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Escape to the Movies: Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
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Haha, what? I didn't say you had to like it, that's fine that you don't, opinions are fantastic! I just wanted express mine, especially considering we seem to be in the minority.wintercoat said:
What's weird to me is that in The big picture this week, Bob said he doesn't get much time to watch TV. Therefore he must prioritise this over other programs...why?
That's because it's easier to explain why something is funny (which you didn't do), than why it isn't. Being not funny is the natural state of most stuff in the universe e.g. wallpaper, apples, the colour blue, the 2nd law of thermodynamics. It's up to the people who find something funny to explain WHY it's meant to be funny. I know if you try to explain a joke you often kill it, but since the jokes are dead to me already - can you try?Dinnerman said:
Isn't it fun to be stuck up and condescending? I have never even heard of this show before but to say that you "fear for the gene pool" because someone has a different sense of humor then you is just such a incredibly stupid and stuck up thing to say its not even funny.ANImaniac89 said:
Movie bob's Rather unusual insight into what he thinks tim and eric is about is like most explanations of an art form. It doesn't really explain the art so much as the explainers perspective of existence highlighted by the art. He apparently considers it a thoughtful commentary on the suffering of middle and lower class America who is apparently drowning in figurative garbage. And I suppose one would think that if one had a low opinion of their fellow man to begin with.
Personally I watched Tom goes to the mayor. Why did I watch it? I have no idea. It's weirdness perplexed me and thus it kept me returning even though it was more annoying and weird than actually funny. The tim and eric awesome show was just disturbingly bizarre and lacking all forms of coherency that even Tom goes the mayor offered. Oddly enough adult swim was at it's best when it borrowed from things that pre-existed making them into a satire of just re-airing them wholesale not to mention grabbing good animes to watch.
When they started filling there lineup with things they themselves made it was apparent that Adult Swim had a horribly low opinion of their demographic or they are creatively bankrupt and can only make different variations of shows that are Strange, Weird, Gross, or intentionally cheap and worthless looking. And yes. I did describe almost all of their shows at once in no particular order. I'm just tired of this gross out whacked out game, shows like this do to us these days. Can humor be a little bit classier and dignified? Something akin to the old days?
Personally I watched Tom goes to the mayor. Why did I watch it? I have no idea. It's weirdness perplexed me and thus it kept me returning even though it was more annoying and weird than actually funny. The tim and eric awesome show was just disturbingly bizarre and lacking all forms of coherency that even Tom goes the mayor offered. Oddly enough adult swim was at it's best when it borrowed from things that pre-existed making them into a satire of just re-airing them wholesale not to mention grabbing good animes to watch.
When they started filling there lineup with things they themselves made it was apparent that Adult Swim had a horribly low opinion of their demographic or they are creatively bankrupt and can only make different variations of shows that are Strange, Weird, Gross, or intentionally cheap and worthless looking. And yes. I did describe almost all of their shows at once in no particular order. I'm just tired of this gross out whacked out game, shows like this do to us these days. Can humor be a little bit classier and dignified? Something akin to the old days?
Tim and Eric is the worst thing on television. A f**king commercial for it comes on and I'll change the channel. My hated for it is so deep I would rather watch a Jersey Shore marathon while rubbing Bengay on my scrotum than a single episode of this drivel.
Thanks for the perspective/opinion MovieBob. I enjoyed your breakdown of the show and how you see it as more then just a bunch of "weird humor", while still being mostly just weird humor. However, I wish you had given it without having to go through the entire story of the movie from top to bottom. It kind of ruins the surprise of seeing it fresh. I think fans of Tim and Eric were probably going to see it anyways, and personally, I'm at the point where I'd like to know as little about the story's content before I see the film so its all completely new to me. I generally know before whether or not beforehand if I'm going to see a movie, or I'll even go see a movie if I hear its a "good movie" or even "worth watching" from enough people. But generally speaking, I hate watching trailers because they usually spoil too much for me (which is actually great for movies I never planned on seeing because then it's "okay, now I REALLY don't have to see it" but for movies I'm actually interested in I usually end up having to close my eyes and ears and hum to myself softly in the theater).
