I must admit, I came into this thread to post the Life of Brian Spaceship. I understand about the whole ‘Pythons doing silly, unexpected things’, but this instance definitely did not work for me.
I also thought that Holy Grail (which is funnier, but arguably a lesser movie than LOTB - it’s basically a series of sketches) suffered because of the ‘modern time’ ending.
Life Of The Brian?
Not just any Brian. The Brian.
I always aphasia suspected had I.
Call us haters if you want. But there is no way to describe how devastating it was to watch the prequels for my generation. I was basically too young to watch Star wars in the cinema (I was 5 when Return of the Jedi came out, allegedly I did see a double feature but got scared and we all had to leave, much to my siblings chagrin, but I have no memory of that. ) But I spent my entire childhood watching and rewatching the original trilogy on TV and VHS tape (recorded from TV).
Watching the prequels and the realization of how bad they were, and how they ruined the back story of the original trilogy sucked so bad. It’s not like I went into them wanting them to be bad so I could complain about them. I genuinely wanted to know this awesome backstory that was hinted it at.
They’re hilarious but the overt penis statues and actually grabbing a woman’s boobs in the first Naked Gun are incredibly jarring and one of the reasons I won’t rewatch it with other people without warning them first.
Star Wars was a fantastically executed fairy tale. It was not a detailed crafted work of world-building and complex technology all laid out. Lots of things failed to make much intellectual sense if you looked at them closely. It didn’t spoil the movie for me but the moment that had me rolling my eyes was Luke and Hans and Chewbacca on a dais as the end, as if out of all the denizens of the entire freaking galaxy embroiled in this, our main characters were The Heroes.
Well, the human ones. No medals for Wookiees or droids.
Am I misremembering? I thought Chewbacca got a medal as one of the three on that stand. Leia was the one handing them out.
Nope. Pure anti-Woookie bigotry, if you ignore the fact that Wedge also survived the battle, played a key role in keeping Luke alive during the battle, but also didn’t get a medal.
And there was that extra anonymous Y-wing pilot at the end. What, did his ship blow up on the way back to base?
I think I read the explanation at least that Luke and Han were given CIVILIAN medals, much like our Medal of Freedom, while Wedge and everyone else who was already in the Rebellion got medals at a more military focused ceremony.
It’s Triumph of the Will, not Triumph of the Wookie.
I am The Brian, and so is my wife!
Jaws is of course a perfect movie, but there’s a deleted scene that would have ruined it.
Quint buying piano wire. This was going to be our original introduction to Quint, criticizing a kid playing Ode to Joy on a clarinet. Instead of the incredible scene at the town meeting.
Pulp Fiction is a masterpiece, but I think we can all agree that the scene where director Quentin Tarantino delivers lines written by Quentin Tarantino kind of cries out for someone other than, y’know, Quentin Tarantino.
That’s a good call. His scene in Django is terrible too, albeit for a different reason.
Easy. The “strip-tease” scene in True Lies where Arnold pretends to be recruiting Jamie Lee Curtis as an agent. It is just…eewwwww.
I always thought ending on the diner scene and not ending on the motorcycle was the worst decision, I understand thematically the diner scene works better but them leaving town on a motorcycle is just a far more satisfying ending.
Would Pulp Fiction be a better or worse film if it was linear?
I watched the OG Star wars in a theatre first run, and while i would rank the prequels as C, rather than an A, I wasnt devastated. In fact not many were- the Rotten Tomatoes rating is 54% from critics and 59% from fans. Okay, not great, but certainly not worth the hate. More of a “meh”.
It would be a LOT better without Travolta.
Better, IMHO,
I have to concur with DrDeth here. I too saw the original trilogy in the theaters starting when I was 10, and I found the prequels disappointing, not devastating. Then again, I think anyone not involved in the production, who is “devastated” by how bad a movie is, is being just a bit dramatic.