A Futile and Stupid Gesture - Netflix (2018) (1 Viewer)

[kupcho1]

Just watched A Futile and Stupid Gesture ... very good movie.  Was a fan of the National Lampoon growing up, and learned a great deal about the origin.  

Highly recommend.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

I liked it a lot though I think it could have been so much better.  

Same here - very close to my time growing up.  A little before.  If you have never read the Lampoon HS yearbook parody, you should do so.  

So much of it still applies today.  

 

[Long Ball Larry]

The doc "drunk stoned brilliant and nearly dead" (or something like that) on Netflix is also very good. Covers a lot of the same stuff actually.  Liked the movie, though I didn't necessarily love forte in the role. Thought David wain killed it as Michael odonohughe.

 

[Kiddnets]

Just watched this last weekend....really enjoyed it.  Lots of good performances but they did a good job of telling the story without taking itself too seriously.  Mull and Forte both did a great job portraying Doug Kenney and the character actors did well too.....fun ride for fans of comedy from the 70s....DK was so instrumental and barely known.  Check it out!  

 

[James Bond]

I really liked this. Interesting to see the connections between National Lampoon, Saturday Night Live, and the movies. I had no idea that the Stork was the same person who started National Lampoon, wrote both Animal House and Caddyshack, and also wrote Bored of the Rings. And then dead at 33. Interesting to see the recreation of classic scenes from the movies even if the cast barely resembled the original actors.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

The doc "drunk stoned brilliant and nearly dead" (or something like that) on Netflix is also very good. Covers a lot of the same stuff actually.  Liked the movie, though I didn't necessarily love forte in the role. Thought David wain killed it as Michael odonohughe.

####, I don't know what the hell I was saying when I said David wain.  Total brain fart.  That was Thomas Lennon.

 

[roadkill1292]

I had completely forgotten about the High School Yearbook Parody issue and just how brilliant it was.

"First Lay" and "First #######" were also brilliantly written stories for the monthly issues. College years, man. Weed. Lots of weed.

 

[Bull Dozier]

Never got into National Lampoon (maybe too young?) but enjoyed the movie.  I definitely felt the actors captured the spirit of the characters they were playing even if they didn't look like them too much.

Didn't know the story of Kenney at all, so I was thrown for a loop at the end.  I was waiting for the "twist" but it was just was is was.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

I was really looking forward to this, read some lampoon as a kid and loved Caddyshack/Animal House, and i even really like Will Forte.

I thought this movie sucked.  Not really funny, and an offensive voice over to let you know what to think at all times in case there was any ambiguity.  Emmy Rossum was totally wasted as a generic pretty face.