View Poll Results: Give a mild-mannered podiatrist (Albert Brooks) a chance?
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Albert Brooks in a New Comedy
05-12-03 | 12:28 AM
#27
I love Albert Brooks, but I won't be seeing this (at the theater). Michael Douglas has always been a turn-off for me & I don't like the idea of re-making a modern classic that is just as funny today as when it came out.
My favorites are Defending Your Life & Modern Romance (hoping for a DVD). Real Life & Lost In America are good but not great. I was disappointed by Mother & especially The Muse. I love his short films from SNL & would sometimes listen to Larry King's radio show just in the hope that Brooks would call & pretend to be someone else. I'm bummed that I missed his Letterman appearance Friday & wish I could see more of his old Tonight Show spots.
My favorites are Defending Your Life & Modern Romance (hoping for a DVD). Real Life & Lost In America are good but not great. I was disappointed by Mother & especially The Muse. I love his short films from SNL & would sometimes listen to Larry King's radio show just in the hope that Brooks would call & pretend to be someone else. I'm bummed that I missed his Letterman appearance Friday & wish I could see more of his old Tonight Show spots.
05-12-03 | 10:36 AM
#28
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I love Albert Brooks... he is hilarious...and I caught the sneak of The In-Laws... it was mildly amusing and Brooks was great, but overall it was just an average movie...wait for disc..
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05-19-03 | 01:10 AM
#30
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Originally posted by Samuel
Another funny quote is in "The Muse"
In the scene when Albert Brooks enters the kitchen and he's been painting, so he's got paint on him and his wife (Andie McDowell) is baking cookies and she tells him "Don't touch the floor" and Brooks replies: " I'm not an astronaut, I have to touch something"
Another funny quote is in "The Muse"
In the scene when Albert Brooks enters the kitchen and he's been painting, so he's got paint on him and his wife (Andie McDowell) is baking cookies and she tells him "Don't touch the floor" and Brooks replies: " I'm not an astronaut, I have to touch something"
Brooks: Are you sleeping with her
McDowell: I'm not going to dignify that question with a response
Brooks: Go ahead, dignify it with a "no".
05-27-03 | 02:30 PM
#32
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The thing with Albert Brooks is, you either like him or you don't. He's polarizing. Rarely is there a middle of the road connection to him like, 'yeah, he's OK.' While a lot less prolific than Woody Allen, I think the 2 are similar in that way. You either really like them, or you don't. And their comedy is similar in that you either get it or you don't. If you don't it's one of the worst pieces of trash you've ever seen and you wonder how they can let this guy still make movies; if you get it then it's one of the funniest films you've seen.
And with Brooks especially, the humor is so multilayered and subtle that you can think you get it and just don't think it's funny but upon future viewings realize that what you thought was supposed to be funny wasn't the joke, it was the opposite of the joke. His movie Real Life is a good example of this.
Also, if you can watch Mother and not laugh you either have no mother or no soul.
And with Brooks especially, the humor is so multilayered and subtle that you can think you get it and just don't think it's funny but upon future viewings realize that what you thought was supposed to be funny wasn't the joke, it was the opposite of the joke. His movie Real Life is a good example of this.
Also, if you can watch Mother and not laugh you either have no mother or no soul.
05-27-03 | 02:45 PM
#33
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Originally posted by JustinS
I have not yet seen The First Mister, which was the feature directorial effort of the wonderful actress Christine Lahti. I don't think it has made it to DVD yet.
I have not yet seen The First Mister, which was the feature directorial effort of the wonderful actress Christine Lahti. I don't think it has made it to DVD yet.
