Brian!
December 17, 2018 5:05 PM Subscribe
I just finished Cleese autobiography so this is timely... and Hi-larious.
posted by terrapin at 5:11 PM on December 17, 2018
posted by terrapin at 5:11 PM on December 17, 2018
I loved that movie... but that might have been a better movie?
I always look on the bright side of life.
posted by sjswitzer at 5:11 PM on December 17, 2018 [4 favorites]
I always look on the bright side of life.
posted by sjswitzer at 5:11 PM on December 17, 2018 [4 favorites]
Tagline: "Romans go home!"
posted by CrunchyFrog at 5:13 PM on December 17, 2018 [7 favorites]
posted by CrunchyFrog at 5:13 PM on December 17, 2018 [7 favorites]
I certainly hope that the people responsible for this have been sacked.
posted by thelonius at 5:24 PM on December 17, 2018 [31 favorites]
posted by thelonius at 5:24 PM on December 17, 2018 [31 favorites]
My brain needs someone to say, "Crucifixion's a dawdle." It's like someone ended a song on a major second.
posted by es_de_bah at 5:36 PM on December 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by es_de_bah at 5:36 PM on December 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
Either way, at least it gets you out in the open air.
posted by Greg_Ace at 5:48 PM on December 17, 2018 [20 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 5:48 PM on December 17, 2018 [20 favorites]
If I was a parent, I'd probably have ended up showing my kids Python stuff, but if I was a parent and I hadn't shown my kids Python stuff I would very much like to show them this and straight-face it as trailer for a classic, slightly dodgily-produced but Actually Quite Serious And Well Respected film just so they could have something to be justifiably angry at me about later when they put it all together.
posted by cortex at 5:52 PM on December 17, 2018 [35 favorites]
posted by cortex at 5:52 PM on December 17, 2018 [35 favorites]
This looks to be a stirring film about a very naughty boy.
posted by Pope Guilty at 5:52 PM on December 17, 2018 [17 favorites]
posted by Pope Guilty at 5:52 PM on December 17, 2018 [17 favorites]
I'm really surprised they found any useable lines from Pontious Pilate
posted by InfidelZombie at 6:03 PM on December 17, 2018 [13 favorites]
posted by InfidelZombie at 6:03 PM on December 17, 2018 [13 favorites]
Trailer feels like it was directed by Widley Thcott.
posted by Random_Tangent at 6:03 PM on December 17, 2018 [20 favorites]
posted by Random_Tangent at 6:03 PM on December 17, 2018 [20 favorites]
That looks like a film fit for Jehova!
posted by treepour at 6:09 PM on December 17, 2018 [19 favorites]
posted by treepour at 6:09 PM on December 17, 2018 [19 favorites]
/me throws a stone at treepour.
posted by traveler_ at 6:14 PM on December 17, 2018 [10 favorites]
posted by traveler_ at 6:14 PM on December 17, 2018 [10 favorites]
OK, this is weird. All I did was think of the “Biggus Dickus” scene (which is not even one of the best in the movie) and it was next up on YouTube. Whatever algorithm Alphabet uses to figure that stuff out is getting pretty creepy.
The trailer was funny, but also goes a long way toward explaining why I don’t feel like seeing movies in theaters much these days.
posted by TedW at 6:25 PM on December 17, 2018 [3 favorites]
The trailer was funny, but also goes a long way toward explaining why I don’t feel like seeing movies in theaters much these days.
posted by TedW at 6:25 PM on December 17, 2018 [3 favorites]
One interesting thing is that in this dramatic version it doesn't look like Cleese has been double-cast as Reg and the Roman centurion so much as it looks like Reg eventually gets forced out as leader of the rebels and then, perhaps seeking revenge against his former underlings, perhaps as an act of cowardly self-preservation, he signs up with the Roman guard and becomes the exact sort of bullying Roman asshole he used to rail against. Which... yeah, that pretty much checks out.
