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I refused to see this movie, not just on the grounds that Tim and Eric aren't funny to me (I hate the whole "awkward comedy" scene), but because their viral campaign of pledging to see their movie also had the stipulation that you wouldn't go see the Lorax as well. And that I can't forgive. | |
I took the T&E pledge, can't wait to see this! | |
They used "The Lorax" to see an SUV... I was kind of annoyed with the way they treated The Lorax with this new movie, but this?! Why, God, why?! | |
Hmmmm, I was unaware that Tim and Eric where comedians. I guess I should thank MovieBob for letting me in on this as I don't think I would have figured that out otherwise. | |
I agree. I hate Tim and Eric, it's not funny at all. I'd rather watch Monty Python's Flying Circus. Now that was a funny show. | |
There "humor" is based on simple annoying repulsive gross out moments that frequently border on the homophobic and tasteless, Anti-humor is not funny even when done well (which they don't). They get whatever washed up hack/failure "celebrity" ( Weird Al, Marilyn Manson, Zach Galifianakis, Patton Oswalt, Jeff Goldblum, David Cross the list goes on) that they can find to do pointless shit and make it seem like they have some kind of deep cult following (which I prey to God they don't). | |
How about: I don't like the show so I sure won't like the movie. That's what I will use if any of my friends try to get me to watch it. Didn't that Project X come out today? Why didn't he review that, which I will assume, God awful movie. Also Still haven't seen "The Artist" and I didn't even watch the oscars lol. | |
Dear Bob: I respect your opinion on this matter, and I thank you for articulating what you see as the underlying social commentary. Nevertheless, I simply don't understand it. I've been watching [adult swim] for a while (thanks be to TiVo), and enjoyed many of the shows offered (some of which have already been mentioned -- Sealab 2021, Harvey Birdman, Venture Bros., The Brak Show, Space Ghost, Aqua Unit Patrol Squad (nee Aqua Teen Hunger Force (and yes, I did see the movie film in the theater)). But there was something about Tom Goes to The Mayor that just left me cold. I must confess, the only episode I've watched all the way through was the, "Rats Off to Ya!" episode, in which Tom has his idea for a T-shirt stolen by an unscrupulous rival merchant who knows the commerce landscape cold. I was left with the impression of a dysfunctional town where thieves are celebrated and feted by unprincipled politicians, while creative, if dim, people are left to twist in a cold, unforgiving wind. And this is supposed to be, I am reliably informed, a comedy. Nevertheless, when Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job was released, I gave it a try. Honestly, if you removed all the gross-out "jokes" (and yes, Jan and Wayne Skylar qualify as a gross-out joke), I suspect it would be a fairly clever, enjoyable show. As it is, it's just relentlessly discomfiting. I suppose I dislike Tim and Eric's style of humor for the same reason I detested Married With Children, and never bothered with Dumb And Dumber or similarly themed movies. For better or worse, because they so consistently miss with me, I no longer pay attention to anything Tim and Eric do. As a consequence, I honestly had no idea they had made a movie until I saw this review. So, rats off to ya, Bob, I guess. Forgive me if I don't share your enthusiasm. | |
I remember the first time I sat down and watched an episode of Awesome Show. My first thoughts were "This is fucking stupid" almost immediately followed by "This reeks of the fetid touch of Odenkirk." So yeah my hatred of Tim and Eric is pretty much compounded by a preexisting dislike for Bob Odenkirk. In a nutshell I don't find anti-humor to be at all funny and their specific brand usually just translates into a painfully unfunny 15 minute Shaggy Dog Story where the only joke on display is pretty much "hey it took forever to do something stupid...get it?" Perhaps worst of all is the "Emperor's new clothes" argument that most people tend to offer up in their defense. | |
So speechless three times today. | |
I'm not really the person you should be quoting for that, as I agree with you. You should rather be quoting the person I was quoting. But Ima guess he's getting a flood of responses as it is so maybe he wouldn't notice anyway. | |
I liked Tom goes to the Mayor, but I could never get into Awesome show. I also cringe when people tell me that Tim and Eric Awesome show is supposed to be "psychedelic humor" comparing it to shows like Wondershowzen or Xavier: Renegade Angel, the two of which being nothing short of beautiful. Awesome show doesn't even come close to being as good as those shows. | |
QUIT NOT LIKING WHAT I LIKE!!!11!!1@2 *shivers* The thought of a 2 hour long Tim & Eric episode makes me want to crawl into a hole. They're the most horrible "comedy" duo I've ever seen. Their shows are bad and they should feel bad. | |
It is a HYBRID SUV... anyway. Having never heard of this I have very little frame of reference, but the only thing I can equate with it is the League of Gentlemen and Little Britain, the former being a somewhat gross out surrealist comedy/satire based on a small village in the middle of nowhere in Britain that has some of the incursions of the outside world and a complete failure to deal with them, and the latter being a surrealist/gross out sketch show on some of the worst parts of daily life in the UK anyone who knows both see similarities, or am I barking up the wrong poo joke | |
This, exactly. Calling it "high camp" is seriously, ridiculously pretentious, and I don't throw that word around lightly. People who call T&E geniuses strike me as the same kind people who adopt Catcher in the Rye as the smartest and coolest book ever written, finding the deepest of meaning behind a character who is a smarmy asshole. It's like some sort of douche bag litmus test. ;) | |
