Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

Isn't OJ's sentence enough?

I cannot watch this scene without laughing out loud (yeah, I said it) when (i) the one guy drops his gun after Nordberg finally breaks in and (ii) when he leans against the door with the wet paint.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTF7ABnxX-g

Poor OJ. From airport slave to Naked Gun victim to excused murderer to convict. He's just so misunderstood.

TM

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by taxwonk

Exactly. And I wound up leaving what is possibly the best satire ever filmed, and the best movie of all time, Being There, off the list because it was too subtle to be laugh your ass off funny, which a list this short demands.

I loved Being There, and had forgotten about it, thanks.

But it isn't a comedy, and if you put it on, becasue it has funny parts, then Diner, the best movie overall of all time, is also a comedy, so it will be Best comedy.

I saw an obscure but pretty funny 60s movie call The Party, with Peter Sellers. pretty funny, but maybe a little dated. But if you see it on cable worth a watch (of course Seller's indian accent it a bit incorrect for today).

[Diane_Keaton]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Yes on the fake bird call scene and infamous. But the best part of the movie is when El Guapo asks if he's getting a plethora of gifts. I also like this part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8NQ6_5J7bc

Don't normally like Chase but he was great in that one. The hell with movies....there should be a list of 25 funniest SCENES from a movie. This one would be my number one hands down (or off). (Fast forward to about 2:45 as the early part isn't funny). The rib scene is good too. The rest of the list would be heavy with Woody Allen and Monty Python scenes.

[Penske_Account]

Originally Posted by dtb

For any of you who chat with me on IM on occasion, you may be surprised to hear from me sometime soon. It will surprise you that I am such a slow typist, that I have suddenly become enamored of lots of extraneous punctuation and that I make such atrocious spelling errors.

Don't be alarmed! Most likely, it is my 6-year-old son who has taken to sitting at my computer if I'm not there and starting up chats.

He ran downstairs today when I got home and said, "Mama! Good news! I'm finally talking to someone on your computer!" I said, "Oh? Who is that?" (It was sebby.)

His older brother said, "But you don't even know him!", which protest was met with "I DON'T CARE!!!"

I then explained (by IM) to Sebby what had happened (i.e., that it was my 6-y-o), and my 6-y-o was furious!

So, if you're ever in doubt, and are wondering if it's truly me, I'll have to utter the password, which will be... um... PINTO.

No one will ever crack that code!


ETA: But please, keep it clean.

Many of my posts, incl. all of the sucky ones, are made by my assistant, when I am out on my balcony relaxing or out of the office at the gym or the massuesse.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Gattigap

I think it's brilliant! What an idea! And I was there! He took the idea! He saw it ripe on the tree, he plucked it, and he put it in his pocket. It's, it's, dare I say... genius? Ah, no, no! But maybe, ooh! ah! maybe it is! Maybe I'm in the presence of greatness, maybe I just don't know it. But I saw it...

Did he fall yet?

TM

[Gattigap]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Did he fall yet?

TM

Your breasts, they're like melons. No, no, they're like pillows! Can I fluff your pillows?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

I have said this before and realize it's an unpopular opinion, but anyone who remembers Clerks as a funny movie never watched it a second time. I hold no grudge against someone who watches it once and says "I laughed," because I did, but a second viewing of that movie is just intolerable. Ditto Better Off Dead. Maybe a second viewing when it's still 1985 and you're still on dope and in high school, but today, in 2009? You couldn't pay me to watch it. I'll quote it from memory, but I'll never want to watch it again. So it's in the same category as Clerks -- quotable doesn't equal funniest.

