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In Reply to: Re: Popular movies you can't stand.... posted by highendman on April 13, 2002 at 23:17:35:

Sorry. Watching Farley's attempts at humor are almost painful. Only when he was with David Spade was there some hint of a light in there. Maybe he needed a good straight man to be funny.
As for Belushi, I guess I'll never convince you and you'll never convince me. I think Belushi was incredibly funny, when he was "on." Love "The Blues Brothers" and "Animal House" and "Neighbors" and all. Farley wasn't good enough to carry his Saturday Night Samurai sword.
As for "Batman." Liked Nicholson, hated the movie when he wasn't on screen. High camp without the humor that would have made it so much better. Course, it was better than the sequels.
"Ten Commandments" problem isn't just Heston. Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, and Yvonne DeCarlo - all fine actors - are even hammier than Heston. The scene where Ramases confronts Neferteri after Moses' return from exile is screamingly funny because it is so horribly acted and directed. No parody can do it justice as it is its own parody.
I gotta tread softly in my house on that subject as my wife's two favorite movies are 1. The Ten Commandments and 2. Topgun. Both make me hurl. I'd rather have inflammed 'roids than have to sit through Topgun and rather have an enraged rhino stomp a mudhole in my cranium than have to watch Ten Commandments. - it's certainly a "better" movie than, say, "Plan 9 From Outer Space" but no easier to sit through.
And I have no idea what a "donut bumper is." So I guess I didn't know about Jodie Foster being one.

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Re: Chris Farley - highendman 03:38:45 04/14/02 (3)
Most probably true about the Ten commandments -- haven't seen it in many, many years.
I was a little harsh on Spielberg -- I liked Jaws and Schindler's.
I actually liked Belushi in Neighbors and thought he was ok elsewhere. I know it's sacriledge, but I actually found Farley funnier.
The rumor has been that Jodie is strictly a ladies gal. Too bad -- I've always liked her too. She one of my favorite actresses and I thought she did a bright directing job with Little Man Tate as well.
- Re: Chris Farley - danj 22:44:24 04/14/02 (2)
  I'm a straight guy but I could never figure out why some people get so upset over who a person they don't even know chooses to sleep with. If Ms. Foster is gay, that's her business and not mine.
  - Re: Chris Farley - highendman 17:44:25 04/15/02 (1)
    You're right. I shouldn't have mentioned it, but was compelled because you said you were in love with her.
    
    She's a favorite actress of mine, though I found "Panic Room" disappointing.
    As Norm said on "Cheers,"
    "It should be WHAT you do, not WHO you do."
    - Re: Chris Farley - danj 18:57:50 04/16/02 (0)
      In love with her as in I love her as an actress and a personality - not as a person whom I have never met.
Re: Chris Farley et al - mikenyc 01:42:34 04/14/02 (3)
It seems that Excess and Over The Top Humor is considered funny these days. Why do comedians...even the stand-up variety...feel they have to exert themselves verbally and physically to make a point ?
What's up with that ?
- "Excess and over the top" - is that a joke? - brewthunda 14:12:01 04/14/02 (1)
  "It seems that Excess and Over The Top Humor is considered funny these days. Why do comedians...even the stand-up variety...feel they have to exert themselves verbally and physically to make a point ?"
  Ummm, when WASN'T Excess and Over The Top Humor considered funny? Physical exertion - it's called slapstick and it's as old as comedy itself.
  Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello, the Marx Brothers, etc., etc. . .
  - Re: "Excess and over the top" - is that a joke? - mikenyc 07:30:28 04/15/02 (0)
    Hardly an accurate comparison of comedic styles to Farley's. There is a subtext to the examples that you give here...good try though.
    To me, Farley et al, seem to feel that excessive assaulting ones senses with manic gesturing, coupled with loud vulgar references for their forced humor. I think it's the vulgar references that get me. There is nothing underneath the noises. In other words, is this important to the performance or is the heightened efx, just trying wring out the most something that isnt there ?
- They're competing with cartoons, video games and CG... - SE 09:43:43 04/14/02 (0)
  a tough act to follow. In addition to these more "animated delivery systems" there is the ever-decreasing IQ of the audiences. It's like clubbing a mule to get its attention.

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