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_> …....fine. maybe tomorrow then.
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Wow, that game was bad. But the extremely poor excuse for exposition with that sad attempt at "diverse" voice acting takes the cake.
"What's the Codex?"
after someone saying eating food will help keep his strength up "Keep my strength up?"
"What's a Paladin?"An amnesia plot device might allow thing to pass, but even then only in the intro areas on to game–not asking "What's a Paladin?" halfway through. Maybe the "Avatar" in Ultima IX really isn't him but a punch-drunk prizefighter look alike that got transported from Earth by mistake and everyone in Britannia was too well-bred to question his completely ignorant questions and statements? Nah, it would still suck.
The voice-acting is one of those special trainwrecks that seems to only exist on early efforts at video game voiceacting, early anime dubs, and Saturday AM cartoons. Just give the characters some random, unnatural sounding regional accent and the characters are instantly suppose to be unique.
The review hasn't gotten much into the gameplay element outside of some contrived nerfing, and so far it doesn't look too bad for a game of that vintage. Of course the game is only 20 minutes in and the questing hasn't even started yet. I forget how fun it is to see Spoony rip apart a game. Look forward to Part 2.
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Just watched the NC review, mostly because I saw the live-action movie and thought it was way too stupid for its own good. I know saying something is "too PC" is a bit of a dirty word, but that disclaimer for nearsighted people is so hilariously over-sensitive its about the most memorable thing about the movie–and this is from someone who would be stumbling around like Magoo if I started walking around (or driving a car) without my glasses. I remember Siskel & Ebert laughing their asses off over that discaimer and I think they went as far as saying it was the biggest laugh in the whole movie. It's like putting a disclaimer at the end of Snow White about the seriousness of hay fever.
I sort of agree with the NC on the later Mister Magoo cartoons since by then he was such a generic character, only Jim Backus' voiceover saves him from being too boring. Though at least the TV show added new characters to try and break the monotony. However, Mr. Magoo was one of those characters that started out as a funny, innovative character into a boring generic one. The early Magoo's humor wasn't just that he was nearsighted, but he was such an ornery, stubborn old man he refused to ever consider he was nearsighted. Anyone who tried to correct him was quickly rebuffed. However, in later cartoons, they tried to hard to make Magoo into a likeable character and he sort of became another Mickey Mouse.
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@Mr.:
Just watched the NC review, mostly because I saw the live-action movie and thought it was way too stupid for its own good. I know saying something is "too PC" is a bit of a dirty word, but that disclaimer for nearsighted people is so hilariously over-sensitive its about the most memorable thing about the movie–and this is from someone who would be stumbling around like Magoo if I started walking around (or driving a car) without my glasses. I remember Siskel & Ebert laughing their asses off over that discaimer and I think they went as far as saying it was the biggest laugh in the whole movie. It's like putting a disclaimer at the end of Snow White about the seriousness of hay fever.
I think Ebert said it best:
There is one laugh in the movie. It comes after the action is over, in the form of a foolish, politically correct disclaimer stating that the film ``is not intended as an accurate portrayal of blindness or poor eyesight.'' I think we should stage an international search to find one single person who thinks the film is intended as such a portrayal, and introduce that person to the author of the disclaimer, as they will have a lot in common, including complete detachment from reality.
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hey, just out of curiosity, is there a release date for their 4th year anniversary episode?
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@Mr.:
Wow, that game was bad. But the extremely poor excuse for exposition with that sad attempt at "diverse" voice acting takes the cake.
"What's the Codex?"
after someone saying eating food will help keep his strength up "Keep my strength up?"
"What's a Paladin?"An amnesia plot device might allow thing to pass, but even then only in the intro areas on to game–not asking "What's a Paladin?" halfway through. Maybe the "Avatar" in Ultima IX really isn't him but a punch-drunk prizefighter look alike that got transported from Earth by mistake and everyone in Britannia was too well-bred to question his completely ignorant questions and statements? Nah, it would still suck.
The voice-acting is one of those special trainwrecks that seems to only exist on early efforts at video game voiceacting, early anime dubs, and Saturday AM cartoons. Just give the characters some random, unnatural sounding regional accent and the characters are instantly suppose to be unique.
The review hasn't gotten much into the gameplay element outside of some contrived nerfing, and so far it doesn't look too bad for a game of that vintage. Of course the game is only 20 minutes in and the questing hasn't even started yet. I forget how fun it is to see Spoony rip apart a game. Look forward to Part 2.
