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post #1 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:05pm
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http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=4705
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post #2 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:06pm
Hate bomb!
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post #3 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:08pm
Well, I'm a dummy. I read it.

I think they wrapped it up pretty good with the third one. They really have nowhere to go but back in time, I guess. It does seem more or less unecessary though, but since when has that stopped the Hollywood Money Machine?
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post #4 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:08pm
Best forum link title ever.
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post #5 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:10pm
Bad Devin. Honestly, the Keith Moon thing isn't as bad as you make it. Fact is, Moonie was a consummate ham every bit as much as Myers is, and this appears to be with Roger Daltrey's blessing, so I say give it a chance.

As for Austin Powers, I enjoy the series. We're not talking timeless comedy, but rather a fun, harmless flick worth watching 1-2 times, then forgetting about until the next one arrives 3-4 years later.
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post #6 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:11pm
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Roger Daltry is a douchehose.

AUSTIN POWERS is crap.

Myers should end up homeless.
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post #7 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:12pm
If another one is made, I'll just skip it. I did finally see Goldmember and was impressed that practically every joke that was recycled for the second movie was yet again recycled for the third one. I'm sure the film will feature a moment where Austin comically falls against his buxom female costar repeatedly, a silhouette joke where his actions will be comically misunderstood by an onlooker, and a hilarious sequence where his genitalia will be covered by suggestively shaped objects.
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post #8 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:14pm
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Originally Posted by devincf
Roger Daltry is a douchehose.

AUSTIN POWERS is crap.

Myers should end up homeless.
Well, that settles that, then.
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post #9 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:17pm
Man, Devin is really pissed that Jennifer Connelly got rail-thin.
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post #10 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:18pm
The whole Keith Moon issue aside, Austin Powers just isn't funny anymore. I saw Goldmember when it came out, and apart from the opening five minutes, which were gold, the movie's pretty lame and forgettable. I even rented it when it came out on DVD for my little brother, and couldn't even bother myself to watch.
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post #11 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:20pm
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Come on, using Daltrey as a defense for the AWFUL concept of Myers as Moon is like using Paul McCartney as a defense for a similar bad casting for John Lennon. Both guys have aged into complete assholes.

As for Moon being hammy - I would hope the movie might include scenes where he's not, and Myers isn't capable of that. And what do you think a hammy actor PLAYING hammy would look like? Muslims would be dropping dead within ten blocks of the theater.
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post #12 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:24pm
The original was brilliant. The sequel grew on me. I hope the third one never grows on me, because, if it does, it will definitely take the form of a wart or a hump or some cancerous mass.
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post #13 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:43pm
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Originally Posted by devincf
Come on, using Daltrey as a defense for the AWFUL concept of Myers as Moon is like using Paul McCartney as a defense for a similar bad casting for John Lennon. Both guys have aged into complete assholes.
I think McCartney and Daltrey were always ego-driven guys, even in their prime. They just don't have the great musical output now to balance it out. But what does that have to do with them knowing the subject of the picture well and endorsing a casting choice with that knowledge in mind?

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As for Moon being hammy - I would hope the movie might include scenes where he's not, and Myers isn't capable of that. And what do you think a hammy actor PLAYING hammy would look like? Muslims would be dropping dead within ten blocks of the theater.
Myers has only done one really serious role, in 54, which isn't enough to either condemn his serious acting or to sing its praises.

I'm just saying he does have some qualities that mirror Keith Moon. Some of the most important ones, in fact. Will it come off as just another silly Euro-impression from Myers? Possibly. But I don't see the need to cry foul YET. All I'm saying.
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post #14 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:44pm
The first film had the virtue of being relatively fresh (at least to anyone under 18 who hadn't seen Casino Royale), and the two sequels were just embarassing retreads of the same jokes and concepts. A fourth film won't do anything to advance any sort of "mythology," and it certainly won't add anything to the comedy world.

