What people forget about Mel Brook’s style of comedy is that the racist, the snob or the overall douchebag is not the hero, their the punchline. They are the ones being made fun of and mocked.
The day before this hit theaters, Dice went on "Arsenio" to promote it. He talked about the conflict between his real self and his Dice persona, and starting tearing up before composing himself. It didn't go over well.
SO SO happy you called out the greatness of “Josie and the Pussycats”! I JUST rewatched that movie and it is f’ing amazing! The layers of subtlety underneath the loud cheesiness of the 90s and the internal commenting ON the cheesiness and everything else... god damn was that good. Way better than I remembered and WAY worth recommending. So Thank You! 😁
The rest of the '90s Worst Picture winners are...Hudson Hawk, Shining Through, Indecent Proposal, Color of Night, Showgirls, Striptease, The Postman, An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn, and Wild Wild West. Since I'm a bit of a Razzie aficionado most of these flicks aren't that obscure to me, but I can see why they would be such for Smeghead's primary viewerbase.
@Captain Brandon Horror Film Lover Roger Ebert apparently enjoyed the supporting cast but still felt Demi took the whole thing too seriously. They managed to rope Robert Patrick and Ving Rhames into it too!
I think the same thing happened with emperor's new groove in Brazil. The movie is already funny, but the localized subbing takes it to a whole new level. Actually, I guess it gets closer to the population s sense of humor so people tend to have more fun.
It was popular in some Eastern European countries as well, because it was one of the first Hollywood films widely available after the fall of communism. Also, EMF's 1991 hit "Unbelievable" includes a sample from this movie, of Diceman saying that very word.
Now I know where Carmine Pasquale from Mobsters and Mormons got the "OH!" from. By the way, the way you explained the humor behind the "Up yours" scene from Blazing Saddles was awesome. Funny story: my family and I hate racism and 99.99% of racist jokes. My dad has a Gary Larson-ish sense of humor (but no tolerance for dirty jokes)... but he, my mom and I thought the "Up yours" part was hilarious because of the context, reaction, and consequence.
The only time Dice EVER made me laugh was his 2003 CNN/FN interview. Because when Dice makes an ass out of himself, he's generally funny. But when he tries to tell jokes or try to be INTENTIONALLY funny, he sucks. He's a Poor Gimmick overall. As I learned one afternoon back in May 2003 when I caught this film on TMC as a 20 year old. I sat there for 40 minutes scratching my head, trying to figure out what was supposed to be funny. Because I couldn't find a single thing about funny at all. I found it, Forced,Juvenile and Offensively Inane.
@@matthewdaley746 You got that right. Maybe in the late 80s because of Sam Kinston, Offensive Humor was funny, but Adventures of Ford Farlaine takes itself way too seriously. It THINKS its funny, like Stop or My Mom Will Shoot. But Stop or My Mom Will Shoot is funny BAD, Adventures of Ford Farlaine just embarrasses itself.
@@Tornado1994 ---- You think Ford Fairlane takes itself too seriously? Where? The whole movie from end to end is batshit nuts. It's like a live-action cartoon, and every other line is a Dice one-liner.
@@Tornado1994 Some comedy movies exist just to serve as a platform for set-piece jokes. Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Bob Hope, Marx Brothers, Abbot & Costello, Martin & Lewis, Three Stooges, etc. -- plots & characters are normally irrelevant. They always play "themselves" and basically do the same types of routines with only mild variations over and over. That's comedy!
When he finally gets done with reviewing the Worst Picture winners I want him to review The Emoji Movie it is that bad! And all the people who say it was mediocre or over-hated, you have not seen bad animated movies. I mean on the scales of Foodfight, The Animated Titanic Movies, Norm of the North, Strange Magic, or even Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights.
Bands at the time made like 30 cents on every ten dollar album they sold. They made their big dough touring and selling merch. 'Running with the Devil' a book written by Van Halen's former tour manager breaks it down pretty good. Highly recommended.
It might have fit Wayne Newton's character better if he admitted the record company gets most of the money from legit sales, but he pirates the music anyway so he can get *all* of the money.
It may be just a coincidence that Smiley just cannot be killed and keeps coming back because he's played by Robert Englund who is also known for playing Freddy Krueger who is a killer who always comes back to go after the teens of Springwood, but yeah, I just think it was deliberate. Although Ford Fairlane was also directed by Renny Harlin who also directed Nightmare On Elm Street 4: Dream Master.
Matthew Daley More people are waking up to it. Hell, The Disaster Artist even is quick to point out that he was an asshole. And so is Wiseau, but you get it.
Matthew Daley Same here. The only Hitchcock film I ever remember watching was Rear Window in film class at college, and to be honest, I don’t think much about it.
This was a movie for the MTV Generation. It came out when I was 21. It was hilarious then. Everyone within a 10 year sweep of my age thought it was hilarious. We still think it's hilarious. It's like when Hair Metal dominated music, if you are older than that era or younger than that era, you just don't get that era.
@@kellyrobinson6543 I haven't laughed at a White comedian since Mitch Hedberg. They're just too constrained. Caucasians who are not trying to be funny, though -- hilarious.
@@superlive98 blablabla. Whites are too pc. The coloreds are the real racist. I've been hearing you people saying this crap for 40 years. You people don't change
Dice's best work was "The Day the Laughter Died". Dice decided "Fuck it, I'm gonna go up there and BOMB for a straight hour". That was a legitimately funny album, but the nursery rhyme shtick, never gave a damn about it.
Great movie. Many funny one-liners. Gets funnier every time I watch. "Have a Twinkie...snapperhead!" "Suzuki Samaria...you Bensonhurst piece of $#*%" "My mother always said...If you can't say something nice about someone, make sure they're out of the g**d*** room" LOL!
He was also surprisingly good in Blue Jasmine, where he played Augie and gave a sincere, emotional performance, expertly mixing in anger, regret and vulnerability in his final scene.
