Am I the only one?
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Punctuality — 15 years ago(February 01, 2011 11:03 AM)
When I was younger, I would've agreed with you, but now that I'm older I think the movie's quite funny. I don't know why. Maybe you'll change your mind, maybe you won't. Loads of people loved English Patient, but I despised every second of it. Not everyone's going to agree with everyone else.
Spare me your space-age technobabble, Attila the Hun!
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UncleBuncle — 15 years ago(March 26, 2011 07:38 AM)
Many americans can barely read much less have a good grip on the language. This is why the 3 stooges were invented, so dumb people can laugh too.
What a patronising and ignorant thing to say. It's people like you who give the British a bad name, and you should've capitalised the word Americans.
Britain has just as many education problems as America, particularly in the working class society. Just listen in on a teenagers conversation on a bus or street corner to hear the monosyllabic and almost incomprehensible drivel that they often come out with. Taking into account the much smaller population we have, in terms of ratio, there's probably an equal amount of people in Britain who wouldn't find The Holy Grail funny as there are in America. It doesn't necessarily make you dumb if you hate the film or don't find it funny, it simply means you probably have different tastes.
To the OP, I love this film but thought The Hangover was atrocious, and Dodgeball unbearable, so it's no real surprise you didn't like Holy Grail. It's a polar opposite comedy to your favourites. When it comes to American comedy I'm more an Airplane!, Naked Gun, Blazing Saddles type of guy. -
gregm766-1 — 14 years ago(April 14, 2011 11:55 AM)
I liked (laughed at) every movie you mention but I admit Holy Grail is a completely different type of humor than Hangover or Dodgeball. I would say Holy Grail is more akin to the Marx Brothers (word play for humor) and Hangover/Dodgeball is more akin to the 3 Stooges (more slapstickish). I personally like both.
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Edwardpm00 — 14 years ago(December 07, 2011 05:55 PM)
I think people take it too much on the U.K. vs U.S.A. "rivalry", generalizing "Americans are 'this'" and "British are like 'that'". I found the holy grail really funny, I couldn't stop laughing during some points, I like comedy in general but that's the type I like most. Kind of makes me remember of Mel Brooks' movies(some people will probably want to kill me haha).
I'm not from either country and English isn't my native language, but I enjoyed it.
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salesgab — 13 years ago(May 16, 2012 09:13 AM)
I personally loved it, and I love Monty Python's humor in general. But I did like The Hangover (didn't like Dodgeball, though). The thing I don't understand about this feud between British people and USAmerican people is this: why do British people (I don't mean everybody, but if you are one of those people, you know) think they are the only ones who can make a satyric movie? Woody Allen is my favorite comedian, and many of his best movies have a very inteligent satyric humor. And if you guys think American Humor is stupid, you should come to Brazil most comedians over here are idiots, and if you stand in front of TV here, your IQ points begin to drop.