Preview
SMARTASS CINEMA
Obscene But Not Heard
Friday, May 6
Big Secret Theatre (Epcor Centre)
The 1973 sci-fi not-so-classic Westworld has never had it so good.
The awkwardly rendered flick starring Yul Brynner as a robot gunslinger gone amok is the star attraction of this Friday’s inaugural Smartass Cinema show. The four amusing lads who make up Calgary’s Obscene But Not Heard comedy troupe (Tony Binns, Tom Sarsons, Peter Strand Rumpel and Trevor Campbell) will be going the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 route by adding their own dialogue and commentary to Westworld in a one-night-only performance.
Troupe mainstay Binns claims it was an arduous process deciding on just the right bad film. "We tried a few things. Battlefield Earth (John Travolta) was depressingly awful instead of funny awful. We couldn’t get a hold of a copy of KISS Meets the Phantom, and Batman and Robin (George Clooney and Chris O’Donnell) was just too loud. So in the end we settled on something a little more ’70s and a little more cheesy."
While Smartass Cinema is performed live, the troupe’s wisecracks are not made up on the spot. "It’s not improvised. We look at the film ahead of time because we believe we’d like to give you a good show," quips Binns. "We’d like to guarantee that you will get some laughs. And we’re not big fans of doing improv. Our troupe is all about writing, polishing, rethinking jokes and that sort of thing."
And by setting their imaginative sights on a big-screen train wreck like Westworld, the Obscene But Not Heard boys promise that this will be one night at the movies when you’ll actually be glad that someone is yammering through the flick. |
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