Arena (1989)
An excellent riff subject.
It features televised human vs alien boxing, a four armed short order cook, at least 2 actors from deep space nine and 1 from Babylon 5.
Set on a space station, a Christopher Reeve lookalike goes from vagrant to heavy weight contender overnight.
Though terribly melodramatic, its actually not a terrible film to watch on its own, but if riffed will be a classic addition to the riff Trax library.
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DarkLordofIT
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I came to suggest this movie. The alien costumes alone are enough to make a great riff.
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Freakservo
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My sister and I saw this shlub-number on the shelf at my local Blockbuster back in the day, and were going to make an evening of it, but then we got distracted by...Geez, I don't remember too well, it was 1995 or so. We probably rented Toshinden instead.
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jeffbuckner commented
And I imagine it would be easy/cheap to get the rights to riff it, since it’s streaming on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/5qwvUnFb-Yw -
Anonymous
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I remember this from my youth, yes, a perfect choice!
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Matt commented
couldn't agree more...they NEED to at least give this consideration!!!