Episode 62: Hucklebug is back in stereo this week, and for the people who care about these things (Mr. M)—Stennie is now in the left channel and Bet is in the right. Shout-outs, including the Truth About Blazing Saddles, movies, lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, Hucklebug’s Most Overrated Movies.
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Stennie, this was a lot of fun! I will now listen to all 61 previous episodes! But come on, BLAZING SADDLES not so funny?! Oh, Mel’s gonna get ya for that one! Can I link to this?! And thanks for your great answers to the latest quiz!
No home improvement project ever goes as planned and always requires two trips to the hardware store (the first to go to my local hardware store for 90 percent of the stuff you now need, and the second to go to Home Despot for their one proprietary part for the thing that the lady before me installed that came from the Home Despot).
I’m planning to get a DVD recorder this weekend, and I’m wondering how many trips to Radio Shack this is going to take. Thankfully, Radio Shack is within walking distance, so it shouldn’t be too bad.
And for the Beckhams, I bet most people in Britain are jumping up and down for joy that they’re over here and no longer over there annoying the bejeezus out of them. Because I lived over there when they were Big News over there, and it was awful. And I’m with you—I have no idea why they’re remotely interesting.
(Note, I’m not trying to talk you out of hating the two following films, nor do I think you’re nuts for not liking them. That’s solely reserved for the Blazing Saddles thing) I like Gone With The Wind, but I think that’s because I love the book. The movie is long, and it’s hard to say what I’d think of it if I hadn’t read the book a billion times. And I’m mixed on Shawshank Redemption—I like it well enough, but I will totally agree that it shouldn’t be number two on anyone’s list. I’m with both of you about Citizen Kane and The Third Man. Put Orson on my list of people I don’t get.
Ooooh – Bet, I LOVE you—I have HATED Caddyshack forever. It ISN’T funny. Even Bill Murray isn’t funny, and that’s hard to do.
I don’t agree that Empire Strikes Back is the good one, but it does contain the line “Luke, I Am Your Father”, which is probably the most quotable line.
Here’s one from me—Blade Runner. I don’t even get why I don’t like it; it’s the kind of thing I should like, and I’ve tried to watch it on four separate occasions, and I fall asleep every single time.
And yes, all of Fellini’s films are overrated. So there. But you like them, so I’m glad they make you happy.
Not that I’m going to try and change your opinions on these movies, but I had to comment on a few you talked about:
The real fun in Caddyshack isn’t Murray/Chase, it’s Rodney/Ted.
To get a grasp on The Third Man, think of it as Casablanca after the war.
And The Shawshank Redemption is a fine film, it’s just that TNT likes it way, way too much.
A few more for the overrated stack: Breakfast At Tiffany’s, The Deer Hunter, Blue Velvet, Cold Mountain, Raising Arizona, Swingers, Almost Famous, The Women.
(I am never recommending a movie to you heathens again.)
Wow—not sure I get the point of deciding what’s overrated (or even what the “best” films are) because so many people have their own opinions.
I hear Sten on the Blazing Saddles thing:
1) I had “Life of Brian” permanently ruined for me the same way.
2) I saw Blazing Saddles at the Aero for the first time in about a decade and found it much less funny than I remember (though I still laughed my ass off).
3) Young Frankenstein is definitely a better movie than BS and I believe it’s widely regarded as a better movie.
Netflixed “Babyface” and “Double Indemnity” for an unintentional Stanwick double feature (forgot she was in DI). Found them both very good, but character development was lacking. Like in “Beyond Borders” where they didn’t bother to show them falling in love because they were Clive Owen and Angelina Jolie—same goes for BF and DI—I just didn’t get why these guys fell so hard for Stanwick. I also think she’s one of those women that I just don’t see the hubub about, though I’ve yet to see most of her movies.
Sten—your cat bath story reminded me of the America’s Funniest Home Video where the cat literally sounds like it’s saying “NOOOOOO!!! HEELLP!!!!” I feel bad because both of my cat’s don’t have problems with baths at all. They don’t like them, but they don’t freak out for some reason. I think we’re very lucky that way.
As for Michael Moore, here are my thoughts on him:
1) CNN is to Michael Moore, what Michael Moore is to CNN. In other words, they each are full of shit, deliver only half-truths (but hey, at least the truth is half-there) and are WAY overrated.
2) Michael Moore, apparently, did meet with Roger but left that little tidbit out of his movie so the movie would be better.
3) Any time anyone goes on TV and is beligerent toward said TV network I am all for it. Moore wouldn’t let Larry King or Gupta talk? Well, they get to talk all the time on their network and website, Moore only has his movies and his website. I say, let Moore be rude. (Of course, you can still call him a shmuck for missing Gupta’s point).
Haha! Field of Dreams is my 2nd favorite film, behind Das Boot and Cinema Paradiso which are tied for 1st. Girls don’t get that movie!! Personally, I see it as about father-son stuff. Speaking of which, Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars film for the following reasons:
1) Romance + betrayal + family = emotional resonance which is something no other Star Wars movie has.
2) BOBA FETT RAWKS!!
Caddyshack is one of the original dumb comedies (of the modern era). It’s one of my faves because Bill Murray is so insane in it, Chevy Chase does his shtick well, and Cindy Morgan’s tiiiight polo shirt (http://daveweigel.com/?p=240) is quite memorable. O_O
In my opinion the following are overrated:
Robert DeNiro (he’s a modern day Orson Welles)
Apocalypse Now (good movie, but not worth the aclaim, in my mind)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (fun, but, weeak!)
Peter Jackson’s King Kong (silliest damn movie I’ve seen in the last 10 yrs!)
Sixth Sense (see the same story in a half-dozen twilight zones and assumed I was wrong about the ending ten minutes in because it was so obvious—of course, I was right, as I’m sure many people were)
Sten, thanks again for blogging on Sherman Torgan—I suddenly wish I had a car again so I could volunteer my projectionist skills—alas the bus is too damn slow after my dayjob finishes with my at 6pm.
Speaking of Star Wars, I gotta share this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvfMMkveJ80
“Sound of Music”
– Stupid plot that pretty much is serves only as an indicator of where you are in the movie. If it weren’t for the plot, the thing could go on forever.
– Stupid music. “Do, a deer,” my shiny ass!
– One-dimensional children, apparently unaware that they have breasts: haven’t noticed them yet, I think.
– The Julie Andrews character, who wouldn’t admit that she had breasts if she’d noticed them.
– The father, who probably couldn’t get out of his lederhosen if he tried,…but given the female contingent of this musical, I wouldn’t bother getting out of them myself.
– Two hours of scenery, and the meadows and mountains had about as much personality as the whole Von Trapp family combined.
The Nazis may have been bastards, but they would have come up with a better plot and music than in this movie.