Monty Python's "The Holy Grail": Classic or Ni?

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A Moose once bit my sister ...

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(c'mon, new vulgar Geeks!)

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it's just not very funny.

― ethan, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can Ethan be proved wrong BY SCIENCE?

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ethan's generally wrong.

― Ally, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it seems you've been proven wrong on the annie hall thread seeing as how only ned agrees with you and he likes the smashing pumpkins and star wars.

― ethan, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Unfortunately, agreeing with Ned = being right for IL* purposes, except for those rare instances where Ned disagrees with me.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

unfortunately is right.

― ethan, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

See, you're agreeing with me. Therefore you are right.

The world would be a much happier place if everyone agreed with me. (Sorry, I'm suffering from a touch of unwarranted megalomania.)

― Dan Perry, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, I can be wrong every once and a while, though I'm definitely not wrong about Woody Allen, who is demon spawn in a tiny little package. Just like you can be right every once and a while, Ethan. But generally you are the wrongest man alive, even when I agree with you (those are generally the circumstances when I'm wrong). Science says so.

― Ally, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh come on you've began more posts with 'i hate to agree with ethan, but...' than anyone. remember that day where we agreed on everything?

― ethan, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That was so scary.

― Ally, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

then why are you agreeing with me about saturday night fever now?

― ethan, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You are evil, aren't you?

― Ally, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And to break up this little soiree, Holy Grail is great, Ethan is wrong, Dan and Ally are right and all is well with the world. Hurrah!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Look at this and think about this!

okay, I'm really losing my shit today, I've had way too many junior mints and puffs on the asthma inhaler.

― Ally, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nice dress, but why does she look like she's about to marry Torgo?

― Dan Perry, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

torgo just made one of his trademark sloppy passes at her.

― ethan, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ThE MaStEr WoUlD NoT ApPrOvE!

The DVD comes out November 20. Yow!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe she is marrying Torgo.

― Ally, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dan is the world's greatest diplomat, one reference to torgo and suddenly i love ned again.

― ethan, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hurrah for MST3K and its power.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I so wanted them to kick the French's ass at the end of it. That pissed me off, I was quite uncomfortable with the french half of my family at that time. Having seen Exacilbur (with Patrick Stewart!) it only made me love Holy Grail all that more.

Its got BIG nasty TEETH!

― Mr Noodles, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I adore Holy Grail (esp the black knight) but I of course jump at the chance to say Ni. And the opening credits are brilliant! (or something equally effective, anyway.)

― Maria, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think it rules. I especially like the little sub-story w/the professor who gets killed by king arthur, and I would very much like to be cast into the valley of eternal peril (or whatever it was called) Is the worst thing in the world listening to someone quoting dialogue from it though? I would ideally watch it as a double-bill w/"Jabberwocky"

xoxo

― Norman Phay, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Urr... no - I believe John Cleese actually says: "Nasty big pointy teeth!"

― Kodanshi, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

none of the python stuff seems at all funny any more except the animated shit. & "Holy Grail" was the least funny Python movie anyway.

― duane, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

I still think the scene of the monks walking along and banging themselves on the head with wooden boards is some kinda perfection in miniature.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 January 2005 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Absolutely brilliant!

― supercub, Monday, 31 January 2005 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just thinking of the wedding massacre yesterday.

― supercub, Monday, 31 January 2005 06:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Currently playing in the background, that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 January 2005 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I know someone like Sir Launcelot. Trashes the place then goes 'sorry, sorry, terribly sorry' then continues to trash the place.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 31 January 2005 06:13 (twenty-one years ago)

was his name j0hndah1en

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 31 January 2005 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

so weird, i saw this thread title and had a vague memory of this being my thread, but then decided against it. hmmm. i kinda wish ethan would have articulated his python hate more clearly, just once. i mean, it makes total sense somehow, but just to get it from him woulda been nice.

― m. (mitchlnw), Monday, 31 January 2005 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't enjoy Python as much as I did before I saw the pub quiz episode of The Office.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 31 January 2005 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

But it's a true represenation of Python freaks! I used to recite sketches in high school, before I first heard the word 'gauche'.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 31 January 2005 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

We have a special edition Holy Grail double DVD... on the second one theres this little doco where Terry Jones and Michael Palin go back to the castle it was filmed at and the cave and stuff and go over the filming... really quuite interesting and funny.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 31 January 2005 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I'd known you in high school Adam, heh we would have bored everyone shitless btwn that and TMBG haha.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 31 January 2005 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, and the Castle Aarg is well plush. I want one.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 31 January 2005 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh isnt it BRILLIANT! I would live there in an instant. Bloody marvellous.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 31 January 2005 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I also bought the double-dvd w/the bit where they go back to the one castle where they shot nearly all the interior scenes. That bit was quite incredible - it kind of showed how inventive they were, stretching their tiny budget as faw as it would go. The film itself was a little disappointing. I kept getting the urge to fast forward through scenes. I think I probably know the words too well or something.

