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Best Monty Python film?
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Not Meowth
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I've seen all. Life of Brian was a disappointment imo.
And And Now For Something Completely Different comes in the Monty Python Movies boxset, so...
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True, but still, it is real long... *shot*
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Life of Brian (not "Brain", by the way). For a number of great reasons.
- Brian is actually sympathetic. Well, Arthur is too, to a degree, but Brian is more so. And he gets crucified, and we all know what that does to my opinion of him. :D
- It has a plot. Holy Grail feels like a collection of fairy-tale-like sketches loosely tied together by a red thread which ends up never really going anywhere. Life of Brian, aside from the random alien abduction scene, all hangs together into a film with a story (if a rather weird one).
- Its anticlimax is not quite as bad as Holy Grail's, mostly because it is more amusing. The first time I saw Holy Grail and that ending appeared, I just stared blankly at the screen and thought "Whut, that was lame." Give me a bunch of crucified guys singing about looking at the bright side of life over that any day. At least there was some sort of conclusion to it. (Yeah, call my sense of humour lacking, but satisfying endings are important to my overall enjoyment of things and even though the Monty Python movies in general are some of the most anticlimatic anything you can find, at least Life of Brian is not quite as bad.)
- Life of Brian is satire, meaning it has a very interesting intelligent point to it, unlike Holy Grail which is just silly. Silliness is fun and all, but Life of Brian is both silly and intelligent.
- Life of Brian is funnier. Honestly. At least I think so. They could make something as lame as the name 'Biggus Dickus' nearly send me rolling out of my chair with just how the scene was set up. That's true genius.
Not that I don't love Holy Grail too. I just like Life of Brian so much more. <3
- Brian is actually sympathetic. Well, Arthur is too, to a degree, but Brian is more so. And he gets crucified, and we all know what that does to my opinion of him. :D
- It has a plot. Holy Grail feels like a collection of fairy-tale-like sketches loosely tied together by a red thread which ends up never really going anywhere. Life of Brian, aside from the random alien abduction scene, all hangs together into a film with a story (if a rather weird one).
- Its anticlimax is not quite as bad as Holy Grail's, mostly because it is more amusing. The first time I saw Holy Grail and that ending appeared, I just stared blankly at the screen and thought "Whut, that was lame." Give me a bunch of crucified guys singing about looking at the bright side of life over that any day. At least there was some sort of conclusion to it. (Yeah, call my sense of humour lacking, but satisfying endings are important to my overall enjoyment of things and even though the Monty Python movies in general are some of the most anticlimatic anything you can find, at least Life of Brian is not quite as bad.)
- Life of Brian is satire, meaning it has a very interesting intelligent point to it, unlike Holy Grail which is just silly. Silliness is fun and all, but Life of Brian is both silly and intelligent.
- Life of Brian is funnier. Honestly. At least I think so. They could make something as lame as the name 'Biggus Dickus' nearly send me rolling out of my chair with just how the scene was set up. That's true genius.
Not that I don't love Holy Grail too. I just like Life of Brian so much more. <3
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Not Meowth
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Sorry. Typo. *facepalm*
Agreed, I didn't get that at all...
Silliness is a massive part of Monty Python. True, intelligence is as well, and a mixture of the two, or something that seems like seriousness but turns out to be utterly ridiculous.
I think the exact opposite, really. Meh, not everyone has the same taste in humour.
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Never seen Meaning of Life (couldn't find it at the library D:) or Something Different or most of the Flying Circus episodes, ugh.
I guess I liked Life of Brian more, but not by a whole lot. Then again, I do have the sense of humor of an eight year-old so rampant stupidity will usually make me laugh pretty hard anyway.
I guess I liked Life of Brian more, but not by a whole lot. Then again, I do have the sense of humor of an eight year-old so rampant stupidity will usually make me laugh pretty hard anyway.
Not Meowth
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You're typical of many people, unfortunately.