Author Topic: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts  (Read 395768 times)

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #670 on: July 04, 2010, 11:42:15 PM »
Missed a lot of talk so I'll keep it simple. Spaceballs is really really funny and classic. It should not be out. It should certainly not be out in favor of the unfunny Blues Brothers. Spaceballs will be high on my resurrection priority list. I kind of feel like 4 out of every 5 verdicts that has a film I care about, the film I care about is losing. It makes me a sad Bondo. :'( :'(

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #671 on: July 04, 2010, 11:53:25 PM »
Missed a lot of talk so I'll keep it simple. Spaceballs is really really funny and classic. It should not be out. It should certainly not be out in favor of the unfunny Blues Brothers. Spaceballs will be high on my resurrection priority list. I kind of feel like 4 out of every 5 verdicts that has a film I care about, the film I care about is losing. It makes me a sad Bondo. :'( :'(

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #672 on: July 05, 2010, 12:01:32 AM »
Missed a lot of talk so I'll keep it simple. Spaceballs is really really funny and classic. It should not be out. It should certainly not be out in favor of the unfunny Blues Brothers. Spaceballs will be high on my resurrection priority list. I kind of feel like 4 out of every 5 verdicts that has a film I care about, the film I care about is losing. It makes me a sad Bondo. :'( :'(

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There are way more films that deserve to be resurrected than Spaceballs.

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #673 on: July 05, 2010, 01:32:36 AM »
TinyHolidays, I got 404'd on my nicely quoted and formatted reply to your Bull Durham review, so i'm going to make it short and sweet the second time around:  Great Review...Glad you liked it so much!

Thanks, ferris! Glad you and Corndog aren't disappointed in me!

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #674 on: July 05, 2010, 07:49:09 AM »
Missed a lot of talk so I'll keep it simple. Spaceballs is really really funny and classic. It should not be out. It should certainly not be out in favor of the unfunny Blues Brothers. Spaceballs will be high on my resurrection priority list. I kind of feel like 4 out of every 5 verdicts that has a film I care about, the film I care about is losing. It makes me a sad Bondo. :'( :'(

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There are way more films that deserve to be resurrected than Spaceballs.

The Schwartz is so not with you. :P

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #675 on: July 05, 2010, 08:43:41 AM »
<---yet another disappointed Spaceballs viewer. It's just not funny (anymore).
Yea, I watched a few scenes and I was like "people think this is funny?"

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #676 on: July 05, 2010, 09:15:19 AM »
The Blues Brothers vs. Spaceballs


I want to start off by saying that this was the most difficult matchup I have had.

Winner And Advancement To Next Round: The Blues Brothers

You made the right decision.

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #677 on: July 05, 2010, 12:31:41 PM »
<---yet another disappointed Spaceballs viewer. It's just not funny (anymore).
Yea, I watched a few scenes and I was like "people think this is funny?"

I didnt even like it when I was 13. Mel Brooks has sucked since 1976.
"What should have been an enjoyable 90 minutes of nubile, high-school flesh meeting a frenzy of blood-caked blades, becomes instead an exploitational and complex parable of the conflicting demands of agrarianism and artistry. I voted a miss."

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #678 on: July 05, 2010, 12:36:25 PM »
<---yet another disappointed Spaceballs viewer. It's just not funny (anymore).
Yea, I watched a few scenes and I was like "people think this is funny?"

I didnt even like it when I was 13. Mel Brooks has sucked since 1976.
Yea, I didn't like Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein either. Not sure what the appeal is...Then again, I don't see why Jerry Seinfeld or Woody Allen are so funny either.

*Wonders if Brooks is an angry Jew too*



He totally is! His parents were Polish Jews!


Call me a racist but angry Jews = not funny.

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #679 on: July 05, 2010, 01:02:55 PM »
<---yet another disappointed Spaceballs viewer. It's just not funny (anymore).
Yea, I watched a few scenes and I was like "people think this is funny?"

I didnt even like it when I was 13. Mel Brooks has sucked since 1976.
Yea, I didn't like Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein either. Not sure what the appeal is...Then again, I don't see why Jerry Seinfeld or Woody Allen are so funny either.

*Wonders if Brooks is an angry Jew too*



He totally is! His parents were Polish Jews!


Call me a racist but angry Jews = not funny.

Most of the jokes in Spaceballs allude to Brook's jewishness!  (the "Schwartz"!)  

There definitely is an arc of self-deprecation and neurosis about "classic jewish humor" - I trust that's where you were going with that comment. But that is about the only thing that i see in common between those three examples you mention.

Is Jerry Seinfeld an "angry Jew"?  I've seen every episdoe about 30 times, and the subject of his heritage seems to come up pretty infrequently - (I remember when Tim Watley converted to Judiasm for the jokes - but I'm an anti-dentite)
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