Unintentionally funny films

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Loved the story about grandma making comical comments all through the Exorcist. I agree with her–I never understood why seeing Linda Blair’s head spinning was supposed to be scary instead of funny. 😛

We saw the last James Bond film starring Pierce Brosnan one holiday. I was with my extended family who were all sitting there taking it in with a straight face. Not me. I thought it was supposed to be a joke. So much male posturing and the women all looked like Barbie Dolls. I couldn’t help but laugh. Is it just me or are the Bond films really meant to be taken seriously? I hope not. :eek: It seemed so silly to me.
 
Not so much an unintentionally funny movie, but a scene that makes me laugh is in finding forrester when Sean Connery says “Your the Man now dog”. Nothing like hearing a scottish octogenarian try to talk like inner city youth:D
 
Nothing can beat* Plan 9 from Outer Space*. Ever. See it on Youtube. Voted the worst movie ever made for good reason, but fascinating to watch.
 
(The Shape of) Things to Come, based on HG Wells’ story and I think Wells had a hand in the script as well–produced not long before 1939 but England mostly still in “denial” regarding the threat of the Reich so the apocalytic war that starts off the film (which lasts to 1960!) was reguarded as prophetical but things go downhill from there–much of if from the incredible wooden script as well as the wooden acting of Raymond Massey. Civilization destroyed by mass bombing and gas attacks so a bunch or air-borne scientists enforce peace by mass bombing and gas attacks (I’m not kidding 🤷) and then force people to live in a big scientific hole in the ground and eventually Raymond Massey’s grandson (played by Raymon Massey) pushes through a moon shot even though protestors are right there on the launch site. The “mindless plague” is seen as an influence on later zombie movies so its not all bad :cool:
 
Razanir said:
Troll 2 isn’t even a real sequel to Troll. An Italian director, who wasn’t fluent in English, wrote a movie he titled Goblins. The company releasing it didn’t think it would do well on its own, so it was marketed as a sequel to the completely unrelated Troll. Oh, and he was trying to be serious. He did not understand why everyone thought it was a comedy
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I wish I had known this before I watched it several years ago! It looked bad to me before I watched it but decided I would do it anyhow just because I thought it was a sequel. I kinda feel bad for the guy now that I know he was being serious.

Oh, and has anyone watched the movie The Troll Hunter? I actually REALLY liked that movie! They do it in a documentary format. Talking about trolls made it pop in my head.

Attack the Block was kind of fun also. There’s a couple of kids in the movie that run around with water guns and you worry about them watching it because there’s actually really dangerous aliens in the movie (it is gory btw if you don’t watch stuff like that).
 
The little kid from Troll 2 who was the main character grew up to make a documentary about the movie, and it’s called “The Best Worst Movie.” It’s great, he interviews most of the main cast. The Dad was played by a dentist, the “OH MY GOOOOOOOOSH” guy, if I remember right, might be wrong, is a music leader at his church, and the director’s wife wrote the script. And they(Director and Screenwriter) still seem to take it seriously.
 
Della said:
We saw the last James Bond film starring Pierce Brosnan one holiday. I was with my extended family who were all sitting there taking it in with a straight face. Not me. I thought it was supposed to be a joke. So much male posturing and the women all looked like Barbie Dolls. I couldn’t help but laugh. Is it just me or are the Bond films really meant to be taken seriously? I hope not. :eek: It seemed so silly to me.
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Films with male posturing are funny to me too! My fave example, and probably another funny movie, is The Fast and The Furious. There’s this scene where Vin Diesel addresses the ENTIRE crowd at an illegal street race (where there were hundreds of people, it seemed) and every single person stopped what they were doing to listen to him and “oooh” and laugh at the appropriate moments in his little diatribe. That really cracked me up because that would never happen in real life. Maybe if there were ten people there, but I doubt there really is a guy in the world that is so alpha that hundreds of people at a shady social gathering would stop what they’re doing to listen to him with rapt attention talk trash to another guy.

Another thing that makes me laugh are unlikely romances in action movies. It just seems like most of the action films that have a leading guy that picked up a leading lady to assist him in his adventure somehow will have little to no build up for you to think “these two are going to fall for each other” aside from the fact that it is a man and a woman spending time together dodging bullets or walking away from a scene with an explosion behind them. But somehow, they always manage to kiss at the end or the guy has some dumb reason to ride off into the sunset solo but they make it seem like they’re so sad because there was so much that could have transpired between the two of them if he had stuck around.

And hey, I like a lot of bad action movies. But now I’m starting to wonder if I like them because they are cool or because they are ridiculous.
 
One of my favorites was on TCM yesterday: “Five Million Years to Earth”. This movie was given **good ** reviews. How can a movie get good reviews when it features demonic Martian grasshoppers??? I kid you not! 😃
 
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The little kid from Troll 2 who was the main character grew up to make a documentary about the movie, and it’s called “The Best Worst Movie.” It’s great, he interviews most of the main cast. The Dad was played by a dentist, the “OH MY GOOOOOOOOSH” guy, if I remember right, might be wrong, is a music leader at his church, and the director’s wife wrote the script. And they(Director and Screenwriter) still seem to take it seriously.
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The dentist who played the dad had no acting experience and only showed up hoping to be an extra. The guy who plays the owner of the general store was cast for his part and filmed all his scenes while in a mental hospital. He thought everything was actually happening. Finally, the director’s wife wrote it in response to her friends becoming vegetarian, hence the bologna sandwich and evil vegetarian goblins
 
NeedsMercy said:
One of my favorites was on TCM yesterday: “Five Million Years to Earth”. This movie was given **good **reviews. How can a movie get good reviews when it features demonic Martian grasshoppers??? I kid you not! 😃
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Actually that “Quatermass” film still holds up pretty well–its “out there” but its a good take on the Lovecraftian idea that the rest of the universe is very very dangerous.
 
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