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Saturday Evening Movie Thread 07-22-2017 [Hosted By: TheJamesMadison]
Make 'em Laugh
So, let's talk comedy. I don't usually bring them up because I think that I view comedies very differently from most people. Where most people just want to laugh for 90 minutes (which is perfectly fine, by the way), I can't stop viewing movies through the prism of narrative. It's limiting and stupid, but I always pull back from a movie designed to make me laugh and my chief concern isn't "How much did I laugh?" but "How did that work as a movie?" It's why I was lukewarm on The LEGO Batman Movie. Sure, it was funny as a collection of Batman jokes strung together, but I'm just not sure it worked that well as a movie. But, was it really supposed to be much more than a string of jokes about the history of the Caped Crusader? So, let me provide three examples of comedies that I think work really well as movies first and comedies second.
Ghostbusters
Galaxy Quest
Airplane!
2) The narrative still works even though it's secondary to the string of jokes. I think that this is where most modern parody films fail pretty consistently. They don't work as movies. They string together random jokes that don't go together very well, and think that referencing that one movie from a couple years ago that everyone liked ("Hey! It's Juno!") will make people laugh. Go back to Airplane! and you'll see that it works very differently. Ted Stryker has an arc. It's a silly arc, but an arc nonetheless. His relationship with Elaine is built on the two of them overcoming obstacles to patch over their problems and reunite. There's a clear plot that the characters must work together to get through. It's silly, and makes silly work of the Airport movies, but it still basically functions. And it's a perfect storm of funny jokes that don't over-rely on popular culture. There are some jokes that reference things like contemporary coffee ads and Jive talk, which isn't really a thing anymore. But, even though the base of those jokes are those outside references, the film still makes them work on their own. The coffee joke, for instance, comes up twice. The first time is a straight reference to the commercial ("Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home."), but the second time is a play on the first ("Jim never vomits at home."). It feels like a scattershot comedy written by people who knew how to actually parody something specific.
So… So that's just me. I overemphasize narrative in comedies. What about you? Do you demand that your comedies work dramatically first? Or do you not give one whit about the dramatic elements of a comedy and just want a good laugh?
Movies of Today Opening in Theaters:
Dunkirk
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Next in my Netflix Queue:
Love in the Afternoon Movies I Saw This Week: Metropia (Netflix Rating 2/5 | Quality Rating 1.5/4) "Plodding and not terribly engaging, but unique looking. So it's got that going for it." [Netflix DVD] Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Netflix Rating 5/5 | Quality Rating 4/4) "Tarantino's shallowest movie, but also his most fun. Where Vol. 2 is the heart, Vol. 1 is the raging libido of the story." [Owned] The Immigrant (Netflix Rating 5/5 | Quality Rating 3.5/4) "Classical filmmaking about sin, forgiveness, and survival." [Netflix Instant] Claire's Knee (Netflix Rating 5/5 | Quality Rating 3.5/4) "A small and interesting moral tale that gains a surprising amount of emotional heft in its final act." [Netflix DVD] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Netflix Rating 2/5 | Quality Rating 1.5/4) "Hideous creature costumes, forgettable songs, and a very closed visual feel make this a bit of a chore to sit through." [Amazon Prime]
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at July 22, 2017 07:13 PM (/o9Qk)
Posted by: Eromero at July 22, 2017 07:16 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2017 07:16 PM (9g/6M)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 22, 2017 07:17 PM (pV/54)
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2017 07:17 PM (9g/6M)
For me, I need a narrative to hang the jokes on. I can enjoy an occasional non-sequitur, I was weaned on Monty Python, but the show can't be just that. Which is one of many reasons I hate Seth McFarlane shows.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 07:17 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 22, 2017 07:18 PM (rZ+mb)
[ ] The Producers
[ x] Blazing Saddles
[ ] Young Frankenstein
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 22, 2017 07:17 PM (pV/54)
...but you made me think about it. Young Frankenstein is a great parody as well as a great comedy.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 07:18 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 22, 2017 07:19 PM (MINbv)
Posted by: Gref at July 22, 2017 07:19 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Aruges at July 22, 2017 07:20 PM (RC642)
[ ] The Producers
[ ] Blazing Saddles
[ ] Young Frankenstein
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 22, 2017 07:17 PM (pV/54)
History of the World, Part I
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 22, 2017 07:20 PM (rZ+mb)
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at July 22, 2017 07:20 PM (/o9Qk)
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2017 07:21 PM (9g/6M)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 07:21 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Serpentine Serpentine at July 22, 2017 07:21 PM (P7ulB)
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at July 22, 2017 07:22 PM (/o9Qk)
It is amazing how much it did well and how much it failed at.
It is absurd. I mean, it's an absurd movie, it has no sense of 'setup and payoff'.
The dialog is George Lucas levels of painful in places.
But...
But it has some really good things going on in it. The prologues are really well done. The Virtual Market is clever. The City/Alpha station is very cool. And the Nav'i aliens are really well done. The aliens feel alien, not like humans in funny makeup.
Well, all except Rihana.
Oh, it also has Rihana in a bodystocking. But wearing underwear for once. To keep the PG 13 rating.
I....think it's worth watching, if for only finding new things to marvel at and new things to hate.
And who doesn't need both of those things in their life?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 07:22 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 07:21 PM (V2Yro)
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Slapstick on its own is shallow and doesn't appeal for long, I think. Backed up by something more solid, and it can live for a while longer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 22, 2017 07:23 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Gref at July 22, 2017 07:19 PM (AMIL/)
Well, it's up there.
And don't call me Shirley.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 07:23 PM (xJa6I)
Second favorite Mel Brooks - Spaceballs, if just for the last 5 minutes. "Hello my baby, hello, my darling, hello, my goodtime gal!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 07:23 PM (V2Yro)
Mel Brooks was in the US Army in Europe in WWII.
Brooklyn Boy Mel was also one-half of one of the best celebrity marriages of all time, with Bronx gal Anne Bancroft, nee Anna Maria Louisa Italiano.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 22, 2017 07:23 PM (pV/54)
Posted by: Serpentine Serpentine at July 22, 2017 07:24 PM (P7ulB)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 22, 2017 07:23 PM (Jj43a)
The Princess Bride...
Story.... fighting... fencing... true love...
OK, I'll try to stay awake...
Posted by: Don Q. at July 22, 2017 07:24 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 22, 2017 07:24 PM (5VlCp)
Second favorite Mel Brooks - Spaceballs, if just for the last 5 minutes. "Hello my baby, hello, my darling, hello, my goodtime gal!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 07:23 PM (V2Yro)
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The only part of Star Wars that I think Mel Brooks understood was the marketing aspect, which is why the Spaceballs Flamethrower is the funniest but in it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 22, 2017 07:25 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Buzzion at July 22, 2017 07:25 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 22, 2017 07:26 PM (Lqy/e)
The man was amazingly talented at a young age.
After Coming to America, his last great film, he mostly just...meh.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 07:26 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Buzzion at July 22, 2017 07:25 PM (cAnNx)
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It's being finished by Joss Whedon.
Zach Snyder's daughter committed suicide a few months ago, so he walked away from the project.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 22, 2017 07:27 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: washrivergal at July 22, 2017 07:27 PM (2+gSO)
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2017 07:27 PM (9g/6M)
In fact the only series I can think that made me laugh even more was "Black Adder".
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 07:27 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 07:23 PM (V2Yro)
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The only part of Star Wars that I think Mel Brooks understood was the marketing aspect, which is why the Spaceballs Flamethrower is the funniest but in it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 22, 2017 07:25 PM (Jj43a)
Druish Princess jokes were funny, too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 07:27 PM (xJa6I)
The man was amazingly talented at a young age.
After Coming to America, his last great film, he mostly just...meh.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 07:26 PM (xJa6I)
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He's kind of great in Dreamgirls. He's also playing it straight, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 22, 2017 07:28 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Smitty27 at July 22, 2017 07:28 PM (jD3nE)
Posted by: Kate58 at July 22, 2017 07:28 PM (oLZsm)
Posted by: Smitty27 at July 22, 2017 07:28 PM (jD3nE)
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It's what happens when you're just plain wrong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 22, 2017 07:29 PM (Jj43a)
[3] The Producers
[2] Blazing Saddles
[1] Young Frankenstein
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 22, 2017 07:17 PM (pV/54)
Didn't really care for The Producers. Blazing Saddles was absolutely fantastic up until they broke through into the studio. Everything after that was unfunny. Young Frankenstein was funny all the way through.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2017 07:29 PM (FUu/Z)
The man was amazingly talented at a young age.
After Coming to America, his last great film, he mostly just...meh.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 07:26 PM (xJa6I)
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He's kind of great in Dreamgirls. He's also playing it straight, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 22, 2017 07:28 PM (Jj43a)
I agree. His 'James Brown' character was damn fine, especially in that scene where he shoots up in front of everyone, in defiance of everyone. Some good character moments there.
And he's good in Bowfinger. But he hasn't had that fire he had when he was younger.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 07:29 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2017 07:27 PM (9g/6M)
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When I see one of his movies it is always with utter amazement and astonishment.
Posted by: washrivergal at July 22, 2017 07:31 PM (2+gSO)
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at July 22, 2017 07:31 PM (T71PA)
I saw it at just the right time/age, I guess. Madeline Khan, Colleen Camp as Yvette...so quick, so witty, so silly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 07:31 PM (xJa6I)
A great comedy, a good story, and the stunts were all done by Keaton himself and are still some of the best, and most daring, ever performed by a lead actor.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 07:31 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 22, 2017 07:32 PM (pV/54)
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2017 07:27 PM (9g/6M)
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When I see one of his movies it is always with utter amazement and astonishment.
Posted by: washrivergal at July 22, 2017 07:31 PM (2+gSO)
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The General.
So classic.
Also pretty much anything else he made.
And yet, I still think that Harold Lloyd was the best of the big three silent comedy stars.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 22, 2017 07:32 PM (Jj43a)
A great comedy, a good story, and the stunts were all done by Keaton himself and are still some of the best, and most daring, ever performed by a lead actor.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 07:31 PM (V2Yro)
Yeah, that train chase scene...where the throws the rail tie? God, amazing. It's like watching early Jackie Chan movies. (No coincidence there, of course)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 07:32 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at July 22, 2017 07:33 PM (kaCWe)
Posted by: MAGA at July 22, 2017 07:34 PM (Tyk2V)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 07:32 PM (xJa6I)
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A film professor used that movie to point out how a lot of silent comedy wouldn't work with sound. When Buster sits on the train and it goes of without his knowledge, for instance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 22, 2017 07:34 PM (Jj43a)
Obviously you never watched "1941".
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 07:34 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Buzzion at July 22, 2017 07:25 PM (cAnNx)
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It's being finished by Joss Whedon.
Zach Snyder's daughter committed suicide a few months ago, so he walked away from the project.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 22, 2017 07:27 PM (Jj43a)
I know Whedon is finishing it up. But I'm guessing that it might be more of Geoff Johns getting a more prominent role after Batman V Superman and Suicide Squad rather than Whedon.
Posted by: buzzion at July 22, 2017 07:34 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: Mel's Apprentice at July 22, 2017 07:34 PM (P7ulB)
Posted by: Infidel at July 22, 2017 07:35 PM (gDoff)
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 07:35 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 07:35 PM (sdi6R)
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That's the exception to my rule.
I don't think that it works as a movie, but it's hilarious from beginning to end.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 22, 2017 07:36 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Aruges at July 22, 2017 07:20 PM (RC642)
Yes, I was really surprised when The JamesMadison stated that "Airplane!" seemed like a parody but then didn't mention "Zero Hour!" Much of the dialog was lifted verbatim from "Zero Hour!" with the difference that zany stuff was going on in the background.
In regards to which movie is funniest, "The Producer," "Blazing Saddles" or "Young Frankenstein," that is a tough call: all have uproarious moments. I'm going to cast my vote for "Blazing Saddles" partly because the movie could not be made today -- sadly, the racial tensions are worse now than 30 - 40 years ago.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 22, 2017 07:36 PM (5Yee7)
Posted by: MAGA at July 22, 2017 07:38 PM (Tyk2V)
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at July 22, 2017 07:38 PM (OiLIO)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 07:38 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 07:38 PM (auHtY)
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Until he got fat and Shatner had the costume department develop a brand new uniform to hide his fatness.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 22, 2017 07:39 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: MAGA at July 22, 2017 07:40 PM (Tyk2V)
Oy Ve!
