The end of this project is legitimately making me feel kind of sad. Of course it could also be the depression, but it feels weirdly Ernest-based. Goodbye, you beautiful angel!
Me surprised they not hit on Army hijinx as concept early in series, because there at least more potential for comedy in that general idea than basketball or African ones. If second or third Ernest movie involved him going into Army, when actor and writers behind him were both in top form, that could be very fun movie.
Me will also say that me can only think of one person less likely to engender peace throughout Middle East than Ernest P. Worrel, and that Jared Kushner.
I remember renting this movie when it first came out. I would have been 12. I seem to remember enjoying it. Years later I learned about Douglas McArthur's obsession with having the perfect photo op and realized that this had been the origins of that part of Colonel Gullet's character.
I caught a chunk of it on TV as a teen just a few years later and I couldn't believe how bad it was.
One other thing that sticks out in my mind is a scene where the rest of his platoon (or whatever the technical name for this group of soldiers would be) leaves Earnest behind in the desert somewhere simply because he can't keep up, and the only reason he knows where they're going is that he can continue to follow their footprints. So this is a movie where not only do they allow men who can't keep up the pace into combat, the Army will casually leave a soldier behind and there's not enough wind in the open desert to erase footprints.
The end of this project is legitimately making me feel kind of sad. Of course it could also be the depression, but it feels weirdly Ernest-based. Goodbye, you beautiful angel!
Me surprised they not hit on Army hijinx as concept early in series, because there at least more potential for comedy in that general idea than basketball or African ones. If second or third Ernest movie involved him going into Army, when actor and writers behind him were both in top form, that could be very fun movie.
Me will also say that me can only think of one person less likely to engender peace throughout Middle East than Ernest P. Worrel, and that Jared Kushner.
Well, yes - but in that case, the role of Ernest P. Worrell would have been played by Eric Trump. Far less lovable but, if possible, even stupider.
Now imagining an “Escape From New York” remake where Snake is sent in to rescue Eric and is like, “Just set off my bomb now.”
I remember renting this movie when it first came out. I would have been 12. I seem to remember enjoying it. Years later I learned about Douglas McArthur's obsession with having the perfect photo op and realized that this had been the origins of that part of Colonel Gullet's character.
I caught a chunk of it on TV as a teen just a few years later and I couldn't believe how bad it was.
One other thing that sticks out in my mind is a scene where the rest of his platoon (or whatever the technical name for this group of soldiers would be) leaves Earnest behind in the desert somewhere simply because he can't keep up, and the only reason he knows where they're going is that he can continue to follow their footprints. So this is a movie where not only do they allow men who can't keep up the pace into combat, the Army will casually leave a soldier behind and there's not enough wind in the open desert to erase footprints.
Don’t know what you mean.