Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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Re: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Sat Jan 04, 2020 11:52 am

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
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Rufus T. Firefly wrote:...
Their humor was an extension of theater of the absurd - most that do not get it or understand it are either in need of a humor transfusion ... or are representative of the object of the humor....

I'm trying hard to see that.
I guess one could say that instead of "Waiting for Godot," they went out looking for him, and found a few interesting characters (who were in-search of a play) while looking for him. :mrgreen: Did they bump into a Rhinoceros, too?


Only the pointy bit.

Good point!! :D

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Re: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sat Jan 04, 2020 11:53 am

MurphOnMillerAve wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
MurphOnMillerAve wrote:I'm trying hard to see that.
I guess one could say that instead of "Waiting for Godot," they went out looking for him, and found a few interesting characters (who were in-search of a play) while looking for him. :mrgreen: Did they bump into a Rhinoceros, too?


Only the pointy bit.

Good point!! :D


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Re: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Sat Jan 04, 2020 12:00 pm

Well, that's on-point.

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Re: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sat Jan 04, 2020 12:26 pm

MurphOnMillerAve wrote:Well, that's on-point.


For context, review the movie, "The Point", which also has some nice music in it.

P.S. Have you ever been a danseur?


No.
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Re: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Postby HONDO74 » Sat Jan 04, 2020 3:24 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
HONDO74 wrote:
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Their humor was an extension of theater of the absurd - most that do not get it or understand it are either in need of a humor transfusion (I understand that WalMart is running a special on this commodity) or are representative of the object of the humor.



Okay Dr Rufus. I understand the humor and what they created. Just didn't find it that funny just like I don't find horror movies that amusing. Therefor I don't watch them. You will probably have some meds to offer that would correct that situation. Maybe something with THC in it. :wink: :mrgreen: :lol: :lol: :lol:


I have a 16-ton weight for you.


I am very disappointed Rufus, I was expecting you to send me a vinyl clad mistress with a ball gag.... :mrgreen:

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Re: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sat Jan 04, 2020 3:43 pm

HONDO74 wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
HONDO74 wrote:
Okay Dr Rufus. I understand the humor and what they created. Just didn't find it that funny just like I don't find horror movies that amusing. Therefor I don't watch them. You will probably have some meds to offer that would correct that situation. Maybe something with THC in it. :wink: :mrgreen: :lol: :lol: :lol:


I have a 16-ton weight for you.


I am very disappointed Rufus, I was expecting you to send me a vinyl clad mistress with a ball gag.... :mrgreen:


Nope. Sometimes the old ways, traditional ways are the best ways. Dropping a 16-ton weight on someone still works.
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Re: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Sun Jan 05, 2020 7:17 pm

Maybe our good ol' Rufy-babes developed an aversion to vinyl-clad hotbabes due to overexposure ? A person, even a bold adventurer like Rufus, can only take so many ball gaggings, eh? I'm theorizing . Of course. :mrgreen:

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Re: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Postby chuck » Sun Jan 05, 2020 8:32 pm

I had a hard time finding humor in Benny Hill.

I love the sketches in the Holy Grail. The killer bunny rabbit, the black knight, the running African/European swallows gag, the Camelot song and dance number, the knights who say nee, the enchanter "Tim". Of course I liked the TV show, Hell's Grannies, exploding penguins on the Telly, how not to be seen, the dead parrot sketch, ...
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Re: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Postby HONDO74 » Sun Jan 05, 2020 8:59 pm

We are not all the same as how we view movies with humor. Sometimes I have to watch certain movies more that once before I actually like it.

The first time I watched Napoleon Dynamite I stopped watching it and said that was the stupidest movie I had ever seen. I couldn't figure out why all the youngsters like it. Especially my 2 grandsons. So I watched it a 2nd & 3rd time. I finally caught on to why they liked it.

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Re: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Postby rogruth » Sun Jan 05, 2020 9:21 pm

As I said earlier, there are some Monty Python sketches I thought to be really funny.
One that I recall is "The Travel Agent". Can't explain why.

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Re: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Postby chuck » Sun Jan 05, 2020 9:45 pm

Just found an interview with John Cleese. The banging coconut gag to simulate the horses was actually created by Michael Palin as a way to save money as they couldn't afford real horses. Entire film was made on a $400,000 budget.
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Re: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Postby E7 » Mon Jan 06, 2020 6:20 am

Some of Python was silly, but a lot of it was really funny. If you don't think this one is funny, you're probably deceased:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xg419

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Re: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Mon Jan 06, 2020 10:35 am

E7 wrote:Some of Python was silly, but a lot of it was really funny. If you don't think this one is funny, you're probably deceased:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xg419

What I liked about their creative humor was that it was clear they were having a good ol' time of it. And I like when I see somebody having fun (so long as its not criminal). I guess they made some money on it along the way, too, huh.

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Re: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Mon Jan 06, 2020 10:41 am

E7 wrote:Some of Python was silly, but a lot of it was really funny. If you don't think this one is funny, you're probably deceased:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xg419

What I DID NOT THINK WAS FUNNY was that at the end, where the hapless milkman finds himself in a room of captive milkmen, due to that classic trampbitch, the whole computer screen went black with "Sorry, an unexpected error has occurred." WTF !

I had to activate my Anti-spyware to recover the screen and use of my laptop. GODKnows what else has been done to me via hitting that link, even with its alleged https heading.

I think this may well be the finish of my business here on MTJ. I mean, really, WTF :x I think I have had my limit.

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Re: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Postby HONDO74 » Mon Jan 06, 2020 11:02 am

I can't access the link to dailymotion. It wants me to update my media player which I refuse to do. I just avoid anything that links to dailymotion.

The problem is not MTJ. It's dailymotion.. :x
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