{"id":31707,"date":"2023-12-26T13:36:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T19:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31707"},"modified":"2023-12-20T15:46:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:46:50","slug":"movie-report-kentucky-fried-movie-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/26\/movie-report-kentucky-fried-movie-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Report: <i>Kentucky Fried Movie<\/i> (1977)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/kentuckyfriedmovie.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">After reading <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/19\/book-report-surely-you-cant-be-serious-the-true-story-of-airplane-by-david-zucker-jim-abrahams-jerry-zucker-2023\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Surely You Can&#8217;t Be Serious<\/a><\/em>, I went back into the Nogglestead media library looking for this film.  I came up with <em>Hamburger: The Motion Picture<\/em> and hoped I had not conflated the two.  But I recognized some of the descriptions of the skits from the book, so I kept on, and I found it.  I probably watched it shortly after I bought it <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/good-book-hunting-september-15-2007\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2007<\/a>, but not since.  I don&#8217;t rewatch and rewatch things frequently except for maybe Christmas movies these years.<\/p>\n<p>I asked my youngest if he wanted to watch a film with me, and he demurred, and to be honest, I am kind of glad I did.  For although I knew it had sexual humor to it, I had not remembered the sheer number of boobs this film contains.  He would have been mortified.  I would have been mortified.  So, instead, I will leave it on the Nogglestead video library unhidden for them to discover.  I am kidding&#8211;they are of a generation who does not watch films on physical media.  And they&#8217;re remarkably uncurious&#8211;they have not even discovered that I have numerous gentlemen&#8217;s magazines.  Maybe they&#8217;re of a generation uninterested in boobs at all.  But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>The film is a collection of skits that riff on evening news, movie promos\/trailers, commercials, and even movies&#8211;the longest segment is a riff on kung fu movies called <em>A Fist Full of Yen<\/em> which I remembered a bit of (&#8220;Take him to&#8230;. Detroit!&#8221;).  It features cameos by different recognized actors&#8211;including Bill Bixby and George Lazenby, more recognizable contemporaneous to the film than to today&#8211;which lends it a little bit of verisimilitude.  Of course, in the last two decades of the 20th century, this material would seem a little familiar&#8211;the typical Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker fare appeared by then, as did imitator <em>Amazon Women On The Moon<\/em>, but this is the film rather broke the old mold and introduced some of the tropes.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed re-watching it, but I&#8217;m old enough to know what they&#8217;re making fun of with their skits.  Younger audiences would not be so lucky.  And they might be shocked and appalled by the women&#8217;s upper carriages which were a staple of comedies of the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Surely You Can&#8217;t Be Serious, I went back into the Nogglestead media library looking for this film. I came up with Hamburger: The Motion Picture and hoped I had not conflated the two. But I recognized some of the descriptions of the skits from the book, so I kept on, and I found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31709,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31707\/revisions\/31709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}