I vividly remember renting A Space Travesty from the video store and my parents being angry at me for the rest of the weekend.
@Stonecutter3348 ай бұрын
I probably would have thrown you out of the house.
@nighttimevideo8 ай бұрын
We're angry at you in 2024!
@powerglover20218 ай бұрын
Lmao! You're not alone! My mom had to walk out of the room. I was young and tried to keep going, thinking it would get funny.
@nighttimevideo8 ай бұрын
@@powerglover2021 Your poor mum.
@shawnashley4898 ай бұрын
😅 That's hilarious
@IceDrake5238 ай бұрын
Empty wheelchairs in handicap parking spots is an Airplane/Naked Gun tier joke. How has it never been done?
@RichV208 ай бұрын
My sister and I laughed at that sight gag for a solid 5 minutes when we first rented it as teens.
@williammitchell52018 ай бұрын
It's actually clever too. Amazing that someone could blunder that joke.
@Foxy020168 ай бұрын
Even John Mulaney made a joke about seeing an empty wheelchair means “something happened here, and you hope it was a miracle”
@longagoandfaraway78687 ай бұрын
If it had been a gag on Sledge Hammer! he would've rammed into it.
@RafaCarrillo7 ай бұрын
I can see it perfectly people in wheelchairs parking in the handicap spot and immediately standing up from their chairs and walking perfectly normal. Or they could leave the chairs and continue their way by dragging on the ground, they stop and turn around to click their keychain alarm to lock their vehicle
@Joker225937 ай бұрын
The real problem with most later leslie neilsen movies is that they don't get HIS joke. He's suppossed to be 100% serious. He's the straight man who DOESN'T notice the joke!
@marymary834364 ай бұрын
I always notice and love that about him because he does it so good.
@KnakuanaRka4 ай бұрын
Yeah, he was hired for Airplane specifically because he took himself very seriously in his previous films, and watching him (and everyone else) make fools of themselves with straight faces was the whole joke of that film.
@kaciusmaximus18092 ай бұрын
Precisely why I think the Police Squad series is superior to Naked Gun movies
@haydenmillholland44968 ай бұрын
I married my wife over our love for repossessed. Our first date we went back to my house after watching Grudge 2 and she was looking at my movies and could not believe someone else had seen repossessed and we've been together ever since.
@KairuHakubi8 ай бұрын
i have to admit, it sounds like a really good premise and some of the jokes are okay.
@oz_jones8 ай бұрын
That's actually pretty sweet (as in saccharine, not the 90s sweet)
@onepiece6668 ай бұрын
Leslie bringing true lovers together, now thats my kind of story for my favourite detective
@spenser99088 ай бұрын
I had a similar thing, but it was the movie The Jerk.
@Dr.Thirteen-bb1ub8 ай бұрын
Imagine if the movie you bonded over was something like Salo.
@MLennholm8 ай бұрын
_Spy Hard_ is one of the few comedies I ever went to see in a movie theater. I don't remember a single thing about it except Weird Al's title music.
@theotakux59598 ай бұрын
To be fair, that's the only part anyone likes.
@DanPantzig8 ай бұрын
The only memorable part honestly
@MLennholm8 ай бұрын
I figured as much. Weird Al is never not awesome.
@scottvincent1848 ай бұрын
Well I do remember one scene where this kid sets up traps for the criminals like in Home Alone, and none of them work, they grab him by his feet and drag him around while insulting his movie roles, at one point stating "this is for My Girl, and My Girl 2!" at which point the kid replies "I wasn't even in My Girl 2!" 😅
@theotakux59598 ай бұрын
What's weird is it was released as a music video, too. I first saw it on a Weird Al DVD collection. They removed all the credits, which made it look weird since there are times when he or other things were supposed to interact with them. The only one left in was his credit. Which was ALSO weird, because without the rest, it just randomly has "Theme Song by "Weird Al" Yankovic" pop up in the middle of the video.
@cosmoissleeping8 ай бұрын
Saying a movie is one big Family Guy cutaway joke is the most vicious hit I've ever heard on any movie
@torstenscholz62438 ай бұрын
It really reminds me a lot of the Cartoon Wars episode of South Park. South Park are ZAZ, where every gag is well-crafted and makes sense. These poor knockoffs are Family Guy, where they just throw in as many random gags and pop-cultural references as possible.
@futuristica17107 ай бұрын
@@torstenscholz6243Cry harder.
@nickthelick7 ай бұрын
God, I fucking hate Family Guy. Most unfunny show ever.
@nickthelick7 ай бұрын
@@futuristica1710Is that a parody too?
@molanohouse6 ай бұрын
@@nickthelick and I think that Family Guy is overhated.
@danielharrison58688 ай бұрын
That reprocessed "word on the street" joke is really solid, admittedly given the expression it'd probably work better in a police film but still
@SuperCosmicMutantSquid8 ай бұрын
I also liked the fake split screen and the Father greeting. Still, a few hits in a sea of misses.
@mightyrobot428 ай бұрын
They used the same joke in the Get Smart reunion movie from the 1980s. (Not The Nude Bomb or the one with Steve Carell, the other one.)
@EinDose8 ай бұрын
A good 'joke every ten seconds' movie will have so many good ones that you just keep laughing the whole way through. A bad 'joke every ten seconds' movie just has a handful of gags that deserve better than what they're in.
@timmyb77348 ай бұрын
Pretty sure they did that joke in Kentucky Fried Movie and Monty Python had man in the street, who happened to be hit by traffic.
@marklafrance81418 ай бұрын
I love it when foo-foo jumps into the chipper. And the party line joke is a riot!
@leprechaunfarmer40818 ай бұрын
Friedberg and Seltzer actually had nothing to do with Scary Movie; it was written entirely by Shawn and Marlon Wayans, Phil Johnson and Buddy Beauman. The reason Friedberg and Seltzer were given writer’s credit was because they had written a similar script for Dimension Films entitled “Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween” before they went with the Wayans script
@FMAkers-jq2kh8 ай бұрын
“Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween” (SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH)
@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.99178 ай бұрын
They did do Scary Movie 3 and 4, though.
@bigjohnsbreakfastlog58198 ай бұрын
That's why they were the "From Two of the Six Writers of Scary Movie."
@bigjohnsbreakfastlog58198 ай бұрын
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917Due to undercutting the Wayans as they were able to make a movie at a fraction of the price.
@leprechaunfarmer40818 ай бұрын
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 No they didn’t those were done by the Zuckers. They did however write the first draft for 3, which was titled “Scary Movie 3 Episode 1: Lord of the Brooms” and as its title suggests, would’ve mainly spoofed Star Wars Episode 1, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter
@BiffGreggle8 ай бұрын
The funny thing about Wrongfully Accused is that most of the humor is aimed at the sensibility of pre-teens (hence why it was a favorite of mine when I was 12), yet it sends up a bunch of movies aimed at adults. It wasn't until years later that I saw "The Fugitive," "The Usual Suspects" etc. and went "ohhh, THAT'S what they were making fun of!"
