So I watched the Holy Grail for the first time last night...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

Somehow I'd just never seen it. Everyone raves and raves and raves about this movie, so when I saw it on sale used at the video store, I just went ahead and bought it. I finally got around to watching it last night and...am I missing something here? Where was the funny? Isn't this supposed to be the funniest movie ever? I didn't even crack a smile. I thought it was fairly well-written, well-acted, and I can see how it's influenced other films. But funny? No. Not funny.

Bear in mind, I'm not British. Is that the problem? What am I missing here?

[matcom]

1. Monty Python?

your kidding right?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

8. This is a copycat thread

I am apalled that anyone doesn't like the Big Lebowski

[chenGOD]

14. The dude abides.

[Midlodemocrat]

16. The Big Lebowski

is truly one of the funniest movies ever made.

[Phillycat]

25. I guess I just don't get it.

This is a copycat of my original thread. The wording is all exactly the same, except I was talking about the Big Lebowski. I didn't even crack a smile. Dunno. :shrug:

Now, the Holy Grail makes me laugh until I cry.

[peekaloo]

2. I believe you have to be stoned to fully appreciate it.

:P

;-)

[ret5hd]

3. I fart in your general direction!

[Buzz Clik]

4. Comedy is a matter of taste.

If you didn't like it, so be it.

I saw in the theater a bunch of times (never stoned). I know own it on tape and DVD.

[Crankie Avalon]

5. Something tells me...

...you actually love this movie...;)

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Maybe it is the British sense of humour

I would say it's the funniest film ever. Chopping off the Black Knight's limbs, the moose and llama obsession in the opening credits, burning the witch, the anarcho-syndicalist commune, the coconuts, the French insults, the killer rabbit - it goes on and on.

What kind of humour does make you laugh?

[redqueen]

7. A sense of humor?

Kidding!

Being british is not required. Having an appreciation for dry wit, perhaps. Do you like other British comedies?

[Wat_Tyler]

9. Sorry, I need to clarify. Do you mean 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'

or did you stare at a cup (and/or the heretic bloodline of Christ) for the night?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

11. This is a copycat thread, foreigner

[Wat_Tyler]

12. No. But it can't be! NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

13. Its like you just don't get it!

:eyes:

[Wat_Tyler]

15. Copycatting is so lame.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2011062#2011096

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

17. Copycatting is so lame.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2011062#2011122

[Wat_Tyler]

18. Catcopy lamesies.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2010911

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

19. No accounting for taste

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2010911

[hippiechick]

10. Try the computer game ...

http://www.dailyllama.com/news/2002/llama119.html


:hippie:

[dr.strangelove]

21. Chick - it didn't work for me

Is this link still active.

[hippiechick]

28. Yep, it just worked for me ...

:shrug:

Try this one: http://www.dailyllama.com/index.html


:hippie:

[dr.strangelove]

20. BLASPHMEY - Some things are just too SACRED to include in a copycat thread

And PYTHON is one of those things.
I curse you:
"May the flees of 10,000 llamas infest your bed."

Alright, maybe the curse is extreme, but pythonism is the only religion I can support. Even a mock thread insulting the gods is blasphemy.

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. "Look - even the initials are the same!"

This was a very acurate parody, by "Not the Nine o'Clock News" (British TV satire - Rowan Atkinson et al.) of a TV discussion when "Life of Brian" came out:


One of the most controversial, and some would say, scurrilous films of the last few years has been the box-office blockbuster, The General Synod's "Life of Christ". Sarah Gould talked to Lawrence Vironconium - Bishop of Wroxeter, the director of the film, and Alexander Walker, one of its stoutest critics.

The film deals with the story of the rise of a humble carpenter's son, one Jesus Christ, to fame and greatness, but many people have seen in the film a thinly disguised and blasphemous attack on the life of Monty Python. Python worshippers say that it sets out to ridicule by parody the actual members of Monty Python who even today, of course, are worshipped throughout the Western World.

NOT!: Alexander Walker, can I ask you first, what did you think of the film?

WALKER: It apalled me. I find it deeply offensive that, in what is still, after all, basically a Python-worshipping country, fourteen-year-old children can get to see this film. They get little enough proper Python these days, without having this distorted garbage paraded about.

NOT!: Bishop, you directed the film. Did you expect this kind of reaction?

