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What is an overlooked, perhaps somewhat forgotten comedy, that more people need to watch?
One of my favorites that I think should be more widely appreciated is "Drop Dead Gorgeous".
It's a great mockumentary about small town Minnesota and the beauty pageant they put on, the Sarah Rose Cosmetics American Teen Princess Pageant.
It stars Denise Richards, Kirsten Dunst, Kirstie Ally, and a whole bunch of well known character actors.
I recently watched Top Secret and that shit cracked me up. Hadn’t really heard of it before
I haven’t watched that or Real Genius in a long time, and I want to so I can see how well they hold up.
Just caught Real Genius on tv the other day.
It holds up.
Our surgeons did what they could but it took zem 4 hours just to get zee smile off his face.
'Let me know if there is any change in his condition.'
hangs up phone
'He's dead.'
I know a little German! He's right over there.
The 4th wall break always gets me. https://youtu.be/KSZwlMDSOvY?si=vzlsi4e1Z-L3h8y2
Spoilers: it's the plot of the movie.
The underwater fight is the best part of that.
The love scene on the beach is what gets me
Souveneeers, novelties, par-ty triks.
You dropped your phoney dog poo.....
Blew my mind recently when I realised that Déja Vu was played by Jim Carter, the butler in Downton Abbey!
Nothing to Lose with Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence
edit: had misspelled Robbins.
The scene where Martin Lawrence’s mother is slapping him for coming home so late and then he goes to try and explain what happened and she slaps him and says
“Don’t talk back to your mother” and tim robins agreed and says “don’t talk back to your mother”
And then she slaps the shit out of tim robins and he asks what that slap was for and she just says “you got that slap because you with him!”
So. Fucking. Great.
What kind of man comes home 2:30 in the morning looking like a bruised turd?
The spider scene made me lose it. Fucking hilarious.
What's that supposed to mean... there's a spider on your head?
It means there's a spider on your mother fucking head, man!
Well get it off! Get it off, get it off!
I ain't touching that shit!
I'M A SCATMAN! Ba-da-ba-da-ba-be bop bop bodda bope Bop ba bodda bope
“You must be really fast.”
Lawrence’s face when he first tried to rob Robins and he doesn’t move always makes me laugh. ‘Car, keys, wallet now…….😳……you hear what I said?!?!’
Welcome to hell biiiiiiiiiiiitch
This is my mom's favorite movie and I don't think I've ever met anyone else who has seen it before
your mom and i would get along because i have seen this film at least 30 times.
ive owned it across 3 formats and back in the day was a film that if it was on tv, and i came across it, i had to finish it
Good soundtrack too
What the f#*! is beetle-headed?!
The whole, “Hey, you shut the fuck up!” argument in the desert (with a young Giancarlo Esposito) is a highlight.
Lawrence: “Everybody shut the fuck up! You like Girl Scout cookies? Well here’s a cookie. Now back the fuck up like I done told you two dumbass mutha fuckas! BLAM!
Please don't kill me freaky Jason!
All of Me (1984), with Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin. Hilarious and utterly charming, right down to the very last moment of the credits dancing scene. Steve's physical comedy in this movie is off the charts.
I always cite this movie as the best example of physical comedy I've ever seen. Steve Martin pretending to control only half of his body is simply amazing.
“Edwina - back in bowl!”
Better off Dead
My Blue Heaven
Gee, I’m real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky.
He used it as a chance to put his, how do you say, testicles all over me.
Testicles?
How you say?, like octopus?
Tentacles!, tentacles…big difference.
I came to add My Blue Heaven. Vinnie Antonelli is my spirit animal.
There’s also some speculation that MBH is the unofficial sequel to Goodfellas.
https://decider.com/2015/11/18/goodfellas-my-blue-heaven-henry-hill/
I love My Blue Heaven. I love Steve Martin and he BECOMES Vinnie Antonelli/Todd Wilkinson. I don't consider it a Steve Martin movie because the character he plays absolutely comes to life as his own entity.
