Ruthless People and other great comedies
 

I just rewatched Ruthless People after 10-15 years and couldn't stop laughing. Bette Midler is an underrated actress/comedian and Danny DeVito is always a riot. If you pay enough attention, you will see "Frankie Carbone" of the movie Goodfellas in a scene.

Highly recommend.

Down and Out in Beverly Hills is also great. (Just rewatched as well)

What About Bob?

There are others I'm going through from the 80's early 90s.

Any recommendations? :hmmm:

Great movie. My favorite scene/line:

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I'm trying to think of something really under the radar.

I assume most people know Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer.

Maybe Three O'Clock High?

Micheal Keaton had a lot of great comedies in the 80s:

Night Shift
Mr. Mom
Johnny Dangerously
Gung Ho
Beetlejuice

Noises Off is about as hard as I laughed at a movie.
It takes a bit to set up the payoff, but when it's in full swing of the hijinks, it just comes at you in waves.

Hardest I laughed at the theatre was probably Something About Mary.

I wish Johnny Dangerously held up better than it did.

My sister and I thought that was the funniest movie ever made when we saw it in the theater as little kids.

Revisited it in college and there were amusing parts. But it was a little hokey, certainly not an all-time classic.

Ruthless People and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels are probably my two favorite comedies.

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Drop Dead Fred is a good comedy.

Spaceballs, Uncle Buck, Coming to America, Ace Ventura,National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Robin Hood men in tights, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter is Dead, Look Who's Talking, Mrs Doubtfire.

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

The Great Outdoors

Trading Places

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The Jerk
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Strange Brew

EDIT: Strange Brew was the hardest I laughed as a kid. Loved, loved, loved that movie.

Another one of my favorite Steve Martin movies is The Man With Two Brains.

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Spies Like Us.

The Last Boyscout.

Doctor. . .

Fletch.

Jesus, how could I forget Fletch.

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Turner and Hooch

K-9

Twins

Kindergarten Cop

Stakeout

Major League

Goddamn it there is some good shit in this thread. I’m going to have to dig some of this stuff up.

48 hours is a good watch.

In no particular order:

This is Spinal Tap

Monty Python's the Holy Grail

American Graffiti

History of the World, Part 1

Stir Crazy

Airplane!

Caddyshack

Animal House

Stripes (the first half before they get to Germany)

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

The Blues Brothers

Back to theFuture

Spaceballs

And a bunch of others I can't remember right now

Screwed
Dirty Work
Whats the Worst that could happen
Billy Madison
Happy Gilmore
Throw momma from the train

Lots of great movies here...
Three of my favorite under the radar flicks...
-Best In Show
-A Mighty Wind
-Bubba Ho-tep

Scrooged

Arthur

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Damn this is so true!

One of the funniest scenes of ANY movie that I ALWAYS remember is when Michael Keaten gets off the subway in New York and runs up to the window and shouts at Henry Winkler through the window:

"LOVE BROKER" ROFLROFLROFLROFL

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I've watched Dirty Rotten Scoundrels no less than 100 times just like Shawshank Redemption, A Christmas Story and the Godfather 1 and 2 .

Two movies before this era that were pretty damn good were Kentucky Fried Movie and Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask.

The scene where Woody Allen is trying to break open the chastity belt of Lynn Redgrave is hysterical.

Also the scene were Burt Reynolds and Tony Randall are in the brain of a man as he is trying to get an erection for sex might be one of the greatest ever!

Just thought of another under the radar:

Fandango

"Nobody goes to Santiago, Chile twice in one year."

Multiplicity

The dream team,
although Peter Boyle thinking he's Jesus is the best part.

Spent many nights at the drive in watching The Groove Tube and Kentucky Fried Movie, always a double feature. Roll all the windows up, fire up an oversized joint and laugh our asses off all night long.

"Young lady, are you aware of the penal codes in this state?"

'Big Jim Slade"

A Fistfull of Yin ROFL

Feel Around ROFL

And all of the coming attraction spoofs.

Thanks as these are (4) movies I've never seen and Noises Off and Fandango I never even heard of before this thread. :clap:

Another great dark comedy that is hard to find is Divorcing Jack. If you can find it, it's well worth.

Death Becomes Her with Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep was underrated IMHO.

These are all great but I would say EVERYONE has seen nearly all of these. I have and they are all worth it.

What Planet Are You From? with Garry Shandling, Annette Bening, Greg Kinnear, Ben Kingsley, Linda Fiorentino, and John Goodman

Love that movie, but it's a toss-up whether I love it more for the movie itself or how much Garry invested in it with his comedic sensibility and how blunt and hilarious he was in reaction to it flopping at the box office.

I always got a kick out fo Crazy People and the ads they came up with. I worked for one of the companies in the 90's that was used for some of the faux ads so I got particularly tickled with those.

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I forgot about Fandango. That’s one I used to always watch when it would come on HBO.

Forgot about Noises Off too. Both good.


Death Becomes her is really underrated. Especially Bruce Willis in this movie. Plays the perfect beta.

Another 80s one people may have forgotten:

Lost in America

The Princess Bride

Another comedy in the spirit of Ruthless People is The Ref. Kevin Spacey and Judy Davis play a bickering married couple held hostage by Denis Leary. If you like your comedy with a nasty edge to it, this movie is for you.