I remember being 16 years old and seeing Ford Fairlane in the theater during the summer of 1990! I liked it enough back then, but I couldn't help being a bit disappointed. Now, I liked Dice, thought he was hysterical doing stand up and a good actor, too, who gave a great performance in a little seen film called Casual Sex. It's just too bad Ford Fairlane wasn't the rock 'n roll comedy it should have been. It was played far too broadly, far too cartoonishly for it to really succeed, though. It needed someone like Elmore Leonard writing the script. In fact, Get Shorty is the perfect example of how Ford Fairlane should have been played.
There definitely are some good moments, but I'm pretty sure the popular opinion was that this was an unnecessary cash grab of a film similar to Jem and the Holograms a decade later. (Not that I'm saying I agree with this. The film has a much better understanding of what Josie and the Pussycats was supposed to be than anything Riverdale has ever done.)
I sort of like it too, but I wouldn't go to the movie theater to see it. It's a quintessential guilty pleasure movie; you need to watch it at home with friends, drunk or high, and dance like an idiot during the musical numbers.
Dice was virtually unknown outside of the US in those pre internet/Netflix days. In such markets the movie came with a lot less baggage. I saw it on VHS back in the day and thought it was pretty funny.
You didn’t even mention the fact that this movie became very popular in Post-Communist Hungary because it was dubbed by a famous eccentric Hungarian musician and actor who added in much more profanity then what was in the English version. It’s still popular over there to this day.
Dear Mr Head I have just recently discovered your channel and have been binging out ever since . Keep up the great work . My greatest fear is that Hollywood will stop turning out sewerage and you will be out of a job. Nah , never happen !
you are right. there has always been sensors there was with the hays/comics code for the movies and comics industries, every broadcast network has a standards and practices dept. even the MPAA is a sensor of sorts
i like your pacing in this video. i think it was a good choice to place much less of those lingering awkward pauses in your commentary. keep up the good work!
I've watched quite a few of your videos now and what you said on this one was one of the best things I've heard so far. When you said, "the only way I can be offended by a joke is if it isn't funny. " I like that so much! I agree a hundred percent and with your permission hopefully I'm going to use that quote 😉
That makes all comedy done today is not funny SNL Late Night and many "Comedians" today are not even funny . Comedy today if you can call it that does not even compare to the comedy of the 70's to 90's even early 2000's. I guess that's why they are redoing all the good movies from back in the day because they have nothing today all they can do is redo good movies to try to make a buck because no one can write a good movie today to save their life in Hollywood.
He also said that censorship is "having standards", and that you have to "evolve", i.e. accept censorship, or be "left behind", i.e. be a thinking adult.
Your critique of Dice is fair but I've always loved this movie and quote it often (not always a good idea). I assume Hudson Hawk is next? That film was so ahead of it's time and like Ford; hardly the worst of it's year. The worst of 91 should be Another You.
It wasnt. It means that both Dice Clay and Mae West have both deliberately created provacouter personas that profited from censorship. They weren't victims of censorship, they were intelligent business people who used censorship to further their careers.
@@badquestion4785 There is an important difference to be made between provocateurs whose acts are all about being provocative of the prudes and who enjoy or entice backlash and people who do their work because they want to do it and society happens to find that work provocative and goes after them. The second tend to be annoyed at controversy and some seem even surprised at them since they didn't consider any backlash or controversy in the first place and politely talk on the whole thing. Now there are plenty of people that kind of fluctuate between or mix both approaches (like Mel Brooks or George Carlin), and the provocateurs are somewhat necessary to soften some social tabus, but being weary of 100% provocateur for provocation's sake people is a good general policy.
Honestly, it is telling that George Carlin, another person who they claim is anti-PC, actually came out against Dice back in the day for the stuff Sean talks about.
11:31-11:36 - Renny Harlin also gave us Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger and The Long Kiss Goodnight - all pretty good movies. Heck, I even enjoyed Deep Blue Sea.
Racism and homophobia hahaha funny story, Mark. I don't get why people think comedy is supposed to offend and people. Comedy is supposed to be FUNNY. That's the most important part, guys.
MeShannan Because comedy always needs to have some level of misery. It’s the catharsis between two absurd premises that causes laughter. That doesn’t mean offense automatically equals funny but it does mean no offense automatically equals unfunny. No wonder the Left is stereotyped as being humorless. Which sucks because the Left used to be great at comedy. Maybe we shouldn’t have won the culture war. Also I agree that Andrew Dice Clay is unfunny and George Carlin was way better at that shtick.
@@ashkitt7719 😂😂 this is a very silly comment. If something isn't FUNNY, it's not fucking comedy. Simple. Just saying "fuck this pc bullshit, I want slaves because I identify as a slave owner lol" isn't *funny*. It's old and tired. Maybe we should all seek out comedy that's funny and makes us think instead of saying offensive shit just for the sake of saying offensive shit. Who is this "we" that won the culture war? And what was this culture war?
You know who used morality to refuse freedom? People burning girls for religion. You know that true "left" ideology is actually "offensive" by default, worry not, none of the people who advocate a "not offensive world" is really from the left.
Comedy is subjective my dude. Some people like offensive humor, some don't. That's how it works. Although I will agree it depends on how well executed the offensive joke works. Worst case scenario we get that infamous Loquiesha movie.
I’d say it’s a pick your poison kind of thing. Would you rather sit through a film trying to be dark and serious but is just boring, or would you rather sit through a terrible soap opera with bad sex?
This has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. I like the characters and the setting. To answer your question about how Julian was making money ripping his company off, I believe record companies have to pay royalties to bands for every record, cd, and cassette they sell to record stores in the 90’s. This is probably documented when the discs are manufactured at their factory. However, if he could make copies in another location, and sell them on the street, he wouldn’t have to share the profits with the bands, and could keep all the money for himself.
This movie will always rule! It's so funny and endlessly quotable. I love this movie... I've always loved this movie! 😂😂😂 Plus... Morris Day and Wayne Newton! Enough said! 💙
Man, every time an episode of this comes out I become profoundly happy - not just because they're always great, but because I know that every episode is bringing Smeghead closer to modern dreck like Freddy Got Fingered and Holmes and Watson and The Emoji Movie, which I honestly think he's going to hate even more than this early stuff.
