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"Neighbors," starring Belushi and Akyroyd.
The story goes that they challenged each other to see who could do a skit as the other guy's character and then ended up making the switch permanent for the film.
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This is one I recommend to people if they want to see an American movie that takes the piss and does it really well.
Cheers,
John K
Audiences and critics loved it, and even ST fans consider it one of the great Trek movies.
Personally, I love it - it hits the obsessiveness of SF fandom right on the money while still celebrating it.
More like unknown.
When the subject of funny movies comes up, 98% have never heard of Galaxy Quest.
Cheers,
John K
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That was a gem.
One of the funniest shows ever on American TV.
Cheers,
John K
But we're talkin' movies here. Ever seen Soapdish?
It didn't do much for me - a bit too obvious and hammy.
It's difficult not to compare Soapdish with Soap, which was waaay cleverer.
Cheers,
John K
The darkest, funniest movie - though certainly not slapstick, LOL, funny -
I think I've ever seen.
And if you want to go back to some of early silent films, and early
talkies, there are some true gems to be found. Chaplin's "The Gold
Rush" comes immediately to mind ...
MK
...cuz Strangelove, and Chaplin's wonderful The Gold Rush, are not exactly underrated. In fact they're esteemed classics.
However, they probably don't get seen nearly enough these days so it's always good to remind folks, especially younger inmates (any of those around?), of these great classics.
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Just off the top of my head. It got notice because of Julie Andrew's breasts but I recall it being a very funny and scathing satire of the movie industry.
dd
The interesting thing about Broadcast News is that the film's warnings have all come true (long ago) and hardly anyone noticed. It has a wonderful cast with Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Joan Cusack, Jack Nicholson, William Hurt - easily Hurt's most relaxed performance ever - plus it's smart...and adult...and very funny. My favorite James L Brooks movie.
I never hear anyone talk about Albert Brook's Lost In America anymore, a comedy classic which still makes me laugh out loud. It's the baby boomer fantasy gone amok and a tour de force for Brooks who wrote, directed and starred. Who could ever forget Brooks explaining the "nest egg" principle to his wife (a hilarious Julie Hagarty), who has just blown their entire - OOPS - SPOILERS. Just see it.
Soapdish benefits from an excellent cast with crack timing (Kevin Kline, Sally Fields, Robert Downey Jr, Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Moriarty), a fun script, swift direction from Michael Hoffman, who does this sort of broad comedy rather better than he does the artsy stuff. mpathus tags it down below and I agree. Not great art but a lot of fun.
Allow me to nominate three John Cusack films, two comedies which are both early directing efforts and the third one he co-produced himself: The Sure Thing (Rob Reiner's 2nd flick) and Say Anything (Cameron Crowe's debut); and Grosse Pointe Blank. Grosse Pointe Blank is kind of a glorious mess but I love its anarchic spirit and snappy one liners, plus terrific performances from Minnie Driver, Cusack and sister Joan as well as stalwarts of the New Crime ganag (Jeremy Piven, Steve Pink etc). The Sure Thing is a trifle, but sweet, and Say Anything is IMO the greatest teen comedy ever made.
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Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
a laugh a minute and a great cast
Phil
I know that the Pollack film is really a crime caper movie, but it had a lot of humor: Ron Leibman (sp?) and Zero Mostel are great. The Reiner film is one of those counter culture 70's pix with really dark, subversive humor. George Segal at the top of his substantial game, Liebman also appears in this movie as Segal's crazy brother. The Chayefsky "Hospital" was another good one, but I suppose it wasn't really underrated.
Edits: 05/29/10
does qualify as underrated, now.
Thanks for reminding me of that pearl. I've got to see it; it's been far too long. Brilliant dialogue.
The Hospital is absolutely number ONE on my list too if a comedy - Ok, I laugh, but for all the wrong reasons.
(I just find it "funny" in the way a speech in "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" comes across, where Richard Burton's Alec Leamas vents in the car to Claire Bloom's Nan Perry about the futility of spy vs spy and the quiet desperation that men gleefully ignore, just prior to their own tragic end. Even then that becomes more hilarious the older I get - weird.)
The Hospital is by far my favorite George C. Scott film.
Diana Rigg is HOT HOT HOT.
A great screenplay from Paddy Chayevsky, very similar to Network.
I've always been a fan of Mr. Scott, even back as far as his "The Flim-Flam Man." That film is certainly not the quality of "The Hospital" but Scott's performance is brilliant and very funny.
"The Hospital", along with "Network" are,imho, two of the finest American films of the 1970s. Both were written, of course, by the amazing Paddy Chayefsky.
Agree, always liked it. Not totally forgotten, though. It pops up on my cable once in a great while.
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Boo-TAY
not Boo-Tee
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a fun movie and John Lithgow is terrific as well...
:^D
Phil
Steve Buscemi and Hope Davis as the suicidal couple is a hoot! Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt as the harmless con men who get into situation after situation are perfect. Billy Connolly is very over the top and Cambell Scott is unrecognizable as the Nazi steward.
Three cheers for Stanley Tucci for writing and directing this farce!
Phil
Fletch Lives
Flim flam man
where his naive apprentice is objects to the flim flam man lying to dupe someone into buying a fake diamond. The flim flam man corrects the apprentice by saying "I never said it was a diamond. I said that it was stolen. There is nothing on God's green earth I can't sell by telling people it is stolen."
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Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
some of his funniest gags and one liners
Looks dated now, but that only adds to this films charm
GW
Edits: 05/27/10 05/27/10
...I had always thought it was an "Allen" film. Very funny. And Keaton and Roberts were fine, too.
I liked Neighbors but felt it was more freaky than funny - Dan Aykroyd as an Aryan with blue eyes and blond was enough to weird me out - they really did top themselves though.I keep on coming back to "Soapdish" as another underrated American spoof of our beloved TV generation, and the plight of struggling actors avoiding dinner theater limbo - a riot.
Edits: 05/27/10
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Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
Agree on that. One of Scorsese's darkest and funniest, imo.
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Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
At least the first half anyway, particularly the scenes where he plays his dad. I split a gut every time I see this movie.
Neighbours wasn't my cup'o tea. It was OK.
Great movie. I've seen it many times.
nt
"When a musician believes that music is a commodity, music dies in them." - Robert Fripp
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