http://www.worthpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ShaggyDA.jpg
― soref, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 23:37 (eight years ago) link
billion dollar hobo is cracking me up. conway's expresion! not exactly conveying the promised laff-a-minute rate, is he?
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 05:03 (eight years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/First_Family_%28Film%29.jpg
First Family
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 01:46 (eight years ago) link
(another one for the "you're not really convincing me this is a comedy here, guys" file)
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 01:50 (eight years ago) link
https://youtu.be/2rLim9U2q2E
going by the trailer, that is a pretty impressive cast they've assembled for completely terrible looking film. I do like the Kraftwerk-esque Bob Newhart dummy, though.
― soref, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 01:59 (eight years ago) link
"senator from rhode island" jokes have always been with us, huh.
― pplains, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 02:09 (eight years ago) link
Where did most of the movies featured in this thread go? I pretty much lived in video stores when I was a kid during the 80s and while these all seem like the kind of things that would have littered the video store shelves of that era, I recognize very few of these.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 02:39 (eight years ago) link
i'm guessing some of them were just never even sent to vhs let alone dvd?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 02:41 (eight years ago) link
First Family was the movie which was supposed to launch Gilda Radner as a movie star, so double sad.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 02:43 (eight years ago) link
The impressive cast is almost certainly due to the fact that this was Buck Henry's follow-up to "Heaven Can Wait," which was Oscar-nominated and a big hit.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 02:48 (eight years ago) link
i'm guessing some of them were just never even sent to vhs let alone dvd?― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, September 28, 2015 7:41 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, September 28, 2015 7:41 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is likely otm, I think a lot less made it to VHS than people assume, and even less of that made it to DVD.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 02:50 (eight years ago) link
First Family was my first "worst movie I've ever seen." Age 10.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 03:53 (eight years ago) link
there isn't a remotely likable moment even in the trailer, which says a lot
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 03:55 (eight years ago) link
a *lot* of this stuff made it to VHS, but early in the format's life, I think, and there just wasn't much urgency to keeping them in print when there were *new* disposable ensemble comedies with a better claim on limited shelf space. also suspect that if you trawled the tv guide archive, you'd find at LEAST one of these films playing, somewhere, every single week of the 1980s.
but yeah theyre not super common. my partner collects tapes and we're always on the lookout for these but mostly it's the same crap from the format's peak years in the late 90s. best chance sadly is really long-established video stores that never updated their stock doing going out of business sales. ive posted abt this before but I once got really wistful at one of these finding an ollld, pre-clamshell disney tape, think it was a herbie movie. yellowed cream background, always-yellow 70s font, still frame of the movie. what my childhood looked like.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 04:20 (eight years ago) link
Speaking of VHS cases that evoke intense childhood memories, I searched "First Family VHS" to see if it did get put out in that format. And of course it did, in the type of generic case that is the polar opposite of the caricature style, the kind of case that you could still occasionally find at video places in the early 90s.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 05:25 (eight years ago) link
god i'd forgotten those cases where they just throw a still from the movie on the generic cover and call it a day
― balls, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 05:31 (eight years ago) link
what's new pussycat:
http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/9657181965WhatsnewpussycatQuetalpussycatingbq.jpg
― steppenwolf in white van speaker scam (ledge), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 08:17 (eight years ago) link
http://www.impawards.com/designers/jack_davis.html
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 11:03 (eight years ago) link
i'm fond of the generic warner home video cases (especially the color-coding to help you sort your collection by COMEDY, DRAMA etc), but they're nothing on the generic MGM/UA boxes: oversized, super blah gray cardboard, but with each film getting its own set of distinctive colored stripes, the poster on the front cover (usually), and (in a crucial distinction from Fox's boxes) actually using the letterforms of the poster on the spine. flip it open and you get the main cast and crew credits, and the tape set in a separate, plastic housing which often gets all mangled up and detached from the cardboard. e.g. for this thread: http://vhscollector.com/movie/pandemonium
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 13:38 (eight years ago) link
wow, i really wanted to see first family until i saw the trailer.
― please don't shampoo your eyes (stevie), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
if you really want to be turned off from it read the wikipedia description of its plot
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
the (fictional) African nation of Upper Gorm
― soref, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
man i know this is nostalgia at it's most ridiculous but those dull vhs cases bring a smile. casino knows this but athens video stores were incredibly well stocked but even w/ them i don't think i ever saw a lot of these ever (they leaned toward foreign, old, and cult so i'm not sure they would have ever been interested in the first family anyway. plenty of other richard benjamin vehicles though.) it occurs to me now that literally every physical store i've ever rented a movie from doesn't exist anymore. i'm not sure there's any other kind of business i frequented that much i can say that about, like i'm pretty sure there are newsstands in italy i bought the international herald tribune at that still exist.
