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Comedy ages differently than drama.
Yeah, good point. Although not truly "movies", the old cartoons often have this flaw. It is tough. I still love them, but understand the issues. I have often started to link to one in reference to a post, and then realize that it could be misunderstood.
Yes I did have those models!!!! I loved them. I also had the one from Jaws which was Jaws attacking a guy in a shark cage. If memory serves it was in a bottle. Still love the smell of model glue.Sweet. Did you have the glow-in-the-dark models?
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I did not have all myself, but my cousin completed the set. We had lots of monster wars.
I was surprised how funny I thought Some Like it Hot was vs most of the 70s comedies i dont crack a smile during my watches. (With rare exception, like some Monty Python).
I agree- to me the best comedies of all time are from the 30s and 40s
Yep- SOME of the 70s comdies have ages like rotten fish. Some Like It Hot hasn't lost anything though- totally fresh.
it's the Jack Lemmon Factor, both ways. nobody else could do that - capture the neurotic noodge in a man and just fire it out there. even though the words were written first, it still seems like the script is straining to keep up. it is both an immensely beautiful and ridiculously ugly thing to watch. Billy Wilder understood that attitude & rhythm better than anybody else and showcased it well. The Apartment is one of my favorite all time comedies and there are still times i go to watch it and turn it off almost immediately cuz i just aint in the mood to be repeatedly shot by that closet machinegun of his.
that's an extra payoff to learning to watch movies made before one's time in the perspective of that time - it also helps contemporize movies you once liked that got the stale on em. one almost laughs at why one laughed at it in the first place, but affectionately so, and that freshens things a li'lbit. physical comedy dont age so bad, but jokes shonuff do. Python is nonsense and still smarter than us, so it holds up
to hijack a sec, that's why i send my director cousin emails at least twice a year begging him to consider making a film version of each our favorite musical comedy, Stephen Sondheim's Company. it's a satire about sex & marriage - all the central character's couple friends extolling the virtues of marriage @ his 35th b'day party - that was first staged almost FIFTY years ago and all the jokes still work. do you have any concept of just how ridiculously great that is ?!?!
I watched Smokey and the Bandit last night. It's still funny as hell, wish they had more Gleason.
Ha! Speaking of model glue ... my pop worked for a paint company, and I began part-time (weekend/holiday) work there also as soon as I was old enough. On my first day, the other guys (boss didn't know) told me to get into a 2000 gallon tub with rubber boots. They then poured in about 5 gallons of toluene (the solvent in most models glues from our youth) and told me to wash down the tub.prosopis said:
Nonsense never goes out of style ... it is eternal to the human nature.wikkidpissah said:
the Cowbell of Comedyprosopis said:
shshsh - it's all part of my diabolical plan to disrupt worldwide markets by changing the international language from Esperanto to Covfefe. *strokes #####*
He had just come off another failed Terry Gilliam project - slated to enjoy the role of his career as Baby Gonzo Journalist in Fear & Loathing in Plush Vegas (with Fozzie adding unnecessary schtick as his attorney) but ultimately disappointed by Gilliam's inconsistent work habits, so he was really stressed out, overmedicated & on a deadline
Sorry - I forgot to quote you.ITT -
i learned that Muppet Movie swooners actually have the balls to question the staying power/freshness of movies that are light years superior to their ridiculous puppet fetish predilections
Well - let's just say that when you smoke enuff green, some things in life make more sense coming from a stuffed animal with a hand up it ### ...
et tu, MoCS? .... et tu?
i don't think i could possibly ever properly articulate just how much i despise and loathe and detest the whole franchise - starting with Sesame Street right up to present day ... one of the most vile and sickening scourges EVER to trouble daylight ... #### them all, gotDAMN Utopian, hippie, emasculated pablum. puke inducing, i yell ya :X
No- certainly not a sppiler. It is more thriller than action. Most of the story takes place in Hackman's head really. This might be his best performance IMO.
I would be that Young Gene Pick is from his 1st Communion and Mike Brady Gene is on his first day of high school.
What has five letters and likes to be stroked?
