Yeah I met Mel also - together with Anne Bancroft. Nice people. Shame about his films.
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Yeah I met Mel also - together with Anne Bancroft. Nice people. Shame about his films.
High Anxiety and Silent Movie were lesser mentioned films of his. Did you see either of those?Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
I think I saw Silent Movie... but the only one that didn't have me reaching for the off switch (if there were one in the movies) was Young Frankenstein.
Young Frankenstein would be my second favorite to Blazing Saddles. Really enjoyed how he spoofed Westerns no matter how silly or juvenile. I chipped a tooth walking into a parking meter exiting the theater the first time after seeing Blazing Saddles. Was still laughing so much I wasn't paying attention as to what I was doing. Lucky I didn't wander onto the freeway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Yeah... it's a great feeling when something is funny you literally can't stop laughing. One guy sitting next to me in the theatre a few years back found the play so funny he literally fell off his seat into the aisle. That kind of funny doesn't happen often enough. It's almost better than sex.
My dad was LAPD but had bad judgement in appropriate movies. He loved comedy and heard about these Cheech and Chong fellas but never launched any kind of investigation. He took me to see Next Movie before my voice even changed. When I laugh I really let myself go and my father was embarrassed to have to sit next to a little kid laughing at druggie humor. He kept trying to shush me but nothing worked. My poor father.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
:)...that, and the Andy Capp comic strip makes milk shoot out of his nose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jericho
Gun Hill Road
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/a.../137/MPW-68712
An ex-con returns home to the Bronx after three year in prison to discover his wife estranged and his teenage son exploring a sexual transformation that will put the fragile bonds of their family to the test.
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Gun Hill Road-Trailer
It is now on Netflix
Gun Hill Road is definitely on my list of films to see; in the meantime I have seen the film
Kinatay (Brillante Mendoza, 2009).
The butchery that takes place in this film may be upsetting for some, but is matter of fact for the criminal gang operating out of Quezon City. Among them a police student with a young wife and child who collects protection money at night for a gang, and is taken on an 'operation' with them without realising what it is until it is too late to back out. There is little dialogue in this brutal, angry film in which the director effectively condemns the lack of integrity in the police forces of Manila/Philippines, and by extension his country. Tightly directed, moody, very tense and worth seeing, even if the message is bleak -but anyone who knows the Philippines will understand why.
Brilliante Mendoza: Kinatay Official Trailer.mpg - YouTube
C'mon Stav, you're not even going to touch any of the previous comments about what you might like in comedy?
Don't. Find something funnier to do like sticking nails in your eyes.Quote:
Originally Posted by fred41
I don't know either, but I bet it's in black and white, Hungarian, and lasts more than four hours....Quote:
Originally Posted by fred41
:lol::lol::lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by robertlouis
The movie is historiclly wrong in so many ways but watching the Hindenberg from 1975 with George C Scott.
What I do like: Laurel and Hardy, Jacques Tati; most of Monty Python's Life of Brian; Airplane when drunk. I thought Mask was brilliant too.Quote:
Originally Posted by fred41
What I do not find funny: The Marx Brothers, Abbot & Costello, Some Like it Not (any film with Marylin Monroe is a disaster), all the Carry On films.
I am obliged to mention Mr Bean, a lot of which is funny, as I was once on a bus riding through Cricklewood Broadway when the lady next to me insisted I was that man off the telly. It transpired she meant Mr Bean, and as I have been mistaken for him more than once, I must bow to the inevitable, even if the Son of Atkin is much taller than I in real life.
Goon... pretty funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sytVoTYFT08
The Black Adder is amongst us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Thanks for the insight Stavros....I too like the Laurel and Hardy movies (and the two men genuinely liked each other which isn't always the case in comedy duos)..and almost all of the Python stuff,but I liked Abbot & Costello also...so we disagree on that.
I liked this movie a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben
Frankenweenie
I had a suspicion Stavros was going to say at least one Monty Python film, however Airplane even while drunk is a welcome surprise!
One of my favority comedies is Fletch. Forgot to mention that one.
Argo
on an individual basis,there are a lot of funny movies out there. I thought movies like "Anchorman-The legend of Ron Burgundy" ...and "The Forty Year Old Virgin" (especially with the DVD out takes) were hilarious.Quote:
Originally Posted by broncofan
I liked both of those. Bad Santa made me laugh too.Quote:
Originally Posted by fred41
I mentioned newscaster John Beard used to get thoroughly wasted in a place I worked at immediately after reading the 10 O'Clock News. He'd come outside and chew on my ear about Anchorman being about him and how those fuckers ripped him off.Quote:
Originally Posted by fred41
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LMAO, you'd have to be pretty wasted to want that or claim that.
He used to brag about doing Sheena Easton up her Scottish bum too. Think that's what he slurred when I held his head in the toilet.Quote:
Originally Posted by broncofan
Shit, I hope he's not a lurker here. If any anchorman is, it's Johnny.
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Don't know where to leave this shit so I pinch it off right here.
Chopper Read Parody - Airport Security - YouTube
i saw The Human Centipede 1 & 2....the first one is okay,not to much gore butt that doctor is one kind of a freak.....the second part is the shit and that guy is totally one crazy freaked out bastard,anyone should be scared for that little guy damned....gross movie about making people a human centipede....mouth nailed 2 anus...the director is a dutchman like me so i am proud of this sick movies :salad
part 1
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part 2
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Love number one. That doctor was like a combination of Peter Cushing, Willem Dafoe, and Josef Mengele. Dr Heiter should be brought back to join forces with the director fella from Serbian Film for some sorta Deadly Road Trip film.Quote:
Originally Posted by ImpulZ
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in making is the human centipede 3 with Dr heiter,martin(part2 the freak) and tom six(director).....;)
http://http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1883367/
Looks like number 3's a hot mess so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by ImpulZ
Tom "Deep" Six 'cuz you'll never work in this town again.
