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Post by berkley on Feb 25, 2020 1:11:48 GMT -5
Phantom from Space (1953)
Cheap B-movie whose greatest weakness besides the low production values is the lack of any real story. They came up with a basic scenario - alien space ship crashes on earth, authorities hunt down the alien, who wanders around randomly killing people and sabotaging power plants while his air tanks run out - and didn't bother to develop it into an actual narrative. It's so low budget and poorly conceived that it comes as some surprise that a couple of the lead actors were quite good: Noreen Nash as a lab assistant and one of the cops (can't recall the character's name so I couldn't get the actor from wiki).
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 4, 2020 14:07:29 GMT -5
Looks like brutalis is the champion for February can't wait to see what you pick for this month. |
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Post by brutalis on Mar 4, 2020 15:25:51 GMT -5
Laughter is the best medicine! With it being Tax time, we all could certainly use some smiles and laughs after doing our filing! So sit back and watch some Comedies which make your belly bounce up and down with the ho ho ha ha he he's of a cleansing laugh out loud (or silently if that is your preference) at humor, jokes, word play or physical pratfalls or any other zany craziness. Whether it be silent, classics, old school or new wave it's time to hit the ol' funny bone for March! Lets laugh it up....
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 5, 2020 8:05:30 GMT -5
Patch Adams isn't really a comedy...but it's Robin Williams with a clown nose as a doctor so visually it just seemed to fit the theme.
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Post by brutalis on Mar 5, 2020 8:09:58 GMT -5
Let's get the laughter started!
For my 1st March Comedy I chose to jump back into my teen age years when there was LOTS of comedies. It was a great time to be a teen during the mid 70's and through the 80's with quite a bit of variety to dispense the sullen clouds and angst of teenage puberty. I will be watching many movies from those hallowed years of youth along with some classics of earlier years.
It is the spring of 1974 and my grandfather took me one weekend to see a new Western movie advertised in the newspaper. Of course it wasn't quite the Western my granpappy was expecting, for it was Mel Brooks and his Blazing Saddles. And with this movie began my lifelong love of going to see EVERY Mel Brooks movie when they came out at the theater. Blazing Saddles was the 1st comedy outside of early Disney live action comedies that I remember seeing up on the big screen and it showed me that there was much more in life to laugh at. There is so much to laugh out loud during this classic movie and there is so much ground breaking instances and so much word play and slapstick comedy mixed together into one large significantly comedy movie that changed what could be considered as funny at the movies.
I won't even begin to try and explain the movie or all of the routines as you just have to see it and enjoy it and laugh along with it. An amazing cast, really great smart and dumb and silly and juvenile and vulgar jokes wrapped in a splendid story as it throws everything including the horse at you in trying to provide laughs.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 5, 2020 10:25:06 GMT -5
Let's get the laughter started! For my 1st March Comedy I chose to jump back into my teen age years when there was LOTS of comedies. It was a great time to be a teen during the mid 70's and through the 80's with quite a bit of variety to dispense the sullen clouds and angst of teenage puberty. I will be watching many movies from those hallowed years of youth along with some classics of earlier years. It is the spring of 1974 and my grandfather took me one weekend to see a new Western movie advertised in the newspaper. Of course it wasn't quite the Western my granpappy was expecting, for it was Mel Brooks and his Blazing Saddles. And with this movie began my lifelong love of going to see EVERY Mel Brooks movie when they came out at the theater. Blazing Saddles was the 1st comedy outside of early Disney live action comedies that I remember seeing up on the big screen and it showed me that there was much more in life to laugh at. There is so much to laugh out loud during this classic movie and there is so much ground breaking instances and so much word play and slapstick comedy mixed together into one large significantly comedy movie that changed what could be considered as funny at the movies. I won't even begin to try and explain the movie or all of the routines as you just have to see it and enjoy it and laugh along with it. An amazing cast, really great smart and dumb and silly and juvenile and vulgar jokes wrapped in a splendid story as it throws everything including the horse at you in trying to provide laughs. I'm still firmly convinced that Blazing Saddles is one of the ten best western movies of all time. This is a hill I am prepared to die upon. It is beat perfect in every single way. |
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Post by berkley on Mar 5, 2020 12:32:49 GMT -5
