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@SightsObsceneАй бұрын
I vividly remember renting A Space Travesty from the video store and my parents being angry at me for the rest of the weekend.
@Stonecutter334Ай бұрын
I probably would have thrown you out of the house.
@nighttimevideoАй бұрын
We're angry at you in 2024!
@powerglover2021Ай 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.
@nighttimevideoАй бұрын
@@powerglover2021 Your poor mum.
@shawnashley489Ай бұрын
😅 That's hilarious
@IceDrake523Ай бұрын
Empty wheelchairs in handicap parking spots is an Airplane/Naked Gun tier joke. How has it never been done?
@RichV20Ай бұрын
My sister and I laughed at that sight gag for a solid 5 minutes when we first rented it as teens.
@williammitchell5201Ай бұрын
It's actually clever too. Amazing that someone could blunder that joke.
@Foxy02016Ай бұрын
Even John Mulaney made a joke about seeing an empty wheelchair means “something happened here, and you hope it was a miracle”
@longagoandfaraway786828 күн бұрын
If it had been a gag on Sledge Hammer! he would've rammed into it.
@RafaCarrillo28 күн 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
@haydenmillholland4496Ай 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.
@KairuHakubiАй бұрын
i have to admit, it sounds like a really good premise and some of the jokes are okay.
@oz_jonesАй бұрын
That's actually pretty sweet (as in saccharine, not the 90s sweet)
@onepiece666Ай бұрын
Leslie bringing true lovers together, now thats my kind of story for my favourite detective
@spenser9908Ай бұрын
I had a similar thing, but it was the movie The Jerk.
@Dr.Thirteen-bb1ubАй бұрын
Imagine if the movie you bonded over was something like Salo.
@danielharrison5868Ай 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
@SuperCosmicMutantSquidАй бұрын
I also liked the fake split screen and the Father greeting. Still, a few hits in a sea of misses.
@mightyrobot42Ай 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.)
@EinDoseАй 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.
@timmyb7734Ай 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.
@marklafrance8141Ай бұрын
I love it when foo-foo jumps into the chipper. And the party line joke is a riot!
@cosmoissleepingАй бұрын
Saying a movie is one big Family Guy cutaway joke is the most vicious hit I've ever heard on any movie
@torstenscholz6243Ай 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.
@futuristica171029 күн бұрын
@@torstenscholz6243Cry harder.
@Nat3_H1gg3rs29 күн бұрын
fk family guy and your cart before the horse philosophies
@nickthelick11 күн бұрын
God, I fucking hate Family Guy. Most unfunny show ever.
@nickthelick11 күн бұрын
@@futuristica1710Is that a parody too?
@MLennholmАй 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.
@theotakux5959Ай бұрын
To be fair, that's the only part anyone likes.
@DanPantzigАй бұрын
The only memorable part honestly
@MLennholmАй бұрын
I figured as much. Weird Al is never not awesome.
@scottvincent184Ай 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!" 😅
@theotakux5959Ай 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.
@enchantroАй бұрын
I LOVED “Dracula, Dead and Loving It”🥰
@TheIceAntАй бұрын
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE FURNITURE?!
@FreeArtFreestheWorldАй бұрын
I wouldn't say it's good but it certainly has moments.
@dinmavric5504Ай бұрын
@@FreeArtFreestheWorld it's decent
@anton1990Ай 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.
@MarisaResetАй бұрын
@@dinmavric5504 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.
@BiffGreggleАй 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!"
@sird2333Ай бұрын
The rock, rock, cat was what I remember from this movie. I cracked up!
@yummyjackalmeatАй бұрын
I was going to comment the same thing. I loved this movie when it came out (age 11 or so)
@KairuHakubiАй 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.
@spenser9908Ай 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.
@BiffGreggleАй бұрын
@@spenser9908 *YOU* ARE THE PEE-PEE HEAD!!!
@leprechaunfarmer4081Ай 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-jq2khАй бұрын
“Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween” (SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH)
@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917Ай бұрын
They did do Scary Movie 3 and 4, though.
@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819Ай бұрын
That's why they were the "From Two of the Six Writers of Scary Movie."
@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819Ай бұрын
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917Due to undercutting the Wayans as they were able to make a movie at a fraction of the price.
@leprechaunfarmer4081Ай 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
@drumcanjonesАй бұрын
At least Repossessed has an absolute banger of a theme song. RE-RE-RE REPOSSESSED! 🎶
@mattjindrakАй бұрын
Oh no!
@JabberwockybirdАй бұрын
What about Spy Hard by Weird Al?
@darthtepes24 күн бұрын
Devil in the blue dress, devil in the blue dress, devil in the blue dress oh!
@Dr170Ай 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.
