“CAN’T WE JUST HAVE FUN!!!”
Agreed! I guess I was the perfect age to see this when it first came out, and I’m no Star Wars or Sci Fi fanatic but seeing this for the first time in the movies was one of my greatest movie experiences.
It was just DIFFERENT and exciting and yes, gosh darn it, FUN.
Another one that was great, great fun was Austin Powers . I’m still so glad hubby and I took the kid to see that in the movies when it first came out. The opening sequence is brilliant and brings you right back to the high fashion 60s, which had pretty much been driven from my mind by the dirty hippies who came soon after. The whole movie is a hoot.
And of course, Blazing Saddles where my friend and I literally rolled in the aisles laughing.
“a film with comic-book characters, an unbelievable story, no political or social commentary, lousy acting, preposterous dialogue, and a ridiculously simplistic morality. In other words, a bad movie.”
CAN'T WE JUST HAVE FUN!!! Does EVERYTHING have to shove liberal morality in our faces? These fools will laugh and impugn anything remotely Christian and moral but will celebrate the filthy anti-American lies from De Palma!
This is why the "top lists" from critics of the past are no better than those of today. There was and is praised heaped on some works (literary as well as film and tv) because of some political view someone held (especially among the Hollywood 10) or other agenda. Other works are suppressed or forgotten because of personal or political grudges.
Pauline Kael (who is often held up as the best critic ever) said that she didn't know how Nixon could've won. Nobody she knew voted for him. They are all myopic and it influences their judgment.
Homos, women, and socialists dominated film criticism for awhile so you got costume dramas, musicals, and "social realism" defined as "the best cinema had to offer". Now a new crowd are the tastemakers. Critics once upon a time hated rock and roll too. They still generally do so they have to find the atypical example to elevate it as "good".
2001 was "art" not sci-fi. REM and Radiohead are "above rock". Those who enjoy the real deal feel cheated.
Problem is that I didn’t think the movies were fun.
Problem is that I didn’t think the movies were fun.