If you don't think this is hilarious...
... you have no soul.
Last seen:
Destry Rides Again - 9/10
And at least no sense of humor.
MovieChat Forums > The Music Box (1932) Discussion > If you don't think this is hilarious...
Not true.
The fact that I was moved by Kurosawa's "Ikiru" should be more than enough proof of my having a soul (Ikiru is even im my top 5). As for a sense of humor, this just wasn't that funny, it was more idiotic than anything. When they took the piano down to drive it back to the point where they were I actually yelled at my tv for this movie being an insult to the basic intelligence humans require to do simple things like not forget to breathe air. Let's hoist the piano through the open window and risk severe (high-lare-ee-us) injury instead of walk downstairs and uinlock the door to take it straight into the living room. Puh-lease. If these 2 characters had the basic intelligence necessary to put them above being merely talking monkeys, then few of the events in this short film would've happened. Many of the Tom & Jerry and Woody Woodpecker cartoons have characters less idiotic and more amusing than The Music Box. I haven't seen such seemingly retarded behavior from a movie character since Kate Hepburn's character in Bringing Up Baby had the effect of nails on a chalkboard.
I enjoyed Way Out West and therefore hoped to like both this and Sons of the Desert tonight on TCM on the so-called 'Essentials', but was very disappointed as these 2 films were as dumb as Abbot and Costello's crap (like "Abbott and Costello ruin the Universal Monsters franchises even more than the weak late sequels"). I'll take Chaplin and Keaton over these any day. I'll take one of Mel Brooks' uncharacteristic misfires over this. Much as it'd damage my psyche, I'd even prefer sitting through Van Wilder again to this.
----------
'Mars needs women'...Hollywood needs ideas...'Valkyrie needs food, badly'...
I bet you're a real blast at parties.
What's the Spanish for drunken bum?
Too much infrmation. It's just simple slapstick.
shareHow many times during the day do you fantasize killing yourself?
shareI didn't hate it, but I've watched it several times without cracking a smile. Around the time that Hardy impales his foot on the 2 X 4, I just start to feel sorry for him. Come to think of it, I would question the soul of anyone who would laugh at the accident-prone antics of two mentally challenged men.
share
Then I pity you sir!
The Doctor is out. Far out.
It's got to be an "age" thing, no?
I mean, I try to show my students some of the greatest comic acting in history and they yawn and are even angry. Can we blame them? Most were raised on mind-numbing Disney cartoons, video games (which have been proven, on RECORD) to shrink the part of the brain used for intellectual thought, not to mention the utter banality of television of the past 30 years (exceptions noted).
My guess is that most under 40 have never SEEN and Laurel and Hardy film, or a Marx Brothers film. These people should not be allowed to have opinions on ANY subject let alone comedy.
They laugh at Adam Sandler, for God's sake.
I'm a 20 year old film student and I was told this is one of the best comedies ever made so I decided to watch it!
But the part when the mailman told them "Hey you didn't have to carry up all the way there is a road that comes up here." And they actually took it back down was taking it to far!
The only part I laughed at was when the guy with the many degrees is trying to get down and he starts listing all of his titles, I found that quite funny.
All you need is love!
[deleted]
[deleted]
I was at a trivia contest about a year ago with a room of about 30 players, mostly under the age of 30, and I was the only one who recognized the melody of "March of the Cuckoos" as Laurel and Hardy's theme song. I'm not a particularly big fan of L&H, (I prefer the Marx Brothers), but the younger generation's collective ignorance of the history of movie comedy continues to dumbfound me.
share