There's a point where the ethnic expression of a movie starts leaving me as an outsider. Larry the Cable Guy and Wayans Brothers both rate the same type of reaction for me, along with Mel Brooks.
Posted by: Minuteman at July 22, 2017 07:41 PM (xz+89)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 07:38 PM (auHtY)
Personally I love the scene at the Chompers. Because you can tell right there that they had considered making it an R-Rated movie. Before running into the Chompers Weaver very clearly says "FUCK THAT!" But the audio is "Well Screw That!"
https://youtu.be/gqRdT8m1Suo
Posted by: buzzion at July 22, 2017 07:42 PM (cAnNx)
So for me it's:
- most Mel Brooks films with Blazing Saddles in the lead.
- Airplane.
- Undercover Brother.
- The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming.
Then there are non-comedies that have funny, often unexpected moments. John Carter is like that. (Disney really F'ed up the promotion of that film, the critics hated it and the public enjoyed it.)
Posted by: JTB at July 22, 2017 07:42 PM (V+03K)
Until he got fat and Shatner had the costume department develop a brand new uniform to hide his fatness.
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It's not Shat's fault he got fat! Your metabolism changes as you get old!!!
Posted by: shibumi at July 22, 2017 07:43 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at July 22, 2017 07:44 PM (T71PA)
Young Frankenstein was great.
A Fish Called Wanda was hilarious.
Das Boot was funny -no wait it was depressing. All the others were funny.
Posted by: Northernlurker at July 22, 2017 07:44 PM (nBr1j)
As for comedies, good comedies make you forget that the movie is designed to make you laugh. Rather, the laughs are natural and cause you to forget you're watching a comedy per se. "Annie Hall" is one of those, I think.
Posted by: RS at July 22, 2017 07:44 PM (CNQqJ)
So, "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum"?
Posted by: Mel's Apprentice at July 22, 2017 07:34 PM (P7ulB)
----------------------It has some great lines and probably the funniest chase scene on film. For a movie off the beaten path, might I suggest "Dark Star"? An ultra low budget sci-fi movie that always cracks me up, especially when they have to feed the alien. That and teaching Bomb 19 phenomenology.
Posted by: MichiCanuck at July 22, 2017 07:45 PM (zxicL)
The Producers.
OMG. The world of theater is just like that. Most espeically the Mr. Belevedere uber gay director.
/one of the top 50 reasons Shibumi is not married: almost a decade in theater. Sorry, "theatre."
Posted by: shibumi at July 22, 2017 07:45 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2017 07:45 PM (IqV8l)
I don't think gladiator movies were ever a thing.
Which is why it's so funny.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 22, 2017 07:45 PM (P/kVC)
"Love and Death"
"Sleeper"
"Take the Money and Run"
"Bananas"
"Play it Again, Sam"
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 07:46 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: shibumi at July 22, 2017 07:43 PM (aT+Bx)
**********************
That's the sweetest thing you've said all day.
Posted by: Bill at July 22, 2017 07:46 PM (P7ulB)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2017 07:45 PM (IqV8l)
Doh! you're right. Never mind.
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at July 22, 2017 07:46 PM (T71PA)
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at July 22, 2017 07:48 PM (kaCWe)
The series stayed true to the tropes of detective television shows and had the hyper literal type joke of Airplane!, and the characters always went with the gag as a normal part of the show's universe.
Posted by: Minuteman at July 22, 2017 07:48 PM (xz+89)
I think it's one of the funniest screwball comedies ever.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at July 22, 2017 07:38 PM (OiLIO)
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I think I remember it being funny but I can't take Barbara Streisand anymore. I tried re-watching The Way We Were and just couldn't stomach it. Streisand became that character in real life, without the charm. This is a case where her left-wing political lunacy has over-powered any of her talent, whether it be music or acting.
Posted by: washrivergal at July 22, 2017 07:48 PM (2+gSO)
(Karen Black was scrumptious in "Airport 75". I was 17 at the time. Mmm.)
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 07:48 PM (sdi6R)
2 minutes of the Hanson brothers:
http://tinyurl.com/ycsprlug
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2017 07:48 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: votermom pimping great books! at July 22, 2017 07:49 PM (hMwEB)
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2017 07:49 PM (9g/6M)
"Oh, a bullshit artist. Did you bullshit this week? Did you try to bullshit this week?"
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 22, 2017 07:49 PM (5YBu8)
Doh! you're right. Never mind.
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at July 22, 2017 07:46 PM
BTW, I agree with you on Danny Kaye.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2017 07:49 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2017 07:49 PM (OdK9v)
"The Vessel with the Pestle has the Brew that is True!"
When I was 5 years old, Danny Kaye was the first actor I ever truly adored.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 07:50 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2017 07:16 PM"
I'd post one, but I don't want to go OT, especially on a comedy thread. Bottom line: Five/Five.
Posted by: RS at July 22, 2017 07:50 PM (CNQqJ)
Posted by: Skip
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Me either. Vapid.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2017 07:50 PM (OdK9v)
[ ] Blazing Saddles
[ ] Young Frankenstein
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 22, 2017 07:17 PM (pV/54)
Producers and Young Frankenstein are the funnier of the three. Blazing Saddles is funny but a bit too much over the top in places. Whereas Young Frankenstein has the scene in the train station
Gene Wilder - Pardon me boy, is this the Transylvania station?
Boy - Ja, ja. Track 29. Oh would you like a shine?
That was cleverly done
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 07:51 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: votermom pimping great books! at July 22, 2017 07:52 PM (hMwEB)
Posted by: Javems at July 22, 2017 07:52 PM (yOqwj)
Posted by: The French at July 22, 2017 07:52 PM (pV/54)
I don't think gladiator movies were ever a thing.
Which is why it's so funny.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 22, 2017 07:45 PM (P/kVC)
Oh yes, they were, in the 50s and 60s. Lots of forgotten low-budget movies.
Which is why it's so funny.
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 07:52 PM (sdi6R)
No mention of the great Jerry Lewis!
Posted by: The French at July 22, 2017 07:52 PM (pV/54)
Hardly Working is comedic genius
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 07:53 PM (auHtY)
Best part - everyone who's ever played in small town hockey teams agrees that Slapshot was the most realistic movie about small market pro hockey ever filmed. Really!
(okay, it was the only one, but still)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 07:53 PM (V2Yro)
Maybe I saw it during a happy post Thanksgiving Dozeoff.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 22, 2017 07:54 PM (e1mEI)
Not sure I laughed once, the first time I saw it (loved it though).
The images and phrases stick with me, and I laugh at them at odd times, when they pop into my head. Like the camera flash when Hi is looking at the underside of his cellmate's bunk. Or the whole sequence leading to "Boy, didn't we just tell you not to do that?"
Posted by: Splunge at July 22, 2017 07:56 PM (+vxbn)
Another NatLampoon related project that hit the mark was Vacation. The Moose out front should have told you.
Posted by: Minuteman at July 22, 2017 07:56 PM (xz+89)
Still good.
Posted by: Just John at July 22, 2017 07:56 PM (h3ovR)
He was a Dallas fireman who one day went to a casting call for extras in Paper Moon. He wound up being cast as the Inn keeper and got an Academy Award nomination for it. He then went back to the firehouse until one day one of his buddies calls out, "hey Burt, some guy named Mel Brooks is on the phone for you." The rest is history.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 22, 2017 07:57 PM (O5U4s)
Posted by: Javems at July 22, 2017 07:57 PM (yOqwj)
"And I've learned that Sex without Love is an empty, meaningless, experience. Of course, as empty, meaningless, experiences go, it's one of the best!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 07:58 PM (V2Yro)
Comedies That Were Not Funny At All
When Harry Met Sally
Sleepless In Seattle
Anything With Meg Ryan In It
Anything With Billy Crystal In It
Dogma
What others?
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 22, 2017 07:58 PM (lzrKs)
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2017 07:27 PM (9g/6M)
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When I see one of his movies it is always with utter amazement and astonishment.
Posted by: washrivergal at July 22, 2017 07:31 PM (2+gSO)
Keaton was very gifted and much funnier than Chaplin who I think was very overrated.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 07:59 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: ja at July 22, 2017 07:59 PM (A4zoG)
Posted by: Jim S at July 22, 2017 07:59 PM (gXw9D)
I looked up the movies considered comedies and borderline hybrid-comedies that have won the Best Picture Oscar (of course not really credible for most of us; my favorite would be The Sting):
6 Comedies
It Happened One Night (1934)
You Can't Take It With You (193
Going My Way (1944), a musical comedy
Tom Jones (1963, UK)
The Sting (1973)
Annie Hall (1977)
7 Hybrid-Comedies]
The Apartment (1960)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Shakespeare in Love (199
American Beauty (1999) - a dark, satirical psychological drama [WHICH I PERSONALLY HATED!!!]
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) - a dramatic rom-com
Posted by: ShainS at July 22, 2017 07:59 PM (ZcAbN)
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 08:00 PM (ANIFC)
2 reasons:
1) I'm a horrible hypocrite.
2) The narrative still works even though it's secondary to the string of jokes.
Actually, the narrative came first. In fact, it came fr4om decades before.
It was a remake of an old straight drama flick "Zero Hour". And yes, it was so close to the original, that the producers bought the right to the original script.
What "Airplane!" did was tell the same serious story, but in a humerus way. Thus the humor flowed from the plot and not visa versa.
Posted by: The Cinematic hat at July 22, 2017 08:00 PM (vBeA5)
Maybe that's why it works for you--it's not that a plot was bolted on to string the jokes together, it's that the jokes were bolted onto the pre-existing plot until they created a second structure.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, not a damn failure at July 22, 2017 08:00 PM (66CWr)
When I was 5 years old, Danny Kaye was the first actor I ever truly adored.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 07:50 PM (V2Yro)
My kids loved that whole bit. I suffered through it because I'm a giver.
Oh, and Jerry Lewis? He's just a younger version of Danny Kaye.
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at July 22, 2017 08:01 PM (T71PA)
Posted by: Jim S at July 22, 2017 08:01 PM (gXw9D)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, not a damn failure at July 22, 2017 08:01 PM (66CWr)
btw, John Heard is mortadella.
He was in lots of stuff, but he's a very forgettable persona.
Home Alone, CHUD, Big, etc.
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 22, 2017 08:02 PM (lzrKs)
Posted by: The Cinematic hat at July 22, 2017 08:00 PM
You pullin' our leg?
Posted by: RS at July 22, 2017 08:02 PM (CNQqJ)
Posted by: Aviator at July 22, 2017 08:02 PM (/Nite)
Maybe I saw it during a happy post Thanksgiving Dozeoff.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 22, 2017 07:54 PM (e1mEI)
The Road movies are fun. They don't take themselves seriously for a second and there's plenty of breaking the fourth wall. The end of one has Bob and Bing on a raft and Hope is going on about being too young to die. Crosby says something like, Hey Junior you can turn it off now. and points to the Statue of Liberty. Hope says, You've got your Oscar. Now I want mine and starts over acting about dying.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 08:02 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: An Occasional Not-Lurker at July 22, 2017 08:02 PM (fS6xP)
Posted by: The Cinematic hat at July 22, 2017 08:00 PM
You pullin' our leg?
Posted by: RS at July 22, 2017 08:02 PM (CNQqJ)
It tickles the funny bone for sure!
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 08:03 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: The Cinematic hat
Like How Matt Stone and Trey Parker say that Team America is just a Michael Bay movie remade with puppets.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 22, 2017 08:03 PM (5YBu8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFJopF6WJNw
It is dead bang accurate. We now know that fat is healthier than carbs.
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 08:04 PM (sdi6R)
Then the SJW's imposed their reign of terror on Hollywood, and we cannot have nice things like poke-fun-at-anything films anymore. Crap!
Posted by: Gref at July 22, 2017 08:04 PM (AMIL/)
Dr Strangelove is a great black comedy. Kubrick started writing the script as a straight drama based on the book Red Alert, and then took a turn.
Posted by: The French at July 22, 2017 08:04 PM (pV/54)
The 12 Chairs has the humor stem from a simple but serious plot.
The Producers had its uproarious moments, but they all flowed naturally from the basis of the plot such that when "Springtime for Hitler" begins, it doesn't come across as some shoehorned wacky moment, but the logical result of everything that came before it.