BISHOP: Well, I certainly didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition! Yes. Yes, I did direct the film. And what I feel I must emphasise at once, is that it is not an attack on Python. I'm not a Pythonist myself, but obviously I have enormous respect for people, like Alexander, who are.

WALKER: Oh, come now bishop. The central figure in the film... this... er...

BISHOP: Jesus Christ.

WALKER: ... thank you, this "Jesus Christ" is quite clearly a lampoon of the comic messiah himself, Our Lord John Cleese. I mean, look, even the initials are the same!

BISHOP: No. No, absolutely not. If I may try and explain. The Christ figure is not meant to be Cleese, he's just an ordinary person who happens to have been born in Weston-super-Mare at the same time as Mr Cleese.

WALKER: No. No, really, Lawrence, that's too...

BISHOP: And ... and, if I may finish... he is mistaken for the comic messiah by credulous people of the sort that can see something "completely different" in anything, and who then follow him around in vast crowds... ah... doing silly walks, and chanting No, No, Not The Comfy Chair, and other slogans from the Good Bok itself.

NOT!: Alexander Walker - your comments on that?

WALKER: No, I'm sorry, whatever the Bishop may say, this is a highly distasteful film. Have people forgotten how Monty Python suffered for us? How often the sketches failed? I mean these men died for us. Frequently.

NOT!: Bishop, turning back to you, do you not agree that the film may affect the position of Monty Python in our spiritual life?

BISHOP: No, I hardly think so. If Python is immortal (as Pythonists believe), I'm sure a mere film...

WALKER: A tenth rate film.

BISHOP: ...I'm sure a mere film is not going to stop believers. Remember the words of John cleese: "When two or three people are gathered together in my name, they shall perform the Parrot sketch..."

NOT!: Indeed. "It is an Ex-Parrot..."

ALL: "...it has Ceased To Be"

NOT!: Well, the final scene in the film has perhaps attracted the most attention of all. Alexander Walker, a last word from you.

WALKER: Yes, well, the final scene is... is the ultimate blasphemy. It... it is set in a hotel, in Torquay, where literally hundreds of Spanish waiters are being clipped about the ear by this "Jesus Christ" bloke in a ghastly cartoon of the Comic Messiah's Greatest Half-Hour.

NOT!: Alexander Walker, thank you.

WALKER: Thank you.

NOT!: Bishop, thank you.

BISHOP: Thank you. Actually, it's not Torquay, it's Torbay.

WALKER: Oh, Torquay, Torbay, whatever. I really don't see...

NOT!: Alexander Walker, Bishop, thank you.

BOTH: Thank you.

NEXT WEEK: The Islamic New Wave. Not! goes on location with "47 Brides for 7 Brothers"

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

30. I love when people get caught up in copycats!

[DS1]

22. That's the problem with comedies

You were oversold on it, if someone just handed you a tape and said "Here, watch this", chances are you'd have really enjoyed.

Instead you were expecting to be laughing, so the focusing on every joke killed it.

Just like the last episode of Seinfeld.

[Left Is Write]

"But I'm not dead yet!" "You will be soon!" (nt)

[Plaid Adder]

23. Either you get Monty Python, or you don't.

That's just how it is. If you get it, it's piss-in-your-pants funny, and if you don't get it, nobody on God's green earth can explain it to you.

*Life of Brian* might be more of a crossover movie for non-Python fans--it's got more of a plot than HG does and also more of a 'message.' But in general if you don't like the TV show you're probably not going to like the Python movies.

The test, really, is the killer rabbit scene. If you're not laughin' at that, well, you better probably give the whole Monty Python oeuvre a miss.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[Frogtutor]

24. Run away! Run away!

It IS the funniest movie ever!! But I think my sense of humor is a little "unconventional". I also like The Big Lebowski, Best in Show, and Raising Arizona, among others.

Frogtutor

[redsoxliberal]

26. you are a dope fiend.

How can you not think it's funny.
I'm part British, but that doesn't have all that much to do with it.

Ni.

[pantouflard]

29. Could it have anything to do with

the fact that we were all about 15 when we first saw it?

Nah. I still think it's funny as hell!

[Neoma]

31. seems like you don't like Monty python!

http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com/real/spam.mp3

if you don't laugh at this^ it makes me wonder if you CAN laugh :P