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The SollyLama
Skeptic Friend
USA
234 Posts |
 Posted - 08/02/2002 : 12:34:00
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 08/02/2002 : 13:20:51 [Permalink]
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I found Mike Myers to be somewhat funny. I enjoyed the first Austin Powers movie. The second had some absurities I could laugh at but I hated the Fat Bastard toilet humor. I saw it as poking fun at Bond and other super spy films. The third looks somewhat funny as it seems to poke fun at the special effects of kung-fu movies. I didn't expect these movie to engage me mentally. If I did, I would have been really disappointed.
Mike is a buffoon. It's sometimes ok to blow off some humorous steam with buffoonish behavior. I likewise liked his "Wayne's World" vehicles. (Mostly I liked the "Ballroom Blitz" remake.) Were these films and their sequels sophomoric and crude? You betcha. But, I still liked them.
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
5311 Posts |
Posted - 08/02/2002 : 13:38:39 [Permalink]
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I haven't seen 2 or 3 and probably won't soon, but #1 was worth seeing once. Wayne's World was cute. Dogma and the Jay and Silent Bob movies are weird, but worth seeing once. If they're what you call high-brow, well, I dunno. Movies on the average aren't what I'd call intelligent for the most part. Nobody has ever matched the first Blues Brothers movie. Now that's culture.
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@tomic
Administrator
USA
4607 Posts |
Posted - 08/02/2002 : 13:53:09 [Permalink]
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I think there may have been some sort of contractual obligations involved here. I know Myers wanted to make a Sprockets movie much more than he wanted to make more Austin Powers flicks.
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The SollyLama
Skeptic Friend
USA
234 Posts |
Posted - 08/02/2002 : 15:19:00 [Permalink]
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I personally loved Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- I'm a Hunter S. Thompson fan and I just love that film.
I didn't call Dogma high-brow. But Smith was able to combine locker room humor with real topical commentary and strike a balance. The fart jokes weren't the entire film, just a part of it. Myers offers nothing beyond the lame humor.
His horrible overacting I think ruins every performance. The funniest people are ones who don't have to try so hard.
Oh yeah, in response to the letter, my house has received 6 messages on my answering machine. One form a radio station (local-they call anyone in CO that got in USA Today), one from someone who claims to know me from NH, and four telling me I'm an asshole.
Well, I stand corrected. The people has grunted their approval of Myers. Their collective knuckles dragging the ground serve as his applause. Truly, he is vindicated for sucking.
Be your own god!
(First, and only, commandment of Sollyism)
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Satan
New Member
USA
27 Posts |
Posted - 08/02/2002 : 17:35:25 [Permalink]
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Austin Powers was a funny movie - the first time they made it. It was kind of stupid, and I liked Myers as Dr. Evil much more than as Powers (maybe that's just a diabolical quirk I have  ). In fact, I think the movie would have been ten times better if Dr. Evil had won. The sequel, since you know they had to make one, would then be about his Evil Empire, in which a hero (please, GOD, NOT MYERS AGAIN!!!) would rise up and kick the bald guy's ass.
The absurdity is what makes the movie. I think it is a decent commentary on spy movies in general, and the stupid mistakes that every Evil Emperor makes in the cinematic world. The "bathroom humor" (of which there is an excessive amount) is tolerable. The sex jokes get old, but again, they're tolerable, too.
These were my impressions of Austin Powers v. 1.0. When 1.1 came out (The Spy Who Shagged Me), I walked out of the theatre because I realized I had just wasted my money to see the same movie twice. I never went to see the third, but I don't doubt that 1.2 was just like the first two versions.
Satan,
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Donnie B.
Skeptic Friend
417 Posts |
Posted - 08/02/2002 : 17:39:35 [Permalink]
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I don't remember seeing a really witty movie since "A Fish Called Wanda". And that was a while ago...
-- Donnie B.
Brian: "No, no! You have to think for yourselves!" Crowd: "Yes! We have to think for ourselves!" |
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The SollyLama
Skeptic Friend
USA
234 Posts |
Posted - 08/02/2002 : 18:45:55 [Permalink]
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I'm not specifically offended by the content of the humor. I don't care if it's sex jokes, fart jokes, whatever. Myers is simply not funny.
The stupid overacting and utter lack of a movie is what I think sucks. Myers has never graduated from SNL skits. He has simply dragged them out to feature length.
In Wayne's World, Myers managed to pack a 5 minute skit into an hour and a half.
