"Sleeper"

[Deja Q]

Anybody else see this movie from 1973?

A bit bizarre, but it's damn bizarre how it seems more or less accurate in some weird ways?

or do I just need to kill my televisoon set and then go get laid?

Or both? :think:

[RetroLounge]

1. There's a Penguin on the Telly

RL

[Chichiri]

5. Oh, intercourse the penguin!!!

[mac56]

2. A huge favorite of mine from the college days.

One of Woody Allen's last pure comedies.

[Deja Q]

3. Quite!

His last masterpiece was "Annie Hall". Ever since, they've not been as much masterpieces as they are masturbates of Woody Allen's psychotic side.

Still, nobody's perfect...

But, yeah, Annie Hall was the tipping point - and what a tipping point it was!

Still, pre-AH was pure slapstick with the dry wit Woody was famous for.

Quite a genius.

Well, he was... he then one day got jiggy with his adopted daughter.

Hmmm, I wonder if he knows Michael Jackson... :scared:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Agreed. I didn't like the whole adoption/incest thing, but I would've

still liked his movies if they'd continued to be good.

Annie Hall is my all time fave of his, followed by "Love and Death" and "Sleeper". I think "Hannah and Her Sisters" was the last one I actually liked.

Bottom line, I think Woody's time has passed. Like so many creative people, he had his great time and for whatever reason, lost it. Some of the more recent movies were rather pathetic having the elderly Woody being set up as a romantic lead with beautiful young actresses. Please... a clear sign of people believing their own myth too much, and losing sight of the reality that helped their humor to be self deprecating in the past...

Even when people "lose it", it doesn't make their previous work any less great IMHO.

Woody still made "Annie Hall". I'll probably never do anything in my life remotely as clever as that. Frank Herbert wrote a bunch of crap books but he wrote "Dune". Francis Ford Coppolla made some mediocre movies, but he made Godfather I and II. George Lucas (IMHO) became a hack, but he made "American Graffiti" and "Star Wars".