Well the inventory did say that "Intelligence is Dim".
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Crossover review with Chick and Rap Critic on Will's musical career. It was fun. But next week, we're getting Fresh Prince of Bel-Air! Really looking forward to that! I hope Lindsay talks about the emotional scenes like Carlton Oding, Will getting shot and Will and his father!
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Ooh, this is a good one. The Nostalgia Critic counts down his top 11 Simpsons episodes.
http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/nostalgia-critic-top-11-simpson-episodes-6186499
! Deep Space Homer- Straight up one of the funniest Simpsons episodes. Definitely worthy of the list.
! Itchy and Scratchy and Marge- Another classic that touches on a very relatable subject matter. And while I do think the way they address the issue is a tad facile compared to other takes on it I've seen, it still does a great job of stating its case and its got some good laughs.
! Homer's Enemy- Yeah, I guess this would be the "Scott Tenorman Must Die" of The Simpsons. Yes, it's dark and cruel, but it's also got some great jokes and as the Critic said it's very true to life. This is episode, to this day, continues to sit on the fence between enjoyable and uncomfortable for me.
! Cape Feare- Absolute classic Simpsons episode and one of the first episodes I ever saw. Not much else to say really.
! Homer at Bat- Not only is this one of the funniest Simpsons episodes, but I think it's got one of the shows greatest original songs.
! 22 Short Films About Springfield- Yep, this is another classic episode and I actually really liked it when they did experimental stuff like this (see also, the Spin-off Showcase episode).
! Marge vs. The Monorail- That Monorail Song. Ah, good stuff. Not to mention this is the episode with Homer hitting a chestnut tree and "Mr. Snrub."
! Homer the Great- This was actually one of my favorite episodes growing up, and really, it was just for that Stonecutters song. I liked it so much I watched The Simpsons everyday eagerly hoping that that would be the next episode, but I actually ended up not seeing it nearly as much as I wish I could. But yeah, song aside, it's a great episode with some great humor and satire.
! Lisa's Wedding- You know, I really do need to rewatch this episode since it's been forever since I've seen it. But from what I can remember it was very heartfelt and had a lot of good jokes.
! The Halloween Episodes- No argument here. The Halloween episodes are some of the best stuff The Simpsons have put out and it would be impossible to put only 1 or 2 of them on a top 10 list.
! Bart Gets an F- Yeah, this is definitely an interesting choice to be sure. It's still pretty early in the Simpsons run, so the humor (and writing general) isn't as sharp or witty, but the Critic is right that the subject matter is touchingly poignant. I'll admit that I was an A student for a good portion of my educational career, but there were some points in my childhood where I did struggle and I can definitely relate with trying your hardest at something and still not succeeding. And yes, that is one of, if not the, saddest Simpsons scene ever.And the lamb lies down on Broadway
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Ooh, this is a good one. The Nostalgia Critic counts down his top 11 Simpsons episodes.
http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/nostalgia-critic-top-11-simpson-episodes-6186499
! Deep Space Homer- Straight up one of the funniest Simpsons episodes. Definitely worthy of the list.
! Itchy and Scratchy and Marge- Another classic that touches on a very relatable subject matter. And while I do think the way they address the issue is a tad facile compared to other takes on it I've seen, it still does a great job of stating its case and its got some good laughs.
! Homer's Enemy- Yeah, I guess this would be the "Scott Tenorman Must Die" of The Simpsons. Yes, it's dark and cruel, but it's also got some great jokes and as the Critic said it's very true to life. This is episode, to this day, continues to sit on the fence between enjoyable and uncomfortable for me.
! Cape Feare- Absolute classic Simpsons episode and one of the first episodes I ever saw. Not much else to say really.
! Homer at Bat- Not only is this one of the funniest Simpsons episodes, but I think it's got one of the shows greatest original songs.
! 22 Short Films About Springfield- Yep, this is another classic episode and I actually really liked it when they did experimental stuff like this (see also, the Spin-off Showcase episode).
! Marge vs. The Monorail- That Monorail Song. Ah, good stuff. Not to mention this is the episode with Homer hitting a chestnut tree and "Mr. Snrub."