Myers isn't a bad guy, he's just a comedian from a different era. An era where Scottish accents and and midgets are inherently funny. He's a guy that I looked up to as a kid, but now he's just that scared white guy that watched as Kanye West discussed his politics on live TV. He should stick to kiddie films like Shrek. At least in that arena of entertainment he'll have some sort of advantage over his audience.

And I don't think that Jay Roach is doing these films any favors either. Both of the sequels look like neon billboards for Heiniken and VW.

Ok, I'm done.
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post #15 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:45pm
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54 is certainly enough.
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post #16 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:47pm
Moon over my hammy?
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post #17 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:49pm
Horrible movie. He was passable in it.

If it were any other actor we were talking about, I'd join you in the nerd jihad. But Myers at least has the potential to be an inspired choice if he can find Moonie's manic charisma to add to his natural hamminess.
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post #18 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:50pm
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He's not an inspired choice. This is a vanity thing for him, he's been trying to do it for years. It's not about if he would be good, the whole thing is just that he wants to, and now he can.
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post #19 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:54pm
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Originally Posted by mastronikolas
The original was brilliant. The sequel grew on me. I hope the third one never grows on me, because, if it does, it will definitely take the form of a wart or a hump or some cancerous mass.
I didn't care about the first one until a friend dragged me to the theater. It won me over. I absolutely HATED the 2nd one first time out, but watched it again on dvd. It definitely grew on me too. I liked the third one from the get go. By now I've seen all of them a bunch of times.

There was some pretty good stuff in the third. It can't all be warty, right? I though the part with young Austin and Evil at the academy was pretty funny. Those kids were spot on.

We don't really need another one, but I think I'd be lying if I said I woudn't go see it. Or at least feel a temptation to do so.
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post #20 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:54pm
I'm not saying he's an inspired choice. I'm saying it's possible he could prove to be one. If I see a scrap of footage where he's recycling the same Brit accents he's always done, I'd agree with you in a sec.

But I'm at least willing to give him the chance to prove that he can do more.
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post #21 of 37
10/12/05 at 2:58pm
I only liked the first one, the other two I didn't find funny.

Mike Myers seems to attach himslef to projects for a while then fade away. Wasnt he supposed to be Darren in Bewitched and Clouseu in the Pink Panther remake?
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post #22 of 37
10/12/05 at 3:00pm
At first the Austin Powers thing was almost amusing, because it seemed like homage (however glaringly unsubtle) to the already spoofy spy pics from the 60s. But the quick cash-in sequels are just overdone and painfully uncreative. Ivana Humpalot? Fat Bastard? Stop.

I'm also convinced that people who love the Austin Powers movies have never seen stuff like Danger Diabolik, In Like Flint, the Matt Helm movies, Deadlier Than the Male, or even The Prisoner. Or they'd realize just how unoriginal Myers' movies are.
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post #23 of 37
10/12/05 at 3:03pm
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Originally Posted by devincf
And what do you think a hammy actor PLAYING hammy would look like? Muslims would be dropping dead within ten blocks of the theater.
When did Jackie Mason start writing gags for Devin?
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post #24 of 37
10/12/05 at 3:09pm
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Originally Posted by Dave Davis
At first the Austin Powers thing was almost amusing, because it seemed like homage (however glaringly unsubtle) to the already spoofy spy pics from the 60s. But the quick cash-in sequels are just overdone and painfully uncreative. Ivana Humpalot? Fat Bastard? Stop.

I'm also convinced that people who love the Austin Powers movies have never seen stuff like Danger Diabolik, In Like Flint, the Matt Helm movies, Deadlier Than the Male, or even The Prisoner. Or they'd realize just how unoriginal Myers' movies are.

In like Flint is far better than Austin Powers could ever be.
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post #25 of 37
10/12/05 at 3:19pm
I always thought that Austin Powers was a idea that would have been funny in fifteen minute doses maybe once or twice as a Saturday Night Live skit,
but that making a feature film out of it pushed the material way past amusing into annoyning.
I did not bother with #3 and will skip #4
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post #26 of 37
10/12/05 at 3:35pm
I thought I'd add that I actually liked part two, and even enjoyed it more than part one, but that might have been because I saw part two first, and so for me the jokes hadn't been exhausted yet.

