Nah it was (and still is) way overquoted but Life of Brian is brilliantly conceived and brilliantly written. And unlike much of Python it still stands up today really really well. I may watch it this weekend with my daughter who loves it as our nod to the Easter story
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I really upset a friend when I went to see 'Wicked' and didn't like it. I've concluded I just don't do musicals. I've tried several and usually get distracted deconstructing the staging and set.
Films wise
Daniel Craig's James Bond films
Star Wars Rogue One - I thought this was a mess but people rave about it
Pulp Fiction
TV
I never got into The Fast Show and when I tried later it just didn't click
Absolutely Fabulous
Will and Grace - I gave up on that first time around; a housemate loved it
I gave up on Breaking Bad
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The Rocky Horror Show
The Big Lebowski
Just about any comic book movie. They can't die. What is the point?
The League of Gentlemen - We once had an American friend over and she had heard about it, has quite good taste in British comedy and culture. Anyway, we put it on, she is "I don't get it", I'm "I get it, I just don't find it funny" and my wife is rolling around on the floor laughing at every moment of it. But then she is usually fairly slow to get into something, but clicked with Fight Club in the opening 30 seconds.
Any audience participation shows, especially that prank stuff on unwitting people. They always strike me as a power thing, "we're going to humiliate you... purely because we can".Last edited by Snake Plissken; 30-03-2018, 08:47.
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As we have been talking about ace old films, here's old stuff I don't get:
Laurel & Hardy
Charlie Chaplin
Harold Lloyd
Marx Brothers.
The latter is the only one that I feel I should make the effort to watch a bit more of. I am sure that the rest was ground breaking in its time but has been superseded by later stuff.
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More stuff I agree with up this thread:
All the superhero-y comic book movies. It feels like a bunch of middle aged men regressing to stuff they read when they were 11 then spending a fortune making films out of it. Every now and then someone says "This is the best one" or "this is different" and I try to watch it and it's still tiresome and boring and thoroughly underwhelming and deeply silly, but not in a good way.
And then there's Streep and Hanks. It used to be that I disliked both equally. I never got the love for Streep, but she's basically getting worse and worse, making otherwise decent films almost unwatchable. Hanks, though, changed some time in the 2000s, around Catch Me If You Can or Charlie Wilson's War and his films became engaging, and he stopped being an irritant to me
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"The Guard " paddywhackery rubbish, let's all laugh at the Irish, every Irish character is either racist,corrupt or stupid and the title character is all three,can't see the praise for it
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostThought of another one. Steven Moffat's Sherlock series. People extol them but it's just a series of 'look at us, we're so clever' set ups with the viewers being the victims of condescension.
The final series is absolutely bloody awful, with no redeeming features. It is like it is a completely different show.
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostI think the three stooges are purely "got" in the USA. I don't think anyone else has any affinity with them. Same with the utterly tedious and unfunny I Love Lucy
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostI think the three stooges are purely "got" in the USA. I don't think anyone else has any affinity with them. Same with the utterly tedious and unfunny I Love Lucy
Lucy I liked as a kid and there are some bits that still make me laugh, but that might be pure nostalgia. I think she was genuinely funny, but caught in a comedic world of schtick, where catch phrases and blackouts were de rigeur.
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