2001: A Space Travesty

[edonline]

Judging by Jo's review, I suppose that I'm lucky that I didn't have to sit through the entire film but rather downloaded the trailer (that's why this is being posted here rather than "What did you think?"; don't want to break any of Jo's rules).

Leslie Nielsen has done this schtick before and it was a lot more funny, now it seems dated and boring. Mr. Nielsen, please take some constructive criticism -- leave these types of movies alone for a while, perhaps do something dramatic.

[gyro_44]

Leslie Nielsen is a genius... his deadpan shtick is classic, and movies like "The Naked Gun" series and "Airplane" will always make me laugh. However -- and this is especially evident in his recent stinkers -- he seems so much better than the material. I saw the trailer for "A Space Travesty", and it looks absolutely fucking terrible. I agree, it's time for Leslie to enter retirement. I would just love to see one more quality spoof film written for him, because he deserves it.

I love the guy and it pains me to see him in such dreck and "Spy Hard" and this latest debacle (though, I don't plan on actually SEEING it). I found "Wrongfully Accused" quite funny, even though most of the jokes fell flat. I wonder if I'm all alone with that conclusion...

[Nate6]

He should actually stick to his current job, host of the hilarious Canadian show "Liography", a parody of A&E's "Biography". It's great, and he's great in it.

[idealdiscountdude]

It opened here in Halifax last Friday and today, one week later it is gone....tells you how many people wanted to see this one http://www.joblo.com/ubb/wink.gif....hell even Bubble Boy and Soul Survivors played here for 3 weeks!!!!!

[loner]

Leslie Neilson is only funny when he works with the Zucker brothers. All the other comedies that he has made without them have been painfully unfunny.

[Nate6]

They must have had NO advertising budget, since the IMDb says it opened here on September 7th. I'd never heard of it until Jo reviewed it, although I'm sure if I had read The Daily News or The Chronicle Herald close enough, I would have realized that it had been in Halifax.

[idealdiscountdude]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Nate6:
They must have had NO advertising budget, since the IMDb says it opened here on September 7th. I'd never heard of it until Jo reviewed it, although I'm sure if I had read The Daily News or The Chronicle Herald close enough, I would have realized that it had been in Halifax.</font>

Yeah it was palying here at Park Lane...it opened on November 30th and closed December 6th...hehe....the poster and traielr were terrible, why this was released in theatres is beyond me!!!

[LordKaruku]

So if this piece of crap was funded and released, why the hell wasn't Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey re-released nationwide this year, like MGM has been promising for years it would be? I mean, for God's sakes, it's been obvious all year that its still in the collective pop culture: HAL, the monolith, et al. If The Exorcist could be successfully re-released, why not 2001? Those fuck-ups at MGM really dropped the ball on this one. I mean, for God's sakes, how can you LOSE money on a re-release??

[Nate6]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by LordKaruku:
So if this piece of crap was funded and released, why the hell wasn't Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey re-released nationwide this year, like MGM has been promising for years it would be? I mean, for God's sakes, it's been obvious all year that its still in the collective pop culture: HAL, the monolith, et al. If The Exorcist could be successfully re-released, why not 2001? Those fuck-ups at MGM really dropped the ball on this one. I mean, for God's sakes, how can you LOSE money on a re-release??</font>

Well recently MGM hasn't exactly been an on-the-ball studio, so they're obviously too stupid to realize how much profit they could make off of a release of 2001. A cool time to have rereleased it would have been January 1, 2001. I can think of the irony now!

Rereleasing isn't exactly expensive, all it takes is a little touch-up, the addition of some deleted scenes, and the distribution to theater owners. I suppose with the advent of DVD however, people aren't as excited to go out and see a newly refurbished movie when they can buy it PLUS have all the extras. And that's unfortunate, because there's nothing like seeing a big movie like 2001: A Space Odyssey on a big screen with big sound.