(The musical version, BTW, is an abomination, especially with the actors they chose for the film).
Both Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein were a result of writing a plot to fit in the parodies. Don't get me wrong, they are both great movies, but not in the same vein as the three highlighted in this post.
Posted by: The Cinematic Hat at July 22, 2017 08:04 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: otho at July 22, 2017 08:04 PM (lmIoG)
Comedies I'm embarrassed and ashamed to say I laughed at so much:
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Taladega Nights
Ron Burgundy
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 08:05 PM (V2Yro)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=41imMO7XpFg
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 08:05 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Jim S at July 22, 2017 08:06 PM (gXw9D)
Comedies That Were Not Funny At All
Anything With Billy Crystal In It
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 22, 2017 07:58 PM (lzrKs)
++++
He has been funny on occasion.
Running Scared
The Princess Bride
Monsters Inc.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2017 08:08 PM (pvjTE)
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2017 07:49 PM (9g/6M)
Yup.....Woody sucks donkey balls. But "Danny Rose" had it's moments.
Was Jerry Vale the fat singer in that one?
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 22, 2017 08:08 PM (5VlCp)
Best part - everyone who's ever played in small town hockey teams agrees that Slapshot was the most realistic movie about small market pro hockey ever filmed. Really!
(okay, it was the only one, but still)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 07:53 PM (V2Yro)
That movie was frigging hysterical.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July 22, 2017 08:08 PM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 08:05 PM (V2Yro)
I didn't think Anchorman was funny at all. It fact, it was the usual Will Ferrell over the top shit with PC sprinkled all over it. The worst part of it was everyone quoting it to death
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 08:08 PM (auHtY)
Both had decent mundane plots from Westerns, and then subverted it a subtle yet effective unrealism and wackyness that didn't detract from the overarching story.
Posted by: The Cinematic Hat at July 22, 2017 08:09 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Jim S at July 22, 2017 08:09 PM (gXw9D)
A couple of comedies that work particularly well as movies first are Groundhog Day and Midnight Run. For a rom-com, I'm unsure that there is any as deftly done as LA Story. I hate rom-coms, but that is a great movie.
Posted by: otho at July 22, 2017 08:09 PM (lmIoG)
Last comedy I saw at the movies was Keanu. It didn't start off as a bad comedy for me ( above average) but it is one that gets better on each viewing.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 08:09 PM (IDPbH)
Not sure I laughed once, the first time I saw it (loved it though).
The images and phrases stick with me, and I laugh at them at odd times, when they pop into my head. Like the camera flash when Hi is looking at the underside of his cellmate's bunk. Or the whole sequence leading to "Boy, didn't we just tell you not to do that?"
Posted by: Splunge at July 22, 2017 07:56 PM (+vxbn)
"Turn to the right."
"Mordecai, get that diaper off your sister's head!!!"
"That Motherscratcher?"
"You got four chairs and a table you got a dinette. You got a table you got dick!" - Nathan Huffheins
"Son, you got a panty on your head"
"Sometimes, once a month, I get the cramps real bad"
"and when we run out of crawdads, we ate sand."
"Her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase."
Every character in that movie was memorable.
Posted by: Minuteman at July 22, 2017 08:09 PM (xz+89)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 22, 2017 08:10 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 22, 2017 08:10 PM (pV/54)
Posted by: washrivergal at July 22, 2017 08:10 PM (2+gSO)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 08:11 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Minuteman at July 22, 2017 08:09 PM (xz+89)
Part of the Coen brothers' genius. All their characters are highly memorable.
Posted by: Insomniac, Professional Nobody at July 22, 2017 08:11 PM (0mRoj)
Not sure I laughed once, the first time I saw it (loved it though).
The images and phrases stick with me, and I laugh at them at odd times, when they pop into my head. Like the camera flash when Hi is looking at the underside of his cellmate's bunk. Or the whole sequence leading to "Boy, didn't we just tell you not to do that?"
Posted by: Splunge at July 22, 2017 07:56 PM (+vxbn)
"Turn to the right."
"Mordecai, get that diaper off your sister's head!!!"
"That Motherscratcher?"
"You got four chairs and a table you got a dinette. You got a table you got dick!" - Nathan Huffheins
"Son, you got a panty on your head"
"Sometimes, once a month, I get the cramps real bad"
"and when we run out of crawdads, we ate sand."
"Her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase."
Every character in that movie was memorable.
Posted by: Minuteman at July 22, 2017 08:09 PM (xz+89)
"Can you describe you baby?"
"He looks like a baby."
"What was he wearing?"
"His PJs."
"Can you describe his PJs?"
"I don't know, they had Yodas and shit on them!"
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 08:11 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Jmel at July 22, 2017 08:11 PM (0pH66)
Zach Snyder's daughter committed suicide a few months ago, so he walked away from the project.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at July 22, 2017 07:27 PM (Jj43a)
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My understanding of that is it was done except for re-shoots, which is what Whedon is doing. So don't expect a Whedonesque film.
That said, I do like the current trailer that is up for it from comic con.
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 22, 2017 08:12 PM (v3DL/)
Posted by: Insomniac, Professional Nobody at July 22, 2017 08:12 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Jim S at July 22, 2017 08:12 PM (gXw9D)
Kind Hearts and Coronets with Alec Guinness. A lovely black comedy (even if everyone in it is white).
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 08:13 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 08:14 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 08:14 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 08:14 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Brad at July 22, 2017 08:14 PM (wBC4K)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 22, 2017 08:14 PM (Lqy/e)
Ed Wood.
Posted by: otho at July 22, 2017 08:15 PM (lmIoG)
Here's what I am tired of re: comedies: crude.
I'm not a prude, and I am fine with vulgarity - but in moderation, and not because the filmmakers think "if we triple the snot/puke/vomit/poop it will be 3x as funny!" No.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 08:15 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: washrivergal at July 22, 2017 08:15 PM (2+gSO)
Posted by: freaked at July 22, 2017 08:15 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2017 08:15 PM (9g/6M)
Posted by: Jim S at July 22, 2017 08:15 PM (gXw9D)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear
Umm...I believe the proper term is "fauxgina".
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 22, 2017 08:15 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 08:16 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2017 08:15 PM (9g/6M)
Wool by the pool.
Don't know how many times I heard or said that while in college.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 08:16 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Johnny Pedantic at July 22, 2017 08:16 PM (6OESk)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear
Worth a try. No other way to find out for sure.
Posted by: Kaitlyn Jenner at July 22, 2017 08:16 PM (/Nite)
That movie always makes me laugh so dang hard. I LOVE Kevin Kline as the stupid bully, Michael Palin as the stuttering animal-lover, the whole honeytrap/love connection. So funny!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 08:16 PM (NOIQH)
On the surface, a hilarious Bill Murray movie that works comedically in every scene.
Just under the surface, arguably one of the most deeply spiritual movies ever made. And effective because the majority of people who see it absorb its lessons without realizing that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 08:17 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: otho at July 22, 2017 08:09 PM (lmIoG)
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I'm not sure how true it is, but I've been told the coffee ordering scene inspired the guy who started Starbucks.
"I'll have a half caf, double decaf with a twist of lemon"
Posted by: MAGA at July 22, 2017 08:17 PM (Tyk2V)
That movie always makes me laugh so dang hard. I LOVE Kevin Kline as the stupid bully, Michael Palin as the stuttering animal-lover, the whole honeytrap/love connection. So funny!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 08:16 PM
Kline's Otto is sheer genius. He owned that flick.
Posted by: otho at July 22, 2017 08:18 PM (lmIoG)
Posted by: Jim S at July 22, 2017 08:12 PM (gXw9D)
O Brother Where Art Thou? is another.
"I'm a Dapper Dan Man myself"
Posted by: Minuteman at July 22, 2017 08:18 PM (xz+89)
That movie always makes me laugh so dang hard. I LOVE Kevin Kline as the stupid bully, Michael Palin as the stuttering animal-lover, the whole honeytrap/love connection. So funny!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 08:16 PM (NOIQH)
Don't call me stupid!
Posted by: Harvey Manfrensenginsen at July 22, 2017 08:18 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2017 07:49 PM (9g/6M)
++++
His earlier comedies, the ones that are supposed to be so great, just don't do it for me. An occasional smile, if I don't doze off. But, I did like one of his later comedies, Mighty Aphrodite. The scene where he meets Mira Sorvino's character (a prostitute) is hilarious.
https://youtu.be/dmUzK-GxSu4?t=15s
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2017 08:19 PM (FUu/Z)
I can't think of a Madeline Kahn performance that wasn't brilliant: Clue, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, etc., etc.
Posted by: JTB at July 22, 2017 08:19 PM (V+03K)
and we thought the black lady behind us was going to die laughing.
A really funny minor classic is "Rancho Deluxe", starring Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterson (way before he took himself so seriously as a DA) as ne'er do well cattle rustlers in the modern west. Slim Pickens, Elizabeth Ashely, Harry Dean Stanton, Jimmy Buffet sings "Livingston Saturday Night", a song written for the movie (Livingston,Montana, I think).
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 22, 2017 08:19 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 22, 2017 08:19 PM (5VlCp)
Posted by: Jim S at July 22, 2017 08:19 PM (gXw9D)
"Love and Death"
"Sleeper"
"Take the Money and Run"
"Bananas"
"Play it Again, Sam"
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 07:46 PM (V2Yro)
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Great films. I love, "Love and Death".
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 22, 2017 08:20 PM (v3DL/)
Posted by: Jim S at July 22, 2017 08:20 PM (gXw9D)
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2017 08:20 PM (9g/6M)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy
I hear Brian Dennehy is going to play Glacier National Park in the sequel.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 22, 2017 08:21 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 08:21 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Jim S at July 22, 2017 08:21 PM (gXw9D)
1: Life of Brian (Making it worse?!? How could it be worse?!? Jehovah! Jehovah!)
2: Holy Grail (Bet you're gay! No I'm not!)
3: Airplane (Excuse me stewardess, I speak Jive.)
4: Pink Panther (Thet is not meh dog...)
5: Blazing Saddles (Somebody's gotta go back and get a shitload a dimes!)
6: Young Frankenstein (Abbie someone...)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at July 22, 2017 08:21 PM (w+Jhj)
Heh.
"OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies" is funny. A french James Bond. I didn't really get the homoerotic paddle-ball stuff, but otherwise very silly and willing to make un-PC jokes. Jean Dujardin is an absolute delight to watch.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 08:21 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 22, 2017 08:21 PM (pV/54)
"Zorro, the Gay Blade".
I wouldn't be surprised if someone in California isn't working on buying every copy and burning them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 08:22 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Jim S at July 22, 2017 08:21 PM (gXw9D)
Wasn't a Sandler slapstick comedy but I thought Funny People was a great movie.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 08:22 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 08:22 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 22, 2017 08:23 PM (678B2)
He absolutely blew me away. He had a smoking band and at one time they were playing this psychedelic number complete with colored strobe lights and stage smoke and it was just chaos. Suddenly, behind us, the trumpets blare out. The trumpeters had snuck off stage during the chaos and into the aisles behind us. If I recall correctly, they psychedelic-up McArthur's Park and the trumpets were blaring the theme "McArthur's Park is melting in the dark . . . " At the fanfare of the trumpets, the chaos is over and they are a tight, tight jazz band.
So is it with comedies, controlled chaos. You can get crazy with nice interpreters but then you need a fanfare and you're back in the plane without a pilot.
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Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 22, 2017 08:23 PM (pszv/)
Oh, that reminds me. If you can find it, try to catch "Malcolm" from the 80's. Australian comedy about bank robbers. It's extremely good and meets TJM's criteria of narrative.
Posted by: otho at July 22, 2017 08:24 PM (lmIoG)
I much prefer these older comedies that anything made by an SNL alum in the last 10-15 years. Will Farrell is a one-trick pony.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 08:24 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at July 22, 2017 08:24 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: freaked at July 22, 2017 08:24 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR)
So you didn't get fired after coming in late the other day?
Well, that's good.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 22, 2017 08:25 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: Harvey Manfrensenginsen at July 22, 2017 08:25 PM (ANIFC)
The concert industry is just like that. Honestly.
Fran Drescher has a small role as a PR girl and she's perfect.
[paraphrased]
Rob Reiner: That was a lovely melody.
