Showing posts with label Comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comedy. Show all posts

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Greatest Comedy Movies: Honorable mentions

Austin Powers (1997)
Monty Python's The Life of Brian (1979)
Clerks (1994)
Spaceballs (1987)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Vacation (1983)
The Pink Panther (1964)
Animal House (1978)
Old School (2003)
The Producers (1968)

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Top 10 Comedy Movies

My opinion only...

Blazing Saddles (1974)
Duck Soup (1933)
Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975)
Dr Strangelove (1964)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Candyshack (1980)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Airplane! (1980)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Anchorman (2004)

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Sci Fi History: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)


Comedy legends met horror legends in 1948. Abbott and Costello have run-ins with the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney), Dracula (Bela Lugosi), and Frankenstein’s monster (Glenn Strange). The movie marked the end of the golden age of monster films and reinvigorated Abbott and Costello. The movie is considered one of the funniest in history and the duo’s finest.  Boris Karloff declined the role of the monster leaving the spot to Strange. Strange found the duo hilarious and laughed throughout filming leading to excess retakes.  At the very end, Vincent Price makes a cameo as the Invisible Man.  This is the movie to watch during Halloween season.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

The Greatest TV Episodes #21-30

21. Cheers: An Old Fashioned Wedding (1992): Woody and Kelly are getting married and the Cheers gang have to overcome multiple obstacles including a dead priest, killer watch dogs, and Lilith’s spoon playing.

22. Star Trek: The Next Generation: Best of Both Worlds (1990): The Next Generation changed things up. Picard is kidnapped and turned into a Borg. He helps them destroy a fleet and attack Earth. Riker uses unorthodox strategy to stop him. The two part season finale/premier won an Emmy.

23. MASH: 5 O’Clock Charlie (1973): For weeks, an incompetent North Korean pilot attempted to drop a hand held bomb onto an ammo dump. The camp takes bets on how far off he’ll be. Frank convinces General Clayton to supply the camp with a cannon. Hawkeye and Trapper then help Charlie blow up the dump before Frank can hurt someone with the canon.

24. I Love Lucy: Lucy Goes to the Hospital (1953): Lucy gives birth to Little Ricky. In one of the funniest TV moments, Lucy remains cool, but Ricky, Fred, and Ethel flip out. Chaos reigns and Lucy somehow ends up at the hospital. While Lucy is in labor, Ricky has to go to work at the club. He returns in full voodoo makeup to see his son.

25. Magnum P.I.: Home by the Sea (1983): It’s the Fourth of July, Magnum goes out on his surf ski. A motorboat capsizes Magnum and he finds himself in the middle of the ocean. No one knows he’s there. Thomas is forced to tread water and he spends the time remembering his father’s attempts to teach him to tread water. His friends sense something is wrong, but have no idea what. They eventually search for him and perform a rescue.

26. The Simpsons: Cape Feare (1993): In a parody of Cape Fear, Sideshow Bob returns to Springfield to kill Bart Simpson. Before killing Bart, Bob breaks into the HMS Pinafore and is captured by police.

27. Murphy Brown: Birth 101 (1992): Murphy Brown goes into labor in the middle of a broadcast. Once in the hospitals, the contractions hit and she goes into a loud rant against every man in the room. Where was Dan Quayle?

28. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Hush (1999): Most of the episode had no dialogue. Living fairy tales, the Gentlemen, come to Sunnydale and steal everyone’s voices. The episode received an Emmy nomination and vast critical acclaim.

29. Frasier: The Matchmaker (1994): A gay man assumes Frasier is hitting on him. Flabbergasted, Frasier wonders aloud, “What on earth could have made him think I was interested in him? All I did was ask him if he was attached, and then we talked about the theater and men's fashions. Oh, my God!”

30. Battlestar Galactica: Blood on the Scales (2009): A coup overthrows the president and Adama. Tom Zarek murders the colonial political leadership and sentences Adama to death by firing squad. Adama regains control and Zarek faces the firing squad instead.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Movies of the Decade: The Aughts

Overall, a week decade for movies as Hollywood seems to have run out of ideas. Here is my list of best films for the decade...These are not in any order.

Frost-Nixon

Gran Torino

The Dark Knight

Gladiator

Cinderella Man

Star Trek

The Two Towers

Old School

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2

Letters From Iwo Jima

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

My Favorite Movies

Casino

Goodfellas

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

The Empire Strikes Back

Tombstone

Gladiator

Casablanca

Outlaw Josey Wales

Ron Burgundy

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Greatest Movie Scenes #111-115

111. Anchor fight: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004): No Commercials and No Mercy!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APGGKrMyZ3o

112. The nanny hangs: The Omen (1976):  This was creepy. Barack's...er I mean Damien, the son of Satan's, nanny commits suicide at a birthday party. She had a big old smile on her face and it allowed the Satanist nurse to come care for the boy. Not even Gregory Peck could defeat the Son of Satan.

113. What we do in life, echoes in Eternity: Gladiator (2000): One of the great movie speeches. It was short and informal showing you don't have to wear blue face to inspire troops.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=331clHFsnpY

114. Nuclear Rodeo: Dr Strangelove (1964): The world is ending, so why not ride a nuclear bomb all the way to the ground?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueuauKKjPZI

115. Hackman grabs Rooker by the balls: Mississippi Burning (1988): Hackman was so intense, people on the set feared for Michael Rooker during this scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vayL_-DBuLs