rushgoober

Ok, there are a lot of movies that are comedies that also contain lot of heartfelt human drama - The Truman Show, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Wedding Singer, As Good As It Gets, Annie Hall, Beverly Hills Cop, etc. While those are all fine movies, I'm looking for PURE comedy movies - movies where it's just comdey for comedie's sake, filled with ridiculous scenarios where you're really not supposed to take ANY of it seriously, and it's existence is JUST to make you laugh and not be moving at the same time. This is not to say the movie doesn't have a story, because you always need a story to hold it together, otherwise you've got a stand-up comdey routine. I'm thinking of movies like Anchorman, Young Frankenstein, Not Another Teen Movie, Scary Movie - movies that are designed for laughs ONLY! Some movies walk a fine line between pure comedy and dramacomedy, but you get the general idea... I actually think this genre is pretty difficult to pull off well, as it's a lot of comedy to pack into 90 or so minutes, and it can often get stupid, cheesy or lame. Here's a few of my favorites. Feel free to discuss any of these, or even better, add to the list!: Austin Powers: Inernational Man of Mystery The Spy Who Shagged Me Zoolander The History of the World: Part 1 Airplane! Top Secret Sleeper Love and Death

I kind of grew out of the James Bond thing in the late 80's, but I did see a fair few. Even though most seemed to prefer Sean Connery, I'm more of a Roger Moore fan, only because those were the ones coming out when I was a kid. My favorite is The Spy Who Loved Me, but an honorary mention goes to Moonraker - haven't seen any of them in a LOOOOOOONg time though!

QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jun 13 2005, 02:37 PM) QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jun 13 2005, 01:47 PM) ...but would have been infinitely more tolerable with less jar-jar and if the actors who played anakin and his mother could actually ACT! was it just me, or were they just lousy actors? It was NOT just you. They could NOT act. The scenes when "ANNIE" is getting ready to leave with Qui-Gon and ostensibly will NEVER SEE HIS MOTHER AGAIN...he's like "Bye, mom! Yippee, I get to ride in a starship!!!" And she's like, "Bye, sweetie! Now, back to the laundry." Puh-leeze. You got it - this was by far the worst of the offending scenes, and SO badly done that it really drags the whole credibility of the movie down. You would think he was going out with friends to go roller skating and she was admonishing him to be home by 10:30. Inexcusable...

QUOTE Please take the time to familiarize yourself with the rules. Sir, yes sir! Seriously Jack, I even read and responded to those rules and still spaced them! I have now refreshed myself in the cool waters that are the movie game rules. I feel cleansed...

QUOTE Come on, that's not asking too much, is it? sorry, dude, didn't know that! QUOTE "My goodness. It's... It's big, isn't it? Can we really break that?" The John Bobbit Story? (either way you slice it though , it's still a joke)

QUOTE this brings up why i didn't think more of revenge of the sith: 1. Too much action 2. Not enough Jar-Jar seriously, (hey, i quoted myself!), episode 3 was the best of the prequel trilogy and i even thought episode 2 was great. episode 1 wasn't a complete wash either, but would have been infinitely more tolerable with less jar-jar and if the actors who played anakin and his mother could actually ACT! was it just me, or were they just lousy actors?

this brings up why i didn't think more of revenge of the sith: 1. Too much action 2. Not enough Jar-Jar

don't know about any of y'all, but i approach such an endeavor with an extreme amount of skepticism - i'll watch it, mind you, but at the first sign of extreme lameness, i'm going elsewhere. i still like my idea for a mini-series: "Jar-Jar: The Formative Years"

The John Bobbit Story?

QUOTE I must confess that I did get the answer for this from the internet but not from using a search. By a strange co-incedence, I was came across that quote on a site to do with David Cronenberg a couple of days ago and it stuck with me. Does that class as cheating? Not in my book it doesn't! I'm just so impressed that you were on a David Cronenberg site! The guy really is an amazing and truly demented director - I love his films - Crash, Naked Lunch and Existenz especially - thank God for wierdos like him! I'm thinking about your quote...hmm.....

any chance for a hint, test? it seems the masses are stumped here...

