This Movie Stinks
March 25th, 2026 at 7:51:15 AM
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I wanted some laughs after a rough day, so I decided to give Mal Brooks' 1990s-era Life Stinks a try. It's a gambling movie, although a stupid one. Brooks character is one of the richest men in the world and bets most of his fortune that he can survive as a homeless person for thirty days.
Did I say this is a stupid movie? It should have been called This Movie Stinks. I can't believe someone greenlit this.
Mel Brooks is a genius, but this was a brain fart. Brooks is on an electric monitor and can't cross a perimeter a few blocks wide. He's getting beaten up by two guys who throw him across the boundary. His choice is to stay outside the perimeter and lose the bet or go back and get beaten up some more. Slightly funny the first time they show it, but by the sixth or seventh time, it sucks. Lots of toilet humor as Brooks keeps getting pissed off wherever he tries to sleep.
Did I say this is a stupid movie? It should have been called This Movie Stinks. I can't believe someone greenlit this.
Mel Brooks is a genius, but this was a brain fart. Brooks is on an electric monitor and can't cross a perimeter a few blocks wide. He's getting beaten up by two guys who throw him across the boundary. His choice is to stay outside the perimeter and lose the bet or go back and get beaten up some more. Slightly funny the first time they show it, but by the sixth or seventh time, it sucks. Lots of toilet humor as Brooks keeps getting pissed off wherever he tries to sleep.
The older I get, the better I recall things that never happened
March 25th, 2026 at 2:00:09 PM
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Seems like a PSA for billionaires in downtown LA, but I saw this the first time around and looked around the neighborhood.