! Homer the Great- This was actually one of my favorite episodes growing up, and really, it was just for that Stonecutters song. I liked it so much I watched The Simpsons everyday eagerly hoping that that would be the next episode, but I actually ended up not seeing it nearly as much as I wish I could. But yeah, song aside, it's a great episode with some great humor and satire.
! Lisa's Wedding- You know, I really do need to rewatch this episode since it's been forever since I've seen it. But from what I can remember it was very heartfelt and had a lot of good jokes.
! The Halloween Episodes- No argument here. The Halloween episodes are some of the best stuff The Simpsons have put out and it would be impossible to put only 1 or 2 of them on a top 10 list.
! Bart Gets an F- Yeah, this is definitely an interesting choice to be sure. It's still pretty early in the Simpsons run, so the humor (and writing general) isn't as sharp or witty, but the Critic is right that the subject matter is touchingly poignant. I'll admit that I was an A student for a good portion of my educational career, but there were some points in my childhood where I did struggle and I can definitely relate with trying your hardest at something and still not succeeding. And yes, that is one of, if not the, saddest Simpsons scene ever.! Taking out Lisa's Wedding and The Halloween episodes (You could make a top 11 of the great ones) I would put in You Only Move Twice (God I love you Albert Brooks) andRaging Abe Simpson and Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish" as my top 11. I actually love the hell out of Bart Gets an F and love that the Critic loves it as well
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this might sound lame, but I always loved the 2 episodes with Lisa, the one where she is bullied at that army camp, and the one where they go on vacation and she makes those friends. Somehow, they really nailed it with those. It's like they got me. That was my childhood growing up.
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The best Simpsons episode is Last Exit to Springfield.
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Shocked to see the episode with the Spring in Springfield song not in the list.
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i do agree with his number 1 though. i just love that episode on so many levels.
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! Marge vs. The Monorail- That Monorail Song. Ah, good stuff. Not to mention this is the episode with Homer hitting a chestnut tree and "Mr. Snrub."
! "Simpson, Homer Simpson, he's the greatest man in history. From the, town of Springfield, he's about to hit a chest nut treeAAH!"
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@Cyan:
! "Simpson, Homer Simpson, he's the greatest man in history. From the, town of Springfield, he's about to hit a chest nut treeAAH!"
Fun fact, that episode number was the same one where they matched the Flintstones final episode. The random parody gag wasn't entirely random.
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I don't know how well the Simpsons has aged in some occasions
Some of these episodes on the list remind me of like, Duck Soup from 1933 where they were probably really funny at the time, but other than being a "pleasant" watch where I do have some sort of fun seeing them, I can imagine it being way funnier in 1990whatever (except in this case Duck Soup is really unfunny no matter what). Like Marge vs the Monorail never did it for me at all on a rewatch and I remember thinking at the time it was really great.
I never really saw the Simpsons as a kid, or growing up, or before I hit my 20s, so I keep planning to watch more than the select episodes I've seen in my life (ignoring the modern seasons), but I dunno
Some of the early episodes people consider great moments in the series legitimately feel historical, while others still have some really fucking hilarious moments
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dude, Duck Soup is hilarious what are you talking about
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well if you want to get a boring maybe-discussion on it you can consider it a compliment in a roundabout way
@Cyan:
Yes that is a scene from Duck Soup
There's tons of merit and talent to be found in influential cinema and television, but what I'm getting at is when something defines or is important in defining a generation's humor, or is so representative of its style, it also has against it years of pastiche, parody, and sometimes just being outdated in many senses (i.e. relatability) or technical flaws that we better understand nowadays hold it back– though the Simpsons has none of the lattermost since it is peaked hand drawn goodness. The DUCK SOUP reference is a good one to me because this mirror scene you posted, Cyan, is one of the most parodied and imitated things from '33 to the 60s and it shows its age pretty well. And no I don't find it funny a single bit, appreciative or not.
People can still find it funny, because it's a progenitor and the way it treats its subject material in a pure light is imitatible but for its time
But what I'm really trying to say here is just that some of the best moments of The Simpsons genuinely are starting to fall into that sort of light to me and I don't just mean every instance of "eat my shorts" nobody will enjoy again. I liked it all as a first time viewer, but half the humor sometimes just wasn't very funny to me and I'd attribute all of it to just that. The funniest episodes were really really funny at least. And that is a lot of funny.