But personal preference aside, I've noticed that you've been doing this a lot where you breakdown the movies entire story progression in 14 seconds of fast speak, and I feel like if you just link the trailer in the review or something for a "HEY IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THIS MOVIES ABOUT CLICK HERE" would probably handle it best. Generally speaking, trailers and even summaries of movies in YahooMovies or something seems to do all that stuff anyways, so I don't see the need for you to do it on your show.
But of course, in the end it's your show, you get to run it how you want, but I'm just putting my opinion out and what you do with it is entirely up to you, because I'll still be a fan of your work.
But personal preference aside, I've noticed that you've been doing this a lot where you breakdown the movies entire story progression in 14 seconds of fast speak, and I feel like if you just link the trailer in the review or something for a "HEY IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THIS MOVIES ABOUT CLICK HERE" would probably handle it best. Generally speaking, trailers and even summaries of movies in YahooMovies or something seems to do all that stuff anyways, so I don't see the need for you to do it on your show.
But of course, in the end it's your show, you get to run it how you want, but I'm just putting my opinion out and what you do with it is entirely up to you, because I'll still be a fan of your work.
Sweet. If there had been a reasonable way for me to actually get to Tim and Eric this weekend I would have checked it out. Sadly, I'll probably have to wait for the video release to see the delightful (dickless, if anybody recalls) William Atherton.
Still, Project X should be pretty easy to get to this weekend. That movie was absolutely pimp. I love seeing how many reviewers hate it for its immorality, its portrayal of teenagers as shallow and stupid and its portrayal of popularity as dependent upon who can throw the biggest party or be the most promiscuous. Seriously, have those reviewers met or ever been teenagers? Shallow does not begin to describe the reality of the popularity-obsessed teenager. I think the reviewers were just upset by how realistically the film portrayed the fantasies and mindsets of teens. Too close to home, as it were.
Still, Project X should be pretty easy to get to this weekend. That movie was absolutely pimp. I love seeing how many reviewers hate it for its immorality, its portrayal of teenagers as shallow and stupid and its portrayal of popularity as dependent upon who can throw the biggest party or be the most promiscuous. Seriously, have those reviewers met or ever been teenagers? Shallow does not begin to describe the reality of the popularity-obsessed teenager. I think the reviewers were just upset by how realistically the film portrayed the fantasies and mindsets of teens. Too close to home, as it were.
I honesly didn't know this existed until a few minutes ago I have absolutly 0 intrest in it. Parts of it honestly sound funny, but I have a pathological hatred for 'scatological' humor and that discription you gave of ne of the movie's set pieces has made me want to avoid this movie like the plague.
It's for fans of surreal humor, and until reading this thread, I had no idea so many people hated it. It's definitely my favorite kind of humor.RJ 17 said:
No. Surreal humor is that which is found in the anime/manga Bobobo-bobo-Bobobo. Tim and Eric is for people that find having crap and vomit smeared across faces is funny. There's nothing "surreal" about that...it's humor based on being disgusting and bordline homoerotic.Mydogisblue said:
And yeah, I won't judge you or the people you talk to...but I've never heard of a "group" of Tim and Eric fans. Everyone I've ever met that has seen the show says it's absolutely horrible and was the herald of the downfall of Adult Swim when the show first came out.
I'd rather see a review of The Hunger Games. Jeesh, Tim and Eric are the fucking worst. They're the reason adult swim brought on saul of the mole men, and all that other stupid shit that's just a bunch of stoners laughing at their own jokes. At least they still have venture bros.
Thank thine stars of fortune that you didn't grow up during the 1970's, when Saturday morning children's television fare included H.R. Pufnstuf, Lidsville, The Bugaloos, The Krofft Supershow, and Ark II. These form part of the satirical foundation for Saul of The Mole Men.Srkkl said:
Unfortunately, SoTMM's funniest bit is at the very beginning of the very first episode.
Huh. Out of interest, I just looked them up. Seems their kind of humour just doesn't resonate with me. Very slapsticky, very visual, very "American" in a way (not a bad thing, just a genre of comedy that I could never really understand).
