The three stooges that is, Nuck, nuck, nuck
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/14606.html
I can't imagine any chance of this being a success.
Does anyone in Hollywood ever have any new ideas?
I can't believe Sean Penn would go anywhere near Jim Carry!
:o
And the thought of Benicio Del Toro playing Moe makes me shudder.
That would be the most brilliant casting decision since David Johansen as Gunther Toody in Car 54, Where Are You? (another brilliant Hollywood remake).
Sean Penn doesn't have one tenth the comedic talent that Larry Fine had.
Quote from: Rocker949 on March 26, 2009, 02:18:03 PM
Sean Penn doesn't have one tenth the comedic talent that Larry Fine had.
Agreed ! They should leave this alone.
I suspect that the reaction of those 25 and under will be somewhat different than that of us with grey hair. There is always a strong reaction (and I share it) in favor of the originals, but when you may not have seen the originals, your mind is more open. ???
I'm not even saying that's a good thing - just that it does happen.
I don't think so. Nobody who isn't familiar with the real Stooges is going to be interested, regardless of age, and I can't see many of those people wanting to see an imitation.
Hell, Joe Besser's ghost would be better than Sean Penn.
I still remember Curley Joe!
The memory burns!
Curly Joe was Joe DeRita, the one who resembled Curly Howard. He came after Joe Besser, who joined after Shemp died.
Curly Joe was bad, Joe Besser was awful.
Without someone who could do the right "nyuk-nyuk-nyuk", there would be no Stooges.
Gent's... it could be worse... they could go for a biopic of the Marx Bros...
(fyi, not that that's worth 2 brass nickles... used to have 3 little furry creatures stuck to the top of my Hiwatt nicknamed "L,C&M", my "Good-Gig" charms- always favoured Larry's hairstyle, m'self... ;))
We used to have the "Saturday Morning Pictures" as our weekend entertainment as kids in the sixties and would often see their films, re-run... just don't make em like they used ta...
Pilgrim... I remember hair...
Sean Penn must be good for some comedic value, he was married to Madonna, after all...
"LARRY, MOE....CHEESE!!! NO ROUGFORT!!!" ;D ;D
Haven't seen one of these for years but I watched them on local TV every morning before school all the way up to higschool - bet I still can recite most of the lines! :) :)
I just spent 5 minutes watching this, you tell me how Penn, Carrey and Del Toro could ever begin to come close.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVdUsgYA_D4
I dont think I can ever except anyone else as the three Stooges, although I did enjoy the mini series awile back (by Mel Gibson?) about their story. That was pretty insightfull
Nobody did Larry Fine's voice better than Billy West. They even made him up like Larry on the old Howard Stern TV show in the early 90s. Of course, he doesn't have the scary acting talent of Sean Penn, whose most memorable role is STILL that of Jeff Spicoli. ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMYUsLsVI_0
So much of their appeal was the ability to take their Vaudville talents and make the transition to the big screen. I don't know how a new generation will react and if their are actors with those skills and are they nessesary for I remake. Me I think they are. Though in thinking about it even when I was a kid the stooges were OLD stuff ! My Dad got a kick out of us watching them on TV he of course saw them in the theater in the late '20s and '40s, so maybe the their is another generation who are ripe for this kind of entertainment. I still love 'em nothing well ever top the originals, just classic.
There was a theater here in Northern NJ where we used to go on Friday nights to watch uncut Stooges and Little Rascals shorts back in the late 70s / early 80s.
Quote from: Barklessdog on March 28, 2009, 04:48:56 AM
I dont think I can ever except anyone else as the three Stooges, although I did enjoy the mini series awile back (by Mel Gibson?) about their story. That was pretty insightfull
I remember that one, too. I was never a Stooges fan--although I'm well entrenched in the demographic--but for me, the press around this latest remake is going to be great, much better than the movie itself could ever be. What would be better, IMHO, would be to go with Moe & Larry as cast, but for the Curly role they should do as a CG character, along the lines of the Hulk. The idea of this movie is so dada that they might as well go full bore to the total ludicrous.
There is one episode with BOTH Curly and Shemp. It was after Curly had officially left. It was a scene in an old West train. Curly has a cameo (with a little hair) as a passenger reading a book.
Title: Hold That Lion
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Year: 1947
Stooges: Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Moe Howard, Shemp Howard
Director(s): Jules White
Producer(s): Jules White
Story By: Felix Adler
Screenwriter(s): Felix Adler
Actor(s): Dudley Dickerson, Kenneth MacDonald, Emil Sitka
Description: The Stooges go after a crooked investment broker who has stolen their inheritance money. Curly makes a cameo appearance as a passenger on the train. The only Stooge short in which brothers Moe, Curly and Shemp appear together.
Length: 16:27
Nobody could snore (http://www.wallofshemp.com/WAV/jibjib.wav) like Shemp.
BUMMER Dave... that youtube is BLOCKED in the UK...?...!...?
If they're gonna go this far then let's speculate just for fun who they would be casting if there's a movie to be made about Laurel and Hardy.
(http://blog.fuelmyblog.co.uk/files/laurel-and-hardy.jpg)
If I would have it my way, I would cast Brent Spiner as Stan Laurel. Anybody who has seen the Star Trek episode in which Q makes Data Laugh knows why Spiner would be perfect to play Laurel.
(http://www.entertainmentwallpaper.com/images/photo/brent_spiner.jpg)
And Jackass big guy Preston Lacy as Oliver Hardy. So why would I pick one of those madmen from Jackass to play Hardy? Because Preston lacy is the one who comes up with skits and stunts that are funny because of being funny, not painful or harming others.
(http://es.geocities.com/vic_jc89/images/prestonlacy.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBtuWY5HXCU
Preston Lacy's finest moment in the second Jackass Movie.