@sird23338 ай бұрын
The rock, rock, cat was what I remember from this movie. I cracked up!
@yummyjackalmeat8 ай бұрын
I was going to comment the same thing. I loved this movie when it came out (age 11 or so)
@KairuHakubi8 ай бұрын
in fairness, that's what a lot of media back then did. I understood that these are simply cultural touchstones and I was meant to know them and would eventually.
@spenser99088 ай бұрын
A bus careening off the road because of a banana peel, and an irate driver yelling, "You pee-pee head!" is perfect silliness. Still holds up.
@BiffGreggle8 ай бұрын
@@spenser9908 *YOU* ARE THE PEE-PEE HEAD!!!
@flippedoutkyrii8 ай бұрын
Adjusted for inflation, 2001 A Space Travesty had a budget of nearly 82 million dollars, how the *HELL* did it look so cheap?
@darkain6666 ай бұрын
Money laundering/tax evasion.
@davegriener8 ай бұрын
Ray Charles driving the “speed” bus was actually pretty funny.
@JesamyPorter8 ай бұрын
Spy Hard is actually one of my most favorite movies of all time. I saw it multiple times in theaters and have been a HUGE Weird Al fan ever since. The day Leslie Nielsen died I was working at a credit card company and a customer called to activate his credit card and he said "hey no one knows this yet but Leslie Nielsen died and it hasn't hit the news yet, you can be one of the first to know.' 2 hours later his death was announced.
@Ebastine4 ай бұрын
Yeah Spy Hard is great!
@marymary834364 ай бұрын
Finally someone else thinks it's one of his best movies I know I do.
@markkostka68974 ай бұрын
What is the crap about Leslie Nielson dying stuff. How weird to add that. Who knows or cares if it is true.
I wouldn't say it's good but it certainly has moments.
@thewingedringer8 ай бұрын
@@FreeArtFreestheWorld it's decent
@anton19908 ай бұрын
”I see Van Helsing, you are a man who likes to have the last word…” I love it, as well. It’s in my opinion Mel Brooks most overlooked film.
@MarisaReset8 ай бұрын
@@thewingedringer I honestly think it's a really funny parody of 1931's Dracula. Peter MacNicol's performance as Renfield feels over-the-top at first, but go back and watch the original film and you realize his impression of Dwight Frye is spot-on. I love it, such an underrated Mel Brooks film. I'll be killed for this, but I find it more enjoyable to go back to (and better aged) than both Spaceballs and Robin Hood Men In Tights.
@JeonardShadby5058 ай бұрын
The worst part is that Friedberg and Seltzer promoted their shitty movies as coming from "2 of the 6 guys who wrote SCARY MOVIE", even though neither of them wrote a single word of that flick. Also, I just love you using angry reactions of George C. Scott.
@timthememer27858 ай бұрын
I have this vivid memory of getting 2001: A Space Travesty and being mildly annoyed that they misspelled Nielsen's surname as 'Nielson' on the box. He was literally the selling point of that thing and they couldn't even get his name right.
@Dr1708 ай бұрын
The humourousness, if any, is debatable, but watching Linda Blair's joyous catharsis in reclaiming agency of her chequered legacy in Repossessed will never not be a Great Thing.
@trybunt7 ай бұрын
It'll always never not be not horrible
@hahasamian80107 ай бұрын
@@trybuntPlease don't do that again, it hurts my brain trying to parse it
@wstine798 ай бұрын
Repossessed is the real Exorcist 2, in my opinion.
@nighttimevideo8 ай бұрын
Repossessed >>>>>> The Exorcist: Believer
@diablorojo38878 ай бұрын
@@nighttimevideo is funny how repossessed take the original movie more serious than "exorcist: the believer"
@mysteriousbob8 ай бұрын
Exorcist 2: The Heretic is funnier than Repossessed.
@luchomscyfy8 ай бұрын
The Exorcist: Believers is so bad they remade Repossessed.
@ChalkiePerfect8 ай бұрын
Is there a psychic mind-reading dream machine in repossessed?
@TheSuckoShow8 ай бұрын
Knowing Leslie was a B-movie guy for most of his career, becoming an actual STAR late in life, he maybe never learned to say no to a project
@torstenscholz62438 ай бұрын
Nielsen really had an odd career - struggled to get successful and evolve from mediocre roles in mediocre B-movies for decades, then became a world-famous star for a few excellent films and then got back to almost entirely making b-movies again.
@pronkb0008 ай бұрын
@@torstenscholz6243 I wonder if he'd have been better off still taking a few straight roles. He showed he could still play an effective, serious creep in "Nuts." He's almost the anti-Jeff Daniels, a "serious" actor who took a goofy comedy to broaden his range and thus his negotiating leverage, but didn't let the role of Harry Dunne completely consume him.
@mrcritical67517 ай бұрын
@@pronkb000he should have, honestly. Lesley was not a naturally funny guy, he was just given the right script and given the right direction. If he’d taken the fame he’d acquired through Airplane and Naked Gun and funnelled it into a career in serious dramas then he might have had a better revived career
@nickrustyson81243 ай бұрын
@@pronkb000 That's the thing pre Naked Gun he was, Prom Night, and Creepshow 2? (It might be in the first film, he was in the story of a dude who bury people in the beach and records them drowning)
@dschehutinefer56273 ай бұрын
@@mrcritical6751 Having seen a few interviews of Leslie Nielsen (which actually caused the algorithm to bring me here), I get the impression that he'd disagree. A common theme in his explanations of his move into becoming a purely comedic actor is that he used to put a lot of pressure on himself to get title roles and fame and that it made him unhappy that he never really lifted off in serious roles. And that stopping to take himself seriously has taken that load off of him. Towards the end of his life, he just loved being the bonkers old guy (and being adored for it).
@FreeArtFreestheWorld8 ай бұрын
I remember watching Space Travesty in a disgusting hotel room during one of my dark times when I was young. Seemed fitting. I did a double take at the beginning of the movie when Nielsen mentions the hunt for bin Laden. Another reminder the movie came out in 2000...
@MrJohnlennon0078 ай бұрын
Predictive Programming regarding the Bin Laden bit
@100domathon8 ай бұрын
Osama Bin Laden was starting to get international media attention in the late 1990s. I remember back in 1999 hearing about Osama Bin Laden
@oldhickory46868 ай бұрын
@@MrJohnlennon007 Yep, just like Lee Harvey Oswald was being interviewed about Marxism prior to...
@murrfeeling8 ай бұрын
@@MrJohnlennon007 Was the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi and the subsequent elevation of Osama to the FBI 10 most wanted list in '99 also part of the predictive programming?
