Nobody who thought a comedy biography of Albert Einstein where he’s Australian, and instead of coming up with the theory of relativity, invents a method of putting bubbles in beer, could possibly be serious.
I give Thunderbirds a pass, mainly because it has the most hilarious scene of any movie ever.
In scene the main character is about to take off in the rocket. The camera does a close up of the guy’s hand on the throttle. You see several strings attached to his hand.
One might even consider such a person to be a yahoo. ![]()
I know those words, but those posts make no sense.
An Australian, with the stage name “Yahoo Serious,” made and starred in a comedy film called “Young Einstein,” with the plot described by @sciurophobic .
The complaint about Howard in the movie is he was too cuddly and his voice didn’t match what the comic’s readers thought it would sound like. I, for one, always imagined him sounding like Walter Matthau.
(Don’t tell Yorgos Lanthimos!)
I remember when “Joe Dirt”, which I have never seen but it still plays regularly on TV, was in the theaters, and the ads said “ZERO Academy Award nominations! ZERO Golden Globe nominations!” They knew what they had LOL.
While we’re on the subject, my sister couldn’t resist this jigsaw puzzle when she saw it for sale.
And just when we thought it was dead and gone Kiss, Wings, and Lipps Inc came around with disco hits in '79 and '80. Goodnight Tonight was really pathetic and I liked Wings.
I saw the first four “Sharknado” movies on TV. My favorite scene was towards the end of “Sharknado 2” where ZZ Top were extras in a panicked subway scene, and in “Sharknado 4,” there’s a scientist who walks around in the halls, and whenever he does this, two very attractive lingerie-clad Asian models do The Catwalk behind him, and any companions he may have with him. I’m a straight woman, and I thought that was hilarious.
Unfortunately (?) I haven’t seen any of the sequels because I mostly watch movies with my wife and she groans at the very mention of “Sharknado”.
I never saw any of the Sharknado movies but I don’t think they were aiming for high art. They knew they were making something comedic. (Whether or not they succeeded in that, I cannot say.)
Back to the Future
I mean, you have this teenager, and his best friend is a disgraced nuclear physicist…
Actually, John Mulaney explains it better (Jump to 40 seconds because I don’t know how to cue it up)
At this point does “cinematic shitshow” have any meaning whatsoever?
Forgive me. It’s a comedy bit about getting Back to the Future greenlit (“we thought it’d be funny if the boy went back in time and tried to fuck his mom.”)
My more sincere contribution is the only movie I ever walked out of.
So the pitch is that you’re just going to be annoying?
I totally agree. I even use a quote from it (not that anyone gets it) “Too Late!”.
The first part (and iirc the first director) with David Niven is very good. To me, Niven was one of the best Bonds. The last parts- with Woody Allen- are terrible.
Good point.
Ed Wood.
Great film, I love it. Ebert liked it. Rotten Tomatoes kinda likes it. The gross wasnt bad at all.
Right.
Right.
Look, I get complaints about Casino Royale (1967) (Had some great moments, but…), and even maybe Popeye. But once you bring up Forrest Gump in this thread- that just wrong. Now, I respect that someone didnt like Forrest Gump, thats fine, “De gustibus non est disputandum”, but that is not this thread.
Good one, but on paper-it looked great!
Yep
Another film that looked great- on paper. We can understand why it was greenlit. But it turned into a pile of manure.
Right. Heavens Gate and Ishtar should have been greenlit- they just werent made correctly.
Yep, those two for example-
I never saw that motherfucking version of Back to the Future.
And if anything, the mother made a pass at the kid.
“He doesn’t get to! He doesn’t get to! Because this family friend named Biff he comes in and tries to rape the mom in front of the son. The dads got to beat the rapist off of her. And also we’re going to imply that a white man wrote Johnny B Goode.”
It’s all in the delivery.
Freddie Got Fingered, the Tom Green vehicle from 2001. I never really got the comedy of Tom Green and nothing about this movie ever looked funny. While production might not have been a shit show, I don’t understand how someone could have looked at this and thought, “Yeah, this will be a decent movie.”