Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin: “Nice beaver!”
Al Pacino as Frank Drebin: “Nice HOO-HA!”
Works for me.
Well, that and it ripped quite a few plot elements from FF7.
Do the Marx Bros. movies count as musicals? They often had such numbers but most of the time the comedy made up for it.
In Duck Soup, the songs were actually funny, so it was all Gold.
IMHO, the Marx Bros. are like Monty Python, anything they do automatically becomes gold the moment they concieve of it. If I don’t find it funny, well, it’s a failing on my part, not theirs.
Even that tasteless, tedious blackface number in (IIRC) Monkey Business?
DoctorJ:
Obligatory Simpsons Reference:
“Hmm…Barney’s movie had heart, but “Football in the Groin” had a football in the groin.” (works on so many levels!)
This threads companion:
Sure Signs A Video Game Sucks
-Packaging brags about number of levels.
:smack:
Haven’t seen it, so I can’t comment, but remember times were different back then. It’s easy for us to forget that what seems offensive to us today, wasn’t necessarily offensive or even racist back when it was originally done. Plenty of people out there are willing to label Mark Twain a bigot simply because one of his characters is named “Nigger Jim.” They don’t notice that Jim serves a very positive role model in the book, that a white character decides that he’d rather go to hell than see Jim return to slavery, and that Twain supported numerous causes in his life, many of which were aimed at stamping out racism and genocide.
Groucho even faced bigotry in his personal life, since he was Jewish. There’s a story told in which Groucho’s on vacation with his family, and they’re all planning on going to swim in the hotel pool. Upon being told that he can’t swim in the pool because he’s Jewish, Groucho replies, “Can my son go in up to his waist? He’s only half-jewish.”
Something I noticed tonight is that Fox is promoting the hell out of I, Robot, and going to be featuring a trailer of it during it’s Method & Redd show. Now, I know nothing about Method & Redd, other than it’s a show about a couple of rappers who move into a rich uptight white neighborhood. Given that it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that I, Robot will suck, I have to conclude that the reason Fox is chosing Method & Redd to promote the movie because they figure that since Will Smith is black that black people will want to go see the movie. So I think that we can say any movie which is being promoted based on the actor’s ethnic background will suck.
[ot]I don’t remember such a scene in Monkey Business. I think it was in A Day at the Races[/ot]
I don’t remember that. I do remember a crowd of black mistaking Harpo for Gabrieal in Day at the Races, which was pretty bad, or perhaps a blackface bit in The Big Store. There was even a joke about “darkies” in Duck Soup.
I don’t remember anything close to Blackface in Monkey Business.
Not nessicarly. Most people agree that they peaked around the time of *Duck Soup * and Night at the Opera, with the rest being a slow decline, a slight rise with A Night in Casablanca, and then the film that is not to be named(which is good, because apparently nobody invovled will admit to being inovled).
Even Groucho himself said to the camera in one film, right after telling a bad joke “Well, All the jokes can’t be good. You’ve got to expect that once in a while”
Re 4 Weddings, I was pleased Grant spurned Kristin Scott Thomas, as I had the hots for her myself.
Re Curtis, it’s simple really, we’re all jealous of his wit and his success. Actually (if I might borrow one of his phrases, or words, if you prefer) I acted in the school play with him once. It was a classic one act British farce (i.e. very unfunny) called The Bathroom Door. I played the male lead, while Curtis played the female lead.
Hey, don’t be dissin The Goonies!
What if someone gets hit in the crotch with a dog? Is that comic genius or just extra stupid?
I nominate repackaged movies with blurbs like “Also Starring Wesley Snipes”. If you look at the date you can see that the movie was made before Wesley Snipes was famous, and it’s a good bet that he has a bit part and the movie has nothing else going for it.
Not much for the ‘comic book hero’ title, but the competition for ‘good movie’ that combines ‘comic book hero’ is a bit more stiff.
But, I’ll admit, not a ‘Best-Documentary-Filmed-Underwater-Without-Scuba-Gear’ category. 
IMNSHO, that list is limited (from those you mentioned):
Rocketeer
Superman
Batman (The Tim Burton one. I’m sorry, Adam West’s camptastrophe makes me wince.)
Spiderman(? - I’ve not seen the recent one… the one from the 70’s was awful.)
Robocop
I disagree, I loved Neon Genesis Evangelion. (Of course biiiig mecha had something to do with that…)
I think the fact they seemingly feel it necessary to hype the trailer is a bad sign…
Correct, it was Day at the Races - an MGM one, done after Thalberg (who decided they needed a love story and real musical numbers) had died. Worked for Night at the Opera, and never again.
The Duck Soup thing was a parody of a spirtitual - “All God’s Children Have Guns.” Hmm, isn’t that the NRA theme? 
My favorite indicator, which people don’t use much anymore, is a row of pictures of the stars and their roles on the bottom of the ad - “Clyde Fern Fink as the General,” and that kind of stuff. Most of the stars are has-beens, getting equal billing.
Any movie that is heavily, heavily advertised and promoed for more than six months prior to release will suck pond water.
This rule NEVER fails!
Maybe, maybe not. Haven’t seen Barbershop, myself, though I’ve been meaning too.
That got rather good reviews and from what I understand was geared towards primarily a black audience and advertised accordingly. So perhaps this theory isn’t watertight.