I adore Monty Python so much I took my rather unfortunate name from one of their more obscure sketches. This movie is 99% perfection, with the 1% exception being the toxic anti-trans stuff surrounding Eric Idle's Loretta character. I'm willing to overlook it because the rest of the film is just that great, but God damn, guys.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 6:41 PM on December 17, 2018 [19 favorites]
I adore Monty Python so much I took my rather unfortunate name from one of their more obscure sketches. This movie is 99% perfection, with the 1% exception being the toxic anti-trans stuff surrounding Eric Idle's Loretta character. I'm willing to overlook it because the rest of the film is just that great, but God damn, guys.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 6:41 PM on December 17, 2018 [19 favorites]
This prompted me to rewatch the Latin lesson scene which might be one of the most hysterical bits of comedy in the modern age so thanks for that
posted by Maaik at 6:45 PM on December 17, 2018 [11 favorites]
posted by Maaik at 6:45 PM on December 17, 2018 [11 favorites]
Ha! Nicely done. I just watched this last weekend on Netflix.
posted by calamari kid at 7:02 PM on December 17, 2018
posted by calamari kid at 7:02 PM on December 17, 2018
I hate it when the trailer gives away the whole movie.
posted by ckape at 7:17 PM on December 17, 2018 [16 favorites]
posted by ckape at 7:17 PM on December 17, 2018 [16 favorites]
So, I’m not sure what in my life led to such a terrible oversight, but I’ve never actually seen Life of Brian. I should probably rectify that.
posted by greermahoney at 7:18 PM on December 17, 2018 [5 favorites]
posted by greermahoney at 7:18 PM on December 17, 2018 [5 favorites]
I saw someone assert recently (probably on MeFi somewhere) that Holy Grail is the reference Python film in the US, as opposed to Life Of Brian here in the UK. I certainly saw Life Of Brian repeated multiple times on TV before ever seeing Holy Grail (anecdata, rights issues, might simply have missed HG, etc).
Link is golden, love a misleading trailer gag done well.
posted by I'm always feeling, Blue at 7:30 PM on December 17, 2018 [3 favorites]
Link is golden, love a misleading trailer gag done well.
posted by I'm always feeling, Blue at 7:30 PM on December 17, 2018 [3 favorites]
I’ve never actually seen Life of Brian. I should probably rectify that.
You don't need to watch this. You don't need to follow any recommendation! You've got to decide for yourself!
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:36 PM on December 17, 2018 [38 favorites]
You don't need to watch this. You don't need to follow any recommendation! You've got to decide for yourself!
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:36 PM on December 17, 2018 [38 favorites]
Yes, we're all individuals!
posted by Earthtopus at 7:42 PM on December 17, 2018 [17 favorites]
posted by Earthtopus at 7:42 PM on December 17, 2018 [17 favorites]
Splitter!
posted by praemunire at 8:05 PM on December 17, 2018 [5 favorites]
posted by praemunire at 8:05 PM on December 17, 2018 [5 favorites]
If this film is too violent to take the little ones, instead go see a nice film about families called Shining.
posted by D.C. at 8:10 PM on December 17, 2018 [12 favorites]
posted by D.C. at 8:10 PM on December 17, 2018 [12 favorites]
My shining moment as a parent was letting my kids watch this for Easter once.
posted by dorothyisunderwood at 8:41 PM on December 17, 2018 [10 favorites]
posted by dorothyisunderwood at 8:41 PM on December 17, 2018 [10 favorites]
letting my kids watch this for Easter once.
works great as a double bill with Jesus Christ Superstar
posted by philip-random at 8:51 PM on December 17, 2018 [2 favorites]
works great as a double bill with Jesus Christ Superstar
posted by philip-random at 8:51 PM on December 17, 2018 [2 favorites]
Is this that movie about the People’s Front of Judea?
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 8:56 PM on December 17, 2018 [7 favorites]
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 8:56 PM on December 17, 2018 [7 favorites]
No, piss off!
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:03 PM on December 17, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:03 PM on December 17, 2018 [3 favorites]
Wankers.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 9:37 PM on December 17, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 9:37 PM on December 17, 2018 [2 favorites]
Years ago, there was an episode of In Our Time that touched tangentially on the topic of Caesar, and one of the experts on the guest panel had a slight lisp. I felt bad for laughing every time she said "Thaethar", but it was fully beyond my power to suppress it. I hold Life of Brian responsible for that.
posted by dephlogisticated at 10:01 PM on December 17, 2018 [7 favorites]
posted by dephlogisticated at 10:01 PM on December 17, 2018 [7 favorites]
Very nice, except it left out the completely gratuitous alien spacecraft sequence. No modern producer would spend a bunch of money on flashy aliens and a spaceship, and then not put it in the trailer! You know how much that bit cost? Get that shit on the screen!
posted by Naberius at 10:04 PM on December 17, 2018 [10 favorites]
posted by Naberius at 10:04 PM on December 17, 2018 [10 favorites]
I saw someone assert recently (probably on MeFi somewhere) that Holy Grail is the reference Python film in the US, as opposed to Life Of Brian here in the UK.
