The day before this hit theaters, Dice went on "Arsenio" to promote it. He talked about the conflict between his real self and his Dice persona, and starting tearing up before composing himself. It didn't go over well.
What people forget about Mel Brook’s style of comedy is that the racist, the snob or the overall douchebag is not the hero, their the punchline. They are the ones being made fun of and mocked.
SO SO happy you called out the greatness of “Josie and the Pussycats”! I JUST rewatched that movie and it is f’ing amazing! The layers of subtlety underneath the loud cheesiness of the 90s and the internal commenting ON the cheesiness and everything else... god damn was that good. Way better than I remembered and WAY worth recommending. So Thank You! 😁
I think the same thing happened with emperor's new groove in Brazil. The movie is already funny, but the localized subbing takes it to a whole new level. Actually, I guess it gets closer to the population s sense of humor so people tend to have more fun.
It was popular in some Eastern European countries as well, because it was one of the first Hollywood films widely available after the fall of communism. Also, EMF's 1991 hit "Unbelievable" includes a sample from this movie, of Diceman saying that very word.
The rest of the '90s Worst Picture winners are...Hudson Hawk, Shining Through, Indecent Proposal, Color of Night, Showgirls, Striptease, The Postman, An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn, and Wild Wild West. Since I'm a bit of a Razzie aficionado most of these flicks aren't that obscure to me, but I can see why they would be such for Smeghead's primary viewerbase.
@Captain Brandon Horror Film Lover Roger Ebert apparently enjoyed the supporting cast but still felt Demi took the whole thing too seriously. They managed to rope Robert Patrick and Ving Rhames into it too!
Bands at the time made like 30 cents on every ten dollar album they sold. They made their big dough touring and selling merch. 'Running with the Devil' a book written by Van Halen's former tour manager breaks it down pretty good. Highly recommended.
It might have fit Wayne Newton's character better if he admitted the record company gets most of the money from legit sales, but he pirates the music anyway so he can get *all* of the money.
When he finally gets done with reviewing the Worst Picture winners I want him to review The Emoji Movie it is that bad! And all the people who say it was mediocre or over-hated, you have not seen bad animated movies. I mean on the scales of Foodfight, The Animated Titanic Movies, Norm of the North, Strange Magic, or even Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights.
It may be just a coincidence that Smiley just cannot be killed and keeps coming back because he's played by Robert Englund who is also known for playing Freddy Krueger who is a killer who always comes back to go after the teens of Springwood, but yeah, I just think it was deliberate. Although Ford Fairlane was also directed by Renny Harlin who also directed Nightmare On Elm Street 4: Dream Master.
The only time Dice EVER made me laugh was his 2003 CNN/FN interview. Because when Dice makes an ass out of himself, he's generally funny. But when he tries to tell jokes or try to be INTENTIONALLY funny, he sucks. He's a Poor Gimmick overall. As I learned one afternoon back in May 2003 when I caught this film on TMC as a 20 year old. I sat there for 40 minutes scratching my head, trying to figure out what was supposed to be funny. Because I couldn't find a single thing about funny at all. I found it, Forced,Juvenile and Offensively Inane.
@@matthewdaley746 You got that right. Maybe in the late 80s because of Sam Kinston, Offensive Humor was funny, but Adventures of Ford Farlaine takes itself way too seriously. It THINKS its funny, like Stop or My Mom Will Shoot. But Stop or My Mom Will Shoot is funny BAD, Adventures of Ford Farlaine just embarrasses itself.
@@Tornado1994 ---- You think Ford Fairlane takes itself too seriously? Where? The whole movie from end to end is batshit nuts. It's like a live-action cartoon, and every other line is a Dice one-liner.
@@Tornado1994 Some comedy movies exist just to serve as a platform for set-piece jokes. Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Bob Hope, Marx Brothers, Abbot & Costello, Martin & Lewis, Three Stooges, etc. -- plots & characters are normally irrelevant. They always play "themselves" and basically do the same types of routines with only mild variations over and over. That's comedy!