QUOTE The trouble with this is that there is no way to prove whether or not someone is using a search engine in order to find the answer. We have to use the honor system here because there is no other way. A degree of trust is required among those who play the games. Jack, I completely understand what you're saying. I guess the point for me is do people know it's technically NOT part of the game to look up the answers on the internet? That's all I was looking for. If a person knows it's not part of the game and then chooses to do it anyway, then that's fine and that's the best I could hope for. It just seems on this particular game it's different from say, the baseball trivia game on the sports forum. With that one it's understood that people CAN use the internet, and sometimes the questions there are SO hard that if people didn't use the internet, there would literally NEVER be an answer unless the questioner started dropping major hints or eventually giving the answer away and asking another question. With the movie quote game, it seems like movies are so much in public awareness that someone should be able to come up with the answer by keeping on guessing, even if the person does have to give a clue after a little while. I guess this stems from the fact that the first time I ever played the movie quote game was several years ago in chat rooms where it was all live and web searching wasn't so easy back then - it just made it fun knowing people had to wrack their brains instead of going to the biggest library in the world, punching a few keys and getting the answer spit out. Sorry if I'm being a pain by bringing this up...

good one, Slaine. you're up. incidentally, and i'm not accusing this of you slaine, but is it kind of an unwritten rule that people aren't allowed to research answers on the internet for this question? i only ask because i know that my quote when insterted into google would take less than a second to get the answer, several minutes less than it took to come up with the question. if people can/do use the internet for answers, then i might not want to participate in the game (no offense) since it just becomes an exercise at who's better and faster at web searching. again, not accusing anyone in particular, just genuine curiousoity from a relative newbie...

ok - here it is: "I use it to test the resilience of my potential partners in psychopathology."

interview with the vampire

QUOTE Would you consider reconsidering vapour trails? well, a kind soul here gave me an R30 show where they play some vapor trail songs, and after the second listen through they weren't too awful, enough to make me think i should try and sit through vapor trails again....soon....once i psych myself up for it. i do think one little victory is a great song, so that IS one...um, little...victory...

QUOTE I thought the Lord of the Rings was incredibly boring. I enjoyed the first installment but thought the last two sucked. I read the books in my childhood and maybe that's the problem. Perhaps the films can't do justice to my childhood imagination. now i can understand that you liked unforgiven (well, no, i can't really, but it won best picture - SOME people had to have liked it, right?), but lord of the rings??? hey, i read the books too, and i thought they were all genius. the last one especially is one of the most powerful films i have ever seen - the last 30 minutes with all the various endings is pure ecstasy... QUOTE Bending over now and ready for my spanking from the true believers... http://www.mkandrew.com/Part%201%20Images/spanking_ok_sm.gif

QUOTE Lost in Translation (The 1st 15 seconds are genious though) shrimp, i just now remembered what we were looking at in the first 15 seconds! now there's one thing we CAN agree on!

I thought Titanic was great and Lost In Translation even better!

Two come to mind off the top of my head: 1. Waterworld - I think this movie was treated VERY unfairly - when it came out, it was a huge controversy, almost a scandal, that the movie cost $200 million to make - it was so slammed right out of the starting gate, and people were SO prejuediced against it that it didn't stand a chance. I managed to see it right away before hearing almost any of the controversy, was therefore able to view it somewhat objectively, and I thought it was great - not one of the best movies ever, no, but still a great movie. Unfairly slammed... 2. Zoolander - Ok, now I don't know if this movie got universal bad ratings, but I know that Roger Ebert gave it a whopping ONE star. I don't know about you, but this was one of the funniest movies in the last 10 years IMHO - I laugh HYSTERICALLY every time!

Two biggies come to mind: 1. Unforgiven - won best picture a few years ago, and I thought it was truly horrible - yikes! 2. The Hours - ok, great acting, admitted, but the story was majorly depressing and I really didn't like it - my brother LOVED it, but myself, my wife, mother and sister couldn't understand why it got good reviews - we all thought it was awful...

