Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
This has to be one of my all time greatest films, not least because of the solace that Monty Python afforded me in my days of being the weird unpopular kid at school. When everyone else would be at their friends house, I would be sat in front of the TV, watching Flying Circus on repeat. I started watching them when I was about 8, and by the time I was 11, I knew every bloody line. Start me off anywhwere, and I could complete the scene for you. I still can. Nights in watching the films with like minded friends and pissing ourselves, Monty Python allowed my to realise that I wasnt a total waste of space, and had redeeming features. I bonded with people, made my first friends.

And then I had the game. Don't know if any of you still remember the 7th Level game that came out, but it was fantastic. I must have played it 50 times, and knew it inside out.

So the other night, when Mr Marlboro professed that he wanted to watch Holy Grail for "research purposes" (he being a writer, apparently this is all funded through 'expenses'), I drove straight down to Blockbuster and got it out. We curled up on the sofa, rolled a joint, and settled down to be taken right back to my youth.

Except I wasn't. No longer in the grip of my passionate love of the Pythons, it had lost it's magic. I watched the film by wrote, knowing every line, every twist, every joke. Disappointedly hearing the lines in my head before they even came out.

So there you have it. I lost a little bit of magic on Saturday.

Meh.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Mon 21 Jul 2008, 21:05, 4 replies)

I know how you feel.
In my last year of school, myself and some friends acted out select scenes from Holy Grail as part of a Drama Evening. Having kids approach me in the corridors demanding I say "I fart in your general direction" for weeks afterwards pretty much drained all the fun out of that film for me.
(Uncle Comrade, Tue 22 Jul 2008, 1:57, closed)

...and this^^^ is why
you shouldn't watch the same film more than once. It spoils it.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Tue 22 Jul 2008, 9:10, closed)

:-(
I bought the DVD because it was going cheap and have only watched it once and thats because I was told it had the entire film redone in Lego as an extra- (it didnt it was just the Camelot song).
(mon bison powered by magnets, Tue 22 Jul 2008, 10:01, closed)

I had this
with Running Man. That's right, go on and laugh. But as a kid of about twelve watching it, I loved it. On watching it recently I recognised it as one of the hugest piles of filthy dogcock I've ever seen.

Although I think Big Brother could do with a bit of a threat of certain death if they fail a task... that'd make for much better tv.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 22 Jul 2008, 10:04, closed)