I recently purchased "the Geese" on DVD for £3.99 (HMV if you're wondering – marvellous value). It's always been a favourite of my friends, and mine not for its "realistic portrayals" or anything so profound, merely because it's an absolute riot.
The last time I posted on this thread I received a lambasting at the hands of a chap from Alabama who claimed it WAS a realistic portrayal etc.
Well, I don't want to go over old ground here, but on reviewing this treasured piece of old tat, it has reinforced my belief that this film has one of the worst scripts ever put to paper, including some truly appalling dialogue, a plot with holes a-go-go, and sadly (considering the potential acting firepower) some incredibly dodgy performances.
That said; don't confuse this as a dressing down. If this was released today and I reviewed it, I would state that it's complete rubbish, but desperately entertaining rubbish. There's nothing wrong with that.
I'm not one to jump on this "so bad it's good" thing, which is just not true. I think the Geese is bad AND good. It's a romp, it's ridiculous, but it always makes me smile.
On reading that some of you would like a remake of it starring George Clooney etc. Blasphemers I say! If they tried to "slick it up" and give it some credibility, where would we be? No more Witty and his 1970s homosexuality nonsense, no more of that ludicrously quick serendipitous moment for Pieter Coetze and Limbani ("You know what, you may have a point there" so dashes 50 years of his apartheid-fuelled prejudice).
No, leave the Geese alone. It's rubbish, but it's our rubbish. IAmIdiotCentral.com
The last time I posted on this thread I received a lambasting at the hands of a chap from Alabama who claimed it WAS a realistic portrayal etc.
Well, I don't want to go over old ground here, but on reviewing this treasured piece of old tat, it has reinforced my belief that this film has one of the worst scripts ever put to paper, including some truly appalling dialogue, a plot with holes a-go-go, and sadly (considering the potential acting firepower) some incredibly dodgy performances.
That said; don't confuse this as a dressing down. If this was released today and I reviewed it, I would state that it's complete rubbish, but desperately entertaining rubbish. There's nothing wrong with that.
I'm not one to jump on this "so bad it's good" thing, which is just not true. I think the Geese is bad AND good. It's a romp, it's ridiculous, but it always makes me smile.
On reading that some of you would like a remake of it starring George Clooney etc. Blasphemers I say! If they tried to "slick it up" and give it some credibility, where would we be? No more Witty and his 1970s homosexuality nonsense, no more of that ludicrously quick serendipitous moment for Pieter Coetze and Limbani ("You know what, you may have a point there" so dashes 50 years of his apartheid-fuelled prejudice).
No, leave the Geese alone. It's rubbish, but it's our rubbish. IAmIdiotCentral.com