Same here, never really found Monty Python overly funny either.And the "I want to shoot myself every time someone thinks they're being clever by quoting this godawful, dull f-ing movie" award goes to: Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Not funny whatsoever. Stop quoting lines from it, I hate you.
He also insisted that I watch Twelve Angry Men with Gregory Peck, insisting it's the best film ever made. He looked crestfallen when I said I had seen it already and was aware it is an acknowledged classic. Apparently I was the first to say so as I had noticed his copy do the rounds at the office several times before.
To be fair, the movie itself is only a 'cult classic' BECAUSE at the midnight shows at theatres (and I used to attend them occassionally in the 1980ies when it was something interesting to do); the entire audience effectively participated in an MSTK 3000 style sendup of it as it aired (and new or changed comeback lines that were good stuck and were used in later viewings, etc.) NOBODY should ever be forced to actually watch that film in it's 'original' form.
To be fair, the movie itself is only a 'cult classic' BECAUSE at the midnight shows at theatres (and I used to attend them occassionally in the 1980ies when it was something interesting to do); the entire audience effectively participated in an MSTK 3000 style sendup of it as it aired (and new or changed comeback lines that were good stuck and were used in later viewings, etc.) NOBODY should ever be forced to actually watch that film in it's 'original' form.
How are people who have never seen this film (or at least have never been in an audience for it), supposed to learn how to do a proper audience response? Do you just go with friends who'd previously done it, and they teach you?
Do the DVDs, for example, have a 'how-to' audience response track?
