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A PBS collection of silly movies, Very Long

Posted by susan C on January 19, 2002, at 15:20:42

In reply to Silly Movies 2-The New SB Frontier, posted by paulb on January 19, 2002, at 12:54:01

This is very long and collected end of Summer 2001 from PBS members. Then, I edited it, and have it available by the door to take to the video store...now if i can just remember...

Yours In hysteria, Mouse.


This is a blatant solicitation for titles of totally rothlmao movies or tv shows. So far, my list includeds:
> Any Monthy Python (thank you paxvox)
> Bill and Ted
> Steve Martin
> Naked Gun

> OK, ya'll, I have to admit I got the mouse started on this kick with a little of the ole Monty Python. But I have to admit I am impressed by the responses that have been posted. Like an old dog, the last thing to go is the wag of its tail. I guess we "challenged ones" can at least keep a sense of humor. I try to find humor whenever and wherever I can. I mean, look at us! If human beings aren't the biggest joke in the universe, then I don't know what is! Live-love laugh. Perhaps there is a connection. Hmmmmm

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"There's Something About Mary"...damned if I didn't just about lose bladder control the first time I watched that one.

"South Park (movie)"...every time I watch South Park anything, I feel some level of shame, bcause it is so blatantly offensive to just about everybody. But I can't help it, I just love South Park, however unedifying it may be. There is some obvious kernel of irony that seems to redeem it somehow. You might rent "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe," my oldest fave - not a film, per se, but possibly of higher yuck (in every sense and meaning of the word) value than the "motion picture".

"A Fish Called Wanda"...maybe could be lumped into the Monty Python category, but the presence of Kevin Klein as the hilarious Otto gives it a distinctive flavor. The lovemaking scene (where he somehow gets aroused by self-flagellation with, and deep inhalation from, Wanda's knee-high leather boots) is an oft-overlooked example of cinematic physical comedy at its finest.

"This is Spinal Tap"...As much as I enjoy "modern" or "alternative" or whatever you call it, I really love some good old-fashioned kick-ass RAWK. I also think most of it is incredibly stupid. That may be why I love some of it so. I mean, just stick any Aerosmith, AC/DC, pre-Hagar Van Halen, etc. disk in the player and get ready for a brainless, fist-pumping good time that will leave you feeling only slightly sullied afterwards. I cannot think of a film that better captures the lovable essence of that paradox (stupid, yet brilliant) than "Spinal Tap". Combine that with its satirical excess portraying certain rock stereotypes, and tears may run from your eyes before it's done.

"Waiting for Guffman"...OK, it mercilessly pokes fun at suburban mid-Westerners, thier incredibly tacky and unsophisticated sense of "culture", the pomposity of performing artists the world over, etc., etc., with recklessly sardonic abandon. It is absurd. It makes a lot of inside jokes. But, having an SO who is a performer of sorts, meeting all her friends, having relations in the Midwest, actually having been subjected to dinner theater in Michigan...this movie is perfect. It has some kind of surreal accuracy that is completely compelling, and wickedly funny.

If you are in the mood to laugh your ass off, try

Deuce Bigolow: Male Gigolo

raising arizona (cohen bro. funny)

the ruttles (fake documentary)

bannas/what's up tiger lilly/annie hall/sleeper (all woody allen)

buffalo 66 (funny in a creepy wierd way)

caddyshack (classic funny)

rushmore/bottle rocket (same dir./writer great)

billy madison (stupid funny)

election (seemingly teenybopper, but actually funny)

brain candy (kids in the hall funny)
My Cousin Vinny

The Big Lebowski

Kids in the Hall Videos

Sex in the City Videos

A Fish Called Wanda

Fierce Creatures

Best in Show

The Birdcage

Raising Arizona

Johnny Suede

Bridget Jones Diary

Swingers

Galaxy Quest

The Ladykillers (an oldie starring Alec Guiness)

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Monty Python's Meaning of Life and The Holy Grail

My all time favorite is Airplane

The Secret Life of Walter Middy (Danny Kaye in New York)

Buck Benny Rides Again (Jack Benny in the West - I'm serious - it's very funny)

Six of a Kind (Gracie Allen/George Burns/WC Fields)

Adam's Rib (Kate and Spencer)

Kissin' Cousins (Elvis - in which Elvis has an identical twin, only with different hair color -"Hey-ah, you'a look-a like-a me."
"Hey-ah, you'a look-a like-a ME!"

