30 Days of Film - Day Twenty Five
I didn’t post yesterday, because I managed to burn my arm cooking dinner, and so spent the rest of the evening with a wet piece of kitchen roll attached to it. And water and my laptop don’t exactly mix.
I know I keep going on about how much I have fallen in love with the architecture in this city and stuff, but I never offer up any evidence. So I thought what I would do yesterday was take my camera with me as I walked into town and do a sort of photo tour, snapping pictures of various interesting things as I went. So that’s what I did.
Unfortunately, 3G internet is not conducive to uploading lots of pictures, so I'll have to save that for when I get the broadband sorted.
Instead, meme.
· Day 25 - The most hilarious movie you’ve ever seen
The most hilarious? This is practically impossible! There are a lot of films that make me laugh a lot but I don’t really quantify it. And if films make me laugh for different reasons then how do I pick which one is funnier? Scott Pilgrim (2010) is really funny as is Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007). Spaceballs (1987) and Galaxy Quest (1999) are brilliant, as are Blazing Saddles (1974), Hot Shots! (1991) and Hot Shots Part Deux (1993), Spy Hard (1996), Austin Powers(1997) and The Producers(1968). Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975), The Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life (1983) are genius. Blades of Glory (2007), Dodgeball (2004), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) are funny in a stupider way, and films aimed at kids like Shrek (2001) and Toy Story (1995) have their own brand of humour. RomComs, again, are a different kind of funny, and there we have things like Just My Luck (2006), The Wedding Singer (1998), and The Holiday (2006). And what about The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005) or The League of Gentlemen’s Apocolypse (2005) ?
I like a lot of very funny films and picking the most hilarious is hard, but I think in the end, I might just have to pick
Airplane! (1980)
In the end, I think it was going to have to be a one of the classic spoof films, because for laughs per square inch they can’t be beaten. Practically every other frame is a visual gag, a reference to some other film or genre, or a terrible pun. Or there’s something funny in the background that you’re not noticing. And Airplane is kind of the Daddy of them all. One of the earliest of them, and it is absolutely packed with jokes. Bursting with them, you might say. Before this film, Leslie Neilson was considered a serious actor and in fact, it’s him playing exactly the same sort of character he played in serious films with all the anarchy going on around him that really sells the film. Without him it would just be too absurd. In fact all of the main cast do a pretty stellar job of acting a serious movie amid some of the funniest scenes ever. If they tried to play up the comedy it would just descend into madness.
The plot is entirely absurd. Both the pilot and the co-pilot of a flight get food poisoning, so to bring them all in to safety, they have to rely on a guy who flew fighters in the War, has basically got PTSD and hasn’t flown since. And is only on the flight to convince his girlfriend, an air stewardess, not to leave him. The thing that makes this better? The writers actually bought the rights to an existing 50s B movie and used the plot from that. And then built the jokes around it.
It would take for ever to explain just what’s funny about this film but let me see if I can’t pick me some highlights… the Crash Position, “don’t call me Shirley”, “I picked the wrong day to quit blank”, the hysterical woman, the old lady who can speak Jive. And that’s off the top of my head, having not watched in in months. I’m not sure a minute, nay 30 seconds of this film goes by without a gag of one form or another.
I know I keep going on about how much I have fallen in love with the architecture in this city and stuff, but I never offer up any evidence. So I thought what I would do yesterday was take my camera with me as I walked into town and do a sort of photo tour, snapping pictures of various interesting things as I went. So that’s what I did.
Unfortunately, 3G internet is not conducive to uploading lots of pictures, so I'll have to save that for when I get the broadband sorted.
Instead, meme.
· Day 25 - The most hilarious movie you’ve ever seen
The most hilarious? This is practically impossible! There are a lot of films that make me laugh a lot but I don’t really quantify it. And if films make me laugh for different reasons then how do I pick which one is funnier? Scott Pilgrim (2010) is really funny as is Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007). Spaceballs (1987) and Galaxy Quest (1999) are brilliant, as are Blazing Saddles (1974), Hot Shots! (1991) and Hot Shots Part Deux (1993), Spy Hard (1996), Austin Powers(1997) and The Producers(1968). Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975), The Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life (1983) are genius. Blades of Glory (2007), Dodgeball (2004), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) are funny in a stupider way, and films aimed at kids like Shrek (2001) and Toy Story (1995) have their own brand of humour. RomComs, again, are a different kind of funny, and there we have things like Just My Luck (2006), The Wedding Singer (1998), and The Holiday (2006). And what about The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005) or The League of Gentlemen’s Apocolypse (2005) ?
I like a lot of very funny films and picking the most hilarious is hard, but I think in the end, I might just have to pick
Airplane! (1980)
In the end, I think it was going to have to be a one of the classic spoof films, because for laughs per square inch they can’t be beaten. Practically every other frame is a visual gag, a reference to some other film or genre, or a terrible pun. Or there’s something funny in the background that you’re not noticing. And Airplane is kind of the Daddy of them all. One of the earliest of them, and it is absolutely packed with jokes. Bursting with them, you might say. Before this film, Leslie Neilson was considered a serious actor and in fact, it’s him playing exactly the same sort of character he played in serious films with all the anarchy going on around him that really sells the film. Without him it would just be too absurd. In fact all of the main cast do a pretty stellar job of acting a serious movie amid some of the funniest scenes ever. If they tried to play up the comedy it would just descend into madness.
The plot is entirely absurd. Both the pilot and the co-pilot of a flight get food poisoning, so to bring them all in to safety, they have to rely on a guy who flew fighters in the War, has basically got PTSD and hasn’t flown since. And is only on the flight to convince his girlfriend, an air stewardess, not to leave him. The thing that makes this better? The writers actually bought the rights to an existing 50s B movie and used the plot from that. And then built the jokes around it.
It would take for ever to explain just what’s funny about this film but let me see if I can’t pick me some highlights… the Crash Position, “don’t call me Shirley”, “I picked the wrong day to quit blank”, the hysterical woman, the old lady who can speak Jive. And that’s off the top of my head, having not watched in in months. I’m not sure a minute, nay 30 seconds of this film goes by without a gag of one form or another.