Apparently, we do. I explained what I meant by stilted walking. It’s obvious when you watch Webb walk as Friday. And I gave an example of a sanctimonious sermon. The quoted diatribe - plus many others on the linked page - about how cops can’t enjoy parties, have to work late, have to count pennies, have to deal with pillheads, etc., etc. is certainly sanctimonious in my eyes.
Communication is a two-way street, and your cryptic, smartass one-liners aren’t communicating much to me. Well, they are, but not on topic.
I said I don’t pay attention to the way people walk unless they have some physical abnormality. As for what is "sanctimonious " in your eyes, take it up with your ophthalmologist.
No, seriously, you do. Because Jack Webb is notable as perhaps the most sanctimonious supporter of LAW AND ORDER ever. I don’t know if you’ve seen the movie with Dan Ackroyd as Friday and Tom Hanks as his new partner, but Hanks spends half the movie trying not to laugh out loud at Ackroyd’s uncritical pronouncements on right and wrong.
Search on “Jack Webb Sanctimonious”. You’ll see some interesting results. Apparently everyone associated with Dragnet was sanctimonious, Webb, the Friday character, the bad guys, and even the real cops the concept was modelled on. No surprise, I’d use “sanctimonious” to describe the Dragnet universe.
As far as I am concerned, casting Dan Aykroyd as Joe Friday is like casting John Wayne as Genghis Khan or Adolf Hitler as Simon Wiesenthal. I have vague memories of what little I saw of * The Blues Brothers * ( the scene at the end) and I think of their “Mission from God” as flying an airliner into a skyscraper. I refuse to watch Aykroyd do anything.
Clearly they are religious extremist that drove into the mall to destroy Jewish business and drive them out of Chicago. Very astute of you to notice.
And the Nazis that were chasing them were just trying to catch-up to help in their crusade?
You’re missing out on some funny shit, then. Aykroyd is hilarious as Joe Friday. The little speech he gives to Christopher Plummer in the men’s room is simply awesome! Hell, that movie was so funny, my dad liked it!
What about The Inlaws? Who possibly could have done that role better than Peter Falk, keeping the audience on the edge of doubt for the whole movie?
James Garner was pretty darn good in almost everything he did, from Cash McCall through Hail to the Chief, but like Peter Falk, his acting range was somewhat limited, from what I have seen. They were both good for what they were good for, but I cannot think of roles in which either was asked to stretch.