@favoritemustard35428 ай бұрын
@murrfeeling they didn't live through it, so it either didn't happen or it's just a meme.
@Assimandeli8 ай бұрын
I remember Wrongfully Accused having some pretty solid gags in the first half when Leslie goes on the run. The movie then runs out of steam in the second half, but it's still miles above Spy Hard.
@afiqdharma7 ай бұрын
The train peeking behind a tree killed me
@BugsyFoga8 ай бұрын
Pre scary movie parody flicks were certainly fascinating.
@CinemaMack8 ай бұрын
Hot Shots, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Airplane!...all classics.
@mistercruise8 ай бұрын
@@CinemaMack Those are classics, and I love "Top Secret" as well 👍
@Bowiiihowdy8 ай бұрын
@@CinemaMackhot shots part deux was hilarious
@nickrustyson81243 ай бұрын
@@CinemaMack Don't Be A Menace To South Central While You're Drinking Your Juice In Da Hood
@cordsman9 күн бұрын
@@nickrustyson8124MESSAGE!
@victornewmanforever8 ай бұрын
About 2001: One or two years ago, there was a podcast about Leslie with the writers and directors of Repossessed, Spy Hard and 2001. One of the writers of 2001 is American and the director is Canadian so I don't know why you assume Leslie would have been confused during the shooting. The interview with the writer and the director was pretty revealing. The truth is that, and this one hurts, Leslie co-wrote the film (uncredited). It was his project as a producer, and he was really involved in the process. So much that he constantly reminded the director that HE made all of those successful spoofs so HE knew what made them work. After one week of shooting, there was this scene where he has to fall over a table. Despite the director's recommendation, he decided to do his own stunt, arguing he did it many times on The Naked Gun. It ended with a broken nose and a day at the hospital. The director thought the movie was over but Leslie came on set the next day with a broken nose (which they tried to avoid filming) and personally apologized to the director. Another anecdote: For the scene with the goats, the unexperimented foreign crew hired a person who owned goats but the goats had never been on a set before! The shooting of that scene was such a mess that it also hurt the schedule pretty badly. From what the director said, Leslie was really proud of the film anyway. The director, who had never shot a comedy before, promised himself to never shoot a comedy ever again.
@mrcritical67517 ай бұрын
Do you know what podcast that was? Honestly that sounds very likely and very tragic. I can picture Leslie, his star fading and desperate to reignite it, writing up 2001 to try and recapture his glory days without realising why people liked his movies and that he was just too old by that point to effectively lead them. Also shows that potentially he didn’t resist know why he was a success, he was just glad he was a success, which I just find sad if I’m being honest
@victornewmanforever7 ай бұрын
@@mrcritical6751 Last time I checked the podcast was deleted from KZbin so I didn't bother to subscribe and I can't remember the name. I tried to google it using keywords without much success.
@torstenscholz62437 ай бұрын
Gee, now these are some interesting facts that shine a whole new light on that film: It's not that some money-hungry Italian producers talked him into the film in order to cash in on his name, this really seemed to be his own vanity project - and ego-driven vanity projects rarely turn out good. He seemed to think he was in so many spoof movies he knows how to make them himself - but boy, was he wrong about that.
@drumcanjones8 ай бұрын
At least Repossessed has an absolute banger of a theme song. RE-RE-RE REPOSSESSED! 🎶
@mattjindrak8 ай бұрын
Oh no!
@Jabberwockybird8 ай бұрын
What about Spy Hard by Weird Al?
@darthtepes7 ай бұрын
Devil in the blue dress, devil in the blue dress, devil in the blue dress oh!
@davidl5706 ай бұрын
@@darthtepes Easily the funniest scene in that movie!
@davidl5706 ай бұрын
Love the Repossessed theme song! Too damn funny.
@DrMcFly288 ай бұрын
Space Travesty was in continual rotation on Sky Movies in the 00s. It felt like if you randomly switched to that channel, there was at least 50% chance you'll get to see Leslie mugging for the camera in that f-ing opera hall scene. For someone who was a fan of Leslie from the days of Airplane and Police Squad this was pure torture.
@wstine798 ай бұрын
Leslie Nielson was in "2001: A Space Travesty" and not one "Forbidden Planet" reference? What a waste.
@VinluvAntonHandesbukia8 ай бұрын
That's what I said when I saw Shakira!
@jasonblalock44298 ай бұрын
Even Robby the Robot wouldn't cameo in that stinker!
@jeshkam8 ай бұрын
*Nielsen
@RIUUI0078 ай бұрын
@@jeshkam and *waste
@stickershock668 ай бұрын
That would mean the writers actually cared even a little bit about the script.
@BurtSampson8 ай бұрын
When I was younger I decided to go see Spy Hard one day while i was at my grandma's for the summer. I was legit the only human being in that theater. Not a single other person was there. I really enjoyed it, both being the only person in the theater, and the movie. lol
@RichV208 ай бұрын
Where did your Grandma live? Ive been to a few first-run movies where I'm the only person there or maybe 2-3 people besides me. I skipped school one day and saw a 2pm screening of "Dead Man On Campus" I was the only one in there. I left halfway through, it sucked.
@BurtSampson8 ай бұрын
@@RichV20 she lived in a town in southern Indiana.
@azn10118 ай бұрын
wait the actual handicapped symbols in the parking spots? wtf? yeah actual wheelchairs would have a) made sense and b) been funnier because it'd make more sense
@Jakeinlivincolor8 ай бұрын
There's sort of a funny-esque joke in the movie Stealing Harvard where it's the beginning and Jason Lee is explaining his life up to that point in the story, and the place he works at is called "HomeSpital" that specializes in home medical care. Anyways, there's a brief funny bit when he pulls into work and he's fairly far from the store because most of the spots are handicapped spaces.
@jonothanthrace15308 ай бұрын
If I wanted to do the symbol joke, I think I'd do it such that you see somebody being wheeled out to a car parked in the space while in a full-body cast in the handicap symbol pose.
@jamstonjulian69478 ай бұрын
Would have been cheaper too
@torstenscholz62438 ай бұрын
Yeah, that's an example of what happens when you want to throw in a ZAZ-style visual gag, yet don't come up with a good one but use it anyway because you want to have at least one joke every ten seconds.
@LynnHermione8 ай бұрын
Dracula Dead and Loving It is a stone cold classic, AND a fairly good adaptation of Dracula. I love that silly ovie to pieces.
@darthtepes7 ай бұрын
to date, this is the only version that has a very accurate depiction of Jonathan - bland and slightly annoying😁 Steven did such a good job!
@englishatheart2 ай бұрын
I like the movie, but it most definitely isn't a good Dracula adaptation. I am still waiting for people to learn Dracula wasn't hurt by the sun. That's how I know a person hasn't actually read the book or at least researched it first.
