This movie was watched as part of a RiffTrax commentary.
II never planned to watch this movie. Of the thousands on my watchlist, this one isn’t one of them. Sorry, Richard Donner completionists. Was 16 Blocks worth it??
Every set piece in this movie is so long! Do we need four cutaways to Matthew Broderick breaking through the wall? Like, three things happen in the first 45 minutes. It’s like they started filming before they had a story in mind. The movie seems to think long pauses = better movie.
Janet Varney riffs on this one!! And someone named Cole Statton, who co-founded SF Sketchfest with Varney. I appreciate the break from the usual Rifftrax guys’ “dark” humor.”
- The wall, coated with mud and slime, prepares to give birth. Will the offspring be a smaller wall or something else?
- Oh, so he gets to Ferris Bueller this one, too?
- A nice, hot piece of cabbage, this ashtray, and this remote control. That’s all I need!
- Get some sleep, you’ve got a lotta monologuing to do tomorrow.
- Lightbulb appears above his head — everyone freaks because they haven’t been invented yet.
- Nobody could say this movie doesn’t take its time.
- Too bad, if it were noon, he would’ve turned into a condor.
- She’s the most wonderful girl who’s ever lived, and that includes Gwen Stefani!
- I just wish they some way to show time passing!
- See, NOW they’re gonna ratchet up that tension.
- She’s… right behind me, isn’t she?
- — Now, look at us. — Dude, I swear, we have been doing exactly that for almost two hours.