What did the sheep guarding the portal of the future resemble? There were many references from Back to the Future to the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, surely they were borrowed from somewhere.
I haven’t seen this movie- had planned to, but then it got really bad reviews.
A question, though: 1882 was the year Oscar Wilde toured the west. Was he a character in the movie?
No, that would have been cool.
It’s…Attack of the Killer Tomatoes comes to mind. So does Blazing Saddles.
Hey, it’s got Liam Neeson, Susan Silverman, and Wes Studi. What could go wrong?
:rolleyes:
I thought they looked like some of the artwork in the old *OMNI *magazine. Maybe the Brothers Hildebrandt? The BIG EYES Louise had had the same feel.
I just watched it last night. Alternately side-splittingly funny and crassly juvenile.
It’s funny where one’s personal line of taste is. For example, I thought Foy crapping in the hats was funny, but actually showing a hat full of runny shit went too far. Having Jamie Foxx ask where the white women are? OK. Having Arthur comment that, if he were a Black man, he would like Anna’s big butt? Too far.
Arthur getting peed on by the sheep? Funny. Showing a closeup of a peeing sheep penis? Maybe too far. (Though it DID tie in with the drug trip sequence.)
Getting one’s skull crushed by ice? Funny. Clinch shooting the prospector? Too brutal, too “real”. Seemed tacked in from another, seriouser, movie.
I laughed at Patrick Stewat as the Guardian of the Future. “You may enter when ready.”
They DID have the two gay guys in the saloon. Could have been a reference.
I don’t recall if either of them had bad teeth.
I saw it last weekend and liked it. It was more western and less comedy than I expected. I think i was expecting thick layers of jokes on top of jokes and the movie had more structure and plot than that. That’s not a bad thing just not what I expected.
A good assessment.
The movie is weirdly anachronistic.
It’s not the obvious ones that bothered me (Doc Brown, anyone?) - it’s the way Seth McFarland plays Albert. He doesn’t give even the slightest nod to the time period - the movie might as well been set in 2014, in a Western stage lot.
Or, maybe that’s the point. I dunno.
“A man born in the wrong time.”
I think the whole point is that he a nerd.
“You are going to get really fucked up, and then you will probably die.”
-Cochise.
I think that’s why Clinch bothered me, as mentioned earlier.
The movie is a fun anachronistic romp, and yet a “real” western keeps intruding. One or the other would have been fine. I myself prefer the anachronistic on.
As much as I enjoyed it, there were annoyance in the plot. When Anna had cold-cocked Clinch, why didn’t she finish him off? Why didn’t she kill her “brother” when they got to Old Stump and run off? She could have easily killed off the other gang members and just drifted away. Of course, then we wouldn’t have had the nerd-clever solution to the final gunfight!
And, after watching that movie, “fuck” has become my wife’s new favorite word. “Shut the fuck up!” “What the fuck?” I unleashed a monster!
The thing is, the film isn’t really anachronistic, only Seth’s character is. He’s like the insufferable twerp in Last Action Hero constantly reminding people of all the weird, horrible, or counter-intuitive things that everyone else just takes for granted as Real Life. This leads to large unfortunate monologues that get really old really fast from him.
And Quimby is right–it is more western than I expected. But I think that is a bad thing, because the western stuff ranges from boring to terrible, but completely a different tone from the rest of the film. At least in Blazing Saddles, the laughs are literally non-stop. No concession is made for plot or continuity if it’s at the expense of a good joke. But every scene Liam Neeson is in is a completely non-humorous one (at least while he’s conscious), and having a straight, murderous villain in an otherwise funny movie is a more delicate balance than McFarland is equipped to handle.
Were there laughs? A couple. Not nearly as many unfortunate deaths as I’d hoped. And while there were the obvious (and incessant) fart & sex jokes, it still played everything very safe. And for a comedy, that’s probably the worst thing you could say about it.
I want my 2 hours back.
I just saw this in the theater. There have only been two movies that I have wanted to walk out on: K-Pax and this.
What a horribly unfunny train wreck of a film.
There were some setups that could have been quite funny if left alone. Instead, MacFarland has to grab you by the ears and shout to you that a joke is here, and then seemingly try to explain why it’s funny.
I cannot think of even a single thing I found genuinely funny. In fact, I cannot think of any reason whatsoever that a person should see this film.
Truly, one of the worst movies I have ever sat through.
In the bit about the hairy vagina, he literally did.
Well I beg to differ. It’s a 6/10 as far as comedies go and I’ll go so far as to give it a 7 or 8 in terms of what they were trying to do. The same goes for Ted. I would have preferred to watch this than say… Think Like A Man 2.
I enjoyed Ted.
I found Million Ways to be tedious and completely devoid of anything enjoyable.
But, that’s only my opinion.