Quote from: Voros;974481King of Comedy is great but different in style to Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle. Love them all.

The Jerry Lewis movie?

Quote from: Dumarest;974486...Not to mention the clumsy attempts at femmes fatale with idiotic names they seem think are Fleming- style...

To be fair was the most infamous example, Pussy Galore in Goldfinger, not taken from the novel? I really liked the novel Casino Royale but the novels themselves do seem to trend towards self-parody as they progress.

Quote from: Dumarest;974487The Jerry Lewis movie?

No, different movie. Chow's film is a romantic comedy.

And I think you mean the Scorsese movie don't you?

Quote from: Voros;974489I really liked the novel Casino Royale but the novels themselves do seem to trend towards self-parody as they progress.

I don't think so. Have you read them all in sequence? If anything, Casino Royale is among the worst, I'd say.

Quote from: Voros;974490And I think you mean the Scorsese movie don't you?

Well, I was taking the notorious ego of Jerry Lewis into account.

Quote from: Dumarest;974582I don't think so. Have you read them all in sequence? If anything, Casino Royale is among the worst, I'd say.

No I like to approach books at random as I tend to detest series and want to work against them out of stubborness. I found CR the most grim so far, no Pussy Galores winking at me.

Quote from: Dumarest;974583Well, I was taking the notorious ego of Jerry Lewis into account.

I have to admit a great love for The Nutty Professor.

Quote from: Voros;974762I have to admit a great love for The Nutty Professor.

The Nostalgia Critic did a great New Vs Old on the Nutty Professor (that's the cool dude/wimpy-geek one, not the Flubber, right? I'm sure it is...) that captures a great deal of fine details.  Oddly, I haven't seen either the classic Lewis version or the 'new' Murphy vehicle, so I don't personally have an opinion either way.  

The NC episode sided with Murphy's film, based on Murphy essentially out acting Lewis as both the suave dude (Lewis's cool version was apparently quite weak as a character) and matching him as the nerdy scientist.  My take, from the NC video, is that the classic is probably the better film in how it handles the characters (as opposed to the acting), with Lewis's suave self never walking onto the set, he always just appears when the camera pans over, etc, and other little fillips that indicate the thought and care put into the film.

Quote from: Voros;974761No I like to approach books at random as I tend to detest series and want to work against them out of stubborness. I found CR the most grim so far, no Pussy Galores winking at me.

I think you're confusing the film with the book when it comes to Goldfinger.

Haven't read Goldfinger yet actually but is the woman's name not Pussy Galore in the book?

Quote from: Spike;974786The Nostalgia Critic did a great New Vs Old on the Nutty Professor (that's the cool dude/wimpy-geek one, not the Flubber, right? I'm sure it is...) that captures a great deal of fine details.  Oddly, I haven't seen either the classic Lewis version or the 'new' Murphy vehicle, so I don't personally have an opinion either way.  

The NC episode sided with Murphy's film, based on Murphy essentially out acting Lewis as both the suave dude (Lewis's cool version was apparently quite weak as a character) and matching him as the nerdy scientist.  My take, from the NC video, is that the classic is probably the better film in how it handles the characters (as opposed to the acting), with Lewis's suave self never walking onto the set, he always just appears when the camera pans over, etc, and other little fillips that indicate the thought and care put into the film.

Murphy's film is obsessed with the anus and farting. The Freudianism is shockingly obvious.

Quote from: Voros;975357Murphy's film is obsessed with the anus and farting. The Freudianism is shockingly obvious.

Yeah, that's a far too common trait in modern Comedies. I can appreciate a decent fart joke, but with the glut of fart jokes all over the place I probably wouldn't notice if it was good or bad as the mere presence is enough to turn me off the comedy. I don't even try to watch american comedy films anymore just for that reason.

Quote from: Voros;975356Haven't read Goldfinger yet actually but is the woman's name not Pussy Galore in the book?

It is but her character is not at all as in the movie.

Quote from: Dumarest;975545It is but her character is not at all as in the movie.

Not hard to do since in the movie her character can be broken down to tough lesbian with a chip on her shoulder that finds real happiness after getting three and one half inch of Sean Connery.

Those early movies have some issues.