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Lakov_Sanite
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on: January 30, 2014, 10:31:27 AM

Spiritual successor to Blazing Saddles? Yes please.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgQzWrrpRb4

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Reply #1 on: January 30, 2014, 10:41:01 AM

Well that might be a stretch... just a wee bit.

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Reply #2 on: January 30, 2014, 10:49:59 AM

I love Blazing Saddles personally but let's not put it on an untouchable pedestal here.  I doubt this movie will touch on serious social issues like racism so yes in that regard it may not have the gravitas. Though it looks like it's following the same comedic formula of a bawdy comedy set in in the old west with modern vernacular.

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Reply #3 on: January 30, 2014, 11:05:35 AM

Your second sentence is why you shouldn't compare the two.

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Reply #4 on: January 30, 2014, 11:23:16 AM

So it's basically a fucking Wild West episode of Family Guy in live-action where we get to watch Seth McFarlane mug for 2 hours?

No.

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Reply #5 on: January 30, 2014, 11:28:16 AM

Well that might be a stretch... just a wee bit.
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Reply #6 on: January 30, 2014, 11:48:49 AM

I'm still fairly confident that I'll come out of this laughing, and that's all I want out of most comedies.
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Reply #7 on: January 30, 2014, 11:57:31 AM

So it's 'Ted' with cowboys and without the bear.   Ohhhhh, I see.

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Reply #8 on: January 30, 2014, 05:49:03 PM

I can see it being a harmless fun.

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Reply #9 on: January 30, 2014, 07:22:11 PM

Would be better without Seth. 
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Reply #10 on: January 31, 2014, 01:22:25 AM

Spiritual successor to Blazing Saddles? Yes please.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgQzWrrpRb4


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His mugging does seem really out of place for the setting, and not in a good way. I heard Ted was good so I watched that and found it dreadfully boring.

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Reply #11 on: January 31, 2014, 04:52:51 AM

Would be better without Seth. 

Agree with this.
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Reply #12 on: January 31, 2014, 05:37:28 AM

It's Neeson Season.

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Reply #13 on: January 31, 2014, 06:27:56 AM

Would be better without Seth. 

Agree with this.

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Reply #14 on: January 31, 2014, 06:43:36 AM

He does project an aura of smug and unlikable.

He'd probably be great playing a douchey 50s actor. Or a douchey old-timey milk man.

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Reply #15 on: January 31, 2014, 07:17:31 AM

To be fair, I could watch Charlize Theron all day.

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Reply #16 on: February 03, 2014, 07:32:34 AM

This has a few good people in supporting roles. Ok, two: Neeson and Theron. Clearly they needed to make mortgage payments. What pissed me off the most about the trailer though was it instantly made me want to see Nesson as an old west outlaw in a real Western.

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Reply #17 on: February 03, 2014, 04:05:10 PM

I'd like Neeson to play the Gunslinger if they ever decide to make the books a show.

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Reply #18 on: February 17, 2014, 10:37:23 PM

This looks fantastically watchable. Ted was not.
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Reply #19 on: February 19, 2014, 12:34:05 PM

Oh, well, If Neeson is in it, it's going to be a true classic.

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Reply #20 on: June 01, 2014, 07:28:48 AM

Saw this Friday night.

It was funny but it's no Blazing Saddles. McFarlane needs help with pacing and direction as it felt uneven and dragged at times. He also needed to commit to his subtext of, "Stop Romanticizing the West, assholes, it sucked!" a bit more. If you want to critique a thing like the US' love with a place that never existed, do it fully. Sure was white with a cast full of perfect teeth in that shithole of a town.

The jokes were your typical McFarlane fare. If you don't like them you'll not like the movie. If you do you'll laugh a lot - when he's not trying to fit a romance story or a western Drama in. (My uneven comment.)  There were a few jokes that I can't remember but only a few of us laughed at because they were smart jokes.  My showing was filled with brodudes who guffawed at the sheep piss and race jokes but didn't at the jabs at Native displacement or Chinese exploitation.

The characters were great, though it felt like Neeson and his gang took it a little too seriously. I'd rather have seen them all camp it up a bit. Harris sure as hell did and stole several scenes because of it. McFarlane's character came across as a bit of a douche so I couldn't fully get behind him as a hero. It felt too much like Brian from Family Guy was onscreen.

Also, fair warning, it's a little quiet. Rummaging for popcorn echoed in the theater any time Theron and McFarlane were talking on screen. It's a nice change from the INCEPTION HORN and LOUD NOISES of most movies but took me a bit to get used to.

The musical numbers, as one would expect from McFarlane, were catchy and really great. I still have the mustache song echoing in my head.