@rosskwolfe8 ай бұрын
Have you seen "Spanish Movie"? It was an attempt by some Spanish filmmakers to make their own "Movie" parody, and it was Nielson's last starring role.
@KasumiKenshirou8 ай бұрын
Wow, there's so many of these movies I've never even heard of.
@torstenscholz62438 ай бұрын
First he starred in a movie written by Italians produced by Germans and then in a Spanish one? It just gets weirder and weirder. What would have been next had he lived on? Nigerian or Venezuelan Movie?
@MrEdWeirdoShow7 ай бұрын
Interesting. I'm still trying to figure out that Casa Padre semi-Spanish film by Will Farell.
@rosskwolfe7 ай бұрын
@MrEdWeirdoShow I haven't seen that but have heard if it. Wasn't it trying to parody Telenovelas?
@timkemmer45658 ай бұрын
Bill and Hillary having no chemistry is actually correct.
@favoritemustard35428 ай бұрын
The closest they ever got to it was being called Billary as a joke lol
@nickrustyson81243 ай бұрын
@@favoritemustard3542 Someone is out there on Twitter or Tumblr who makes ships based off of US presidents and that is one of their favorite ships
@hairy_cornflake8 ай бұрын
I have to admit Dracula Dead and Loving it, Repossessed, Spy Hard and Wrongfully Accused were some of my favorite comedies growing up. But even at the time I knew Space Travesty was awful, in my country it was even renamed as if it was a sequel to Police Squad.
@mistercruise8 ай бұрын
Same here. They were a huge part of my childhood/teen years
@torstenscholz62437 ай бұрын
In Germany, the film premiered so late that its title was changed to 2002. Which pretty much ruined the title joke as it was a parody of 2001 A Space Odyssey - and also was one of the few good jokes in the entire film.
@realGBx645 ай бұрын
Repossessed I haven’t seen but Dracula and Spy Hard and Wrongfully Accused was beloved comedies of my childhood even without having seen most of the stuff they parody
@dschehutinefer56273 ай бұрын
@@realGBx64 To be fair, Dracula is a good, well structured movie, it got panned mostly because its jokes were oddly understated for a Mel Brooks movie. A shame, really. The staking scene still has burned itself into my mind. Wrongfully Accused is also a beloved childhood movie of mine and watching it now as an adult, it is at times a bit confused narratively, but the onslaught of hard hitting visual gags at times reach Naked Gun levels. To this day the hydraulic car scene can still put me into uncontrollable laughter for several minutes! Spy Hard I actually haven't seen. I vaguely remember switching into Repossessed on TV and being utterly bored and confused about what was going on, so I didn't watch it much. But a Space Travesty I did watch and... I have vague memories of the Bill Clinton gags, but otherwise it was a very forgettable experience, but not necessarily a really bad one. So I guess I'd rate Repossessed worse.
@perunplague97948 ай бұрын
Never realized Spy Hard and Wrongfully Accused were two of his worst, I loved them
@nicholasvinen4 ай бұрын
The latter is a great parody of The Fugitive. The Usual Suspects scene was the best! Spy Hard is not as good but still funny.
@marymary834364 ай бұрын
I was a little confused at the comment until I found yours because I loved spy hard and realized this is about it being the worst one.has you can tell I jumped to the comment section first I probably should watch it first.lol
@andreasbenning8 ай бұрын
I came in to this ready to yell "HEY!! SPY HARD IS FUNNY!!!". But I didn't recognize one single scene you showed from it, so I don't know what other movie I was thinking about. Your suggestion with empty wheelchairs in the parking spots were comedy gold!! xD
@SimonCallahan8 ай бұрын
Space Travesty came out theatrically here in Canada, too, but apparently went straight-to-video in the US? I never saw it until it came to the free movie channels on cable here (TMN, I believe it was called, which literally showed movies 24/7). The only thing I remember being funny about it was the ending credits. During the end credits they do the thing like the old Zucker/Abrhams/Zucker movies did where they include jokes within the text of the credits. One of the jokes was a bit of text stating that there would be milk and cookies out in the theatre lobby after the movie ended (which is a weird joke since the plan was to release the movie straight-to-video in the US). When the credits ended, there was another message, "Sorry, no milk and cookies, here's this fart reel to make it up to you", and the movie then played a bunch of fart sounds in a row while giving the name of the fart sound from the sound library. I think it was the only part of the movie that made my family laugh out loud.
@KasumiKenshirou8 ай бұрын
Leslie Nielson was known for carrying around a "fart machine", so he was probably on board with that kind of joke.
@nugster7 ай бұрын
when I was 15 years old, I scored a visit to a practical effects house. As a film buff since I was a wee child, I was so excited to see some special make up and practical effects in real life and up close. When I first walked in, I immediately saw the egg from the Barney movie haha! I was like “holy shit! The egg from Barney!” Anyway, I was allowed to see what they were working on but I had to promise not to tell what I saw until after the projects were released. The first thing I saw were two huge sumo wrestler asses. I asked what it was for and they told me “the new Leslie Nelson film!” After I saw all the props, effects and gags, I’m telling you, I KNEW it was going to either straight to video, or striking to day time hbo. It had nothing to do with thier work, I just could “smell it”. Sure enough…
@sizzis20458 ай бұрын
Funny thing is that the Italian screenwriter of A Space Travesty (Ezio Greggio) did previously work and star with Mel Brooks in a couple of parody movies already (Silence of the Hams, Screw Loose, for example), which turned out to be actually quite good. I don't think that the problem with the Leslie Nielsen movie was one of language barriers, if there were any.
@kamdan20118 ай бұрын
I highly recommend you get the upcoming Repossessed Blu-ray Kino Lorber will put out late in the year. It should have the director’s commentary from the German release that is very revealing on how much was changed without his consent.
@victornewmanforever8 ай бұрын
And the guy is leaving before the ending because it's too much to handle. 🤯
@kamdan20118 ай бұрын
@@victornewmanforever Yeah, especially since the movie is only 80 minutes long. Felt bad for thinking that Gene Okerlund and Jesse Ventura’s running commentary was my favorite part of the movie. It’s a shame that he couldn’t reconstruct his original version.
@victornewmanforever8 ай бұрын
@@kamdan2011 At least, there is a script floating around wih the missing stuff.
@kamdan20118 ай бұрын
@@victornewmanforever Ooh! I’d like to read that!
@victornewmanforever8 ай бұрын
@@kamdan2011 I know you can buy a pdf of it on script city.