Anecdata but I agree with that. I’m in the US and most people I knew had seen Holy Grail, but fewer saw Life of Brian. Or if they all saw it, they certainly didn’t quote it ad infinitum like Grail.
posted by greermahoney at 11:02 PM on December 17, 2018 [4 favorites]
Anecdata but I agree with that. I’m in the US and most people I knew had seen Holy Grail, but fewer saw Life of Brian. Or if they all saw it, they certainly didn’t quote it ad infinitum like Grail.
posted by greermahoney at 11:02 PM on December 17, 2018 [4 favorites]
When our daughter was about 8 or 9 she came home from school one day with an assignment to find out something about what life was really like in the time of Jesus. We showed her Life of Brian without further comment or analysis. Never got any feedback on that but I suspect she probably ended up with a better idea than most of her peers. Although the alien scene might have been what stuck.
posted by merlynkline at 11:26 PM on December 17, 2018 [9 favorites]
posted by merlynkline at 11:26 PM on December 17, 2018 [9 favorites]
My shining moment as a parent was letting my kids watch this for Easter once.
When I was a youngster, too young to get tickets for an R rated movie myself, I managed to talk my mom into taking me and a friend to see Life of Brian right after it opened. She wasn't thrilled about the nudity, but laughed throughout otherwise. The next day we went to church and the priest's homily was about boycotting The Life of Brian for its anti-religious stance. That only improved the movie in my estimation, but I don't think my mom ever fully recovered from the emotional whiplash involved.
posted by gusottertrout at 11:29 PM on December 17, 2018 [8 favorites]
When I was a youngster, too young to get tickets for an R rated movie myself, I managed to talk my mom into taking me and a friend to see Life of Brian right after it opened. She wasn't thrilled about the nudity, but laughed throughout otherwise. The next day we went to church and the priest's homily was about boycotting The Life of Brian for its anti-religious stance. That only improved the movie in my estimation, but I don't think my mom ever fully recovered from the emotional whiplash involved.
posted by gusottertrout at 11:29 PM on December 17, 2018 [8 favorites]
I never got the love for Holy Grail. I mean it was ok, but Brian is just biting absurdist satire, much funnier. But yeah, as an American teen I felt excluded for not quoting Holy Grail all the time.
I remember watching Brian with my buddy when we were like 13 (this was probably our fifth time watching it) and my dad walking in and watching it for like three minutes and then switching it off and lecturing us about how offensive it was mocking our Savior Jesus Christ. And that, friends, was the moment I last believed I could have any honest respectful conversation with the man. Shortly thereafter, the same buddy of mine and I negotiated with our parents that our (catholic all boys’) high school activities and scholastic endeavors were keeping us up late on Saturday’s (ie we were off getting high and going to shows) and would it please be ok if we slept in Sunday and went to mass with each other on Sunday night? The next four years we’d stop by church to pick up a bulletin on Sunday night to prove we were there and then go get frozen yogurt for an hour.
So Life of Brian more or less turned me into a free thinking delinquent teenager who rejected the church forever and broke me free from my conservative catholic parents. I mean, I was absorbing a lot of shit that was pointing me in that direction anyway, but that moment when my father roundly criticized one of the smartest films I’d ever seen, which wasn’t mocking Christ but rather mocking the hypocrisy of myopic authoritarian people like him, that sticks out as a particularly formative moment and really contributed to who I am today.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 12:04 AM on December 18, 2018 [52 favorites]
I remember watching Brian with my buddy when we were like 13 (this was probably our fifth time watching it) and my dad walking in and watching it for like three minutes and then switching it off and lecturing us about how offensive it was mocking our Savior Jesus Christ. And that, friends, was the moment I last believed I could have any honest respectful conversation with the man. Shortly thereafter, the same buddy of mine and I negotiated with our parents that our (catholic all boys’) high school activities and scholastic endeavors were keeping us up late on Saturday’s (ie we were off getting high and going to shows) and would it please be ok if we slept in Sunday and went to mass with each other on Sunday night? The next four years we’d stop by church to pick up a bulletin on Sunday night to prove we were there and then go get frozen yogurt for an hour.