Another great one I forgot is Dutch starring Ed O'Neill aka Al Bundy and JoBeth Williams

Laughed my balls off on that one!

Oh shit...Dutch. Yeah, that’s a good one too.

I’ll defend ‘Ishtar’ until my death.

I think it’s got some truly great bits in it. The Hoffman/Beatty role reversal is solid.

I’ve always liked it and think it got unfairly judged because of its budget.

Ground Hog Day
There's Something About Mary
Dumb and Dumber




Some of my faves...

PCU

Dracula Dead and Loving It

Holy shit was that movie dead on...

You're majoring in a 5000-year-old dead language?

GET OUT!! Just get out!!

My best friend, who has a PhD in physics, has often commented that Real Genius very much captures what graduate school was like. He particularly enjoyed the scene where the kid wigs out and starts screaming in the middle of the library; said he saw that happen several times. :D

Great call

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Another must see comedy riot I didn't see mentioned The Hollywood Knights

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Also Scho if you don't mind B/W I highly recommend Arsenic and Old Lace the original Dark Comedy.Hilarious topic as well.

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Are we intentionally sticking with under the radar choices?

Death to Smoochy never got the kind of traction I thought it should. And how Dogma largely vanished from the landscape is beyond me.

Is Dr. Strangelove sufficiently obscure?

Dogma is a movie I haven’t heard about in awhile. Most of that movie is gold.

That's a great movie except for the scenes with Tony Danza and Michelle Pfeiffer. They absolutely bring it to a grinding halt.

Porky's is another good one.

I'm trying to find this movie online for free to watch and I'll be damned if I can. I'm good at finding everything for the most part but this one is hard as hell.:#

No problem at all with B/W. Watched plenty of 3 Stooges, Little Rascals, To Kill a Mockingbird, 12 Angry Men and lots more.


No problem at all with B/W. Watched plenty of 3 Stooges, Little Rascals, To Kill a Mockingbird, 12 Angry Men and lots more.

Death to Smoochy is a dark and funny movie.

It's only $2.99 on YouTube and worth every penny

I might just have to part with $3.00 ROFL

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Another one of my favorite old comedies is The Man With One Red Shoe. For whatever reason it wasn't very well received, but I love it. Great cast, funny story, plus young Carrie Fisher in leopard spot bikini underwear! What's not to love?

I watch a LOT of movies/show here

https://www4.fusionmovies.to/

What site was this and is it some sort of Torrent Bit site? I've never used that :hmmm:

Thank you but I think I would prefer not to download and install all these add-ons. :shake:

Don't trust these things that they don't have hidden code built in for nefarious purposes

I posted that to give you an overview, more that just a namedrop of a program.

But all you really need for streaming is the Kodi shell and a working repo [Excursion Redux for me].

I can't convince you of anything you don't believe, but it's a robust open source tech, not some shady fly-by-night. I've had it and use it regularly for nigh on to 6-8 years.

Do you utilize a good Malware like AVG or similar and would that help in this case? :hmmm:

I've AVG Internet Security forever, and it's always the first thing that goes on a PC after the OS.
But nothing connected to Kodi has even hinted at viruses or malware on my system. But I only install the shell and the repo from the official developer site.

Some of the folks in the thread I linked might be more helpful. There might be even newer/better solutions. But my setup works for me, so I haven't been scouring about for anything different or new/improved.

It's not your Airplane or Animal House type comedy, but I went to see Silver Streak in the theater in 1976 and went back and saw it again a few days later, I've only done that couple of times.

It has a lot of great actors who have left us. It stars the late Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, Ray Walston, Scatman Crothers, Clifton James, Richard Kiel and Patrick McGoohan. Along with Ned Beatty and Fred Willard.

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Sorry, didn't know that we were trying to list sleeper comedies. Thought it was simply really good ones from around the '80s and '90s.

Fred Willard is still alive

Not really, just trying to find some of the ones that don't get all the pub.

You're good! :thumb:

I'm a big fan of dark comedies like Arsenic and Old Lace,here's another one I thought of

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I had completely forgot about that film, I just looked at IMDB and I had given it an 8 out of 10. I see it only did $8 million and cost $16 million. Anything with Dabney Coleman is usually great and that's when Tom Hanks was really funny, before the dramas.

I saw it on HBO a couple of times, but that was in the 80's. I remember the CIA guys, Coleman, were sitting behind a glass wall watching Hanks and various woman. I looked up that blonde, name Lori Singer, she never hit it real big, but did have steady acting jobs. She had dress with the deep back side.

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Sorry if it was confusing, but I put a period and then said, Along with Ned Beatty and Fred Willard. They are both still alive.

Yeah, I really don't get how that wasn't a hit; it's one of my favorite Tom Hanks movies. I liked it more than Big. Jim Belushi and Dabney Coleman in particular were hysterical.

Lori Singer starred opposite Kevin Bacon in Footloose. That was her big movie. Don't recall ever seeing her in anything other than this.

She looked far better in this than Footloose, though. That dress..... goddamn. :drool:

Speaking of an underappreciated favorite and a hot co-star;

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Another great one and one of Peter Sellers last movies he made-

Being There


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