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Post by geode on Mar 28, 2018 16:10:48 GMT
Here is another film I liked upon initial release and didn't realize had bombed in the box office before obtaining cult status. I just read a review of the blu-ray release that excoriated it, but I always liked its wacky humor. One thing I learned from the review was that Bobby Morse looped his dialogue in post production because of lapses in his attempted British accent while filming.
This was my introduction to Paul Williams who plays a 12 year old kid when he was twice that age. "What was the time of touchdown?" He asks after his rocket has crashed and burned. Lots of familiar faces from that era that I miss quite fondly.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 28, 2018 18:38:52 GMT
Loved Liberace as the casket salesman.
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Post by Nalkarj on Mar 28, 2018 21:49:01 GMT
I’ve only seen bits and pieces, but, yes, it’s a very strange film. Interestingly enough, apparently the Whispering Glades hostesses inspired “ Little Leota” in Disney’s Haunted Mansion ride… The same combination of comedy and spookiness is present in both.
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Post by telegonus on Mar 29, 2018 7:29:03 GMT
I thought it was hilarious when I first saw it in the theater. Not perfect, not a favorite, or a film I love, just laugh out loud funny. Also, weird, pushing envelopes I didn't even see the writing on when I was a teenager. On the small screen I've never been able to get into it.
There's a time capsule quality to it, and it's not kind to the film. It captures the middle Sixties zeitgeist well enough, maybe too well, as after the fact, it feels heavy handed; and the things it satirized have long since been "brought down".
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Post by geode on Apr 2, 2018 18:00:50 GMT
I thought it was hilarious when I first saw it in the theater. Not perfect, not a favorite, or a film I love, just laugh out loud funny. Also, weird, pushing envelopes I didn't even see the writing on when I was a teenager. On the small screen I've never been able to get into it. There's a time capsule quality to it, and it's not kind to the film. It captures the middle Sixties zeitgeist well enough, maybe too well, as after the fact, it feels heavy handed; and the things it satirized have long since been "brought down". I don't know how I would regard it now. I haven't seen it i in fifty years and that was on the big screen.
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Post by telegonus on Apr 2, 2018 18:44:48 GMT
Sometimes, Geode, it seems that fond memories of something are best left that way, as fond memories. This is sometimes true for movies, too, and sad to say, for me, The Loved One is one such ( Bedazzled is another like that, and also a very Sixties comedy). Even going back as far as the 1940 His Girl Friday I've never, even the first time I tried to sit through it, found its "in crowd" humor funny. Humor dates fast. Try listening to one of those Country Joe & The Fish satirical anti-war and anti-Establishment songs today, a half-century after they were the coolest thing around. Even when it the was hippest thing on television, back in the Seventies, I never found Saturday Night Live's dope jokes funny. I was in my twenties by then, and they sounded dated and juvenile to me even at the time.
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Post by timshelboy on Apr 6, 2018 11:38:24 GMT
I rewatched it a year or so back and still enjoyed it - For me the really astonishing thing about it is that in a cast that includes Liberace, Tab Hunter, Roddy McDowall and John Gielgud it is Rod Steiger, absolutely unforgettable as Mr Joyboy, that is the campest link....
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Post by geode on Apr 7, 2018 10:05:14 GMT
I rewatched it a year or so back and still enjoyed it - For me the really astonishing thing about it is that in a cast that includes Liberace, Tab Hunter, Roddy McDowall and John Gielgud it is Rod Steiger, absolutely unforgettable as Mr Joyboy, that is the campest link....
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Post by geode on Apr 19, 2019 5:38:36 GMT
Loved Liberace as the casket salesman.
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