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Well yes and no; there's more to MoL than Live Organ Transplants and Mr Creosote. And I'm afraid to say I find both of those funny anyway. Especially the former; it's the "I told him not to fill in that form, but he wouldn't be told!" stuff that always makes me roll around on the floor kicking my little legs in the air.

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Blasphemer!

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Originally posted by scuffleball:
A bit off topic as it's a TV programme, but around here if you're highbrow you're "supposed" to find Monty Python funny. I just don't get it at all.

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[QUOTE] By the way, do you happen to have any idea what that skit is supposed to be referencing? I know a lot of Python alludes to undergraduate in-jokes and arcane erstwhile current events(eg. the gangster in Pirahna Brothers who claimed to have laid Stanley Baldwin was based on a real criminal who had affairs with cabinet-ministers), but I've never been able to figure out what Albatross was all about. Something to do with the Ancient Mariner, I suppose, but why is Cleese dressed as a nurse?

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Ok, definitely not a "great" film, but I have this perverse urge to make Roger Ebert roll over in his grave:

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

What. The hell. Was he thinking?

Kel//too soon?

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Also, the narrator's monologue at the end, where he goes on and on bombastically about what lessons the girls all learned from their adventures. Possibly a send-up of "redeeming social value" in nudie movies.

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You're right, that was priceless. And it went on for flipping ever.

May have to watch yet again just to stoke my outrage.

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'Revelation' would make a good horror film, what with all those Apocalyptic end-times scenarios.

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What we need is George Romero to tackle the subject....

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Originally posted by Barnabas62:
"Left Behind". I got a fit of the giggles watching that at a church away weekend a lot of years ago. I remembered a Tony Campolo one liner. "i'm so pre-millennial I don't eat post toasties for breakfast". That set me off. Had to leave the room to avoid spoiling the enjoyment of those who were into it ....

The hardest part was dealing tactfully with the expressions of concern for my health afterwards ...

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A bit off topic as it's a TV programme, but around here if you're highbrow you're "supposed" to find Monty Python funny. I just don't get it at all.

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I think it's a combination of thinking that anything absurdist must be extremely clever, plus they throw around a lot of deliberately archaic and obscure references. So if you laugh, it means you're smart.

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Originally posted by Left at the Altar:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

I read a review that suggested that it would have been better to simply call it Unbearable. I agree.

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

I read a review that suggested that it would have been better to simply call it Unbearable. I agree.

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"The Unbearable Longness Of Watching" was how I summarised it on first viewing. I can't remember a detail of the film now, thankfully...

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Originally posted by Dark Knight:

Secrets and Lies was so dreadful I fell asleep about two thirds of the way through it. It was traumatic. Not because of any traumatic themes - just remembering that I had paid money to rent it out (that was back in the old video shop days).

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Psycho and The Shining were big disappointments. They were more amusing than scary. Particularly the dreadful acting by Shelley Duvall in the latter.

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• Mean Streets - WTF is so great about it?
• Someone up thread mentioned Punch-drunk love - I'm not sure I've ever been told it was a great film, but it was certainly unwatchable.
• Aguirre: The Wrath of God - blerg
• Dead Man - came out in Oz not long after the Port Arthur massacre, so it was probably a bad decision to go see it at that time. Doesn't take away from the fact that it's dreadful.
• My own private Idaho - finished watching it about two years ago, and I'm still waiting for something worthwhile in the plot to happen.
• The Breakfast Club - not unwatchable, but after all the hype I was expecting it to be SOOO much better than it was.

I'm sure there are others. I actually have films I like, too.

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Scroll down to 10.

Not that I am condoning what Kubrick did-- he sounds just as jackbatty as Hitch was, TBH-- but I read elsewhere that the pivotal scene where Wendy is screamed at by Jack when she interrupts his writing was an improv requested by Nicholson, who was trying to provoke a realistic performance from her. In other words, he was pissed off at how things were going and he actively took it out on her, in a method sort of way.

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Yeah, her performance is dishrag-limp, and that's irritating. Even more irritating is that the character of Wendy, who is something of a Mama Bear in the original novel, is transformed into a one-dimensional doormat in the film--most likely by Kubrick's command.

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As for Shelley Duvall, I'm a big partisan of her performance in The Shining. I think the whole point is that she's supposed to be a timid, submissive, not-particularly-intellectual person, pushed by circumstance to acts of astounding bravery.

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• Independence Day - one of the worst things I have ever paid money to see.
• Requiem for a Dream - ok, this is an odd choice, because it's actually a good film with good performances. So I'm not criticising the film. But I wish I'd never seen it, and I will never see it again. Some things you just can't unsee. That scene with Jennifer Connelly is one of them. There are far too many scenes in that film like that.

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[*]Requiem for a Dream - ok, this is an odd choice, because it's actually a good film with good performances. So I'm not criticising the film. But I wish I'd never seen it, and I will never see it again. Some things you just can't unsee. That scene with Jennifer Connelly is one of them. There are far too many scenes in that film like that.
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It represents Bowman becoming the next evolution of humanity through contact with the monolith, just as the apes had become the first evolution of humanity through contact with the monolith. He fast-forwards through the rest of his natural life and is reborn as the starchild.

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Originally posted by L'organist:
The best thing about 2001 was the special effects - years ahead of their time and won an Oscar for Brit Tom Howard.

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