I can't believe that we all thought this film was funny back in the 80s. I just watched it on Encore and I couldn't believe how lame it was. And to think Fast Times at Ridgemont High came out in the same year--no comparison.
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It's lame because they spy on girls and get revenge of strip club owners?
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Count, i am bitterly disappointed in you.
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Sorry, sandman, gotta call 'em like I see 'em. All the while I was watching the film the other night I kept shaking my head at how incredibly dated and cheesy the jokes were, and al the time asking myself "How in the HELL could you have thought this stuff was funny back in the 80s?"
Where have you been hiding anyway?
"Stick with me baby, and you'll be fartin' thru silk!"
Sorry, sandman, gotta call 'em like I see 'em. All the while I was watching the film the other night I kept shaking my head at how incredibly dated and cheesy the jokes were, and al the time asking myself "How in the HELL could you have thought this stuff was funny back in the 80s?"
Stay off the drugs people. Porky's is a comedy classic that stands the test of time. To say otherwise is heresy! lol
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CountSuckula, your name says it all. Porky's is a classic...go watch your American Pie.
shareI agree Count...I was a couple of years out of HS when this movie came out and I absolutely cringed when I first saw the movie. Not because I was offended by the scenes or the gags. I found none of the scenes made any sense. I mean, why would anyone stick their penis in a hole in the wall and not wonder what is going on on the other side of the wall? The "Mike Hunt" gag was about as cheap of a scene you could think of. The dialogue and the acting were lame, and the entire premise was over-the-top...it was lame then and it's maintained it's lameness all these years.
shareThe "Mike Hunt" gag was about as cheap of a scene you could think of.
The dialogue and the acting were lame...
and the entire premise was over-the-top
"I'm sure a lot of people say that until they admit they probably never would have thought of it themselves."
That's my point, the guys who wrote the script didn't think of this either, this is as old of a joke as the name "Mike Hunt"...
"Well it is a sex comedy."
If it had just been just a sex comedy, then I would agree, but it also interwove this story about anti-Semitism. I guess this was an attempt to bring realism to the story. Problem was this, they were addressing present-day issues and present-day solutions with a 1950's setting. There was little or no concern of this in a pre Civil Rights period...especially in the South!
but it also interwove this story about anti-Semitism. I guess this was an attempt to bring realism to the story. Problem was this, they were addressing present-day issues and present-day solutions with a 1950's setting.
It is bad.
I was 10 when it came out and it had the same status as a porn film from what I had heard about it. Even looking at the cover in a video shop was naughty.
The infamous shower scene was legendary.
And then I saw it last night after 30 years and have no idea what the hype was all about.
Terrible film of no names other than one that couldn't act, sitting there thinking 'this is a comedy?'.
The coach that spends most of the portion of the film laughing is quite atrocious.
Gave it a 4 and am of the opinion that I would like the 2h 2m minus skipped adverts that it showed as on my PVR.
If, like on another thread, it was the last of a breed, extinction isn't all bad after all. And I can't stand American Pie either.
I like Fast Times but let's be serious, if it wasn't for Jeff Spicoli that movie would be a teenage drama with very little comedy.
shareu watched it on TV where they cut out all the good parts
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I was in 1st grade in 1981, but a few years later was when we got cable TV and a VCR. My dad recorded Porky's, and I remember sneaking it out of his bedroom closet to enjoy during the latchkey kid days...I only had the house to myself for an hour or so, so I wouldn't usually watch the whole movie.
Many years later, I got the film and watched it as an adult, and found it to be a very good period piece featuring horny high school kids doing anything it takes to get laid. But they also tackle some other issues, such as racism and oppressive obscenity laws. Porky's II featured a very memorable scene between an evangelist and the nerdy principal where they have a showdown over whether Shakespeare or the Bible were more obscene. Not as memorable as all the bald naked Klansmen running around the rally. And Porky's revenge not only saw Tommy getting paid back for everything that he did to Pee Wee, as well as Beulah reconnecting with her long lost love.
In a lot of ways, Pee Wee is, Ralphie from A Christmas Story, but a bit more grown up, and interested in something different than a BB gun.