King Arthur

Ok, so, funny story.

I was supposed to be reviewing Star Wars: Phantom Menace today, but a slight hiccup has occurred. Turns out that the copy I own is too scratched to work with my laptop's DVD player. As such, reviewing it would prove challenging in the least.

So, instead I'm going to review the 2004 cinematic attempt to put the legendary King Arthur back into the public conscious.

"True story."

Spoiler warning: It didn't work.

Blazing Saddles

There is no possible way to talk about this movie without it getting political.

What about "Racism is bad" is so hard to understand?

A bit of history may help.

In 1968 comedic creator Mel Brooks decided to make a movie mocking Adolf Hitler. His stated goal was to make Hitler and the Nazis into such a joke that nobody would ever be able to take their ideas seriously ever again.

In 1974, he decided to try and to the same thing to the concept of racism.

Strange thing is, this movie pretty much predicted current American politics.

And it did it to such a creepily accurate degree that I'm seriously beginning to think that Mel Brooks may be psychic.

George Of The Jungle

If you haven't noticed by reading the title of this Blog, my name is George.

So let's flash back to 1997, when I was only 11 years old and moving to a new school.

Then this movie came out.

Admit it, you're humming the theme song.

Thing is though, I actually really like this movie. It's funny, has good talent and Brendan Fraser's just so darn likeable.

And he spends most of the movie wearing nothing but a loincloth, so that's a plus.

Flubber

Today's movie poses something of a conundrum for me.

I mean, I have fond memories of it. All of my friends and co-workers love it too.

But, thinking back, I can't really say much about it that I genuinely liked.

In fact, there's quite a lot that I would outright loathe in any other movie.

Aka: Robin Williams mucks about: The movie.

So let's have a watch and try to work out why this particular film is so fondly remembered despite having just about every cliche in the book.