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Which movie did you watch today and how would you rate it?

Flying high, in some countries known as Airplane. Best slapstick comedy ever. Robert Hayes never made anything of worth after this, in fact faded into obscurity. The sequel was not a patch on the original classic. Iv'e seen it several times, but would still watch it again.

9/10, 5/10 for the sequel.
 
angelo said:
Flying high, in some countries known as Airplane. Best slapstick comedy ever.
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Honestly, it seems impossible to judge between Airplane, The Naked Gun, Bringing Up Baby, and Spaceballs as the best slapstick.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
angelo said:
Flying high, in some countries known as Airplane. Best slapstick comedy ever.
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Honestly, it seems impossible to judge between Airplane, The Naked Gun, Bringing Up Baby, and Spaceballs as the best slapstick.
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All great movies, but as direct parody and spoof, Spaceballs' jokes were so dependent upon people having seen and holding affection for Star Wars. And Naked Gun was very funny but always felt like a spin-off of Airplane. Technically, Airplane was a "spoof" of disaster movies like Airport 1975, but it's jokes were not directly derivative of those as Spaceballs and it didn't matter if you'd seen those serious films first.

Never saw, Bringing up Baby, but now it's on my list.

I have quoted something from Airplane almost every week or the last 39 years, and I guess Airplane II since when being introduced to multiple people and we're all shaking hands I say "Unger, Oever, Oever, Dunn", often to confused looks.
 
ronburgundy said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
angelo said:
Flying high, in some countries known as Airplane. Best slapstick comedy ever.
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Honestly, it seems impossible to judge between Airplane, The Naked Gun, Bringing Up Baby, and Spaceballs as the best slapstick.
Click to expand...

All great movies, but as direct parody and spoof, Spaceballs' jokes were so dependent upon people having seen and holding affection for Star Wars. And Naked Gun was very funny but always felt like a spin-off of Airplane. Technically, Airplane was a "spoof" of disaster movies like Airport 1975, but it's jokes were not directly derivative of those as Spaceballs and it didn't matter if you'd seen those serious films first.

Never saw, Bringing up Baby, but now it's on my list.

I have quoted something from Airplane almost every week or the last 39 years, and I guess Airplane II since when being introduced to multiple people and we're all shaking hands I say "Unger, Oever, Oever, Dunn", often to confused looks.
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Bringing up Baby has got to be one of my favorite films. Hepburn's only screwball comedy, a cute animal, and the first use of the word "gay" in American cinema. What more could you want, really? They just don't do witty repartee anymore...
 
I never cared much for "Bringing up Baby", although I haven't seen it since I was very young. My favorite slapstick to this day is "Blazing Saddles" and my second favorites are the Austin Power movies. I've probably watched "Blazing Saddles" at least 20 times since it was first released in 1974 and it never gets old.

Actually, I was meaning to come here for the last two weeks to say that I watched "The Quick and the Dead" recently because I wanted to see a movie about a strong, vengeful woman, after the midterm elections. :D The young Sharon Stone was great in the movie. I've probably seen it five or more times. Despite it never making much money or getting very good reviews when it first came out, I've alway liked it. It was influenced by the old Spaghetti Westerns, but since it had a female star, I liked it better than the Clint Eastwood movies of the same genre.

I don't watch movies very often anymore. I'm too caught up watching late night political satire and the newer movies suck imo.
 
I wouldn’t consider Blazing Saddles slapstick. I could be wrong. I always saw slapstick as unrelenting comedy.
 
angelo said:
Flying high, in some countries known as Airplane. Best slapstick comedy ever. Robert Hayes never made anything of worth after this, in fact faded into obscurity. The sequel was not a patch on the original classic. Iv'e seen it several times, but would still watch it again.

9/10, 5/10 for the sequel.
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“To the tower, Rapunzel!”
 
When it comes to good comedy, I find my favorites to be The Money Pit and Noises Off!. Noises Off might be considered slapstick as there is a lot of physical comedy in it.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
I wouldn’t consider Blazing Saddles slapstick. I could be wrong. I always saw slapstick as unrelenting comedy.
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Slapstick is just physical comedy. There's no hidden meaning or degrees of insight. The opposite is cerebral comedy where the fun lies in the film makers using the audience rational faculties against them. Ie manipulating them make faulty deductions and then revealing the truth.

Blazing Saddles is clearly the second kind. While it also has slapstick humour in it, it's just a spice sprinkled on top. Nearly all the humour is cerebral as fuck.
 
ronburgundy said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
angelo said:
Flying high, in some countries known as Airplane. Best slapstick comedy ever.
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Honestly, it seems impossible to judge between Airplane, The Naked Gun, Bringing Up Baby, and Spaceballs as the best slapstick.
Click to expand...

All great movies, but as direct parody and spoof, Spaceballs' jokes were so dependent upon people having seen and holding affection for Star Wars. And Naked Gun was very funny but always felt like a spin-off of Airplane. Technically, Airplane was a "spoof" of disaster movies like Airport 1975, but it's jokes were not directly derivative of those as Spaceballs and it didn't matter if you'd seen those serious films first.

Never saw, Bringing up Baby, but now it's on my list.

I have quoted something from Airplane almost every week or the last 39 years, and I guess Airplane II since when being introduced to multiple people and we're all shaking hands I say "Unger, Oever, Oever, Dunn", often to confused looks.
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I always thought Top Secret, with Val Kilmer, to be the apex of those Airplane derived films. Some slapstick, but the throw away sight gags always makes me laugh. My favorite little scene:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxGykXAUfBk
 
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On TV, Angie Tribeca is the most worthy heir to Airplane.
 
The main problem with watching Airplane/Flying high is the fact that's almost impossible to watch any serious Aircraft drama since without bursting into laughter during a catastrophe on screen. :lol:
 
angelo said:
The main problem with watching Airplane/Flying high is the fact that's almost impossible to watch any serious Aircraft drama since without bursting into laughter during a catastrophe on screen. :lol:
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Huh?
 
Passengers Sci-Fi/fantasy.

A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet, transporting thousands of people has a malfunction. A gripping drama actually.

Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt and Michael Sheen.

I actually liked this Sci-Fi thriller and enjoyed watching it again. Surely deserves a 8/10 rating.
 
Sling Blade, 5/10; Stars Billy Bob Thornton as a newly released mentally handicapped (retard) who befriends a family in a small town in Arkansas. The movie has some interesting and familiar themes and is well acted but it is very slow. It's an artsy independent movie that became big with the Hollywood luvvies for some reason but it's a mediocre move at best.
 
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