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To: weegee

The first naked gun movie is still one of my favorite comedies. No matter how many times I see it, I'll still laugh at the "baseball bloppers" part

Caddyshack would be up there also.


38 posted on 10/08/2004 6:58:01 AM PDT by escapefromboston
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To: escapefromboston
Animal House doesn't make any missteps and is a comedy that you can watch again and again.

Actually though there is humor in a lot of Chinese films (even when the tone is very serious or horrific there can be an odd turn to humor briefly). The Chinese films that I saw in the 1990s are about the only modern films that had me laughing out loud in the theater.

Until 1997 when the Communists got Hong Kong and Disney, Turner, et al bought up the US distribution rights to films (only to sit on them or butcher them), I would go regularly to a Chinese theater in my town and see some double features. They were all subtitled in English (as well as Chinese) because of Hong Kong's ties to the UK. All of Jackie Chan's HK films are superior to the films he has made in Canada, Australia, and the US.

40 posted on 10/08/2004 9:07:06 AM PDT by weegee (What's the provenance, Kenneth? Where did the forged SeeBS memo come from?)
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