Just finished Dead of Night (1945). Great old horror movie. You can watch for free at Dailymotion.com.
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Just the other day, I entered a room where someone was watching this. After about 30 seconds of glancing at the screen, I asked "Is this supposed to be like Blazing Saddles?" I didn't stick around to watch it, though.A Million Ways to Die in the West.
Overall, reasonably funny. Grandma laughed more and more loudly than I.
The two problems I have with Seth McFarland's material is:
1) He just has to push the joke or gag one level more past optimum funniness so rather than just letting getting the joke, he throws it in your face.When Neil Patrick Harris emergency-defecates into someone's hat, then another, that was funny enough as it was. But doggone it if Seth just didn't have to show one of the hats on the ground with the ugly runny mess inside. Dude, it was funny when he was done with the hats. Move on.
2) When he crosses the line from funny to okay, got it, and past that to unfunny, he can be simply anti-funny, and that detracts from the viewing enjoyment of what otherwise is a pretty humorous tale.
The other problem I have with him is that as writer, producer, and director, he casted himself as lead and got to make out with Charlize Theron, but that's just my problem and no one else's, and it's just resentful envy on my part.
It's an entirely vulgar movie, and you just accept contemporary dialogue in a setting of 130 years ago. It's no modern Blazing Saddles, but as a sendup of the Western genre, it's good enough. If you wait for it to come to free TV, it won't do well. It's just too coarse, and you'll miss a third of the movie from cuts or bleep-outs.
Then you'll like The Devil's Rejects, Rob Zombie's follow up movie. Too Sadistic for me, and the mood of the movie is like living in a nightmare. I don’t think I could watch it twice.I watched Rob Zombie's House Of A 1000 Corpse's. Not a bad movie but reminds me a lot of Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Oh yeah, I definitely like his music. Been listening to him since White Zombie was around back in the day. Zombie's Halloween remakes were awesome also.I like his music, though! Dragula and Living Dead Girl are two of my absolute favorites!
I thought McFarland's speech about living in the West while they are sitting in the saloon was the best part of the movie. Not a great movie overall, but it had some funny parts.A Million Ways to Die in the West.
Overall, reasonably funny. Grandma laughed more and more loudly than I.
The two problems I have with Seth McFarland's material is:
1) He just has to push the joke or gag one level more past optimum funniness so rather than just letting getting the joke, he throws it in your face.When Neil Patrick Harris emergency-defecates into someone's hat, then another, that was funny enough as it was. But doggone it if Seth just didn't have to show one of the hats on the ground with the ugly runny mess inside. Dude, it was funny when he was done with the hats. Move on.
2) When he crosses the line from funny to okay, got it, and past that to unfunny, he can be simply anti-funny, and that detracts from the viewing enjoyment of what otherwise is a pretty humorous tale.
The other problem I have with him is that as writer, producer, and director, he casted himself as lead and got to make out with Charlize Theron, but that's just my problem and no one else's, and it's just resentful envy on my part.
It's an entirely vulgar movie, and you just accept contemporary dialogue in a setting of 130 years ago. It's no modern Blazing Saddles, but as a sendup of the Western genre, it's good enough. If you wait for it to come to free TV, it won't do well. It's just too coarse, and you'll miss a third of the movie from cuts or bleep-outs.
I saw this at the theatre when it first came out - kinda gory, but quite good overall.Just finished watching The Hunger starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and (a very young) Susan Sarandon. Released in 1983 but it still holds up! I think Director Tony Scott (RIP) made a couple of obvious nods to Hitchcock in this one (think blond woman, an attic and lots of pigeons). Great performances all around. Sarandon smolders. Based on the novel by Whitley Strieber.