Famous Mortimer
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It's played for laughs, at least for most of its length, which might make it a tough one to do. I love it, but I'd love to hear the gang rag on it for 40 minutes.
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It's certainly bad enough...but just thinking about this film hurts my head. I think it's, if anything, too dull to make a good episode.
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I think this film would be absolutely perfect for HDTGM? (I can almost hear Jason now, shouting in frustration at how incomprehensible it all is), but it's sort of slid out of the public's consciousness.
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I bought it on DVD direct from the website as soon as it became available (www.afterlastseason.com - it's amazing) but it's not for sale there any more, it's not on Youtube, it's unavailable on Amazon...the only thing holding this back from being one of the all-time great episodes of the show.
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I'll throw my vote (although it doesn't count) behind "Jason X". It's brilliant.
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It's amazing. One of the most insanely over the top films of all time.
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Nah, this film is great, although if they wanted to do a director special with the JTRO I'd listen to that.
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Add my vote to this one. It's absolutely bloody terrible, but in a way I think the show would have fun with.
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Another film that's nowhere near as bad as people would have you believe. It's not always great, but it's got a good enough sense of its own silliness, and the plot drives along at a merry old pace...I like it.
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It's wayyyyy too obscure for this show, I'd guess.
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I did have one of the lines from this film as my ringtone for ages - "We're running low on skin. I suggest we harvest another lesbian!"
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Heigl is crazy beautiful in this film, but it's just not very good. Still, when it starts dragging, she'll come on in tight jeans and suddenly the film becomes more interesting again.
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I've read a lot of the books in this series, and I thought they were perfect for film adaptation. But wow, did this mess up. It's not like the plots of the books are amazing or anything, but they're certainly more fun than this.
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I loved it, but think it might not be great material for the show because I'm fairly sure the ICP know exactly how stupid it all is.
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First up, Kevin Smith puts June down for the mildest bit of industry insider speak, then spends the entire episode going way deeper into that same speak. Maybe he was joking, although it might be telling that he didn't cut off Jason or Paul in the same way.
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I still love "Clerks", but I find Kevin Smith just...it's summed up for me in the credits to "Dogma", where he puts in a bit of text to the effect of "to all the people who gave "Mallrats" negative reviews...you're forgiven". I felt at the time "why not just make a better film, and not 'forgive' people who thought your shitty movie was shitty?"
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Anyway, onto the film. I will try and give a sort-of defence of 'Wild Wild West'. First up, Branagh's overacting is on a level with someone like Alan Rickman in the Robin Hood movie - deliberate and entertaining. It seems odd that people wouldn't get that - although, whether you think it worked or not is an entirely different matter. Also, the mockery during the episode of how a black man could go undercover in that era...well, this is a film where someone can have a monstrous giant robot spider, but the historical inaccuracy you're most bothered about is a black man able to walk about without getting lynched?
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I don't think all of it, or even most of it, worked, but it's nowhere near the disaster the popular wisdom would suggest. Smith and Sonnenfeld laughing about it since then are just them trying to be good sports - they wouldn't be saying how much it sucked if it had made $300 million, but been the exact same movie.
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If Adam Sandler or Nick Swardson can seriously look at this and think it's in any way decent, then they deserve all the mockery they can get.
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Is this just going to be limited to films they've done on the show? Because if it isn't, the sheer volume of choices will just lead to a million nominations in each category. Maybe. I don't know.
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I checked all the way down, and no thread about this yet.
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14% on Rotten Tomatoes, and although Mr. Scheer was perfectly decent in it, wow did the rest of the film suck. Multiple thumbs down, and given that must be the end of the franchise and Paul's involvement in it, I'd like to see them take it on.
The FP (2011)
in Bad Movie Recommendations
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100000% agree with GOZU. This film absolutely owns.