Shitty Slickers: The Legend of Curly's Pubes

[St_Eddie]

City Slickers is on TV right now.  It's shite.  The only reason that people like it is because of 80's nostalgia (was it an 80's film? I can't be bothered to check, so shitty is this film).  Either that or bad taste (obligatory nod towards Peter Jackson).

Woke or go broke.  In this film the black characters are defined by their ethnicity.  The women exist purely to placate the men.  Don't even get me started on how the horses are portrayed.  Broke.

[Shit Good Nose]

Well I still like it.  And I like the sequel.

"I crap bigger than you." (eyes)

"Let's bring out the cake!"

If it was on TV that early, though, it'll be hella cut.

[St_Eddie]

Well I still like it.  And I like the sequel.

I'm sorry, Sir but I regret to inform you that you are wrong.  You do not like the film, nor its sequel.

You do not like the film.  You do not like the film.  You do not like the film.  You do not like the film.

[Shit Good Nose]

Your lame hoodoo has no power over me.

"He's like a saddle bag with eyes."

[St_Eddie]

Your lame hoodoo has no power over me.

Mate.  Gris-gris begs to differ.

[Shit Good Nose]

Hi Curly!  Killed anyone yet today?

[Shit Good Nose]

That was "I like your ass.  Can I wear it as a hat?"

[St_Eddie]

Hi Curly!  Killed anyone yet today?

Curly's kill count is in the hundreds but no, he has not killed anyone today, for he is "on a break".

That was "I like your ass.  Can I wear it as a hat?"

"No."

[Shit Good Nose]

Ehhhhh, we've always got Alien 3.

[St_Eddie]

Ehhhhh, we've always got Alien 3.

Solidarity, brother.  Preach it from the mountain tops until the deniers awake.

[Avril Lavigne]

I had a full-page magazine ad for City Slickers taped up on my bedroom wall for about 10 years, as a joke (the joke was that I'd never seen it and didn't intend to).

[St_Eddie]

I had a full-page magazine ad for City Slickers taped up on my bedroom wall for about 10 years, as a joke (the joke was that I'd never seen it and didn't intend to).

A joke appreciated by one person (you).

_{Also (me).}

[QDRPHNC]

The first is wonderful, the second I didn't see.

[St_Eddie]

The first is wonderful, the second I didn't see.

But how can you live through life without knowing the secret behind the legend that is Curly's gold?!

[QDRPHNC]

Stop trying to dig your way out of this hole. "Shitty Slickers". Never heard the like.

[madhair60]

I haven't seen City Slickers but I have decided that I like it out of pure spite.

[BlodwynPig]

Shared experience is for looosers.

[Shit Good Nose]

The sequel is a bit of an also-ran, but still plenty to like.  And it clearly takes the piss out of its own sequel tropes, including bringing back Palance as a previously unmentioned identical twin brother.

Plus I'm a huge Jon Lovitz fan, so I'm preprogrammed to like it.

[MidnightShambler]

I loved it at the time, even bought it when it was released on video. Billy Crystal was fucking ace then and Daniel Stern was always a good watch. I loved the bit when he gets rumbled for shagging the checkout girl, his 'Oh Jesus' reaction was perfect.

The sequel was terrible though, can't argue there.

[mothman]

I've never seen either, and you're not selling them to me.

[SavageHedgehog]

My favourite thing about either City Slickers film, which I remember being passable and barely passable, and saw in the wrong order five fairly personally significant years apart, is the IMDB Trivia for Part II:

In the original draft, Billy Crystal's character "accidentally" drops his brother Glenn (Jon Lovitz) into a canyon before an oncoming stampede, killing him. Although it was scrapped after negative screen testing, the scene was eventually used in the Lion King.

[Sebastian Cobb]

It's no Throw Momma from the Train.

[St_Eddie]

It's no Throw Momma from the Train.

Now there's a Billy Crystal film that I can get behind.  Then again, I'm a sucker for anything with Anne Ramsey in it.  Here's a beautiful retrospective video on her career, which I highly recommend watching.

[paruses]

Isn't city slickers responsible for the "he/she is behind me isn't he/she?"

[St_Eddie]

Isn't city slickers responsible for the "he/she is behind me isn't he/she?"

If so, then that's another crime that the movie has foisted upon society.  As if merely existing wasn't insult enough.

[Bad Ambassador]

As if merely existing wasn't insult enough.

"Merely existing" is usually a capital offence though, as far as you're concerned.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

I'd have said "pompously existing", meself.

(the way you've worded your post looks ambiguously like you're trying to insult St. Eddie. Maybe you are, I dunno. Anyway, thought I'd get on board. )

[Ian Benson]

I think the character trait that Daniel Stern's character has where he pretends to be asleep so his wife won't talk to him is extremely funny, especially given the fact that he apparently does it no matter where he is (eg Billy Crystal's birthday party), and I seem to recall the film being quite charming overall.

So that's my take on City Slickers. Take it or leave it.

[St_Eddie]

Just so people know, this is a very tongue in cheek thread.  I'm not actually raging at the fact that City Slickers is a thing which exists.  I did find it to have dated very badly when I caught it on TV but in truth, it was inoffensive enough.

Anywayyyyy... Shitty Slickers!  Worse than the Nazis!