OK, um., what's the point? I mean, this is a MEL BROOKS film for cryin' out loud! Why is no one nitpicking, The Producers?
Because "The Producers", brilliant movie though it is, has not been picked up by either of the people running movie boards. This situation is by no means irreversible, I think. (nudge nudge)
Moderator's note: I no one says they like this board. I'll shut it down in a week or so.
Isn't it spelt Schwartz? And I always thought the Dinks were supposed to be Jawas!
I loved the movie, it's one of my favorite comedies. Remember the scene when the trees get sucked off the land, and then get planted back? I laughed SO hard on that! Btw, that's a nit.
"Ya hoid of me?"
"Who hasn't heard of Yogurt The Wise?"
"Yogurt The Powerful?"
"Yogurt The All-Knowing?"
"Please, please, please. It's just plain, Yogurt."
And, of course, the scene with Dark Helmet playing with his action figures. LMAO!!! According to Brooks (my laserdisk has a commentary track), the scene was completely improvised by Moranis who was just given the toys and told to go at it.
The only scene that really gives me the giggles is when Dark Helmet takes out the boom guy (love that post-modernist stuff). The rest of it just isn't quite up to Brooks' standard.
But what IS the point of nitpicking this sort of farce?
Well, may the farce be with you.
It is fun to nitpick.
May the Schwartz be with you!
Am i the only person who found thid movie funny. I in all my regrets actullay like Mel Brooks films. I guess I'm just crazy.
I found it funny, too. I personally like the long pan across the bow of Spaceballs I (1 minute, 40 seconds +/-).
My girlfriend and I love the film. We recently showed it to my 13-year-old brother who thought it was a scream as well.
I'm thinking Gene and Roger don't need to worry.
I was five when i saw this. I saw it and the re-release of Snow White the same day (Hey, I was five. I didn't know about Disney's plot for world domination!) on the big screen.
There is another soldier in the fight against Disney's evil plot to take over the world?! All this time, I thought I was the only one!
According to my mom, when my parents went to see it, and Spaceball 1 started to become Mega maid, every parent in the audience started lauging.. transformers were in, you know.
by the way, has anybody seen the Mel Brooks movie "The Twelve Chairs?"
Want to hear a funny story? The first time I saw this movie, it was during my Catholic school's end of the school year party (I think I was in 5th or 6th grade at the time). I think the nuns were kicking themselves after that little blunder!
In rocketry there's a term, "launch window", the brief period which is appropriate for launching a rocket. Well, they *show* a launch window being opened--it's the opening in the force field surrounding the planet. But nobody actually uses the term.
It's not like Mel Brooks to be subtle, and I wondered about it. It's a good joke but I have a feeling he didn't know about the term. Oh, well.
I liked the movie.
About those nuns--what movies would those nuns find funny?
I have von woid for you... MOICHANDISING!
Best Scene:
Dark Helmet - Light speed isn't fast enough, we need LUDICROUS SPEED!
can't remember the lines until:
Barf - They've gone plaid!
John Candy was great in this
funny, you don't look Druish!
Stop!!
We can't stop. We got to slow down first.
Bull****! I order you. STOOOOOOOP.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
CRASH!!
Sir, are you alright?
Fine...you?
Fine sir, its a good thing you had your helmet on.
Ok...are we stopped?
Yes sir.
Good...smoke em if you got em.
Whats that coming out of her nose?
Who are you?
BARF!
Not in here, mister; this is a Mercedes!
I bet she gives great helmet.
I hate it when my Shwartz gets twisted.
What's the matter, Colonel Sanders? Chicken?
Don't wear that thing in front of me. How do I know you're not making faces at me behind that thing?
In the Spaceball prison the is a sign on the wall that says "save air, breath less" I just find this funny.
I knew it! I'm surrounded by ***holes!
Spaceballs has been one of my favourite movies for years. With the relase of the Phantom Menace, a local theatre here had midnight screenings of Spaceballs for 3 days. I had never seen it on the big screen before, so it was a blast this weekend!
A couple things I noticed because of the larger screen, that I didn't notice on the home video:
- Princess Vespa's licence plate is "Spoil'd Rotten 1".
- Spaceballs: The Colouring Book has Optimus Prime on the cover!!
- the book that Pres. Skroob holds upside down has the face of Richard Nixon on it. (Everyone knows that "Skroob" is an anagram of "Brooks", right?)
- that's right--the Dinks are equal to Jawas, not Ewoks.
IMHO, They are a combination of Ewoks and Jawas
They don't look anything like cute and cuddly teddy bears like the Ewoks do.
DH: "Lone Star, I was your father's uncle's cousin's brother-in-law's college roommate!"
LS: "So what does that make us?"
DH: "Absolutely Nothing!"
What's the exact quote for the first line?
-- Moichandizing! -- Yogurt
I liked the wedding scene:
Priest guy: "Name?"
Barf: "Barf."
P.G: "Full name?"
Barf: "Barfalomew."
I love the way John Candy looks when he says that.
Since the beginning titles in Spaceballs say "Chapter 11," I'm waiting for Brooks to get on the bandwagon and produce his own "Chapter 1".
I always thought Skroob was just a knockoff for Screwball (re: Spaceballs...)
I think it's a great bit of irony that Brooksfilms used a subsidary of Lucasfilms for some (all?) of the sound production.
highpoint: Spaceball 1 bumpersticker "We brake for nobody."
low point: Skroob referring to beaming "What the hell, it worked in Star Trek."
