Only 4 ops on here that generate money. Printer, Breadmaker, Just for Men & Wet N Wild. The others...
Only 4 ops on here that generate money. Printer, Breadmaker, Just for Men & Wet N Wild. The others are purely decorative. My stupid printer op is now worthy of 2p, but all reads were done before the payments. Ciao know best.
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Sorry about the above title. I know everybody is complaining about putting titles up that are just a hook into getting you to read them and then the op turns out to be drivel. Well, this one isn't. Although the film I'm giving the op about IS drivel. Tom Greene is a comedian and MTV host. He is best known for being the guy with the goatee telling the story of Road Trip. He is in an advert for antiperspirant with some tigers and I believe he's also married to Drew Barrymore, who makes a cameo appearance.
~Synopsis~
Gordy (Tome Green) is 28 and still lives at home with his parents (Rip Torn & Julie Hagerty) and dreams of becoming an animator with his cartoons he's been drawing. We heads off to Hollywood to seek his dreams and gets the door slammed in his face, so he turns tail and goes home to his parents. He then tries to re-build his relationship with his father, who thinks of his son as a loser.
~Cast~
Tom Green..............Gord Brody Rip Torn...............Jim Brody Marisa Coughlan........Betty Eddie Kaye Thomas......Freddy Brody Harland Williams.......Darren Anthony Michael Hall...Mr. Davidson Julie Hagerty..........Julie Brody
Freddy Got Fingered is bound to instantly conjure up an image in your mind and then that said image is bound to be replaced with thoughts of policemen collaring a criminal or a mobster finding out his associate is creaming off some of the profits. Well gentle reader, you'd have been better off sticking with that first infantile image.
This is without doubt one of the worst films I've ever had the misfortune to watch. Looking back now, I am angry at myself for not walking out. I think I was just in a state of shock and couldn't move.
There are so many disgusting scenes in this film, I just don't know where to start and I usually love over the top nonsense, i.e. Peter Jackson's Brain Dead. Our hero masturbating a horse (and I mean really masturbating, it didn't look like special effects), or how about him wearing the freshly killed carcass of a deer, or maybe swinging a stillborn baby around his head by the umbilical cord while the distraught mother is splattered in blood? Your cup of tea? Double Grande Latte for me please! And please don't get me started on the wheelchair-bound girlfriend.
Tom Green, who I admit was great in Road Trip, here seems to think that by saying each line 3 times this somehow makes it intrinsically funny. Well it doesn't. He can't even blame the writer for bad dialogue or the director for steering his performance badly, because he was two and the same. I feel especially sorry for Rip Torn, one of the reasons that The Larry Sanders Show is such an excellent series, because it's just embarrassing to see him in this.
Towards the end of the movie, there is a crowd of demonstrators and one person is holding a sign saying WHEN IS THIS MOVIE GOING TO END?, and I was just thinking the same thing myself. During the credits they show out-takes and Tom Green is seen to stop at the end of one scene and say "What are we doing here?". Well mate, you should have thought of that before you put pen to paper.
One film critic in America said that it scraped the bottom of the barrel, but that would give barrels a bad name and I have to agree.
The only saving grace of the whole evening was that as we were leaving the multiplex, we saw that another screen was just about to start showing The Mummy Returns, so we sneaked in and only then did we did get our money's worth.
And again I hate to go on about it, but please don't go and see this movie. Tom Green should be punished. Wait until it's shown free on television.
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Production Year: 2003 - Comedy - Director: John Crowley - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Colin Farrell, Shirley Henderson, Cillian Murphy, Colm Meaney, Rory Keenan, Laurence Kinlan
Comedy - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Tessa Peake-Jones, Buster Merryfield, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
(+) Because of the new series the box set isn't complete, which means it will be cheaper! (-) It isnt the complete box set so you'll have to buy the new dvds seperatly or wait for the new set!
i completely understand you review. it is vulgar and crude and will probably offend or put off many people. The title suggests as you say what sort of calibre the film is going to be. however, i have to disagree with you. i know it is a stupid film but if thats what you are expecting then one can find the funny side of it. it is pure random stupidity from a rather random personality. i think thats why i liked it... it is one of a kind!
Punkslut 09.06.2002 13:27
thanks for saving me from a terrible film! my boyf wanted to see it, so i showed him this op. It got sorted =) thanks, sofie
Evep 15.05.2002 20:58
I rented this a few days ago and can't beleive how bad it was. I wish I read this first and saved my money.
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Advantages: Great Soundtrack, funny in places,Rip Torn, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Marisa Coughlan Disadvantages: Too much like the Tom Green Show, Weak Plot by numbers that really detracts from the potential
DuncanCatterall 14.06.2004 (15.06.2004)
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Review of Freddy Got Fingered (DVD)
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Oct 22nd, 2001
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