I think rapid success can trap a comedian. Like, you don't have a very developed routine, and you go out there and say a bunch of trashy stuff, and overnight you're huge - what do you do? Changing it up becomes a risk; playing gross racist keeps the jack rolling in.
I saw Ford Fairlane in the theater when it came out. The movie is definitely a product of its time, especially since it starred Dice Clay at the height of his comedy career. However, we didn't see the movie as a comedy, and that might have been what the director was going for. It had its funny moments, and plenty of forced-comedy, but overall the film was more of a crime drama. As the audience, we all knew about Dice Clay and his humor, so this "dramatic" version of the Dice character was a welcome change at the time. He was still The Dice Man, but was playing an interesting character, a private detective. Also, he drove a cool car with an awesome convertible top, an in-dash CD player (which was basically science fiction at the time), and featured CD ROMs which most of us had never seen before. Looking back, Ford Fairlane is cheesy as hell and is overall pretty bad, but in its time it was an enjoyable film for Dice fans, I suppose.
In the 90’s I won front row tickets from a radio station to one of his shows . My girlfriend at the time refused to go because was terrified he would start talking to her and make fun of her . She was probably right as she did look at the time like a stereotypical female that he would’ve attacked. I told her that would be great if he called on you. Maybe we could be in his next recording. I didn’t go 😢😢😢
Wayne Newton? Didn't he also have a small role in Licence to Kill? I'm gonna say the same thing I said about Joe Don Baker in Leonard Part 6: don't remind me of the Timothy Dalton Bond movies because they're both infinitely better than any movie Sean will ever review in this series.
@@Betta66 Roger Moore made SEVEN Bond films. When he stopped he was 57. He was older than the MOTHER of Tanya Roberts. At the time there were 14 TOTAL Bond films. Other than Octopussy, they weren't very good.
@@matthewdaley746 He himself said he quit specifically because of his advanced age. I liked A View To A Kill, but if they had given it to Brosnan or Dalton, it would've worked better. Sure, they would've needed to rewrite the script to better suit Dalton if they gave it to him, but that elevator escape would have been so perfect for him.
You like Dice because you liked Duke Nukem 3D when you were a kid. Nothing strange about it. To be honest we are all raised on 80s "toxic masculinity" jokes and those were all great.
What’s worse for Billy Idol? The motorcycle accident, being in this movie, or the fact that (after he recovered from said accident) he released Cyberpunk, an album so bad he imploded into self-parody.
Idol's "Cradle of Love," his last major hit, was on the soundtrack for this film. (Alas, that soundtrack did not include the 12" club mix of "Booty Time" we so richly deserve.) Todd in the Shadows reviewed "Cyberpunk" for his Trainwreckords series. He actually liked some of the songs, but the sci-fi trappings were kind of half-assed.
Regarding his comedy, you either love it or hate it. I absolutely loved it. The Dangerfield's set took place when I was in my senior year of highschool. He just exuded the most extreme version of the NYC IDGAF attitude. Having said all that, I only saw this movie once. Wasn't a movie I felt obligated to rewatch. Lol. When he cried on Arsenio the night before this flick premiered, that one moment ended his career. Took the edge off of his persona which was the hook of his come up
Another example on how stupid people think PC and cancel culture is a recent phenomenon is Blazing Saddles. That movie almost didn't get made because the studio thought it would be considered too racist because of how many times the n word is said. And that movie was made in the 70's
Gotta give him credit. At least he made a good movie in 1990 to go along with the bad (Die Hard 2), and then another good film three years later to make up for it (Cliffhanger).
ErinPrimette Like many things it’s the overuse that killed it. For example I would say it’s accurate when referring to CNN giving a platform to a neo-Nazi solely because he didn’t support Trump. But any statement critical of Trump and his policies will inevitably be met with such an accusation.
Well... _do_ you have DTS? It has a simple cure... just remember: _he will be out in 2020_ and maybe re-elected, as the democrats have a white woman who claims to be a Native American Indian and an old white guy who likes to grope children a little too much. But hey... you never know. Democrats don’t have standards, so anything is possible.
RICHARD PRYOR CO-WROTE BLAZING SADDLES AND I DIDN'T KNOW TILL I WATCHED THIS VIDEO! HOW COULD I BE SUCH A GIANT MORON? Also Koala's aren't bear's. You were doing so well up till that point.
@ Trading Places was supposed to star Richard Pryor, and, Gene Wilder, but the former had an accident, and, the latter was later replaced by Dan Aykroyd.
Finally! People act as if SJWs were the only ones to whine and censor shit in our current timeline. I was born in 1983 in a Conservative house there's a shit ton of thing that I wasn't allowed to even know EXISTED until I reached majority! (It didnt always worked but y'know, they tried really hard)
17:07 That motorcycle accident is the reason you only see Billy from the waist up in the music video for "Cradle of Love". Random bit of trivia, but yeah. I haven't checked, but I suspect next month we'll be swingin' on a star.
Song of the South was criticized heavily when it was released and that was in the 1940s. I also appreciated Sean’s rant because I’ve also grown sick of those people complaining that PC culture is a new thing when history says otherwise.
Richard Pryor once said that cursing should not be the joke. A joke should be just as funny with all the curse words removed. If you take all the curse words out of Dice's act, it turns into just a guy dressed like he's in Grease ranting uncomfortably.
As an explanation about why some people find his "I'm a bigoted shite" act funny: if being on the internet since the early days of RUclips has taught me anything, it's that there are a LOOOOOOOOOOOT of people who think being a bigoted shite is, in and of itself, funny. And a lot of them will act like you're a humourless moron for not agreeing.
Sadly, you have a point. I can explain until I’m blue in the face why “bigotry lol” jokes aren’t funny like “here’s a silly thing about x group” jokes, but I’ll just get called a whiny SJW.
Dice was born Andrew Silverstein in Brooklyn. My aunt and uncle lived in an apartment on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn and my cousins were childhood friends of his. He was just little Andy Silverstein then, a cute little kid.