― balls, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 22:44 (eight years ago) link
that Fish That Saved.. tagline reads like absolute gibberish!
― piscesx, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 23:46 (eight years ago) link
i miss the five-for-five deal at vision video, but not as much as the sound of the guy answering the phone at our local spot growing up: "Multi-TV Video! Nintendo!"
the disney tapes i was talking about btw, this kind: http://www.retro-daze.org/ActionAndChildren/Children/B/BEDKNOBS-AND-BROOMSTICKS.jpg
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 04:53 (eight years ago) link
https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/2/A70-1114
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 11 October 2015 19:03 (eight years ago) link
thread won't load easily so i dunno if anyone's mentioned the Carry Ons
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/Carry_On_Abroad_%28movie_poster%29.jpg
― piscesx, Sunday, 11 October 2015 19:08 (eight years ago) link
http://www.tele-movie-shop.de/images/product_images/original_images/27516.jpg
Geld oder Leber! (1986)
this is slightly different style but I like it, particularly 'und FALCO'
― soref, Sunday, 11 October 2015 19:35 (eight years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Nv33zs6mL.jpg
― soref, Sunday, 11 October 2015 19:36 (eight years ago) link
"It's a Falcon Funny Movie," wow.
The dog reaction in that last one is such a stock cartoon trope, I love it. That and the pen-and-Prismacolor aesthetic make it feel like something from Dynamite magazine.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 11 October 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
Find me a single funny movie that uses the word "laugh" or "funny" in the movie poster.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 12 October 2015 01:01 (eight years ago) link
http://pics.filmaffinity.com/A_Funny_Thing_Happened_on_the_Way_to_the_Forum-837908798-large.jpg
― balls, Monday, 12 October 2015 01:42 (eight years ago) link
other than in the title, obvs
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 12 October 2015 01:43 (eight years ago) link
haha i almost posted that, nice
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Monday, 12 October 2015 01:57 (eight years ago) link
http://pixelatedpop.com/sites/default/files/u3/Ernest-Goes-to-Camp.jpg
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 15 October 2015 22:11 (eight years ago) link
https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/75/MPW-37596
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Thursday, 15 October 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
I still think it looks like she's about to stab Elliott GOuld in the ear.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 15 October 2015 22:31 (eight years ago) link
Poor George Washington doesn't even get star billing
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 October 2015 22:32 (eight years ago) link
wait you mean that isn't what's happening?
this thread is great at helping me realize just how many terrible-looking movies Elliott Gould, Alan Arkin, and George Segal made in the 70s.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 15 October 2015 22:39 (eight years ago) link
My guess from the poster was that she would be an aspiring pop star, but this HBO lead-in from 1982 insists she's a "TV news lady." So I guess she's...interviewing him?
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 15 October 2015 22:41 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, it's only in recent years that I've pieced together that Gould/Segal were big, big names in the 70s, Gould especially. I'm 33 and they were basically non-entities in the 80s. Probably didn't help that the majority of their output was aimed at adults with nothing that might really seduce you in the video store or reruns, like an action or fantasy joint or something. It'd be like someone born in 2000 not knowing who, like, Harrison Ford was or something. Not the exact right comparison but, y'know?
I believe Segal also had a hard career crash after asking too much money for things or something, but others would know better.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 15 October 2015 22:45 (eight years ago) link
(ford obviously in tons of teen-friendly fare that has remained very popular - just meaning super big all through a decade and then basically irrelevant immediately afterwards)
yeah I don't think that applies to Harrison Ford
(currently in the process of designing an Elliott Gould t-shirt at the request of my wife btw)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 October 2015 22:50 (eight years ago) link
Busy without being busy with people; Carbon Copy (1981)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vGC7KpaH7G0/TScHvAO-PmI/AAAAAAAAAsA/E777ADf6_ug/s1600/carbon-copy-movie-poster-1020378095.jpg
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Thursday, 15 October 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/sKbo9kU.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 15 October 2015 23:48 (eight years ago) link
Hoo boy, and now I catch that they're eating fried chicken in the first one.
― pplains, Thursday, 15 October 2015 23:49 (eight years ago) link
Wait a minute. Is the English title "Carbon Copy" and the Italian title is something about chicken?
"The Chicken You Eat WIth Your Hands" ...
― pplains, Thursday, 15 October 2015 23:51 (eight years ago) link
Omg i seriously thought abt posting that italian carbon copy poster TONIGHT.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Friday, 16 October 2015 00:44 (eight years ago) link