Do you guys think it is a good movie? I had expected to like it, but 68 minutes into it I had to turn it off because it was stupid, boring, and annoying.
Does it suddenly get a lot better, or was I right to turn it off?
If you didn’t like it by the first hour, you aren’t going to like it any better by the end.
FWIW, I thought it was a pretty good “guy” movie. And I mean “guy” in the Iron John, “sit around the fire and male-bond” sense, not the “blow stuff up in slo-mo” sense.
Although a more descriptive account of why you found the movie “stupid, boring, and annoying” might help. Aside from the presence of Billy Crystal, I mean.
Probably should avoid the sequel, too.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
It was realy cool when Sean Connery showed up in a spaceship and started anal probing everyone. Some of the best lines in Hollywood history!
Anyone remember any?
Sean Connery (as Kringol the Space Clown): “Dammit! Where’s my watch?”
Billy Crystal’s character: “Well, my ass is bleeding and there’s a dollar pinned to my shirt. Damn you, Kringol! Where ever you are…”
Here is what I put in my journal:
I got exactly halfway through and it’s so annoying that I just can’t stand it. I think the most grating part is Jack Palance’s voice. Good god, he sounds like he’s doing the voice character for some cheesy cartoon villain. It is also the same stupid voice he always does. IT IS OLD, BUDDY! GET A NEW SCHTICK!*
Anyway, the plot could not be less interesting, or the humor less funny. Add in a dose of cattle abuse and you’ve got…uh… a pile of crap.
*by voice I mean inflection and style… like Shatner’s voice bugs me, because of how he uses it.
Ah, well, just be thankful Palance was playing the strong, silent type. He’s done movies where he actually has the majority of the lines. Incidentally, the reason he sounds like a cheesy cartoon villain is the incredible number of cheesy cartoon characters that were based on his character in the landmark western, Shane.
And, considering how you feel about animals, it’s probably a good thing you didn’t watch the whole movie, as it ends with the entire herd being sold to a meat-packing plant. No, I’m not kidding. Crystal’s character buys the calf he helped birth, though, and keeps it on a farm. It even has a cameo in the sequel.