I’ve gotta say, after seeing the critical backlash to Dave Chappelle’s “Sticks and Stones” special; Bruno Mars be accused of cultural appropriation; Count Dankula be punished in a legal court and branded “grossly offensive” for daring to make fun of Nazis; fans of Alita: Battle Angel be associated with the alt-right; and a news article try to paint Taylor Swift as a phony ally to the LGBT community, (among so many other things) I can’t agree with you about the state of comedy and current trends of censorship and outrage. (Not entirely, anyways) But I can agree with you this guy ain’t very funny.
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What people forget about Mel Brook’s style of comedy is that the racist, the snob or the overall douchebag is not the hero, their the punchline. They are the ones being made fun of and mocked.
The day before this hit theaters, Dice went on "Arsenio" to promote it. He talked about the conflict between his real self and his Dice persona, and starting tearing up before composing himself.
It didn't go over well.
SO SO happy you called out the greatness of “Josie and the Pussycats”! I JUST rewatched that movie and it is f’ing amazing! The layers of subtlety underneath the loud cheesiness of the 90s and the internal commenting ON the cheesiness and everything else... god damn was that good. Way better than I remembered and WAY worth recommending. So Thank You! 😁
These obscure movies are surprisingly funny to see be reviewed. Keep it up Smeg.
The rest of the '90s Worst Picture winners are...Hudson Hawk, Shining Through, Indecent Proposal, Color of Night, Showgirls, Striptease, The Postman, An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn, and Wild Wild West. Since I'm a bit of a Razzie aficionado most of these flicks aren't that obscure to me, but I can see why they would be such for Smeghead's primary viewerbase.
@Captain Brandon Horror Film Lover Roger Ebert apparently enjoyed the supporting cast but still felt Demi took the whole thing too seriously. They managed to rope Robert Patrick and Ving Rhames into it too!
Captain Brandon Horror Film Lover Patrick was in Double Dragon!
@Captain Brandon Horror Film Lover I liked Ford Fairlane too. It so damn corny it's funny.
@@flashcloud666 It's just really pathetic.
In Spain this movie earned a great cult following. Probably because the dubbing localized almost all the jokes.
It was a huge hit in Eastern Europe, probably because it was one of the first Hollywood movies to become widely available as Communism collapsed.
Do you know what those localised jokes were like?
I think the same thing happened with emperor's new groove in Brazil. The movie is already funny, but the localized subbing takes it to a whole new level. Actually, I guess it gets closer to the population s sense of humor so people tend to have more fun.
It was popular in some Eastern European countries as well, because it was one of the first Hollywood films widely available after the fall of communism.
Also, EMF's 1991 hit "Unbelievable" includes a sample from this movie, of Diceman saying that very word.
Now I know where Carmine Pasquale from Mobsters and Mormons got the "OH!" from. By the way, the way you explained the humor behind the "Up yours" scene from Blazing Saddles was awesome. Funny story: my family and I hate racism and 99.99% of racist jokes. My dad has a Gary Larson-ish sense of humor (but no tolerance for dirty jokes)... but he, my mom and I thought the "Up yours" part was hilarious because of the context, reaction, and consequence.
Go back to Michigan asswipe...🤣
I was about to go to sleep, but when I saw this popped up I was like nope! Not gonna sleep now
Me too.
Thaplaya 2000 nice profile pic!
Same here.
linashawnee thank you!
"The koala doesn't actually do anything." Koalas sleep 20 hours a day.
Well yeah. You tried digesting eucalyptus?
Which raises the question "Why I the koala here?". It serves no purpose, nor is it funny.
They also have a chlamydia epidemic
But, who would win in a fight between a koala and a sloth?
@@EssexAggiegrad2011 Wildfires hurt.
Andrew Dice Clay. Aka, why it's dangerous for a comedian to be a one-trick pony.
The only time Dice EVER made me laugh was his 2003 CNN/FN interview. Because when Dice makes an ass out of himself, he's generally funny. But when he tries to tell jokes or try to be INTENTIONALLY funny, he sucks. He's a Poor Gimmick overall.
As I learned one afternoon back in May 2003 when I caught this film on TMC as a 20 year old. I sat there for 40 minutes scratching my head, trying to figure out what was supposed to be funny. Because I couldn't find a single thing about funny at all. I found it, Forced,Juvenile and Offensively Inane.
@@matthewdaley746 You got that right. Maybe in the late 80s because of Sam Kinston, Offensive Humor was funny, but Adventures of Ford Farlaine takes itself way too seriously. It THINKS its funny, like Stop or My Mom Will Shoot. But Stop or My Mom Will Shoot is funny BAD, Adventures of Ford Farlaine just embarrasses itself.
@@Tornado1994 ---- You think Ford Fairlane takes itself too seriously? Where? The whole movie from end to end is batshit nuts. It's like a live-action cartoon, and every other line is a Dice one-liner.
@@Tornado1994 Sam KINISON
@@Tornado1994 Some comedy movies exist just to serve as a platform for set-piece jokes. Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Bob Hope, Marx Brothers, Abbot & Costello, Martin & Lewis, Three Stooges, etc. -- plots & characters are normally irrelevant. They always play "themselves" and basically do the same types of routines with only mild variations over and over. That's comedy!
The journey of review The Worst Picture Winners continues. Starring Smeghead
The Lion King(Kimba remake) was pretty bad
When he finally gets done with reviewing the Worst Picture winners I want him to review The Emoji Movie it is that bad! And all the people who say it was mediocre or over-hated, you have not seen bad animated movies. I mean on the scales of Foodfight, The Animated Titanic Movies, Norm of the North, Strange Magic, or even Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights.
@@diggerfan9319 The Emoji Movie is a Worst Picture winner, so Smeggy will review it sometime next year.
@@eddiedutra3359 Lion King isn't a KImba remake. THey are not even similar except having lion as a lead.
@@cesarzpontu8886 Fights ensued.
Bands at the time made like 30 cents on every ten dollar album they sold. They made their big dough touring and selling merch. 'Running with the Devil' a book written by Van Halen's former tour manager breaks it down pretty good. Highly recommended.
It might have fit Wayne Newton's character better if he admitted the record company gets most of the money from legit sales, but he pirates the music anyway so he can get *all* of the money.
