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I always get poo poo for saying Spaceballs sucks IRL. People get very defensive about it. The VHS scene does rule tough.
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Mar 29, 2017 21:30
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I have a real soft spot for all the middle period Mel Brooks movies that are 100% hack jokes and routines. High Anxiety, Silent Movie, History Of The World Pt. 1, you name it.
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Mar 29, 2017 21:32
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I haven't seen Spaceballs for so long I couldn't comment on it. But I agree that bad comedies are just excruciating.
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Mar 29, 2017 21:34
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Jenny Angel posted:It rules that more and more people are willing to say just how terrible Spaceballs is Pizza the Hut. gently caress Space Balls.
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Mar 29, 2017 21:35
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I really don't think Spaceballs is that bad. I mean, Dracula: Dead and Loving It is right there.
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Mar 29, 2017 21:36
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Egbert Souse posted:Another list idea... favorites from same number of years before you were born. Sure. Runners up in parentheses. 1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Bicycle Thieves) 1949: Kind Hearts and Coronets (Late Spring) 1950: Los Olvidados (Rashomon) 1951: The African Queen (Scrooge) 1952: Ikiru (High Noon) 1953: The Wages of Fear (Ugetsu) 1954: Seven Samurai (Sansho the Bailiff) 1955: Pather Panchali (Night of the Hunter) 1956: The Killing (Forbidden Planet) 1957: Nights of Cabiria (Paths of Glory) 1958: Touch of Evil (The Hidden Fortress) 1959: House on Haunted Hill (The 400 blows) 1960: Psycho (The Virgin Spring) 1961: Judgment at Nuremberg (The Hustler) 1962: The Exterminating Angel (Jules and Jim) 1963: The Great Escape (Black Sabbath) 1964: Dr. Strangelove (Charulata) 1965: Repulsion (For a Few Dollars More) 1966: The Good the Bad and the Ugly (Andrei Rublev) 1967: le Samurai (Cool Hand Luke) 1968: 2001 A Space Odyssey (Once Upon a Time in the West) 1969: Easy Rider (The Wild Bunch) 1970: Even Dwarfs Started Small (The Conformist) 1971: A Clockwork Orange (Land of Silence and Darkness) 1972: Aguirre the Wrath of God (The Godfather) 1973: The Sting (Belladonna of Sadness) 1974: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (The Texas Chainsaw Massare) 1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Nashville) 1976: Taxi Driver (The Omen) 1977: Eraserhead (3 Women) 1978: Days of Heaven (Interiors) 1979: Apocalypse Now (Alien) 1980: The Shining (Raging Bull) 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Das Boot) 1982: Fanny and Alexander (The Thing)
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Mar 29, 2017 21:37
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Spaceballs is only 96 minutes long and it still really drags by the end. That's death for a comedy, even if there are a few good jokes towards the beginning.
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Mar 29, 2017 21:37
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I really don't think Spaceballs is that bad. I mean, Dracula: Dead and Loving It is right there. On one hand, Dead and Loving It has, like, one good gag. On the other, that one gag is fantastic.
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Mar 29, 2017 21:41
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I really don't think Spaceballs is that bad. I mean, Dracula: Dead and Loving It is right there.
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Mar 29, 2017 21:42
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CPL593H posted:I'll bet there's a lot of overlap between those states and states that tried to ban gay marriage. Age of consent is 16 in Massachusetts actually. And everywhere in the northeast and old northwest except NY, Indiana, and Wisconsin, and it's 16 in all of Canada. It's higher out West and in much of the south. I used to be good friends with a sociologist who studied teenage sex behavior who talked about this stuff a lot, she had a low opinion of the value of higher age consent laws.
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Mar 29, 2017 21:43
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I really don't think Spaceballs is that bad. I mean, Dracula: Dead and Loving It is right there. All that 90's stuff, Men In Tights excluded, is miserable.
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Mar 29, 2017 21:44
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Hedenius posted:Anything Mel Brooks was involved in after 1974 is trash but the only film people keep defending is Spaceballs. And it is that bad. Robin Hood: Men in Tights owns you scrub
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Mar 29, 2017 21:45
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Hedenius posted:Austin Powers in Goldmember Back in December of 2002, I was going to college in Green Bay and my best friends at University of Illinois - Urbana / Champaign. Because we were huge dorks, I drove all the way down to Urbana (about a six-hour one-way trip, roughly, considering traffic) to see Star Trek: Nemesis in the theater. Now, you might think that might have been a big enough kick in the nuts, but it gets worse. I was staying the night in a hotel, because like hell I was driving six hours back to Green Bay at 10 at night, and I decided to rent Goldmember from the on-demand service. Holy poo poo, I have never seen such an aggressively unfunny movie. Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:On one hand, Dead and Loving It has, like, one good gag. On the other, that one gag is fantastic. This still wrecks me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fFnJNC0K0w
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Mar 29, 2017 21:45
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To join in on the SPACEBALLS chat: it sucks. It's always sucked. It's a Friedberg/Seltzer movie.
