Your worst "good" movie

The farting scenes and the scene when Cleavon Little says "where de white wemmin at" cracks me up the most.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dm9rN6oTs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=493pL_Vbtnc

They just don't make'em like they used to....

 

Never cared for "Blazing Saddles" don't care for much in the way of comedies though. I did enjoy "Young Frankenstein" though.

 

Gene Wilder was great in those roles.

 

My own overrated movie list, Part I:

1. 2001. Dull and pretentious.
2. Barry Lyndon. Another sominex from Master Kubrick.
3. Full Metal Jacket. And the Kubrick hits keep coming. Boring, cold, pompous.
4. Don't Look Now. Highly praised, arty, confusing, dull, dull, dull.
5. The Quiet Man (and most other John Ford movies, too). I'll have another pint of Blarney, please. God, how I loathe Irish 'humor.'
6. Cousin Cousine. Isn't adultery cute and fun? Never mind that it's also selfish and cruel as hell.
7. The English Patient. Sorry, Nazi spies are vile no matter how handsome and dashing they are.
8. The Sting. Cutesy con-men. How many of those do you know in real life?
9. West Side Story. A decent score, Rita Moreno and nothing else except a cornpone civics lesson. Also, I know what the real Jets were like.
10. Any Tarantino movie that isn't Pulp Fiction or Jackie Brown. The guy has a teenager's view of the world and he parodies himself constantly.
11. Cross of Iron. The actors are all too old for their roles, in some cases absurdly so.
12. Limelight. Chaplin's sentimental love letter to himself; Buster Keaton is in the picture for only ten minutes and steals it.

More to come.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdIID_TGwhM

 

You must mean when Namath was their quarterback.

 

What's wrong with you guys?

The English Patient, The Thin Red Line, Dances with Wolves, Out of Africa and The Slumdog Millionaire are all great movies and well deserving their prizes!

Naturally they are not like e.g. Rambo, but in my papers that's only a merit...

 

Winter must have come early this year

 

Yeah I noticed that too. He must have got some brain freezed before he found his winter cap. And obviously he and his fellow Finns don't get out very much either.

 

Actually our November so far has been very mild. No brain freezing so far possible then. But us not getting out very much might just be possible! We have a saying, that in summer we fish and fuck a lot. In winter though we don't fish that much...

So - It must be then, that the Academy guys in different countries (and me...) do not understand much about the movies... ;-)

 

The Academy people here don't understand movies very well either. For instance, "Smokey and the Bandit" was totally snubbed at the Oscars in 1977. What's up with that?

 

Haven't actually seen "Smokey and the Bandit", but it appears to me to be one of those many Hollywood films aimed at teen-age boys. I might have grown out of that target group already some years ago. Naturally I might have misjudged the film and missed a true masterpiece - but I doubt that... ;-)

 

Smokey does not look so good after the years. But back in the day, on a drive in theatre screen, Sally Fields and a hot rod Trans Am made excellent entertainment.

 

1. An excellent film!
2. A quite good film
3. A quite good film too
7. One of the best films ever! The main character in "the Patient", the Count Almásy, was actually NOT a "Nazi spy"...
10. E.g. "Kill Bill" 1&2 are very good

 

Well go see it then, and then come back and tell us what you think. It was not aimed at teen aged boys at all. It was made for rednecks. Great flick, although there is no redeeming social qualities to be found in it. It's just funny as hell. But someone who idealizes "The English Patient" would probably not find it to be entertaining in the least bit.

 

May I suggest a double feature?

Porky's!

The Ike cameo is priceless! Never laughed so hard before or since!

 

He probably wouldn't understand the humor it conveys. Great flick as well.