I'm thinking that the idea of Dice as a character is that you're supposed to laugh at him more than with him.
It may be just a coincidence that Smiley just cannot be killed and keeps coming back because he's played by Robert Englund who is also known for playing Freddy Krueger who is a killer who always comes back to go after the teens of Springwood, but yeah, I just think it was deliberate. Although Ford Fairlane was also directed by Renny Harlin who also directed Nightmare On Elm Street 4: Dream Master.
11:46-11:52 Pretty sure that was a jab at the Nostalgia Critic.
No it wasn't.
FYI, Doug Walker has Dyslexia.
Tornado1994 Yeah, and Alfred Hitchcock was on the spectrum, but guess what, he was STILL an asshole.
Matthew Daley More people are waking up to it. Hell, The Disaster Artist even is quick to point out that he was an asshole. And so is Wiseau, but you get it.
Matthew Daley Same here. The only Hitchcock film I ever remember watching was Rear Window in film class at college, and to be honest, I don’t think much about it.
When did Doug mispronounce Tone Loc?
OW! WHAT DID YOU GO AND DO THAT FOR?! I HAD SEEN BLAZING SADDLES!
I know. My jaw still hurts.
Weeks later and I’m still seeing stars from that blow.
LegalAssassin it was an impressive smack
Warrior Nun I didn’t even deserve it. I watched Blazing Saddles and enjoyed it.
LegalAssassin Same! And I’m a woman!
Renny Harlin also did Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger, and the Long Kiss Goodnight.
And let's not forget his debut with A Nightmare On Elm Street: The Dream Master.
He had Ford Fairlane and Die Hard 2 in cinemas at the same time. (I presume one of them - most likely Ford Fairlane - sat on the shelf for a while.)
This was a movie for the MTV Generation. It came out when I was 21. It was hilarious then. Everyone within a 10 year sweep of my age thought it was hilarious. We still think it's hilarious. It's like when Hair Metal dominated music, if you are older than that era or younger than that era, you just don't get that era.
So you think offensiveness was just a fad?
@@kellyrobinson6543 As Jerry Lewis once said, a great comedian has to be shameless.
@@superlive98 then I guess you also think the average white person is a comedian too?
@@kellyrobinson6543 I haven't laughed at a White comedian since Mitch Hedberg. They're just too constrained. Caucasians who are not trying to be funny, though -- hilarious.
@@superlive98 blablabla. Whites are too pc. The coloreds are the real racist. I've been hearing you people saying this crap for 40 years. You people don't change
To your speech about being PC and having standards 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Also agree with you 100% about the Josie and the Pussycats movie
Dice's best work was "The Day the Laughter Died". Dice decided "Fuck it, I'm gonna go up there and BOMB for a straight hour".
That was a legitimately funny album, but the nursery rhyme shtick, never gave a damn about it.
Thanks for praising and defending Blazing Saddles! It’s one of my favorite movies!
I look forward to the review of Hudson Hawk. A movie so bad, it can't basic math.
Great movie. Many funny one-liners. Gets funnier every time I watch.
"Have a Twinkie...snapperhead!"
"Suzuki Samaria...you Bensonhurst piece of $#*%"
"My mother always said...If you can't say something nice about someone, make sure they're out of the g**d*** room"
LOL!
This movie doesn't deserve Robert England and Ed O' Neil.
Those guys were in this awful movie? The poor souls!
OR a few seconds of Oingo Boingo.
How the HELL did Dice convince Freddy Krueger, Al Bundy AND Morris FRIGGIN' Day to guest star in such horseshit?
It doesn't deserve any of its cast members. Except Clay.
@@gageperuti5519 Hate needed.
At least Andrew Dice Clay was good in A Star Is Born (2018).
And then it got remade with Lady Gaga.
Jack Benner’s Movie Reviews Don’t ever watch the Opie and Anthony bit where they mark him, this was in the early 2000’s granted, Andrew dice gay
No, he was not. As in he was not "Dice".
He was also surprisingly good in Blue Jasmine, where he played Augie and gave a sincere, emotional performance, expertly mixing in anger, regret and vulnerability in his final scene.
He’s a legitimately excellent drummer as well.
Totally with you on the Blazing saddles bit, I wish we could as a culture make such movies today
Anyone who reps Josie and the pussycats gets a like from me.
Andrew Dice Clay is a greaser. The leather jacket, tight pants, slicked back hair. He's a fifties greaser.
I remember being 16 years old and seeing Ford Fairlane in the theater during the summer of 1990! I liked it enough back then, but I couldn't help being a bit disappointed. Now,
I liked Dice, thought he was hysterical doing stand up and a good actor, too, who gave a great performance in a little seen film called Casual Sex. It's just too bad Ford Fairlane wasn't the rock 'n roll comedy it should have been. It was played far too broadly, far too cartoonishly for it to really succeed, though. It needed someone like Elmore Leonard writing the script. In fact, Get Shorty is the perfect example of how Ford Fairlane should have been played.
You’re PC too, bruh?
Yeah! I’m PC U-Mass!
Dude, sweet! I’m PC Texas A&M!
😂
I agree that Josie and the Pussycats is extremely underrated!
There definitely are some good moments, but I'm pretty sure the popular opinion was that this was an unnecessary cash grab of a film similar to Jem and the Holograms a decade later. (Not that I'm saying I agree with this. The film has a much better understanding of what Josie and the Pussycats was supposed to be than anything Riverdale has ever done.)
Agreed!
@@dotunfadairo8496 The cartoon was a masterpiece by comparison.
I'll be honest, this movie is one of my guilty pleasure films.
Captain Robert April lol same
Mine too. And the Cradle of Love video is like softcore porn.
I sort of like it too, but I wouldn't go to the movie theater to see it. It's a quintessential guilty pleasure movie; you need to watch it at home with friends, drunk or high, and dance like an idiot during the musical numbers.
@ So sucky.
I still love this movie. I never expected it to be a good movie. It's just funny and I never bore of it. Sue me.