This was a movie for the MTV Generation. It came out when I was 21. It was hilarious then. Everyone within a 10 year sweep of my age thought it was hilarious. We still think it's hilarious. It's like when Hair Metal dominated music, if you are older than that era or younger than that era, you just don't get that era.
@@kellyrobinson6543 I haven't laughed at a White comedian since Mitch Hedberg. They're just too constrained. Caucasians who are not trying to be funny, though -- hilarious.
@@superlive98 blablabla. Whites are too pc. The coloreds are the real racist. I've been hearing you people saying this crap for 40 years. You people don't change
Matthew Daley More people are waking up to it. Hell, The Disaster Artist even is quick to point out that he was an asshole. And so is Wiseau, but you get it.
Matthew Daley Same here. The only Hitchcock film I ever remember watching was Rear Window in film class at college, and to be honest, I don’t think much about it.
Now I know where Carmine Pasquale from Mobsters and Mormons got the "OH!" from. By the way, the way you explained the humor behind the "Up yours" scene from Blazing Saddles was awesome. Funny story: my family and I hate racism and 99.99% of racist jokes. My dad has a Gary Larson-ish sense of humor (but no tolerance for dirty jokes)... but he, my mom and I thought the "Up yours" part was hilarious because of the context, reaction, and consequence.
Dice's best work was "The Day the Laughter Died". Dice decided "Fuck it, I'm gonna go up there and BOMB for a straight hour". That was a legitimately funny album, but the nursery rhyme shtick, never gave a damn about it.
He was also surprisingly good in Blue Jasmine, where he played Augie and gave a sincere, emotional performance, expertly mixing in anger, regret and vulnerability in his final scene.
There definitely are some good moments, but I'm pretty sure the popular opinion was that this was an unnecessary cash grab of a film similar to Jem and the Holograms a decade later. (Not that I'm saying I agree with this. The film has a much better understanding of what Josie and the Pussycats was supposed to be than anything Riverdale has ever done.)
Great movie. Many funny one-liners. Gets funnier every time I watch. "Have a Twinkie...snapperhead!" "Suzuki Samaria...you Bensonhurst piece of $#*%" "My mother always said...If you can't say something nice about someone, make sure they're out of the g**d*** room" LOL!
Honestly, it is telling that George Carlin, another person who they claim is anti-PC, actually came out against Dice back in the day for the stuff Sean talks about.
I remember being 16 years old and seeing Ford Fairlane in the theater during the summer of 1990! I liked it enough back then, but I couldn't help being a bit disappointed. Now, I liked Dice, thought he was hysterical doing stand up and a good actor, too, who gave a great performance in a little seen film called Casual Sex. It's just too bad Ford Fairlane wasn't the rock 'n roll comedy it should have been. It was played far too broadly, far too cartoonishly for it to really succeed, though. It needed someone like Elmore Leonard writing the script. In fact, Get Shorty is the perfect example of how Ford Fairlane should have been played.
This movie will always rule! It's so funny and endlessly quotable. I love this movie... I've always loved this movie! 😂😂😂 Plus... Morris Day and Wayne Newton! Enough said! 💙
I sort of like it too, but I wouldn't go to the movie theater to see it. It's a quintessential guilty pleasure movie; you need to watch it at home with friends, drunk or high, and dance like an idiot during the musical numbers.
You didn’t even mention the fact that this movie became very popular in Post-Communist Hungary because it was dubbed by a famous eccentric Hungarian musician and actor who added in much more profanity then what was in the English version. It’s still popular over there to this day.
You like Dice because you liked Duke Nukem 3D when you were a kid. Nothing strange about it. To be honest we are all raised on 80s "toxic masculinity" jokes and those were all great.
Dice was virtually unknown outside of the US in those pre internet/Netflix days. In such markets the movie came with a lot less baggage. I saw it on VHS back in the day and thought it was pretty funny.