@trybunt29 күн бұрын
It'll always never not be not horrible
@hahasamian801016 күн бұрын
@@trybuntPlease don't do that again, it hurts my brain trying to parse it
@wstine79Ай бұрын
Repossessed is the real Exorcist 2, in my opinion.
@nighttimevideoАй бұрын
Repossessed >>>>>> The Exorcist: Believer
@diablorojo3887Ай бұрын
@@nighttimevideo is funny how repossessed take the original movie more serious than "exorcist: the believer"
@mysteriousbobАй бұрын
Exorcist 2: The Heretic is funnier than Repossessed.
@luchomscyfyАй бұрын
The Exorcist: Believers is so bad they remade Repossessed.
@ChalkiePerfectАй бұрын
Is there a psychic mind-reading dream machine in repossessed?
@BugsyFogaАй бұрын
Pre scary movie parody flicks were certainly fascinating.
@CinemaMackАй бұрын
Hot Shots, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Airplane!...all classics.
@mistercruiseАй бұрын
@@CinemaMack Those are classics, and I love "Top Secret" as well 👍
@BowiiihowdyАй бұрын
@@CinemaMackhot shots part deux was hilarious
@HVVVVVVVVАй 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.
@pronkb000Ай 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!"
@dirtybombshelter29 күн бұрын
Canada finally included in the axis of evil, good to see.
@FreeArtFreestheWorldАй 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...
@MrJohnlennon007Ай бұрын
Predictive Programming regarding the Bin Laden bit
@100domathonАй 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
@oldhickory4686Ай бұрын
@@MrJohnlennon007 Yep, just like Lee Harvey Oswald was being interviewed about Marxism prior to...
@murrfeelingАй 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?
@favoritemustard3542Ай бұрын
@murrfeeling they didn't live through it, so it either didn't happen or it's just a meme.
@timthememer2785Ай 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.
@BaranoffIsaacАй бұрын
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer didn't actually write Scary Movie. It was a WGA arbitration due to them working on a similar project for Dimension that never got made.
@leejones8582Ай бұрын
Scary Movie is funny
@JeonardShadby505Ай 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.
@frankreads8618Ай 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.
@karl685217 күн бұрын
Thank goodness you closed the loop and told us who Reagan's wife was. We never would have made the connection otherwise.
@timkemmer4565Ай бұрын
Bill and Hillary having no chemistry is actually correct.
@favoritemustard3542Ай бұрын
The closest they ever got to it was being called Billary as a joke lol
@flippedoutkyriiАй бұрын
Adjusted for inflation, 2001 A Space Travesty had a budget of nearly 82 million dollars, how the *HELL* did it look so cheap?
@LynnHermioneАй 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.
@darthtepes24 күн 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!
@hairy_cornflakeАй 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.
@mistercruiseАй бұрын
Same here. They were a huge part of my childhood/teen years
@torstenscholz624326 күн 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.
@perunplague9794Ай бұрын
Never realized Spy Hard and Wrongfully Accused were two of his worst, I loved them
@DiRtYLaWs2007Ай бұрын
I’m glad I’m not alone with my love for Repossessed. Absolutely hilarious.
@azn1011Ай 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
@jacobscarberry4799Ай 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.
@jonothanthrace1530Ай 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.
@jamstonjulian6947Ай бұрын
Would have been cheaper too
@torstenscholz6243Ай 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.
@wstine79Ай бұрын
Leslie Nielson was in "2001: A Space Travesty" and not one "Forbidden Planet" reference? What a waste.
@VinluvAntonHandesbukiaАй бұрын
That's what I said when I saw Shakira!
@jasonblalock4429Ай бұрын
Even Robby the Robot wouldn't cameo in that stinker!
@jeshkamАй бұрын
*Nielsen
@jockejocke1Ай бұрын
@@jeshkam and *waste
@stickershock66Ай бұрын
That would mean the writers actually cared even a little bit about the script.
@ItsThatRetroАй бұрын
Did they call her Nancy as a "Nancy Reagan" joke?
@victornewmanforeverАй бұрын
Yes.
@CowabungaWo101Ай 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.
@jonothanthrace1530Ай бұрын
I think he could do it now and still make it work.
@spenser9908Ай бұрын
Stop trying to make Bruce Campbell a thing. He had a lame career for a reason. He sucked.
@peglorАй 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.
@spenser9908Ай бұрын
@@peglor About five people REALLY like him. Hence his non-existent career.
@peglorАй бұрын
@@spenser9908 He's made a living as an actor for his entire adult life. I wouldn't call that a non-existent career.
@Tadicuslegion78Ай 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
@franciswaterson2807Ай бұрын
"Guard! Get Back to Work!!"