This movie is a farce akin to "Freddy Got Fingered." It's self-aware, and if one just calms down, it's hilarious.
Dice was virtually unknown outside of the US in those pre internet/Netflix days. In such markets the movie came with a lot less baggage.
I saw it on VHS back in the day and thought it was pretty funny.
Can I just applaud, like, everything about your commentary on Dice and his act?
*stands up and applauds with you* Hear, Hear!
@@lilelo208 Just keep saying it!
@@matthewdaley746 *claps with an angry vigor* HEAR,HEAR!HEAR,HEAR!HEAR,HEAR!HHHHEAAR,HHEAAARRR!!!!!
@@lilelo208 Just keep on clapping!
@@matthewdaley746 *DED*
You didn’t even mention the fact that this movie became very popular in Post-Communist Hungary because it was dubbed by a famous eccentric Hungarian musician and actor who added in much more profanity then what was in the English version. It’s still popular over there to this day.
Dear Mr Head
I have just recently discovered your channel and have been binging out ever since . Keep up the great work . My greatest fear is that Hollywood will stop turning out sewerage and you will be out of a job. Nah , never happen !
you are right. there has always been sensors there was with the hays/comics code for the movies and comics industries, every broadcast network has a standards and practices dept.
even the MPAA is a sensor of sorts
I’m on that Josie and the Pussycats Hill right with you! Vastly underrated. An amazing Pastiche!
I need to go to bed tonight so I can pass this test, but there’s a new episode of Cinematic Excrement. So.....
i like your pacing in this video. i think it was a good choice to place much less of those lingering awkward pauses in your commentary. keep up the good work!
I've watched quite a few of your videos now and what you said on this one was one of the best things I've heard so far. When you said, "the only way I can be offended by a joke is if it isn't funny. " I like that so much! I agree a hundred percent and with your permission hopefully I'm going to use that quote 😉
That makes all comedy done today is not funny SNL Late Night and many "Comedians" today are not even funny . Comedy today if you can call it that does not even compare to the comedy of the 70's to 90's even early 2000's. I guess that's why they are redoing all the good movies from back in the day because they have nothing today all they can do is redo good movies to try to make a buck because no one can write a good movie today to save their life in Hollywood.
He also said that censorship is "having standards", and that you have to "evolve", i.e. accept censorship, or be "left behind", i.e. be a thinking adult.
"555? Is that a real number?" "What? ya think this is real life?!" Love that line.
Your critique of Dice is fair but I've always loved this movie and quote it often (not always a good idea). I assume Hudson Hawk is next? That film was so ahead of it's time and like Ford; hardly the worst of it's year. The worst of 91 should be Another You.
I wonder if Andrew Dice Clay has ever heard of this quote from Mae West. “I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.”
I get the feeling that wasn't supposed to be a pro-censorship comment.
It wasnt. It means that both Dice Clay and Mae West have both deliberately created provacouter personas that profited from censorship. They weren't victims of censorship, they were intelligent business people who used censorship to further their careers.
@@badquestion4785 There is an important difference to be made between provocateurs whose acts are all about being provocative of the prudes and who enjoy or entice backlash and people who do their work because they want to do it and society happens to find that work provocative and goes after them. The second tend to be annoyed at controversy and some seem even surprised at them since they didn't consider any backlash or controversy in the first place and politely talk on the whole thing. Now there are plenty of people that kind of fluctuate between or mix both approaches (like Mel Brooks or George Carlin), and the provocateurs are somewhat necessary to soften some social tabus, but being weary of 100% provocateur for provocation's sake people is a good general policy.
@@vitorafmonteiro All those who can't/won't, adapt, vanish.
@@matthewdaley746 Quite true. Time is the best test, all in all.
Honestly, it is telling that George Carlin, another person who they claim is anti-PC, actually came out against Dice back in the day for the stuff Sean talks about.
11:31-11:36 - Renny Harlin also gave us Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger and The Long Kiss Goodnight - all pretty good movies. Heck, I even enjoyed Deep Blue Sea.
directing a Nightmare on Elm Street sequel seems to be a ticket to a decent but sadly unmemorable career. Just ask Stephen Hopkins or Chuck Russell.
Yes we’ll don’t forget he also gave us The Legend of Hercules and The Covenant.
@@marvelfan12 and "Driven" (2001 film)
And 12 Rounds
@@matthewdaley746 who gives a fuck what you think?
I have been waiting for this, dude.
THANK YOU
Racism and homophobia hahaha funny story, Mark. I don't get why people think comedy is supposed to offend and people. Comedy is supposed to be FUNNY. That's the most important part, guys.
MeShannan Because comedy always needs to have some level of misery. It’s the catharsis between two absurd premises that causes laughter.
That doesn’t mean offense automatically equals funny but it does mean no offense automatically equals unfunny.
No wonder the Left is stereotyped as being humorless. Which sucks because the Left used to be great at comedy. Maybe we shouldn’t have won the culture war.
Also I agree that Andrew Dice Clay is unfunny and George Carlin was way better at that shtick.
@@ashkitt7719 😂😂 this is a very silly comment. If something isn't FUNNY, it's not fucking comedy. Simple. Just saying "fuck this pc bullshit, I want slaves because I identify as a slave owner lol" isn't *funny*. It's old and tired. Maybe we should all seek out comedy that's funny and makes us think instead of saying offensive shit just for the sake of saying offensive shit.
Who is this "we" that won the culture war? And what was this culture war?
You know who used morality to refuse freedom?
People burning girls for religion.
You know that true "left" ideology is actually "offensive" by default, worry not, none of the people who advocate a "not offensive world" is really from the left.
Comedy is subjective my dude. Some people like offensive humor, some don't.
That's how it works.
Although I will agree it depends on how well executed the offensive joke works. Worst case scenario we get that infamous Loquiesha movie.
@@1r0zz who's refusing freedom??? Being criticized =/= being censored.
I don’t think it was mentioned in either review, but what’s your opinion on which was worse between Fant4stic and Fifty Shades of Grey?
I say Fifty Shades.
I’d say it’s a pick your poison kind of thing. Would you rather sit through a film trying to be dark and serious but is just boring, or would you rather sit through a terrible soap opera with bad sex?
