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no_offline_contact@example.com wrote:

On 2022-08-27 12:13 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

I can't honestly recall if I saw the movie at the theatre or just a
trailer for it. I just looked and it has a 6.4 rating on IMDB, which
isn't awfully good. Mind you, I recently watched the first three Porky's >>> movies for the very first time, just to see why so many people
remembered them so favourably and they had even lower IMDB ratings! They >>> were fun but hardly the kind of thing that are likely to be seen as
brilliant a century from now.

Porky's is terrible but it has moments of brilliance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLP-8f_yT4Q

I wonder which was more difficult: for the Ballbricker character and the >principal to keep a straight face through that whole scene or for the
three guys in the back to restrain themselves as much as they did? It
seems like a single take but I wonder how many takes they blew before
they finally nailed it....

The movie is from that era in which producers of low budget movies thought >> they had to put lots of extended scenes of female nudity in to get teenage >> boys to buy tickets, from an era in which the theaters that booked the
movie didn't care about enforcing the R rating.

Agreed. It was certainly far from the only such film, but it was one of
the more successful ones! IMDB says it cost $2.5 million and earned over
$100 million. No wonder they made the two sequels! (And at least one >additional sequel with different writers and a whole new cast.)

Wow, I did not realize it was THAT financially successful!

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Let's go Brandon!

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