Dingos running the FCC…funny. This….not so much.
Dingos running the FCC…funny. This….not so much.
It had more boobies too! 0:
Oh and I was never a fan of the movie.
Tom Stoppard is just a smart a•• with a Shakespeare fetish. When this movie came out I called it "National Lampoon's Romeo and Juliet." I havee long suspected the script was a troll by Stoppard who laughed to himself about how so many sophisticated people found his childish puns so funny.
Like when "China Syndrome" made Three Mile Island blow up or when "Natural Born Killers" made OJ cut his wife's head off?
The BBC version kind of feels like the Cliff Notes.
Perhaps I should have simply written 'I disagree.
There is a whole generation that came of age in 1980's that grew up hating this this movie as some kind of symbol of decadence. I made the mistake of pairing it in 1989 with Ingmar Bergman's "The Naked Night" for a double feature and watched in horror as the Bergman fans stayed just long enough to boo the opening…
This film took a beating from the French New Wave directors and Auterist. When I was a young man my love of this movie and repeated forcing of my friends to view it was considered an act of perversity. It's nice to see it get recognized as a great film again because there was a time (not that long ago) when loving…
Marx Brothers. "Duck Soup." 'nuff said.
"Bob Roberts" was awesome! I wish someone would release a soundtrack for it because the songs were hilarious!
You had to pick Shakespeare's two longest plays? "Richard III" is only more entertaining than "Hamlet" when it is cut down to its soliquies and battle scenes and has bits of "Henry VI" spliced in for continuity. In it's original 5 hour plus form (with all it's sub plots and the Dowagers running into every scene crying…
…or 24 - 1 episode seasons.
I played Richard III. . . There were five curtain calls. I was an actor once, damn it. Now look at me. Look at me! I won't go out there and say that stupid line one more time.
Classic "Galaxy Quest" reset. #tbt