Posted on 01/25/2013 1:41:42 PM PST by SMGFan
Seen those posters on the tube for 'Movie 43', seen its all-star cast? Wondered why aside from those posters that proclaim it hilarious and show us the incredible cast, you haven't heard hide nor hair of it?
Well wonder no more, because the film has been released, and immediately nearly everyone who's seen it is kicking up a stink.
The film consists of various short movies, acted out by its A-List stars, with a tendency towards gross-out humour as is to be expected with Peter Farrelly involved in direction.
The amazing cast includes Hugh Jackman, Gerard Butler, Richard Gere, Jason Sudeikis, Liev Schreiber, Seth McFarlane, Kate Winslet, Kate Bosworth, Halle Berry, Naomi Watts, Emma Stone, Uma Thurman and Anna Faris, but the movie hasn't been press screened, nor promoted and its apparently with very good reason.
Lou Lummenik for The New York Post wrote: "Well, if you mashed-up the worst parts of the infamous 'Howard the Duck,' 'Gigli,’ 'Ishtar’' and every other awful movie I’ve seen since I started reviewing professionally in 1981, it wouldn’t begin to approach the sheer soul-sucking badness of the cringe-inducing 'Movie 43,' which has been dumped on an unsuspecting public without advance press screenings."
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Fans of 2 1/2 men are sure to like this film.
****.. Over Gross-Out Comedy***
Was it as good/bad as DEAD ALIVE (BRAINDEAD)? I liked this one!
The thing is, "Airplane" was the first of it's kind, really sort of ground-breaking, and personally, I think it's the best. The problem was that they kept on doing them (and the Naked Gun movies), and while the first one was incredibly funny, they really were stretching for material on the sequels.
But I still think "Airplane" was a classic, and today I'll still watch it, mostly because I can repeat all the lines of dialog.
Mark
Sometimes I think it’s broader than just that (in terms of spoofs). It’s the way almost all dialogue tends to have underlying quirky subtexts nowadays. Innuendos, sarcasm, alternate meanings, etc. The whole culture is awash in this. It’s one of the reasons I love to sit back and watch older movies and shows, where everything seems so straight-forward and “no nonsense.” Unpretentious. Reflective more of an adult world that just didn’t abide by such coy self-consciousness.
I always stay away from “gross out” movies, stupid is not funny to me.
I actually think there’s a lot more quirky subtext in older stuff, especially when the Hayes Code was in place. I think the big difference now is that the quirky subtext isn’t nearly as sub, they really want to make sure you notice how subtle and quirky they are. In the old days they were trying to sneak stuff past censors and studio heads so it was a lot more subtle.
Nothing today, either in the theaters or on TV can compare to the comedies (with some BRILLIANT spoofs) from years past. Watching some of the sketches from Johnny Carson (Jack Webb & the Copper Clapper Caper) or nearly anything from The Carol Burnett Show has any equal today.
Mark
Lots of competition for “worst movie ever”
I’m pretty well-versed in pre-code fare (heck, I’ve seen every Wheeler and Woolsey movie, for example... and a film of theirs like “So This is Africa” is indeed brimming with innuendos and endless other cultural references... very akin to the modern spoof genre).
I’m getting at something beyond that, in terms of all dialogue, spread throughout every genre. It might even be related to the aspect of over-direction in films, in which so many filmmaking techniques are overused, bringing a self-conscious attention to themselves.
It is from the same series written by Richard Stark.
There is a movie from the 1950s with Linda Darnell and Dana Andrews, from which the movie Airplane derived much of its plot. The original movie, Zero Hour, was a serious movie, but when you watch it after watching Airplane, it is hilarious. The ground crew head guy even said, “I picked a bad time to quit smoking.” I caught it on TCM sometime last year, and wish it would come on again.
Airplane! was a spoof of “Zero Hour”.
They had something that today is a lost art, Subtlety.
Amen to that, brother. Seth McFarlane is a 1 man wrecking crew of the Chritian American character. The under-30 crowd grew up watching his sewage and consider it the norm because they don't have anything else to compare with it. The world will be a better place when he departs it, but to quote Shakespeare's Mark Antony from Julius Caesar, "The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.”
In McFarlane's case, his evil will continue to spread via syndication.
“It’s all the Wayans brothers’ fault, they started it with Scary Movie.”
I don’t know what went wrong with the Wayans. They knew how to make a good spoof when they make “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka!”, but they’ve lost it. Even the first Scary Movie was alright. I guess when they figured they could churn them out every year as a never-ending franchise and make big bucks, they just got lazy.
Yeah they were so funny in the early days. In Living Color, Sucka (still one of my all time favorites). Somewhere in the 90s they just lost the funny.
“a remake of “Payback””
I haven’t seen the previews for this new film, but I thought you might like to know that Payback was itself a remake of Point Blank, so the new film could be based on that one instead.
The USC film school mentality (have a technique, make sure everybody knows it) has certainly done some bad stuff. So many movies now you can tell exactly who directed in the first 30 seconds of trailer. Interesting you bring that up today, last night I watched an interview with Robert Wise, and he mentioned how he was often criticized for not having a discernible style and his answer was “I use the style that’s correct for the movie”, which is why he directed some of almost everybody’s favorite movies and nobody knows it.
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