@gw71207 ай бұрын
Yo that train hunting him down off the tracks in Wronglyfully Accused is the funniest scene ever
@tkthetank5 ай бұрын
Thank god you posted this. I have vivid memories from when I was a young kid (prolly like 6 or 7) of Leslie Nielsen being in The Exorcist and I never knew why lol
@TheClutchCanuck8 ай бұрын
The hardest laugh I had with Spy Hard was my friend telling me Andy Griffith plays the bad guy
@Nick-ty9us8 ай бұрын
Because that is not a guy you associate with playing a bad guy, so he did play Lonesome Roads in 1957
@christopherwall21217 ай бұрын
@@Nick-ty9us Yeah, and IIRC, after _A Face In The Crowd_ , he swore off playing villains, because the effect playing Lonesome had on him scared him.
@Nick-ty9us7 ай бұрын
@@christopherwall2121 I mean, I’ve seen a face in the crowd and I can’t really blame him for not a bad guy that frequently after that, I can’t really blame
@Nick-ty9us7 ай бұрын
@@christopherwall2121 and I can’t really blame him that character was rather terrifying
@Nick-ty9us7 ай бұрын
@@christopherwall2121 I’ve seen a face in the crowd and I can’t blame them for having swore off playing villains after that film
@frankreads86188 ай бұрын
Repossessed has a remarkably subtle joke that I just now noticed. Linda Blair's character in Repossessed is named Nancy, and her character in The Exorcist is named Regan. Who was Ronald Reagan's wife? Nancy Reagan. I'm honestly kinda surprised they slipped in something that subtle and clever.
@karl68527 ай бұрын
Thank goodness you closed the loop and told us who Reagan's wife was. We never would have made the connection otherwise.
@Nick-ty9us6 ай бұрын
You know, I didn’t notice that at all
@shinyagumon70158 ай бұрын
Repossessed feels like it's going for the ZAZ style of putting absurdist background gags in every scene, but as you said, the gags they use are just way too confusing to really land. Which is a shame because an Exorcist parody co-starring the original actress from The Exorcist sounds like a great concept on paper. Also, I might be wrong, but I always heard that Feinberg and Seltzer got their start in the industry because they unfairly got a writer's credit on the original Scary Movie. Like they wrote a completely unrelated script, also called Scary Movie, and sued the studio, claiming they ripped off their concept, so they got writer's credit to shut them up.
@hesnotquitedead8 ай бұрын
Yeah. The Wayans Bros. talked about it in a podcast interview in 2012. Basically, the Wayans and their guys (who were two writers from the sitcom The Wayans Bros.) were making their own horror spoof movie at the same time and separately as Seltzer and Friedberg were working on their respective horror spoof movie. But thanks to a decision made by the Writer’s Guild of America, all the writers were given credit for the movie despite the fact that Seltzer and Friedberg never worked directly with the Wayans and co.
@kamdan20118 ай бұрын
The director’s commentary on the German Blu-ray revealed that the movie was intended to be more of a direct parody of The Exorcist, but the management of the studio changed and they decided to make movie’s humor broader to be more appealing to younger audiences.
@oz_jones8 ай бұрын
@@kamdan2011 Suits ruining things? Say it isn't so!
@nickrustyson81243 ай бұрын
@@hesnotquitedead Which sucks for the Waynes because now those bad parodies of the 2000s get tied to them for no reason
@hcdodge49918 ай бұрын
Ezio Greggio from the dire 2001: A Space Travesty I noticed on IMDb had also been in Dracula: Dead and Loving It, though that movie's not fresh enough in my memory to recall his role. He'd also been in the parody film The Silence of the Hams (1994), which I do remember finding far funnier than I had expected it would be. Possibly other films he's done are also parodies of the same nature?
@EdWebChannel7 ай бұрын
In "Dracula Dead and Loving It" he was the coachman at the beginning of the movie. He also directed, in Italy, another parody movie called "Box Office 3D", but it was very bad 😅😅 I love "Silence of the hams", his funniest film as a director
@scottvincent1848 ай бұрын
I completely forgot Jimmy from Seinfeld is in Repossessed, "Jimmy will see ya later" 😂
@LilTurtleBug8 ай бұрын
I immediately recognized Jimmy as the Repossessed guy!!!
@scottvincent1848 ай бұрын
@@LilTurtleBug Jimmy likes it 😆
@spenser99088 ай бұрын
I think Elaine could've done worse than Jimmy.
@TheWinstonSlip8 ай бұрын
Jimmy’s gonna get you Kramer!
@scottvincent1848 ай бұрын
Elaine got a new dress..
@HVVVVVVVV8 ай бұрын
“The movie was written by two italian screenwriters, for a German production company, who shot the movie in Canada, for a theatrical release in Japan.” I feel like my brain had a stroke from that.
@pronkb0008 ай бұрын
"...ex-boxer from Detroit, his real name was Joey Chicago." "Oh yeah, he fought under the name of Kid Minneapolis." "Hey, I saw Kid Minneapolis fight once, in Cincinnati." "No, you're thinking of Kid New York, he fought out of Philly." "He was killed in the ring in Houston. By Tex Colorado--you know, the Arizona Assassin?" "Yeah, from Dakota. I don't remember if it was North or South." "North! South Dakota was his brother, from West Virginia!"
@dirtybombshelter7 ай бұрын
Canada finally included in the axis of evil, good to see.
@bjchit6 ай бұрын
Damn near had the full Axis Powers of Film going for it.
@Tadicuslegion788 ай бұрын
Dracula Dead and Loving it is a mixed bag from Mel Brooks but my god when it lands a joke, I am howling with laughter. The Staking Scene and anything with Renfield are why I can’t hate it
@franciswaterson28078 ай бұрын
"Guard! Get Back to Work!!"
@MrEdWeirdoShow7 ай бұрын
Recently found Drac Dead in blu-ray and snagged it like a champ. Very funny. Remember that "and loving it" bit is one of Mel Brooks' classics, since he had also used it as a tagline for Maxwell Smart in his TV hit Get Smart.
@josh244417 ай бұрын
I think the biggest problem with repossessed is that it came out while the naked gun was still fresh in everyone’s mind. And it was trying too hard to be another naked gun movie. Basically I think it just came out at the wrong time.
@DiRtYLaWs20078 ай бұрын
I’m glad I’m not alone with my love for Repossessed. Absolutely hilarious.
@englishatheart2 ай бұрын
There's plenty of people out there with bad taste. 😛
@Ziomaletto11 күн бұрын
@englishatheart Yeah, like people who like Slayer.
@CatraDhtem8 ай бұрын
Ezio Greggio had previously helmed his own spoof movie in the 1990s post-'Naked Gun" wave, "Silence of the Hams." "Wrongfully Accused," while watchable, suffers from an excessive use of ADR to either add jokes or hit you over the head with an existing joke.
@peglor8 ай бұрын
Dom Deluise's character, Animal Cannibal Pizza, singlehandedly made Silence of the Hams watchable.