I'm just saying that sometimes when it feels archaic it feels pretty archaic.
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I think Homer's Enemy is the best episode btw, it's most indicative of my sense of humor and what I like in comedy. Frank Grimes was my favorite character in the show
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While I do like NC's top lists, I'm hoping if he's ever gonna do a worst Simpsons episode list, from the simple reason that there's lots of things people never even bothered to bash even though they well and truly deserved it.
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I think a good example of what The Beast is talking about is Wayne's world. A lot of people like that movie but when I saw it, I found it mostly dull. The characters were cute and it had its moments but nothing gut bustingly funny or anything. But I guess it's the type of movie that's targetted to a specific demographic and the type of thing you have to be there and watch it in that period to truly appreciate.
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@Thousand:
I think a good example of what The Beast is talking about is Wayne's world. A lot of people like that movie but when I saw it, I found it mostly dull. The characters were cute and it had its moments but nothing gut bustingly funny or anything. But I guess it's the type of movie that's targetted to a specific demographic and the type of thing you have to be there and watch it in that period to truly appreciate.
Wayne's World is one of the greatest movies ever made and if you didn't like it, you clearly didn't see it circa 1992 between the ages of 10 and 20. Seeing it for the first time in the last couple years really messes with the era it was.
Its also really bizarre, I watched it hundreds of times as a kid, memorized the lines and could re-enact it without prompts, and was amused by the wacky antics. Then I saw it when I was older and discovered there was a LOT of sex jokes in the movie, that all just went right over my head as a kid. Two completely different movies. And yet, the same movie.
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I think Married… With Children is a pretty good example too. It came out around the Simpsons started, is considered revolutionary television and on most people's all time best comedies list.... but I can't get through a single episode. The acting of the Bundy family makes the Big Bang Theory cast look subtle and the jokes are just stupid.
And yes I just insulted Al Bundy.
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I think Married… With Children is a pretty good example too. It came out around the Simpsons started, is considered revolutionary television and on most people's all time best comedies list.... but I can't get through a single episode. The acting of the Bundy family makes the Big Bang Theory cast look subtle and the jokes are just stupid.
And yes I just insulted Al Bundy.
You're a monster!
Next thing you know people are going to be insulting Saved by The Bell. The original, not even The New Class!
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@RobbyBevard:
Wayne's World is one of the greatest movies ever made and if you didn't like it, you clearly didn't see it circa 1992 between the ages of 10 and 20. Seeing it for the first time in the last couple years really messes with the era it was.
Its also really bizarre, I watched it hundreds of times as a kid, memorized the lines and could re-enact it without prompts, and was amused by the wacky antics. Then I saw it when I was older and discovered there was a LOT of sex jokes in the movie, that all just went right over my head as a kid. Two completely different movies. And yet, the same movie.
I only saw it today so…it was cute movie and had its moments and it really started to pick up in the middle of the second act but the first 45 minutes or so were just boring to me. It was just a couple of teenagers mugging to the camera and giving childish jokes (Grey Poupon, snicker snicker, it's funny because he's old and snobbish looking!). It only started to get clever with its jokes like 45 minutes in and by then I was way out of the movie. I appreciate of course that this movie just wasn't made for me. It's for the people who grew up on it and coul relate to the lives of the characters but unfortunately I grew up in a different culture and had a way different child/teenagehood than purported in the movie. That's my fault not the movie's. The weird thing is I loved Ferris Bueller's Day Off and it has a pretty similar style (with the talking to the camera and whatnot) and theme (being true to yourself which is being a dumb kid). Eh, you can just never tell how a movie will resonate with you.
I think Married… With Children is a pretty good example too. It came out around the Simpsons started, is considered revolutionary television and on most people's all time best comedies list.... but I can't get through a single episode. The acting of the Bundy family makes the Big Bang Theory cast look subtle and the jokes are just stupid.
And yes I just insulted Al Bundy.
You do not diss Al Bundy! I grew up with him and his show, you do NOT diss him!
Al Bundy showing up was probably my favorite part of Wayne's World lol.
"When you stab a man in the cold, he lets off steam."
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To be fair, I didn't see Wayne's World 2 until years later and I didn't like it at all, even though it was largely exactly the same, and I never liked Austin Powers. It might be pure nostalgia on my end… but I'll never be able to see it fresh for the first time. Even picking up on all the sex jokes years later only changed my perception of it all, it wasn't really new.