Racism and homophobia hahaha funny story, Mark. I don't get why people think comedy is supposed to offend and people. Comedy is supposed to be FUNNY. That's the most important part, guys.
MeShannan Because comedy always needs to have some level of misery. It’s the catharsis between two absurd premises that causes laughter. That doesn’t mean offense automatically equals funny but it does mean no offense automatically equals unfunny. No wonder the Left is stereotyped as being humorless. Which sucks because the Left used to be great at comedy. Maybe we shouldn’t have won the culture war. Also I agree that Andrew Dice Clay is unfunny and George Carlin was way better at that shtick.
@@ashkitt7719 😂😂 this is a very silly comment. If something isn't FUNNY, it's not fucking comedy. Simple. Just saying "fuck this pc bullshit, I want slaves because I identify as a slave owner lol" isn't *funny*. It's old and tired. Maybe we should all seek out comedy that's funny and makes us think instead of saying offensive shit just for the sake of saying offensive shit. Who is this "we" that won the culture war? And what was this culture war?
You know who used morality to refuse freedom? People burning girls for religion. You know that true "left" ideology is actually "offensive" by default, worry not, none of the people who advocate a "not offensive world" is really from the left.
Comedy is subjective my dude. Some people like offensive humor, some don't. That's how it works. Although I will agree it depends on how well executed the offensive joke works. Worst case scenario we get that infamous Loquiesha movie.
Your critique of Dice is fair but I've always loved this movie and quote it often (not always a good idea). I assume Hudson Hawk is next? That film was so ahead of it's time and like Ford; hardly the worst of it's year. The worst of 91 should be Another You.
i like your pacing in this video. i think it was a good choice to place much less of those lingering awkward pauses in your commentary. keep up the good work!
It wasnt. It means that both Dice Clay and Mae West have both deliberately created provacouter personas that profited from censorship. They weren't victims of censorship, they were intelligent business people who used censorship to further their careers.
@@badquestion4785 There is an important difference to be made between provocateurs whose acts are all about being provocative of the prudes and who enjoy or entice backlash and people who do their work because they want to do it and society happens to find that work provocative and goes after them. The second tend to be annoyed at controversy and some seem even surprised at them since they didn't consider any backlash or controversy in the first place and politely talk on the whole thing. Now there are plenty of people that kind of fluctuate between or mix both approaches (like Mel Brooks or George Carlin), and the provocateurs are somewhat necessary to soften some social tabus, but being weary of 100% provocateur for provocation's sake people is a good general policy.
I saw Ford Fairlane in the theater when it came out. The movie is definitely a product of its time, especially since it starred Dice Clay at the height of his comedy career. However, we didn't see the movie as a comedy, and that might have been what the director was going for. It had its funny moments, and plenty of forced-comedy, but overall the film was more of a crime drama. As the audience, we all knew about Dice Clay and his humor, so this "dramatic" version of the Dice character was a welcome change at the time. He was still The Dice Man, but was playing an interesting character, a private detective. Also, he drove a cool car with an awesome convertible top, an in-dash CD player (which was basically science fiction at the time), and featured CD ROMs which most of us had never seen before. Looking back, Ford Fairlane is cheesy as hell and is overall pretty bad, but in its time it was an enjoyable film for Dice fans, I suppose.
This has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. I like the characters and the setting. To answer your question about how Julian was making money ripping his company off, I believe record companies have to pay royalties to bands for every record, cd, and cassette they sell to record stores in the 90’s. This is probably documented when the discs are manufactured at their factory. However, if he could make copies in another location, and sell them on the street, he wouldn’t have to share the profits with the bands, and could keep all the money for himself.
you are right. there has always been sensors there was with the hays/comics code for the movies and comics industries, every broadcast network has a standards and practices dept. even the MPAA is a sensor of sorts
11:31-11:36 - Renny Harlin also gave us Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger and The Long Kiss Goodnight - all pretty good movies. Heck, I even enjoyed Deep Blue Sea.
