The Three Stooges movie

[Gawdziller]

You mean Leo really did die?!?! But who was that in Inception?!?!

Ignorence isn't my problem, nor do I believe it was the Farrellys. That's the fault of the viewer, because chances are, if pop culture hadn't let them know who the Three Stooges were already, they probably never would have known.

They made their silly homage, now they can die happy and the rest of us can feel indifferent.

[Godzillabrawler]

Whoa, Gawdziller. I'm a hardcore Stooges fan myself, and I found this movie to be hilarious. It had some small bad parts (the babies peeing, and the lion getting hit in the nuts) but they were overall outweighed by the trademark lunacy that makes me love the classic Stooges.

One thing I loved is that the stooges showed heart. In the old shorts, or at least in the ones I've seen (which is a lot), the stooges never show much real emotion. This movie had it in certain parts though, and it passes the test.

The thing we have to remember is that in order to appeal to viewers today, they had to adapt and make it appeal to everyone. Older people like it because it's their childhood comedians. Teenage guys like myself found solace in the two busty women in the movie, in addition to the possibility that our parents made us Stooges fans. And the "bad" parts were just in there to appeal to the little kids' humor.

It isn't outright horrible. It's not taking a shit on the Stooges' "franchise" like GINO did to Godzilla or what a lot of people think Bayformers did to Transformers.

[The H-Man]

"That's the thing though, you KNOW there's people out there who are going to think this IS the original. For God's sake, there's people out there just finding out that the sinking of the Titanic was a real event"

Or the ones who saw "Inglorious Basterds" and now think that WWII ended with Hitler and the rest of his cronies being machinegunned in a Paris theater.


Anyway, wasn't a female Stooges film one of the ideas floated around? Thank god they didn't do that one...

[JVM]

A thing I like to point out - until his death, Moe tried to keep the act alive, even with Curly, Larry and Shemp dead, and Joe out of the picture. It's not as if they were retired as soon as the Classic Stooge Trio was done for. They did want the act to live on.

I liked the movie. It was nothing like the classics, but it never is.

[Gawdziller]

A thing I like to point out - until his death, Moe tried to keep the act alive, even with Curly, Larry and Shemp dead, and Joe out of the picture. It's not as if they were retired as soon as the Classic Stooge Trio was done for. They did want the act to live on.

I liked the movie. It was nothing like the classics, but it never is.

A very true observation. When I exited the film, I asked myself whether or not Moe would have liked it or not, aince he was always the driving force behind the group.

Based upon everything I've read about him, I came to one conclusion: he would pay less attention to the,film itself and study the audience. If they laughed their heads off, he would have loved it.