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Tim Russ saying "we ain't found poo poo!" while combing the desert with a pick.
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Jul 3, 2021 17:38
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Spaceballs was stupid and fun and it's totally fine if it's not your thing but I loved the dumb poo poo it did back in the day. The desert comb, pizza the hutt, the bit where they rewind the movie, it was a good silly time
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Jul 3, 2021 17:43
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Spaceballs is a great example of a work thats less than the sum of its parts, there are multiple single scenes and gags that are incredible (suck to blow, spaceballs the flamethrower, finding the heroes by fast forwarding the VHS,etc) but actually sitting down and watching the movie is not actually an amazing experience past the first time.
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Jul 3, 2021 17:44
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the parts of spaceballs that focus on the spaceballs themselves are pretty fun, most of the other parts just kinda feel like Mel Brooks going on autopilotCmdrKing posted:50% "Rick Moranis is having a GREAT time" and 50% "They hadn't invented the internet yet there wasn't other Star Wars parodies", I'd say. Nah spaceballs came out a full decade after Star Wars. It actually got flack from critics because Star Wars parodies felt tired and overdone by then Augus fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Jul 3, 2021 |
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Jul 3, 2021 17:44
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Kennel posted:
It's definitely aged... not great compared to others of the era. I think the classic "wacky spoof comedies" that aged better did it with their use of deadpan silliness (Airplane! The Naked Gun, Hot Shots! Top Secret!), and Spaceballs is very much the odd one out there. It also has a slower joke pace than most of the above (especially Hot Shots!) which does make it feel more like a bunch of decent-to-great SNL skits in succession than a movie. It's got some great moments and quotables, but yeah, sitting down and watching it again was not the fun experience I hoped it would be. Now, if anyone were insane enough to remake The Kentucky Fried Movie, that would be something.
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Jul 3, 2021 17:47
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The bit with the jawa stand ins singing like the dwaves from snow white always slays me. Its a silly fun movie i was a kid that loved star wars and i hadn't seen all of mel brooks jokes already because i hadn't watched any of his other films. Thats my spaceballs story. The worst thing i've ever seen is the space balls animated tv show they made like in 2010 for some reason. Just rancid.
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Jul 3, 2021 17:52
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“What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?” “Now. You’re looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now is happening now.” “What happened to then?” “We passed it.” “When?” “Just now. We’re in now now.” “Go back to then!” “When?” “Now!” “Now?” “Now!” “I can’t!” “Why?” “We missed it!” “When?” “Just now!” “…When will then be now?” “Soon.”
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Jul 3, 2021 17:57
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I still think Spaceballs holds up. Not Mel's best overall work but it has some real all-time bits
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Jul 3, 2021 17:57
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Spaceballs is a great example of a work thats less than the sum of its parts, there are multiple single scenes and gags that are incredible (suck to blow, spaceballs the flamethrower, finding the heroes by fast forwarding the VHS,etc) but actually sitting down and watching the movie is not actually an amazing experience past the first time. That’s a good way to put it but I think that’s true of a lot of those kinds of movies.
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Jul 3, 2021 18:06
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Spaceballs is an amazing movie if you loved Star Wars but don't take Star Wars so seriously that you're offended by any slight against Star Wars. So it's no surprise that prequel lovers and sequel lovers hate it.
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Jul 3, 2021 18:31
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FuturePastNow posted:Spaceballs is an amazing movie if you loved Star Wars but don't take Star Wars so seriously that you're offended by any slight against Star Wars. So it's no surprise that prequel lovers and sequel lovers hate it. Hmmm...no.
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Jul 3, 2021 18:39
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Hmmm...no. Seriously. It's Brook's second-worst movie (only beaten out by the one genuinely bad movie he made, Dracula: Dead and Loving It).
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Jul 3, 2021 18:53
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FuturePastNow posted:Spaceballs is an amazing movie if you loved Star Wars but don't take Star Wars so seriously that you're offended by any slight against Star Wars. So it's no surprise that prequel lovers and sequel lovers hate it. this is a very confusing sentiment to me
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Jul 3, 2021 18:54
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Fans of the prequels are a famously humourless bunch.
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Jul 3, 2021 18:57
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The best scene to me is the one that has the classic "Now you see that Evil will always triumph. Because Good is Dumb."
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Jul 3, 2021 19:01
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General Grievous is cool as hell
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Jul 3, 2021 19:02
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I think the difference between Spaceballs and something like Airplane is that a lot of Airplane is still funny if you don't know the specific reference.
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Jul 3, 2021 19:02
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Space Balls owns. So many iconic lines and hilarious bits.  FuturePastNow posted:Spaceballs is an amazing movie if you loved Star Wars but don't take Star Wars so seriously that you're offended by any slight against Star Wars. So it's no surprise that prequel lovers and sequel lovers hate it. lol nah. I'm a sequel lover and I kinda like the prequels too (I dont hate them atleast) and I love space balls. In fact, considering how many people hate the prequels and sequels in this thread, it's probably the opposite. Anyway, my favorite line in SB is "gently caress! Even in the future nothing works!" because as someone living in the far flung future year of 2021, its so true 
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Jul 3, 2021 19:03
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Pants Donkey posted:We already had a video in this channel as to how Blazing Saddles was a parody of spaghetti westerns and that would lack the relevancy of today. Not spag westerns, but the classic westerns from before them.
