1978 Directed by Ira Miller
Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from Hell", "The Invasion of the Penis Snatchers", Woody Allen (pre-Mia), movie trailer come-ons, Charlie Chaplin, war movies, Billy Jack. The source of the title is presented about an hour into the film.
Bill Murray Buddy Hackett Sid Haig Howard Hesseman Harry Shearer Royce D. Applegate Lewis Arquette Dorothy Van J.J. Barry Billy Curtis Danny Dayton David Downing Murphy Dunne Walker Edmiston Larry Hankin Ed Lauter David Landsberg Ysabel MacCloskey Rod McCary Britt Leach Louisa Moritz Jaye P. Morgan Van Dyke Parks Misty Rowe Avery Schreiber Lynne Marie Stewart Betty Thomas Robin Sherwood Susan Tyrrell Show All…
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Who made this chocolate mousse?
You gotta use real cream or you don’t make it at all!
Real cream! Real cream! Real Cream!
If this film hadn’t been lucky enough to include Bill Murray, there’s little doubt that this entire project would have been doomed to obscurity.
It’s a rough collection of movie parodies with some extremely dated references. Most of the jokes fall flat and even when the idea is humorous the execution isn’t.
Did you ever snort buckwheat?
It’s not bad.
Also known as 'Coming Attractions' which gives a better idea of what the film is about - and is also the theme song.
A series of sketches spoofing movie trailers you see before the main feature, and referencing movies of the time - some which you'll still remember and others you won't. Titles like 'The Howard Huge Story', 'The Invasion of the Penis Snatchers' & 'The Kid and the Yid' will give you an idea of the level of humour involved.
When it was released as a video some time after it came out, it had Bill Murray on the cover as he had become famous in the interim, but he's only in one sketch (out of more than 20), so…
Kentucky Fried Movie did it better, but there were some good bits here and there.
God how I wish this legendarily hard to find movie had stayed hidden. This is one of those barely finished movies that would have never seen the light of day, if it hadn't had one cast member find fame after it was completed. That's why you'll see a lot of posters for this movie with Bill Murray's face front and center, sometimes the exact same image of him from the "Stripes" poster, because he certainly wasn't going to pose for anything new to promote this garbage. I love a comedy anthology film like "The Groove Tube" or "Kentucky Fried Movie." I tend to be pretty forgiving of them because even when sketches don't quite hit, maybe the next one will…
When racism was King nobody thought about deposition, and now that there has been a palace coup, the people can't remember what they are fighting for.
What is interesting, in this (otherwise ramshackle, poorly shot and unfunny wannabe SNL compilation thing) are the targets.
Seventies racism and sexism aside, it is noteworthy how these writers have old Hollywood in their sights. Chaplin and that entire era is thrown under a bus. The celebration of weed munchies seems very childish but not dissimilar from contemporary entitled beliefs about recreational highs.
Also a mere year after Star Wars success there are no qualms from the Jewish director deploying a Star of David visual gag. In fact, attitudes towards race and faith are much looser than today.
Sort of how Italian movie stars would have an English name and an Italian one.
Scavenger Hunt 61
3/30
13. watch a movie starring one of his most frequent stars: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, or Jason Schwartzman.
A series of fake movie trailers, previews and other crap you might see before a GOOD movie starts. None of these shorts were all that good or interesting. No reason to see this one.
„Loose Shoes“ (1978), vergessene Satire im Stile von „Kentucky Fried Movie“, eine Aneinanderreihung von „Trailern“ fuer Filme die’s nicht gibt.
Ich sags sofort: Wer auf ungefilterten, bissigen Humor steht wie er in den 70ern usus war, dem wird der Film gefallen. Mir gefiels richtig gut! Und ich haett den Film wahrscheinlich nie gefunden...was mich zu ihm brachte ist das was auch die meisten anderen heute hinbringt: In einem „Trailer“ spielt Bill Murray. Und ihr wisst ja, ich liebe diesen Mann...seine Art...seinen Humor...
Hatte trotzdem nich viel erwartet und war dann umso ueberraschter, besonders die Trailer zu Beginn des Films brachten mich.....TATSAECHLICH ZUM LACHEN!!! ....akso jetzt nich so auf die bruellende...aber immerhin bisschen. „Skateborders from Hell“ zb ....da musst ich lachen…
"Coming to Cinemas: The Cow Who Thought He was a Chicken"
This is probably the worst movie I have ever watch.
It is the Movie 43 of the 1980's; no storyline, no clue of what is happening, and absolutely horrible.
This film's humour is both crude, disgusting and bland; the directors must have been on some strange shit to direct something like this.
Some of the worst trailers include:
Bad News Bears as a porno; and yes, even with the young boys.
A fund to stop children wetting the bed.
A foul mouthed Charlotte's Web parody.
A Charlie Chaplin parody when everybody hates the protagonist because he is a "hebrew Commie".
A grown man in tights and a red ballet one piece doing ballet before getting shot.
I could not finish watching it.
It was too horrible.
Because of my childhood love for The Kentucky Fried Movie and Amazon Women on the Moon, I've always had a thing for old sketch comedy movies. They're rarely very good, and they often reflect an era when it was okay for counterculture humor to be racist and sexist. I may just be easily amused, but even the cheapest, laziest of these things throw out enough gags that I can't help but chuckle here and there. Until recently, I'd never heard of Loose Shoes, aka Coming Attractions or Quackers, a feature by Second City alum Ira Miller which sat around for a few years by the time bit player Bill Murray's stardom spurred its release, and has only become more dated…
