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RE: Kingpin (film): great fun if you appreciate Harrelson and Bill Murray
Man this ten times better than "something about mary", and mary was good, this was and is perhaps the best of farly's comedies...and i love woody, but come on Bill Murray should win an Oscar for this, if they don't have one yet they should create a comedy oscar, everything murray did was what an a-hole would do and yet you can't not help but still want to be his friend.
Definitely agree this is the best of the Farrely brothers comedies. Woody Harrelson was a great lowlife who you just had to cheer for, Randy Quaid creates his second most memorable character as an Amish man who sneaks away to experience the world, model-turned actress Vanessa Angel holds her own with these great comic actors and Bill Murray is a wonderful love-to-hate villain in one of his best, yet most overlooked comedic roles.
Its a bowling movie. How many bowling movies can you name? And the story doesn't end up where you expect, but everything still wraps up nicely for everyone.
And to this day, I still quote the movie when appropriate:
"Bye brother Munson! Bye whore!"
i would love to see a "comedy Oscar"
I agree. Comedy is the least valued acting skill. Every actor can get angry convincingly (except Tommy Wiseau), half of actors can cry convincingly, but maybe one in twenty can be funny, and one in a 1000 has funny bones and never misses a laugh (eg Bill Murray & Jim Carrey).
Bill Murray, Joan Cusack, Eddie Murphy, Anna Faris, on and on, etc, all need Comedy Oscars, and Jim Carrey needs at least 5 of them lol.
It's like the Academy think making people cry is worthwhile, but making them laugh is worthless. :(