Just watched Spaceballs for the first time

[Ben Paddon]

Does anyone know where I can get my memory erased on the cheap? Dear Glod, it’s an awful film. I laughed exactly once – at the “We ain’t found shit!” line, which isn’t even that funny.

[Blisschick]

What’s even funnier is that Tuvok (Tim Russ) delivered that line. A cussin’ Vulcan. Who knew?

Sadly, me. Damn those Voyager reruns.

[TheLeen]

The headphones! The headphones are funny!

[James]

Watching it now it looses what it had in it’s day. I thought it was a fun spoof. Have it on dvd.

[si]

“SPACEBALLS!!”
(Quote from some cheap fan film or other)

I actually really like Spaceballs. It’s no Blazing Saddles, but another Mel Brooks great.

[Danny Stephenson]

Oh man Spaceballs is ingrained in my memory since i was about 8. I love it!

[Jo]

I love that film! Yes it has aged a bit, but then it is over 20 years old.
I still enjoy watching it, I’d have been about 7 or 8 when I saw it and that wasn’t long after it came out, maybe it’s one of those you have to have seen when you’re younger to be able to still appreciate it now, I think it was aimed at a younger audience, wasn’t it a PG?

[Phil]

I definitely think Spaceballs is overrated. It’s not nearly as funny as everyone seems to think (IMHO…) and doesn’t deserved to be mentioned in the same sentence with Brooks’ better work.

[Dave]

The musical version will be along shortly

[Jo]

But… Bill Pullman looks so pretty in it it!

From IMDB trivia – Of all the many jokes in this film, Mel Brooks says that the two he is most proud of are the running gag about merchandising (“Spaceballs: the Breakfast Cereal”, “Spaceballs: The Tee-Shirt”, etc.) and Col. Sandurz’s renting “Spaceballs” before it was finished.

:o/ not sure about those being the best jokes in the film though no matter how proud he is of them.

[ChrisM]

[snigger mode]I like the light-sabre nob gags.[/snigger mode]

Not a favourite film of mine, but it’s worth a chuckle in places. “May the schwartz be with you.” Dear me.

[Carlito]

You’re not alone. I didn’t see the appeal of that film at all.

[SeeYouAtThePartyRichter]

It’s a cracking film. Okay, its not The Long Good Friday, but still worthy of a place in the ole DVD collection.

[Danny Stephenson]

I just enjoy the lengths that Brooks will go to to make a joke.

The Special Edition has Dink subtitles.

[locusceruleus]

I like it, quite a lot. It’s fun for what it is. Not essential by any means, but a decent way to waste 90 mins.

[Ben Paddon]

I’d rather smear meat pate on my genitals and then dangle them in a pool of hungry piranha than watch Spaceballs again.

[Danny Stephenson]

Kinky.

[Jo]

>I?d rather smear meat pate on my genitals and then dangle them in a pool of hungry piranha than watch Spaceballs again.

Well if you’re giving me the choice, then yes I think you’re right. It would be very entertaining to watch you being castrated by a tank of hungry piranha.

Who wants popcorn?

[Anonymous]

I think I first saw Spaceballs when I was a 19 year old, puerile adolescent. It was crap. The only bit that was vaguely amusing was Moranis playing with the toy space figures, acting out his fantasy, and getting caught.

[TheLeen]

I watched in this order: Star Wars IV, V, VI, Spaceballs, Jim Henson monsters special, all on the same Sunday. I have very nostalgic and very blissful memories of this day. So, meh. I don’t even care if Spaceballs sucks or not. The videotape scene IS pretty good though. Some of the other stuff I found hilarious, but I was 14 or 15 at the time, so I would have.

[Ridley]

I still enjoy watching it, I?d have been about 7 or 8 when I saw it and that wasn?t long after it came out, maybe it?s one of those you have to have seen when you?re younger to be able to still appreciate it now…

Seconded.

Men in Tights and Dracula: Dead and Loving It hold up better against aging. In my opinion.

[Phil]

>Dracula: Dead and Loving It

Vastly underrated. I think it’s great.

[Danny Stephenson]

I love Dracula: Dead and Loving it. Peter MacNicol is awesome in it.

[ChrisM]

“It was only a daymare!”

So silly, yet it cracked me up. Dustpan and brush job…

And the bloodspatter scene, for all it’s humor was actually a bit disturbing.

[Danny Stephenson]

I love that scene.

Jonathan Harker : “Oh my GOD! There’s so much blood!!”

Van Helsing : “I know, we should have put newspapers down…”

[locusceruleus]

>I love Dracula: Dead and Loving it. Peter MacNicol is awesome in it.

Peter MacNicol is awesome, period. Anyone know what he’s up to lately?

And since we’re on cheesy comedy memories, what do you all think of The Man With Two Brains?

[JamesTC]

I like it though I got it on DVD over a year ago but have never got around to watching it.

[Bob Loblaw]

I thought it was okay, didn’t find Joan Rivers as annoying as I usually do.

[si]

Peter Macnicol’s in Numbers isn’t he?

[Tarka Dal]

Yarp.

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