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Dear God.... Not a THREE STOOGES movie!
When people ask me why I am so negative about... oh let's say the studios or the NRG (National Research Group)... I just have to reference some atrocity like this one. See, it starts off as an innocent poll about your interest in a CHARLIE'S ANGELS feature film. Ya know... a simple "How do you like this actress or this actor?" But then... the pervasive part. They begin to poll you on the concept for a future film. Whoever paid the pre-requisite $10,000.00 for the poll to ask how they should make a THREE STOOGES movie should be just plain shot. MY GOD! A new wacky hip urban Stooge? Fuck that man. What the hell sort of mentally exhausted retard comes up with this shit? Two of the stooges vying for the hand of a gal? LEAVE IT ALONE! Ya know... one time when I was drunk and hanging out with some friends, we had just watched PETER JACKSON'S DEAD ALIVE and SAM RAIMI'S EVIL DEAD 2. And in my inebriated state, I thought how cool it would be to have Bruce Campbell play Moe, Philip Seymour Hoffman play Curly and David Paymer play Larry (John C Reilly as Shemp possibly) and they would have an adventure... but every time they... oh let's say hit each other with the sledgehammer... the sledgehammer would sink in spouting out a fountain of blood. By the end of the film, they'd be just super screwed up cadavers beating each other. Then... the next morning... I sobered up and realized.... THAT'S STUPID.... THERE SHOULD NEVER BE A THREE STOOGE MOVIE!
Hello,
I don't know if this information would be of any interest to you, but I
thought that I would try. I am a member of the AMC theatre chain's
MovieWatcher program, and last night I got an e-mail inviting me to
participate in a survey about certain "entertainment properties." It was a
long survey that took me at least thirty minutes to complete. They asked me
about Charlie's Angels and The 3 Stooges. They wanted to know what my
opinion was of Billy Murray, Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz, and Drew Barrymore.
They wanted to know what i thought of the old show, what I expect when I see
a movie with these people. I highly praised Bill Murray, and commented that
the girls would be OK if a clever script was chosen.
Next was a shocker: they wanted to know what my opinions about The 3
Stooges. I categorically am opposed to the very idea of remaking a Stooges
movie. I can just wince in horror of some stupid story involving the stooges
loosing their (insert plot point), teaming up to find it with some spunky
new stooge (Chris Rock, or Chris Tucker), all the while Mo or Curly is
pining for the love of some no talent actress like Rosie O'Donnell. Perhaps
the worst part of this could be if they're willing to go back and tamper
with the stooges, then somewhere in the pipes is a Marx Brothers remake. I
would personally load up my car with dynamite and commit a geek jihad into
whatever studio soundstage they would be filming that abomination. They did
list actors that they wanted my opinion on:
Dan Aykroyd
Drew Carey
Jim Carrey
Will Ferrell
Brendan Fraser
Rob Schneider
John Goodman
Woody Harrelson
Chris Kattan
Mike Meyers
Adam Sandler
David Spade
Chris Tucker
Thank you for the quality entertainment that comes form your site,
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...to say, this is SICK!
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There is already a Stooge movie in the works as a TV movie for ABC. The only casting so far is Curly. He'll be played by "The Commish." It will not be a movie (plot-wise), but more of a life story. Since it is just a TV movie, we can already just accept it as horribly made right now and enjoy it for the behind-the-scenes info it may provide. Heck, it's being produced my Mel Gibson (a big Stooge fan, himself), so the facts should at least be accurate.
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I wanted to be the director to bring my stooges remake to the fore, but it looks as isf I have been beat (twice). A new Stooges T.V. movie will be out next month, more of a biopic than anything, which should be a real treat. As for the feature film, as long as they keep the stooges in the 1930's then they should do fine by me. However, try to update it (think Car 54), then I will swear my vengeance in someday making a true homage film down the line (years after people have forgotten the mistake that could vey possibly happen in the feature film). The television one looks alright though (because it is just straight biographical...
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necessary as performing heart by-pass surgery on a bowling ball.
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To the asswhip that's in serious need for some entertainment. To come up with an idea for a stooges flick!!
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Here's an idea: Come up with a fucking ORIGINAL concept for a slapstick comedy team. Remember "Dumb and Dumber?" That was a good start.
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One word: Sacrilage.