@@animeotaku307 I'd rather do neither, and, I have done just that.
Matthew Daley Likewise. And my life is all the better for it.
@@animeotaku307 Same here, I can watch someone gawk at it for nothing, instead.
This has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. I like the characters and the setting.
To answer your question about how Julian was making money ripping his company off, I believe record companies have to pay royalties to bands for every record, cd, and cassette they sell to record stores in the 90’s. This is probably documented when the discs are manufactured at their factory. However, if he could make copies in another location, and sell them on the street, he wouldn’t have to share the profits with the bands, and could keep all the money for himself.
This movie will always rule!
It's so funny and endlessly quotable.
I love this movie... I've always loved this movie!
😂😂😂
Plus... Morris Day and Wayne Newton!
Enough said!
💙
Man, every time an episode of this comes out I become profoundly happy - not just because they're always great, but because I know that every episode is bringing Smeghead closer to modern dreck like Freddy Got Fingered and Holmes and Watson and The Emoji Movie, which I honestly think he's going to hate even more than this early stuff.
Used to love this movie. Never understood why it did not do better.
Renny Harlin also directed NoElmSt. 4. Hence that Freddy crossover.
I think rapid success can trap a comedian. Like, you don't have a very developed routine, and you go out there and say a bunch of trashy stuff, and overnight you're huge - what do you do? Changing it up becomes a risk; playing gross racist keeps the jack rolling in.
LOL! I almost forgot about Dice! Well done again, Broski! You deserve all of the cookies! 🍪
"none of this makes any sense!" aka a good sign that a movie will end up on this channel!
Hey sean what are you going to do for the ten year anniversary?
The Room probably
Josie and the Pussycats was an interesting film to me. I liked how it poked fun of pop music and how quickly stars fade
I saw Ford Fairlane in the theater when it came out. The movie is definitely a product of its time, especially since it starred Dice Clay at the height of his comedy career. However, we didn't see the movie as a comedy, and that might have been what the director was going for. It had its funny moments, and plenty of forced-comedy, but overall the film was more of a crime drama. As the audience, we all knew about Dice Clay and his humor, so this "dramatic" version of the Dice character was a welcome change at the time. He was still The Dice Man, but was playing an interesting character, a private detective. Also, he drove a cool car with an awesome convertible top, an in-dash CD player (which was basically science fiction at the time), and featured CD ROMs which most of us had never seen before.
Looking back, Ford Fairlane is cheesy as hell and is overall pretty bad, but in its time it was an enjoyable film for Dice fans, I suppose.
Great film, and ‘The Day the Laughter Died’ is beyond comedy. It’s art.
In the 90’s I won front row tickets from a radio station to one of his shows . My girlfriend at the time refused to go because was terrified he would start talking to her and make fun of her . She was probably right as she did look at the time like a stereotypical female that he would’ve attacked. I told her that would be great if he called on you. Maybe we could be in his next recording. I didn’t go 😢😢😢
Boy, ADC did not age well - probably lucky for him he's forgotten
I'm a little late to the party but the "Little Miss Muffet" skit was done by Funkadelic ten years earlier in a song. He's also a thief.
I don't know how I only first found your channel yesterday.
Keep up the good work. I really like the way you critique and have a sarcastic sense of humor great thanks a lot for everything
Wayne Newton? Didn't he also have a small role in Licence to Kill?
I'm gonna say the same thing I said about Joe Don Baker in Leonard Part 6: don't remind me of the Timothy Dalton Bond movies because they're both infinitely better than any movie Sean will ever review in this series.
Timothy Dalton's 007 films were as underrated as Roger Moore's were overrated.
@@matthewdaley746 That's not entirely fair. Octopussy was really enjoyable.
@@Betta66 Roger Moore made SEVEN Bond films. When he stopped he was 57. He was older than the MOTHER of Tanya Roberts. At the time there were 14 TOTAL Bond films. Other than Octopussy, they weren't very good.
@@matthewdaley746 He himself said he quit specifically because of his advanced age. I liked A View To A Kill, but if they had given it to Brosnan or Dalton, it would've worked better. Sure, they would've needed to rewrite the script to better suit Dalton if they gave it to him, but that elevator escape would have been so perfect for him.
"Wayne Newton? Didn't he also have a small role in Licence to Kill?" Bless your heart, he did :)
I was a big fan of Dice growing up. I actually like Ford Fairlane better than Josie and the Pussycats.
You like Dice because you liked Duke Nukem 3D when you were a kid. Nothing strange about it. To be honest we are all raised on 80s "toxic masculinity" jokes and those were all great.
@@Unwoken_European 🙄
What’s worse for Billy Idol? The motorcycle accident, being in this movie, or the fact that (after he recovered from said accident) he released Cyberpunk, an album so bad he imploded into self-parody.
Idol's "Cradle of Love," his last major hit, was on the soundtrack for this film. (Alas, that soundtrack did not include the 12" club mix of "Booty Time" we so richly deserve.)
Todd in the Shadows reviewed "Cyberpunk" for his Trainwreckords series. He actually liked some of the songs, but the sci-fi trappings were kind of half-assed.
@@zombiedodge1426 Not kinda.
Regarding his comedy, you either love it or hate it. I absolutely loved it. The Dangerfield's set took place when I was in my senior year of highschool. He just exuded the most extreme version of the NYC IDGAF attitude. Having said all that, I only saw this movie once. Wasn't a movie I felt obligated to rewatch. Lol. When he cried on Arsenio the night before this flick premiered, that one moment ended his career. Took the edge off of his persona which was the hook of his come up
I didn't notice that Morris Day and Sheila E, both Prince proteges, were in this movie. I'm a huge Prince fan but like I said, I only saw this once
The problem is that Social Media gives everyone a "microphone". The bigger the mouth the fame you get!
That's not why. You sound like an old idiot
@@kellyrobinson6543 Social media still can often pose a very big problem.
You had me at “Blazing Saddles” 👍
8:22 might be the most surreal thing I've seen all week, and the week's not even close to over yet...
