There were points where I lol'd! I particularly like the character (name?) who wanted to cast dogs in Shakespeare plays and his side kick who wanted to play Superman in Julius Caesar. Horatio was to be a greyhound and I forget who was to be the Pekinese!!
Then there was 'The Great Escape' re-enactment! The men wandering around as a medical team including one in a nurse's uniform! I could go on.
Moments of perfection,share
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Yeah it is equal parts hilarious and frightening. Very good movie!
sharethe first half had me in stiches. i dont think iv ever laughed so much at a film! the way they played crazy was amazing! great film
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To me, the funniest scene was Robert Loggia doing Al Jolson karaoke in blackface while a senior black officer (Moses Gunn) looks on in befuddled disgust.
William Peter Blatty began as a writer of comic scripts (e.g. the Pink Panther movie Shot in the Dark) before turning to theological themes and horror, and it shows. Even The Exorcist is filled with dark humor.
yes it's an absurd film, with absurd dialogue, you might even call it a dark comedy in a some respects (but that doesnt fit either). It's as if the only erious character is Kane. I love this film and yes I laughed my ass off!
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I would concur. I think for the young uns out there: one way to look at this film is... imagine a mental institute where all of the patients have the mentality of Deadpool. Every. One. Of. Them.
shareIt's clearly a film of two distinct halves and the first one largely plays as a farce - some of which certainly does verge on going too far and being too excessive for its own good. However, a lot of the wackiness is pretty inspired and absurdly funny. It's also remarkable how Wilson's character with his slapstick'y buffoonery was the most annoying element of the film at first, but then later became the picture's emotional anchor of sorts; both him and Keach were excellent.
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