I watched until he grabbed hold of a horse penis and screamed “I’m a farmer daddy.” After that I shut off the TV and stared at the blank screen.
40 million fucking deutschburg
I think this movie contains, in all of the film canon, the best instance of a little kid getting nailed right in the fucking head with a flying whiskey bottle.
From what I’ve seen of Tom Green, he’s really not funny. And his un-funniness isn’t funny.
Have I missed something marvelous?
No, I think they are being facetious. I mean the original post.
Some people claim this movie is an anti-comedy, that Tom Green was actually trying to prove a point by pushing things as far as they could go. I haven’t seen it myself, but the idea is interesting to me.
Nope. I’m not kidding. This movie is actually amazing.
It’s definitely an experiment in something, but to this day I’m not really sure what.
Sarcasm aside, there are a couple points in the movie that push so far into senselessness and bad taste and with such screaming, reckless, unrelenting abandon — I couldn’t help but laugh until it hurt.
The scene where Tom Green canes his crippled girlfriend while she affects a Harry-Met-Sally orgasm-wail stands out in particular.
Tom Green is amazing in Freddy Got Fingered. People just didnt see it the way they should have. Freddy Got Fingered is an inditment of modern entertainment and comedy. It goes far beyond what the Jim Careys and the Carrot Tops (or any over the top comedy actor) have done and really points out just how absolutly RETARDED a hollywood movie can be. There are quite a few scenes in Freddy Got Fingered that parrallel scenes in sucessful hollywood comedies and I believe that is proof that Tom Green new what he was doing when he decided to go over over over the top and do something stupid enough to make us re-think whats actually funny.
In Walk Hard: The Story of Dewey Cox (a comedy that got realativly good reviews) there is a scene where Dewey is in a public restroom and he breaks all the sinks off the wall by simply pushing on them. In Freddy Got Fingered, his Dad (played by Rip Torn) does almost the SAME thing in the buissness guys office.
I was sitting in the theater watching Walk Hard when it hit me. This isnt funny. Just like Freddy Got Fingered ISNT funny.
As a matter of fact, its sooo not funny, that its funny as hell.
Freddy Got Fingered is deep. No pun intended.
I liked it. He pushed the envelope a lot, like on his tv show when he woke his parents up and dragged them out on their lawn to see the obscene sculpture.
This is awesome. Check out this review Ebert and Roeper did of Freddy Got Fingered. At the 2:50 mark they both get so serious. Its almost funny how seriously they take a movie with the title Freddy Got Fingered. Ebert rated this the worst film of 2001 and it won a Razzie.
I just watched it. Definitely have to agree that Green absolutely knew what he was doing in every second of this movie. He didn’t mean for any of it to actually be good (case in point: the sign that says “when is this movie going to end?”). Seems like he was really fed up with Hollywood and this was his curtain call. He took the things that got him famous and pushed them to their absolute limit. The movie is funny in a “what the fuck” kind of way. I would take Freddy Got Fingered over typical mediocre schlock any day. At least he had the balls to do something different rather than make a “safe” movie, capitalize on his 15 minutes of fame, and laugh all the way to the bank. He took the opportunity to instead hold a mirror up to America and Hollywood.
it’s a complete work of genius, and I agree with those claiming it above.
Or it’s crap.
Both?
JAPAN 4
“You make your daddy proud!!”
“Proud?”
“Proud.”
“Proud?”
“Proud.”
Such an obnoxious satire people couldn’t even tell how much he was mocking America/Hollywood. He went out with a bang. And let’s hope there’s never a sequel.
Bobcat Goldthwait’s Shakes the Clown is another really good twisted comedy. I’ve never understood why it doesn’t have more of a following.
“I’m a farmer daddy”
That’s about as good as “I’m a dirty vampire god!”
You ever ask why you never hear about Tom Green anymore? Simple: He’s no longer dating Drew Barrymore.
Does anybody remember The Bum Bum Song?
Does anybody remember when he had to retire the video from TRL because it was beating Britney Spears and Eminem?
He said somewhere, maybe his autobiography or something, that the real reason he had to retire it was that they’d taped all the spring break TRLs in advance and weren’t aware of his video at the time — and had to maintain the illusion of it actually being a live, viewer-decided program.
“He said somewhere, maybe his autobiography or something, that the real reason he had to retire it was that they’d taped all the spring break TRLs in advance”
LOL, that sounds like something Tom Green would say. Now that I think about it Tom Green was doing the type of humor that Tim and Eric and Borat now get all the credit for… but he was doing that 10 years ago.
“Now that I think about it Tom Green was doing the type of humor that Tim and Eric and Borat now get all the credit for… but he was doing that 10 years ago.”
And Andy Kaufman was doing it in much higher capacity, with much more thought, and real genius in the humour thirty years before any of them.
You tell em, Autumn.
Ummmm… Sanma no aji, thank you very much. None of those words mean Autumn.
I know that’s Japanese but in Mandarin, 秋刀魚の味 means autumn, knife, fish, (nothing for this), taste.
I’ll accept being called, “Autumn knife fish (nothing) taste,” too.
Google says it means “an autumn afternoon”
But yeah 秋刀魚の味, I’m not really familiar with Andi Kaufman. I’ve seen that movie Man on the Moon with Jim Carrey and a few sketches here and there but I’m not familiar enough to make the comparison.
It’s not a reference to Autumn Afternoon by Ozu? Goddam internet.
The original title of the film is Sanma no aji, which translates to “the taste of Sanma.” Sanma is a type of mackerel that tastes best in the late summer. Ozu, and Koga Noda decided for what would turn out to be their final collaboration together they’d try to convey the taste of this fish without mentioning it in the film, or showing anybody eating it. (David Bordwell, commentary on the An Autumn Afternoon dvd)
The English name of the film comes from a poem written by Ozu, I think, I could be wrong, as it’s translated from Japanese to English, also, and I’ve heard numerous translations:
“Spring has arrived.
Cherry blossoms are in full bloom.
Here I am agonizing over An Autumn Afternoon.
Like torn rags, the cherry blossoms display a forlorn expression – sake tastes bitter as gall.”
He wrote it after finding out his mother, whom he’d lived with almost his entire life, had died while he was away writing the script to what would become his final film.
I’m elated that I’m able to talk about this on a thread originally started to discuss Freddy got Fingered.
Andy Kaufman was indeed the master, anyone who enjoys this brand of anti-comedy should check out Neil Hamburger. Ugly, crass, horrible timing, hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_jHptcdhYg
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Freddy Got Fingered. The title will either cause waves of revulsion within you or cause you to squeal in ecstasies of delight. What do you think of it? Glad you asked. I believe it is one of the most consistently funny and overlooked films of the ’00s. It is basically one long love letter to the joys of performance art and how autism and retardation could be concealing extreme creativity. I love this movie so much. It makes me laugh harder than 8 Mile.