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Do Not Adjust Your Set (1967)
Why did we enjoy it in the 1960's?
I was a kid in the 1960's and this was my favorite show on TV. I suppose I was about 9 or 10 when I was watching it. When I watch clips of it now on youtube I can't understand why I thought it was funny back then. This was the pre-humor established by the Pythons which people didn't find funny until the mid-1970's (and even then not everyone found it funny). This humor was way beyond it's time, so back then it shouldn't have been funny, especially not for a child, but I really did enjoy it. It was probably one of the first shows (if not the first show) to establish that link between the staid soaps, sitcoms and standup comedy humor of the 1950's and the 1960's and what came later, starting with Python. Strangely enough, when I was old enough to stay up late and start watching Python (around 1972) I didn't find it funny at all. However, it was "in" to watch Python and talk about it at school the next day, so I pretended back then to like it. But DNAYS was a show that I actually watched because I really enjoyed it, and nobody talked about it at school the next day (as I said, we were only about 9 years old). Before I started watching clips on youtube, the only people I remembered from the show were David Jason, Denise Coffey and Eric Idle. I didn't remember the other Pythons being in it at all. And of course I remembered the Bonzos. By the time I was 16 I had all their LPs. Now there was a band who should have had a much bigger cult following!
Wedding Crashers (2005)
I really liked it
Guess you have to be a chick to appreciate a chick flick, but I really loved it. And there are some out there that I have seen recently where I have to tell you, I was despairing. And they were "big hits" with "big names". From the beginning, I was laughing, I was captured, I was saying, "Thank goodness, here is something I am really happy to be watching". You either like Owen Wilson or you don't. I think this was the movie that really made me like him. As for Vince Vaughn, I thought he was terrific. He is a really good actor (sorry not to put it in a more philosophical vein) and he really got to me. You could really see how well he was acting. I found the whole plot very funny, and I think you have to see it twice (which I have) to really appreciate it. What can I say? I really enjoyed it. And there are really a bunch of so-called "comedies" that I have seen in the last few months - top names - where I was only looking at my watch. This was great. It was too short for me.
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)
Worse than I expected
I hadn't expected that much from this movie but it was even worse than that. I think Uma Thurman was the wrong choice for the part, to me it seemed weird every time she appeared. Wanda Sykes was absolutely wasted in her small part - and I think that if she had improvised her lines, as she does in "Curb Your Enthusiasm", rather than sticking to the script, even this would have made it a better movie. The script seemed so basic and without any depth that there was not one line that struck me as memorable. A lot could have been made out of the parts of Uma's boyfriend and Luke's friend, but that seemed to fail as well. I was really surprised that so many really good, top actors were in this movie - but yet the script seemed totally neglected.