There's doing physical comedy, then there's acting like a jackass. He goes too far with his act, just like Jim Carrey. And it loses it's humor. You have to suffer thru someone over-killing an otherwise funny character to get to the punch line. He acts like a moron in interviews too.
His humor comes across more as desperation to get attention than anything remotely funny. It's pitiful.
But that's his failing. What floors me is that America loves this guy. I asked a bunch of people at work, and they all hate Myers. Yet the numbers don't lie, the movie is huge.
This is all just my opinion. And well, that of everyone I asked. But I have not even cracked a smile at any Mike Myers bit yet. The movie trailers, supposedly the best bits, are abolutley unfunny to me. I cannot see humor in his, Jim Carrey's, or for most of his films- Adam Sandler's, brand of comedy. I did like Happy Gilmour though. Maybe it was the Bruins jersey....
By the way, I just now got to read my own letter in USA Today. They cut off half of it. Thier version makes me sound like a pretentous ass. Hey, I'm not pretentous- an ass maybe... I'll paste in the original if anyone cares.
It's not that slapstick is below my tastes. I love Jay and Silent Bob. Sam Kinison is a hero to me, so it's not that I'm easily offended. But Austin Powers is just not funny.
It's the skit that never ends...
It goes on and on, my friends...
Where's a homicidal celebrity stalker when we need one?
Be your own god!
(First, and only, commandment of Sollyism)
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PhDreamer
SFN Regular
USA
925 Posts |
Posted - 08/02/2002 : 19:39:11 [Permalink]
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*shrug*
Diff'rent Strokes...
I enjoyed The Spy Who Shagged Me, largely because of the Dr. Evil character and his comedic interactions with his son. However, So I Married an Axe Murderer is a superior film in most respects, IMO. And, while I generally quite enjoy Kevin Smith's films, I can't bring myself to like Dogma. Save for Jay & Silent Bob, the whole movie is a series of excessively verbose anecdotes that try way too hard to be bitingly sarcastic. Chris Rock simply isn't a 'serious comedian' and Linda Fiorentino doesn't have a comedic bone in her body. In any case, Clerks is a far funnier and better cast movie, followed closely by Mallrats.
And I can't help but second Gorgo's nomination of The Blues Brothers as possibly the greatest comedy of all time. 
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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Satan
New Member
USA
27 Posts |
Posted - 08/02/2002 : 19:58:23 [Permalink]
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So I Married an Axe Murderer was a sorry excuse for a film. However, kudos to a Myers-free flick A Fish Called Wanda, perhaps one of the best comedies ever made!
Satan,
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The SollyLama
Skeptic Friend
USA
234 Posts |
Posted - 08/02/2002 : 22:11:29 [Permalink]
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I didn't care for Mallrats as much. It was obvious a big production company got involved. Clerks is the best one of Smith's films. He shot it maxxing out 5 credit cards- about $25,000. And it's funnier in one minute than all the 40 million dollar Powers movies combined. That's the difference between talent and tripe.
I love Dogma though. Yeah, it does get a bit long winded, but every point Smith makes in the film is one I've either written myself or read on boards like this one. And he made it funny. It balanced goofy slapstick with substance.
Myers films lack all trace of substance. They are inexcusably retarded.
Check out "Drop Dead Gorgeous". Besides the obvious eye candy, it's a diabolical film.
Meet The Feebles is a twisted Muppet Show on acid rental I liked. And both Fritz the Cat films were revolutionary.
IMO, three of the best films ever made are (in no special order): Excalibur (1983), Natural Born Killers, and Apocolypse Now.
Be your own god!
(First, and only, commandment of Sollyism)
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
5311 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2002 : 04:33:57 [Permalink]
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Natural Born Killers sucked, and I fell asleep during Apocalypse Now. Doesn't mean I wouldn't have liked it, just means I fell asleep and have never wanted to watch it.
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Natural Born Killers, and Apocolypse Now.
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Robert
New Member
Korea
21 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2002 : 05:09:14 [Permalink]
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For my taste, Myers is a little too... "look at me!,..I'm a jackass!!" for my taste. I am a huge fan of Kevin Smith, have his Jersy Trilogy, Strike Back and My Fav of all time..DOGMA.. all on DVD!!.. the first Austin Powers was funny, the second one was better i thought, but they never should have done a third, and without the Dr.Evil character..... there is no movie!!
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