tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post110040733816785991..comments2023-10-19T05:36:56.844-07:00Comments on "Let's Not Talk About Movies": Olde Review: The Running, Jumping, and Standing Still FilmUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-68206467019343817502008-07-22T19:07:00.000-07:002008-07-22T19:07:00.000-07:00I'm not.Even though I prepped them an amazingly pr...I'm not.<BR/><BR/>Even though I prepped them an amazingly prescient two weeks ago, you'll find this precise argument continuing in the "Love and Death" reviews and especially in the "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" review.<BR/><BR/>Because, as Steve Martin said, comedy is not pretty."Yojimbo_5"https://www.blogger.com/profile/12791996320278381516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-42781330721786084522008-07-22T16:04:00.000-07:002008-07-22T16:04:00.000-07:00I'm done.I'm done.Walaka of Earth 2https://www.blogger.com/profile/15937932225623126280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-72051868708319771352008-07-22T14:24:00.000-07:002008-07-22T14:24:00.000-07:00Yes. Yes, it was.So what?So are a lot of the earl...Yes. Yes, it was.<BR/><BR/>So what?<BR/><BR/>So are a lot of the early silent films, but that doesn't make them "unwatchable."<BR/><BR/>So are the early movies of Steven Spielberg. He used 8mm. Are we going to judge them for that?<BR/><BR/>What about all those films made with those cheap little camera you were fascinated with so long ago?<BR/><BR/>An unsteady camera-hand, a blurry image, an absurd scenario can all make contributions to art.<BR/><BR/>Why don't you just say what you mean: "I don't like it." <BR/><BR/>Can't argue with that."Yojimbo_5"https://www.blogger.com/profile/12791996320278381516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-87540403312363924132008-07-22T13:35:00.000-07:002008-07-22T13:35:00.000-07:00You guys are both missing my point (not that I act...You guys are both missing my point (not that I actually made it or anything).<BR/><BR/>It's not the sensibility or the aesthetic that I don't like. I just think the film was crudely, amateurishly, and inexpertly made.Walaka of Earth 2https://www.blogger.com/profile/15937932225623126280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-12688263845384201762008-07-22T13:04:00.000-07:002008-07-22T13:04:00.000-07:00The Goons are indeed an acquired taste - having gr...The Goons are indeed an acquired taste - having grown up on the radio shows, I think one thing that is missing here is the verbal dexterity they had. Not just the voices and the accents but the puns and the absurdist leaps they made. They were in many ways the precursors of Python at a time when it was harder to be edgy. This was 50's/60's Britain - uptight in a very different way to the US. To me they are surrealists rather than satirists.<BR/><BR/>Now, Benny Hill - that's unwatchable.Jon Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14818994066905620457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-21741759459639530272008-07-22T12:04:00.000-07:002008-07-22T12:04:00.000-07:00I'm glad you qualified it because, as I've watched...I'm glad you qualified it because, as I've watched it, it is "watchable." Unless "YouTube" is screwing up (entirely possible).<BR/><BR/>The Goons are an acquired taste, like Monty Python, like anything. You're either "there" or you're not. Personally, I've never thought "Dumb and Dumber" was funny, not even in the rosey glow of memory.<BR/><BR/>But "unwatchable?" That's a bit like my Mother-in-Law's dry comment after watching an episode of "Benny Hill:" "Well....that's a little far-fetched.""Yojimbo_5"https://www.blogger.com/profile/12791996320278381516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-69227832497621038862008-07-22T10:17:00.000-07:002008-07-22T10:17:00.000-07:00Um, that Lester thing is pretty much unwatchable. ...Um, that Lester thing is pretty much unwatchable. Maybe it's because I never went to film school..Walakahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01320268370872417847noreply@blogger.com