The Gods Must Be Crazy is one of my favorite movies. I saw it back in the early 1980s and loved it. Wife didn’t share my enthusiasm. Neither did the next wife.
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I loved that movie. Women don’t appreciate slapstick as much as men do – or much at all.
It would no doubt be condemned as racist today.
Basil, this is the second early 80s art house movie you’ve mentioned – Liquid Sky being the other.
Willing to bet you also saw Koyaanisqatsi, Repo Man and Paris Texas,
Nope. Well, I actually channel surfed across “Repo Man,” I think. Something shiny in the trunk? If so, then yes, I saw about two minutes of it. The others, though, no.
I didn’t mean to give the impression I liked “Liquid Sky.” I rented it on VHS back in the 1980s because someone recommended it as “something you (meaning me) might like.” I still don’t know what it was about. Some screwing and spaceship/hubcaps, if I remember. I suspect being on drugs would have helped.
But, “The Gods Must Be Crazy” was something recommended by a lady friend (no, not anything romantic, just a friend that happened to be female). She had an odd sense of humor. I liked her. Wife liked her (she was friends of us both). And we (me and the friend, not the wife) loved “The Gods Must Be Crazy.” I watched it again over the weekend. And enjoyed it.
Yes, they definitely helped.
Quirky little movie. Saw it once way back when. Not sure if I actually liked it, but it kept me interested enough to watch the whole thing, and I don’t regret the 2 hours of my life I invested.
Yes, they definitely helped.
I was going to post something else tonight but it can wait for tomorrow night, meanwhile here is one of my favorite scenes from Repo Man…………….enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKIaS0lh-uo
I remember seeing blurbs for “The Gods Must be Crazy” in the lists of movies coming to the student union back in the day. I had thought from the cargo cult thing that it was in the South Pacific, not Africa; then again, I’ve never seen it.
I haven’t seen any of those movies, which, I suspect, doesn’t surprise anybody here.
Jaclyn Smith, one of the most beautiful women ever to live (and she has a nice voice, too!), was born October 26, 1945. Hillary Clinton was born October 26, 1947. I’m not sure what conclusion to draw from those facts.