I think rapid success can trap a comedian. Like, you don't have a very developed routine, and you go out there and say a bunch of trashy stuff, and overnight you're huge - what do you do? Changing it up becomes a risk; playing gross racist keeps the jack rolling in.
Dear Mr Head I have just recently discovered your channel and have been binging out ever since . Keep up the great work . My greatest fear is that Hollywood will stop turning out sewerage and you will be out of a job. Nah , never happen !
Richard Pryor once said that cursing should not be the joke. A joke should be just as funny with all the curse words removed. If you take all the curse words out of Dice's act, it turns into just a guy dressed like he's in Grease ranting uncomfortably.
Wayne Newton? Didn't he also have a small role in Licence to Kill? I'm gonna say the same thing I said about Joe Don Baker in Leonard Part 6: don't remind me of the Timothy Dalton Bond movies because they're both infinitely better than any movie Sean will ever review in this series.
@@Betta66 Roger Moore made SEVEN Bond films. When he stopped he was 57. He was older than the MOTHER of Tanya Roberts. At the time there were 14 TOTAL Bond films. Other than Octopussy, they weren't very good.
@@matthewdaley746 He himself said he quit specifically because of his advanced age. I liked A View To A Kill, but if they had given it to Brosnan or Dalton, it would've worked better. Sure, they would've needed to rewrite the script to better suit Dalton if they gave it to him, but that elevator escape would have been so perfect for him.
Man, every time an episode of this comes out I become profoundly happy - not just because they're always great, but because I know that every episode is bringing Smeghead closer to modern dreck like Freddy Got Fingered and Holmes and Watson and The Emoji Movie, which I honestly think he's going to hate even more than this early stuff.
In the 90’s I won front row tickets from a radio station to one of his shows . My girlfriend at the time refused to go because was terrified he would start talking to her and make fun of her . She was probably right as she did look at the time like a stereotypical female that he would’ve attacked. I told her that would be great if he called on you. Maybe we could be in his next recording. I didn’t go 😢😢😢
Regarding his comedy, you either love it or hate it. I absolutely loved it. The Dangerfield's set took place when I was in my senior year of highschool. He just exuded the most extreme version of the NYC IDGAF attitude. Having said all that, I only saw this movie once. Wasn't a movie I felt obligated to rewatch. Lol. When he cried on Arsenio the night before this flick premiered, that one moment ended his career. Took the edge off of his persona which was the hook of his come up
RICHARD PRYOR CO-WROTE BLAZING SADDLES AND I DIDN'T KNOW TILL I WATCHED THIS VIDEO! HOW COULD I BE SUCH A GIANT MORON? Also Koala's aren't bear's. You were doing so well up till that point.
@ Trading Places was supposed to star Richard Pryor, and, Gene Wilder, but the former had an accident, and, the latter was later replaced by Dan Aykroyd.
Song of the South was criticized heavily when it was released and that was in the 1940s. I also appreciated Sean’s rant because I’ve also grown sick of those people complaining that PC culture is a new thing when history says otherwise.
I've watched quite a few of your videos now and what you said on this one was one of the best things I've heard so far. When you said, "the only way I can be offended by a joke is if it isn't funny. " I like that so much! I agree a hundred percent and with your permission hopefully I'm going to use that quote 😉
That makes all comedy done today is not funny SNL Late Night and many "Comedians" today are not even funny . Comedy today if you can call it that does not even compare to the comedy of the 70's to 90's even early 2000's. I guess that's why they are redoing all the good movies from back in the day because they have nothing today all they can do is redo good movies to try to make a buck because no one can write a good movie today to save their life in Hollywood.
He also said that censorship is "having standards", and that you have to "evolve", i.e. accept censorship, or be "left behind", i.e. be a thinking adult.
What’s worse for Billy Idol? The motorcycle accident, being in this movie, or the fact that (after he recovered from said accident) he released Cyberpunk, an album so bad he imploded into self-parody.
