Is that the funniest thing ever?
It is on TCM.
You obviously have a wonderful economy with words. I look forward to your next syllable with great eagerness.
Don’t you hate Perry’s wife?
“A real woman could make you stop drinking.”
“It would have to be a really big woman.”
“Steal something casual.”
I assume you’re talking about the original, but I’m one of the few people in the universe (along with my husband) who actually liked the remake with Russell Brand, who I think is a decent actor who will only get better. I never judged it compared to the original, because it had been decades since I’d seen the original*. I never judged it on trendy snarkhate of Russell Brand, because I only knew him from Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him To The Greek, both of which I liked, and liked him in them. One of the biggest advantages of not watching television or following celebrity gossip is I can judge people on their own merits in a movie, without extra baggage attached.
So, I thought the remake was funny, sweet and poignant. It made me laugh, and it moved me, quite a feat for such a trifle.
- I think I thought the original was good, from what I remember. I love Gielgud and Moore, but I can’t stand Liza Minnelli though, so I never saw it twice. I really only remember the line “I’ll alert the media.”
I didn’t care much for the original. Arthur himself was funny, and his butler was funnier, but ultimately it went soggy. Liza Minnelli didn’t help; she was miscast and no longer able to play that sort of role.
He’s taking the knife out of the cheese! Do you think he wants some cheese?!?!
"You’re a hooker? Jesus, I forgot! I just thought I was doing GREAT with you! "
“Where’s the rest of this moose?”
“Nobody in our family drinks.”
“You must never run out of ice.”
I’ll alert the media.
*A hot bath is wonderful! Girls are wonderful!
Yes. Imagine how wonderful a girl who bathes would be. Get dressed.
*
Perhaps you’d like me to come in and wash your dick for you, you little shit.
Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a women of your stature.
We’re going to be like one of those poor couples on the subway…we’ll hold hands. How much is the subway? Sixty cents, but if you spit its a five hundred dollar fine. Then…I ***won’t ***spit.
Actually, I just saw it last night for the first time (and I’m in my mid-40s), and while I agree it got somewhat slow in the Butler-dying segment, I thought Liza Minnelli seemed fine for her part - why do you thing she was miscast/no longer able to play such a role? Heck, Dudley Moore was 45-46 when he film the movie, and I got the impression his character was supposed to be someone in his mid-30s - I think he pulled it off.
“No, if she had murdered the tie it would be a perfect crime.”
I never saw the remake, and I haven’t seen the original with Dudley Moore in at least 25 years.
My recollection is that the original ***Arthur ***was fairly amusing and Dudley Moore was charming and ikable (something I’ve never heard anyone say about Russell Brand).
But… where the movie fell apart for me was that we in the audience were EXPECTED to believe that Arthur’s wealthy fiancee (Jill Eikenberry) was a dreary witch, and that he’d be infinitely happier with the shoplifting waitress played by Liza Minelli.
Huh?
Sorry, but I didn’t buy that, nor would any hetero male. Arthur’s fiancee was preferable in EVERY imaginable way to Liza Minelli. Richer, better looking, nicer, not a felon… sorry, I don’t see any sane reason he’d cast her aside for Liza.
I didn’t see her as a dreary witch at all, in fact she was a nice person, just a somewhat pathetic princess who he wasn’t in love with and who wouldn’t accept she wasn’t going to fix this guy.
I race cars, play tennis, and fondle women, BUT! I have weekends off, and I am my own boss.
I take it this bum will be calling you?
Dad! He’s a millionaire.
You have my permission to marry him.