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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Actor Bill Murray—America’s Best FriendTM—is of course part owner of the independent-league St. Paul Saints, and the Saints on Thursday bid final adieu to Midway Stadium, their home yard for lo these many years. To mark the occasion, Mr. Murray showed up and performed the tasks of the otherwise overlooked and taken-for-granted ticket-taker ...
A movie theater in my area was playing Ghostbusters in honor of the 30th anniversary. 1) Great call by the theater, 2) Great movie. Took my daughter to it, she loved it and asked me why they don’t make movies like that anymore. Man, I wish I knew the answer to that one…
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22/cardsfanboy:
I'm not a particular fan of his, but "Flirting With Disaster" is a good Ben Stiller movie.
I would dispute the earlier claim (by an entirely different poster) that comedy is dead. The style of comedy that is popular has just changed (and will do so again in the near future I assume).
Well, not dead but the number of comedies released and the money they are making are way, way down. Mostly because they do nothing internationally.
Comedies that would fit right in during the 80's. Hell, some of these would have been picked up as tv sitcoms as well.
Well, no. What a strange post.
I think we can all agree that "Ghostbusters" really isn't a PG movie.
Oh please. A few rough edges, my nine year old and I navigated it just fine.
I'm a third of the way through this Google Ad called The Internship tonight. It is upsettingly unfunny. It's hurts to watch Vaughn and Wilson slog through this.
Edit: But still an hour left on 'Enemy of the State' over on HBO-E. Done and done. I love the technology they thought we had/would have in 1998. Somebody just commented that the satellite can only look straight down! If that's the case, I really don't need to go to work tomorrow. We'll never be able to deliver on our contract.
Edit2: Hackman just informed us that the government has over 100 spy satellites spying on us. In 1998. Awesome! I guess you need a lot when they can only look straight down.
I think it (Fish called Wanda) deserves to be in consideration - though, I was going to call it a horrifically underrated film - but looking it up on Wikipedia, I do see:
Plus there's the Academy Award for Kline and the BAFTA for Cleese.
I guess it's mostly a matter of it virtually never being mentioned in the first breath of funniest films ever... but maybe that's appropriate because I do remember thinking after the first time seeing it that it was "really good" but not great. It's only after repeated viewings that it sort of reached that level in my mind. Though, I think that's kind of par for British comedies... The good ones tend to grow in stature with repeated viewings.
Huh. I didn't realize it had been on those lists. I'm glad to see that people appreciate it (or did back in early part of this century).
You're right that it is never mentioned at first when people talk about funniest films.
So what is the worst comedy you've actually watched all the way through?
I nominate "The Animal", which someone else rented on "movie night" back in the day.
Maybe Drillbit Taylor? Watched it on a plane, and it was pretty bad. Does Spice World count? Bonus points for seeing it multiple times. More recently Movie 43 was an abomination
Oddly, there are several universally panned comedies that I rather like -- not in the sense that I'd call them "great", but in the sense that I like them well enough that I do rewatch them if they pop-up on cable. Year One, for example, tends to show up on 'worst' lists and I wouldn't call it a great film, but I do like it. The script is terrible, but I think most of the performances really make the most of awful material. Freddy Got Fingered, of course, is a great polarizer - but I liked it.
That was a nationwide re-release... of course they are thinking of remaking Ghostbusters, with an all female cast.....
"Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here. "
"Um, you'll have to be more specific."
I'd agree on both. I was a huge Tom Green fan in high school, and speaking of movie ratings, Freddy Got Fingered is the first and only movie I got "carded" for. Which was weird, to that point it didn't even really occur to me that movie ratings were actually enforced.
Other comedies I like that I get the sense are generally aren't considered classics:
Hot Rod (a typical SNL movie, but somehow it works for me)
Goon (which I think is genius, but seems to get little play)
Hoodwinked (which I don't usually see when animated movies are listed, but I quite liked)
Still - it's got a great cast that make the most out of a subpar script and pedestrian though it is, I do think the plotline is a nice little slice of Americana.
Again, not trying to puff it any sort of great film... I'm just saying it's on my list of "unfairly maligned films".
I legitimately liked Death to Smoochy. Maybe not top 100 great comedies, but it would make my list of contenders. It's big problem is that it's a bit disjointed - the pieces don't all totally fit - Danny Devito's direction is subpar getting everyone completely on the same page, but it still works, I think.
As for universally panned comedies that show up on Worst Of lists, Dude Where's My Car is one I actually enjoyed.
By the time he gets in to do his lines - and realize his error - the entirety of the movie has been filmed. And it's terrible. Hilarity ensues.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1vhjag/bill_murray_here_ok_ill_talk_ill_talk/
They drove a dump truck full of money up to the house! He's not made of stone!
I just figured he was the natural choice since Peter Venkman in Real Ghostbusters was done by Lorenzo Music who was Garfield's voice for years and passed away before the Garfield movie.
Joe Lieberman?
IMO, that's a kid's movie.
I support both these contentions.
ND was the dumbest movie I've ever seen. Great preview, looked forward to seeing it, heard good things, then watched it and spent all movie waiting for something, anything, to happen.
great ####### movie. so good in fact that there's apparently a sequel in the works.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078766/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
Americathon, 1979, cast included Meat Loaf, Fred Willard, Harvey Korman, John Ritter, Tommy Lasorda (!), and a young Jay Leno and Elvis Costello among others.
I would have left the theatre, except that I was new to the city (having moved here for a job), I had no friends/places to go, it was a heatwave (100+), and I had no air conditioning in my (sparse) apartment. So I decided to stay and eat my popcorn, drink my coke, and enjoy the A/C in the theatre.
How bad is the movie? The best part of the movie is anything involving *Rob Schnieder*.
Oh, and I've only ever fallen asleep in a theatre while watching a movie, and that was "Tron : Legacy", that incredibly dull/stupid sequel from a few years ago.
I remember watching it, being REALLY bored, then blinking, and realizing that I missed a good chunk of the movie as I had no idea what was happening at the end.
(I also fell asleep watching the Robin Williams movie "What Dreams May Come" on DVD at a friend's place, but that wasn't so bad because everyone else watching the movie (3 others) did as well.)
My friend and I were once wandering around London all day, and noticed that some theatre was doing a showing of the Kurosawa film "Ikiru", which is my friend's favourite movie. By the time we got there we'd been walking for about 7-8 hours, the last two of which he'd been going on about how good it was. But it turns out the walking kind of exhausted him because he slept through most of it. He was very, very, very annoyed with himself afterwards.
I kind of did that opposite one weekend in Dublin. Friday I spent all day drinking (I arrived at 10am, too early to check into the hotel, so I went to the nearby Jameson distillery. Apparently they allot a certain amount of drinks (around 30) to each tour. But this particular 10am tour only had 7-8 people...so the rest of that day kind of wrote itself. Saturday I got a map of Dublin that listed various passages from Ulysses and where they took place. So I walked around the city for 10 hours or so taking photos for a super, duper pretentious photo album that I think is still on my facebook page. So Sunday I was thoroughly worn out and just sat in an air conditioned theatre all day, watching 3 movies. Plus I'm pretty sure I met Joel Plaskett after me and three other Canadians watched him put on a show. Great vacation!
No, Lieberman does the voice of Doctor Zoidberg in Futurama.
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