I don't think the film 'Funny Bones' could have been made without Lee Evans. For those who've never seen it give yourselves a treat. A great cast and a truly bizarre story and aray of charachters set in a sort of non-existant Blackpool of the fifties. The only film I have ever seen where the high point of the film (and what a high point!) is literally the final shot of the film.
(Actually on reflection there may be one or two more - Thelma and Louise, Angel Baby, The Mission (where Jeremy Irons goes over a huge waterfall tied to a cross if I remember correctly). Anyways it's a good trick to pull off. Can we allow a sub-thread to name a few films that manage this.)
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No Sarge. Sorry - that's just me going walkabout again. I got sidetracked into thinking about films where the high point of the film was the last shot of the film in terms of emotional punch. Would the cliff dive at the end of T & L qualify as this?sgt.null wrote:thelma & louise is a comedy?
President of Peace? You fucking idiots!
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an emotional punch yes, i was struggling to find the comedy in the film though.peter wrote:No Sarge. Sorry - that's just me going walkabout again. I got sidetracked into thinking about films where the high point of the film was the last shot of the film in terms of emotional punch. Would the cliff dive at the end of T & L qualify as this?sgt.null wrote:thelma & louise is a comedy?
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Might well have been Ron - hell, it was a looong time ago!Ron Burgunihilo wrote:I thought it was Deniro that went over the falls.
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I looked it up, it was neither, it was a missionary that was martyred by the natives.
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... and it was at the beginning of the film, not the end, but definitely a memorable shot (which could be a thread unto itself).
Rob Schneider in 50 First Dates. (I thought it was Cheech Marin all this time!)
Sean Astin showed he could hold his own in a comic role, too.
Rob Schneider in 50 First Dates. (I thought it was Cheech Marin all this time!)
Sean Astin showed he could hold his own in a comic role, too.
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Yes dotd - how did I get *that* wrong as well. Age does funny things to the memory, no doubt about it!
President of Peace? You fucking idiots!
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"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
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I've seen Cheech Martin in a few films but only heard one Cheech and Chong albumn - The Wedding Albumn - which was very, very funny.
President of Peace? You fucking idiots!
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
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Definitely an underappreciated moviedanlo wrote:Martin Short in Innerspace, Quaid was a great foil but only somebody like, perhaps, Robin Williams of the day, could have pulled that off...
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Peter Sellers in almost anything Peter Sellers ever did... Clouseau, Dr. Strangelove, etc., etc.
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