And of course all Ab Fabs, although not old, but priceless

My favorite silly movie is BaseketBall. I know it looks like an incredibly stupid movie and it is but damn it's funny

Besides "Airplane", my favorite silly movie is "Blazing Saddles"!!

Any Mel Brooks but especially Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.

Sleeper - Woody Allen

Caddyshack

Back to School - Rodney Dangerfield

Porky's

Fast Times at Ridgemont High - star studded cast before they were stars

Any of the Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello "beach" movie; especially the one's with the bike gang and Don Rickles.

Any Dead End Kids/Bowery Boys movie

Any Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis movie

It Happened One Night

Monkey Business

Bringing Up Baby

Father Goose

Arsenic and Old Lace

Charade

okay, okay...any Carey Grant movie.

The Fearless Vampire Killers

Magical Mystery Tour

T.V. SHOWS:

F-Troop

The Munsters

Green Acres (I serenaded my wife with the theme song, on our honeymoon - I'm so romantic)

Beverly Hillbillies

Batman

My Mother The Car

Gilligan's Island

Danger Island (Uh-oh, Chongo!)

Bat Fink (My wings are like a shield of steel!)

an oldie:

It Happened One Night –

w/Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert...

it has not aged one bit, reporter Gable and runaway heiress Colbert falling in love on a rural bus trip; first film to win all 5 major Oscars –
Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, Screenplay)

what about ANY Peter Sellers movies?

The Pink Panther

Return of the Pink Panther

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Revenge of the Pink Panther

Being There (w/Shirley MacLaine)

Down and out in Beverly Hills -w/ Richard Dreyfuss, Bette Midler

Nick Nolte as the "Boudou" character from Jean Renoir's "Boudou Sauvee des Eaux (Boudou saved from drowning)," the film on which Down and Out is based. just to show you my filmic erudition...
they are both a HOOT to watch, if you can rent the two together, would be a fun comparison, altho i never tried to rent a Renoir film in the US.

Luis Bunel's - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (a dinner party gone surrealistic...)

another dinner party gone awry: Big Night(w/ Minnie Driver, Isabella Rosellini, Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub)
a treat for food lovers (Kazoo) - two italian brothers whose superb restaurant is on the brink of bankruptcy, stage a last-chance dinner that will make or break them; if you haven't seen it, it's WONDERFUL! the scene of the loving preparation of an omlette is a killer...
Here's one of my favorites:Top Secret

A Classic:Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!

by John Waters:Desperate Living

Pink Flamingos

Polyester

Female Trouble

by Almodovar:Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
The more recent John Waters movies are less gritty and are a lot of fun. They include:
Hairspray
Serial Mom
Pecker If you think you have a dysfunctional family just watch "Pecker." It makes my family seem normal.. And that is saying something.... ;-)

by Almodovar: Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown

Happened One Night - Almost Perfect!!

Any 'Thin Man' movie > "Oh, Nickie, you have such NICE friends..."

Where is TerrorVision? The swinging scene is superb...

Night of the Comet? "Daddy would have gotten us Uzis" is perhaps the best line in any movie...

Eating Raoul, with Mary Woronov -- the funniest survivor of Warhol's Factory...

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag, basic funny...

Nurse Betty, fine example of silliness...

The Court Jester, for the scene which includes the 'pellet with the poison is in the chalice from the palace'...

His Girl Friday, especially if you get the inside jokes...

Miracle at Morgan's Creek, if only for the names involved... Cockenlocker, Ratsywatsy, etc...

Sullivan's Travels has a distinctly serious side to it, but is well worth the watching

The Great McGinty will relieve you of all guilt in this world...