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Mar 29, 2017 21:47
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Robin Hood: Men in Tights owns you scrub
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Mar 29, 2017 21:48
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Jenny Angel posted:It rules that more and more people are willing to say just how terrible Spaceballs is Uncle Boogeyman posted:I really don't think Spaceballs is that bad. I mean, Dracula: Dead and Loving It is right there. That's it, I'm fighting all of you in the steel cage.
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Mar 29, 2017 21:55
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You might say that Spaceballs ... is balls. 
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Mar 29, 2017 21:57
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It is 10x better/funnier if you've seen Coppola's Dracula. Just like how Robin Hood: Men in Tights is funnier if you've seen Prince of Thieves. But I like how he'll parody multiple things. A lot of Dracula is homaging the '31 film, but he put in a few bits from Nosferatu, Hammer's Dracula, and even The Fearless Vampire Killers. I think it's funny he managed to put in a few jokes mocking The Road to Wellville, which is kind of random. One thing I love about Mel Brooks films is that not every joke works, but there's usually another one in a moment that does. The Producers and Young Frankenstein are perfect, though. Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Mar 29, 2017 |
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Mar 29, 2017 22:02
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I think the last time I saw Spaceballs when I was like 14. I don't care to revisit it. Does Men in Tights still hold up? 
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Mar 29, 2017 22:03
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Hedenius posted:No. I didn't really like it at the time and managed about ten minutes when I tried to watch it a few years ago. Why not watch Epic Movie if you like that poo poo? 
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Mar 29, 2017 22:06
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Every second that Rick Moranis is on screen in Spaceballs is gold.
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Mar 29, 2017 22:10
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I actually find Goldmember quite funny but I hate The Spy Who Shagged Me.
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Mar 29, 2017 22:12
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I've never actually sat and watched Spaceballs, but every bit and piece I've caught on TV over the years has been dreadfully unfunny. I think it's a film that people loved as a kid and then forgot to grow out of.
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Mar 29, 2017 22:20
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therattle posted:I actually find Goldmember quite funny but I hate The Spy Who Shagged Me. Both sequels are straight up poison but the original Austin Powers is still pretty great. If anyone disses The Mask I'm gonna go crazy.
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Mar 29, 2017 22:24
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Both sequels are straight up poison but the original Austin Powers is still pretty great. That's a spicy takeball
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Mar 29, 2017 22:26
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLKR9tCiwvA If this doesn't crack you up I don't even know what to say.
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Mar 29, 2017 22:30
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I'll always remember Austin Powers 2 fondly because I watched it with my mom who genuinely empathized with the pathos of Fat Bastard the baby eating fat guy.
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Mar 29, 2017 22:34
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That's me driving my boat car
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Both sequels are straight up poison but the original Austin Powers is still pretty great. There are bits of The Spy Who Shagged Me that I liked. For some reason Fat Bastard was hilarious to 15-year-old me, and Rob Lowe doing a dead-on impression of Robert Wagner was great. But Goldmember was just unbelievably awful.
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Mar 29, 2017 22:36
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"Moon Unit Alpha and Moon Unit Zappa" does get a chuckle out of me
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Mar 29, 2017 22:37
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The first Austin Powers is pitch perfect parody. The rest is self parody
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Mar 29, 2017 23:05
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what guy de maupassant story is Boudu based on
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Mar 29, 2017 23:10
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weekly font posted:The first Austin Powers is pitch perfect parody. The rest is self parody There's way, way, way too much Dr. Evil in the sequels.
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Mar 29, 2017 23:12
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glam rock hamhock posted:What movie on Netflix or Prime should I watch to forget my troubles tonight? I'm leaning towards The First, which I haven't seen since Sundance, but I'm open to suggestions. Sour Grapes
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Mar 29, 2017 23:12
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What the hell is your beef with Return of the Living Dead 2? Jenny Angel posted:It rules that more and more people are willing to say just how terrible Spaceballs is Actually it's an outrage.
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Mar 29, 2017 23:14
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Hedenius posted:Kung Pow: Enter the fist No.
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Mar 29, 2017 23:17
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The hardest part of growing up loving movies is the day you understand that Mel Brooks owes his success far more to the talent of his performers than the merit of his writing.
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Mar 29, 2017 23:22
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I'm listening to the Dark Web ep of Sword and Scale and I'm dying. It's SO fake. Everybody who talks about this poo poo is a geek.
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:The hardest part of growing up loving movies is the day you understand that Mel Brooks owes his success far more to the talent of his performers than the merit of his writing. The fact that he was able to utilize his performers well is credit enough to his ability. Just look at Leslie Nielsen's later films if you want to see how loving unfunny a genius comedic actor can be.
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