Book Girl Riffing.

[Randall Fragg]

Behold, Reuben Baron's masterpiece.
I was wondering if anyone else would be interested in recording a riffing of this. Not exactly sure how you'd go about doing it though.
(Mods: please move to different area if not appropriate).

 

[Golly]

That could be fun! I imagine anything from Google Hangouts to Skype would work as long as one of us had recording software, which definitely can't be hard to get.

 

[Dollars2010]

Oh gosh, having seen this master piece, I think it would be fun to do a riffing of it.

 

[TheProdigalStunna]

def down

 

[EI 903]

Could be a fun project. If you want it to be good, the best way to do it would probably be MST3k style. Have everyone watch it on their own and write down silly comments they think fit, collaborate on who has the best jokes for given spots, then record them and splice it over the video audio.

If you just want to goof off and have fun, you can do it live. Just try to work out some sort of system so that it doesn't end up with people talking over each other too much.

 

[Pine Tar]

CyTube it and copy everyone's comments on a word processor document.

 

[Laevateinn]

I'd be up for this. I like tearing things apart and this looks like a fun video to riff!

 

[niggers]

10/10 idea

watching this, is there a single "actress" under 200 lbs?

its going to be hard to not just have 20 minutes of "holy shit those poorly dressed fat girls" so editing will hafta be snappy.

 

[sparklemilhouse]

i watched the first 44 seconds, and a bunch of guys were beating up the chick in the wheelchair. uh. that's just wrong. wtf.

 

[Randall Fragg]

Could be a fun project. If you want it to be good, the best way to do it would probably be MST3k style. Have everyone watch it on their own and write down silly comments they think fit, collaborate on who has the best jokes for given spots, then record them and splice it over the video audio.

Yeah, I think we should do this. Anyone who wants to riff, watch it, come up with some funny comments, decide what we're gonna say, and then we'll either watch it together with a "script", or have someone who's good with videos splice in the audio. Personally, I like watching all together while recording it over teamspeak or something, but I'd like some feed back.

 

[Mauvman Shuffleboard]

Oh whoops I accidentally Book Girled.

Spoiler: Now everybody will know the sickening truth

0:18 - Dr. Gangster determines that paraplegic cousin It doesn't need the wheelchair after all
0:42 - World's nerdiest gang aggressively LARPs and punches invisible wings
1:00 - Dr. Gangster healed the cripple by punching her wings off
1:10 - "That's why she's book girl" For those keeping score at home if you have phantom wings and fucked up legs that's pretty much a book. On a related note, Dr. Gangster may not know what books are.
1:50 - Book Girl walks into the room and complains to her friend about boys making her walk.
2:06 - "They beat up my wings" A beautiful line presented without comment.
2:36 - Book Girl has a paper phobia so I'll refer to her as e-Book girl from now on because I'm a gentleman.
2:48 - e-Book Girl is more self-aware than all of Tumblr combined and knows she's a spastic.
2:50 - She storms out of the room and walks further than she did in the first scene where those boys forced her to walk and has no problems at all, except for the phantom wings and paper phobia.
3:08 - To the surprise of literally nobody, e-Book Girl has a Mac.
3:25 - You wouldn't download a car, so why would you download The Sad Wings of Destiny: The Dream Cycle - Part One?
3:44 - Pirated e-Book Girl realizes that she was a fictionkin all along and the character in the book is her.
4:10 - Fun fact: when you Google search "I'm a book character" the first result is a wikipedia article for a book about being comfortable with who you are and the second result is me laughing at you.
4:17 - A fake Wikipedia page for "Fictionals" scrolls across the screen, there are red lines under a bunch of the words because they don't exist and they didn't even try to make it look legit.
4:20 - Taha
4:22 - I honestly can't tell if that's a legitimate Tumblr post or something they made up for this movie.
4:26 - "Research Essay on Phantom Wings" They don't even try to make that look legit.
4:30 - "Is it me? Or do other fictionals who identify as cyborgs have issues when hearing power tools..." #likeifuread
4:37 - If it wasn't for this stupid Google search montage I would have never noticed why they call her Book Girl. Apparently it sounds like pages turning when she walks, and the only reason I know this is because it says on TV Boy's blog that he met someone like him but with pages turning instead of static noises when walking. TV Boy is probably the fat blonde dude I didn't mention earlier because he never did anything (personally I thought he was a background lesbian for diversity or something). I'd like to take the time to point out that anything that Tyce believes is more interesting and logical than this movie.
5:00 - Book Girl and TV Boy IM to the extreme, I feel like I'm watching a bad Let's Play of Sonichu 9. They just fucking record the screenwhile they're typing back and forth with a camera. I'm not a movie genius or anything, but I'd probably put some sort of narration in the background so you don't have to try to follow the conversation on a computer screen someone recorded with a camcorder from a few feet away.
5:47 - "I met a wizard who can return fictionals to their original forms!!" I know this movie's supposed to be a modern fairy tale or something, but that's still the sketchiest thing I ever heard. At least he asks her to meet him in the park afterwards instead of his basement.
6:35 - I guess the two girls are sisters? One's significantly more urban than the other (Book Girl has 0 street cred) so I wonder which one is adopted. Also this scene has Birdemic tier sound-mixing.
6:45 - e-Book Girl: "I'm staying over at a friend's house." Other girl: "You have one of those now?" Sick burn dude
7:04 -