O Brother Where Art Thou, especially if you've read the book it's based on, you know, that thing about the guy coming home from that war, you know, in Troy...

The Brady Bunch Movie, and A Very Brady Sequel. The first was funnier, but both are a great deal of fun.

Earth Girls Are Easy. 'nuf sed...

My mind is blank now, but I'll set the pot to simmer on a back burner and see what else I can come up with

I like What About Bob. Favourote moments are the initial meeting between Bob and the psychiatrist and when Bob has to get on a bus you know that Baby Steps really works. 'Do you think we could make it today Bob, only we are running a baby tight schedule' 'Yes I know Wayne, thank you'

Bill Murray as well-Scrooged(esp), Groundhog day

Gene Wilder-Haunted HoneyMoon, Silver Streak(painted back with shoe polish by Richard Pryor)

Braindead

Carry On Films-esp 'Carry on Camping'-I knew I shouldnt have eaten those radishes'

In-laws

What about Sgt. Preston of the Yukon for TV?
I had Ned Flanders across the alley, that's enuf.

Let It Ride - Richard Dreyfus goes to the racetrack - just silly

Buckaroo Bonzai (and his adventures across the 8th dimension) - Very silly fun with aliens named John and Peter Weller as the lead role

What about some foreign language comedies?

"Night on Earth"

"Johnny Toothpick"

Sorry can't remember the Italian name...

"The In-Laws," with Peter Falk as (perhaps) a CIA agent and Alan Arkin as a dentist and soon-to-be father-in-law of Falk's daughter. An intricate and absurd plot with a surprise ending.
"The Jerk," Steve Martin's great classic. Co-star Bernadette Peters tells Steve she's a cosmetologist, and he asks if she was bothered by the weightlessness.
"Dave," a sweet movie about an ordinary, decent guy who happens to look exactly like the President of the United States. Sigourney Weaver plays a wonderful First Lady.
"Groundhog Day," recommended by others, is a delightful story about getting to live the same day over and over again until Bill Murray gets it right.
"Miss Congeniality" stars Sandra Bullock, who really nailed this one. She's a tom-boy, tough-girl FBI agent who goes undercover as a Miss America contestant. Sounds incredibly stupid, but made me laugh enough to rent it twice.
"Runaway Bride" was another surprise -- who knew Julia Roberts could act (at least before Erin Brockovich was released)? Sweet and funny with Richard Gere

by Almodovar: > Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
???????******Haven't seen it in over 10 yrs. Doesn't it feature a young***************(Melanie Griffith's husband)? What's his name?
Well worth watching.

"You can't Take it w/You" w/Jimmy Stewart-4o's?

'Tootsie'.

Bill Murray, is so deadpan brilliant, wry. Others ain't so lame, either.

As mentioned 'Monty P. and the Holy Grail'{'But, it's a MEAN rabbit', 'Y'er fathuh smells of elderberry and y'er mothuh was a hamster'(did I mix those 2 insults?), 'But, father, I just want to sing....'}

Also, sophomoric, but so fun-"Animal House'.

Recently: "Legally Blonde"-Reese Williams-total fluff-but just silly enuf to grab you.

'Shanghai Noon'-Jackie Chan & fab blonde guy w/a smile that kills, he makes the movie.

If you watch w/a small child (mine's 5), 'Mrs. Doubtfire' & 'Bedtime for Bonzo'---reallly....!

I love Woody Allen-specially "Annie Hall."

TV

All Seinfelds (at least twice)

Fawlty Towers (vintage John Cleese)

Good Neighbors (another old brit sitcom)Anybody know this one?????

Friends

All the sitcoms u must view more than once, get to know the characters.

"There's a fine line between stupid and clever." - Spinal Tap

"You've got great bone structure, and you dress really interestingly." - A Fish Called Wanda

"I hate you, and I hate your ASS FACE!" - Waiting for Guffman

"We've got a bleeder!" - There's Something About Mary (zipper scene...trust me, it's horribly funny)

I can't quote anything from South Park - too profane



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