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I Blame Goldmember

posted 12 years ago by benmasta
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Ever since goldmember it feels like meyer's career took a nosedive. I really hated goldmember and didnt laugh much, if at all during it.

Mike meyers was everywhere back with austin powers, and we all loved him. Then shrek got insanely popular and just kept coming out with sequels. In between those he made some horribly awful movies (guru/cat) so the love everyone had for him fizzled out and i feel like his old characters are now kind of lame.

Personally i hated goldmember, but loved the other two AP movies. I found goldember to be too over-the-top with its humour and not sexy like the other movies. The comedy in the first two had so many memorable parts, where as the third movie just felt like they were showcasing how meyers can play multiple characters (was it 5 characters in goldmember?).

Goldmember sucked because of beyonce too. She is proof that you cant just be gorgeous to be good in a movie. She was sooo awkward and had like negative chemistry with meyers. It was like she was cringing every time they were close.

I felt like goldmember was when meyers' career took a downfall. Most older fans saw it as lame and cheesey and soured them on the previous movies an characters.

From then on he just kept cashing in on shrek and obviously losing touch with humour because of it. I mean, love guru was basically made by him, an it was soooo painful.

[–] lucky_whiplash 12 years ago

Yeah, I agree... It's been so long since I've seen the first Austin Powers that I forgot how completely genius it was!

Actually, what brought me to the Mike Myers IMDB was a line in the first movie that popped in to my head out of nowhere. When Dr. Evil is giving his life story, talking about his dad. "Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy..."

The delivery on that line was just brilliant. I don't know where it came from, I just thought about that line and started laughing.

[–] benmasta 12 years ago

yeah i recently watched the second one and was constantly bursting out laughing. Like the part with will ferrel trying to kill austin powers on the cliff and he falls down. Genius!

Goldmember resorted to a lot of cheesey humour that felt really half-assed. They tried to cash in too much on the gimmicks created in the previous movies (scotts hate, evils incompetence, fat bastards fatness, etc) where as the other movies ha just introduced the concepts so it was funny and fresh.

I was only like 12 when the second one came out, but just about every line of that movie was a quote that people would use in every day conversation.

[–] Darwinskid 12 years ago

You hit the nail on the head, OP.

Spider-Man 3. The Dark Knight Rises. Really, what's the difference?

[–] I_Guard_Tanelorn 12 years ago

I think Mike, like most in the business, was tired and out of ideas and just cashed in all his chips and milked the tit for all it was worth. I don't think any movie tanked his career and reputation. He was just spent and he's lucky he got all the dough he did.

"I said no camels, that's five camels, can't you count?"

[–] sandroalgra 12 years ago

I completely agree with you, this is what I was thinking all along.

The first Austin Powers may already seem like just a silly comedy for someone who doesn't like that kind of humour but when you analyze it, it really has more to it than just cheap laughs. It makes short work of everything that was taken seriously in the 60's James bond movies and it even has an emotional tone to it. I read that Myers' original idea was to make a movie about an aging hippie who doesn't want the world to change. Now those are the right elements you need to write a good comedy.

From what I can remember, Goldmember had zero original jokes spoofing the 60's. I was 11 when I first saw it and I did laugh at several scenes but thinking back, they were all cheap jokes without extra layers. Many of those jokes were just reprised from the first 2 films. I was also annoyed at the amount of celebrity cameos that seemed entirely pointless.

With AP1 I felt Myers really had something to say. The second movie was alright. It had some very lame jokes and I didn't like Heather Graham's acting but it was still a very enjoyable movie. Goldmember was made just for the sake of doing another AP film.