Now this character...(wha happen?)
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The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) (2013) - IMDb
Mess sounds like the right word here is the news about THC3...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dino Velvet
As those who've seen the first two instalments in Tom Six's horror series will know, there isn't much wriggle room in The Human Centipede. And so it seems to be proving behind the scenes, too, with an impasse between Six and actor Dieter Laser threatening to hold up filming on the third film in the franchise, which had been scheduled to start in June.
Laser had long been rumoured to return in the new film, reprising his role as the dastardly doctor who first has a crack at sewing together three kidnap victims mouth-to-anus, despite his character receiving a bullet to the head in the first film's final reel. The fate of his opposite number in the second film, however, was less ambiguous: Laurence Harvey's obese car-park attendant, an avid fan of the first film, who successfully cobbled together a dozen-strong tribute centipede, was last seen alive and well – he, too, will return for the final film.
But an email sent by producer Ilona Six to bestmoviesevernews.com suggest that last-minute objections by Laser to the script are so severe as to not only push back the shoot but also prompt the producers to begin legal action against him. Six wrote:
Because of the success of The Human Centipede, it seems that Mr Dieter Laser's ego has grown to laughably big proportions. First signing the contract and rating the THC3 script as fantastic, and then demanding his own unacceptable script changes, and now refusing to play the part only seven weeks prior to shooting. Six Entertainment Company will start legal action against Dieter Laser. Tom Six says not to worry – principal photography will be postponed and will take place later this year.
The actor then hit back with his own clarification of the wrangle, which he blames on late delivery of a script he felt bore little relation to the plot as earlier outlined. As a "method actor" Laser describes his difficulties swallowing a premise he felt inconsistent with his character's personality. Laser said:
It's very simple: I loved the story when it was told, got the contract and the promise to have the script in four-to-six weeks. When it arrived – half a year later and only after the official announcement – I didn't like the realization at all, couldn't identify with the character the way it was written and developed immediately and enthusiastically in a day and night marathon a version full of concrete and practical suggestions which would enable me to play the lead full throttle – same procedure as with Dr Heiter – but this time it also would have had some unavoidable effects to the dramatic structure. That was too much for Tom and since he couldn't live with my suggestions and I, as a method actor, couldn't identify with his version, I told him that I couldn't see any other way than that he would have to "change horses". That's it.
Plot details of the new film are still uncertain, but a tweet from Tom Six earlier this year suggested that he might extend the number of people in the chain to more than 500.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/...stopped-tracks
Lola (Brillante Mendoza, 2009)
After watching Kinatay (which I reviewed last week)-Mendoza's merciless account of the lack (or loss) of integrity in the Manila police service, Lola contrasts the difference between price and value in Manila, and with controlled savagery exposes the greater importance of money over life. The attempt by one grandmother ('Lola') to maintain her dignity while the other Lola wheels and deals, and tells as many lies to her own family in order to extract money, fails to deal with the core problem in which the flow of water that has so aggravated the already over-burdened residents of Manila (the film was made in Mandaluyong not long after a major flood), is as evanescent as the flow of money. Even when the resolution of the film is conferred with a payment some would see as 'blood money', nobody is better off. The depiction of Manila is dismally normal: traffic chaos, bag snatchers in jeepneys, random search and destroy missions by the police on unlicensed street traders, someone always trying to sell someone else -anyone else- whatever they have. The Philippines has not been part of the Asian economic miracle, it probably needs a miracle or ten to get out of its vicious cycle of poverty and debt. Spare in dialogue and its use of music, Mendoza is emerging as the most important film-maker from the Philippines since Lina Brocka, and I prefer his films too.
LOLA. Un film de Brillante Ma. Mendoza. Trailer VOSTF. - YouTube
Went to a preview of "The Reluctant Fundamentalist", forthcoming film by the wonderful director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) based on the book by Mohsin Hamid. (He was involved in writing the screenplay and has significantly changed many key things in the narrative.). It is a very intelligent and thoughtful exploration of identity in the wake of 9/11. Highly recommended.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) - IMDb
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Entertaining movie. Involves a main character trying to avoid a prison stint he has awaiting him. He is an older low level criminal who possesses a sort of time-worn wisdom. He wants to avoid doing time at all costs and the movie traces his dealings with all sorts of dangerous characters, from former associates to deal-making detectives. The dialogue is well written, the story believable, and the interactions authentic seeming.
The Silence (Das letzte Schweigen), a recent German film about two identical murders of young girls 23 years apart. A fascinating as well as exciting study of loneliness and obsession.
Recommended.
Soy Cuba [I am Cuba] (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964).
I have been watching Cuban films in a box set, Strawberry and Chocolate, the brilliant Lucia, and the so-so Memories of Underdevelopment. I Am Cuba by the director of the truly awful Russian slosh The Cranes are Flying, has moments of technical and artistic brilliance, but for the most part is a dollop of Soviet propaganda at times so embarrassing in its depiction of life under the bloodthirsty tyrant Batista and those corrupt Yanqui imperialists, it is unworthy of an intelligent audience. Watch Lucia and see the difference between thinking and feeling, and a message from the Central Committee.
I AM CUBA soy cuba - YouTube
"The Science of Sleep"
Directed by Michel Gondry. An original, whimsical and charming film.
The Science of Sleep (trailer) - YouTube
Fat City (1971) stars 20 y.o. Jeff Bridges and Stacy Keach as 2 boxers in Stockton CA. One is down and out, the other hoping to make it. Good look at local boxing scene in 70's. Music by Kris Kristofferson.