THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Stoney Mason on March 12, 2015, 01:23:31 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2A194yTWoQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qse_wf57tZM
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/airplane-david-zucker-on-the-interview-naked-113275693132.html
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Striker, Striker, Striker...
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I just want to say good luck, and we're all counting on you.
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Picked the wrong day to quit huffing glue....
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I still think Top Secret is their mostly forgotten gem. Their life of Brian to the Holy Grail that is Airplane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJoTBlDfVhk
Just great timing. And I love how their old movies don't linger on the joke. They just push right ahead which is the superior way to handle this kind of comedy.
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Don't forget Johnny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U7YU9rZS4w
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Had no idea he died of AIDS in the mid 80's until I just went to his wikipedia page.
I wondered what happened to him.
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Does anyone here like movies about gladiators?
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I still think Top Secret is their mostly forgotten gem. Their life of Brian to the Holy Grail that is Airplane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJoTBlDfVhk
Just great timing. And I love how their old movies don't linger on the joke. They just push right ahead which is the superior way to handle this kind of comedy.
I never saw Airplane until a few years ago, but Top Secret is probably in the top 5 most memorable movies from my childhood.
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This is on Netflix, brehs.
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Top Secret! was my favorite as a kid, but then I grew to appreciate Airplane! more, it's less broad in scope. But really it's like 1 and 1A. Top Secret! is definitely less well known though, nobody I knew in college had ever seen it. I had like one of the early DVDs with no special features or anything. :lol (Same for Airplane! and A Shot in the Dark.)
I was discussing with a friend a few years ago about how the better comedies on TV at the time were single camera, no audience because of the factor Stoney mentions, how you can just keep going, you don't have to stop and mug for the audience unless you want to. (Like how Curb does it deliberately.)
I think another thing that really helps these movies work, and stuff like Hot Shots and Police Squad and Hot Fuzz even when references get dated is that there's no straight man in the main characters. Everyone lives in the absurd world and considers it normal. Always Sunny has aspects of that, but gets a lot of its humor when their world intersects with the real one but The Gang never understands what's abnormal.
Also, Top Secret! has the greatest credits of any movie ever made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f_19nxNfjs
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Top Secret and Airplane have the bulletproof formula of spoofing things that are already ridiculous and just slightly amping up the temperature.
There's not a world of difference between say, Harem Scarem (Elvis' cheesiest film) and Top Secret, likewise any of the Airport films and Airplane. Later spoofs lost that specificity and took on more broad topics, much to the detriment of the genre. Black Dynamite and MacGruber prove you can still make a great film of that type, but you really need a target to hit and the discipline to stick to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fykFpD6snX0
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|I was discussing with a friend a few years ago about how the better comedies on TV at the time were single camera, no audience because of the factor Stoney mentions, how you can just keep going, you don't have to stop and mug for the audience unless you want to. (Like how Curb does it deliberately.
I had a bunch of shit to write out abut Curb but then realized you said nothing controversial or even negative about it.
Context ya'll! Carry on....