Part three, however, was tedious.
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post #27 of 37
10/12/05 at 3:44pm
I’m not entirely convinced that Myers can handle a character as complex (or in 70s speak – nuts) as Keith Moon either. TBH I don’t think the bohemian, hedonistic, ‘loony’ Moon most people are familiar with will be the problem. I reckon Myers has the ability to at the very least perform a passable ape of his mannerisms.

The tricky bit will be handling early Keith Moon, who was a somewhat shy, introverted Cockernee chappy, as far removed from anarchistic flamboyancy and Received Pronunciation as Homer Simpson is from the work ethic. Even trickier will be managing the transition between the two personas.

I don't think Myers could have picked a tougher role.
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post #28 of 37
10/12/05 at 3:51pm
Ditto the love for the first Austin Powers (which I saw several times in the dollar theater in college), as well as the disinterest-bordering-on-disdain for its two sequels.

But, of course, I'm still bitter about his douchebaggery in blocking the Sprockets movie.
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post #29 of 37
10/12/05 at 4:36pm
Of all former SNL members, Myers most epitomizes the comedic philosophy of "if it works once, work it again." Over and over and over again. It's not that he can't be funny. It's that he finds one joke and, through repetition, exhausts any life out of it. Eventually he's just kicking the corpse of recycled jokes, vainly trying to beat out some laughs. He first displayed this tendency with Waynes World, then moved on to Austin Powers. Could be laziness, could be greed, could be fear of new material. Who knows? The only thing for sure is I'd rather watch a Rob Schneider (sp?) marathon than be subjected to one more film of "yeah baby!"
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post #30 of 37
10/12/05 at 11:09pm

Wow

Devin, jeez. You make it sound like the end of the world. You really should lighten up just a wee bit.

Anyway, I happen to like Mike Myers. Austin Powers has been done to death but, if it's gonna be made then there's nothing you can do to stop it. Smoke a joint or have a beer and relax man, lol. There are bigger things in life to be upset about.
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post #31 of 37
10/12/05 at 11:32pm
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You're right. I'll stop writing that way. CHUD will now turn into Coming Soon.
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post #32 of 37
10/13/05 at 7:17am
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But what does that have to do with them knowing the subject of the picture well and endorsing a casting choice with that knowledge in mind?
Daltrey also prodiced and starred in Buddy's Song. Film foul right there.
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post #33 of 37
10/13/05 at 8:20am
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Originally Posted by devincf
Roger Daltry is a douchehose.

AUSTIN POWERS is crap.

Myers should end up homeless.
I'm cringing as much as you, yet at the same time I'm morbidly fascinated. To be fair, Roger Daltry has always been a bit of a prick, a bit of a shallow guy (I mean, he's doing a duet with McFly for fucks sake!).

However, the first two Austin Powers were pretty amusing, although most of the jokes were based on contemporary celebrity e.t.c. and so are never going to hold up in the future, the third was just god awful.

I don't know about him being homeless, I at least like the guy for doing Wayne's World 2 which is a fantastic film, and is still just as funny today.
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post #34 of 37
10/13/05 at 7:09pm
Everytime I want to seriously hate on Myers and his terrible movies... well... shoot...



Respect.
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post #35 of 37
10/15/05 at 9:29pm
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<Nancy Kerrigan> WHY?!?!?!? WHY?!?!?!? </Nancy Kerrigan>

Too old a reference?
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post #36 of 37
10/15/05 at 9:46pm
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Everytime I want to seriously hate on Myers and his terrible movies... well... shoot...

Respect.
I do respect "Sprockets" but I think I have an equal if not more amount of respect for this:

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post #37 of 37
10/15/05 at 9:52pm

I guess I have to watch the first three now..

I have these new roommates that are CONSTANTLY quoting Austin Powers, and think I'm so weird for not knowing all of the lines from the movies.. Guess a trip to blockbuster is upcoming..
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