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The Naked Gun (1988)
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"Loaded Weapon 1 I guess the full title of this film is National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1. I could never really figure out what the connection was between the different films with the "National Lampoon's" prefix was, but I just looked it up and realized it's just the name of a production company. You know that the films are always comedies, and probably could have the descriptions of "zany", "crude", or "base" attached to them. Most people will think of Animal House or the Vacation movies (written by the recently departed John Hughes). Although I just found out the first ever National Lampoon's film was titled National Lampoon's Disco Beaver from Outer Space. But "
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"Leslie Nielsen is just one of the funniest actors of his time. i've seen this movie like 6 times and each time i see it there are things that u dont see the first 5 and it gets funnier all the time A+++ "
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"It’s more difficult to be convincing as a real person when acting on film than on the stage. The camera can get closer and your image ends up projected many times larger than life size. So, despite giving a Tony Award-winning performance as Richard Nixon in the theater version of Frost/Nixon, Frank Langella was not initially thought of as worthy to reprise the role in Ron Howard’s movie adaptation of the play. Part of it was that he’s not a big name, but another reason was that he looks nothing like Tricky Dick. Ultimately, Langella did get the part, and while he doesn’t resemble the former president, he apparently does a bang up job in the role. But the transition could easily have been as awkward as Ralph Bellamy’s reprisal of his Tony-winning portrayal of Franklin Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello. In the film version of that play, Bellamy’s vocal impersonation comes off more like a Scottish brogue (he sounds exactly like Sean Connery, in fact) than FDR’s signature “Locust Valley "
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"Duck Soup It seems like I watched two of my absolute favorite comedies back to back. The Naked Gun which I wrote about in my last post, and then Duck Soup. And to me these are some of the pinnacles of their own particular genres of comedy for their era. I think I was trying to show them off to my girlfriend. I purchased all of the Marx Brothers films from the two different studios they worked at when there was a sale on boxed sets at Borders a while ago. I'm making my way through them. I've seen all of their movies up through A Day at the Races before, but none after that. I've heard they go down hill after that. But if there is even one moment in any of those films that is as wonderful as any moment in Duck Soup, then they should be worth watching. As each brother is introduced I think you start to like the next one more than the last. And then one reappears again and becomes your new favorite. You have to fight over who is the best until they end up all dressed up like G ... "
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"The best time for a Get Smart movie would have been the late ’60s, when the original television series was still on the air. In fact, there was a theatrical Get Smart film in the works during the run of the show, but it was canceled when the theatrical release of Munster, Go Home! bombed at the box office. Many years later, in 1980, a Get Smart feature titled The Nude Bomb was released to theaters, but it also performed poorly. Now we’re getting a remake version starring Steve Carell in the role that was so iconically defined by the late Don Adams. Will it do the show justice? Reportedly the budget was $80 million, a significant amount of which was probably put towards pointless effects. But the best thing Warner Bros. could have done with that money is to give a large amount to series creators Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, who probably even today could churn out a better script than Failure to Launch scribes Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember. Despite its lack of original Get Sm "
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"The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! Sometimes it's most difficult to say stuff about your favorite films. You've seen them so many times, expressed your love for them in so many ways. Anything you say about them now seems obvious and redundant in your experience. The Naked Gun and all of the early films from the Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker comedy team fit this description for me. For me they comprise the most laugh-out-loud hilarious movies of all time. The comedy has an absurd logic to it that especially appeals to me. You begin with a film that is played completely straight. You write with all the clichés of a genre, without any humor or surprises. Then you pick out the absurdities. There is a consistency to the straight part of the film. The jokes almost exist on another plane. They come and go for the audiences benefit, rarely for the benefit of the characters of the plot. Sometimes they are even nullified from on "
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Russians Like Spoof Movies Too
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"Remember the Cold War, when we were led to believe that Americans and Russians are so different from each other? Turns out that all that time we could have just made peace in a movie theater, watching spoofs like The Naked Gun and Airplane! together. Well, I guess the Russians could have only grown to love these kinds of comedies in the last 16 years, since the fall of the Soviet Union. But in any event, this trailer for the new film Hitler Kaput! shows that senses of humor are currently equal on both hemispheres. Even if our own latest parody, Superhero Movie, performed rather poorly at the box office over the weekend. Presently, there are no plans for Hitler Kaput! to be distributed in the U.S. (it opens in Russia on April 10), but were it not for the language barrier, it would easily be popular here. Seeming like a cross between the classic Zucker Bros. spy movie parody
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Is parody on life support?
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"Cinematic parody as it once was is dead. And after much searching and researching, I have found the murderer of this under-appreciated sub-genre of filmmaking. It’s Waldo. Oh sure, the bespectacled, striped-ski-cap-sporting little geek likes to appear anonymous, but I am positive he is to blame for the current slate of “Movie” movies: “Epic Movie,” ”Date Movie” and, most recently, “Superhero Movie.” If he’s not guilty, ask yourself this, why is he always hiding?
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"This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry.Born to KillI really wanted to see an old Lawrence Tierney film. Sadly my only exposure to him had been his comical role in The Naked Gun and his elderly but hardass role in Reservoir Dogs. Seeing the latter and hearing all of the stories about him from various sources made me want to see him in his younger days!I wasn't sure which movie of his to see, although I was a little hesitant about picking this one because it's directed by Robert Wise. Now I've only seen a few of his movies, and they are ok, but they just seem a little too tame and traditional in style to make me expect any more from him. The Day the Earth Stood Still, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, West Side Story. Criticize me if you want for not loving these, but they do not stand out for me.Howev "
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Naked is good...
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"Leslie Nielsen is one of the funniest people in the world. He does such a great job. The movie is cop spoof and is one laugh after another. It has been around for years. The movie is a carry over from the Police Squad television show and Abrams and Zucker and Zucker created one of the best movies ever. It makes the occasional appearance on the Comedy Channel, but continues to be one of the movies I pull out of the cabinet if I need a good laugh.In fact, I am going to go watch it now.. "
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