Posted on 06/24/2008 6:55:54 AM PDT by yankeedame
Steve Martin is just terrible. The only movie he has been good in for the last 20 years was The Spanish Prisoner.
Hollywood has completely run out of ideas. Get a 1965 TV guide to see what movies are comming out next year.
Who’s going to get the lead in “My Mother The Car - the Movie”?
Get Smart by not seeing the movie.
review: who would believe that an extended shooting and car crash in a Texas town would produce no helpers or armed citizens? No Country for Old Men thought so. It never had any witnesses and everybody was as dumb as a liberal voter. Here, I’ll let you kill me!
I don’t get Martin’s movie choices. Does he really need the money so bad he has to do these awful remakes?
Sorry, I thought we had conversed on this thread:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030540/posts
Funny, the review makes me want to see it more.. sounds pretty funny.
I liked the Pink Panther with Steve Martin. My kids and I had a pink panther marathon weekend where we watched all of the old movies before going to see the new one.
The Steve martin one recycled so many of the old gags, that we started laughing the second we saw the setup.
This is a shame. I loved the show and looked forward to this film. I'll have to console myself by watching the Police Squad movies again this weekend. Don Adams and Leslie Nielson got portraying the arrogant incompetent down pat.
We conquered the world.
We can take it.
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I’m with you.
Bring it on.
Of all the recent releases “The Love Guru” looks like the worst. Any feedback?
Beat me to it. She’s a knockout.
Found the TV series vapid... have no desire to see it rehashed on the big screen.
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So I guess you were likely no fan of Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp either.
I have no idea how I would react today to reruns of Get Smart, but back in the day, I thought the show was a scream. But that kind of stupid humor has always grabbed me (the result of being raised by an exceedingly corny man).
Yes, I saw it with the Movie Gang, but that was because I absolutely put my foot down at Mike Myers latest crap-fest. (The only movies I ever liked him in was the “Shrek” series, maybe because I didn’t have to watch his ugly puss?)
At any rate, the movie wasn’t terrible, and the line about the Hollywood actors and their political views was, I thought, the best line. What bothered me most of all was that, in paying homage to the original series (from the multiple entry doors to the “CONTROL Museum” to the old catch-phrases to Bernie Koppel’s cameo), they managed to mangle every one. Or, to put it in terms that Don Adams would understand:
“Missed it by THAT much!”
Again, it was the best of a bad lot that hit the screens this week, and everything else out there we’d seen, or didn’t wish to see. Personally, I would have stayed home, but the movie gang overruled.
I thought it was funny, did tribute to the series, and well done. I recommend it.
I have not heard anything positive about it. I rarely go to see anything in the theater. I really love netflix because even if it stinks, you don’t feel as bad as if you had spent $10 to see it.
My list of people that I have had enough of includes Mike meyers, Will Farrel, Jack Black, a few I can not think of. Their schtick is getting old. Its the same character repackaged in each film. When they are not the main character but a bit player, they seem to do more memorable roles than when they are the main player.
I really loved the car he had. It was a Sunbeam Tiger, I think.
It was a sweet ride with a big engine.
Many must agree with you...$305 MILLION at the box office; and that is just the domestic figure. Unbelievable.
On of my favorite lines from the original series was Bernie Koppel yelling at his henchmen, “If you don’t get Schmart, the CHAOS Summer Picnic will be canzzelled!”
Always made me laugh when I heard it.
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