Idol's "Cradle of Love," his last major hit, was on the soundtrack for this film. (Alas, that soundtrack did not include the 12" club mix of "Booty Time" we so richly deserve.) Todd in the Shadows reviewed "Cyberpunk" for his Trainwreckords series. He actually liked some of the songs, but the sci-fi trappings were kind of half-assed.
It's funny, the ONLY thing I could remember about seeing this movie as a kid was that ending, where Dice got Freddy Kruger to drop his piece, and Dice just shoots him and mocks him for it. I think it was the only time I genuinely gut-laughed, and it was the end of the movie. Sigh. I'm glad Smeghead liked it too though!
I saw Ford Fairlane years ago, on satellite TV, and didn't know he was a stand-up comic. So I watched it ... er ... fresh. Sorry, but I found the movie funny - sort of. Thing is, while I might not like his stand-up routine I understand what he's trying to do; satirize a type of personality, putting them up for ridicule. Trouble is, you have to keep your material fresh.
Unless....you are Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, George Burns, Jimmy Durante, and just about any comedian you can name with a movie career in Hollywood's Golden Age.
@@superlive98 Good point, though the comedians you name aren't trying to maintain an abrasive character. Dice seems to have locked himself into the character rather than somehow letting the character evolve.
@@MrsBishopsDoggyDeliNottingham Seriously? Groucho's entire schtick was a negative Jewish stereotype: con-artist who literally can't keep his hands off gentile women.
@@superlive98 Since Groucho's family was jewish, I assumed he was a jew as well. So I only every saw him portray a con artist and lecher, of no particular faith. I stand corrected.
I’d say it’s a pick your poison kind of thing. Would you rather sit through a film trying to be dark and serious but is just boring, or would you rather sit through a terrible soap opera with bad sex?
If the comments on Dice videos all say "Bro", you sure it isn't just Vince Russo and Matt Riddle on multiple accounts? And yeah, as for Dice getting banned from MTV, yeah, does sounds like it was a work. As for Josie, haven't seen that movie since I was a little girl, but I do remember liking it. Anyways, next one, be going to Hudson to see a Hawk. 😉
I like the Adventures Of Ford Fairlane. I laugh throughout the movie every time I watch it. It's just punctuated joke after punctuated joke, like an extended episode of Family Guy with the tastefullness turned all the way down...
there was a time not long ago, in this world and not some fictional one, when people could tell the difference between an intended offense, and an unintended offense. respectively, people didn't go out of their way to be offensive. today it's a head-on collision between serial offenders and the serially offended. so much for modernity...
John Price Price It’s true that some people take political correctness too far. BUT the idea that people never got offended by “harmless” stuff until the 2010s is intellectually dishonest and basically amounts to historical revisionism. People have always gotten offended by things that are seen as tame by today’s standards: - Elvis Presley’s swinging hips - Mary Tyler Moore wearing pants on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” - The interracial kiss on “Star Trek” - “Dungeons & Dragons” game - Madonna - “The Simpsons” - Marilyn Manson
Matthew Daley Yep. I bet 30 years from now, the things seen as progressive in 2020 Will be seen as regressive in 2050. There’s actually a trope on TVTropes for things that that were seen as progressive back in the day, but nowadays are seen as regressive: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FairForItsDay
You know what would've been better? The koala was a recovering drug addict that Fairlane had taken in out of kindness, showing that he was a deep down good guy, and making the death of the koala more emotionally tragic and also comedic - because you can show his 30 day clean chip from NA, which is also kind of a joke - and it fits the more adult tone of the film. Same thing with the kid sidekick - cut it or make it a bit darker and more ridiculous. Doesn't seem like they were able to commit one way or the other. Vulgar, dark, or wacky comedy, pick one.
Is this really the worst film of all time? No, because that dishonour goes to Samurai Cop 2 (cheers OSW Review). You see, this is still a competent film, because it at the very least has a plot that it gets across, and has a beginning, middle, and end, and some kind of character arc for Ford.