Nigel: Yes, it's a bit of Bach and Mozart. It's Mach.
Rob: What's it's called?
Nigel: I call it Lick My Love Pump.
Posted by: shibumi at July 22, 2017 08:25 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Jim S at July 22, 2017 08:06 PM (gXw9D)
"The Castle" is pretty good.
The Australian comedy that I think is pretty great is
"Hotel de Love" .
Great story, lots of earned laughs and one of the best endings I've seen in what is essentially a rom-com.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2017 08:25 PM (9q7Dl)
Brooks' "The Inquisition" from "History of the World Part I" and his "Springtime for Hitler" from "The Producers" are both parodies of Broadway showstoppers and are right on the money. Hilarious and irreverent as hell.
Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at July 22, 2017 08:25 PM (LQLeS)
"John Wayne was a FAG"
"Huh?"
"It's true boys. I went to install two way mirrors at his pad in Brentwood and he came to the door in a dress."
Posted by: Minuteman at July 22, 2017 08:26 PM (xz+89)
Posted by: Jim S at July 22, 2017 08:12 PM (gXw9D)
The Coen Brothers are great. I loved "The Hudsucker Proxy" and "Barton Fink".
I haven't even seen half of their movies. They make 'em faster than I can see 'em.
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 08:26 PM (sdi6R)
"Daddy, the top came off"
"Well no shit."
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 22, 2017 08:26 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: freaked at July 22, 2017 08:26 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Jim S at July 22, 2017 08:26 PM (gXw9D)
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I've often thought that is the perfect title for a suspense comedy.
Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 22, 2017 08:26 PM (Nwg0u)
I laughed all the way through Airplane! My GF was laughing too -- at me having so much fun.
I rate Monty Python and the Holy Grail as the funniest, and really like Galaxy Quest. The cast did a great job, and the ending was superb. esp. Sam Rockwell.
Movies not listed yet: Captain's Paradise and Kind Hearts and Coronets with Alec Guinness, and Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? Top Secret and Hot Shots had some good moments as well.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 08:26 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 08:27 PM (hyuyC)
"Where did you play?"
"Oklahoma State."
"University?"
"Pen."
Posted by: Gref at July 22, 2017 08:27 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 08:27 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 08:27 PM (hyuyC)
In fact, I saw the film with my Mom, and was laughing so hard. IIFC, she actually leaned over and said "it's not that funny," or something similar.
But it was. IT REALLY WAS.
Posted by: shibumi at July 22, 2017 08:28 PM (aT+Bx)
My thoughts:
Good production values
Much of the acting was first rate.
Good depiction of the randomness of combat death.
Some issues though - in a event where 300,000 British troops were taken off the beach, why is it we were shown, at any one time, only a few hundred soldiers waiting to be evacuated? With computer generated graphics today, they could have easily placed thousands more on the beach.
Also, where the hell were any NCOs? Every army lives and dies due to the backbone of senior enlisted. We were only presented senior officers and lowly enlisted.
As described earlier today, my Sailor home on leave walked out. He didn't want to see ships sinking or drowning deaths.
Was at the range this morning with him and #3 and then ribs for dinner.
A great day really.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 22, 2017 08:28 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 08:28 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 08:28 PM (hyuyC)
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OK, so I have to get the collectors edition, is that what you're saying?
Because honestly, I find that film freaking hysterical.
Posted by: shibumi at July 22, 2017 08:28 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at July 22, 2017 08:28 PM (w+Jhj)
Posted by: Outside Adjitator at July 22, 2017 08:29 PM (pXthv)
Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at July 22, 2017 08:29 PM (LQLeS)
I saw an interview, said that when Blake Edwards first picked up the script to "Shot in the Dark", it was a prosaic attempt to mimic an Agatha Christie story, quite dull - and he decided to do it as written, but decided Clouseau would be the Inspector, and asked Sellers to mostly ad-lib his way through the part.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 08:29 PM (V2Yro)
"Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid". Starring Steve Martin. Scenes from many classic films are inter-cut into the movie to help with the story. Works quite well.
Plus, who doesn't like a cup of his famous java?
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 22, 2017 08:29 PM (v3DL/)
Not sure I laughed once, the first time I saw it (loved it though).
The images and phrases stick with me, and I laugh at them at odd times, when they pop into my head. Like the camera flash when Hi is looking at the underside of his cellmate's bunk. Or the whole sequence leading to "Boy, didn't we just tell you not to do that?"
I remember the line " recidivist. That sure is a terrible word."
Posted by: Northernlurker at July 22, 2017 08:29 PM (nBr1j)
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at July 22, 2017 08:29 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Jim S at July 22, 2017 08:20 PM (gXw9D)
Waiting for Guffman is very funny too
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 08:30 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 22, 2017 08:30 PM (smD62)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 22, 2017 08:30 PM (678B2)
Posted by: ObjectionSustained at July 22, 2017 08:30 PM (EZWNE)
The concert industry is just like that. Honestly.
Posted by: shibumi at July 22, 2017 08:25 PM (aT+Bx)
My understanding is that actual rock musicians love that movie more than anyone.
I met a member of 10,000 Maniacs once and he said, "When we first started out, we went through more drummers than Spinal Tap."
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 08:30 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Jim S at July 22, 2017 08:26 PM
Yes. It's actually fantastic. There's a sort of "sequel"... more of a follow up by the same team, that is also great... "The Nugget". See it.
Posted by: otho at July 22, 2017 08:30 PM (lmIoG)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 08:31 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 08:26 PM (hyuyC)
*Looks at #149*
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 08:31 PM (auHtY)
Top Secret started off as funny as Airplane but it lasted too long. It became boring and it's ending was unsatisfying
Posted by: Minuteman at July 22, 2017 08:31 PM (xz+89)
The images and phrases stick with me, and I laugh at them at odd times, when they pop into my head. Like the camera flash when Hi is looking at the underside of his cellmate's bunk. Or the whole sequence leading to "Boy, didn't we just tell you not to do that?"
Posted by: Splunge at July
The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 22, 2017 08:31 PM (0wem/)
The Frogs agree with you; that they left out the French forces who kept Jerry off the beach for long enough.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 08:31 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 08:31 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 08:32 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Outside Adjitator at July 22, 2017 08:29 PM
Love Bowfinger.
Posted by: otho at July 22, 2017 08:33 PM (lmIoG)
My understanding is that actual rock musicians love that movie more than anyone.
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Supposedly Rob Reiner did some deep research before writing it, and got a lot of input from big name musicians and others in the concert industry. THAT'S why it's so accurate.
Posted by: shibumi at July 22, 2017 08:33 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Al Gore at July 22, 2017 08:33 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Al Gore at July 22, 2017 08:33 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at July 22, 2017 08:24 PM (H5knJ)
Jew got a problem with jew bowels.
My what?
Jew bowels. A, E , I, O
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 08:33 PM (auHtY)
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And based on a true story. Of course, it glorifies the Confederacy so all prints must be hunted down and destroyed.
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Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at July 22, 2017 08:33 PM (LQLeS)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 08:33 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 22, 2017 08:33 PM (0wem/)
I do agree kinda with that assessment of Top Secret, but some of the gags, like the exploding Pinto, were very good. It is better than Ghostbusters, according to my own idiosyncratic sense of humor and background.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 08:34 PM (hyuyC)
You can't tell me that by the end, you're not rooting for Slim Pickins and the guys in the B52.
"I don't avoid women, I just deny them my bodily fluids."
Also.. fluoride. Kubrick was decades ahead of the curve.
Posted by: shibumi at July 22, 2017 08:35 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 08:35 PM (NOIQH)
"Larger Than Life", when he inherits an elephant from his father (who was a carny), and spends the movie getting from Baltimore to LA with the elephant. In the process, he comes to love the elephant, understand his father, and have some hilarious adventures.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 22, 2017 08:35 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: Al Gore at July 22, 2017 08:35 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Looper at July 22, 2017 08:35 PM (7xvrP)
Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at July 22, 2017 08:35 PM (LQLeS)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 22, 2017 08:36 PM (678B2)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102721/
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2017 08:36 PM (FUu/Z)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 08:28 PM (IDPbH)
Actually he's liberal, but he's much smarter than the folks he parody's and he knows better than to unnecessarily piss off half of his fans.
Posted by: Minuteman at July 22, 2017 08:36 PM (xz+89)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 08:36 PM (hyuyC)
BTW, it may betray a huge lack of judgement, but I think "The Incredibles" animated movie is hilarious. The vocal deliveries are great.
Posted by: JTB at July 22, 2017 08:36 PM (V+03K)
Moonrise Kingdom
Weekend at Bernie's, an oldie that I saw for the first time recently
The Grand Budapest Hotel. Dir. Wes Anderson
Meet the Parents
Greenberg Ben Stiller. - I know someone just like this
Elf
Bad Santa. - guilty admission
Bernie. Jack Black is an undertaker
Superbad
Tommy Boy. - Chris Farley
School of Rock Jack Black
Anchorman
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
the Big Lebowski
bad
Reenberg
Posted by: Judy at July 22, 2017 08:36 PM (pPRTz)
Very fun movie. Great cinematic show not tell origins of the storyline.
Not a mess like some critics have been saying. They're stupid. There is a clear linear storyline throughout the movie.
So what's the problem?
Well, until the last 30 or so minutes, you're going to think this is one of the best/better light comedy space adventures evah.
After that, Breton puts on the brakes for a side-trip. It's a fun side-trip. And Rhianna's introduction is dynamite.
Unfortunately, she cannot act at all. Still, fun side trip.
I think the fact that *gasp* the guy saves the girl is what has critics panties in a knot.
Then we head into the climax and -
Brakes on again! For a YUUUUGE info dump of information which we either been presented or can figure out and some SJW-ish prancing and preening.
Then off, we go and the movie wraps up.
If the movie were recut, it would be a classic.
As it is, it's a good fun summer movie that wears out it's welcome toward the end by not trusting its audience.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2017 08:36 PM (9q7Dl)
Posted by: Northernlurker at July 22, 2017 08:36 PM (nBr1j)
"Important safety tip..."
Posted by: Rosasharn at July 22, 2017 08:37 PM (XJYdw)
"He hates these cans! Stay away from the cans!"
"How were you supposed to know that was 'Iron Balls' McGinty?"
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at July 22, 2017 08:37 PM (w+Jhj)
"Teddy dear, we got another Yellow Fever victim."
Cary Grant, "I'm the son of the mailman!"
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 22, 2017 08:37 PM (678B2)
Could be because he also seemed to be a very intelligent person.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 08:38 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 08:35 PM (NOIQH)
That's a very good and funny movie. Grant was very good in comedic roles
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 08:38 PM (auHtY)
You can't tell me that by the end, you're not rooting for Slim Pickins and the guys in the B52.
Posted by: shibumi at July
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPwW7RaPO_g
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 22, 2017 08:38 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: Al Gore at July 22, 2017 08:39 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 08:40 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at July 22, 2017 08:40 PM (LQLeS)
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at July 22, 2017 08:40 PM (H5knJ)
MANOS - THE HANDS OF FATE
(movie, maybe the worst ever made - commentary, the most hilarious!)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 08:40 PM (V2Yro)
Young Frankenstein.
I saw it when I was about -- 14? 15? --- with a couple of girlfriends. I had NEVER laughed so hard in my life at a movie.
"... Ovaltine..."
"What else can we throw in the well?"
And the scene where Marty Feldman has his head where all the dead heads are... "Hi!! Ain't got nobody! Ya cha cha cha..."
I think I wet my pants.
Planet of the Apes (new movie)... Amazing CGI. The rest? Meh. Formula. Woody Harrelson phoning in the bad dude. See it at home.
Posted by: exliberal at July 22, 2017 08:40 PM (g2eRy)
Posted by: geoffb5 at July 22, 2017 08:40 PM (d3wbb)
Airplane
Big Trouble in Little China
Caddyshack
Clue
Ferris Beuller's Day Off
Fletch
Groundhog's Day
Guardians of the Galaxy
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Say Anything...kinda comedy?
The Blues Brothers
The Princess Bride
Three Amigos
Wayne's World
Yambao (Rifftrax.com edition)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 08:41 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Al Gore at July 22, 2017 08:41 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 08:41 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 08:41 PM (xJa6I)
Especially Groucho.
Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller
A Day at the Races
A Night at the Opera
Not exactly slapstick, but the Marx Brothers goofing through reality.
