Tunnel Vision

1976 "Laugh or get off the pot."
5| 1h10m| R| en
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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.

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Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.
Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
tdrish 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.
justicealan This movie is a prime example of squandering great resources in a film. You've got future SNL and SCTV stars in their prime, such as John Candy, Chevy Chase, Laraine Newman, Al Franken,Tom Davis and Joe Flaherty essentially making 70 minutes of coarse, uninspired fart and racist jokes. The concept of a network from the future subverting society could have really been taken to some interesting extremes, but instead right out the gate, makes a lame, juvenile proctology joke and stays in that vein of humor the whole way.Seek out the earlier and much more subversive and witty Groove Tube or the later, hilarious Kentucky Fried Movie. This movie is only for those who want to see a time capsule of bad 70's sketch comedy movies.
G-Man-25 It's extremely dated, dopey and wildly uneven, but there are still some pretty good laughs to be had in this short collection of skits that take a look at what "television of the future" will be like (?) Even if the humor isn't your cup of tea, it's worth a look just to spot the large cast of then-unknown and up-and-coming comedy talent. Rent it with the similarly-themed "The Groove Tube" for an evening of mindless juvenile fun.
BonzoDog 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.