So, I have a pile of movies I SHOULD be watching but for the last few days it's been TV shows (since so many are dropping on Netflix at the same time) and the new MST3K.

I did manage to take a little break to try and watch "Dad's Army," which is surprisingly/unsurprisingly boring.  It's baed on an old famous British sitcom about the old farts left behind to keep Britain safe from Nazi invasion.  And actually, the real ones were pretty bad-@ss.  If England fell, they would have been the Maquis, the resistance, and they were ready.  But that never happened, so instead our memory of them is fuddy duddies pretending to be at war, which is what this movie feels like.  Which would be fine if it was funny, but... it's not.

It's got Bill Nighy and Toby Jones, which is the main reason I picked this up, but they feel wasted.  There just aren't enough jokes.

I don't know what I was expecting, but you know what I could have gone for?  An old fogey version of Stripes.  That would have been fun.  Then I remembered "oh yeah, just about everyone from Stripes is dead.  That's depressing."  But something like that, real screwball and slapstick, politically incorrect, ribald to a certain extent (one of them SHOULD be a dirty old man, hitting on the teenage girls working as medics and so on)... PERSONALITY, you know?  That's what's seriously lacking from this movie.

On top of that, Britain does WWII a lot.  A LOT.  And it gets exhausting.  But as the generation who fought fascism and created the welfare state die off, that stuff starts to be taken for granted.  So there's a real opportunity to explore that, how bad things were, how everyone fought to save the world, make it a better place and so on, and if we can laugh while we do it, that'd be great.

I'm about halfway done with it, I'm going to let it simmer in my mind and see if I can come up with some interesting ways to play with it, something to mash it up with... maybe it'll spark an idea.  You know I can't just let a bad movie be.