So Life of Brian more or less turned me into a free thinking delinquent teenager who rejected the church forever and broke me free from my conservative catholic parents. I mean, I was absorbing a lot of shit that was pointing me in that direction anyway, but that moment when my father roundly criticized one of the smartest films I’d ever seen, which wasn’t mocking Christ but rather mocking the hypocrisy of myopic authoritarian people like him, that sticks out as a particularly formative moment and really contributed to who I am today.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 12:04 AM on December 18, 2018 [52 favorites]
And now for something not completely different.
posted by zardoz at 12:22 AM on December 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by zardoz at 12:22 AM on December 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
I first saw Life of Brian as a young kid at a week-long Catholic retreat, when the youth leaders decided - having seen it in full themselves - that it would be the perfect video for the Young People’s Group Afternoon Activity Session one day.
And we loved it. Nobody on said retreat regarded it as any kind of offensive, ban-worthy, anti-religion film. It was taking the piss out of dogma and blind obedience, not out of Christ, and this was entirely obvious to us.
Best. Catholic. Retreat. Ever.
And when, in my teenage years, I started getting involved in left-wing politics with the Socialist Party (“We're NOT the Socialist Workers Party! Bloody Swups!”), let us say it was then that I finally fully appreciated the whole People’s Front of Judea thing.
posted by Morfil Ffyrnig at 12:47 AM on December 18, 2018 [16 favorites]
And we loved it. Nobody on said retreat regarded it as any kind of offensive, ban-worthy, anti-religion film. It was taking the piss out of dogma and blind obedience, not out of Christ, and this was entirely obvious to us.
Best. Catholic. Retreat. Ever.
And when, in my teenage years, I started getting involved in left-wing politics with the Socialist Party (“We're NOT the Socialist Workers Party! Bloody Swups!”), let us say it was then that I finally fully appreciated the whole People’s Front of Judea thing.
posted by Morfil Ffyrnig at 12:47 AM on December 18, 2018 [16 favorites]
Eric Idle came to my hometown last month to promote his sortabiography, and he gave an hour long public interview. I was there! Skip to the end to hear the updated lyrics to his famous song:
When you're feeling in the dumps
Forget about the Trumps
posted by adept256 at 2:47 AM on December 18, 2018 [4 favorites]
When you're feeling in the dumps
Forget about the Trumps
posted by adept256 at 2:47 AM on December 18, 2018 [4 favorites]
I might see this on Netflix.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 3:20 AM on December 18, 2018
posted by Foci for Analysis at 3:20 AM on December 18, 2018
Mind you, the film is not without controversy, especially among Orthodox Pythonists.
posted by dannyboybell at 5:09 AM on December 18, 2018 [7 favorites]
posted by dannyboybell at 5:09 AM on December 18, 2018 [7 favorites]
I first saw Life of Brian as a young kid at a week-long Catholic retreat...
You lucky bastard!
posted by Thorzdad at 5:16 AM on December 18, 2018 [2 favorites]
You lucky bastard!
posted by Thorzdad at 5:16 AM on December 18, 2018 [2 favorites]
Terry Jones' reaction to the nude Sue Jones-Davies is one of the best comic reaction takes in all of filmdom. imo.
posted by Chitownfats at 5:18 AM on December 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Chitownfats at 5:18 AM on December 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
works great as a double bill with Jesus Christ Superstar
Interesting bit of trivia: Sue Jones-Davies, who played Judith Iscariot, appeared in the original London production of Jesus Christ Superstar.
posted by Nossidge at 5:45 AM on December 18, 2018 [4 favorites]
Interesting bit of trivia: Sue Jones-Davies, who played Judith Iscariot, appeared in the original London production of Jesus Christ Superstar.
posted by Nossidge at 5:45 AM on December 18, 2018 [4 favorites]
After I watched Life of Brian on Youtube, the algorithm steered me to a debate between John Cleese, Malcom Muggeridge, and, uh, the two other guys. It clicked for me then how much of the comedy in Brian was "headmaster vs. recalcitrant schoolboys" set pieces.
Probably would've clicked sooner if I had gone to the right schools.
posted by clawsoon at 6:49 AM on December 18, 2018 [2 favorites]
Probably would've clicked sooner if I had gone to the right schools.
posted by clawsoon at 6:49 AM on December 18, 2018 [2 favorites]
One of the best movies I’ve ever seen, and the only Python movie I could even stand... Part of that is probably being a software guy and having to tiptoe through the minefield of meetings where if you accidentally string together any three words from any obscure Python sketch, two or three coworkers start Markov-chaining Python for an hour (or the rest of the day...hell, for all I know they go home with each other so as not to disturb the Flow of Remembrance). But TLoB was straight-up the funniest thing since The Blues Brothers (the actual funniest movie in my personal universe).
posted by Gilgamesh's Chauffeur at 7:58 AM on December 18, 2018 [7 favorites]
posted by Gilgamesh's Chauffeur at 7:58 AM on December 18, 2018 [7 favorites]
I never got the love for Holy Grail.