QUOTE I like Mystic River...anything that Clint is involved in, is usually Excellent. One HUGELY notable exception for me was Unforgiven which won best picture 10 years ago or so - I thought it was a truly horrible movie, and I couldn't even figure out why it got good reviews, much less was nominated - when it got nominated I was shocked, and when it won I really lost a lot of respect for the Oscars.

QUOTE Administrative Notice: If this devolves into any kind of religious debate, this thread will be deleted. Just FYI. Jack, thanks so much for saying this. My way of trying to avoid that sort of thing was by saying "though the terms are subjective," meaning everyone will have a different meaning of the words spiritual and religious, and it wasn't my intention to impose my meaning as the right way and would hope others would take that as it being a very individual thing and therefore not to debate it. It wasn't my intention to have this get into religious debating, but of course with this kind of subject matter that's always a possibility, so thanks for clarifying just in case! What Dreams May Come is a wonderful choice, and it happens to be my wife's favorite movie of all time - while I wouldn't take it that far, it's a beautiful movie and for me further evidence that Robin Williams should never do a comedy again - his dramatic skills are just too great to be wasted on things like Flubber. Two more choices: 1. Gandhi - This guy is truly one of my heroes (his biography also being excellent), and what he did for his country just from leading by example, peaceful non-resistance, non-cooperation and non-violence is truly staggering. What other person in recent memory has done so much for a country without resulting to violence? Maybe Martin Luther King, Jr.? Regardless, there ain't many of them. Truly a amazing movie, and one I think everyone should see for an example of what one person can do and a glimpse into what is possible - oh yeah, and it won that Academy Award thingie too. 2. The Matrix - ok, perhaps an odd choice, but it really is kind of a modern day spiritual/warrior kind of movie. for me the most obvious thing, although this might not be the way everybody sees it, is how it's an allegory for life on this planet. in the movie the concept is that the life everyone is living is an illusion created by machines and in truth it's all a group dream that everyone participates in. could it be that this is the same for reality? not that we're plugged into machines and taken advantage of like in the movie, but that perhaps our TRUE reality is something far greater than life on earth as we know it, and that perhaps life is an illusion, that this world is transitory, a waking dream for us to learn and grow within before we wake up to our truer reality on the other side of it? just a thought... Peace, Gary

Three of my VERY favorites from this genre: 1. Wings of Desire - winner of the Cannes Film Festival in 1985, and badly remade as City of Angels (well, not awful, but nowhere near the original IMHO). About angels on the earth in Berlin - some of it is in black and white, some is in color - most of it is in German, but some is in French and some in English, and an unusual appearance by Peter Falk whose entire performance is in English - long, slow moving, but deep, intense, meaningful and very powerful - i have to psych myself up every time i see this movie as it's such an intense experience, but truly one of the most powerful films I have ever seen. 2. Brother Sun, Sister Moon - 1972 film directed by Italian directo Zefferelli, but in English. This one is about the life of St. Francis of Assisi with great music by Donovan. A tale of living life simply, honorably and peacefully - extremely well done and a real beautiful movie... 3. The Last Temptation of Christ - an unusual film from Martin Scorsese with Willem Dafoe as Jesus - a VERY controversial movie when it came out, and one that hardcore born agains might have a hard time with, which is too bad, because if they took the offensive scenes symbolically and were able to accept that this is an interpretation, they might find it illuminating. This is a non-dogmatic protrayl of Jesus's last 3 years ending with a crucifiction and startling dream sequence/temptation by the devil, ending in salvation that is really stunning - if your'e a fan of Scorsese, you won't be disappointed by his artful direction and pacing - reallly another uplifting one for me.

QUOTE I can't believe people have voted for Signals! hey, i voted for signals ! what's wrong with signals? brilliant album all the way through imho - their most consistent - love it, love it, love it!