Comments on: See it? Dotty, I lived it!

By: Old Muley

Old Muley — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:08:18 +0000

Mecha lecha hi, mecha hiney ho. Mecha lecha hi, mecha chonny ho!

By: Matt McIrvin

Matt McIrvin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:11:27 +0000

Yeah, what Marc Connor said: Much of the brilliance of “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure” is probably down to Phil Hartman, who, sadly, is no longer with us.

By: Jack Hagerty

Jack Hagerty — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:12:40 +0000

Quiet_Desperation says: “Follow the Shoe!”

No! The gourd!

- Jack

By: See it? Dotty, I lived it! | ok

See it? Dotty, I lived it! | ok — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:47:47 +0000

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By: Barton Paul Levenson

Barton Paul Levenson — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:01:50 +0000

Quiet_Desperation posts:

[[The funniest movie ever made, especially for atheists and agnostics, is Monty Python’s Life Of Brian. Period.]]

I’m a born-again Christian and I like it, too.

We’re not the f*king Judaean People’s Front. We’re the People’s Front of Judaea!

By: Chip

Chip — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:57:09 +0000

Will .M writes:

>>>” I LOVE Jacques Tati’s Mr. Hulot character (one of the absolute, most hilarious-ever opening sequences is that
of Mr. Hulot’s Holiday).”<<<

Yes. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday is a true classic. We recently got to see Mon oncle (My Uncle) in a pristine new print on the big screen. Its great too. The futuristic house of his brother-in-law is hideously hilarious!

By: Quiet_Desperation

Quiet_Desperation — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:22:00 +0000

Pfft. Pee-wee is for lightweights.

The funniest movie ever made, especially for atheists and agnostics, is Monty Python’s Life Of Brian. Period.

Follow the Shoe!

By: Will. M

Will. M — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:13:59 +0000

Humor is sooooo subjective. I don’t think Herman/Rubens is at all funny; I don’t see what the French see in Jerry Lewis; I LOVE Jacques Tati’s Mr. Hulot character (one of the absolute, most hilarious-ever opening sequences is that
of Mr. Hulot’s Holiday). But the person who is nonpareil is he of the Stone Face, the funniest man in the movies EVAH (to ape Mr. Plait): Buster Keaton. In my second-place spot is the team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. And followed closely are a host of others: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Jackie Gleason and Art Carney, and so on. I guess ya had da be there…

By: Bolo

Bolo — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:05:34 +0000

While reading the comments here I’ve come to realize just how much of that movie I forgot and how funny much of it was. I don’t think I’ve watched it all the way through since I was 14. Gotta watch it again.

By: DaveKan

DaveKan — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:34:50 +0000

There are reasons why Pee Wee’s Big Adventure is a great movie. Reasons you wouldn’t understand. Reasons you couldn’t understand. Reasons you shouldn’t understand.

By: spyderkl

spyderkl — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:02:54 +0000

I love Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure. My 5-year-old and I watch Pee-Wee’s Playhouse together and haven’t gotten tired of it yet. I’m a big Paul Reubens fan as well.

Will the movie ever get made? It’s been “in the works” for quite some time now – I don’t know. Of course, we’ll be waiting in line to see it when it opens. When, not if.

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:00:55 +0000

Peewee makes me want to go wash my hands. I hope he’s worked out his, um, personal issues.

By: Lugosi

Lugosi — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:13:07 +0000

I’ll only go see it if Large Marge is in it. She’s hot!!

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:55:35 +0000

Paul Rubens has also had a pretty nice guest-star gig on Pushing Daisies lately. He’s doing a great job there, at least partly because the show has a sort of whimsical and weird feel that suits his style pretty well.

By: gia

gia — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:33:59 +0000

This is the best news I’ve heard ALL WEEK!!! I saw the film about 20 times in the cinema when it first came out and *literally* fell on the floor laughing.

By: Troy

Troy — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:28:33 +0000

The movie was pretty stupid. I did like the scene where Large Marge exploded. I’d watch that again and again and watch it in frame by frame advance. The problem I have with it is essentially this: I don’t care for absurd humor. I think humor should be subtle and witty.

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:47:06 +0000

I just hope Pee Wee is not in the same theater as me if I go see this movie, given his legal problems with them!

By: Marc Connor

Marc Connor — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:45:49 +0000

I’m afraid it won’t be as good as the first one, without Phil Hartman’s writing…

I ain’t afraid of being unpopular. I’m a loner… a rebel.

By: RoaldFalcon

RoaldFalcon — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:42:11 +0000

BA, this was your best post ever.

It’s like a sweater that someone keeps knitting and knitting and knitting…

By: Joshua J. Slone

Joshua J. Slone — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:19:55 +0000

I don’t know what’s with that article, but he’s been talking about making a couple Pee-Wee movies for the last year or two. Until we see some on-set pictures, though, I consider it in limbo and don’t get my hopes up too much.

(“The stars at night! Are big and bright!”)

By: tacitus

tacitus — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:59:09 +0000

Well, since you’re an avid Doctor Who fan, I guess we can forgive you, BA. But, really? Peewee Herman??

By: John Armstrong

John Armstrong — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:38:34 +0000

I’ll believe it when they article spells his name right.

By: Mena

Mena — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:16:47 +0000

It was pretty funny but have you been watching him on Pushing Daisies? Very weird, both the character and it being him.

By: PK

PK — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:10:59 +0000

This must be an American thing.

By: fred

fred — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:54:39 +0000

A friend of mine loved to smoke some weed and then watch “Peewee’s Play house”. I couldn’t do it. It always freaked me out.