Yesterday's Target (1996) RiffTrax dual audio DVDRip.10bit.x265-budgetbits
RiffTrax commentary audio track will play with the movie by default. Change the track in your video software if you want to hear the normal movie track.
The RiffTrax release made several small cuts through the action scenes at the end. See instructions below if you want to watch just the riffed segments.
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GENERAL INFO
RiffTrax release date
June 14, 2019
Genre
Parody, Comedy, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Plot
Once upon a time, way back in 1996, the stars aligned and gave us Yesterday’s Target, a TV movie starring LeVar Burton, Malcolm McDowell, and a Baldwin brother!
No, not Alec, too famous. No, not William, too handsome. No, not Stephen, too “funny.” The other one. No, come on, there’s another one, you just don’t remember. Think. THINK. Okay, fine, we’ll tell you: it’s Daniel. Yes, Daniel Baldwin! No we didn’t make him up; he’s real, he’s in Yesterday’s Target, and he’s travelled time to save us all, or something - so you should show him a little respect!
In this world, unexplained eleven-month pregnancies are bringing on a new generation of people with psychic superpowers - one might call them “mutants,” or “X-Men,” if one weren’t too afraid of litigation. Daniel Baldwin, who can sorta move stuff with his mind, and a couple of his psychic pals have been sent back from the future to do… something? We’re not really sure; it doesn’t quite add up, but they do get a lot of headaches and grimace a lot.
Perhaps the strangest choice the movie makes is casting LeVar Burton, the world’s nicest and most likeable actor, as a heartlessly cruel bad guy. Sometimes casting against type really works! Sometimes, it really doesn’t. To paraphrase the Reading Rainbow theme song, “Take a look, it’s in a book, it’s a bad moooovie.”
If all this sounds kind of strange and nonsensical, that’s only because it is. Strap in for a psychic time-travel romp of Baldwinian proportions, join Mike, Kevin and Bill for Yesterday’s Target!
Written by:
Mike Nelson, Conor Lastowka, and Sean Thomason
Contributing Writers:
Jason Miller and Zachary Shatzer
Encoding info
Encoded by budgetbits from DVD (Yesterday's Target 1996 DVD5 PAL-CultFilms™) with HandBrake 1.2.2, veryslow preset, x265, 720p, 10 bit, crf 22, aq-mode 1, sao/strong-intra-smoothing/rect disabled.
DVD source is different than a 1080p version RiffTrax used for their VOD. This source is OAR and generally better picture quality even though it is lower resolution.
Riff synced by budgetbits: time stretched, and audio copied from regular movie track to fill in for unriffed scenes. Regular movie track in DVD source seems out of sync, so both audio tracks delayed .125 seconds which seems better.
Subtitles from Yesterdays.Target.1996.1080p.WEBRip.x264-RARBG.srt with timing fixed at https://subshifter.bitsnbites.eu/
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Full vs riffed cuts
The RiffTrax release made several small cuts through the action scenes at the end.
If you want to watch just the riffed segments, you can play the .edl with mpv, or play the .m3u in VLC. Or you can manually skip through the unriffed parts. These are the timecodes that are riffed:
-62:48.367
63:29.127-63:55.487
64:54.087-66:18.567
66:35.687-67:04.247
67:29.527-67:39.407
68:28.447-
See this Suprbay thread for more info on playlists and EDLs.
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POSTER
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SCREENSHOTS
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MEDIAINFO
General
Filename = Yesterday's Target (1996) RiffTrax dual audio DVDRip.10bit.x265-budgetbits.mkv
Duration = 1 h 16 min
Size = 495 MiB
Overall bit rate = 909 kb/s
Video #0
Format = HEVC x265 - 2.9:[Linux][GCC 8.2.0][64 bit] 10bit
Resolution = 698x572
Aspect ratio = 4:3 (1.302)
Bit rate = 751 kb/s
Frame rate = 24.974 FPS
Audio #0
Title = RiffTrax
Format = Opus
Channels = 2 channels
Bit rate = 79.8 kb/s
Sampling rate = 48.0 kHz
Language = English
Audio #1
Title = Unriffed feature
Format = Opus
Channels = 2 channels
Bit rate = 70.6 kb/s
Sampling rate = 48.0 kHz
Language = English
Subtitles = UTF-8 English
