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Tunnel Vision
A committee investigating TV's first uncensored network examines a typical day's programming, which includes shows, commercials, news programs, you name it. What they discover will surely crack you up! This outrageous and irreverent spoof of television launched the careers of some of the greatest comedians of all time.
Release : | 1976 |
Rating : | 5 |
Studio : | International Harmony, |
Crew : | Cinematography, Director, |
Cast : | Phil Proctor Howard Hesseman Chevy Chase John Candy Ron Silver |
Genre : | Comedy |
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Memorable, crazy movie
i must have seen a different film!!
Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
I didn't like it. After being a fan of the wacky comedies in this category, such as Kentucky Fried Movie, Groove Tube, and Amazon Women On The Moon, I thought Tunnel Vision would knock it out of the park, especially since I found Neal Isreals name attached to the project. Sad stuff. I had high expectations from you, Neal...but, I won't knock you around too much. After all, this was your earlier work, and you're obviously not the only one I blame for this farce. Better examples of this genre have been made, as stated above. Kentucky Fried Movie reigns supreme in outrageous humor that nobody would have the balls to make today. Tunnel Vison follows the same formula as these films, however, it is much more organized, following an uncensored TV channel from morning light, right up to the signing off screen at midnight. There lies the problem...who asked for it to be organized? Many of us enjoyed the random, unpredictable skits and sketches the films had to offer. Why did you screw that up, Tunnel Vison? Maybe because your blind to comedy, that's the way I see it. Very few chuckles, very few laughs, this movie ranks last on my list that I would ever want to watch again. What world are we living in, anyways, where we put a TV network on trial just because they're scraping in millions of viewers, and leaving other networks with none? Did they run out of REAL cases to take in, or what? The entire movie remains an unforgivable mess, and to think of all the great stars it has. More sad stuff. It doesn't even come close to being as funny as Groove Tube, which I will watch any day of the week. Clocked in at just under 70 minutes, it will feel like 70 hours by the time you get through it, IF you get through it. Even more sad stuff! Tunnel Vision, laugh or get off the pot? I got a better idea. Why don't you take this entire movie, and flush it down the toilet, and don't forget to wipe.
Tunnel Vision is a unique sort of grindhouse film. It is a feature-length collage of comedy sketches, loosely tied together by a simple (and not terribly important) framing mechanism. The production values are rather low, very rough around the edges in the same way the Python TV show was, but the humor here comes across nonetheless. Those of you with delicate taste, beware. The comedy in this film is extremely dark, savage, and mercilessly satirical. It takes on the the TV-junkie generation, ripping into network television with energy and vehemence. If you like dark humor and satire, like Terry Southern or Robert Downey, Sr., you will probably like this film. Just don't expect glossy visuals or a strong central narrative.
I missed the beginning but I did see most of it. A friend got it on DVD in the cheap room at FYE.The skits are all very short, and yet most of them are still too long. The majority of them, they seem to have forgotten to have something funny! Quite a lot of racist/sexist/"homophobic" humor in it, skits based on stereotypes, or skits which use racist terms for people.I'm trying to remember anything I thought was funny in it, and I'm having trouble.... The logo for the Tunnel Vision network is a lipsticked mouth with an eyeball in it. The mouth opens and closes over the eye like eyelids. Kind of creepy.What a disappointment. Most of the actors went on to better things, and it's lucky this bomb didn't hold them back.
By today's standards, this movie is crude, filled with drug and lame sex humor, and just plain silly. But in 1976, this was the segue from National Lampoon to Saturday Night Live-type "sophomoric" comedy. This was also precursor to the Zucker brothers' "Kentucky Fried Movie", "Airplane" and "Police Squad" types of movies that make fun of both the subject and the medium.