The Marx Brothers [Archive]

Miss Modular

Mar 3rd, 2004, 12:30 AM

:love

These guys are so funny! I wish I had gotten into them earlier. Earlier tonight, I saw Duck Soup, my fourth film. It was terrific!

Royal Tenenbaum

Mar 3rd, 2004, 08:58 AM

I have to agree. Duck Soup is a comedic masterpiece, I love it.

Daphne

Mar 3rd, 2004, 02:55 PM

I love Duck Soup so much, I love how they are still funny over 70 years later.
Have you seen a Night at the Opera or a Day at The Races? They are fucking great too.
Horse Feathers is good, but it has this WEIRD 20 minute scene (not really that long, but it felt like it!) where Harpo plays the harp, I guess to show why he's called Harpo. It's neat, but it's also quite surreal.

mburbank

Mar 3rd, 2004, 04:31 PM

My dad took me to a double feature of Duck Soup and Coconuts at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge when I was a little kid.

It was a formative experience.

And before anyone asks, the 'popcorn trick' was not part of it.

HickMan

Mar 4th, 2004, 05:50 PM

I started to watch these when I was about six. It was hillarious. :( I need to get those on DVD. Haven't seen them in so many years. All I remember is Harpo making a football into a yo-yo, I can't remember what one that is from. But it sure was funny. :)

Royal Tenenbaum

Mar 4th, 2004, 06:55 PM

Every Kid should be given Duck Soup, some Buster Keaton, and some Charlie Chaplin. The world would be a better place if this happened. :(

Miss Modular

Mar 4th, 2004, 07:25 PM

To think that they were considered lowbrow in their day!

Little children would love the Marx Brothers and Buster Keaton.

Jixby Phillips

Mar 4th, 2004, 07:50 PM

Coming May 4:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0001HAIP4.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001HAIP4)

7 films, 5 disks.

Royal Tenenbaum

Mar 5th, 2004, 01:00 PM

BUT NO DUCK SOUP! :(

Bobo Adobo

Mar 5th, 2004, 01:31 PM

Kids are too damn morbid today to understand that stuff. They would rather shoot prostitutes, and steal cars.

Jixby Phillips

Mar 5th, 2004, 05:58 PM

BUT NO DUCK SOUP! :(

Gotta save something for volume 2

Drew Katsikas

Mar 7th, 2004, 12:41 PM

So, I didn't get the racist joke in Duck Soup. Something about armostrong and headstrongs married, making "darkies." What the hell does that mean? Does it have something to do with Louie Armstrong?

It was great movie, regardless.

Jixby Phillips

May 4th, 2004, 12:41 AM

A Review of the May 4th box set:

http://www.dvdfile.com/software/review/dvd-video_8/marxbrotherscollection.html

Comrade Rocket

May 4th, 2004, 01:12 AM

Buster Keaton :love

I cant remember how many times i watched those silent movies when i was little