Since someone brought up the *Doctor Dolittle * movie from 1998 with Eddie Murphy I have to mention that The Cat in the Hat movie from 2003 starring Mike Myers is probably the worst movie i have ever seen. Crude and vulgar, just about everything Dr. Seuss’s books are not.
yeah the cat in the hat movie killed off what goodwill Carrey’s grinch had left that DR.S’s widow
refused to let any of the planned live-action movies continue (universal was going to make a franchise out of them)… in fact, it even helped kill off the cat in the hat PBS kids show …
The one I think of is Seventh Son. Who in the hell thought that putting Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore together in a non-comedy movie after The Big Lebowski was a great idea?! That was pretty much an open invitation to MST3K the shit out of it until you lost interest. Seriously, the movie was shit, and I really hope someone got fired because of it. :smack:
Oh, and not to derail the thread, but I kind of liked Cat in the Hat. The problem wasn’t the movie itself; it was the marketing. It definitely wasn’t for kids, but I think of it like an offbeat comedy like Bubble Boy or Death to Smoochy, both of which I loved, and at the time, I was a big fan of pretty much the entire cast.
I loved the show growing up. Same with Hogan’s Heroes. There may be an issue looking at some of these shows as to who the target audience was. Younger viewers may find these shows more entertaining than older viewers as they don’t get caught up in the flaws.
I purged that movie from my memory. Quite literally.
I was watching it on TV one day, and had an overwhelming feeling of deja vu. I couldn’t tell you what would happen next, but every scene I knew I had seen before. I finally realized I had seen it in the theaters, but I couldn’t tell you how a scene would turn out if you put a gun to my head.
Some time later, I was watching TV and stumbled across the move, and started watching it. I had an overwhelming feeling of deja vu. I couldn’t tell you what would happen next, but every scene I knew I had seen before. I finally realized I had seen it on TV, and remembered the previous experience. I still couldn’t tell you what was going to happen next despite having seen it twice.
Now, as a fan of bad movies, I have seen a lot of bad movies. Really bad movies. But nothing like this has ever happened before.
The Cat in the Hat. The one time my brain took a stand and just said “no.”
I’d say “It’s About Time” sucked about as hard as MMTC. One reason to appreciate MMTC is that, without it, there would have been no SCTV parody of it (Tibor’s Tractor) on the Soviet takeover episode of Network 90, Season 2.
surprised nobody mentioned You’re in the picture show with Jackie Gleason. Lasted 1 week in 1961.
Details here You're in the Picture - Wikipedia
Ironically, Coupling is basically a UK version of Friends. They copied the formula, and Brisishized it.
So making an American copy of a British copy of an American show was bound to fail. You’re Xeroxing a Xerox.
Yes, and soon the Super Karate Monkey Death Car parked in their space.
Uzbeks
Hey, Greatest American Hero had a good theme song and Connie Sellecca.
I’ve watched some episodes lately and while not exactly quality, are tolerable.
Brian
And I think the premise is fine
At least Mr. Ed was an animate creature that theoretically could have a mind.
The true creepiness of My Mother the Car was sitting inside your mother and tweaking bits of her anatomy to make her drive around.:eek:
I enjoyed It’s About Time.
When I was 6.
And wasn’t allowed to watch TV.
I can still sing the theme (“It’s about time. It’s about space. It’s about two men in the strangest place.” (Those lyrics sites that give the wrong lyrics lie).
Wikipedia is a compendium of toilet humor and butt jokes, received warmly by audiences who praise its humor and thematic profundity. Also, that particular article has been modified over the years…
I’ve got an even more embarrassing memory: watching the series premier in 1965 (the first scene, where he’s looking around a used car lot and hears his mother’s voice calling out to him). I was six years old, so it didn’t seem (quite) as stupid as it does now.
As for the theme song, this is without googling/youtubing:
A nineteen twenty eight Porter
That’s my mother dear
She helps me through everything I do
And I’m so glad she’s here
Ah, the wasted brain cells.
Reading what the game show was originally supposed to be about I can see why people thought it would be a good idea. You’re in the Picture sounds much more interesting to me than Name That Tune, but the ladder lasted for a number of years as a show. The premise was fine it was apparently the execution that was lacking.
I beg to differ. The Coneheads movie was one of the most disappointing pieces of crap ever made. Certain concepts need a studio audience. It would have been like making an All in the Family movie.
I beg to differ. The Coneheads movie was one of the most disappointing pieces of crap ever made. Certain concepts need a studio audience. It would have been like making an All in the Family movie.
Turn-On. While one can understand the reasoning behind coming up with a clone of Laugh-In, but it was clearly rushed and filled with unfunny sexual jokes. It was cancelled literally before the first episode finished, and stations just shut it off half way, with west coast stations not running it at all.
“This is not an American sitcom!” But the show was nothing like Friends, except superficially. It was almost entirely about sexual relationships and wasn’t coy about it, and, of course, was far funnier. In addition, it innovated the sitcom form with shows that, for instance, showed two parallel stories at once on a split screen (“Split”) or played with time (“The Girl with Two Breasts,” which showed a conversation from one character’s point of view, then rewound back to one with the other character’s.)
But the point of the show in the UK was to be open about sex. It candidly discussed porn, masturbation, voyeurism, erectile dysfunction (“The Melty Man Cometh”), threesomes, and much else. There was no way network censors was going to allow it in the US.
Monkeybone (2001)
