twistedmic said:
Napoleon Fucking Dynamite. I loathe that movie with every fiber of my being. I can't even watch three minutes of that abomination without feeling the urge to smash or kill something. And I hate Airplane!, it's an idiotic collection of sight gags, horribly lame puns and insipid dialogue. In fact, the same can be said for just about all of Leslie Neilsen's movies.
We're considering Napoleon Dynamite a classic nowadays? Christ, pop culture's worse off than I'd thought. I suppose that's what I get for unhooking my cable and refusing to go to the movies. On the rare occasion that I do crawl out from under my rock, I am struck by a veritable tsunami of shitness.
And aside from the surely/Shirley gag, Airplane was indeed insufferable. Maybe it was edgy when it came out or something, but every joke just seemed like a paint-by-numbers gag to me. Then again, for all I know Airplane is the reason those jokes seem so standard and cliché. I'm probably just too young to suffer the nostalgia necessary to like that movie.
OT: 2001: A Space Oddyssey. Christ, that felt like the longest 7 days of my life. I was genuinely shocked to find out afterwards that I'd only been bored for a couple of hours. Sure, it was trippy and original back in its day, but I will never understand why they didn't cut out the 2/3 of the movie where absolutely nothing happens at all.
