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I still love Men in Tights, no I haven’t seen it in at least 20 years, and no I don’t plan to change that.
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It's still good imo. Better than Spaceballs, which is also still good imo When Ridley Scott was making that bad robin hood movie with Russell Crowe, he said Men in Tights was the best robin hood movie of all time, and that hasn't changed
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Feb 22, 2022 15:27
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bitterandtwisted posted:In good slashers I always root for the protagonists. Yea there's just a general belief that a lot of people have about slashers that they are all the same hollow, cookie-cutter productions just thrown together for teens to laugh at a killer chopping people up in creative ways. And I get why that is, horror is a copycat genre and there were plenty of lazy slashers that were pumped out just to take advantage of the trend. But that's not really the original idea with slashers, just an unintended byproduct of their success. The ones that are good always have at least that one protagonist that you're meant to root for, even if they're surrounded by assholes. The great ones have multiple characters that are likeable so that you are tense for the whole movie because you're rooting for them all to survive and you know most of them won't.
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Feb 22, 2022 15:52
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flavor.flv posted:It's still good imo. Better than Spaceballs, which is also still good imo The trick is that Robin Hood absolutely doesn't work taken seriously. It was never meant to be.
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Feb 22, 2022 15:57
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" 'Ay Blinken!" "Did you say Abe Lincoln?" Is still one of my favorites. Same with Blinken and the braille playboy.
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flavor.flv posted:It's still good imo. Better than Spaceballs, which is also still good imo The best Robin Hood movie is definitely the Disney movie.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The trick is that Robin Hood absolutely doesn't work taken seriously. It was never meant to be. That's why Prince of Thieves works so well IMO , it knows exactly what it's doing. The only real misstep was having Costner even try an accent. When he gives up he gets much easier to listen to.
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Feb 22, 2022 17:14
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Men in Tights lands plenty of jokes IMO, they're just mixed in with a lot of stinkers. If you don't mind the really bad ones it's pretty entertaining, but it's easy to see how they could ruin it.HopperUK posted:That's why Prince of Thieves works so well IMO , it knows exactly what it's doing. The only real misstep was having Costner even try an accent. When he gives up he gets much easier to listen to. Does it? I always thought it was mostly just Alan Rickman knowing exactly what it's doing the holy poopacy has a new favorite as of 17:32 on Feb 22, 2022 |
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Feb 22, 2022 17:17
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flavor.flv posted:It's still good imo. Better than Spaceballs, which is also still good imo It's just that Men in Tights couldn't exist without Prince of Thieves. They even got Patstew to play the part of Sean Connery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr0hb0gc2eQ Which is great because https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzXkbJwrN38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPzVUGE3dds
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Bussamove posted:I still love Men in Tights, no I haven’t seen it in at least 20 years, and no I don’t plan to change that.
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That Italian Guy posted:I swear I remember a skit about someone showing some kind of American Pie spoof (called Springbreak at something-something High) to a friend or significant other, starting with "well this was more funny at the time" and progressively getting more and more embarassed the more dated comedy bits pop up. But I can't for the life of me find it anymore. Sex times at spring break high. https://twitter.com/CBThorburn/status/1377696492295761923?s=20&t=JdjKBUfNslOCWzcbolPw3g
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SiKboy posted:Sex times at spring break high. Thank you!
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Feb 22, 2022 17:54
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You just couldn't make a movie like Sex Times At Spring Break High today. Too many snowflakes.
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That Italian Guy posted:I'm going to quote Lindsay Ellis and say that, in a world full of satire/critiques that are embraced by the people who should feel criticized by it - because it depicts them as unintentionally cool (see: American History X) - you know what you don't see Nazis appropriate? I've definitely seen alt-right people using 'don't be stupid, be a smartie' as a catchphrase
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Feb 22, 2022 18:10
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Push El Burrito posted:You just couldn't make a movie like Sex Times At Spring Break High today. Too many snowflakes. Someone hasn't tried the adult section of Steam.
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Push El Burrito posted:You just couldn't make a movie like Sex Times At Spring Break High today. Too many snowflakes. My favourite bit is near the beginning where he gives the other party an out and offers to stop the movie, and they're just like "Nope, you made this mistake, I'm going to make you live with it."
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Feb 22, 2022 18:15
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flavor.flv posted:It's still good imo. Better than Spaceballs, which is also still good imo I would argue that Men in Tights were less silly than the last Robin Hood movie where they walked around in flak jackets. The movie also has an irritating movie moment: People walking around with their bows drawn like they're guns.