@rootfish26718 ай бұрын
I love Leslie Nielson but yeah he starred in a lot of stinkers but he’s got to eat too.
@jeshkam8 ай бұрын
*Nielsen
@mattjindrak8 ай бұрын
Not no more. RIP
@Kingofb0ngstyle8 ай бұрын
He passed away before COVID
@torstenscholz62438 ай бұрын
Nielsen really had an odd career - there are not many actors that became so legendary despite heaving been in so few good movies and so many terrible ones.
@wayn0r8 ай бұрын
I think you need to have nostalgia for Repossessed. I taped it off of cable as a kid (probably The Movie Channel) and watched it frequently. For me, it’s a fun, stupid time. The increasing weirdness of the premise as the film goes on is past of the charm. It was also fun to check back in with it as an adult and catch one or two jokes that went over my head as a kid. I would still heartily recommend it to anyone who likes this kind of film.
@ITSAHARDNUGLIFE8 ай бұрын
There's actually things I missed that I found hilarious that weren't even meant to make you laugh. Like Ernest and Fanny's "Miracle Hour" when Fanny starts doing her annoying laugh after the audience says, "Hi Foo Foo." Ernest's face expresses the same way we, as the audience, would feel having to hear that. The warning: do not reverse...tire damage?...comedy gold! Jesse Ventura's part? Also comedy gold! Might be just me, but it hits me in the funny gut harder as an adult.
@lolamonroe59108 ай бұрын
I loved anything Leslie was in he played a major part of my childhood RIP to him❤
@tolsen82126 ай бұрын
Wrongfully Accused is laugh out loud hilarious. One of the funniest spoof movies ever made.
@dcflake56458 ай бұрын
Spy Hard was my first time seeing Weird Al
@TheIceAnt8 ай бұрын
“And just in case you came in late… allow me to reiterate, the name of this movie…. “IS SPY HAAAAAAARD!!”
@SuperCosmicMutantSquid6 күн бұрын
Wrongfully Accused and Dracula Dead And Loving It are gold, especially the former. My aunt and I had a movie night years ago and she loved the movie (I had seen it before), with the whole train bit being her favorite. The whole thing with the credits saying "THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE DO NOT MATTER" and it just zooms by gets me every time.
@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.99177 ай бұрын
You should check out Zeroman. Leslie Nielsen plays an elderly superhero. It's a great show with a very catchy theme song. It apparently would have gotten a second season if Leslie hadn't passed away.
@Coolcoolcooldude8 ай бұрын
For Halloween this year, you should talk about the Tim Burton Hansel and Gretal special he made for Disney Channel as a forgotten failure.
@fantabulospleef8 ай бұрын
What the Actual F* was that?! Thank you.
@ItsThatRetro8 ай бұрын
Did they call her Nancy as a "Nancy Reagan" joke?
@victornewmanforever8 ай бұрын
Yes.
@tobznoobs5 ай бұрын
very clever. imagine the people who worked at the exorcist seeing this movie and wondering why did they name linda as regan.
@nickrustyson81243 ай бұрын
@@tobznoobs Because Regan is a name
@dragonfurry698 ай бұрын
I saw Space Travesty on cable, and I thought the channel was ruining it because they were speeding it up (they did that sometimes back in the day). I didn't realize it was *supposed* to be that way in parts. Glad I haven't watched it since.
@billlonee94708 ай бұрын
"Repossessed" director Bob Logan also directed "Meatballs 4." As there was never a "Meatballs 5," it's clear that he killed the series.
@Kingofb0ngstyle8 ай бұрын
I didn't even know there was more than one
@DeadpoolNegative6 ай бұрын
That movie starred Corey Feldman and actually ends with Feldman screaming "Hey, I was in Goonies, you know!"
@TheGreatBaronOBeefDip7 ай бұрын
I have seen Spy Hard countless times along with Hot Shots Part Deux, on HBO growing up, love em.
@CowabungaWo1018 ай бұрын
I don’t know why, but can’t help but shake this idea that Spy Hard could have worked if they had Bruce Campbell in the lead. Can deliver dry witty one-liners but also is gifted with physical slapstick AND actually looks like he could play James Bond. I feel like that juxtaposition works funnier than Neilsons more self aware/lame slapstick 90’s era.
@jonothanthrace15308 ай бұрын
I think he could do it now and still make it work.
@spenser99088 ай бұрын
Stop trying to make Bruce Campbell a thing. He had a lame career for a reason. He sucked.
@peglor8 ай бұрын
@@spenser9908 I think he had a great career - his autobiography was fantastic reading too. If the stuff he made wasn't to your taste that doesn't mean a huge number of other people didn't love it.
@spenser99088 ай бұрын
@@peglor About five people REALLY like him. Hence his non-existent career.
@peglor8 ай бұрын
@@spenser9908 He's made a living as an actor for his entire adult life. I wouldn't call that a non-existent career.
@darthtepes7 ай бұрын
It's weird but Wrongfully Accused was my introduction to Leslie Nielsen's comedy heritage (although we had the Naked Gun trilogy and Arplaine! on VHS, I picked the Ryan Harrison movie for no particular reason to watch), and I liked it. There were severa jokes not considered proper for my age at the time but still😏 (cough cough Lauren cough cough)... it has some iconic scenes that really outshined the original movies they were making fun of (like Mel Gibson reference, train chase etc. - those are tiny but they just get stuck in memory and are so well-performed). And it was also the second time I saw Richard Crenna as a parody / self-parody after Hot Shots 2, good duo anyway😍
@GoatMalp8 ай бұрын
2001 was played all the time on the Canadian Movie Central channel. They needed to play a big percentage of Canadian content, so they played it all in the middle of the night when most of their customers were asleep. It sucked, I worked graveyard and paid for the premium channel that only played crap during my wakijg hours on my days off, AND my taxes were paying to produce said crap.
@MrKaywyn8 ай бұрын
Absolutely fascinating. I particularly like your point about Nielsen becoming more self aware rather than acting as if he is in a drama.
@richardgadberry83988 ай бұрын
I loved "Repossessed"
@Brian-qn7fn8 ай бұрын
You may have issues.
@Invidente78 ай бұрын
@@Brian-qn7fn No, he actually has a good sense of humor.
@RW777777778 ай бұрын
I did see Space Travesty on release in theatre in Japan no one laughed either. You're right about Wrongfully Accused, it's infinitely quotable
@JoeyEsqueda8 ай бұрын
I watched all of these as a kid, and I would laugh my hat off. But I don't feel the need to rewatch as an adult. Maybe this video will inspire me to seek one out.
@williamg31658 ай бұрын
You know, I gotta say Spy Hard may suck. However, The Weird Al Yankovic song and opening is worth the price of admission alone!
@johnburns96348 ай бұрын
Proving that if you let Weird Al be Weird Al, the World will be better off!