Wasn't planning on seeing this, but now after seeing all the supporting cast I might give it a watch. | |
That's even worse. Do you know what ecosystem they have to rape to get the minerals they make those batteries out of? No, not the Amazon rainforest, but close: the African savanna. Totally serious. NBC had a thing on Nightly News about how they're considering building a freeway right through the middle of the Savanna to transport the stuff. I can only imagine what kind of harm the strip-mining operations they use to get the stuff in the first place are doing. | |
It took me awhile to get exactly what it is Tim & Eric were really going for, and I've gotten to the point that I like watching T&E Awesome Show, but I don't think I'm to the point of paying movie prices to see it in theaters. | |
I think I can help you friend. Though I should mention that I don't hate Tim and his friend Eric quite as much as some of the people your talking about. For one thing I have seen a few scenes from their show that I did enjoy, but for the most part I just don't like their material. Anyway, I think the problem that I have with their show (and others like it on Adult Swim) is how they deal with their "uncanny valley". See with the cartoons that are similar to them your watching something you can easily identify as something not real. So when things start to get wired (either with the looks of characters or their behavior) you're already set to see something "different". However, with Tim and Eric we have all the wired things are happening in a "real" world setting with real people, and its just harder to enjoy crazy coming from (or happening to) not just life like but actually real characters. At least for some. Don't get me wrong I like getting a peak at the uncanny valley every once in a while, but most of the time with these live action shows it fells like bein in the deepest darkest part of the Uncanny Valley where you keep feeling something brush up against your leg that seems to be both hairy and slimy. Also its hard to get into the stories when these shows have real people acting like cartoon characters. Yes I know we are not suppose to take any of it seriously, but it just takes me out of the story when I see real people doing and saying things that I know no one would ever do or say. As for their first show that was animated....I just found it kind of boring. All that said, Bob has shown me how I can appreciate Tim and Eric, even if I don't like their shows. | |
Tom Goes the Mayor = Awesome While I enjoy the occasional skit from the show, I will never pay to see this movie... nor would I probably pirate it, given the opportunity. | |
I just always thought they were boring. And they were a sign that the stoner crowd was ever increasingly taking over the Adult Swim block, while the anime fell by the wayside. (Not that all of that junk was all good either... Bleach and Inuyasha, I'm looking at you). I kept thinking, "More Full Metal Alchemist, more Wolf's Rain and Ghost in the Shell, less Squidbillies and Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job or 12 oz Mouse." | |
never heard of it | |
I always felt like these two were trying way too hard on their shows. I have a pretty dark sense of humor but I felt like I could feel the strain as I watched. This movie, which I didn't even know existed before now, has strain so loud I would have to bring ear plugs. | |
Huh... I've never heard 'em explained that way before. I don't get Tim and Eric, and now I know why I don't get Tim and Eric. I just don't follow that bit of Americana. I'm sure it exists somewhere near me, I just think of people under its influence as zombies. As for my Adult Swim preferences... more Venture Bros! | |
In fact yes I do know that, but from Top Gear not NBC, they worked out the mileage all of the components had to travel to make a battery for a Toyota Prius compared to an Aston I think, basically you would have to drive something like 50,000 miles in a prius to break even with the carbon emissions from an aston that had gone the same distance (or something crazy like that) | |
Dr. Seuss's grave spinning could power a small German city if you just wrapped him in copper wire and set him next to a magnet. | |
Thank you for pointing that out. That's the point of the Loax supporting the SUV. I think the Lorax looks like a great movie to see with my Nephew. | |
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. | |
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? | |
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. | |
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? | |
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. | |
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. | |
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I actually rented this movie (Thanks PSN!) about two weeks ago, and I loved it. I'm indifferent to Tim and Eric (People claim Love it/Hate it status with these guys, I'm probably the only one who can go halfsees and say they are good and bad), but I loved this movie.
The movie is really in comparison to the Jackass films, only in that the movie is essentially nothing more than garbage, but it's entertaining garbage that's probably better with a load of friends who have nothing better to do than find another movie to quote, and this movie has a lot to take away in the quote department (I probably have about five or six quotable lines to enjoy throughout the whole movie), and actually in writing that, Jackass feels wrong to compare it to, but I'm sticking with it.
My only complaint is that it does slow down in the middle, almost to a screeching halt when the Used Toilet Paper Salesmen shows up (Yup, you read that correctly), but otherwise, I laughed and laughed and laughed. I do recognize the commentary within it about ordinary people in rural America, but to be perfectly honest, It's more of a glossed over thing than it is a vital part of the movie. You sort of just realize it and go about your merry way.
Still, I loved the movie, and I'm glad that M.B. enjoyed it too.