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I'm not a fan of the Stooges, but I will still be so annoyed if they do this. You can't just remake classic comedy teams. They had a bonding together that you can't just replicate by casting actors. And who was the moron who put people like Rob Schneider in that list. If you're going to do this, at least get comedians. Personally, I agree with the scooper. The thought of a new Marx Brothers movie terrifies me. (Except of course, for that bio-pic from the writers of MOTM, Ed Wood, and Larry Flynt. That one, I'm fine about.) ***** http://vertigofilms.homestead.com/
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i like it if it's a movie like man on the moon, but if it's the continuing adventures, no way. why don't they just do a scooby doo movie and have the stooges be guest stars with batman and robin. but harry, campbell would make a good moe.
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Spend the time and money on something original! Why mess with something as classic as this. The Little Rascals movie didn't hold a candle to the originals. Why mess with something so classic. It would be like remaking Casablanca. A biopic, yeah that's interesting, but don't do a Stooges movie!
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Jan 14, 2000 6:55:38 PM CST
Icon is Doing the TV-Biopic, Update sounds like a disaster
by smilin'jackruby
I know about the TV-movie in the works, but as Comedy III just went pretty much bankrupt a couple of months ago, maybe somebody picked up the rights. Mel Gibson is behind the TV pic that's supposed to be something of a miniseries, but the theatrical one will probably be a piece of shit if it's an update. The Icon one is just a bio-pic.
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Please please please don't taint the original with some candy-ass remake that forever ruins my childhood memories. I can see it now - Moe does a matrix-like flip and pokes curly in the eye, while CGI stretching Larry's hair 13ft. This list of actors is horrifying - most of them have their own personnas too firmly developed to play these classic characters. This is truly a low point in the current bankruptcy of creativity that is Hollywood. I just know there are at least 100 really good scripts out there that are languishing on the desks of producers who have dollar signs in their eyes - willing to bet that this would earn decent bank on curiosity alone. KUDOs to the scooper for that "Geek suicide run" comment - hilarious. I think we should start a letter-writing campaign to every male comedic actor to boycott this film out of respect for the memory of these three trailblazers. "Refuse to Stooge" could be our tagline. We could start a groundswell among actors - slap the face of the producer who brings you that "Petticoat Junction" remake proposal. Hang up on that "McGuyver: the movie" offer. I mean how much is enough for crying out loud??
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Would you want to see Jeff Goldblum and Dan Akroyd play the new Laurel and Hardy? I don't think so. I love the three stooges, and I don't want to seem them f***ed up by a silly remake.
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I am really annoyed now that I've heard this! A bio pic would be good if accurate. If you haven't read anything on this subject some of it is really sad, especially Curley's fate.
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While not a huge fan of the Stooges, I appreciate some of the humor and respect the fact that they are movie icons. While the Stooges weren't exactly the high point of entertainment history, they were successful and still have a following today. Recreating their work, or attempting to emulate their style with "new" material only demeans the original. Will Hollywood ever learn that attempts to redo something that worked in the past, just for the sake of putting out new product rarely succeed? In my opinion, if they are so braindead that they can't come up with something original, try redoing movies which had potential but had problems (lack of money, poor choice of actors, bad director, etc.) and didn't quite succeed the first time. Sorry, but I'm seeing more and more of these dodgy ideas for sequels/remakes of movies which are so good or so bad that they would be better left alone, and I just had to rant.
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Every since I have heard about the Stooge movie, I have heard diffrent people in the media and the mainstream audience make the same reaction as stated in the article and in the posted letter. Does it never occur to any of you the direction of the movie may not concern the "characters" but the real life men!! I have had a long term dream as an aspiring filmmaker and that was to film the life story of the Stooges. How the Howard Bros. grew up, joine vaudville, met Larry, created the Stooges, and the comedy they made and the life they lead are a wonderful yarn. Go read any of the books that tell it, they are availble at all fine book stores. I happen tpo know for a fact, that this movies is a biography, it says so on the official Three Stooges site. www.threestooges.com It also has all of the casting choices.
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Harry, speaking of remakes, I saw this on an earlier forum:
Word is that there are some development hold-ups with the updated version of the seminal martial arts classic, Hong Kong Fooey. After a bitter dispute with Dudley Do-Right director, Hugh Wilson, the director's chair has been offered to Evil Dead-head Sam Raimi. But after a lackluster script and multiple rewrites, the gritty Kung Fu adventure is mired in development hell. "I want to do this as long as we are faithful to the source," commented Raimi, "If we do this, it's going to be a serious film. I'm not one to put out some cornball send-up of the original. At the very core, this is a movie about a down-and-out janitor dog who is also a number-one-superguy! I don't want to put out some schlocky retread. I mean, this isn't freakin' Grape Ape we're talking about!" In an effort to remain true to his source material, Raimi promises that the film will feature the original score from the television program.
