Thanks for not starting them with Meaning of Life! ;-)
I'm glad I saw Holy Grail first, though actually the first Python footage I think I ever saw was a behind-the-scenes TV special about how they blew up Mr. Creosote. I saw that on cable when we lived in Virginia Beach in either 1983 or '84; I watched that with fairly wide eyes. (On top of that? The same special talked about the effects in John Carpenter's The Thing! I'm amazed I actually got to watch this special!) I managed to handle that disgusting thing, but that could've put me off Python for life. In either late '84 or '85, I finally saw Holy Grail -- thank you, PBS! -- and my march into Python had well and truly begun. Maybe some of it was more adult than my parents would've liked 11-year-old me to watch, but it helped that they liked it too. (Years later, when we went to see The Hunt for Red October and Sam Neill got shot, Dad leaned over to me and said "Just a flesh wound?") I like good chunks of Meaning of Life, but that's a HARSH flick -- the offensive stuff isn't funny enough to redeem it being offensive, I think. I figure the Pythons were at times trying too hard on that film.
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I'm glad I saw Holy Grail first, though actually the first Python footage I think I ever saw was a behind-the-scenes TV special about how they blew up Mr. Creosote. I saw that on cable when we lived in Virginia Beach in either 1983 or '84; I watched that with fairly wide eyes. (On top of that? The same special talked about the effects in John Carpenter's The Thing! I'm amazed I actually got to watch this special!) I managed to handle that disgusting thing, but that could've put me off Python for life. In either late '84 or '85, I finally saw Holy Grail -- thank you, PBS! -- and my march into Python had well and truly begun. Maybe some of it was more adult than my parents would've liked 11-year-old me to watch, but it helped that they liked it too. (Years later, when we went to see The Hunt for Red October and Sam Neill got shot, Dad leaned over to me and said "Just a flesh wound?") I like good chunks of Meaning of Life, but that's a HARSH flick -- the offensive stuff isn't funny enough to redeem it being offensive, I think. I figure the Pythons were at times trying too hard on that film.