CS Film Club II

Dooms starting a fight with the alphabet people.

I'm usually several weeks late so I get missing my review haha.

The Wrong Guy (1997)
Confession: I don’t think I’ve watched a single episode of the 90s sketch comedy series The Kids in the Hall and may well have never seen a single sketch from it in its entirety. I don’t know why, I guess the reruns were just never put in my face. I do think I got the gist of comedian Dave Foley’s shtick pretty quickly with this movie though as he’s playing a sort of pampered spaz who over-reacts to things. The film is ostensibly supposed to be a parody of the works of Alfred Hitchcock, but more in terms of plot structure than from individual references like what we got out of Mel Brooks’ High Anxiety. The film looks at a guy who finds himself in a compromising position where it appears that he’s murdered someone and proceeds to go on the lamb, but unbeknownst to him the police already know who the real killer is and aren’t pursuing him, so he’s kind of fleeing for nothing. That idea of a guy going “off the radar” out of paranoia is amusing but the movie never quite commits to it and still ends up having him interacting with the police and the real killer over and over again. That was a little disappointing, but perhaps inevitable given that they need to give this guy something to do through the whole movie. Occasionally the movie does reach for some more direct parodies like the finale on a statue of liberty replica, but most of the movie could be understood by those who don’t know the references, which is probably to the film’s credit. The whole thing did start to get a bit old by the end however, which is a problem given that the movie is not very long. You can kind of tell that the people who made it have more of a background in sketch comedy because it does kind of have that “sketches strung together” feel. It’s a movie I was amused enough by, but probably not one I’ll be remembering too long.
*** out of Five

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Also thebtskink , do you want in this round?

For the next round, instead of a movie, Dracula should watch 4 episodes of Newsradio. Handpicked by Skink.

My presence at the boards will be spotty over the next couple weeks so I'll throw up a new round tomorrow. If anyone else wants in just say the word.

Blame Earthlink and my dial up 56k connection.

Alright, throwing this up early in case I vanish for a few days here and there.

Round 239
Doomsday assign to Neverending
Neverending assign to PG Cooper
PG Cooper assign to Dracula
Dracula assign to PhantomKnight
PhantomKnight assign to Doomsday

Let's have the due date be July 15th.  See you on the flip side.