Scary Movie is great. Leagues better than anything ZAZ mustered after the second Naked Gun movie.
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
i actually liked zucker's scary movie 3 more than scary movie
― da croupier, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
I know humor is subjective and all but ... really? Michael Jackson jokes?
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
ok you can either say "really? michael jackson jokes?" OR "scary movie 1 is better than scary movie 3" you can't do both
― da croupier, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
like, the idea that 3 is when it starts to wallow in weak culture refs
― da croupier, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
Simon....Rex
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:03 (nine years ago) link
marlon...wayans
― da croupier, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:03 (nine years ago) link
(that was an arg for...not against.)
Xpost dammit
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
For my money they were all equally horrible movies that i loved to watch on basic cable.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
yeah i mean i have my preferences based on which had more random bits i recall fondly but jesus if i did have beef with someone liking 4 more than 2 or 1 more than 3 i don't think i'd lead with "but it had a corny pop culutre joke!" or "but it had a wack actor!"
― da croupier, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
Yea it boils down to "which memetic hodgepodge do you prefer?"
Simon Rex rap battling Fat Joe wins regardless
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
yeah that scene was great
also totally going to rank sheen and nielsen over the wayans bros when it comes to this kind of movie, c'mon
― da croupier, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
I just realized that this was an argument I was about to enter and then I re-prioritized.
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
no no you entered it, now you gonna run away
― da croupier, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/vTimL2N.gif
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
He one of those instigatas
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
http://www.mouthymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/5EInvGx.gif
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link
most fondly recalled non-zaz zaz movie is loaded weapon 1
― da croupier, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link
though i never saw carl reiner's fatal instinct
F. Murray Abraham in Loaded Weapon showed how easy Hannibal Lecter was to play.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
man remember when Samuel L. Jackson played second tier Danny Glover to Emilio Estevez and Nicholas Cage
did jackson get those pre-pulp fiction comedy lead roles off of jungle fever or is there some other breakout moment i'm forgetting?
― da croupier, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
sea of love
― balls, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:26 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UytZHT1ewnI
i don't know why the opening of this scene kills me but it does
― da croupier, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
weird now, seeing the picture at the top :/
― piscesx, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
http://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/237-with-jack-coppola-gave-robin-williams-his-sentimen/
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
In this moment, the film shamelessly ejaculates thick streams of undiluted sap in a 25-person gang-bang of grotesque melodrama.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
Prepare to get plagiarized, Rabin. Hard and often.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 13 August 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
Prepare to get slimed, world.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
Indecent Proposal:
http://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/708-in-1993-indecent-proposal-made-sleazy-sex-look-bor/
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 17 August 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
In the 1990s, Demi Moore became highest-paid female movie star
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 17 August 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/1993_Indecent_Proposal/993IPR_Demi_Moore_116.jpg
"me highest paid female movie star"
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 17 August 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
Crime is a disease, meet the cure
http://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/749-cobra-gave-the-1980s-the-dirty-harry-knockoff-it-d/
― piscesx, Sunday, 14 September 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
A seemingly ballsy choice, but actually quite OTM. I can't remember the last time I heard anyone mention this film.
http://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/877-avatars-rapid-rise-sudden-downfall-and-endless-bil/
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Monday, 12 January 2015 22:53 (nine years ago) link
According to Box Office Mojo, it made more than 2.7 billion dollars in theaters worldwide. Audiences loved it so much, media reports claimed, some viewers became deeply depressed or even suicidal because the film’s fantastical alien world of Pandora wasn’t real.
0_o
― piscesx, Monday, 12 January 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
There has been so many clickbait articles about how forgotten AVATAR is today, they've collectively defeated their own point.
― Eric H., Monday, 12 January 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
Boomerang:
Murphy entered the guilt-stricken dad/silly fantasy gimmick/fat-suit portion of his career shortly after Boomerang, but in that one film, he plays a character rarely seen in American films of the time: a black man who’s also a proudly sexual, cultivated professional. Murphy’s Marcus has money and class. He’s assured enough in his place in society that when a snooty high-end clothing store clerk treats him, and friends Gerard (David Alan Grier) and Tyler (Martin Lawrence) with racist condescension, Marcus experiences pity for the racist clerk’s ignorance rather than anger at his bigotry. It’s worth noting that the exchange is also the only scene in the film that suggests the existence of racism. Otherwise, Boomerang occupies a post-Cosby Show realm full of rich, upper-middle-class African-Americans who rarely acknowledge race.
Was inspired enough by this to actually give the film a fresh look tonight, and this is OTM. The film's vision of an affluent, professional world populated entirely by African-Americans, and its remarkably sex-positive attitude both remain striking. I still wish the romance was a little less boring, though.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Monday, 26 January 2015 03:37 (nine years ago) link
oh fuck Monster in Law:
Monster-In-Law, 2005’s 23rd highest-grossing film, is a particularly egregious case, because it marks the cinematic return of Jane Fonda, one of the preeminent feminist voices of the past century, following a big-screen absence of 15 years. A fierce force like Fonda starring in a movie with gender politics this regressive, particularly after such a long absence, is like Gloria Steinem starting her own Lingerie Football League, in collaboration with Hooters.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 April 2015 19:23 (nine years ago) link
http://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/544-the-agonizing-dullness-of-alan-aldas-the-four-seas/
The still at the top could not shout 1981 any louder.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 26 April 2015 19:31 (nine years ago) link
btw that review a classic example of the criticism Rabin deserves. An editor could've mad tightened those two opening grafs.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 April 2015 19:34 (nine years ago) link
lol @ at this comment:
There's this peculiar aesthetic blandness to much of the studio filmmaking from the very late 70s and the very early 80s, which in itself is also a difficult period to delineate culturally with any distinction. For the life of me I've never been able to get any real insight into what sort of sensibility would flock to the theater to sit through Oh God!, with George Burns AND John Denver for Christ's sake, or glue themselves to the television set for another installment of Mama's Family. I mean when was that thing ever not a rerun on TBS, where much of the mass cultural detritus from 1981 ended up in the 1990s. Who were these people? What had the 60s taught them, or perhaps what were they reeling from in their insipid pop cultural decisions?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 April 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
Add Same Time Next Year, Making Love, All Night Long, heaps of other Neil Simon plays, Ambrosia on the radio, and you've got the hangover before the eighties begin in 1983.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 April 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
Holy shit, Nathan Rabin got axed!! Somebody hire this man immediately!!!
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 30 April 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
haven't seen Oh God! in 25+ years, but it WAS written by Larry Gelbart and directed by Carl Reiner.
tho likely not their finest hours
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 April 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
I have childhood memories of my mom really liking that movie. I'm afraid to watch it now.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 April 2015 22:09 (nine years ago) link
Rabin got axed?
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Thursday, 30 April 2015 22:34 (nine years ago) link
Yeah it was on facebook. i'd post a link but i dont know how.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 30 April 2015 23:10 (nine years ago) link
http://thedissolve.com/news/6187-the-end/
― Number None, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 13:19 (eight years ago) link
surprised they held on as long as they did. (and that's not a reflection on the work they did)
― ryan, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 13:21 (eight years ago) link
Pretty disappointing. I've known those guys for a long time, and I think they did a great job with the site.
Been wondering if this book would be interesting or just depressing:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419aRd4GZRL._SX297_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
Probably the latter.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 15:47 (eight years ago) link