"Multi-reasonably talented" "The most prolific, undiscovered, ok talent in the history of Brisbane". I've been knocking on the door of production houses, TV stations and film bodies for 35 years plus without anyone taking much interest. I gave stand up a go and although I did well at it I could see in Brisbane it was a road to nowhere. 15 film scripts 3 sitcom pilots plus episodes. One 6 part mocumentary series Hundreds of comedy sketches Hours of stand up material.
Saturday, April 16, 2016
FILM REVIEWS :CAT BALLOU & THE GOOD GUYS and the BAD GUYS
Two films I've watched recently. Both Comedy westerns
CAT BALLOU 1965
IMDB RATING 6.9
AFI Funniest 100 films Rating Number 50
Starring : Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin
Directed by : Eliot Silverstein
Screenplay : Walter Newman and Frank R Pierson
Based on a novel by : Ray Chanslor
THE GOOD GUYS & THE BAD GUYS 1969
Robert Mitchum and George Kennedy & Tina Louise
IMDB RATING
6.2
Directed by Burt Kennedy
Screenplay
Ronald M Cohen and Dennis Shryack
Cat Ballou was huge hit and The Good Guys and the Bad Guys not so.
These two films are lightweight comedy westerns, but the word lightweight is more appropriate than comedy.
Sure lots of mildly amusing things happen, like in Cat Ballou there's a guy who fires his gun and from 20 metres away misses a barn and in The Good Guys and the Bad Guys there are people chasing a runaway train in cars and on horses.
The banter is cute and snappy and the actors are all smiling and having a great time so there's some entertainment value.........but mainly for them.
CAT BALLOU made NO 50 in the AFI top 100 comedies of all time and this is beyond my comprehension. There has to be a criteria and it just doesn't make the criteria. The criteria has to include funny and it's not funny it's mildly humourous.
I can watch Jane Fonda in anything and Tina Louise is so drop dead gorgeous in The Good Guys and the Bad Guys it makes me wonder why she didn't get more work. Seriously.
But there is a bottom line here and the bottom line here is there are no funny lines, no laughs, especially no belly laughs and the stark reality is that without funny lines, it aint comedy.
