#82 (AFI):
Private (fucking) Benjamin
Year: 1980
Directed by: Howard Zieff
Written by: Nancy Meyers, Harvey Miller, Charles Shyer
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Albert Brooks
Erik: Even though the AFI is staffed entirely by brittle old mummies, there's eighteen hundred of them. So although I'd like to kick its fucking ass for making me take precious time away from imagining my head wedged between Dolly Parton's giant knockers to think about Private Benjamin, I can't. There's too many of them. You win this round AFI.
Seanbaby: This movie was so brilliant, they had to make a sitcom out of it. Keep in mind that the same "they" thought they had to make a sitcom out of a dysfunctional family adopting a fuzzy space alien, and they made three years of shows around Tom Hanks being forced to dress as a woman to keep his apartment. If you ever have an idea and a TV executive wants to make a show out of it, chances are you're an idiot.
Mark: The tagline is, "The army was no laughing matter until Judy Benjamin joined it." Right, then it became a combination of retardation and tragedy.
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#82 (IFLS):
Scrooged
Year: 1988
Directed by: Richard Donner
Written by: Charles Dickens, Mitch Glazer, Michael O'Donoghue
Starring: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait, David Johansen, Carol Kane, Mary Lou Retton
Seanbaby: We've barely gotten started with the list and Bill Murray is already the feature star of two really funny movies. That's why he's now known as Film History's King of the Beach. Another mentionable award winner is Patrick Dempsey, who is Film History's Employee of the Month for his adequate lawnmowing in Can't Buy me Love, and his prompt pizza delivery in Loverboy. His performance in Meatballs 3 where a dead porn star's ghost gave him dating advice didn't win him any awards. Besides a Golden Globe, I think.
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