@MrEdWeirdoShow28 күн 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.
@victornewmanforeverАй 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.
@mrcritical675127 күн 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
@victornewmanforever27 күн 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.
@torstenscholz6243Күн 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.
@TheSuckoShowАй 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
@torstenscholz6243Ай 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.
@pronkb000Ай 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.
@mrcritical675127 күн 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
@DrMcFly28Ай 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.
@shinyagumon7015Ай 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.
@hesnotquitedeadАй 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.
@kamdan2011Ай 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_jonesАй бұрын
@@kamdan2011 Suits ruining things? Say it isn't so!
@rootfish2671Ай бұрын
I love Leslie Nielson but yeah he starred in a lot of stinkers but he’s got to eat too.
@jeshkamАй бұрын
*Nielsen
@mattjindrakАй бұрын
Not no more. RIP
@marcohavokkhaosАй бұрын
He passed away before COVID
@torstenscholz6243Ай 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.
@richardgadberry8398Ай бұрын
I loved "Repossessed"
@Brian-qn7fnАй бұрын
You may have issues.
@Invidente7Ай бұрын
@@Brian-qn7fn No, he actually has a good sense of humor.
@TheClutchCanuckАй бұрын
The hardest laugh I had with Spy Hard was my friend telling me Andy Griffith plays the bad guy
@Nick-ty9usАй бұрын
Because that is not a guy you associate with playing a bad guy, so he did play Lonesome Roads in 1957
@christopherwall212122 күн 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-ty9us22 күн 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-ty9us22 күн бұрын
@@christopherwall2121 and I can’t really blame him that character was rather terrifying
@Nick-ty9us4 күн 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
@risboturbide9396Ай бұрын
RIP Leslie Nielsen
@torstenscholz6243Ай бұрын
R.I.P. He died at the hospital. That's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.
@treferro533Ай бұрын
"The movie was written by two Italian screenwriters..." (shows a clip of Italian actor Ezio Greggio) "...for a German production company..." (shows credits of German production companies) "...who shot the movie in Canada.." (shows a clip of Canadian-American actor Leslie Nielsen) "....for a theatrical release in Japan." (shows a clip of Leslie getting sandwiched by two sumo wrestlers) I swear this channel never fails with its clever editing style.
@stephanberger347627 күн бұрын
Ezio is great in Silence of the Hams!
@torstenscholz624326 күн бұрын
To make it perfect, at "...for a German production company...", he should have shown the Germans dancing in Lederhosen.
@spencerkindra882224 күн бұрын
I'll bet production was a goddamn mess. Like Apocalypse Now levels except the movie isn't 1/20th as good haha.
@BurtSampsonАй 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
@RichV20Ай 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.
@BurtSampsonАй бұрын
@@RichV20 she lived in a town in southern Indiana.
@williamg3165Ай 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!
@johnburns9634Ай бұрын
Proving that if you let Weird Al be Weird Al, the World will be better off!
@MikoSquizАй 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.
@kennydnolan29 күн 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.
@rosskwolfeАй 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.
@KasumiKenshirouАй бұрын
Wow, there's so many of these movies I've never even heard of.
@torstenscholz6243Ай 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?
@MrEdWeirdoShow28 күн бұрын
Interesting. I'm still trying to figure out that Casa Padre semi-Spanish film by Will Farell.
@rosskwolfe28 күн бұрын
@MrEdWeirdoShow I haven't seen that but have heard if it. Wasn't it trying to parody Telenovelas?
@SimonCallahanАй 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.
@KasumiKenshirouАй бұрын
Leslie Nielson was known for carrying around a "fart machine", so he was probably on board with that kind of joke.
@nugster14 күн 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…
@scottvincent184Ай бұрын
I completely forgot Jimmy from Seinfeld is in Repossessed, "Jimmy will see ya later" 😂
@LilTurtleBugАй бұрын
I immediately recognized Jimmy as the Repossessed guy!!!
@scottvincent184Ай бұрын
@@LilTurtleBug Jimmy likes it 😆
@spenser9908Ай бұрын
I think Elaine could've done worse than Jimmy.
@TheWinstonSlipАй бұрын
Jimmy’s gonna get you Kramer!
@scottvincent184Ай бұрын
Elaine got a new dress..
@dcflake5645Ай бұрын
Spy Hard was my first time seeing Weird Al
@TheIceAntАй бұрын
“And just in case you came in late… allow me to reiterate, the name of this movie…. “IS SPY HAAAAAAARD!!”
@donaldkochersperger8074Ай бұрын
His worst film is probably Mr Magoo lol
@TheIceAntАй бұрын
You’re blind if you think that!
