food and you aren't picky about it.
They're really nostalgic for me because we didn't have them were I lived as a kid, but they did around my grandparents, so we always went there when we visited. As a kid I loved it, not so much now. :D
@@steveharvey2102Golden Corral is a chain buffet. Certainly inexpensive for a buffet, and the food quality reflects just that. Granted, it's not all that bad considering Buffets are a rare sight, and its value is undeniable; but some would consider it 'trashy' since they cook in large quantities - increasing likelihood for undercooked/overcooked food... But as a buffet, you're encouraged to grab a new plate of food - if your appetite isn't demoralized after biting into raw or tough meat.
In my opinion, I like the breakfast buffet for all the bacon I can manage to eat - or eggs n steak, even if it is only scrambled eggs.
Considering the value, if you don't mind cheap steak, then you can fill up on protein/calories easy.
"That's not a ROTOR-y phone!" Bill's reaction to that joke from Kevin kills me every time.
Even Zap Rosdower laughs at Barrett Coldyron's name.
Is Zap a legit name? What in God's name is it short for?!
@@guybrush1701 Uhmmm......Zapruder -- I think........but please don't quote me. 😊😁😏😉
"Rosdower!"
I don't know. Ask Zapp Brannigan...
Zaphod.
The "I'm secretly a baby" line got me! 🤣
Also, I'm not sure if anyone else gives props to the theme song for Rifftrax, but I was slightly disappointed that it wasn't on this one. It's really catchy and short enough to not get overplayed/annoying. Whoever wrote and performed it knocked it out of the park!!!
You missed the perfect opportunity to rag on the beach boys again at 16:11
And a few seconds later at 16:54. They had to do those on purpose.
One of the things that makes this movie bearable to watch is the warm fuzzies I keep getting when I see Dallas footage from the 1980s. I keep spotting buildings I recognize that a lot of the time have been demolished.
I've seen this one on Pluto so many times, but this is the first time I've watched it in 1 sitting. Holy smokes this is so good. The cast is incredible... Southern character from a Hannah Barbera cartoon should get an extended universe.
So, my room mate has been harping about Rotor for years. Holy crap... there are no words. Part of it is he never mentioned it was filmed in Dallas I think I've worked at or around the corner from every location in the movie. Hell, the convenience store robbery was not far from my house.
Who paid for this.. thing?
I believe it's a Mexico-South Africa coproduction
Dallas chambers of commerce?
We all did, in a way.
The main…actor…guy always looks like he’s doing the Bogart routine that won him second place in his high school talent show.
Thank you Rifftrax. Just, thank you.
Do we all remember the opening scene? Don't forget that that scene was meant to occur chronologically between ROTOR blowing up, and Coldyron giving his parting monologue to the interrogators at the end of the movie.
11:11- "Clearing these stumps for pasture land has always been a chore."
Bill- "so you can see why I decided to invent killer robots". LOL!!
"And skunk-head gym lady is in!"
I am crying. It's just oh my god, I can't see.
Don’t forget the sequels ROTOR in space, ROTOR goes Medieval, ROTOR vs The Aliens, ROTOR goes Outback to a Steakhouse in Australia. ROTOR, Mall Cop. Shoplifters will be destroyed!
1:05:11 as a Houstonian, I was surprised how pleased I was to hear the correct 713 area code referenced. Never thought I'd hear it used in a movie, to the extent that ROTOR can be called a movie.
"Establishing Shot: The Movie" - RLM
Cut to _another_ establishing shot!
I’ve been binging Rifftrax, MST and BOTW for two weeks. If Rifftrax ever does Rem Lazar my life will be complete 😂
Cut to establishing SHOTTTTTT
@@bwriddle6650 You might want to consider including Found Footage Festival's VCR Party in that mix. They have the best Rem Lezar exclusives.
Wow! Incredible. I love so much Rifftrax. So entertaining, yet intellectually stimulating. I love the feeling of solving their constant clever little wit puzzles. Thank you!
"What is she, Grover demonstrating what FAR is?? CUT AWAY!!" 1:16:00
When I saw this was coming up, I made more noise than 2 skeletons making love in a tin coffin, brother!
Thank you for constantly providing quality entertainment.
The ADR is so bad on the main character that I sometimes mistake it for the riffing.
the ADR on the "feets don't fail me now" guy is also Coleman Francis level.
What makes it even better is that almost no one else is ADR'd.
Also I totally get why the RLM guy's called him back problems, there's just something about his posture and the way he moves that makes him look like he's recovering from major surgery.
According to IMDB: "The movie's release was delayed by almost two years due to financial problems. By the time director Cullen Blaine was able to find the money to finish post-production, several members of the cast, including lead actor Richard Gesswein, either could not be tracked down or refused to return for ADR dubbing, forcing Blaine to have other actors overdub all of their dialogue."
@@tims.2717I was wondering why all his lines were dubbed
Dammit Coldiron, you're writing checks your skeletons can't cash!
They spent it all on tin coffins, the randy scamps.
Strangely, it's spelled "Coldyron" with a "y". But that would mean they should pronounce it "coldee ron" or "coll dyron" not "cold iron". It's amazing on how many levels this movie doesn't make a lick of sense.
Also, it's just not the same when the robot doesn't dance to "White Lines/Cavern". Damn you, Red Letter Media!
The writing in this movie wasn't topped until A Talking Cat!?! came out decades later.
I love that this is shot in Dallas! I recognize most of the locations.
Yeah and nobody talks like they’re from Texas LOL. It’s like they bought unused B-roll from the Dallas TV show
Love this particular riff, I've been watching these guys since the days of mst3k as a kid. Obligatory comment is obligatory as this is one of the few pleasures in life that I will always support as best I can. The passion they have for their work and their fans is noticable, so it's the least I can do to keep them in the green and reward the joy they bring. Keep up the good work ❤🤗
can we talk about the ridiculously high definition quality of the movie?
There's a cinematic titanic version of Time Chasers that looks pretty good, too.
This riff is genuinely a classic
I love this movie so much. I'm sad it never got a sequel, because I want more. The riffs in this one are top notch, too.
"If he stays after you, he won't go off on a killing spree"
That's a matter of perspective
I laughed so hard at the bike fixing hilllbilly post production audio scene that my lungs hurt. Maybe I have covid.
Thanks!
"What do you think this is, some low budget sci fi flick?"
Mike: ah! The movie is becoming self aware! 🤣🤣🤣
We all appreciate these uploads 🙂
"Today's solution is still booze"
"Hittin the booze again eh?"
This place is full of robot cops
1:19:27- "Can I tempt you with a cinneburst? " LOL I swear I find something new to laugh at every time.
This film is excruciating even with the best efforts from these guys.
Rotor makes "The Final Sacrafice" seem like quality entertainment.
The (seemingly coincidental) Isuzu product placement with the Impulse and the Trooper is one of the things this movie got right
I love how the clock rolls back a whole 10 minutes right before your eyes at 8:50.
I can understand why the hero got shot at the end. I wanted to do the same thing.
Best movie ending ever. Shotgunning the hero down in broad daylight
The only complaint I have about it is the shooter deserved it too.
@@suchiuomizu I don't know about that. He did seem to be the only one who had any clue about what he was trying to do.
Love ROTOR....easily one of the best Rifftrax has done
_"Which hole?!"_
Two words shouldn't be so funny.
I often wonder what the actors in a movie like thius think of being Riffed. That may be a thought.........invite these guys to a riff trax screening!!
I can't imagine why R.O.T.W.O never got made.