In all I'd give it a 7.5/10. I don't regret watching it, it was better than most but I won't buy it or insist anyone has to watch it. I also felt it was a step or two behind Ted.

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Reply #21 on: June 01, 2014, 10:34:29 AM

It was funny but it's no Blazing Saddles. McFarlane needs help with pacing and direction as it felt uneven and dragged at times. He also needed to commit to his subtext of, "Stop Romanticizing the West, assholes, it sucked!" a bit more.

Has popular culture romanticized the Old West much in the 40 years since Blazing Saddles came out? It made sense to tare down the myth back then because people who were old enough to watch Blazing Saddles in the theater had likely grown up watching John Wayne movies and such. Westerns have dropped off quite a bit in popularity since then and most modern day examples from Deadwood back to Unforgiven have been very non-romanticized. At times it felt like McFarlane was arguing that the sky is blue. Most of us know that the Old West would have been a shitty time and place to live. He should have tried deconstructing something that's actually popular right now.
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Reply #22 on: June 01, 2014, 10:57:32 AM

Depends on the part of the country you're in. From what I can tell it's romanticized heavily in the South and Southwest still, but that's 2nd hand experience talking there.

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Reply #23 on: June 01, 2014, 11:15:19 AM

Depends on the part of the country you're in. From what I can tell it's romanticized heavily in the South and Southwest still, but that's 2nd hand experience talking there.
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Reply #24 on: June 03, 2014, 01:15:01 PM

Texas romanticizes the cowboy way like crazy, and I grew up in a upper class suburb. Guys would go out of their way to wear Wranglers with the dip cup and their hats while driving jacked up trucks. These were kids of doctors and lawyers who wouldn't know how to brand a steer any more than change their own oil.

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Reply #25 on: June 03, 2014, 01:21:00 PM

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His movie is the absolute bomb of the year. Flatline and disaster are the two most charitable descriptions of his opening weekend total. Where does this guy think he’s an actual movie star? Or such a big name entertainer he can host the Academy Awards? I swear, it’s like the old SNL “Judy Miller Show” except we can all see him.

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Reply #26 on: June 03, 2014, 01:58:45 PM

It didn't do that terribly at the box office. It'll at least turn a profit, I think.
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Reply #27 on: June 03, 2014, 02:25:36 PM

It didn't do that terribly at the box office. It'll at least turn a profit, I think.

It might break even if it's lucky. Considering Ted did over $500 million worldwide, it's pretty terrible by comparison.

Texas romanticizes the cowboy way like crazy, and I grew up in a upper class suburb. Guys would go out of their way to wear Wranglers with the dip cup and their hats while driving jacked up trucks. These were kids of doctors and lawyers who wouldn't know how to brand a steer any more than change their own oil.

I'm not sure how many of those people are going to watch this movie though, and I'm sure many of them already understand that living conditions back then were much worse than they are now. I still believe this movie at least a couple decades too late for the point it's trying to make.
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Reply #28 on: June 03, 2014, 02:29:00 PM

It didn't do that terribly at the box office. It'll at least turn a profit, I think.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=millionwaystodie.htm
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

$28 Million and was #3 last weekend. It'll have a huuuuuuuuuuuge drop off this weekend.  It's never good when you're beaten by the 2nd week of a movie and barely beat the 3rd week of another in the Summer season.

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Reply #29 on: June 03, 2014, 02:29:52 PM

I really liked Ted.  I thought it was one of the better movies of the year - even though it had some bad problems.

I have no interest in this film based on previews and reviews.  It also makes me fear that Ted 2 will be a #2 that stains my affection for the first film.


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Reply #30 on: June 03, 2014, 03:31:00 PM

I'm not sure how many of those people are going to watch this movie though, and I'm sure many of them already understand that living conditions back then were much worse than they are now. I still believe this movie at least a couple decades too late for the point it's trying to make.

The romanticization of the west in movies stopped being the dominant portrayal in the mid-60s with the advent of major spaghetti westerns. This movie is like 50 years too late.

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Reply #31 on: June 03, 2014, 06:25:30 PM

Mcfarlane has his comedy set in in past reference mode and can rarely get out of that.   I had high(possibly unrealistic) hopes for this movie after Ted but Seth seems to has reached the plateau of what he is capable of comedically.

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Reply #32 on: June 04, 2014, 08:50:30 AM

It's like none of you have watched the last 5 seasons of Family Guy, or for that matter, any episode of American Dad.

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Reply #33 on: June 04, 2014, 09:00:04 AM

It's like none of you have watched the last 5 seasons of Family Guy, or for that matter, any episode of American Dad.

Why on earth would you?

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Reply #34 on: June 04, 2014, 09:03:30 AM

Exactly my point, and exactly what I thought about both this movie and Ted.  why so serious?

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