@MikoSquiz8 ай бұрын
I think it's a perfectly okay wacky farce spoof movie. It's not great but it's better than Dracula: Dead & Loving It.
@mikelippenkrantz7 ай бұрын
@@MikoSquiz There are some good gags in it (no, I'm NOT gonna give Seltzer/Friedberg credit for that) but Leslie was just too old and cuddly to play a convincing suave superspy at that point. Maybe if they'd cast Cary Elwes it could've worked slightly better.
@davidl5706 ай бұрын
@@MikoSquiz I think Dracula is MILES better than Spy Hard.
@rayname9088 ай бұрын
You poor dear. The genius of Leslie Nielsen was he was dry and out of place in ridiculous situations. Airplane!, the hilarious Police Squad TV series and film reboots, Naked Gun 123 are great.
@EqualOpportunityDestoroya8 ай бұрын
Going from Repossessed, showing a clip of Exorcist III, and then Spy Hard with Fabio. I see what you did there, best editing I have ever seen.
@ahok19378 ай бұрын
In the 2001 movie, the blonde woman is the singer/tv host Ophelie Winter, one of the biggest star at the time in France (but her fame was very short lived, and pretty much based on her physique). it's also a "guest star", even if not a lot of people remember her now. Look up for "Dieu m'a donné la foi", her biggest hit, which is still pretty catchy. I remember at the time the movie got a lot of coverage in France because of this, and i actually rented it since i was a big fan of Naked Gun. I don't remember anything about it, so i guess it's pretty telling. Since there's also the italian actor in it, i guess they tried to appel to european audiences.
@davidadein6 ай бұрын
That Wheelchair Joke is pretty good. So is the word on the street joke. I chuckled at both in your video.
@KR17368 ай бұрын
Wrongly Accused is one of my favorite movies ever
@Papillon2348 ай бұрын
Love your vids. You have a great narrator voice.
@nicholasruhling64297 ай бұрын
I love Leslie Nielsen, but Abrahams and the Zuckers definitely brought more out of him than anyone else could
@jessecoffey47377 ай бұрын
14:09 And as the icing on top of the Obscurity Confusion Sundae, the full-length print of _2001: A Space Travesty_ you can find on KZbin is in Polish.
@mikeydflyingtoaster7 ай бұрын
Any script that has [Leslie mugs to the camera] in it has completely misunderstood why you cast him
@MegaStara8 ай бұрын
I loved his cameo role in Due South tv series. I would appreciate a lot if you could review that.
@mayerbasic70048 ай бұрын
Disney destroyed Spy Hard. The 'SpyHards Podcast' on KZbin has an interview with the director Rick Friedberg and he recounts the entire ordeal. He also wrote a book about it, "Hollywood War Stories". Disney demanded Spy Hard be dumbed down for kids; if they didn't think kids would get the joke or the reference, it was GONE. They hired a new director to complete a bunch of crappy reshoots. Then they cut Friedberg's 96-minute version down to 77-minutes with their new brainless stuff mixed in.
@oz_jones8 ай бұрын
Suits ruining things? Inconceivable.
@jonathancampbell52318 ай бұрын
Release the Friedberg Cut!
@Dench999or9118 ай бұрын
Sounds like something for future video…
@petesmart19837 ай бұрын
Come on the directors were dreadful look at all the movies they created afterwards
@mayerbasic70047 ай бұрын
@@petesmart1983 Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer didn't write or direct Spy Hard, dude. They had the basic idea, and that's it. Rick Friedberg and Dick Chudnow are comedy veterans with some artistic integrity and they did 99% of it.
@markdubovec51727 ай бұрын
That clip from the Friedberg and Seltzer commentary track for "Date Movie" might be the closest thing they've ever done to anything resembling a funny joke.
@ackerjawaka19667 ай бұрын
I totally agree with you ⚡ didn't they do epic movie and disaster movie both absolute rubbish, they are trying to make films like scary movie but failing miserably like you say Date Movie was pretty good but that is down to the cast to be honest 😜
@questionblock89498 ай бұрын
"The Creature Wasn't Nice" aka "Naked Space" aka "Spaceship" is my favourite worst movie of all time lol
@Cheepchipsable8 ай бұрын
What about Day of the Animals?
@JustinProper7 ай бұрын
This was all over my recommended feed. It's good to know the algorithm works every now & then
@katelynrushe90258 ай бұрын
I think your theory about Leslie Nielsen being shoehorned into “Repossessed” at the last minute is very feasible, because I got that same vibe from “Safety Patrol.” He’s on the poster for that movie like he’s one of the main stars and yet he’s barely in it. Also, Weird Al is in “Safety Patrol” too. I’m curious why he kept popping up in Leslie Nielsen movies as well, especially since “Safety Patrol” isn’t even a parody as far I’m aware.
@torstenscholz62438 ай бұрын
This just shows what legacy Nielsen had after the Naked Gun films, but also how hard it is to get spoof films right. All those Naked Gun ripoff films really thought they only need to shoehorn in Nielsen and it will be a good spoof film, yet most of the time they had absolutely no idea how to usehim properly.
@mrcritical67517 ай бұрын
Probably cause they were both the face of parody in different media departments
@lordteabelly7 ай бұрын
Great video as always. Personally I don't mind repossessed and spy hard, yes they are light years away from the naked gun and police squad but I still get chuckles out of them for what they are. I think wrongfully accused was prob better than them both actually but yeah the naked gun series, police squad and airplane are just unmatched for Leslie. and I didn't even know about 2001 a space travesty until I saw this video haha
@SteveRudzinski7 ай бұрын
"What is the joke (with the handicap spaces)?" The joke is that those spaces are for specifically those *things*, not handicapped people. Also Reposessed rocks, probably the second or third best Exorcist film.
@scoorvyel3 ай бұрын
Glad to find someone who got the joke. Cheers mate!
@SteveRudzinski3 ай бұрын
@@scoorvyel I felt like I was going crazy as this dude RANTED about how the joke makes no sense and reading all these comments agreeing with him. No, having wheelchairs in the spots wouldn't be better, that would make way less sense than the ACTUAL very simple to understand joke in the film.
@tyrus12355 ай бұрын
As a kid I watched all of these movies - in fact, I think my dad has them in VHS to this day. We both loved everything that had Leslie in it. And yes, that includes those films... Some of the gags used in this video I still vividly remember watching and laughing about with my dad!
@billymountiii57888 ай бұрын
I actually liked Dracula: Dead and loving it and Wrongfully Accused
@billymountiii57888 ай бұрын
I even bought Dracula: Dead and loving it on Blu Ray from scream factory.
