I want my DVD
Added 9/24/2009
Are we live? Yeah.
Crazy good. Beyond good. Mark Twain meets Patrick McGrath and they both have coffee at The Factory with Edie Sedgwick and Frederick Pohl and Luis Bunuel and then Thomas M. Disch (circa 1974) and Alice B. Sheldon (James Tiptree Jr.) show up with glazed donuts good. No - glazed donuts AND crullers. That's how good this is.
Perhaps the best part is the Fan's home video, but the whole thing is purest grow-a-whole-new-brain good. Watch this and have mad new thoughts about public and private acts, illusion and reality, spectator and performer, celebrity and obscurity, fame and responsibility, envy and identity, and how they all gooshily bleed into each other. And just generally be entertained as hell.
But I want it on DVD! So will you; you'll want to watch holes in this thing, Eraserhead eighties hair or no Eraserhead eighties hair. I believe I acquired my copy the year it came out, and I still get that hair-raising chill that tells you you're in the presence of genius, real mythic dreamtime inspiration, every time I watch it. Like other masterpieces, it probably has more depth and meaning than the authors themselves were aware of at the time, and it reveals new levels every time you watch it.
But I'd really like it to be available on DVD.
A respectful request to P&T from a devoted (but not like in the movie) fan: it's not the fourteenth century, and it would make a lot of us very happy to see this on a medium that doesn't get all stretched out after four hundred viewings.
No hard feelings?
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I've always been a fan of Penn and Teller, but this was hard to watch. It wasn't funny and it just seemed to drag on forever. It feels like they overreached in trying to make a movie.
It's not what they're best at.
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Penn & Teller should have stayed dead
Added 3/16/2006
Don't get me wrong, I like Penn & Teller. But this movie really sucked! I bought this turkey at the 99cent store and frankly.....it wasn't worth the $0.99 + tax I paid for it.
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R.I.P. P&T
Added 3/5/2004
The dark comedic brilliance of Penn and Teller is brought to the screen by the legendary director Arthur Penn. Filmed on location in Atlantic City, P&T Get Killed shows the boys doing what they do best. The film also showcases some of thier most memorable stunts. A must see for any P&T fan, cult movie fan, or film noire fan.
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smile and the world wonders what you're smiling about
Added 7/29/2002
Where to begin? I'm always wary of giving movie reviews since so much is personal taste but here goes.
I won't tell you the story, the title pretty much gives it away however I will say I was impressed by the acting of them both not all TV & stage actors can make the transition. I was especially impressed with Teller's physical acting, very savvy, the silent film stars would have been touched. Yes it's a dark and funny film, so was Dark Star (remember that one? Harold and Maude?), so were many of Hitchcock's it's no suprise to find Teller is a fan.
Sit back and enjoy Penn and Teller's world. N.B no sequel!
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