Let's get the laughter started! For my 1st March Comedy I chose to jump back into my teen age years when there was LOTS of comedies. It was a great time to be a teen during the mid 70's and through the 80's with quite a bit of variety to dispense the sullen clouds and angst of teenage puberty. I will be watching many movies from those hallowed years of youth along with some classics of earlier years. It is the spring of 1974 and my grandfather took me one weekend to see a new Western movie advertised in the newspaper. Of course it wasn't quite the Western my granpappy was expecting, for it was Mel Brooks and his Blazing Saddles. And with this movie began my lifelong love of going to see EVERY Mel Brooks movie when they came out at the theater. Blazing Saddles was the 1st comedy outside of early Disney live action comedies that I remember seeing up on the big screen and it showed me that there was much more in life to laugh at. There is so much to laugh out loud during this classic movie and there is so much ground breaking instances and so much word play and slapstick comedy mixed together into one large significantly comedy movie that changed what could be considered as funny at the movies. I won't even begin to try and explain the movie or all of the routines as you just have to see it and enjoy it and laugh along with it. An amazing cast, really great smart and dumb and silly and juvenile and vulgar jokes wrapped in a splendid story as it throws everything including the horse at you in trying to provide laughs. I'm still firmly convinced that Blazing Saddles is one of the ten best western movies of all time. This is a hill I am prepared to die upon. It is beat perfect in every single way. One of the best westerns of all time and one of the best comedies, no mean accomplishment. |
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Post by shaxper on Mar 5, 2020 12:48:18 GMT -5
My girlfriend fell asleep during Blazing Saddles when I tried to show it to her last year. I'm still working on forgiving her.
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 5, 2020 14:38:45 GMT -5
The thread title has had the theme edited but the month needs an update.
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Post by brutalis on Mar 5, 2020 14:40:06 GMT -5
Yeah, for the most part Blazing Saddles is really a guys comedy. Similar to Monty Python having a smaller female fandom. I mean, how many women could really find the humor in Mongo around the fire after eating beans for dinner? If your girlfriend or wife allows that you find it funny and allows you to watch it with or without her then that goes into the WIN column!
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Post by shaxper on Mar 5, 2020 14:48:37 GMT -5
Yeah, for the most part Blazing Saddles is really a guys comedy. Similar to Monty Python having a smaller female fandom. I mean, how many women could really find the humor in Mongo around the fire after eating beans for dinner? Oh, it has moments that appeal to the ladies too.  |
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Post by shaxper on Mar 5, 2020 21:10:40 GMT -5
First time in a while now that I've been able to double count my reviews of Bela Lugosi films here. Tonight I watched You'll Find Out, a movie vehicle for radio personality Kay Kyser (I've never heard of him either) that brilliantly blends horror and comedy to astonishing effect. I can't believe I'd never heard of this one before, especially since it's got Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, AND Peter Lorre! |
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 5, 2020 21:48:23 GMT -5
When Blazing Saddles was broadcast on TV in New York in the 70s or 80s, they silenced the bean scene. They also cut off the last part of Madeline Kahn's character's name. You could see the name on a poster, but all you heard was "Lili von Scht-", because the name means something in Yiddish.
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Post by shaxper on Mar 5, 2020 21:50:54 GMT -5
When Blazing Saddles was broadcast on TV in New York in the 70s or 80s, they silenced the bean scene. They also cut off the last part of Madeline Kahn's character's name. You could see the name on a poster, but all you heard was "Lili von Scht-", because the name means something in Yiddish. So much of the fun and terror of growing up on taped-from-TV VHS films in the 1980s was upgrading to DVD and suddenly seeing and hearing all sorts of things that didn't used to be in those films! |
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Post by brutalis on Mar 6, 2020 7:55:41 GMT -5
Craziest thing I have seen about Blazing Saddles is many years ago ION television (which was then called PAX, primarily a conservative family/religious station) ran an "extremely edited" version with blurred scenes, total silence/deleting/covering spoken words and jokes and "objective content" in the movie. It was totally butchered and unwatchable. You could have watched the movie with the sound turned off and enjoyed the movie more. Saddles is NOT a prime time family friendly movie to gather around and watch together with dinner.
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