Spaceballs, did you like this film at all?

Spaceballs, did you like this film at all? May 22, 2020 10:46:42 GMT amyghost likes this

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Post by Toasted Cheese on May 22, 2020 10:46:42 GMT

May 22, 2020 10:32:38 GMT amyghost said:

May 22, 2020 0:10:03 GMT Toasted Cheese said:

I think I may have brought this up with you before amy..., I like Life Stinks and that one gets dismissed as one of his lessor films. I think it has a nice balance of humor and heart and it even made me cry.

I need to see Robin Hood Men In Tights and Dracula Dead And Loving It, though neither seem to hold much appeal value.

I still can't find it in me to work up much enthusiasm for DDaLI, but Robin Hood has aged better than expected. Not one of Mel's best efforts, but it has enough chuckles to make the investment in viewing time worth it.

I agree on Life Stinks; I wasn't crazy about it the first time out, but the film has kind of grown on me in later watchings. I can see, though, why hardcore Brooks fans rejected it at the time of its release.

Brooks held a mirror up to our faces with Stinks and I guess it would have put off those wanting an over the top farce\parody that wasn’t going push our sentimental or even denial buttons. Its subject matter is confronting and of course the revulsion projected towards those loser yuccky homeless wasn’t funny.

I have been watching several TV movies lately from the 70’s and 80’s on you tube. I came across one of the best ones I had seen, No Place Like Home, with Jeff Daniels and Christine Lahti. It was directed by Lee Grant and was about a homeless family. It resonated deeply and was acted and presented as top notch as these little TV movies could be, within their runtime and censorship restrictions. They had their own little genre and have a unique feel that is so steeped in the era in which they were made, that they are also charming. Now we just get sledgehammered with millennial harshness.