11.04.09 GENTLEMAN BRONCOS CANCELED ON ACCOUNT OF SUCKING
Fox Searchlight’s Gentleman Broncos, directed by Napoleon Dynamite’s Jared Hess and starring Flight of the Conchords‘ Jemaine Clement, opened this weekend on two screens, grossing $11,502 dollars. Which isn’t horrible in terms of per-screen average. It was supposed to go wider this weekend, but after getting horrible reviews, it pulled out of first Chicago and then Dallas and now Seattle too (no word on whether it still plans squirt all over Tucson). Here were some of the positive reviews:
“A juvenile, crass and silly mess that’s occasionally irritating to watch, intermittingly funny and over-the-top, but nonetheless amusing and wildly imaginative.” Source (6.25 out of 10)
“Its quirkiness preceding and very nearly swallowing it whole, Gentlemen Broncos is less warped than it thinks it is yet still provides enough bizarre, painstakingly designed schlock to tickle the willing.” Source (3 out of 5)
Roman Polanski with a bullhorn sez, “DID SOMEONE SAY ‘TICKLE THE WILLING?’” Meanwhile, I think my favorite review was this one from UGO:
“Jared Hess is now, after Rudolf Hess, my most hated Hess.”
Ah, yes, what would we movie critics do without pointed Nazi references? “If I were a holocaust Jew and had been given the choice between seeing this movie again and a shower, this reviewer would surely have chosen the shower.” Anyway, don’t weep for Jared Hess, as he’s still rich in love and support from his family. By which I mean he’s Mormon so I assume he has lots of wives.
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GENTLEMAN BRONCOS CANCELED ON ACCOUNT OF SUCKING
I once canceled a fart on account of some sucking that was going on.
Good.
So Old Dogs will get a full theatrical release but this won’t?
That makes sense.
Lifetime just canceled “Tickle the Willing: The Mackenzie Phillips Story”
Now if they could just cancel Flight of the Conchords…
Since when does anyone at FOX give a fuck what a critic thinks? These are still the same people who greenlit another Nia Vardalos picture, aren’t they?
Willi Ng was my Vietnamese pen pal in 2nd grade. He told me he hated being tickled.
3 out of 5 stars?
Fox doesn’t know how to promote a film that gets that gets reviewed that well.
Wow, this subject dursted FD over a year ago, and has come back to sow it’s dursty revenge.
New up!
Is it just me, or does Gentlemen Broncos sound like the name of a gay bar?
Dude, that might have worked if you hadn’t poitnted out the flaw a few posts back.
[Digs in used joke bag]
“This movie is a steaming pile of blitz, I advise that you Nazi it.”
[Reads "as he’s still rich in love and support from his family" opens Word a nd bangs out pitch for a sit com set in Utah about a mor
mon named Rich with six wives 17 kids and all the whackiness and what have you that goes on in your average polygamist family called, Rich in Love.”I blame Uproxx(XXX!!!)Oh. Salty Dick Up!
FOX not liking it makes me want to see it more. Let’s not forget that they thought Idiocracy wasn’t “pro-America” enough, so they buried it, too.
I don’t want to quibble with anyone, but Fox Searchlight has done some good stuff and I generally think of them as a separate entity from Fox proper.
ONLY I SQUIRT ALL OVER TUCSON!
I know everyone has moved on, but that is one fabufuckinglous hairstyle. It had to be said.
maybe a song by the dude will tickle my willing to see it
am i the only one who thinks that’s Benicio Del Toro in the header???
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