@24cptjohnson8 ай бұрын
Love those movies as well
@thibaud18328 ай бұрын
Even weak Mel Brooks movies are still entertaining. I really enjoy Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
@billymountiii57888 ай бұрын
@@thibaud1832 I absolutely love Robin Hood: Men in Tights, it's one of my favorite Robin Hood movies
@Rattrap0078 ай бұрын
14:17 Ezio Geggio! I know him from Silence of the Hams, another parody film. It spoofs Silence of the Lambs and Psycho. Not great, but some good jokes. Billy Zane plays FBI Agent Jo D Foster. Also has Dom Deluise and John Astin.
@JDelwynn8 ай бұрын
For some reason the opening of Scary Movie 2 is a way better spoof of The Exorcist than the entirety of Re-posessed...
@briancoulombe45178 ай бұрын
15:35 “Well, ARE that really you?” That joke is so freaking stupid that it actually gets a chuckle out of me.
@rickastley23088 ай бұрын
I don't like all three movies, but I remember Spy Hard as less "offensive" in this trio. There is some strange unfunny weirdness in Repossessed and Space Travesty is extremely horrible. Spy Hard is weak and primitive but I can describe it as a comedy. Btw, Wrongfully Accused is stupidly hilarious. That train scene is a masterpiece.
@nicholasvinen4 ай бұрын
The scene from Wrongfully Accused I remember most is the one parodying The Usual Suspects! Where are you from? Uhhh... Mensroom? 😅
@darkwave93458 ай бұрын
spy hard is a masterpiece and i wont hear anything else
@KEWLV1C16 күн бұрын
@5:23 I thought that was Eugene Levy
@therottenapplepk88818 ай бұрын
I enjoy repossessed and Dracula dead and loving it
@RafaCarrillo7 ай бұрын
Ezio Greggio, one of the Italian actors in 2001 A Space Travesty, also directed, wrote and starred in Silence of the Hams, which has at least one Pavarotti joke. So, I'm wondering if Pavarotti and the tenors are some sort of inside joke for Italian people
@mrcritical67517 ай бұрын
From what I’ve heard, Nielsen did uncredited writing on 2001, so I think the Tenors concert ending might have been his attempt at catching lightning in a bottle, twice and do The Naked Gun climax with the opera singer again
@RafaCarrillo7 ай бұрын
@@mrcritical6751 oh, that's a great point, makes sense
@mrcritical67517 ай бұрын
@@RafaCarrillo sadly it seems that 2001 was something of a passion project for Nielsen. He went full ego mode and had this whole “I made The Naked Gun movies, I know how to do parody” mentality that seriously clouded his judgement
@mahatmarandy59778 ай бұрын
The handicapped spaces thing is the only gag I laughed at in Reposessed
@AAAA-lt9hq8 ай бұрын
You create really great content with well written reviews and commentary. Thank you. I enjoyed "Repossessed." I found the other later Nielsen films to be largely direct-to-video fodder that was frequently shown on Comedy Central during daytime hours in the 1990s (along with *many* SNL rereuns). The later Nielsen movies felt more like cartoons than serious humor, which cheapened the gags even further. That said, the entire parody subgenre pioneered by Zucker/Abrams/Zucker ("Kentucky Fried Movie," "Airplane," "Top Secret," "Naked Gun," "Hot Shots," etc.) would pretty much die a slow death as the 90s progressed and movie tastes changed. The "Scary Movie" films began a drop in quality after 3 and never recovered. What happened in the 2000s was the parody film genre was saturated with terrible movies by Friedberg and Seltzer. Additionally, by the 2000s comedies and movies in general were not as strong as standalone films as they were in the 80s and 90s. More films were being made, sent on a short theater run, and then sent to streaming services within months or even weeks. In previous decades, it would take perhaps six months to a year for a movie to come to VHS and years to come to free television in a form edited for content. As a result, in previous times movies had a longer time to percolate in the public subconscious and become cultural touchstones. You could spoof the pottery scene in "Ghost" and everyone knew what you were talking about. Newer movies didn't have the same impact. Additionally, in previous times comedy films were more respected as an art form and not so divisive. The current culture wars and identity politics have led to a lack of consensus about what is funny. In the 80s and 90s there was broader agreement on what movies were important enough to spoof and how to make these spoofs funny. Jaded audiences today are much more difficult to entertain. If anyone is making comedy movies, it is usually a small group of Frat Pack actors (Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Will Farrell, Owen Wilson, Jack Black, Seth Rogan, Judd Apatow, etc.). Why are audiences jaded? As streaming has grown, tastes have fragmented because audiences can watch what they want when they want and ignore the rest. A viewer's entire world is largely tied to their smartphone, not whatever movie companies promote. If parodies are to return, they will have a better chance of success by drawing from memes and social media influences than they do from comedy films. One thing is for sure--we will have a hard time replacing Mr. Nielsen. His humorous turn later in life was so successful because for much of his life he was respected as a serious dramatic actor in a William Shatner and Lorne Green vein (indeed, all were Canadian). By playing against type in Airplane, Police Squad, and then the Naked Gun movies, Nielsen unexpectedly broke out to huge mainstream popularity. He kept taking these roles because he knew they were his strength later in his career. Nielsen's comedic turn would be as if we cast Anthony Hopkins, Shatner (who was himself in Airplane 2), Clint Eastwood, Michael Caine, Rutger Hauer, Tom Selleck, James Woods, Liam Neeson, Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro (see "Dirty Grandpa") or other well-respected veteran dramatic actors with gravitas in consistently comedic roles. Perhaps the closest we have come to this is Samuel L. Jackson's tongue-in-cheek "Snakes on a Plane." But even then these comparisons fall short of how successful Nielsen's later career turn as a comedic actor really was.
@nighttimevideo8 ай бұрын
WAY too harsh on Repossessed, It's finally getting a blu-ray release this year from Kino Lorber. Long overdue, I genuinely like it.
@nighttimevideo8 ай бұрын
Not every joke lands, no denying that. But when they do land, it's worth it. The "word on the street" gag is brilliantly stupid and the other visual gags look like they were done with precision and care. Linda Blair having fun in the film is great too.
@ITSAHARDNUGLIFE8 ай бұрын
Oh, it still lands for me! I used to hate on SpongeBob when it first aired. But something happened in my brain and instead of hating on it, I went on a mission to try understanding why it is funny for others. And of course I love it now! Well, seasons 1-3 the most anyway.
@sargonsblackgrandfather20728 ай бұрын
Haven’t seen Repossessed since I was 12 but I thought it was absolutely hilarious back then
@dungeonsanddobbers26837 ай бұрын
"Wrongfully Accused is considered to be the best" I mean, I'm old enough to remember when these movies were coming out and Wrongfully Accused was where the Nielsen's career began to decline.
@jamesatkinsonja4 ай бұрын
I think it's considered the best of a bad bunch as it at least has some connections to the earlier films as the director co-wrote some of them but it's not great. Mr Magoo the previous year didn't do him any favours either.