I've always seen Holy Grail as more a collection of goofy skits with a loose, simple plot holding them together, and it still feels more like "classic Monty Python" than Life of Brian's more fleshed-out (and as Slarty Bartfast said, bitingly satirical) story. Don't get me wrong, I love them both. They're just different styles of humor, and whether or not you like either depends on your interest in that type of humor (and Blues Brothers, by the way, is yet another - that I personally am less fond of).
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:28 AM on December 18, 2018 [10 favorites]
I've always seen Holy Grail as more a collection of goofy skits with a loose, simple plot holding them together, and it still feels more like "classic Monty Python" than Life of Brian's more fleshed-out (and as Slarty Bartfast said, bitingly satirical) story. Don't get me wrong, I love them both. They're just different styles of humor, and whether or not you like either depends on your interest in that type of humor (and Blues Brothers, by the way, is yet another - that I personally am less fond of).
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:28 AM on December 18, 2018 [10 favorites]
I took my mum to see Life of Brian when it came out. Well it had been banned in so many seaside towns and I had to live up to my reputation as a student. When we came out our ribs were aching and we felt weak. That has never happened to me before or since in the cinema.
I feel you need to have had a fairly thorough religious education to be quite as tickled though. Bonus on the tickled front if you've grown up in a post-colonial context.
(which is not even one of the best in the movie) Lies.
It certainly is when you've never ever ever heard swearing in the public media and can't even imagine it could happen
posted by glasseyes at 9:42 AM on December 18, 2018 [2 favorites]
I feel you need to have had a fairly thorough religious education to be quite as tickled though. Bonus on the tickled front if you've grown up in a post-colonial context.
(which is not even one of the best in the movie) Lies.
It certainly is when you've never ever ever heard swearing in the public media and can't even imagine it could happen
posted by glasseyes at 9:42 AM on December 18, 2018 [2 favorites]
GC, Life of Brian is never so funny twice I don't think, because the second time there's no shock of all those breaking taboos. And nowadays you would have to be brought up quite conservatively to have the same sense of them being taboo at all. But Blues Brothers is absolutely on my top five favorite list of films.
posted by glasseyes at 9:54 AM on December 18, 2018
posted by glasseyes at 9:54 AM on December 18, 2018
I do recommend Holy Flying Circus, if you can find it (Youtube trailer, which doesn't do it justice). It's a comedy dramatisation of the events around Life of Brian that tries to bring something of the spirit of Python along for the ride. I don't think the Pythons themselves liked it much, and it got mixed reviews, but I enjoyed it as will, I think, anyone who counts themselves fannish.
posted by Devonian at 10:11 AM on December 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Devonian at 10:11 AM on December 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
I remember seeing this at age nine or so because I had loved the Holy Grail; my parents rented it for us. The family loved it, but I was alarmed by the aliens and Graham Chapman's willy, so I sneaked away.
posted by Countess Elena at 10:16 AM on December 18, 2018
posted by Countess Elena at 10:16 AM on December 18, 2018
BRIAN: I'm not the Messiah!
ARTHUR: I say You are, Lord, and I should know, I've followed a few!
posted by Chrysostom at 10:43 AM on December 18, 2018
ARTHUR: I say You are, Lord, and I should know, I've followed a few!
posted by Chrysostom at 10:43 AM on December 18, 2018
clawsoon: "the algorithm steered me to a debate between John Cleese, Malcom Muggeridge, and, uh, the two other guys."
Cleese and Palin versus Muggeridge and the Bishop of Southwark, Mervyn Stockwood.
posted by Chrysostom at 10:46 AM on December 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
Cleese and Palin versus Muggeridge and the Bishop of Southwark, Mervyn Stockwood.
posted by Chrysostom at 10:46 AM on December 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
This one struck my funny bone, for sure. So much so that I left the theater in pain. Never laughed like that before or since.
