Re: SAPPY BULL FIGHTERS
Posted 2009-12-17 22:06:29 by KingKongFu
How could they butcher a classic short like MATADOR? Everything is terrible, and it's not just the ruined jokes from the original, the bull riding scenes, and the zombie-ish people cheering "ole Americano". It's the whole beginning sequence that is completely unacceptable! They use the same bits (taking the wrong luggage, the jealous husband, eating peppers, "how many rooms", etc.) in one room?!?! Man, I was expecting something better than the ordinary Besser-era shorts, something not claustrophobic in terms of production, such as outside scenes and other stuff as exciting as in MATADOR, but then I was gravely disappointed. What a way to end the series after 24 years of slapstick comedy.
Re: SAPPY BULL FIGHTERS
Posted 2007-10-08 13:13:30 by FourthThird
Definitely a sad choice for last Stooge short released. I'm not quite as critical of this, or of Joe's performance in it, as others are. But the lousy editing wherein it's supposed to look like Joe is riding the bull -- complete with shots of Joe & "bull" against a TOTALLY STATIONARY BACKGROUND -- is one of the worst things in a Stooge short ever, and (to me) practically eclipses everything else bad about it!
Re: SAPPY BULLFIGHTERS
Posted 2001-04-30 16:44:00 by Nicole
Edited 2006-03-23 21:51:29 by shemps#1
This short was the first Besser short I ever had seen before. The first thing that went through my mind was, "Who the heck is that guy next to Larry and Moe?" Thank goodness this wasn't the first Stooge short I saw ( the first one I saw was "Three Little Beers"). Any way, one poke for its signifigance to me and everyone else, being the last short the Stooges had made.
Re: SAPPY BULLFIGHTERS
Posted 2001-03-01 19:46:00 by NicktoBarada
Edited 2006-03-23 21:47:12 by shemps#1
Right on, Cathy! And Uncle Mortimer, I agree, I wanna see SCRAMBLED BRAINS too! It's too bad they play junk like this on AMC in place of a classic Shemp or Curly short-- even if it's not their fault. Anyway... I'm being rather kind by giving SAPPY BULLFIGHTERS an extra half poke. To think it all started with a wonderful film like WOMAN HATERS and ended with a gag-fest like SAPPY BULLFIGHTERS. Hey, that's just the way I feel.To clarify, I meant "gag" as in sticking a finger down your throat, not a funny slapstick joke. Sorry!
Re: SAPPY BULLFIGHTERS
Posted 2003-06-22 23:14:00 by [Deleted Member]
I always considered THE TOOTH WILL OUT (I loved the hot dogdog gag though) the worst Stooge short but I saw this again last year on AMC & it is soooooo BAD!!! Curly must have been spinning in his grave when this came out.
Re: SAPPY BULLFIGHTERS
Posted 2001-03-23 18:51:00 by Mike Holme
Re-Review: A terrible remake of "What's the Matador?", which was not a very strong short in the first place. Most of what Joe says is what Curly said in the original. Joe is very annoying, and the part where he says "I can't see, I can't see!" was done terribly and was absoluetly pointless. A sad end for the shorts the stooges made.
Re: SAPPY BULLFIGHTERS
Posted 2001-02-05 14:48:00 by sickdrjoe
Outside of videotapes (many of which were drawn from inferior sources), the AMC series is the first time these shorts have been seen as intended (uncut & uninterrupted) on TV, so I can't get too angry at them for what's mostly a great package of titles (altho I believe the missing Curly shorts are due to PC concerns). If you notice, the majority of the unaired shorts are Bessers and late-era Shemps...if you've gotta have an incomplete set, those are the ones to be missing. As for Besser, it's weird how a guy who was so hysterical as Stinky on the Abbott & Costello Show could be so, so, so very awful just a few years later. As ghastly as the Bessers are, though, they've been so rarely seen over the years that I can almost appreciate the chance to see for myself how putrid they are. De Rita (whose heirs, amazingly enough, now OWN the rights to the Stooges name along with Larry's!!)was, in some ways, even worse.
Re: SAPPY BULLFIGHTERS
Posted 2001-01-30 14:54:00 by Uncle Mortimer
I hate to be negative, but this concerns a Besser short, so I hope to be forgiven. Here it is.....This is useless re-hashed garbage! I have no interest in ever seeing this junk again. I'm especially angry, you see, because those NIMRODS at AMC keep playing this joke of a short every other week (seems like), while great shorts like SCRAMBLED BRAINS or WE WANT OUR MUMMY remain unaired. Nice thinking AMC. Yeah, we'd LIKE to see a lousy Besser remake every month for the next 3 years, instead of an original with Shemp or Curly that we may not have seen since we were kids. Thanks alot! I'll only watch a Besser short for Moe & Larry. They're wonderful, of course. But I soitenly don't get a thrill when I see Sappy Bullfighters(or any of the other stupid Besser shorts) ready for broadcast...AGAIN!!