I'd still like to be cast into the valley of eternal peril. That sounds thrilling.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 31 January 2005 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

oh Sir Lancelot the best scene eva! "we live on a bluddy swamp!" etc

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 31 January 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

NONE SHALL PASS!

Classic, apart fromt the meh/eh? ending.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 January 2005 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Perfection. Absolute perfection. Anyone who says differently has clearly undergone a severe humorectomy.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 31 January 2005 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Saw the Broadway musicalization; Python with its balls lopped off. Eric Idle should receive a special Tony for whoredom. Michael Feingold is spot-on:

http://www.villagevoice.com/theater/0512,feingold2,62308,11.html

Much of the added material is more like second-rate Mel Brooks than Python.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Those willing to pay $101.50 a pop for routines from an old movie, stylishly recycled in three dimensions, should be allowed to do so without having moral indictments flung at them. Personally, I'd rather see a musical in which all Republican congressmen had their brains removed onstage—preferably by people forced into bankruptcy through a family medical disaster—with the removal of the feeding tubes that kept them alive for a finale. I feel this would evoke much more laughter than Spamalot, though locating brains in Republican congressmen might prove a difficulty.

That's fucking beautiful writing. Seriously.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Those willing to pay $101.50 a pop

*chokes* Is THAT a regular ticket price on Broadway these days? Fuck that noise.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

For a new musical, it sure is, Naive Ned! I sat in the next-to-last row of the theater for $36, next to some guy whose 10-year-old kid frequently commented on the action. I hate people.

Tim Curry is an amusing Arthur, tho.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Personally, I'd rather see a musical in which all Republican congressmen had their brains removed onstage—preferably by people forced into bankruptcy through a family medical disaster

Wow, that is fantastic. Probably better than the play.

― All of the time, and none of the art (dymaxia), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

fifteen years pass...

The Holy Grail film was financed thusly
Michael White Limited £78,750.00
Led Zeppelin £31,500.00
Island Records £21,000.00
Pink Floyd Music £21,000.00
Charisma Records £5,250.00
Heartaches (Tim Rice) £5,250.00
Chrysalis Records £6,300.00
Ian Anderson £6,300.00
Total £175,350.00
— Eric Idle (@EricIdle) March 9, 2021

― caek or daeth (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 14:05 (five years ago)

good thing they couldn't get george harrison on the horn for this one, or they might've been able to afford horses

― caek or daeth (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 14:05 (five years ago)

And someone on here was saying Zeppelin and Floyd were humourless!

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 15:55 (five years ago)

I would have been disappointed if Ian Anderson had NOT shown up in this list.

― so tonight that I might ramona quimby (f. hazel), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 15:57 (five years ago)

According to Terry Gilliam, the Pythons turned to rock stars like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Elton John for finance as the studios refused to fund the film and rock stars saw it as "a good tax write-off" due to UK income tax being "as high as 90%" at the time.[11]

― visiting, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 17:24 (five years ago)

George Harrison wrote a song about that once I believe.

― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 17:25 (five years ago)

four years pass...

saw cleese present the movie last week for its 50th anniversary. he mostly talked about how much he hates the ending. he did say his favorite joke in the movie was “‘tis but a scratch” (good choice)

watching it for the first time in decades, what i mostly admired was graham chapman’s straight man performance. i laughed a lot when tim the enchanter won’t stop tossing fireballs and graham says, “you’re a busy man”

― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 21 October 2025 14:11 (five months ago)

I tried watching this recently, for the first time in decades. I couldn't get through the first ten minutes. Not because it was bad, but just because I was so bored. I remember thinking "there is truly no reason for me to ever watch this again." This may be the only movie that has lost all appeal for me from overexposure.

― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Tuesday, 21 October 2025 14:33 (five months ago)

ya i mean i haven't needed to watch it since basically the whole thing is downloaded into my brain, but the cleese q&a and opportunity to see it in a theater was a good enough reason

― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 21 October 2025 14:36 (five months ago)

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