Another milquetoast totally fucking unfunny action/comedy with Ryan Gosling, Ryan Reynolds, Emily Blunt, and/or Florence Pugh. Fine actors all, I guess, but do these same people have to be in EVERY movie these days?
You are so right about Mulvaney... one of the comments under the trailer said, "So LA hired John Mulvaney to encourage people to return to LA?" So NOT gonna happen! Happy to say I'm in the camp that knew Lee Majors sang the song... Ha! Teenage crush! (Oh, my, I'm old! :))
Compare and contrast the opening song from what many (including myself) consider the best TV Show of all time: Breaking Bad:
FADE IN:
INT. REDCORDING STUDIO - MID AFTERNOON
RONALD, an experienced professional guitar player who has written the opening songs for many TV Shows you have seen, enters the room. He's auditioning for creating a new song for a show about a science teacher who turns to making Meth.
The STUDIO ENGINEER approaches him, clipboard in hand.
STUDIO ENGINEER:
Ronnie, we need a really good song to get people hooked on ... well, maybe that's a poor choice of words ... what we want is, we want them to check out a TV show about a drug dealing high school teacher. Think you got something we can work with?
Ronald nods, pulls out his guitar and silently considers the plot of this new show.
He starts to tune his guitar, all the while running possible lyrics thru his head.
STUDIO ENGINEER:
GOT IT! Awesome job, man! I knew we could count on you! I knew you were the guy to call! Damn, he still has it ...
RONALD:
...
I, uh ... I haven't even started. I was just, uh, tuning up. I think I...
STUDIO ENGINEER:
Nope! We got it. We got all we needed. Have a good day, man. Looks nice out there, go get a cup of coffee and enjoy the afternoon.
RONALD:
...
ummm..
STUDIO ENGINEER:
Well, I'm heading out. Gotta pick up the kids from little league. You can lock up if you want.
--
SEVEN YEARS LATER.
EXT. A LOG CABIN IN PARK CITY.
SLOWLY THE CAMERA ENTERS THE CABIN.
Ronald is sitting in an easy chair, his loyal labradoodle by his side. He has a glass of Vermouth in hand as the snow gently falls outside. His butler brings him an envelope. The sender is AMC.
RONALD nods, points to the table. The butler puts the check on a stack of similar checks, then exits the room.
Ah heck - I'm in. I even have passing hope that's it's not another "turn everything stupid" re-make version.
I got my offspring addicted to Hogan's Heroes and Monk episodes a long time ago. There is not anything funnier than a 13YO loudly proclaim in a terrible German accent "I KNOW NOTHING!" while her peers look at her as if she grew another head.
They're already weird kids. I'm just trying to hone that fine edge . . .
So. Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo. I watched a lot of crap movies in the 50s, but I'd never heard of the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis knock-off. Heck, I even liked the Bowery Boys. The local (in a slightly bigger town 8 miles or so away) theater ran Saturday afternoon matinees (1PM til 4:30 or so) for a quarter while mom shopped. Lots of old B movies, old westerns (especially Gene Autry and Roy Rogers) some really bad science fiction, you name it.
Oddly, the trailer doesn't make it obvious that they're much worse than Martin and Lewis.
As for Mulvaney, 1) I've never heard of him, 2) the trailer didn't exactly make me want to subscribe to Netflix, and 3) he seems to be just another generic "comedian" who is brought in to kill some time (and maybe brain cells(, There seems to be a lot of that sort around today. Is there a "dull" comedy in response to "edgy" comedy? How about just some funny comedy?
This substack is way funnier than any of that shit.
Another milquetoast totally fucking unfunny action/comedy with Ryan Gosling, Ryan Reynolds, Emily Blunt, and/or Florence Pugh. Fine actors all, I guess, but do these same people have to be in EVERY movie these days?
How did I not know that Lee Majors sang the theme song? I mean it's so obviously his voice.
You are so right about Mulvaney... one of the comments under the trailer said, "So LA hired John Mulvaney to encourage people to return to LA?" So NOT gonna happen! Happy to say I'm in the camp that knew Lee Majors sang the song... Ha! Teenage crush! (Oh, my, I'm old! :))
Compare and contrast the opening song from what many (including myself) consider the best TV Show of all time: Breaking Bad:
FADE IN:
INT. REDCORDING STUDIO - MID AFTERNOON
RONALD, an experienced professional guitar player who has written the opening songs for many TV Shows you have seen, enters the room. He's auditioning for creating a new song for a show about a science teacher who turns to making Meth.
The STUDIO ENGINEER approaches him, clipboard in hand.
STUDIO ENGINEER:
Ronnie, we need a really good song to get people hooked on ... well, maybe that's a poor choice of words ... what we want is, we want them to check out a TV show about a drug dealing high school teacher. Think you got something we can work with?
Ronald nods, pulls out his guitar and silently considers the plot of this new show.
He starts to tune his guitar, all the while running possible lyrics thru his head.
STUDIO ENGINEER:
GOT IT! Awesome job, man! I knew we could count on you! I knew you were the guy to call! Damn, he still has it ...
RONALD:
...
I, uh ... I haven't even started. I was just, uh, tuning up. I think I...
STUDIO ENGINEER:
Nope! We got it. We got all we needed. Have a good day, man. Looks nice out there, go get a cup of coffee and enjoy the afternoon.
RONALD:
...
ummm..
STUDIO ENGINEER:
Well, I'm heading out. Gotta pick up the kids from little league. You can lock up if you want.
--
SEVEN YEARS LATER.
EXT. A LOG CABIN IN PARK CITY.
SLOWLY THE CAMERA ENTERS THE CABIN.
Ronald is sitting in an easy chair, his loyal labradoodle by his side. He has a glass of Vermouth in hand as the snow gently falls outside. His butler brings him an envelope. The sender is AMC.
RONALD nods, points to the table. The butler puts the check on a stack of similar checks, then exits the room.
FADE OUT.
Ah heck - I'm in. I even have passing hope that's it's not another "turn everything stupid" re-make version.
I got my offspring addicted to Hogan's Heroes and Monk episodes a long time ago. There is not anything funnier than a 13YO loudly proclaim in a terrible German accent "I KNOW NOTHING!" while her peers look at her as if she grew another head.
They're already weird kids. I'm just trying to hone that fine edge . . .
So. Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo. I watched a lot of crap movies in the 50s, but I'd never heard of the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis knock-off. Heck, I even liked the Bowery Boys. The local (in a slightly bigger town 8 miles or so away) theater ran Saturday afternoon matinees (1PM til 4:30 or so) for a quarter while mom shopped. Lots of old B movies, old westerns (especially Gene Autry and Roy Rogers) some really bad science fiction, you name it.
Oddly, the trailer doesn't make it obvious that they're much worse than Martin and Lewis.
As for Mulvaney, 1) I've never heard of him, 2) the trailer didn't exactly make me want to subscribe to Netflix, and 3) he seems to be just another generic "comedian" who is brought in to kill some time (and maybe brain cells(, There seems to be a lot of that sort around today. Is there a "dull" comedy in response to "edgy" comedy? How about just some funny comedy?