Krod Mandoon & The Flaming Sword Of Fire

[CarlosTheDJ]

Did anyone else watch Krod Mandoon last night?

I'm undecided.....it was pretty funny in places, but a couple of bits were a bit, well......

Especially the pole dancing bit. Which I hated. Obviously.

 

[Blinko_Glick]

I managed around 7 minutes then decided it was too cringe-worthy to carry on watching.

I then had a game of golf on my Wii.

 

[Ginando]

The phrase 'a lot of pucking fish' sprang to mind

 

[GNC]

It looked pretty dreadful from the trailer, so I'm glad I didn't waste my time if it really was that poor.

 

[sherbetbizarre]

A few days ago I was watching audio commentary to Police Squad! The part where Leslie Nielsen absentmindedly walks into a lampost there's a collective wince from Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers - "oh man" "maybe we should have had a laugh track" "It would have helped that joke"

Over 25 years later, Krod opened with that joke.

I gave up soon after...

 

[Mob1138]

I actually managed half an hour before giving up & reading the latest issue of Viz while waiting for That Mitchell & Webb Look to start. Terrible, terrible mess & hopelessy unfunny, what was alsosurprising was how badly acted this mess was.

It's something which, at best, could have worked as a five minute sketch. Making it last an hour (god knows how bad the last half hour was) is just self indulgent nonsense.

 

[GNC]

There's a Radio 4 comedy on at the moment called Elvenquest which does the same fantasy spoofing, I wonder if there was something in the air when these series were commissioned last year?

I blame Harvard Lampoon's Bored of the Rings, myself. It never got any better than that.

 

[Timble2]

There's a Radio 4 comedy on at the moment called Elvenquest which does the same fantasy spoofing, I wonder if there was something in the air when these series were commissioned last year?

I blame Harvard Lampoon's Bored of the Rings, myself. It never got any better than that.

I think Elvenquest has just finished its first run, quite funny in a schtool of Douglas Adams way, with touches of Old Harry's Game and Terry Prachett . I wondered if the writers had read Diane Wynne Jone's Tough Guide To Fantasyland, which has a lot of fun at the expense of Formulaic Fantasy and it's cliches....

 

[barfing_pumpkin]

Interestingly enough, India de Beaufort's IMDB rating has gone up 241% in the last few days.

Can't think why...

 

[McAvennie]

Looked woefully bad.

Spoofing sci-fi etc... works brilliantly when done by independant, talented people who obviously love the source - Spaced, Garth Marenghi.

When it is done by a committe for the mainstream, like this most probably was, it is tedious, unloveable and painfully unfunny.

 

[James_H]

Don't have TV, but Elvenquest is just shockingly awful. You'd think that the BBC would be able to employ people who could think of jokes, or something.