I quote Better Off Dead all the time. One of my top ten comedies.
It's one of the few movies I think could turn into a stage Musical and benefit.
"That's a goddam shame. People throwing out a perfectly good white boy!"
I want my two dollars.
I use that line all the time. I've actually gotten about six dollars out of it!
Go that way really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.
I'm always appalled at how few people in my life have seen "The Jerk."
That's why they need an optigrab for christmas.
Damn these glasses!
Yes sir! I damn thee!
One of the most quotable movies ever.
"Stay away from the cans! He hates these cans!"
"I found my special purpose!"
"I was born a poor, black child..."
Up there with Airplane and Dumb and Dumber for funniest laughs-per-minute movies of all time.
"I'm somebody now!"
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Anyone?
Caning Steve Martin with those reeds on his legs while he pretends to be wheelchair bound. "Look he's crying tears of joy!"
I love how he gets a run at it, from the room over, like that speeds up your caning speed (CAINE ing? Cuz it's Micheal Caine. It's funnier if I explain it right?)
It's funny. The Dinner with Ruprecht scene is borderline offensive these days but it still makes me laugh.
"Excuse me, may I go to the bathroom first?"
"Of course you may."
........
"Thank you."
Noises Off.
Every moment is a gem. The cast is flawless.
One of my favorites of all time is Airheads (1994) with Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler, and Steve Buscemi.
Another one of Brendan Fraser's that seemed to fly under the radar for a while is Monkeybone.
Monkeybone is a fucking wild fever dream of a movie.
It really is. I rewatched that shit like a month ago and still felt like I was tripping balls.
There was a significant portion of my life I thought I had actually imagined that movie.
And Bedazzled, but I think I just had a crush on Elizabeth Hurly.
Who didn't?
Holy shit, 90s Liz Hurly is a goddess.
Have you seen her now? She's still very much got it.
There's 2 scenes from Airheads that still come to mind 25+ years later.
Adam Sandler trying to hide his ATM pin number from the other guy.
Chazz: Okay, lemme ask you a question: whose side did you take in the big David Lee Roth-Van Halen split?
Chris Moore: What?
Marcus: What kind of question is that?
Chazz: Whose side did you take: Halen or Roth?
Chris Moore: ...Van Halen.
Ian: HE'S A COP!
Fun fact: Airheads filmed in the same building as Diehard. 20th Century Fox headquarters.
I’m positive you meant to say Nakatomi Tower
Blast from the past was another fun one. Also starring Christopher Walken.
Death to Smoochy
HBO used to play this and Bedazzled non stop around 2003. It’s honestly one of Robin Williams best movies and a great kinda dark comedy.
“It’s a rocket ship!”
“No salt?”
I had a black box back then and remember watching Ed Norton say "it's a rocket ship" often on HBO in 2003ish.
The amount of times I quote this movie on a weekly basis is staggering and I’m always thrown that nobody seems to know what movie I’m talking about.
“I’m a pacifist. When we would play cowboys and Indians as a kid I was always the Chinese railroad worker!”
"I'm a little fucked up in general so it's hard to gauge." Is my go-to whenever I end up in the emergency room. Which happens to be a lot
The scene of Robin Williams telling Catherine Keener how he had a tasteful nude above the fireplace, but not a picture of Ed Norton's mother (a rhino) still cracks me up. Probably one of Robin's funnier movies and apparently it was a flop somehow.
“You’d better grow eyes in the back of your fucking head, you horned piece of shit. I’m not gonna sleep until worms are crawling up your foam rubber ass. I’m going on safari mother fucker. Suh-fah-ree! Pppppphhhhhhh…”
🎵 My step dad's not mean, he's just adjusting! 🎶
Robin is so dam good in that movie.
Made me a fan of Danny Devito. He directed some fun movies.