@Thousand:
It was just a couple of teenagers mugging to the camera and giving childish jokes (Grey Poupon, snicker snicker, it's funny because he's old and snobbish looking!).
It was about two buddies that were basically adults but still had no jobs or obligations… doing whatever they could do that was free fun, and was absolutely early 90's culture. 20 years later it doesn't work as well because video games and the internet changed society so completely and they would have been doing different stuff.
Also, seven of the first 12 minutes of the movie were friends hanging out in a car singing along to Bohemian Rhapsody. If you can't associate with that, if that didn't pull you right into it with a "Yeah, I've done that!" then... well yeah they aren't going to click.
Blues Brothers is far more timeless. Ferris Bueller was a quintessential 80's movie, and MUCH more plot driven, it wasn't quite so slice of life character stuff. (Wayne's World 2 was all plot driven, and it sucked.)
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@RobbyBevard:
It was about two buddies that were basically adults but still had no jobs or obligations… doing whatever they could do that was free fun, and was absolutely early 90's culture.
Well yeah, I recognized as much. I knew what the movie was going for as I was watching it, I realized that this was a movie for people who did that sort of thing and could relate and I appreciated the sincerity and brilliance of those scenes. I just never did that stuff growing up, it was just boring to me. I got a thrill when they started singing Bohemian Rhapsody though, good taste in music.
@RobbyBevard:
20 years later it doesn't work as well because video games and the internet changed society so completely and they would have been doing different stuff.
I think a movie more in tune with today's culture is Scott Pilgrim which is really the modern Wayne's world in both content and style imo.
@RobbyBevard:
Blues Brothers is far more timeless. Ferris Bueller was a quintessential 80's movie, and MUCH more plot driven, it wasn't quite so slice of life character stuff. (Wayne's World 2 was all plot driven, and it sucked.)
Loved Blues Brothers too, those car scenes were insane. And all practical effects!
Another classic comedy movie which I saw recently was Clue and it's now one of my favorite comedies ever. Tim Curry gave a great performance and all the jokes made me crack up.
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Al Bundy is the greatest role model of all times
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i've always liked bill and ted over wayne's world. and yay. more saved by the bell love. someone should review that series. screech is like prototype usopp. :D
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i've always liked bill and ted over wayne's world. and yay. more saved by the bell love. someone should review that series. screech is like prototype usopp. :D
Critic did it four years ago.
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A few of the episodes on Doug's list are my favorites, too: Cape Feare, Homer at the Bat, and Bart Gets an F. I'll admit that the first season was a little weak, since it still had a lot of the odd moments that still felt like the Tracey Ulman shorts. But, I remember really liking Bart the General and There's No Disgrace Like Home.
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WOW. am i forgetful. D:
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@The:
There's tons of merit and talent to be found in influential cinema and television, but what I'm getting at is when something defines or is important in defining a generation's humor, or is so representative of its style, it also has against it years of pastiche, parody, and sometimes just being outdated in many senses (i.e. relatability) or technical flaws that we better understand nowadays hold it back– though the Simpsons has none of the lattermost since it is peaked hand drawn goodness. The DUCK SOUP reference is a good one to me because this mirror scene you posted, Cyan, is one of the most parodied and imitated things from '33 to the 60s and it shows its age pretty well. And no I don't find it funny a single bit, appreciative or not
It's funny because the "mirror" scene you're talking about is pretty much an anomaly in most Marx Brothers features, which are rarely pantomime based and mostly about snappy dialogue, bizarre situations, and manic vaudeville mayhem. Not to mention that mirror gag was something Leo McCarey remembered from his work on silent Charley Chase shorts and decided to have the Marx Brothers do it as sort of a filler gag. So its not something I'd use to criticize the Marx Brothers films as a whole.
I sort of agree with certain routines being overused to the point of self parody, like the Abbot & Costello "Who's on First?" routine or a slew of Looney Tunes routines. I know the Simpsons did tons of such homages. But it hardly diminishes the originals to being "unfunny" or just funny on the sole basis of being a pioneering effort.
I have to disagree about Duck Soup being unfunny–one the contrary, back when I had a film class it got howls of laughter in quite a few scenes scenes (particularly the "musical") segments and the scenes with Groucho. The Marx Brothers certainly have aged pretty well, especially since they didn't make that many films compared to many comedians of the era.