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Jul 3, 2021 19:14
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muscles like this! posted:I think the difference between Spaceballs and something like Airplane is that a lot of Airplane is still funny if you don't know the specific reference. Considering 90% of Airplane! is a shot for shot remake of Zero Hour, I doubt most people would know the specific reference.
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Jul 3, 2021 19:22
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Spaceballs is good, send tweet.
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Jul 3, 2021 19:37
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you couldnt make spaceballs today
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Jul 3, 2021 19:43
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The phone gag in Top Secret is so goddamn good
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Jul 3, 2021 19:45
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a cartoon duck posted:you couldnt make spaceballs today Disney would sue your balls off. That said, the Epic Movie guys are trying…
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Jul 3, 2021 19:46
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LanceHunter posted:Seriously. It's Brook's second-worst movie (only beaten out by the one genuinely bad movie he made, Dracula: Dead and Loving It).
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Jul 3, 2021 19:52
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Spaceballs has John Candy in it. It can't be all bad on that basis alone. 
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Jul 3, 2021 20:02
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Spaceballs seems like that clear moment in his filmography where the quality was shifting. It’s a fine movie, but pretty laser focused on just parodying Star Wars (and other sci-fi) and little else. I regard the movie fondly, unlike Robin Hood or especially Dead and Loving It, but I never find myself rewatching it as opposed to Blazing Saddles or (during October) Young Frankenstein.
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Jul 3, 2021 20:03
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John Murdoch posted:Spaceballs has John Candy in it. It can't be all bad on that basis alone. Wherever two or more SCTV alum gathered, there is God.
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Jul 3, 2021 20:17
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NorgLyle posted:It is definitely not worse than Robin Hood: Men in Tights. The number of jokes that land successfully in that can be counted on one hand with fingers left over. I love Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Then again, I haven’t seen it in two decades, and if I’m on board the “Spaceballs wasn’t as good as your memories of it” train then I should probably give it a rewatch to hold myself to the same standard…
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Jul 3, 2021 20:18
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I love how everyone says Dead and Loving It is his worst movie when Life Stinks exists and nobody even remembers it.
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Jul 3, 2021 20:36
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FuturePastNow posted:Spaceballs is an amazing movie if you loved Star Wars but don't take Star Wars so seriously that you're offended by any slight against Star Wars. So it's no surprise that prequel lovers and sequel lovers hate it. TLJ is my second favorite star war and I love spaceballs what the heckin poo poo are you talking about my dawg
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Jul 3, 2021 20:53
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LanceHunter posted:Disney would sue your balls off. Its weird watching Naked Gun movies and how good they were, while knowing that the directors went on to make *something* Movies.
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Jul 3, 2021 20:54
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Remember how David Zucker also made "An American Carol", a right wing """"comedy"""" movie about how Michael Moore is fat (lol!) and loves terrorism  All I really remember from it is Ben the Soldier from Its Always Sunny is in it (playing a soldier again lol) Jamie Faith fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Jul 3, 2021 |
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Jul 3, 2021 21:02
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Arcsquad12 posted:Considering 90% of Airplane! is a shot for shot remake of Zero Hour, I doubt most people would know the specific reference. But 99 % of the jokes work without having seen that movie
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Jul 3, 2021 21:05
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Jamie Faith posted:Remember how David Zucker also made "An American Carol", a right wing """"comedy"""" movie about how Michael Moore is fat (lol!) and loves terrorism It also starred Chris Farley.....'s brother, Kevin.
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Jul 3, 2021 21:17
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muscles like this! posted:It also starred Chris Farley.....'s brother, Kevin. lmao yeah. And also a ton of washed-up right-wing celebrities like James Woods and Kevin Sorbo. Not to mention Bill O'Reilly playing himself in a painfully unfunny cameo. In fact Billo was also in Iron Man 2 and Transformers 3 as himself too. What was with Billo showing up in so many movies in the late 2000s?
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Jul 3, 2021 21:27
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While on the highway my dad would inevitably say "They've gone to plaid!" when someone passed him.
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Jul 3, 2021 21:29
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Sankara posted:While on the highway my dad would inevitably say "They've gone to plaid!" when someone passed him. lmao that's awesome
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Jul 3, 2021 21:30
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oh are we talking about comedies that are held up as shining monoliths of the genre but in reality aren't great or even good? has anyone mentioned Ghostbusters yet
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Jul 3, 2021 21:34
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Nah ghostbusters is still really good and holds up well, even if it is bald facedly right wing (less so than back to the future, but still there)
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Jul 3, 2021 21:35
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