Poll
Question:
The Three Stooges are...
Option 1: Endlessly funny
votes: 6
Option 2: Funny, but not all that funny
votes: 15
Option 3: Stupid
votes: 9
After seeing "Soup to Nuts" I was wondering how Languish felt about this crucial question.
No option for "I don't know who they are?".
Sorta funny.
Quote from: The Larch on August 08, 2016, 12:19:24 PM
No option for "I don't know who they are?".
This was from back in the day when our culture was not exported constantly to the entire world. Ah the days when we didn't have to worry about our movies insulting the Chinese.
Quote from: Valmy on August 08, 2016, 12:24:39 PM
Quote from: The Larch on August 08, 2016, 12:19:24 PM
No option for "I don't know who they are?".
This was from back in the day when our culture was not exported constantly to the entire world. Ah the days when we didn't have to worry about our movies insulting the Chinese.
Nowadays you do your movies appeasing them (and their wallets). :P
Quote from: The Larch on August 08, 2016, 12:19:24 PM
No option for "I don't know who they are?".
Here you go: Punch Drunks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi7ehwnUAtw) is their one film in the US National Film Registry. Most of their other films are more or less like this.
Quote from: The Larch on August 08, 2016, 12:31:23 PM
Nowadays you do your movies appeasing them (and their wallets). :P
Yep. Pity they would have made great villains after we lost the Soviets.
Somewhere between not at all and a little. It's always pretty funny to see a fat bald man with a squeaky voice get poked in the eyes, but a little goes a long way.
Love the Three Stooges, but haven't watched them since I was a kid. So I'll keep them as a positive memory rather than actually testing them again.
I know of them but haven't seen any of their stuff.
Don't care for them.
I'll catch them from time to time on Sunday mornings. Still hilarious, as long as it's the original cast.
Quote from: Sheilbh on August 08, 2016, 12:38:34 PM
Love the Three Stooges, but haven't watched them since I was a kid. So I'll keep them as a positive memory rather than actually testing them again.
Same. Many a day in my childhood watching them with my grandfather / I Love Lucy with my grandmother up in their cabin in the mountains.
I don't think I've ever actually watched anything involving them. I mostly just know of them via The Simpsons.
Quote from: Tyr on August 08, 2016, 01:52:14 PM
I don't think I've ever actually watched anything involving them. I mostly just know of them via The Simpsons.
Well their greatest period ended around the same time Hitler shot himself so that is understandable.
Allegedly shot himself.
Endlessly funny, but I've been watching them all my life. I can see someone just now discovering them thinking maybe they aren't that funny. But watching them is a link to my childhood.
The (fairly) recent Three Stooges movie was surprisingly good. Sofia Vergara didn't hurt.
They're Ok, but when it comes to comedy teams, I prefer Laurel and Hardy and Abbot and Costello. Not sure where the Marx Brothers rank in there--Groucho is funnier than the Stooges, but frankly the other brothers don't do much for me.
I had the unfortunate distinction of owning the NES game, I got it as a birthday gift as a kid. :yuk:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintendoplayer.com%2Fprototypes%2Fthreestooges%2F3stooges.gif&hash=59186ebee4a8e765a524cdb77eb3693545c469a9)
LOL, that was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this thread and I was going to quote that scene. :lol:
"Oh, Pepper! NYUK NYUK NYUK"
I saw only snippets of them but they looked like the Marx brothers, only dumber. Pass.
I enjoyed some of their bits as a kid, but Chaplin, the Marxes, and Laurel and Hardy had them way outclassed. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
Quote from: Martinus on August 18, 2016, 07:01:45 AM
I saw only snippets of them but they looked like the Marx brothers, only dumber. Pass.
Well, yeah, I'd say that they're humor is dumber than that of the Marx Brothers, but I wouldn't really say that they're much like the Marx Brothers except that they're both comedy groups from the 1930s. The Stooges' comedy is almost entirely slapstick, which, while it can be hilarious, is inherently a fairly "dumb" type of humor. Slapstick was only a small part of the Marx Brothers' humor.
Quote from: dps on August 18, 2016, 03:58:23 PM
Quote from: Martinus on August 18, 2016, 07:01:45 AM
I saw only snippets of them but they looked like the Marx brothers, only dumber. Pass.
Well, yeah, I'd say that they're humor is dumber than that of the Marx Brothers, but I wouldn't really say that they're much like the Marx Brothers except that they're both comedy groups from the 1930s. The Stooges' comedy is almost entirely slapstick, which, while it can be hilarious, is inherently a fairly "dumb" type of humor. Slapstick was only a small part of the Marx Brothers' humor.
Yeah I found that comparison bizarre. But I thought maybe he thought Harpo was the only Marx Brother.
My favorite Stooges movie was the one where they bought a boat and got bombed by the Navy who thought there were an IJN vessel. :lol: