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achillesforever6 posted:What the heck then You're actually right about this. Even though video cassettes have been largely replaced, this is still relevant in this age of simultaneous VOD released titles.
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Its okay but its no Blazing Saddles.
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Apr 28, 2014 01:51
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Waffleman_ posted:That's probably why it hasn't aged well. Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein are masterpieces.
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Apr 28, 2014 01:54
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Elwes is great in Men In Tights but on my recent rewatch I was struck by how much the guy who plays the Sheriff of Rottingham steals the movie. Don't forget Richard Lewis as the king (of all people), with the migrating mole.
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Apr 28, 2014 03:26
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achillesforever6 posted:What the heck then I only think it's OK. It definitely belongs with the funnier stuff.
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Apr 28, 2014 03:30
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Waffleman_ posted:That's probably why it hasn't aged well. effectual posted:Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein are loving masterpieces. But saw someone beat me to it, I'll throw in the original The Producers and History of the World pt. 1 Assuming you saw Spaceballs relatively recently and liked it, Men in Tights has held up a lot better I think, though I understand why some people are down on it.
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Apr 28, 2014 05:19
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Tender Bender posted:I remember Wrongfully Accused being a pretty excellent 90's Leslie Nielsen movie (mostly a fugitive parody with some other stuff thrown in), but I don't know if it's held up over time. There was a good gag with the train escape at the beginning where the train comes off the tracks and starts chasing him through the forest, culminating with him thinking he's safe before the train jumps out from behind a tree. Wrongfully Accused is very uneven because it's Naked Gun writer Pat Proft going at it alone while also directing. A lot of it doesn't work, but it's still really funny and not even close to embarrassing like other Nielsen films.
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Apr 28, 2014 07:49
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Young Frankenstein is still a masterpiece, but Blazing Saddles, while still being hilarious…I mean it's hard to justify to people seeing it for the first time that racism is/was funny in general without looking painfully bad in the attempt. You can only justify it with the Richard Pryor angle if the person watching remembers Richard Pryor's type of humor. It's a dicey thing just in general. I maintain that Spaceballs didn't age well but every single scene with Rick Moranis is still gold.
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Apr 28, 2014 15:57
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Nah, Blazing Saddles is still funny as gently caress and I don't think I've ever seen someone not "get it".
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Apr 28, 2014 15:58
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Nah, Blazing Saddles is still funny as gently caress and I don't think I've ever seen someone not "get it". A lot of women don't "get it" in my experience. I know my wife refuses to watch past the campfire scene.
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Apr 28, 2014 18:16
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davidspackage posted:Richard Rees. It's kind of funny since he's parodizing Alan Rickman, who also completely steals Prince of Thieves. <dons Pedant Hat> Roger Rees, not Richard. RH:MIT is best remembered for Cary Elwes's line, "Unlike some Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent". I'm also surprised that people have forgotten Cary Elwes was in the first Saw movie.
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Apr 28, 2014 19:27
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Jedit posted:I'm also surprised that people have forgotten Cary Elwes was in the first Saw movie. No one forgot. He's almost as bad as that other guy in the room with him.
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Apr 28, 2014 19:30
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Dissapointed Owl posted:No one forgot. He's almost as bad as that other guy in the room with him. Leigh Whannell wasn't bad in The Conjuring. I think if they had any more money when making Saw they would have hired someone, but who knows!?
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Apr 28, 2014 19:34
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I know a lot of Brits can't stand it when Americans try and fail to do a British accent but for me one of the few that goes the other way is Cary Elways. His American accents are atrocious. The Australian guy who plays Jason Stackhouse on True Blood is a fuckin master though. vvvv we all love Princess Bride that's not what people are talking about. kiimo fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Apr 28, 2014 |
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Apr 28, 2014 19:41
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Wait people can't stand Elwes? He is pretty drat awesome in the Princess Bride. On the whole that film is fantastic.
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Apr 28, 2014 19:43
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Jedit posted:I'm also surprised that people have forgotten Cary Elwes was in the first Saw movie. It's the main reason I can't stand him.
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Apr 28, 2014 20:00
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I watched Home Front. Jason Statham does an American accent. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
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Apr 28, 2014 20:00
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Dissapointed Owl posted:No one forgot. He's almost as bad as that other guy in the room with him. Yeah most of the time I'm actually real happy when Cary Elwes pops up in a movie but he's indefensibly terrible in Saw. But then I think Saw is indefensibly terrible all around. Not since Children of the Corn has a movie so bad spawned such a sturdy franchise. Uncle Boogeyman fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Apr 28, 2014 |
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Apr 28, 2014 20:35
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Dissapointed Owl posted:I watched Home Front. Jason Statham does an American accent. It's the same one he tries in The One. It's good to see he's made literally no effort to improve it over the years. That's it Stath, just roll your R's, that'll do the trick.
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Apr 28, 2014 22:18
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Young Freud posted:You're actually right about this. Even though video cassettes have been largely replaced, this is still relevant in this age of simultaneous VOD released titles. It's the kind of joke that kind of gets funnier yet less funny as time goes on. In the 80s it was still completely preposterous the home video release would be out in the same month let alone simultaneously. Now we have things like VOD. In a decade it may stop being a joke altogether and just confuse the kids - there might be an art form where a (blockbuster type) movie is filmed and instantly streamed to the public to see, not as an experiment but as a commonplace. Also Spaceballs will continue to be at least amusing up until Star Wars stops being a pop culture staple and, well.
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Apr 28, 2014 22:25
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Jedit posted:I'm also surprised that people have forgotten Cary Elwes was in the first Saw movie. More people have forgotten he was in the seventh Saw- and that there were seven Saws.
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Apr 29, 2014 00:31
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Antti posted:It's the kind of joke that kind of gets funnier yet less funny as time goes on. In the 80s it was still completely preposterous the home video release would be out in the same month let alone simultaneously. Now we have things like VOD. Whether or not media allowing instant movie release actually exists is completely inconsequential to the joke being funny you idiots.
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Apr 29, 2014 07:02
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ShufflerZero posted:Hmmmm, aside from the obvious category of "Awesome", I would have to go with either "Evil Priest" or "Action Priest". 
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Apr 29, 2014 07:06
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Wow, that later seasons of Father Ted got dark.
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Apr 29, 2014 07:54
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The best Leslie Nielsen movie:
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OozieNelson posted:The best Leslie Nielsen movie: I don't know about it being the 'best' but drat if it doesn't have some great non sequiturs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnXASxKjwSA&t=99s
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Breakfast All Day posted:Whether or not media allowing instant movie release actually exists is completely inconsequential to the joke being funny you idiots. In fact it makes it funnier since it becomes a commentary on how some batshit ideas in sci-fi movies become something mundane within a couple decades. That and the real gag isn't "lol the movie's on home video already" it's that they literally catch up to themselves in the middle of the movie in a weird and absurdist way.
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Apr 29, 2014 09:07
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"When will now be then?" "Soon." That scene is one of the bright spots in Spaceballs.
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Apr 29, 2014 12:31
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If you liked Steve Little in Eastbound and Down, you should check out the Catechism Cataclysm.
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Apr 29, 2014 13:26
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Free Drinks posted:I don't know about it being the 'best' but drat if it doesn't have some great non sequiturs. "Of all the women in all the world, you had to walk into mine."
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Apr 29, 2014 14:45
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Hewlett posted:"Of all the women in all the world, you had to walk into mine." I've always been a fan of: "I saw through your lies like Spam in a Ziploc bag." Recently rewatched the movie, and it's still a lot of fun, though not as great as when I saw it (over and over) 15 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8reoJ35QZ8 Leslie Nielsen was amazing at deadpan delivery.
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Apr 29, 2014 23:28
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kiimo posted:I know a lot of Brits can't stand it when Americans try and fail to do a British accent but for me one of the few that goes the other way is Cary Elways. His American accents are atrocious. The Australian guy who plays Jason Stackhouse on True Blood is a fuckin master though. If you're an Australian actor and you want worldwide success as anything other than an Australian caricature, you have to be able to do a serviceable British accent and a serviceable American one. Unless you watch Australian productions (which you'll probably only see if you're an Australian), you probably won't see the actors ever get to do their own accents. Hell, in We Hate Movies' review of The Pallbearer, they mistook Toni Colette for a Brit, probably because they'd only heard her be British and American. Dissapointed Owl posted:I watched Home Front. Jason Statham does an American accent. It's interesting that some British actors have to change their accents, and others just get to be British all the time. Maybe it's part of their persona, i.e. why you hire them, like Colin Firth, or Hugh Grant. And maybe, with some actors, they just can't do an accent that isn't their own. Here, witness the glory of Colin Firth doing a texan accent. As far as I can tell, it isn't too bad, but it just seems wrong seeing Firth doing an accent that isn't his own.
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Apr 30, 2014 00:04
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It sounds like he's trying to sound like Matthew Machanauhay. It's not good. It's not particularly bad either. Benedict Cumberbatch in August Osage County was pretty abysmal too, even though I like him.
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Apr 30, 2014 00:14
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I know there is the whole thing where Sean Connery plays a Russian general but never tried to change his accent, but has ever tried to do an American accent?
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Apr 30, 2014 00:16
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Sean Connery has done tons! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwD46-38h5o I mean one.
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Apr 30, 2014 00:18
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The great thing about Connery is his accent is just Connery. It's never the accent of who he's playing, but it's never a wrong accent either.
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Apr 30, 2014 05:01
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Party Boat posted:"When will now be then?" Again I know that Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, and the Producers are objectively better, but for some reason Spaceballs makes me laugh the hardest, maybe I'm easily amused by random pop culture references and 4th wall/meta humor. I think my favorite scene is either the "Comb the desert", The climatic lightsaber fight and the self destruction bit, Darkhelmet playing with his dolls or the Spaceballs merchandising.
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Apr 30, 2014 06:44
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kiimo posted:Benedict Cumberbatch in August Osage County was pretty abysmal too, even though I like him. But the casting was extremely inspired. He looks exactly like he could be Chris Cooper's son.
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kiimo posted:It sounds like he's trying to sound like Matthew Machanauhay. It's not good. It's not particularly bad either. I thought Cumberbatch's accent in 12 years a slave sounded a bit odd in comparison with everyone else. Was it on purpose, or was he making a really bad Southern accent? Here, have a poster:  Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla is a Mexican Independence war hero. I hope he kills people with his bare hands or something.
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