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Tunicate posted:I've definitely seen alt-right people using 'don't be stupid, be a smartie' as a catchphrase EDIT: also, holy poo poo, why is it always Edward Norton 
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Spaceballs is such an... odd film. It's a Star Wars parody that came out at a weird time- 1987, years after Return of the Jedi. It has no love of the source material or special insight into it, and Bill Pullman is just a big-rear end dud of a main character. For me, the only stuff about that flick that works at all involves Rick Moranis. And speaking of Blazing Saddles, it's the subject of one of my absolute favorite bizarre TV edits. There's a scene in the movie where the sheriff says hi to an old lady, who responds with "Up yours, N-word!" In the TV edit, she says "Out of my way, N-word!" 
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the guy in the combing the desert scene in spaceballs that yells "we ain't found poo poo" is tuvok from voyager 
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I caught the second half of Prince of Thieves at my parents' house some time ago, and it left me thinking that any "realistic" medieval movie will say more about the era is was made than the era it was set.
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There's a moment where there's all this crazy action going on and Little John manages to scramble his way to where his wife is sitting on a wall and she goes "Ello, my lover" all casual like they're at home and I probably think about it once a week.
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Feb 23, 2022 01:22
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The trick is that Robin Hood absolutely doesn't work taken seriously. It was never meant to be. I really like the kevin costner version. It wasn't totally serious like the bad russell crowe ones but I think it leaned in that direction and I thought it worked.
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Feb 23, 2022 02:12
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Name another movie where Morgan Freeman hurls a gigantic scimitar overhand to chop up an evil witch Also the fanfare slaps
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Feb 23, 2022 03:18
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I remember the toys having like, actual leather clothes. That was both neat and weird.
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It's hard to do a funny parody of special effects heavy movies and Mel was not the man for it.
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Feb 23, 2022 04:31
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I knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes!
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The excessively long star destroyer is pretty clever. Too bad it's close to being the first joke in the movie.
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That Italian Guy posted:People (especially nazis) are dumb. The fact that someone tried to use something from the Producers with a straight face doesn't make it cool; how many people are using that compared to something said/done by Derek Vinyard or Tyler Durden? They're not using it because they think it's cool They use it because they're dipshit millennials like everyone else and slathered in layers of irony. You can be a piece of poo poo and still be amused by things calling you a piece of poo poo. Look at how quick people were to adopt 'deplorables' and self identify as that.
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Keromaru5 posted:I caught the second half of Prince of Thieves at my parents' house some time ago, and it left me thinking that any "realistic" medieval movie will say more about the era is was made than the era it was set. God, that just reminded me of the 2018 one what was pretty much just a modern war movie with a medieval reskin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMcUZSJ3xDY
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Push El Burrito posted:You just couldn't make a movie like Sex Times At Spring Break High today. Too many snowflakes. That's why we need to remake Sexy Snowboard Bikini Babes from Miami. The snowflakes will fit right in.
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The plot of Bob's Burgers s4e11 involves the family scrounging up and emptying their savings to find $3000 to air a local television commercial. During the Superbowl. In 2014. For being a show that tries to be pretty grounded in its plots and scenarios if not its characters, it's just so absurd at first blush that it's honestly kinda annoying.
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Spaceballs riffs on a lot more than Star Wars. Pretty sure there's Red Dwarf in there, and Transformers: The Movie.
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Alien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVZUVeMtYXc apparently there's a wiki specifically for Spaceballs lmao quote:Planet of the Apes is parodied when Skroob, Dark Helmet, and Colonel Sandurz crash land in the remains of Mega Maid.
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Feb 23, 2022 11:23
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Spaceballs riffs on a lot more than Star Wars. Pretty sure there's Red Dwarf in there, and Transformers: The Movie. Which is why it's bad. It's doing exactly what the ZAZ movies deteriorated into, shotgun parodies of anything they could lay their hands on rather than a specific riff with tightly focused humour. Oddly, though, the movies most like Spaceballs are the sequel trilogy. After all, Spaceballs is about what happens after you create a power vacuum.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:You can get local superbowl ads which only screen in a small area. Local ads during the Superbowl are still in the millions of dollars - at least they are in touristy east-coast cities like the Belchers live in.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Spaceballs riffs on a lot more than Star Wars. Pretty sure there's Red Dwarf in there, and Transformers: The Movie. Red Dwarf was first broadcast the year after Spaceballs came out.
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Rascar Capac posted:Red Dwarf was first broadcast the year after Spaceballs came out. Well. Who was copying who?
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Wasn’t there a story of Patrick Stewart catching an episode of Red Dwarf and, thinking it was ripping off a TNG episode, was about to call his lawyer until he actually sat down and watched it and ended up loving it? And it turned out the TNG episode was ripping off Red Dwarf?
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