Seeing that it was streaming on Netflix, my wife and I watched it again for the first time in at least a decade just the other day. I am not sure if the sting of the humor is less because the humor has aged not particularly well or the subject matter has.
posted by MorgansAmoebas at 10:46 AM on December 18, 2018
Seeing that it was streaming on Netflix, my wife and I watched it again for the first time in at least a decade just the other day. I am not sure if the sting of the humor is less because the humor has aged not particularly well or the subject matter has.
posted by MorgansAmoebas at 10:46 AM on December 18, 2018
we found this spoon.
posted by MorgansAmoebas at 10:49 AM on December 18, 2018
posted by MorgansAmoebas at 10:49 AM on December 18, 2018
I felt bad for laughing every time she said "Thaethar", but it was fully beyond my power to suppress it
Bah, everyone knows it's pronounced "kae-thar".
posted by tobascodagama at 10:52 AM on December 18, 2018
Bah, everyone knows it's pronounced "kae-thar".
posted by tobascodagama at 10:52 AM on December 18, 2018
I never got the love for Holy Grail.
if I have to explain it to you ...
posted by philip-random at 11:08 AM on December 18, 2018
So much so that I left the theater in pain. Never laughed like that before or since.
I'm pretty sure the hardest I've ever laughed in a movie theater was at the first Monty Python anything I ever saw, which was And Now For Something Completely Different. I was thirteen and stuck with babysitting my little brother and it was the only movie in the tri-plex that seemed remotely appropriate for a ten year old ... and my life has never been the same. I saw my growing impression of the irreconcilable absurdities of serious adult world reflected in full widescreen hilarity and thus have never truly felt alone since.
Which leads to my suspicion that whatever Python madness you stumble upon closest to that particular age of still being a child but opening up to serious skepticism toward the world in general -- that's the one that's going to hit the hardest (in the best possible way).
posted by philip-random at 11:25 AM on December 18, 2018 [3 favorites]
I'm pretty sure the hardest I've ever laughed in a movie theater was at the first Monty Python anything I ever saw, which was And Now For Something Completely Different. I was thirteen and stuck with babysitting my little brother and it was the only movie in the tri-plex that seemed remotely appropriate for a ten year old ... and my life has never been the same. I saw my growing impression of the irreconcilable absurdities of serious adult world reflected in full widescreen hilarity and thus have never truly felt alone since.
Which leads to my suspicion that whatever Python madness you stumble upon closest to that particular age of still being a child but opening up to serious skepticism toward the world in general -- that's the one that's going to hit the hardest (in the best possible way).
posted by philip-random at 11:25 AM on December 18, 2018 [3 favorites]
My favorite thing about Life of Brian is that there's a lesson in Wheelock's Latin that could easily have been designed around the graffiti scene. I question the judgment of any Latin instructor using that textbook who doesn't show that scene in class.
posted by asperity at 11:47 AM on December 18, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by asperity at 11:47 AM on December 18, 2018 [4 favorites]
Since zardoz has already linked the spoof Shining trailer, I feel this thread would not be complete without including the masterpiece that is Requiem for a Day Off.
posted by automatronic at 3:03 PM on December 18, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by automatronic at 3:03 PM on December 18, 2018 [2 favorites]
What? Oh - uhh, about 11, sir.
posted by Greg_Ace at 3:30 PM on December 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Greg_Ace at 3:30 PM on December 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
I’m Brian, and so’s my wife.
posted by trillian at 4:37 PM on December 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by trillian at 4:37 PM on December 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
I do recommend Holy Flying Circus, if you can find it (Youtube trailer , which doesn't do it justice). It's a comedy dramatisation of the events around Life of Brian that tries to bring something of the spirit of Python along for the ride. I don't think the Pythons themselves liked it much, and it got mixed reviews, but I enjoyed it as will, I think, anyone who counts themselves fannish.
That would be me then. I liked it.
The pantomime drag act as Palin's wife is, um, interesting.
And Life of Brian is easy in my top ten all time favourite movies, and comedies. If you haven't seen it, make sure you do.
posted by Pouteria at 11:22 PM on December 18, 2018
That would be me then. I liked it.
The pantomime drag act as Palin's wife is, um, interesting.
And Life of Brian is easy in my top ten all time favourite movies, and comedies. If you haven't seen it, make sure you do.
posted by Pouteria at 11:22 PM on December 18, 2018
Saw it in the theater in middle school. The spaceship scene rendered me so helpless with laughter that my friends were worried I couldn't breathe.
Afterwards we speculated that the Pythons' overarching sinister plan was to create an actual killing joke.
posted by whuppy at 7:10 AM on December 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
Afterwards we speculated that the Pythons' overarching sinister plan was to create an actual killing joke.
posted by whuppy at 7:10 AM on December 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
I know it's asking a lot, but now I want to hear the sad cover version of "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life" that I half expected to hear at the end of the trailer.
posted by RobotHero at 12:05 PM on December 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by RobotHero at 12:05 PM on December 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
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