I respect that you have different tastes in humor, but broad generalizations on "archaic humor" are entirely a matter of opinion and vaudeville-style humor, old it may be, still tickles many people's funny bone today. Heck, there's still people of today's generation that get a kick out of silent comedies. Plenty of The Simpsons dates quite a bit to the '90s, but that's going to happen to anything over a decade old. Doesn't mean you can't enjoy it for what it is. As long as its still available for future audiences to enjoy, it'll remain timeless. Much like how TV syndication of Laurel & Hardy and the The Three Stooges surged popularity for the two otherwise diminishing comedy teams or the rediscovery of Buster Keaton as a comic genius well into the sound/color/widescreen film era of the '50s/'60s after spending much of the latter two decades of his life being maligned as a has-been near-forgotten screen presence--and that's going against years of jokes and stereotypes of silent movies.
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@Thousand:
I only saw it today so…it was cute movie and had its moments and it really started to pick up in the middle of the second act but the first 45 minutes or so were just boring to me. It was just a couple of teenagers mugging to the camera and giving childish jokes (Grey Poupon, snicker snicker, it's funny because he's old and snobbish looking!). It only started to get clever with its jokes like 45 minutes in and by then I was way out of the movie. I appreciate of course that this movie just wasn't made for me. It's for the people who grew up on it and coul relate to the lives of the characters but unfortunately I grew up in a different culture and had a way different child/teenagehood than purported in the movie. That's my fault not the movie's. The weird thing is I loved Ferris Bueller's Day Off and it has a pretty similar style (with the talking to the camera and whatnot) and theme (being true to yourself which is being a dumb kid).
Waynes World was more of an feature-film length SNL skit and Farris Beuler's Day Off was a more serious effort at slice-of-life teenage comedy from a reputable (at the time) director. Makes sense how you could favor the latter and not the former. And I don't mean to say this to knock WW since a lot "dumb" comedies can be just as good if not better than more serious, reality-based comedies.
Eh, you can just never tell how a movie will resonate with you.
Bingo! There are plenty of '60s, '70s, and '80s comedies that I didn't think I'd get into that I enjoyed immensely and others that I just didn't care for including more well-known films of the era, like some of the Peter Sellers, Mel Brooks, or Woody Allen comedies. It all just depends on if you find the jokes or situations funny and/or clever. Its not hard to put yourself into the context of those periods and find them hilarious on their own merits.
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I think Married… With Children is a pretty good example too. It came out around the Simpsons started, is considered revolutionary television and on most people's all time best comedies list.... but I can't get through a single episode. The acting of the Bundy family makes the Big Bang Theory cast look subtle and the jokes are just stupid.
And yes I just insulted Al Bundy.
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Yeah i never got married with children either
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@No:
[http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/a4c0dfe184aaaa29e5ca23c9254c114b/131317 - adventures_of_sonic_the_hedgehog apple_bloom Artist%3APutuk eggman hate NINCOMBOTS! PINGAS robotnik.png](http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/a4c0dfe184aaaa29e5ca23c9254c114b/131317 - adventures_of_sonic_the_hedgehog apple_bloom Artist%3APutuk eggman hate NINCOMBOTS! PINGAS robotnik.png)
Did someone seriously redraw Negaduck as a pony…
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Oh its Robotnik. I swear Negaduck did it too.
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I already knew the last one, but HNNNNNNGGH!!
Thank you very much.
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While on the Simpsons Top 11 episodes topic, I absolutely love the early 4th season Simpsons episodes, probably would've put Homer the Heretic in there somewhere and Duffless & Last exit to Springfield too. Already mentioned You only move twice is also one of my favourites from the later Simpsons seasons. (yeah, in my mind, Simpsons ends somewhere around season 10. After that it's something else.)
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Even though the quality core of Simpsons was produced while I was too young to understand english, I still swear by the comedy and plots of the shows first decade being more timeless and enduring. If theres anything that's going to age terribly, it's the "flavor of the month" simpsons episodes where they do Tick Tock opening segments, 24 spoofs or American Idol episodes.
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I know it's juvenile, but I love A Star is Burns if only for this scene.
Of course, it's also got some other great bits like McBain's "Let's Get Silly," Barney's movie (in fact, I think all the movies were great) and "I was saying Boo-urns."