Another example on how stupid people think PC and cancel culture is a recent phenomenon is Blazing Saddles. That movie almost didn't get made because the studio thought it would be considered too racist because of how many times the n word is said. And that movie was made in the 70's
Koalas aren’t bears.
11:33, Renny Harlin also directed Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger.
Gotta give him credit. At least he made a good movie in 1990 to go along with the bad (Die Hard 2), and then another good film three years later to make up for it (Cliffhanger).
Shaine White really?
And The Long Kiss Goodnight.
Then again, he also directed The Legend of Hercules, which Smeg previously reviewed.
@@CyberkillGames Urgh, don't remind me.
Renny Harlin also directed Die Hard 2, so he basically competed with himself at the box office.
Weirdly funny
@@tristanhartup4936 I forget all but the first, and, third, films happened.
Quick summary of Blazing Saddles:
President Obama and FOX News.
@Oriental Studios Under normal circumstances, I would agree with you. However, this is Fox News we're talking about.
I find the Soundtrack for Josie and the Pussycats movie was and still is criminally underrated. God Bless you Kay Hanley.
3:48 I personally can't take anyone seriously if they say I have "Deranged Trump Syndrome"... =3=
ErinPrimette Like many things it’s the overuse that killed it.
For example I would say it’s accurate when referring to CNN giving a platform to a neo-Nazi solely because he didn’t support Trump. But any statement critical of Trump and his policies will inevitably be met with such an accusation.
Well... _do_ you have DTS?
It has a simple cure... just remember: _he will be out in 2020_
and maybe re-elected, as the democrats have a white woman who claims to be a Native American Indian and an old white guy who likes to grope children a little too much.
But hey... you never know. Democrats don’t have standards, so anything is possible.
Ash Kitt I think it’s accurate when referring to CNN. Or the Washington Post. Or the New York Times. Hell, even Fox is getting in on the action.
@@TheRealNormanBates You really are "Moronville".
RICHARD PRYOR CO-WROTE BLAZING SADDLES AND I DIDN'T KNOW TILL I WATCHED THIS VIDEO! HOW COULD I BE SUCH A GIANT MORON? Also Koala's aren't bear's. You were doing so well up till that point.
V-REX 626 They wanted him to star too but it didn’t work out.
@ Trading Places was supposed to star Richard Pryor, and, Gene Wilder, but the former had an accident, and, the latter was later replaced by Dan Aykroyd.
@@matthewdaley746 Okay, thanks for the info!
Thank you for saying anti-wokes try to deceive us with all this "nowadays/GenZ" ranting. OMG! Star Trek TNG had men in dresses 35 years ago. Lol.
Morris Day and the Time = Jay and Silent Bob's favorite band.
Finally! People act as if SJWs were the only ones to whine and censor shit in our current timeline. I was born in 1983 in a Conservative house there's a shit ton of thing that I wasn't allowed to even know EXISTED until I reached majority! (It didnt always worked but y'know, they tried really hard)
17:07 That motorcycle accident is the reason you only see Billy from the waist up in the music video for "Cradle of Love". Random bit of trivia, but yeah.
I haven't checked, but I suspect next month we'll be swingin' on a star.
This is an awesome movie, and a cult classic. Not only that, but Lauren Holly looks smokin' hot in it.
The statement about PC and cancel culture not being new? Thanks for that. I keep trying to tell people.
Song of the South was criticized heavily when it was released and that was in the 1940s. I also appreciated Sean’s rant because I’ve also grown sick of those people complaining that PC culture is a new thing when history says otherwise.
Do you think the joke with Englund's character not staying dead is a reference to how Freddy Kreuger never stays dead?
Wouldn't be surprised
I can see that, after all he is Freddy.
subtle humor like he's falling off that building"my hair,my hair?
He did an episode of MASH back in the late 70s IIRC.
Not all Evolution is good.
Dice was entertaining for about a year after he first hit the seen, and after you got used to the shock and offensiveness his act lost it's funny.
Richard Pryor once said that cursing should not be the joke. A joke should be just as funny with all the curse words removed.
If you take all the curse words out of Dice's act, it turns into just a guy dressed like he's in Grease ranting uncomfortably.
He was also in the 1995 series BLESS THIS HOUSE, a blue-collar family sitcom that owed such a debt to THE HONEYMOONERS that his wife was called Alice!
It’s been maybe 25 years since I’ve seen it but I remember loving it. 🤷🏻♂️
As an explanation about why some people find his "I'm a bigoted shite" act funny: if being on the internet since the early days of RUclips has taught me anything, it's that there are a LOOOOOOOOOOOT of people who think being a bigoted shite is, in and of itself, funny. And a lot of them will act like you're a humourless moron for not agreeing.
Sadly, you have a point. I can explain until I’m blue in the face why “bigotry lol” jokes aren’t funny like “here’s a silly thing about x group” jokes, but I’ll just get called a whiny SJW.
@@animeotaku307 Those who tell the truth get punished for being right.
Actual review starts at 11:30.
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane...trash gold.
Dice was born Andrew Silverstein in Brooklyn. My aunt and uncle lived in an apartment on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn and my cousins were childhood friends of his. He was just little Andy Silverstein then, a cute little kid.
I’ve gotta say, after seeing the critical backlash to Dave Chappelle’s “Sticks and Stones” special; Bruno Mars be accused of cultural appropriation; Count Dankula be punished in a legal court and branded “grossly offensive” for daring to make fun of Nazis; fans of Alita: Battle Angel be associated with the alt-right; and a news article try to paint Taylor Swift as a phony ally to the LGBT community, (among so many other things) I can’t agree with you about the state of comedy and current trends of censorship and outrage. (Not entirely, anyways) But I can agree with you this guy ain’t very funny.
We have another white person that's apart of the problem 🙄
Kelly Robinson
Making a guess about my race is not an effective argument tactic. The fact that you think it is, however, is rather telling.
@@ursaminor9780 It says something, and, that something is so, bad, indeed.
Where can I stream FF? Can’t even rent it anywhere.
I would not mind a legacy sequel to this movie with Andrew Dice Clay