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Evil McSatan said it right - come up with an original slapstick comedy team. The only type of THREE STOOGES or MARX BROTHERS movies I'd like to see in the future would be biopics, and even then whoever plays the leads had better be pretty damn convincing.
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Jan 14, 2000 7:32:01 PM CST
They're Going to Exhume Corpses Just to Make a Movie? Cool!
by buzz maverik
Damn, those film school graduates are clever. All the rest of us figured that when Joe Besser, the last of the Stooges, died that there would be no more Stooges. I mean, unlike Charlies Angels (which were created in a lab during the Vietnam War) the Stooges were real people. So it's not a Stooges movie unless that's Moe Howard, Larry Fein, Curly or Shemp Howard, Curly Joe Whatever, or Joe Besser. And if those USC grads are making a Stooges movie, they must be reanimating the Howard Brothers and their partners.
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Taint the original? Ruin your childhood memories? Destroy your lame-ass life? BECAUSE THEY REMAKE THE STOOGES !!!! ??????????? Are you f**king serious? - if the remake sucks, it'll only make the original seem better. (imitation = flattery & all that...) OR, maybe dont go see it? ya think? - - -- that said, sure a remake wont work, only because nobody can replace curly. So wake up before I have to kick yer collective asses outa the house for good! - yer daddy.
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Hey just look at the Little Rascals and Blues Brothers 2000.
All remakes and most sequels either have to ruin what was once great. Can you imagine a politically correct Stooges without violence or Mo, Curly, and Larry would suddenly have a black brother and a fat sister and at the end they would be called the 5 Stooges.
There are many many scripts in Hollywood that aren't being made because they are considered risky or someone in upper management feels they will offend someone. Just mak art! -
Just leave the Stooges alone. I wouldn't doubt if Hollywood hacks dug up the Stooge corpses and used stop motion to make them act. It's what Lisa said on the Simpsons(Damn, I'm using a lot of quotes today) "Besides, Bart, even if you could bring the Three Stooges back from the dead, they wouldn't want to hang around with _you_."--Saulot--
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It was Moe Howard, Curley Howard, Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, and then Curley-Joe DeRita (as seen in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World - now THAT would be a great remake!)
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When geniuses like The Three Stooges and Lerry Lewis annoyed people on purpose, it was funny. But that act has died with the pathetic rise of late-night comedy and Saturday Night live spinoffs. Why doesn't Hollywood just re-release some of these movies rather than remake them?
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Remember, they just did a straight-to-video update of "Laurel and Hardy" with some fat guy playing Hardy and Bronson Pinchot playing Stan Laurel. It revolved around a Mummy of some nature. Perhaps that dreck's fate is the same this awful idea for a remake is set for. As for the comment a poster made about "Brain Donors," um..."Brain Donors" was okay, but sure as hell wasn't genius. Any remake of those old movies has the potential to be like Tucci's "The Imposters," which was an homage to Laurel & Hardy, the Marx Brothers, and a lot of those old movies and, for the most part, was a fairly awful film.
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I was going to mentioned this, but it looks like someone else got to it first.
I actually just re-rented Brain Donors the other day, as I've already watched all of the Marx videos my video store has to offer (read: 2) a million times, and wanted a little variety.
So, I went and got Brain Donors, as I recalled I liked it quite a bit when I was younger. And, folks, it's a nice homage to the Marx Brothers without straight-out copying them. John Turturro comes off especially well as the "Groucho" character, Roland T. Flakfizer.
It's a good example of a film that is only meant to pay tribute without being a total ripoff.
As for this Stooges stuffs, has anyone else here heard of the unproduced Raimi/Coen script WE SAPS THREE? It, as I understand it, is also a homage, this time to the Stooges. Knowing Raimi and the Coens, I think they could easily pull it off.
And I dunno, Harry, there's just something appealing about the idea of three Stooge-like characters beating each other until bloody corpses. It made ME laugh, anyway.... -
You know what would make this film watchable? The Goonies, that's what! Just imagine those loveable scamps getting into comic misadventures, stumbling onto buried treasure, finding huge octopi that dance when bad music is played loud enough.... the possibilities are endless!