A good test is, would I pay $30 to get it on Blu-Ray? Many things on people's list, the answer is yes, but not Elf, not Clerks, not Better Off Dead.

clerks can't be on Blu-Ray can it? it was shot on toilet paper.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

I have said this before and realize it's an unpopular opinion, but anyone who remembers Clerks as a funny movie never watched it a second time. I hold no grudge against someone who watches it once and says "I laughed," because I did, but a second viewing of that movie is just intolerable. Ditto Better Off Dead. Maybe a second viewing when it's still 1985 and you're still on dope and in high school, but today, in 2009? You couldn't pay me to watch it. I'll quote it from memory, but I'll never want to watch it again. So it's in the same category as Clerks -- quotable doesn't equal funniest.

A good test is, would I pay $30 to get it on Blu-Ray? Many things on people's list, the answer is yes, but not Elf, not Clerks, not Better Off Dead.

I have Clerks and the rest of the View Askew titles on DVD, and have watched them more than once. Again, though, maybe it is a juvenile thing.

But I agree that Elf is not worthy of more than one watching (if it even merits one).

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Love Big and Splash. But they don't make my top 25.

Yes on the fake bird call scene and infamous. But the best part of the movie is when El Guapo asks if he's getting a plethora of gifts. I also like this part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8NQ6_5J7bc

And Roxanne is a great movie, but it's more of a romantic comedy, a genre which I don't think made many lists.

TM

Spies Like Us is Chevy and Akroyd at their best.

This is why I could not make a list.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

I cannot watch this scene without laughing out loud (yeah, I said it) when (i) the one guy drops his gun after Nordberg finally breaks in and (ii) when he leans against the door with the wet paint.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTF7ABnxX-g

Poor OJ. From airport slave to Naked Gun victim to excused murderer to convict. He's just so misunderstood.

TM

I think about as much planning went into that bust as the one where he tried to get back his stuff.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Diane_Keaton

Don't normally like Chase but he was great in that one. The hell with movies....there should be a list of 25 funniest SCENES from a movie. This one would be my number one hands down (or off). (Fast forward to about 2:45 as the early part isn't funny). The rib scene is good too. The rest of the list would be heavy with Woody Allen and Monty Python scenes.

We have found common ground. I love I'm Gonna Get You Sucka (not top 25, but still high enough to almost put on my list).

"So, it's just you 57 cops against Kung Fu Joe? Master of Kung-Fu! Karate! Jiu- Jitsu! And all kinds of other shit you ain't never heard of!"
______
Willie: I heard you screamin' from all the way over there, and...
Leonard: I wasn't screamin', all right?
Willie: But I heard you...
Leonard: I wasn't screamin'! I was whistling!
Willie: You was whistling "Willie, help get this bitch off of me"?
Leonard: Yeah!
_______
John Slade: What these fancy medals for?
Jack Spade: Well, this one is, uh, shorthand. And, uh, this one over here is M.V.P. And, uh, this is surfing.
_______
John Slade: Sam, hold it man, you told me you served in Nam!
One Eyed Sam: I did, Saigon.
Jack Spade: Well, how'd you lose your eye?
One Eyed Sam: Fu**in' 'round the office. We were shooting paper clips at each other, and one of the damn fools hit me in the eye!

(I can't find the follow-up quote for when Slade and One Eyed Sam are comparing medals. But I know One Eyed Sam says something like, "This medal here is for typing..." And Spade cuts him off and says, "I got that one too! Right here! Right here!"

And finally, the scene when they're in the big shoot-out near the end and Spade gets a splinter and screams like his intestines are falling out when he removes it, gets me every time.

TM

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

I think about as much planning went into that bust as the one where he tried to get back his stuff.

Now that's funny.

TM

[Adder]

Originally Posted by dtb

(It was sebby.)

I take it you are now having your 6 y-y-o's brain washed out with soap?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

clerks can't be on Blu-Ray can it? it was shot on toilet paper.

WTTW, "hot" theoretical physicists are probably looking for men who aren't stymied by the occasional contrafactual.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

WTTW, "hot" theoretical physicists are probably looking for men who aren't stymied by the occasional contrafactual.

I recently saw a an add for all of the Bond films on blu-ray, so I don't underestimate hollywood's interest in making a buck off of the suckers.