how can anybody give this movie a rating of 7.5. This must be one of the most stupid movies i've ever seen. Nothing makes sense in it, it's slapstick humor for kids that like when somebody draws a funny face or slides over a banana. It's not funny.
And how anybody can compare this to the 'big lebowski' which is indeed very funny and is absolutely ten times better than this piece of nonsense is beyond me.
I completely agree with you.
This was the most stupid freak show I've ever seen.
Waste of my time.
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Dude The Big Lebowski is so overrated it's not even funny
shareI completely agree with you deepblue501
shareThere may be a lot of lowbrow humor - very funny lowbrow humor - in RA, but the movie as a whole is crafted with intelligence and wit as per usual with the Coens.
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Used Cars is a little-known comedic gem, written and directed by the same guys who did 1941 and Back to the Future. I cannot resist watching at least part of Used Cars, whenever it is on cable.
When Kurt Russell is trying to sell a car to couples of various ethnicities, he drops a 10 dollar bill on the ground and pretends he finds it and gives it to the customers, and then he changes his name and accent based on whether they are black, mexican, irish, polish....literally cracks me up every time.
Rudy: What's your name?
Customer: Stanley Dewalski.
Rudy: What a coincidence! Rudy Polanski.
Rudy: Morning! Hi, there, Mr and Mrs...?
Customer: O'hara
Rudy: Rudy O'Brien...how are ya?
Rudy: Hi, there, Mr and Mrs...?
Customer: Lopez, señor.
Rudy: Rudy Garcia...take a look at this CH-evy, man. I just noticed something else. Mrs Lopez, do you realize - that your hair matches the color of these tires?
Rudy: Hi, there, Mr and Mrs...?
Customer: Jackson.
Rudy: Hey, Rudy Washington Carver. You checking out this Cadillac?
However, I must disagree about Raising Arizona. Your view might be skewed because you think it's not 'realistic', but geez Louise, it's a Coen brothers movie, I think realism is pretty low on their totem pole of importance. This does not make it any less funnier to me, and although it wasn't a massive hit movie, it made pretty good coin for the time, and has remained a cult favorite for many people including myelf.
I agree with you deepblue501! I first saw it when I was a child and found it totally boring and stupid and I haven't changed my mind about it since. Anyone who thinks this is intelligent, witty and well crafted surely must think "Police Academy" is a masterpiece.
It's just my opinion but I think "Raising Arizona" is just one more of those mediocre or dull 80s comedies (and there were many of them) such as "Uncle Buck", "Twins", "Look Who's Talking", "Cannonball Run", "Mannequin", "Howard the Duck", "3 Men and a Baby", "Two Of A Kind", "Earth Girls are Easy", "Stir Crazy", "My Stepmother is an Alien", "Club Paradise", etc.
It's definitely not in the same league as "Back To The Future", "Ghostbusters", let alone "This Is Spinal Tap", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "A Fish Called Wanda", "The Meaning of Life" or "Whitnail & I".
I guess it just wasn't your vibe. The slapstick is there without a doubt, but is a counterpoint to the serious themes that are being addressed in alegorical and symbolic ways. Not everyone is going to find this funny.
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I think the rule should be that the argument is automatically lost when one begins to compare whatever movie one does not like with an assortment of other movies that the person in question also does not like.
Comparing Raising Arizona to Police Academy makes you seem like a *beep* moron dude.
Raising Arizona is a classic. C-L-A-S-S-I-C. If you don't like it, then that's that. But it really displays a gross amount of intellectual insecurity when your biggest debating point revolves around the assumption that you are smarter then everyone else, namely, people who like Police Academy.
I think the people not enjoying the film either aren't that literate and/or have a tin ear for dialogue. Listening to the dialog in Coen films is a lot of the fun, at least for me.
To compare RA to a mass-audience comedy like Police Academy is just ludicrous.
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