"The Three Goonies"!
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Whats new about this story? Mel Gibson is producing a film about the 3 Stooges. From what I heard it would be more of a biopic rather then an updated version.
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Didn't think so.
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The movie is going to be a biopic about the Stooges. Relax, I'm sure it will be in capable hands. By the way, "made-for-TV" is not necessarily a bad thing. I have seen some m-f-TV movies that could far outshine some of the things on the big screen. A prime example is the movie IN THE LINE OF DUTY: THE FBI MURDERS (video title: THE FBI MURDERS). Check it out to see what the genre is capable of.
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By the way, the movie HEAT is a remake of a made-for-TV film: L.A. TAKEDOWN, also directed by Michael Mann. Just thought I'd let you know.
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Does anyone remember 'Stoogemania?' It was an early-eighties movie about a man named Howard F. Howard who ends up in a mental institution because his obsession with the Stooges3 has taken over his life. Pretty lame. I think a 3 Stooges movie, no matter how good it is, would never wash with the hard-core fans. I mean, who could fill Curly's shoes? Kids and people who aren't overly familiar with them would probably be the core audience. And there probably would be a black - oops, I mean "African American" - Stooge, who would do a new rap version of "The Curly Shuffle."
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The only point I would like to make is that all the "comics" mentioned are to fuckin' tall!!! The stooges were short as hell...Larry was only 5'4" thats what helped him get the job. Short people are always funnier trust me on this one.
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Okay, this wouldn't be any good. Leave the Three Stooges alone, blah blah blah.
But isn't that Will Ferrel guy hilarious? What timing! I love this guy. He is definitely the most talented person on SNL, with Horatio Sanz a distant second. I can't wait 'till Ferrel leaves the show to do cool movies. Or probably bad ones, but he'll be good in them. Blackjack? Am I still your bitch?
This fella leaves me in stitches. -
And I know for a fact that there have been plans for years to make an"up-to-date"stooges movie.This is a mistake.I figured it would safely remain in the unholy bowels of Development Hell,but such is not the case.It has escaped and is being thought of seriously.We must stop it before it consumes the legend of the Stooges(aka the Three Wise Men)and make a mockery of it.It must be stopped,post-haste!Seriously,I am an unmade movie afficionado.Ask me about one.Like Pet People.Or A.I.Or NOT,it's no skin off my nose.
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Shemp kicks all of your asses, including yours Harry.
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That's all I've got to say.
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I just saw the teaser poster for Chicken Run,and that movie looks GOOOOOOOD.It's subtle,yet captivating.The tagline?"A Few Good Hen".Brilliant.Kudos to you,Nick Park,and here's hoping you know what you're doing.
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NOOIT means never. NEVER, NEVER in a milion years should they ever even think about making a film concerning these masters of comedy. Is nothin sacred anymore??? Cheers
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In last Sunday's paper it said that Michael Chiklis who was in "The Commish" & played John Belushi was going to play Curley in the biopic.
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The reason I'm so against this is because there are only three (well, actually four, right?) men who are The Three Stooges and I believe they are all dead and can't come back to do the movie themselves...therefore, we will see cheap imitations of their material is "remade." To many people, redoing the Stooges' material sans the original Stooges would be like remaking 2001 sans Kubrick, or Psycho sans Hitchcock...wait...someone already tried that and it DIDN'T WORK. Do a great biopic, if you must, bigwig Hollywood-types (or Stooge fans)...hell, even better, clean up all their old films and shorts and rerelease them in the theaters a la Gone With the Wind.
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Just don't fuck with the Marx Brothers and I'll be happy
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First off, I love the original stooges (okay, not shemp or curly joe) and everyone remembers the shorts, but does anyone remember the movies they made? They were *terrible*. Not even the original stooges could make a good movie, why should anyone think that imitators can do any better?
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If they DID make a Marx Bros. movie, or at least biopic, I say Alan Alda for Groucho and "Teller" (as in Penn &) for Harpo.
