Comments on: Whatever Happened to the Whoopee Boys?

By: Timothy

Timothy — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:04:42 +0000

Oh - I, like Rooney, can quote the brilliance of The Whoopee Boys, a Loughran brotherly weekend-watching favorite. Also up there: The Swamp Thing and Yellowbeard.

Best WB quote:

Butler: I’m Humping, the butler.
Paul Rodriguez: Who’s fucking the maid?

Genius.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:55:21 +0000

very interesting exchange between Fred and Rooney.
Fred refers to WHOOPIE BOYS (first I ever even heard of this film) as “forgetable”, from which Rooney then quotes a line, 20 plus years later. Granted, one good line does not a memorable movie make, even if it does involve turds and french ass-fountains. (too lazy to look up how to spell bidet). Butt…
It does bring up a question for me; at what point does a movie become “memorable”?
I, for instance, loved J. Sayles’ uneven early effort BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET based mostly on two great lines from one extended amazing scene…the Harlem bar.
1.) (paraphrased…its been decades) “Space germs..Voodoo germs…first thing that happens, your dick falls off. You see some loooong faces in Haiti.”
2.) (after Sayles cameo as MIB bounty hunter does his really stiff aikido/honky-fu) “White folks are gettin’ stranger and stranger”.

By: rooney

rooney — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:16:40 +0000

“Whoopee Boys” was a family favorite in the Rooney household when I was growing up. The line “who took a dump in the bidet?” saw a lot of action in the late eighties between my brother and I. I still think about the degree forgery scheme and wonder if I can doctor up a PhD in Classics from Oxford somehow.

While I saw “Inserts” and found it compelling in a self-absorbed, decadent “Decade Under the Influence” 70’s kind of way, I’m a genuine fan of “The Razor’s Edge”. Teresa Russell was over-the-top and fantastic in it and the seeds of Wes-Andersonian Bill Murray were surely sown in that performance. There was even a Keach brother in it - just a fine, fine film.

Brett Ratner, however, is a terrible human being and a perfect example of why I refuse to ever live in Southern California. Seeing him do the junket for “Rush Hour 3″ is painful experience, plus his craptastic contribution to an otherwise fine X-Men francise is a slap in the face to the late 100ish/early 200ish editions of the comic book. Bring on the Hellfire Club and keep his bloated face away from the rumored Wolverine movie.

Also, no need to qualify with “even” before “Susperio”. “Susperio” is TREMENDOUS - Mr. Argento perfected the color red in that movie. Seriously.