And Groucho wise-cracking his way through. Got to think he was ad-libbing half the time.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 22, 2017 08:42 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2017 08:42 PM (9g/6M)
Posted by: freaked at July 22, 2017 08:42 PM (BO/km)
One of the funniest movies I ever saw.
Posted by: abby at July 22, 2017 08:42 PM (HBU7W)
MANOS - THE HANDS OF FATE
(movie, maybe the worst ever made - commentary, the most hilarious!)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 08:40 PM (V2Yro)
I'm a big fan too
I think 'Mitchell' MIGHT be my favorite, but it's a tough call. The 'Final Sacrifice' is great for all the Canadian jokes.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 08:43 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 22, 2017 08:43 PM (678B2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 08:41 PM (V2Yro)
LMAO. And his art collection. "If it wasn't for the Church, that flag would be hanging in front of the UN today!"
"General, there are reactionaries everywhere."
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 08:43 PM (ANIFC)
Anther gem, but not big laughs, is "The Freshman" with Matthew Broderick and Marlon Brando. Very sweet as well as funny. My hubby loves to do the chef - "Carmine said one boy. Here are two!" And all the ways Broderick says "Vermont" getting ever more defeated that no one will ever bother to learn what state he's from. Love that movie.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 08:43 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: washrivergal at July 22, 2017 08:44 PM (2+gSO)
1) I will not abide a single word of negative criticism of Top Secret! It is ridiculous and therefore perfect.
2) I have always had trouble reconciling that two of my favorite films in this thread -- Spinal Tap and Princess Bride -- were directed by that spinning loon Rob Reiner.
Posted by: Johnny Pedantic at July 22, 2017 08:44 PM (6OESk)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 22, 2017 08:44 PM (rnAwa)
Romance, slapstick, snappy dialog, ... but it doesn't seem to ever work out that well.
Posted by: bananaDream at July 22, 2017 08:44 PM (BHl6T)
Still not as bad as Gallipolli in the first war though.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 08:44 PM (6FqZa)
The 6 Police Squad TV episodes were funnier than any of the Naked Gun movies. IMHO.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 08:31 PM
NaCly Dog Johnson is right!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2017 08:44 PM (IqV8l)
"Dracula, Dead and Loving It"
and
"The Producers" (the musical).
DDaLI just plain has some great shtick built around all the old Dracula movies and some great slapstick moments.
It gets a lot of hate, but I watch it every time I see it's on cable.
As for "The Producers" musical...
YMMV but I find Nathan Lane hilarious.
He's also very good in another comedy that gets no love "Mouse Hunt".
Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2017 08:45 PM (9q7Dl)
"I'll have a half caf, double decaf with a twist of lemon"
Posted by: MAGA at July 22, 2017 08:17 PM (Tyk2V)
Definitely not true. Starbucks started in 1972. In 1991, they were just starting to hit it big on the west coast.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 22, 2017 08:45 PM (17QyB)
MANOS - THE HANDS OF FATE
(movie, maybe the worst ever made - commentary, the most hilarious!)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 08:40 PM (V2Yro)
I'm a big fan too
I think 'Mitchell' MIGHT be my favorite, but it's a tough call. The 'Final Sacrifice' is great for all the Canadian jokes.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 08:43 PM (xJa6I)
"Mitchell!" is my favorite. Maybe it works so well for the reasons TJM stated above - it's not a terrible movie, it has a basic plot & reasonable competent acting. So there's a sound structure to build all the jokes off of.
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 08:45 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: shibumi at July 22, 2017 08:35 PM (aT+Bx)
===
Dr Stangelove is full of Mel Brooks and Airplane! caliber sarcasm and humor - a few examples:
The "Peace is Our Profession" billboard in the background of some of the scenes of the combat on Burpleson AFB.
The name of the President: Merkin Muffley. How many people in the early Sixties, and now, knew/know what a merkin is?
Posted by: Gref at July 22, 2017 08:46 PM (AMIL/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPwW7RaPO_g
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They had to overdub the city. Originally, he said, "You could have a pretty good time in Dallas with that," but they changed it becuase of Kennedy.
Also...damn you for that link! That led to a Peter Sellers interview, which then led me to a Making of Dr. Strangelove documentary and now I'm watching an interview with Stanley Kubrick.
I should be working!!! Damn!!!
Posted by: shibumi at July 22, 2017 08:46 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 08:31 PM (hyuyC)
It is scientific fact with metaphysical certitude, not opinion.
Read this previous comment:
78 Police Squad! was a much better series than the derivative Naked Gun movies,
The series stayed true to the tropes of detective television shows and had the hyper literal type joke of Airplane!, and the characters always went with the gag as a normal part of the show's universe.
Posted by: Minuteman at July 22, 2017 07:48 PM (xz+89)
Posted by: Minuteman at July 22, 2017 08:46 PM (xz+89)
Posted by: Zogger at July 22, 2017 08:46 PM (SKahJ)
"The Fortune Cookie"
and of course the classic
"The Odd Couple"
Walter Matthau also made a minor classic that was hilarious called "A New Leaf", where he was a trust fund baby that runs out of money, has no idea how to pay for anything, and sets out to find and marry a really rich woman, and he has no interest in sex.
It's hilarious. He winds up with Elaine May, who plays a completely daffy, eccentric rich woman who is obsessed with horticulture.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 22, 2017 08:46 PM (S6Pax)
I had a problem with the casting of Valerian. The guy had the line delivery of Keanu Reeves and the body of Leonardo DiCaprio...and he was kind of a prick. God and some of the dialog! Bleh.
I think the opening prologues were amazing and so were the alien races. Might be worth a re-watch just for that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 08:46 PM (xJa6I)
The 'Final Sacrifice' is great for all the Canadian jokes.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 08:43 PM
And the pipe smoking gravel voiced guy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2017 08:47 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Rowsdower!
https://youtu.be/R6OPyfQxwDM
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 22, 2017 08:47 PM (5YBu8)
Like separating the musician from the music you have to do that with all art. Quite a corundum eh?
Posted by: freaked at July 22, 2017 08:48 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 08:45 PM (ANIFC)
I agree. That's why I like Yambao so much (Rifftrax not MST3k, but more or less the same). The movie itself is solid enough and you can really let yourself go with the jokes.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 08:48 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 22, 2017 08:48 PM (smD62)
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No one in the sixties.
Now, at the HQ?
LOL. Our discussions can.... go left sometimes. I'm betting most know.
And General Rippers name is officially Jack D. Ripper.
Posted by: shibumi at July 22, 2017 08:48 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: votermom pimping great books! at July 22, 2017 07:52 PM (hMwEB)
You mean the third movie in that trilogy by Ingmar Bergman? Yeoww, I tried to watch it a number of years ago, gave it up after about 20 minutes, it was so repellent.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at July 22, 2017 08:48 PM (OiLIO)
And the Americans conjured up the idea for a bold strike around the German lines in Italy. It was called Anzio and the bold thrust turned into a grinding war of attrition because the Americans dawdled and failed to quickly expand their beachhead.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 22, 2017 08:48 PM (678B2)
Posted by: Bill sometimes Bill formerly from Canada at July 22, 2017 08:48 PM (/j7jO)
Big Trouble in Little China get watched several times a year around
here.
Oh yes, love BTiLC and Tremors as much as Galaxy Quest and Ghostbusters, too. Kurt Russell is so great. Overboard is funny, too.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 08:48 PM (NOIQH)
Anther gem, but not big laughs, is "The Freshman" with Matthew Broderick and Marlon Brando.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 08:43 PM
Ruthless People is gold, all the way through. A Brando gem that is now obscure, Is "Bedtime Story". It's the movie that "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" is a remake of. David Niven and Brando in the leads. It's a forgetten gem... Niven and Brando are a fantastic comedy duo, believe it or not.
Posted by: otho at July 22, 2017 08:49 PM (lmIoG)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 08:49 PM (xJa6I)
I had a problem with the casting of Valerian. The guy had the line delivery of Keanu Reeves and the body of Leonardo DiCaprio...and he was kind of a prick. God and some of the dialog! Bleh.
I think the opening prologues were amazing and so were the alien races. Might be worth a re-watch just for that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 08:46 PM (xJa6I
I never like that actor because he looks like he just finished up his 3 day heroin bender.
Posted by: buzzion at July 22, 2017 08:49 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 08:49 PM (sdi6R)
The idiots in college today seem sad by comparison.
Best line ever, in the background, "We need the dues!".
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 22, 2017 08:49 PM (5VlCp)
What really stopped the Germans was Hitler's worries about open flanks, the exhaustion of the spearhead troops, and British grit in defense.
One example was the troops that stopped the southern German pincer. Churchill threw in some of his best troops in reserve, The Rifle Brigade, Kings Royal Rifle Corps, and 3 Royal Tank Regiment into Calais. Those troops stopped the Germans just long enough, in a siege even, but very few escaped captivity.
The French had a smaller part. Although their tattered Armies to the South did gave the German General Staff worries. More Germans were killed after Dunkirk fighting the French alone than were killed up to the end of Dunkirk.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 08:50 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: otho
I saw that years ago, and it was hilarious. Brando plays his part so deadpan it's incredibly funny.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 22, 2017 08:50 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: washrivergal at July 22, 2017 08:10 PM (2+gSO)
Being There: The Barack Obama Story
Posted by: filbert at July 22, 2017 08:50 PM (s5o+q)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 08:51 PM (6FqZa)
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka and Hollywood Shuffle made me laugh.
Lots of early Wayans stuff was good. Undercover Brother had a lot of funny moments.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 08:52 PM (xJa6I)
The Sunshine Boys is a very movie. Walter Matthau steals the movie. He is hysterical
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 08:52 PM (auHtY)
I do agree kinda with that assessment of Top Secret, but some of the gags, like the exploding Pinto, were very good. It is better than Ghostbusters, according to my own idiosyncratic sense of humor and background.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 08:34 PM (hyuyC)
As Ed McMahon would say:
"You are CORRECT, sir!"
The gags were primo, from the Nutcracker Ballet scene, to the Prison Escape Scene.
The mash up premise of a World War II Special Operation movie along with an Elvis movie was genius.
Posted by: Minuteman at July 22, 2017 08:53 PM (xz+89)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 08:51 PM (6FqZa)
Yup.....a classic.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 22, 2017 08:53 PM (5VlCp)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at July 22, 2017 08:53 PM (di1hb)
Romance, slapstick, snappy dialog, ... but it doesn't seem to ever work out that well.
Posted by: bananaDream at July 22, 2017 08:44 PM (BHl6T)
Most of Wodehouse's humor comes from the way it's written on the page.
It's hugely artificial, which is okay cuz it's funny as hell. But impossible to make sound natural coming out of human mouths.
Plus, a lot of the funny is in the descriptions of the people and actions. Which would require a narrator. Narrator = not funny.
Genius on the page doesn't always translate to the screen.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2017 08:53 PM (9q7Dl)
Lots of early Wayans stuff was good. Undercover Brother had a lot of funny moments.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 22, 2017 08:53 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: freaked at July 22, 2017 08:54 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: random lurker commenter at July 22, 2017 08:54 PM (/ocGl)
--
OK, so I have to get the collectors edition, is that what you're saying?
Because honestly, I find that film freaking hysterical.
Posted by: shibumi at July 22, 2017 08:28 PM (aT+Bx)
I lived 75% of that movie. Its funny until its not. lol
I am definitely Nigel.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July 22, 2017 08:55 PM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 22, 2017 08:56 PM (5YBu8)
Question: does makeup cover prickly heat bumps and hair nubs . Director: I think we got it in one take in the can..(No pun intended)...
Posted by: voter dude at July 22, 2017 08:56 PM (U5Xeq)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 22, 2017 08:56 PM (O5U4s)
Godfrey Cambridge had a hell of a day in that one.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 22, 2017 08:57 PM (5VlCp)
Although Eeegah! holds a special place in my heart. My deceased wife's favorite - "Lookie, lookie, lookie at my thorax!"
Posted by: Looper at July 22, 2017 08:57 PM (7xvrP)
Lots of early Wayans stuff was good. Undercover Brother had a lot of funny moments.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 08:52 PM (xJa6I)
I'm gonna git you sucka was some funny ass shit. The whole Rambo scene to pull a splinter, the dude who was armed to the teeth and fell on his ass , chris rock buying the ribs, etc Damn funny.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July 22, 2017 08:58 PM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 22, 2017 08:58 PM (v3DL/)
ZAP Rowsdower.
There's even a reddit thread called r/owsdower.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 08:49 PM (xJa6I)
So Rowsdower - is that a stupid name?
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 08:58 PM (ANIFC)
Richard Dreyfus is terrific as Dr. Leo Marvin and Bill Murray is great as the very fearful Bob. Everyone in it is good, even the kid actors. Dreyfus sputters better than almost anyone in the movies.
Posted by: huerfano at July 22, 2017 08:59 PM (TO4Og)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 08:59 PM (w7U7L)
Posted by: Al Gore at July 22, 2017 08:33 PM (BO/km)
This asshole has been socking me!!! I demand that you ban him!!! He is one of these planet destroying motherf*ckers. I DETEST people like this! He is an evil piece of PLANET DESTROYING garbage! I HATE people like this who want to destroy MARGINALIZED BILLIONS in all zones of the world except for the fucking "united snakes" of America! This country is SO VILE.
Posted by: Al Gore at July 22, 2017 08:59 PM (/qEW2)
Yeah, the opening dialog between the guy and gal was a bit lame. If I never hear "You're afraid of commitment" in a movie again....well, that will be just fine.
And the info dump-finale was totally unnecessary. Tits on a Boar exposition.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2017 08:59 PM (9q7Dl)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 22, 2017 08:56 PM (5YBu
Actually yes. lol
Some company made the repro face plates for the marshal amps that went to 11, sooo....
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July 22, 2017 08:59 PM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: Looper
Watch out for snakes!
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 22, 2017 08:59 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 08:59 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 22, 2017 08:50 PM
Yep. Brando's "Ruprecht" is way funnier than Steve Martin's... coz it Brando!
Posted by: otho at July 22, 2017 09:00 PM (lmIoG)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 22, 2017 08:56 PM (O5U4s)
And you have to watch the special edition of "Holy Grail" with the subtitles on. You can either choose dialog from "King Henry IV Part One" or the film translated into Japanese, then back again into English. It is very silly.
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 09:01 PM (ANIFC)
I'm almost scared to go back and watch it now.
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at July 22, 2017 09:01 PM (H5knJ)
"Trumpy, no!"
And when Trumpy (who apparently eats **anything**) is examining the Cute Kid's little animal menagerie and Crow as Trumpy describes what kind of potato each of the kids' pets are: (at the rabbit cage) "This potato has long ears . . . "(comes across the hamster: "Ooh, NEW potato."
Posted by: filbert at July 22, 2017 09:01 PM (s5o+q)
Richard Dreyfus is terrific as Dr. Leo Marvin and Bill Murray is great as the very fearful Bob. Everyone in it is good, even the kid actors. Dreyfus sputters better than almost anyone in the movies.
Posted by: huerfano at July 22, 2017 08:59 PM (TO4Og)
That was a very funny movie, back when just about anything Bill Murray did was hitting on all cylinders.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 22, 2017 09:01 PM (17QyB)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 09:02 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: JTB at July 22, 2017 09:02 PM (V+03K)
Posted by: shibumi at July 22, 2017 08:35 PM (aT+Bx)
===
Dr Stangelove is full of Mel Brooks and Airplane! caliber sarcasm and humor - a few examples:
The "Peace is Our Profession" billboard in the background of some of the scenes of the combat on Burpleson AFB.
The name of the President: Merkin Muffley. How many people in the early Sixties, and now, knew/know what a merkin is?
Posted by: Gref at July 22, 2017 08:46 PM (AMIL/)
True fact: "Peace is Our Profession" was the motto of the USAF Strategic Air Command. It was at the bottom of all official SAC stationary
Posted by: Minuteman at July 22, 2017 09:02 PM (xz+89)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 08:59 PM (w7U7L)
That's awesome. A friend of mine had to pick him up from the airport once (long story) and he had the best time just hanging out with him.
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 09:03 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: kallisto at July 22, 2017 09:03 PM (7l5V0)
Posted by: Charles the Simple
He was also the most underrated part of Ghostbusters.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 22, 2017 09:03 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 09:03 PM (hyuyC)
When the stuff starts flying around the room it impossible not to laugh.
Posted by: freaked at July 22, 2017 09:03 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Lt. Frank Drebin at July 22, 2017 09:04 PM (ANIFC)
"Stop playing with yourself Ken!"
"It is you God!"
"I drank what!?"
"I found my number one."
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 22, 2017 09:04 PM (678B2)
It seems to me like a movie written by guys who grew up reading Mad Magazine.
Posted by: bour3 at July 22, 2017 09:05 PM (KXQr+)
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History to me is lesser than YF, BS and the producers as they each also had plots. HotW is just a bunch of skits strung together.
Posted by: Progressives at July 22, 2017 09:05 PM (vChNs)
Posted by: Minuteman
Gen LeMay came up with it. When a pajama boy reporter questioned him about it, he said "peace IS our profession, war is what we do for kicks."
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 22, 2017 09:05 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: Progressives at July 22, 2017 09:05 PM (vChNs)
Speaking of skits run together, and definitely not on the top ten list of all-time best comedies but fondly remembered anyway:
Kentucky Fried Movie
Posted by: filbert at July 22, 2017 09:06 PM (s5o+q)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:06 PM (w7U7L)
Ruthless People, Galaxy Quest, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, and Airplane are still funny, after rewatching them numerous times.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 09:07 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
I love Ruthless People
"Are you really the cops?"
"No, we're the National Rifle Association."
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 22, 2017 09:09 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: Infidel at July 22, 2017 09:09 PM (gDoff)
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 22, 2017 09:09 PM (lzrKs)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 09:09 PM (hyuyC)
The Devil movie with Roseanne was terrible.
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 22, 2017 09:09 PM (lzrKs)
On the other hand, WEIRD SCIENCE is one of the greatest comedies of all time.
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 22, 2017 09:10 PM (lzrKs)
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 09:10 PM (ANIFC)
"Mr. Roberts", also with Henry Fonda and Jack Lemmon set during WWII on a freighter
"One, Two, Three" with Cagney as a Coca-Cola exec in Berlin in the cold war. Billy Wilder work that reaches ludicrous speed by the end.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at July 22, 2017 09:10 PM (vChNs)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2017 09:10 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Infidel at July 22, 2017 09:09 PM
There are now young adults that have never seen Alien... or even Pulp Fiction, FFS. Didn't think it was possible.
Posted by: otho at July 22, 2017 09:11 PM (lmIoG)
John Candy as the detective was hilarious. I forget the title.
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 22, 2017 09:11 PM (lzrKs)
"Trumpy, no!"
And when Trumpy (who apparently eats **anything**) is examining the Cute Kid's little animal menagerie and Crow as Trumpy describes what kind of potato each of the kids' pets are: (at the rabbit cage) "This potato has long ears . . . "(comes across the hamster: "Ooh, NEW potato."
Posted by: filbert at July 22, 2017 09:01 PM (s5o+q)
A CLASSIC!!!
As is "Sidehackers", which is actually a thing is SoCal.
Posted by: Minuteman at July 22, 2017 09:11 PM (xz+89)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:06 PM (w7U7L)
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Sad, very sad. Jimmy Stewart is deadpan comedy gold in "Destry Rides Again." Cary Grant is great in everything he did. Good slapstick-type stuff in "Gunga Din," and a good deadpan job as-needed in "North by Northwest."
Posted by: Gref at July 22, 2017 09:11 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 22, 2017 09:11 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered
Who is Harry Crumb?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 22, 2017 09:12 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: redc1c4 at July 22, 2017 09:12 PM (pJeub)
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 22, 2017 09:12 PM (lzrKs)
"War is our hobby" was muttered a lot.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 09:03 PM (hyuyC)
And
"To Err is Human, to Forgive is not SAC Policy"
Posted by: Minuteman at July 22, 2017 09:12 PM (xz+89)
Ruthless People is a great couples movie, and almost every scene was good. The plot was taken from O'Henry's story The Ransom of Red Chief, ISTR.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 09:12 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: filbert
Amazon Women on the Moon
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 22, 2017 09:11 PM (S6Pax)
KFM was the movie Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker made before "Airplane!" and the movie Landis directed before "Animal House."
Posted by: filbert at July 22, 2017 09:13 PM (s5o+q)
Posted by: Gref at July 22, 2017 09:11 PM (AMIL/)
"They tried to kill me with bourbon & a sports car!"
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 09:13 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: filbert at July 22, 2017 09:06 PM (s5o+q)
Cleopatra Schwartz. Funnier than hell
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 09:13 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90
What a forgotten classic. What a funny movie running at top speed.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 22, 2017 09:13 PM (S6Pax)
Grant, Errol Flynn, or Douglas Fairbanks Jr. are. What has happened to
education?
One problem I've had in attempting to get the kid to watch older movies is the pacing - things can go slower than current movies and videos.Trained kids to have a short attention span.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 09:14 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:14 PM (w7U7L)
Posted by: Gref at July 22, 2017 09:11 PM (AMIL/)
+++
He really was good in everything.
Posted by: washrivergal at July 22, 2017 09:15 PM (2+gSO)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at July 22, 2017 09:15 PM (vChNs)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 09:15 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 22, 2017 08:56 PM (5YBu
Actually yes. lol
Some company made the repro face plates for the marshal amps that went to 11, sooo....
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July 22, 2017 08:59 PM (aMlLZ)
LOL. Perfect.
Life imitates art, which imitates life, which imitates art...
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 09:15 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 22, 2017 09:09 PM (lzrKs)
What terrible sins I have working for me. I suppose it's the wages.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 09:15 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: washrivergal at July 22, 2017 09:16 PM (2+gSO)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at July 22, 2017 09:10 PM (vChNs)
It became so hectic that Cagney burned out and basically quite movie making after that film.
Posted by: The Cinematic Hat at July 22, 2017 09:16 PM (vBeA5)
One problem I've had in attempting to get the kid to watch older movies is the pacing - things can go slower than current movies and videos.Trained kids to have a short attention span.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 09:14 PM
Some people refuse to watch black and white movies.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2017 09:16 PM (IqV8l)
Jimmy Stewart and Col Potter were in a movie with that wacky Convair B-36 plane.
"six turning, four burning"
it had 6 props, and 4 small jet engines
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 22, 2017 09:17 PM (lzrKs)
/mic drop
(i'm guessing at the # of "mads")
Posted by: redc1c4
It's 4. Hilarious movie.
Posted by: Aviator at July 22, 2017 09:17 PM (/Nite)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 09:17 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at July 22, 2017 09:18 PM (vChNs)
Posted by: filbert at July 22, 2017 09:01 PM (s5o+q)
"Wing-ed potato..."
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at July 22, 2017 09:18 PM (OiLIO)
Meh.
Not really a war...more like Ape Slavery on the Old Human Plantation.
It's part of the Great Shambling Culture Zombie of the Never-to-Exist Hillary! Presidency.
How so? Let me number the ways:
1) The cowardly, traitorous ape is.....White!
An albino ape named "Winter". Damn Snow People even show up in Ape Paradise
2) Soldeirs are equated with "Bad People" several time thru dialog.
3) The Star Spangled Banner in used as an Ape Whipping, Beating, Forcing into Slavery music video
4) Caesar tears down the Burning Stars and Stripes as part of defeating the humans
On the positive side, Jewish People get a shout out as Caesar like Moses never gets to enter the Promised Land. But, he does get to float up to heaven as heavenly music plays. Yes, really. That's the implication.
Great CGI as usual. Storyline you can predict.
Zombie Hillary! anti-American nonsense.
If the is the sort of thing you like, you will like it.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2017 09:18 PM (9q7Dl)
Another very unfunny movie:
War of the Roses
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it was supposed to be a comedy?
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at July 22, 2017 09:15 PM (vChNs)
News to me
Posted by: Zombie Prince Edward of Lancaster at July 22, 2017 09:18 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at July 22, 2017 09:18 PM (7oUUT)
Oooh, "Office Space!" I have a red swingline stapler they started making after the movie.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 09:19 PM (NOIQH)
Edward Blake/the Comedian is a nihilist. His philosophy eventually fails him, not because he is murdered but because he breaks down and cries to Moloch when he discovers the depth of the plan to save the world.
Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias is a Nietzechean superman fit to rule the fate of the sheep. Although ambiguous, his philosophy also apparently fails him when his deception is revealed and his image of a super intelligent and moral being is shattered.
Jon Ksterman/Dr. Manhattan is a rationalist unconcerned with human. His philosophy fails him in that he must exile himself from all human contact.
Walter Kovacks/Rohrschach is something of a Descartesean with a belief in the moral imperative. Truth is truth, right is right, and wrong is wrong regardless of who gets hurt. His philosophy fails him in that he eventually chooses to allow Jon to kill him rather than to compromise.
Dan Dreiberg/Nite Owl and Laurel Jupiter/Silk Spectre are everyman/woman who suffer the aforementioned slings and arrows but roll with the punches and face life courageously and optimistically. It works for them.
Sally Jupiter is a slug and it works for her.
(This post may be a cry for help.)
Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 22, 2017 09:19 PM (Nwg0u)
Elaine May starred in it because Elaine May wrote it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 09:19 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 09:14 PM (NOIQH)
Exactly. Everything's an action movie nowadays, so the old stuff is boring.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at July 22, 2017 09:19 PM (OiLIO)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:19 PM (w7U7L)
Posted by: Soothsayer
The original "Bedazzled" with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore was pretty funny,
The remake. Meh.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at July 22, 2017 09:19 PM (S6Pax)
"How wonderful to see you."
"I wish somebody I knew thought that. Ahahahaha"
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 22, 2017 09:20 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: Gref at July 22, 2017 09:11 PM (AMIL/)
"They tried to kill me with bourbon & a sports car!"
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Arsenic and Old Lace. I need to count how many double-takes he has in 90 minutes
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at July 22, 2017 09:20 PM (vChNs)
"Teddy dear, we got another Yellow Fever victim."
Cary Grant, "I'm the son of the mailman!"
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 22, 2017 08:37 PM (678B2)
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WORD
Posted by: John Katshit at July 22, 2017 09:21 PM (vChNs)
Jimmy Stewart and Col Potter were in a movie with that wacky Convair B-36 plane.
"six turning, four burning"
it had 6 props, and 4 small jet engines
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 22, 2017 09:17 PM (lzrKs)
B-36 pr0n
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGjyH2ulsCk
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 09:21 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: kallisto at July 22, 2017 09:21 PM (7l5V0)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:21 PM (w7U7L)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:06 PM (w7U7L)
Destroy the past so that all that exists for them is today's narrative.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 09:21 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 22, 2017 09:22 PM (dEQP3)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 09:17 PM (V2Yro)
I liked both of them.
Some of the first version's sin sequences are great but clearly some of Version two's are better.
Both are good for laughs.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2017 09:22 PM (9q7Dl)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:22 PM (w7U7L)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2017 09:24 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: filbert at July 22, 2017 09:06 PM (s5o+q)
Cleopatra Schwartz. Funnier than hell
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 09:13 PM (auHtY)
I can't bring myself to watch that movie anymore because of a throw-away joke at the beginning of that skit.
It was near the beginning of that stectch, where we see a little White girl in bed with a grinning Black man and the voice-over says "More offensive than Mandingo".
It turns out that that scene was in reference not just to the film "Mandingo", but also a far more infamous film:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maladolescenza
It turns out the starlet (Eva Ionesco), had a messed-up upbringing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Ionesco
Posted by: The Shuddering Hat at July 22, 2017 09:24 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:19 PM (w7U7L)
Did not know that. Nice!
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 22, 2017 09:25 PM (gwPgz)
I also hate that one because of Ben Stiller. With the exception of Zoolander, I generally find him very unfunny.
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at July 22, 2017 09:25 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:25 PM (w7U7L)
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Bringing Up Baby with Katharine Hepburn is hilarious.
Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 22, 2017 09:25 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 22, 2017 09:25 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: shibumi at July 22, 2017 08:28 PM (aT+Bx)
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Heh. I laughed my patoot off at that one.
But I would never admit it publicly, not even while using a fake name on a fine military blog.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 22, 2017 09:25 PM (0jtPF)
I agree that SAC had a lot of hard-nosed SOBs in charge, but they sure did a good job. They had great élan. The AF missed that ethos when SAC went away. I hear they are trying to bring SAC-light back to light.
390 Charles the Simple
Raises hand. Knew that.
The movie Strategic Air Command was in no way a comedy. But the B-36 looked awesome in flight. ISTR the nickname was the "aluminum overcast". It was huge at the SAC Museum outside Omaha.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 09:25 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at July 22, 2017 09:10 PM (vChNs)
A very funny movie and if I remember correctly they took a number of shots (humor wise) at the commies
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 09:26 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 09:27 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:27 PM (w7U7L)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 09:21 PM (auHtY)
We're fast approaching
Destroy even yesterday's past so that all that exists for them is today's narrative.
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 22, 2017 09:27 PM (gwPgz)
Both are good for laughs.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2017 09:22 PM (9q7Dl)
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best part of the remake was him speaking spanish
Posted by: John Katshit at July 22, 2017 09:27 PM (vChNs)
The movie Strategic Air Command was in no way a comedy.
But the hilarious Col Potter is in it...
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 22, 2017 09:27 PM (lzrKs)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 09:27 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: John Katshit
Actually the best part was Brendan Fraser as the pajamaboy that cries over everything.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 22, 2017 09:29 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: Gref at July 22, 2017 09:29 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Tuna at July 22, 2017 09:29 PM (jm1YL)
It was 1977. Who would have thought that Detroit would only get worse over the next 40 years.
Thanks democrat voters!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 22, 2017 09:30 PM (5VlCp)
https://youtu.be/TVmCwmC5-kQ
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at July 22, 2017 09:30 PM (5YBu8)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 09:30 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:30 PM (w7U7L)
Posted by: John Katshit at July 22, 2017 09:27 PM (vChNs)
Elizabeth Hurley in skimpy outfits.
Posted by: buzzion at July 22, 2017 09:31 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: kallisto at July 22, 2017 09:21 PM (7l5V0)
Humphrey Bogart: He didn't look short to me
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 09:32 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: Gref at July 22, 2017 09:29 PM (AMIL/)
Indeed.
https://tinyurl.com/y9ost4lc
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 09:32 PM (sdi6R)
I do agree kinda with that assessment of Top Secret, but some of the gags, like the exploding Pinto, were very good. It is better than Ghostbusters, according to my own idiosyncratic sense of humor and background.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 08:34 PM (hyuyC)
As Ed McMahon would say:
"You are CORRECT, sir!"
The gags were primo, from the Nutcracker Ballet scene, to the Prison Escape Scene.
The mash up premise of a World War II Special Operation movie along with an Elvis movie was genius.
Posted by: Minuteman
I loved the visual gag of what we thought was a telephone in the foreground very close to the camera was actually a giant telephone
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at July 22, 2017 09:33 PM (di1hb)
https://youtu.be/TVmCwmC5-kQ
The smooth, uber-sophisticated one is funny too - watching it dawn on him that he's gay.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 09:33 PM (NOIQH)
Because I've seen it about a hundred and sixty-seven times, and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it.
Posted by: Beetlejuice at July 22, 2017 09:33 PM (v3DL/)
"My Favorite Wife" and "The Awful Truth" both with Irene Dunne are very funny.
Posted by: Tuna at July 22, 2017 09:33 PM (jm1YL)
I loved the visual gag of what we thought was a telephone in the foreground very close to the camera was actually a giant telephone
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at July 22, 2017 09:33 PM
Peter Cushing's big eye through the magnifying glass.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2017 09:34 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Gref at July 22, 2017 09:29 PM (AMIL/)
They made one all jet version with swept wings, the YB-60.
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 09:34 PM (ANIFC)
a good horror-comedy that gets both parts right is
"The Revenant".
No, not the bear rape Revenant.
The back from the dead Zombie/vampire Revenant.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2017 09:34 PM (9q7Dl)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 09:14 PM (NOIQH)
Years ago I worked with a guy (in his 20s) who said couldn't watch black and white movies. Then he saw The Third Man and he said it was like his eyes opened to movies and he became a complete classic movies fan. And that's exactly what he said, The pacing of older movies is different and there is story development that he just wasn't used to
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 09:35 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: dantesed at July 22, 2017 09:35 PM (88xKn)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:36 PM (w7U7L)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:30 PM (w7U7L)
I like the trivia that they were flying to Benghazi.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 09:37 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 22, 2017 09:38 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: dantesed at July 22, 2017 09:35 PM (88xKn)
I love that movie. Can't remember the name.
Posted by: Infidel at July 22, 2017 09:38 PM (gDoff)
Good analysis.
Watchmen, even the Zach Snyder version, is a fun deconstruction of superheros. However, it opened the floodgates to a lot of other comics that did not do it so well.
You have to construct first, before you can deconstruct. I don't think Warner/DC movies understands that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 22, 2017 09:38 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 09:38 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: dantesed at July 22, 2017 09:35 PM (88xKn)
I love that movie. Can't remember the name.
Posted by: Infidel at July 22, 2017 09:38 PM (gDoff)
Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 09:39 PM (auHtY)
Also, Hope had a great one with "The Ghost Breakers".
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 22, 2017 09:39 PM (v3DL/)
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at July 22, 2017 09:39 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 09:39 PM (7KFPB)
Another classic comedy from that era is "The Man Who Came to Dinner" with Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan and Monty Woolly. The supporting cast is as funny as the stars. It's one of the movies I watch every Christmas.
Posted by: Tuna at July 22, 2017 09:39 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: Jack P at July 22, 2017 09:39 PM (P7ulB)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:40 PM (w7U7L)
Anyone mention LA Story and Fish Called Wanda yet?
Posted by: Goldilocks at July 22, 2017 09:40 PM (zz1sH)
Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 09:39 PM (7KFPB)
Watch the second one. That should help keep you in your seat.
Posted by: buzzion at July 22, 2017 09:40 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 22, 2017 09:41 PM (gwPgz)
Another funny Cary Grant movie is Bachelor and the Bobbie Soxer. A teenage Shirley Temple has a crush on Cary because he's older and more sophisticated than the high school boys. There's a scene in a malt shop where she's planning their future and Grant is mumbling to himself. Very funny
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 09:41 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 22, 2017 09:41 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:30 PM (w7U7L)
I like the trivia that they were flying to Benghazi.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 09:37 PM (IDPbH)
A couple of things:
The plane in the movie was not a B-24 but a Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_C-119_Flying_Boxcar
There really was a B-24 that crashed in the Libyan desert trying to fly to Benghazi in 1943, the Lady Be Good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Be_Good_(aircraft)
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 09:42 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2017 09:42 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:40 PM (w7U7L)
Heh, the contractors cracked me up. They could spot a mark a mile away.
Posted by: Infidel at July 22, 2017 09:42 PM (gDoff)
as someone who has redone several older residences, I love/hate both. Too close to real, too close to real.
(I know someone who actually did jump off a ladder, about 4 steps up, and went straight through the floor)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 09:42 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 09:14 PM (NOIQH)
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Huh?
Posted by: Barney Millennial at July 22, 2017 09:42 PM (P7ulB)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 09:26 PM (auHtY)
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another movie they'd never make today
Posted by: John Katshit at July 22, 2017 09:42 PM (vChNs)
Posted by: Goldilocks at July 22, 2017 09:42 PM (zz1sH)
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 22, 2017 09:43 PM (v3DL/)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:43 PM (w7U7L)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 22, 2017 09:43 PM (dKiJG)
*wanders out*
Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 22, 2017 09:22 PM (dEQP3)
I laffed.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at July 22, 2017 09:43 PM (OiLIO)
Posted by: Danny Vermin at July 22, 2017 09:43 PM (5YBu8)
Naked Gun
Life of Brian
Dr Strangelove
Ms Doubtfire
Early Woody Allen (Zelig is a masterpiece.)
Errand Boy
Spinal Tap
Posted by: PaddyO' at July 22, 2017 09:43 PM (Bbw58)
Posted by: big sarge at July 22, 2017 09:44 PM (jQ2oO)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2017 09:44 PM (NOIQH)
It doesn't deconstruct the masked vigilante though. Rorschach wins.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 09:44 PM (6FqZa)
Best Thanksgiving Comedy - "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles"
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 09:45 PM (V2Yro)
Other than the bit where he gets slimed, Murray never seems to be "in" the movie. He seems to be "aside" the movie, elbowing it every now and then, making snarky comments, and so on.