At Blockbuster there is a "New Adventures of Laurel and Hardy" with Bronson Pinchot in it. Ugh -
Larry: "I just wanted to say I'm sorry...To Moe's mom, to Curly's mom, to my mom. I'm just so sor-"
(WHACK) Moe: "Knock it off, porcupine, and quit your cryin'. Gimmie that camera, or else." Larry: "Or else what?" Moe: "I'm warnin' you." (SLAP, POKE). Curly: "Nyuck, Nyuck, Nyuck." -
I don't see how there's any debate here. If DeNiro will stoop to the level of appearing in a Rocky and Bullwinkle film, he'll be in this. I also thought Phillip Seymour Hoffman for Curly before reading this news item, but he's not quite goofy enough. What happened to Rick Ducommun (neighbor in The Burbs)? And although David Paymer has the same eyes as Larry Fine, I was actually thinking Albert Brooks for the hair. He's got the Jewish thing down perfectly. As for Shemp, I'm having a hard time visualizing his face perfectly, but hell, I'll just go ahead and offer up Billy Bob Thornton. Also, Brain Donors was hilarious, but The Impostors from a couple years ago was another great homage to the Marx Brothers, and was also a decent "film" (creators of The Big Night).
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The Stooges will remain one of the best parts of a prolonged and twisted childhood. The Three Wise Men (and I'm talking Moe, Larry, and Curly - NOT Curly Joe or the dreaded Shemp) were singularly brilliant and funny. NOBODY should screw with that.
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True, most biopics are not big money makers, but they are often the best films ever made: Man On The Moon, Shine, Gandhi, Shadowlands, HBO's recent RKO281 which is a biopic about Orson Welles making the best biopic of all time: Citizen Kane. Just because something is a big hit and makes lots of money doesn't make it good. If you think that it does, I got one word for you: Pokemon.
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Let's begin a Chicken Run discussion.Right now!Please?
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As far as Raimi/Cohen brothers Stooge Tribute films go... Anyone seen The XYZ Murders? Raimi directed and the brothers scripted... I rented it once at a video store in Chiba, Japan. Basicaly it features "Two Stooges (One of whom is that rat faced character actor who passed on a few months ago...Not a clue as to his name,)" as homocidal exterminators whose crimes are pegged on our meek everyman hero... It's got a funny/fantastic chase through a conviently concieved Door Factory Show Room (Or something) that only Jackie Chan could improve upon, and a nifty framing device finding said meek hero on the verge of going to Ol' Sparky. Oh, and naturally Bruce Cambell cameos...
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Jan 15, 2000 6:52:18 PM CST
A Fincher and Norton team-up for Three Stooges would be awesome!
by el duderino
Just think of it... at some point Moe would go all out on Curley until his face was gushing blood, start recruiting other stooges sick and tired of the society that made them the way they are, and then he'd discover that him and Larry were the same person. No wonder we see so little of Larry...
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Ok, it wasn't that bad but I still thought as a biopic it failed. A good portion of the film was recreations of stuff we all ready saw on tv. It barely scratched the surface about who Kaufman was and his influence on future comics. And please, if I hear more crap about Carrey "IS Andy Kaufman" and should win the oscar I will be sick. The guy simply gives us an impression of Kaufman, which isn't that hard considering Carrey is an impresionist. This is the second year in a row that he is getting WAY too much credit for a performance. He was good in Truman Show and I liked the film, but he did not get robbed of a nomination this year. That being said, he is a lock this year for one.
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Three stooges no way!
Let the Classic be for all to love.
BUT
Here is something to think about the next time you get drunk
Jim Carey, Drew Carey, and Mike Myers, in "Recessive Gene" grandsons of Moe, Larry and Curly. Don't redo the classics. Make new ones using people we currently like.
Now for those of you who don't appreciate the Three Stooges...
Why you... comere
BONK
Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk
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The Three Stooges are cool. Yeah, I've been told girls aren't supposed to like them, but what can I say? I appreciate a little mindless violence. Larry, Moe, Curly, and Shemp are all great. (Joe Besser didn't fit in, but hey, he did what he could. As for Joe DeRita..no comment...) But a new Three Stooges movie? I don't think so. No matter what it's about, it's going to suck. Face it.. Anything "informational" about their lives will be kind of boring as a movie, and trying to "update" the Stooges with lame replacements is going to be a farce. The Three Stooges were a class (okay, no class) act that can't be repeated. Why can't people just let well enough alone. Knuckleheads.
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I'm the last poster to this thread! Given that nobody posted to this thread for 6 years (until me), I believe no one will ever post to this thread again, and I will always be the last to have posted here. I am the final poster. The last one standing. There can be . . . only one!
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