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Mistah Gay

posted 14 years ago by DoubleDareYa
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I'm watching this for the first time since 2003 and it is AWESOME.

Oh my god.

It is...wow...it is a mystery that this was made. For those of you that forgot about it, shrugged it off like 'well that was dumb, oh hey Lost is on...' It's the biggest troll film in history, like an elaborate Andy Kaufman joke.

From the british schoolboy alien host to the insane dialogue to the fart aliens to *laughs* sorry, Morgan Freeman's crooked glued-on eyebrows... *laughs again*

what the what!? seriously, how was this released?

[–] j_imdb-661 14 years ago

totally. I love this movie. I think what turns people off is the length of the scenes of them as kids.

[–] oonagimaki 14 years ago

Stephen King writes weird stuff like that (stupid english schoolboy personality, *beep* monsters, fighting coke dispensers, fighting hedge animals, etc..)--it's all fine and good for a paperback, but when refined and established film-makers CHOOSE to actually use stuff like that in films, uhhh...it's a bit retarded (pun).

King's works are very hit and miss and they USUALLY miss-but when they hit, you have one of the greatest films of all time (Shawshank) so the guy'll be around for a while.

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[–] ecummins82 14 years ago

King's works usually MISS and Shawshank is the ONLY greatest film of all time that was adapted from a Stephen King story?!? Apparently you don't see to recall movies like Stand By Me, The Green Mile, Misery, Carrie, Christine, Salem's Lot, Needful Things, and The Dark Half in addition to Shawshank being adaptations of his works that were hits!

[–] oonagimaki 14 years ago

I said:

when THEY hit---i don't disagree that some of the above are wonderful as well---Needful Things, Dark Half, Christine and Salem's Lot---weren't so good. Carrie was okay--a little TOO DePalma-ish (fake-hitchcockian) for my tastes but NAncy Allen was hoooot.

SBM was great
GM was one of the saddest things I've ever seen--it was pure magic BUT BUt BUT--it was purely designed to ride Shawshank's coat-tails--nothing wrong with that when a movie is so good and it's emulating one of the greatest films of all time.
Misery was a fantastic comedic-horror flick--VERY original take by Rob Reiner--god what happened to HIM? He M Night Shyamalan'd his career after making so many classics.

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[–] blackthirteen 14 years ago

I am not sure where you get the idea that The Green Mile was "purely designed to ride Shawshank's coat-tails" but I agree in general with what you are saying.

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[–] oonagimaki 14 years ago

What exactly is so hard to understand here? Shawshank did well so King wrote Green Mile. Similar world. Similar setting. Same director. It was put together and marketed as Shawshank 2.

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[–] vosges1945 14 years ago

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What exactly is so hard to understand here? Shawshank did well so King wrote Green Mile. Similar world. Similar setting. Same director. It was put together and marketed as Shawshank 2.
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Apart from the prison setting, how are they the same? Different topic, different characters, motivations, etc, etc.

Saying TGM is a sequel to TSR is like saying "Dune" is a sequel to "Star Trek" because they both have spaceships, aliens, other planets and take pace in the future...

If you really want to get on the sequel bandwagon with King stories:

Most take place in Maine, involve groups of friends, have childhood flashbacks involving bullies, and are scary at points in the story. So by your reasoning "It" is a sequel to "Stand By Me"...

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[–] t-a-96-65360 13 years ago

<spoilers>They are similar. You have two prison-based movies, that take place in the recent past. Both have main characters in prison for a murder they didn't commit. Both are presumed guilty for most of the movie until later being shown as innocent. Both main characters end up inspiring all those around them with their good. Both feature an annoying, *beep* of a prison guard.

All that was really changed is that in Green Mile the dude decides to die, and in Shawshank the dude decides to live.

Get busy livin' or get busy dying.</spoilers>

[–] evan_harvey 14 years ago

What turns me off was that it was a crap film.

[–] livid_86 14 years ago

Agreed. Crap film with *beep* acting

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[–] PrincessMagical 13 years ago

Why would the flashbacks turn people off? If anything should turn people off it should be the ones with Morgan Freeman. Those parts bored me to death. The friendship and alien scenes are what made this film so great.

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[–] ToyMonkey 14 years ago

I think its great.

RIP Brittany Murphy, you'll forever be missed

[–] oonagimaki 14 years ago

ahhh paul-dallas, it's good to know that people like you still exist somewhere in the movie watching world. I totally agree that this is one HELL of a great time to be had. BTW, have you ever seen Kill and Kill Again?

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[–] the_beast_below 14 years ago

I watched it for the first time today and couldn't believe it. Each thing that happened seemed to top the last on the LOLWUT scale. It was amazing.

I try to be good hard-worker-man, but refrigemater so messy, so so messy.

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[–] DoubleDareYa 14 years ago

lolwut
someone's a negative nancy.

[–] npogar 13 years ago

Haha, What the what?

I'm content in shrugging it off and saying to myself, "Well, that could have been a good movie."

[–] atd8vii (592) 6 years ago

Oh I agree, it's like this movie was just one big FU to the audience. When you're still not sure if this movie is deliberately trying to waste your time and insult your intelligence you get clarification by having a man answer a loaded hand gun like it was a telephone. I loved how it just ended after Jonesy stepped on the slug and that weird ass music plays over the credit sequence, that was the final insult haha.