Mmm, gorgeous
7:54 - Like all good wizards, Merlin here keeps natural light far away from his piss jugs.
8:47 - The wizard's waiver is actually just a bunch of swastikas on the back of a greeting card.
9:17 - The special effects for the transformation are literally a bunch of Christmas lights spinning around while the wizard speaks magic words and e-Book Girl squeaks. Sometimes it fades to e-Book Girl drinking the magic potion too for variety and the non-Christmas lights flicker on and off.
10:12 - Pros: The wings are fluffy. Cons: They don't move and are tiny as shit.
11:20 - e-Book Girl's mom gives her money to move out now that she has wings, even though she never saw them. Thanks wizard.
11:40 - "My wings can be my blanket." Don't you love it when your blanket covers about half your back at best and leaves the rest of your body entirely exposed?
12:00 - Beautiful line delivery. I cry every time.
12:20 - "It's not a costume, I got these wings in an experimental magic transformation." Another wonderful line presented without comment.
13:00 - "Human Transformation Magic Gone Too Far?" Nice journalizing Reuben, no wonder everyone respects you.
13:03 - The only character I can relate to in this movie is Confused White Dude. I think he's supposed to represent humanity at large with the way he thinks e-Book Girl is a spastic.
13:40 - Confused White Dude feels threatened by the vampire menace, he really knows the struggle.
14:16 - Dr. Kumar calls the bitch crazy, and I'm starting to see a pattern. Maybe it'll develop later.
14:36 - "She doesn't wanna walk, so the dumb chick comes up with some excuse about how she needs to fly." Confused White Dude tells it like it is.
15:16 - Book Mom calls her daughter up and tells her she's fucked up after seeing her interview with Confused White Dude. The last two minutes were really good for having characters that weren't big losers.
15:46 - "You ain't some angel-bird bitch just because of some wizard." I think a wizard is literally the only way to become some angel-bird bitch, sorry Dr. Gangster 2.0.
15:55 - e-Book Girl's sister sneaks up on Dr. Gangster 2.0 and lightly swats the back of his head with a paperback, knocking him unconscious. This forces his friend to flee the scene. If anything about that made sense to you you must be Reuben Barron.
16:45 - Sister Girl assumes the TV in TV Boy stands for Transvestite and that TV Boy is e-Book Girl's girlfriend immediately after she says TV Boy isn't her boyfriend. This misgendering upsets e-Book Girl because of course it does.
18:20 - The wizard stopped giving a shit and now conducts all his wizardry in pajamas. The Christmas lights return!
19:10 - TV Boy's arm got hacked in the TV and now it got hacked in real life. Damn you Anonymous!
19:30 - Holy shit TV Boy dies. I guess this is the tragic part.
19:58 - e-Book Girl flies away and the movie ends. I'll leave you to imagine how convincing this looked.

Now that I finished the movie I can state with absolutely certainty that in this movie there is a direct correlation between how fat the character is and how much of a spastic they are. I don't think this was intentional.

 

[Randall Fragg]

Randall Riff's

Spoiler

0:02: Part of Mozart's "Sad Puppy Suite"
0:14: Lookout, one dimensional bully characters.
0:28: This is like that scene in Trading Places. Only not intentionally funny.
0:42: *snort* you gotta be kidding.
0:58: HEY, she's not disabled! She's just like those people who take the hovverrounds at the Walmart because they're too lazy to walk!
1:03: Who's cutting vegetables?
1:15: (dorky laughing)
1:52: Special appearance by Honey Boo Boo's mom.
2:10: "Since when do you have wings?"
2:19: Also, what's with the goofy maid outfit?
3:49: Uhhh, no.
3:50: Did the mirror just say "anthrax?"
3:58: LEGITIMATE FILM STUDENT
4:03 No reason for that cut folks.
4:46: There's a world of crazy spastics just like you.
5:48: That's how sane people respond to fictionals.
6:30: "There's a magic wizard who's going to give me wings."
7:18: That's like saying "I haven't met many werewolves". THEY DON'T EXIST!
7:34: Hi Reuben.
7:41: Because you're a girl.
8:18: "I got a D&D meeting in 20 minutes"
9:02: Roll for cast magic.
9:43: R2-D2um?
10:17: So by magic he meant a cheap Halloween costume.
10:30 They teleported and now it's night.
10:49: IT'S A CHEAP HALLOWEEN COSTUME!
11:38: right next to Stabby Joe.
12:30: "A wizard, right, I'm backing away now."
12:50: How much you wanna bet Reuben's standing behinder moving the wings with his hands?
13:21: I feel your pain Mr. confused white guy.
13:49: Because they're 2 edgy emo middleschoolers.
14:10: Starring the Director's Landlord.
14:16: 'Dr. Kumar'? Really?
15:13: DURHUR SOCIETAL COMMENTARY!
15:44: There is no way to make that sound cool.
16:11: "you're not crazy because you believe that you're a reincarnated angel."
17:03: "You're not batshit insane".
17:27: Wonder what the people in the background were thinking when they filmed this?
18:43: The director's blowing into the mic, isn't he?
19:14: "Whoops, flubbed the magic roll."
19:37: Uhh, CPR? Don't walk away, be useful! The wizard's calling 9/11, that's helpful.
19:57: hehehe, oh you gotta be kidding me...
20:14: I see Reuben's Camera operating skills are as competent as everything he's done.
20:29: Wonder how much of mommy and daddy's cash Reuben spend on this?
20:46: Pretty sure in every possible universe.