then what do Italians call KY? I love Boondock, but that has always bugged the shit out of me too that the head of the family in that movie doesn't even have a real Italian name.
What is the All-time best Mel Brooks movie?
Yesterday's: I'm going to give it to Martina with a runner-up to Nick for bringing up the whole "Yakavetta" thing. Also, hooray more posts.
Martina:
I have three.
Center Stage.
The Mighty Ducks.
Fear.
Center Stage is so bad it's good. And they used Jamiroquai's "Canned Heat" before Napoleon Dynomite did. Ballet dancers + Peter Gallagher's amazing eyebrows equals 1.5 hours of amazingness.
The Mighty Ducks was the first movie that graced me with the genius of Emilio Esteves (unfortunately, I had not been introduced to the Breakfast Club until years later). It's definitely not in Sandlot terrritory, but this movie was my childhood and made Joshua Jackson my first celebrity crush.
Lastly, there's Fear. It wasn't till recently when I watched it on some shitty cable movie channel when I realized, "Holy Shit! That's Gil Grissom!" And basically anything with him kicks ass. And let us not forget the roller coaster scene with the Sunday's "wild horses" playing in the background. That soundtrack was damn good.
Nicole 4 Eva.
Nick:
Ahh, the only kind of competition I'm equipped to consistently win...an unopposed one (hey, I'm kind of like this year's Michigan team, huh?)
As far as a movie I'm ashamed to admit I love, I'm gonna go with two.
The Boondock Saints: Saw it when I was either a high school senior or college freshman, loved the hell out of it. Bought it, watched it a ton, realized that every time I watched it I noticed things I didn't like about it. It's not a very original movie, it's not particularly well-acted (Norman Reedus goes from California to Irish accent constantly...Flannery's better) and it was made by an incredible douchebag (watch the documentary Overnight for the proof of that). I mean, when a movie rips off Tarantino, it's really ripping off even more, older movies, and that's what Saints does. In addition, the idea that they have an Italian man named 'Yakavetta' bothers me more every time I see it. There's no goddamn 'y' or 'k' in the Italian language...it just looks lazy to have that. Basically, Saints is a movie of style over substance and it's not that good.
All that said, I still love watching it. What the fuck is wrong with me?
Red Dawn: The Russians invade the US during the Cold War. Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Jennifer Grey, the kid who played Leif Garrett's buddy in The Outsiders and some random hispanic kid go insurgent. With supporting turns by Harry Dean Stanton (AVENGE ME!!), Powers Boothe and the guy who played the editor in Lois and Clark (kill me now for referencing that show...I don't know if I've ever felt more ashamed) as the mayor.
Just a fucking brilliant tale of paranoia during the 80s, and the first PG-13 movie ever. This movie is just too good, from the opening scene of paratroopers landing to the really, really hacky voice over at the end, I can watch Red Dawn anytime, anywhere.
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There are lots of great ones, but I have to go with Blazing Saddles. Cleavon Little was brilliant as Black Bart...his way of laughing off the idiots' racism was hysterical, and his ingenuity was fantastic. Add to that great performances by Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, the dude who played Hedley Lamarr, Alex Karras as Mongo and of course Mel Brooks and you have a great cast.
Plus, the one-liners...
"Hey where the white women at?"
Just does a great job of being fucking hilarious and at the same time exposing the idiocy of racism.
Young Frankenstein. This movie will be funny FOREVER. As with all Mel Brooks films, there is a fantastic cast and hilarious writing. Brooks is a master of satire, and Young Frankenstein (Fronkensteen!) is his masterpiece.
Roll, roll, roll in ze hay!
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