Actually, there has been a rumor going around on the Internet about Spaceballs:The Prequel.
The moon roof on Princess Vespa's vehicle
is white...you can't see it very clearly, but
IT IS THERE! You can see a faint outline
of a "moon roof" just mere seconds before blast-off. (DVD version)
Dink dink...dink dink dink dink dink dink!
Nobody has yet mentioned the homage to Alien? That had me rolling on the floor the first time I saw that.
*FBI Warning*
CS: That's too early, prepare to fast foward!
SB: Preparing to fast foward!
CS: Fast foward!
*scene zooms through movie (notice at beginning, SB1's engines are off), and stops at Dark Helmet's accident*
DH: Skip past this part! In fact, never show this again!
*scene stops at view of now*
DH: What's this! What are we looking at?
CS: We're looking at now.
DH: So go back to then!
CS: It's too late, we've passed it.
DH: We were just looking at then!
CS: That was then, this is now.
DH: So when will then be now?
CS: Soon.
SB: Sir, we've found them!
CS: Excellent, where are they?
SB: The moon of Vega!
DH: WHOOOO!!!
NIT!
After "Mega-Maid" explodes, our heroes begin to celebrate in the Winnebago....
Look carefully on Lone Starr's hand.....
He's got the ring of the Schwartz back on!
I thought he lost it on "Mega-Maid" when Dark
Helmutt took it from him & threw it down the shaft!
Wha happened?
Another addition to "Conversion List":
I think Vinny the Robot (Pizza's aide)
was supposed to be Boba Fett.
The "Spaceballs: The Coloring Book" that Yogurt shows the heros is actually an old "Transformers" coloring book that I used to have. :-)
Is this movie supposed to be anti-semitic, Yes I know there are Jewish actors in this movie but what about the Rampant Druish(Jewish)Jokes and Princess Vespa's Nose before her NoseJob. I loved this movie otherwise. I wish John Candy was still alive today, If the late Rabbi Meir Kahane saw this movie what would he think of the "Druish" Jokes.
I doubt it. Mel Brooks (the writer, director, and producer) is Jewish. He was just going for some cheap laughs.
Shalom.
Is this movie supposed to be anti-semitic
calling mel brooks anti-semitic is like calling the Wayens brothers anti-black, or Jeff Foxworthey anti-southern
Remember that "Jews In Space" thing at the end of "History of the World, Part 1"??
TUE
Yes, and so was "Hitler on Ice". What's your point?
ScottN:
DH: "Lone Star, I was your father's uncle's cousin's brother-in-law's college roommate!"
LS: "So what does that make us?"
DH: "Absolutely Nothing!"
What's the exact quote for the first line?
"I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate."
If you think about it for a minute, that means that he was Lone Starr's roommate, or Lone Starr's cousin's roommate.
Nits.
After Lone Star and Barf mug the guards for their uniforms, they go and rescue Vespa and Dot. They take off their helmets (just like Luke) in the cell, and go out without their helmets. No problem, except when the mugged guards show up in their underwear, they're wearing helmets!
Why didn't King Roland change the combination from 1-2-3-4-5 after he told it to the Spaceballs?
NANJAO
Lone Star's bumper sticker: "I (heart) URANUS"
Did anyone count all the moichandizing? I lost count... I think the last item was "Spaceballs: The Shaving Cream".
The look Zircon gives Skroob in the bathroom is priceless!
One of the best scenes: "comb the desert!" ROFL
After Lone Star and Barf mug the guards for their uniforms, they go and rescue Vespa and Dot. They take off their helmets (just like Luke) in the cell, and go out without their helmets. No problem, except when the mugged guards show up in their underwear, they're wearing helmets! -ScottN
they also have their blasters.
also there are a few exterior scenes of Eagle 5 where you can see through the models windows.
One of the best scenes: "comb the desert!" ROFL
Check out the carear of the actor that Aint found S*** you should find something very interesting.
Wasn't that Michael Winslow of "Police Academy" fame?
Michael Winslow was the guy aboard the ship... I don't recall him as one of the spaceballs combing the desert.
OMG! I just imdb'd Spaceballs... is the desret comber "Trooper"?
Holy cow! Now I gotta get home and see it!
Now we know what Tuvok did during those years between Excelsior and Voyager...
During the exterior shot of the diner, near the end of the movie, look to the right. You can see the Millennium Falcon.
Brenda Strong (Sue Ellen from "Seinfeld" and now Mary Alice on "Desperate Housewives") is also in the film as Gretchen, the nurse to the plastic surgeon.
I enjoyed this movie, but wonder how it got a PG rating. There's a lot of strong language (including an instance of the F word) as well as plenty of (frequently unsubtle) phallic humor. You think it would be at least PG13.
Mom! The kids have gotten into the liquor cabinet again!
What is this? Viagra? well.. it's better than being spammed with "Vote Quimby" messages
Whoa! This is your board...
This is your board on drugs! Eeep! (And just when we got 'em offa 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture,' too...)
I've moved several spam posts to the Garbage Dump.
Thomas, I going to close this thread and open a Part 2. That foiled the Spambot that last infested NitCentral and I hope it will work here. Be assured, I'm not trying to step on your moderating toes, I'm just trying to stop the spam. :-)