He's like a very early version of MST3K.
Also, L,Elle is cool and should be reinstated.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 22, 2017 09:47 PM (MZcWR)
Deep down, they admire the other side.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 09:47 PM (6FqZa)
It doesn't deconstruct the masked vigilante though. Rorschach wins.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 09:44 PM (6FqZa)
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I think Alan Moore's biggest failure with "Watchmen" is that just about everyone I know thought that Rorshach was the best character.
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 22, 2017 09:47 PM (v3DL/)
Posted by: the chicken at July 22, 2017 09:47 PM (6FqZa)
"A Night at the Opera" The "stateroom" scene is worth the price of admission
Posted by: Tuna at July 22, 2017 09:48 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 22, 2017 09:43 PM (dKiJG)
Horse Feathers: I'm Against It
https://youtu.be/WmXHLHVTjRc
Posted by: filbert at July 22, 2017 09:48 PM (s5o+q)
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 22, 2017 09:48 PM (gwPgz)
"Justice matters."
"I'll whisper... 'no'."
"Not in front of the civilians."
I'm leaving out a lot.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 09:49 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:49 PM (w7U7L)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 22, 2017 09:50 PM (0jtPF)
He's like a very early version of MST3K. "
You're a good observer, that's very accurate. The script was very incomplete, almost none of Murray's lines were written ahead of time, and he was told he could ad-lib whatever he thought would fit the scene and the action.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 09:50 PM (V2Yro)
Uncle Buck should have gotten an Academy Award.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 09:50 PM (IDPbH)
Laughing at the tiny monitors and keyboards and shitty computer displays.
But hey. It was 1979.
Posted by: JAS at July 22, 2017 09:51 PM (UnDQI)
Posted by: Jenos Idanian at July 22, 2017 09:51 PM (Qf0BO)
Posted by: gNewt at July 22, 2017 09:51 PM (P7ulB)
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 09:52 PM (ANIFC)
Uncle Buck should have gotten an Academy Award.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 09:50 PM (IDPbH)
Yup....great movie!
"We're gonna win some dough....some serious dough."
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 22, 2017 09:52 PM (5VlCp)
Posted by: The Firsting Hat at July 22, 2017 09:52 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 09:52 PM (6FqZa)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_AC-119
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 09:53 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 22, 2017 09:52 PM (5VlCp)
Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 09:54 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at July 22, 2017 09:54 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Drunkirk at July 22, 2017 09:54 PM (Y+cHU)
As a bonus, it worked tine travel into the story better than any other movie, ever.
Posted by: FireHorse at July 22, 2017 09:54 PM (zkGZ8)
And the Liberator was much bigger.
Posted by: Jenos Idanian at July 22, 2017 09:54 PM (Qf0BO)
Posted by: Smith, Ironi Smith at July 22, 2017 09:55 PM (m9X4Y)
Posted by: Tuna at July 22, 2017 09:55 PM (jm1YL)
I've noticed the Cary Grant references. One of the greatest actors, ever. His comedic timing was impeccable. I'd watch any of his films, anytime.
Posted by: big sarge at July 22, 2017 09:55 PM (jQ2oO)
I had to look and see if my son wrote this post...
Posted by: Ann at July 22, 2017 09:56 PM (jtHQy)
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 09:52 PM (ANIFC)
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Man, I think that cutting between live action and animation would be distracting as all get out. I did buy the director's cut Blu-ray, however.
Also have the motion comic dvd. It could have been great but they had one man do everyone's voice, even the female characters.
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 22, 2017 09:56 PM (v3DL/)
The Prize Fighter, making fun of Rocky
Private Eyes
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 22, 2017 09:58 PM (dKiJG)
I still, after my whole 60 years of life, laugh until my eyes water at the two of them singing in harmony while the leopard on the psychiatrist's roof howls, and George the terrier yaps
Posted by: barbarausa at July 22, 2017 09:58 PM (Elk67)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 09:49 PM (w7U7L)
Sorry, Charles. I didn't mean to be snarky at all. See the Wiki links in my #476 comment.
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 10:00 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: FireHorse at July 22, 2017 10:02 PM (zkGZ8)
Posted by: FireHorse at July 22, 2017 10:03 PM (zkGZ8)
You "get it" if you have relatives that you hate, but that you still have to put up with on holidays.
Maybe that gave it less than universal appeal.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2017 10:07 PM (V2Yro)
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Kingsman meets Archer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFZkoNJ3DxE
Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 22, 2017 10:09 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: kallisto at July 22, 2017 10:09 PM (7l5V0)
Austin Powers
Ace Ventura
Happy Gilmore
But Shirly, Airplane is at the top of my list.
Posted by: Johnny at July 22, 2017 10:10 PM (4DLpr)
Posted by: Deacon Blues at July 22, 2017 10:13 PM (dZGNV)
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at July 22, 2017 07:44 PM (T71PA)
Word.
Posted by: Gem at July 22, 2017 10:19 PM (uaHyk)
Posted by: Son of Sam the Butcher at July 22, 2017 10:22 PM (VJBq9)
Posted by: Tuna at July 22, 2017 10:24 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: An Occasional Not-Lurker at July 22, 2017 08:02 PM (fS6xP)
Word.
Posted by: Gem Who Just Sez Word at July 22, 2017 10:27 PM (uaHyk)
Posted by: booknlass at July 22, 2017 10:31 PM (6Xf+s)
I don't think gladiator movies were ever a thing.
Which is why it's so funny.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 22, 2017 07:45 PM (P/kVC)
Oh yes, they were, in the 50s and 60s. Lots of forgotten low-budget movies.
Which is why it's so funny.
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 07:52 PM (sdi6R)
Oh yeah, Mom would see us kids watching a sweaty Victor Mature movie on the black and white tv, and she'd say "we always called him Victor Manure".. lots of scandalized giggles ensued.
Posted by: stace at July 22, 2017 10:31 PM (wH8rX)
Posted by: geoffb5 at July 22, 2017 10:32 PM (d3wbb)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 08:11 PM (IDPbH)
I really loved that movie. Should be better known. Whenever anyone asks me for a hidden gem kind of recommendation, I will mention it.
Posted by: Gem at July 22, 2017 10:34 PM (uaHyk)
Posted by: Jim S at July 22, 2017 08:15 PM (gXw9D)
The news crew street fight is the funniest scene.
Posted by: Gem at July 22, 2017 10:38 PM (uaHyk)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 22, 2017 10:38 PM (w7U7L)
Raising Arizona was my daughter's favorite movie as a little girl. She watched it nearly every day after school for a long while. Naturally, dozens of Coen Bros quirky lines became family staples:
Okay, then.
Turn to the right!
Well, sometimes I gets the menstrual cramps real hard.
You never leave a man behind!
"Welcome Home, Son." Well, where's he been, H.I.?
You missed a spot.
H.I., I'm barren!
You go back up there and get me a baby, H.I.
Well, which is it young man? If'n I hit the ground I'm gonna be in motion...
In Arab lands they set out a plate...
Anyone found bipedal in five wears his ass for a hat!
I love him sooooo much!
I'm crappin' you negative.
That's a way-homer. You only get it on the way home.
Or my name ain't Nathan Arizona!
Why aren't you breast-feeding him maam? You appear capable.
That Buford, he's a sly one.
Gimme that baby, you warthog from hell!
Ain't we got enough to contend with?
I could go on and on, but my personal favorite line over the years of my working life:
"A job? You're young, you got yer health. What you want with a job?"
Posted by: Lawrence Larson at July 22, 2017 10:46 PM (8bt9o)
The Hallelujah Trail with Burt Reynolds and Martin Landau has got to be one of the single most politically incorrect movies ever made. The final scene with Brian Keith and Donald Pleasance sitting by the quick sand waiting for the wagons of booze to rise to the surface is classic.
Romancing the Stone with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner was fun, but the scene of them sliding down the mud slide and ending with Douglas's face between her thighs with that shit-eating grin on it did me in. My ribs literally hurt because I laughed so hard, and for months, all somebody had to do was say "mud slide" to me and I would just start laughing my head off again.
Posted by: Deplorable lady with a deplorable basket of deplorable cats at July 22, 2017 10:57 PM (lMsBz)
Posted by: charleyhorse at July 22, 2017 10:59 PM (+kahX)
Posted by: charleyhorse at July 22, 2017 11:02 PM (+kahX)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 22, 2017 11:17 PM (OdK9v)
What's the point? Life is not exactly Ozzie and Harriet.
Posted by: Joel and Ethan at July 22, 2017 11:27 PM (fSf/G)
"Diane: I know I could have been a better wife to you... kinder. I could have made love with you more often... or once, even.
Husband: Once would have been nice."
I quote this to my wife all the time, and can't understand why she doesn't see the humor in it.
Posted by: jayhawkone at July 22, 2017 11:37 PM (ZD+J8)
Lost In America
Pee Wees big adventure.
Comedies that I love to watch at home:
The Big Lebowski
Raising Arizona
Pretty much any other Coen Brother movie.
Posted by: LASue at July 22, 2017 11:48 PM (Mjus2)
Vacation was hilarious because it was so easy to relate to. We've all experienced at least something the Griswalds did on their family trip.
Anchorman was good as was The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Stylistically, they were very similar with Anchorman just a bit more silly.
Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, and Airplane are simply classics.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 23, 2017 12:28 AM (H8S+R)
If you can ever find the screenplay for "Flight Into Danger" read it, it is absolutely first class. It is much better and even more readable than most thrillers you find published as novels. Aside from the Canadian production in which James Doohan plays the Ted Stryker role, it was later remade as a Hollywood movie titled "Zero Hour" with Dana Andrews and Linda Darnell, but this version gets in the way of the script undercutting its pacing and relentless drive to the climax. Honestly "Airplane!" is a far more faithful adaptation.
Posted by: Roy CT at July 23, 2017 01:27 AM (Pw6wN)
MF Marking 4 month old dramaqueen BS , played like a cheap fiddle.
But when I first watched it...did not go to Drudge or Fox or anywhere else...came here for the validation that the shit just got real...should have known by scrolling up that no-one here was commenting on that crap.
Sorry for tainting the ONT....back to lurking
Posted by: Richard Brehme at July 23, 2017 03:09 AM (kFkpX)
"Pee Wee's Big Adventure"
"Hot Fuzz"
"Shaun of the Dead"
"Superbad"
"The 40-year-old Virgin"
"O Brother Where Art Thou"
and "Borat"
Yikes, insomnia tonight.
Posted by: Go to bed, mom at July 23, 2017 05:42 AM (PWFP/)
Posted by: Bill Vallely at July 23, 2017 06:55 AM (/R4ru)
Posted by: Bill Vallely at July 23, 2017 06:56 AM (/R4ru)
Posted by: Zapp Branigan at July 23, 2017 07:55 AM (FgFCM)
Posted by: sherlockzz at July 23, 2017 08:38 AM (uBsvC)
Posted by: Corndog at July 23, 2017 10:33 AM (V2CIU)
But I hope someone pointed out that Galaxy Quest is "The Three Amigos" in space.
Both great movies.
Posted by: Trdude at July 23, 2017 12:57 PM (gtDDG)
Tyler Perry - crap
Will Ferrell - crap
Steve Carrell - crap
Seth Rogan - crap
You get the point.
I like "Airplane!" a lot. But "Top Secret" is still the best of the Zucker comedies. It just pummels you with jokes from beginning to end. And that soundtrack! Skeet surfin!
Mel Brooks' genius will never be equaled.
The recent "R.E.D." movies were excellent comedies with a great story behind them.
Also, don't overlook the black comedies like "Brazil", "Miller's Crossing" or "Dr. Strangelove".
Posted by: Mr_Fastbucks at July 23, 2017 01:28 PM (4xZi9)
1. Blazing Saddles
We kinda like these at my house:
2. Talladega Nights
3. This is the End
Posted by: Jane at July 23, 2017 02:39 PM (1ctGY)
The explanation as has been alluded to before is that narrative in Airplane DID come first in the form of the original movie/screenplay (Zero Hour/Flight into Danger) the Zucker brothers adapted into Airplane! It was more successful than later efforts (despite my liking, say Top Secret, better) because Airplane! had an industrial strength narrative structure their later efforts lacked.
Posted by: Steve Poling at July 23, 2017 03:58 PM (J3cMN)
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