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Your Lowness

posted 13 years ago by rainey-3
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The movie is photographed beautifully. The actors are some of my favorites. But the vile, vile, unbelievably vile and repugnant language, innumerable and loathsome, horribly pornographic sight-gags (some of which to my everlasting dismay I will never be able to un-see), uncountable, unconscionable jokes about rape and molestation, one-hundred-and-one different ways to say "semen", and more, more, yes, and still more, disgusting non-stop gross-out CRAP, finally made my stomach so literally turn that I actually felt ill during this movie. This, folks, may be the first time a movie has actually made me sick. Is there somebody I can sue? Is there any stopping the hellish "one-upmanship" that I've been seeing in man-gag (and I do mean "gag") comedies, where each successive movie gets more shocking, more foul, more misogynistic than the one before? And woe be unto any woman that dares to complain!! If the women complain, then they are seen as "not being good sports". 'Cause hey! it's all in good fun, you stuck-up prudes! Right?? There's a reason, guys, why using such incredibly sexually explicit language is considered a crime. It's called "sexual harassment" and every unsuspecting person that's exposed to this poisonous dose of prettily-wrapped excrement is a victim of it. And to think, with the expulsion of the more obscene parts, it might have been good... but no one seems to know how keep from going too far. It's as though the writers took that stupid dirty joke film "The Aristocrats" and thought they'd really be funny and hang a sword and sorcery theme on it. Just sad.

[–] MirrorofReflection 13 years ago

I always find it funny when people use big words to make themselves seem smart. When it usually always makes them look arrogant.
:)

[–] rainey-3 13 years ago

Which word did you find big? : )

[–] MirrorofReflection 13 years ago

Don't play ignorant. The only reason you used larger words was to make yourself sound smarter. People tend to do that when talking about thins they don't like.

[–] rainey-3 13 years ago

I'm not playing ignorant. Although, "ignorant" is a pretty big word. You should watch that. You might come off looking kind of arrogant. About thins.

[–] MirrorofReflection 13 years ago

o troll somewhere else.

[–] proterozoic 13 years ago

Thins I don't like often induce me to grandiloquesce in sesquipedalian denouncements.

[–] bmalone135 13 years ago

OK, you knew what you were going to get when you saw this, so you have no right to complain. The trailers made it painfully obvious that this would be filled with ridiculous vulgar humor.

And while I will admit this vulgarity of this film was over the top, I feel you are grossly over-exaggerating.

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[–] brickbat 13 years ago

The only thing that is sad is how uptight you are. It is true that the movie has a lot of swearing but I don't recall a single moment where it was used without being related to the characters or the plot. The swearing is not there to shock or gross-out - it is logically integrated as part of the story and it fits. This movie would have been poorer if the swearing were not in the movie. For example, the name given to the ritual at the conclusion of the movie is sheer brilliance and for me, ranks up there with the opening scene of The Matrix for memorability.

[–] SoTyred 12 years ago

The difference between this movie and some others that use similar humor (Animal House, Eurotrip) is that the writing in this movie is not smart in any way.

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[–] oundjianm 12 years ago

Totally agree!!!

+ I find it funny how they tried to use the whole "stoner" thing to try and appeal to at least somebody....

Even for a brain dead stoner, it's quite a big stretch to call this comedy. There were less than 5 funny parts which were not copied exactly from something else.. I understand every idea originates from another but at least put a twist or tweak on the idea. Don't just spit it out in exactly in the same way or context..

Anyway, i just think that hiding behind the label of "stoner comedy" was a very cheap attempt at trying to draw people out and then being able to cover their tracks by saying "well you knew what it would be like..."

Personally, i think this will appeal to 13 year old boys and that's about it...

ps: it's funny how these films always appeal to kids but you have to be an adult to watch them...

[–] MedievalFantasy 12 years ago

Did you not look into the film prior to viewing? By the people involved and the MPAA rating you should have known that this would be vulgar. The whole point of the movie is its vulgarity. Lighten up, for *beep* sake. The whole "I'm going to sue" is just too over-the-top.... Nice attempt at trolling. Maybe you should stick to G-PG-rated films from now on....

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[–] SoTyred 12 years ago

Idiot:

It's the WRITING that is horrible. Vulgar has nothing to do with it. Monty Python is vulgar but brilliant. This is vulgar but stupid and witless.

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[–] MedievalFantasy 12 years ago

Maybe that's the point? What's with all you posters and "writing"? Damn, do we have to have a critique on every damn movie we watch like we're in a college course? Watch a movie for fun once in a while, flip the brain switch off. The writing's not suppose to be stellar because most of the lines are IMPROVISED. And for improvising, they did a hell of a job. Again, this isn't your type of comedy, so why not stay away from it in the future?

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[–] dlade-1 12 years ago

Gotta agree with SoTyred. I've seen comedies with foul language, frat boy humor and gross out gags (the original Hangover, for one) that I still found funny, even if it was clear they weren't destined to be Oscar winners. I just found this film pointless. The writing was terrible and the movie could never decide if it was a stoner comedy, a satire on sword and sorcery fantasy, an action film, etc.

I never expected much, and gave it a whirl because of the cast. But it truly was worse than I could have imagined. I guess Portman, Franco et al have mortgages to pay, too.

[–] HoraceInkling 11 years ago

Oh I get it, low is the opposite of high.

[–] sean-cowan1 11 years ago

And then sometimes I write a sentence about a topic that just keeps going on and on drifting from subject to subject without ever stopping and just sort of droning on and never ending the sentence because I just like to blabber mouth all of the place about what I thought about the move in a totally uneducated and moronic manner.

You're a troll.