I really liked the movie even if the Stooges are not my thing.
You wise guy!
(pokes bienville in both eyes, then drags him across the room with a hammer in his nose)
I found an older article that mentioned that Johnny Knoxville was being considered for a part. Not much, but I needed a third name.
“Hold hands, you lovebirds.”
Here’s a promotional photo of Moe, Joe De Rita, and Emil Sitka in character. He named his character “Harry” and there is a slight resemblance to Larry Fine in that photo.
If they do it like they did with Brain Doners Brain Donors (1992) - IMDb it could turn out to be a decent movie. Brain Doners was a re-make of the Marx Bros A Night at the Opera, and rather than dress like and mimick the bros, the characters all had their own personalities loosely based on the originals.
I think a Stooge film made in this way could work.
Bets on this thing actually getting made? I feel like I’ve been hearing about it for years and half the actors out there have been attached at one point or another.
A movie about the Stooges would likely have an audience limited almost exlusive to heterosexual men. I’ve never met a woman who didn’t loathe the Stooges.
I was going to post about *Brain Doners *also but couldn’t recall the name. So glad you kept me from going down that Google rabbit-hole.
Hi, Chefguy! Nice to meet you!
Have you had your testosterone levels checked? You’re a rare breed, indeed.
I’ve heard this many times (it was even a plot point on an episode of “Cheers”) but it simply isn’t true. There are enough women out there who enjoy a bit of the Stooges.
And while the personalities of the individual Stooges are important, there were always three “roles” to be filled. Anything that called itself the Three Stooges would have to have characters in those roles. Moe’s is most clear, and Larry’s is the counterpoint to Moe, and the third Stooge (either Shemp, Curly, or one of the others) brought the most individuality to their role. But they occupied the same place in the troika.
I heard the Farrelly’s on the radio the other day, and I think they do get it. And I think it will get made. Their vision is actually three shorts, collected into a single movie length showing.
They’re perfectly normal. I also like Laurel & Hardy and the Marx Brothers. But I don’t like the Farrelly Brothers and I am very leery about this project. I think a biopic could be awesome, if it went through the The Aviator treatment, or it could be bad beyond belief. I just don’t think a modern-day Three Stooges would fly. Dumb and Dumber came as close as it’s ever going to get.
Perhaps generally, but true in my experience.
I’ve met plenty of women who like the Stooges. What I’ve never met, however, is a woman willing to re-enact Stooge routines while watching them. Try poking her eyes out, or grabbing her tongue with pliers, or catapulting a paint can onto her head, and she gets all pissy. Just call a woman “numbskull” and next thing you know you’re sleeping on the couch.
“Hold hands you lovebirds.”
Damn you, Cochrane!
What about a Ted Healy knockoff?