I think people who don't like this movie aren't intelligent enough to "get" the humor. This movie is a CLASSIC. I admit I wasn't interested in seeing it when it came out. My ex rented it, saying I HAD to see it. I watched it, and 15 years later, my current husband and I still enjoy it. I just watched it today.
"Da** photomat as**oles!" LOL!!!!
Screw critics.
Screw people.
It's one of my all-time favorite movies, and I frankly don't give two *beep* what other people think of it.
Don't stop that sun to shine, it's not yours or mine.
"Screw critics.
Screw people. "
Golden words, my man, golden words.
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I have a feeling that you're way off on this.
The same from here. This is so damn funny, don't understand why people don't like it. Even when I don't understand something (for instance I have never heard of Yogi Beer) I laugh good. And how can anyone not crack up when they hear that "Oh. I guess I put too much ethyl chloride in it". One of the funniest movies for sure.
shareThe humor might not be direct, but how does that make it an intelligent comedy? I love the movie too, but still.
A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?
Eh, it's sense of humour is definitely an acquired taste.
You either get it or you don't.
I'm also one who has loved this movie from the first day i watched it when it aired on cable back in the early 90's...
Er... First you say it's an acquired taste, and then you say the opposite; either you get it, or you don't.
Which is it?
ahh to be in parie and in love
shareI'm a critic and I loved this bomb of a movie. It's hilarious... Bruce Willis and Richard E. Grant have impeccable comic timing. Is it a great movie dramatically? Of course not... and it's not high comedy... but it's executed well.
Nature abhors a moron. -H.L. Mencken
http://www.cinemalogue.com
Want me to rape em?
share"Normally I'd tell you to kiss my ass, but considering your status as New Jersey's third largest crime family I'll say slurp my butt."
Nature abhors a moron. -H.L. Mencken
http://www.cinemalogue.com
Without a doubt this was the greatest line in American cinema history to invoke butt slurping.
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I have meddled with the primal forces of nature and I will atone.
One of my guilty pleasures.
"You gotta be Fking kidding"-The Thing.
Yeah.... no.
It's slap stick. There is nothing to understand or not to understand about this film. You just like it or don't like it.
Don't brand it as "intellectual" humor. Everyone gets the humor, most people just don't find it funny.
I saw the whole thing, knew nothing about it beforehand except that it was a heist film. Appart for the sentance "Slurp my ass" and the part with the dog getting shot out the window it was kinda meh.
The last word I would use to describe the humor in this movie is "intelligent."
But then again it's not meant to be intelligent.
The humor was the best part of the film. The reason why I didn't like it was because it was formulaic and uninteresting in its plot. I had completely lost interest by the halfway point, and the humor itself just wasn't strong enough to carry it along past its shelf life.
Between this and The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, I don't know which was worse.