@donaldkochersperger8074Ай бұрын
@@TheIceAnt LMAO 🤣🤣
@mightyfilmАй бұрын
Yeah, but unlike 2001, it at least has a plot, and one they follow through to the very end. So I have to disagree there.
@game-sheriffАй бұрын
I only saw it once but I enjoyed it.
@donaldkochersperger8074Ай бұрын
It's definitely has a little bit of a so bad its good vibe, I guess. It really doesn't have much to do with the cartoon shorts it is supposed to be based on though.
@dungeonsanddobbers268328 күн 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.
@josh244415 күн 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.
@billlonee9470Ай бұрын
"Repossessed" director Bob Logan also directed "Meatballs 4." As there was never a "Meatballs 5," it's clear that he killed the series.
@marcohavokkhaosАй бұрын
I didn't even know there was more than one
@AssimandeliАй 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.
@afiqdharma27 күн бұрын
The train peeking behind a tree killed me
@lolamonroe5910Ай бұрын
I loved anything Leslie was in he played a major part of my childhood RIP to him❤
@Mattmurdockk431Ай бұрын
Leslie played a bit role in a Spanish movie called, well, "Spanish Movie" that was a copy of the "whatever Movies" of the early 2000s. At that point in his career he would do pretty much anything they asked him to. Only memorable part is his cameo in the Spanish Movie trailer in which he acts alongside 90s Spanish comedy legend Chiquito de la Calzada (at least for a Spanish child of the 90s it was memorable)😅
@torstenscholz6243Ай бұрын
First he starred in a film written by Italians produced by Germans and then in a Spanish film? His choice of films really became odder and odder over time. He probably would have even starred in a Nigerian or Azerbaijani spoof movie if he had been offered the role.
@shelxpАй бұрын
I love Spy Hard
@tyrannosaurusburkeАй бұрын
“Mr. Magoo” was God awful too, although I suppose that’s not a parody movie.
@CoolcoolcooldudeАй 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.
@fantabulospleefАй бұрын
What the Actual F* was that?! Thank you.
@markdubovec517229 күн 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.
@ackerjawaka474214 күн 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 😜
@CatraDhtemАй 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.
@peglorАй бұрын
Dom Deluise's character, Animal Cannibal Pizza, singlehandedly made Silence of the Hams watchable.
@mahatmarandy5977Ай бұрын
The handicapped spaces thing is the only gag I laughed at in Reposessed
@JoeyEsquedaАй 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.
@GoatMalpАй 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.
@questionblock8949Ай бұрын
"The Creature Wasn't Nice" aka "Naked Space" aka "Spaceship" is my favourite worst movie of all time lol
@CheepchipsableАй бұрын
What about Day of the Animals?
@wayn0rАй 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.
@ITSAHARDNUGLIFEАй 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.
@davegrienerАй бұрын
Ray Charles driving the “speed” bus was actually pretty funny.
@billymountiii5788Ай бұрын
I actually liked Dracula: Dead and loving it and Wrongfully Accused
@billymountiii5788Ай бұрын
I even bought Dracula: Dead and loving it on Blu Ray from scream factory.
@24cptjohnsonАй бұрын
Love those movies as well
@thibaud1832Ай бұрын
Even weak Mel Brooks movies are still entertaining. I really enjoy Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
@billymountiii5788Ай бұрын
@@thibaud1832 I absolutely love Robin Hood: Men in Tights, it's one of my favorite Robin Hood movies
@kamdan2011Ай 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.
@victornewmanforeverАй бұрын
And the guy is leaving before the ending because it's too much to handle. 🤯
@kamdan2011Ай 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.
@victornewmanforeverАй бұрын
@@kamdan2011 At least, there is a script floating around wih the missing stuff.
@kamdan2011Ай бұрын
@@victornewmanforever Ooh! I’d like to read that!
@victornewmanforeverАй бұрын
@@kamdan2011 I know you can buy a pdf of it on script city.
@troywright35927 күн бұрын
Two things from this video made me smile. "I wasn't even in My Girl 2!" "It depends what you mean by the word, 'is' "
@KR1736Ай бұрын
Wrongly Accused is one of my favorite movies ever
@taylorehАй бұрын
Idk i love that handicap symbol joke. A lot of them I do. But yes its extra surreal and ungrounded which hurts it a bit. More when jokes mention/require celebrity knowledge, thats a problem.
@therottenapplepk8881Ай бұрын
I enjoy repossessed and Dracula dead and loving it
@gw712021 күн бұрын
Yo that train hunting him down off the tracks in Wronglyfully Accused is the funniest scene ever
@andreasbenningАй 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
@katelynrushe9025Ай 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.
@torstenscholz6243Ай 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.
@mrcritical675128 күн бұрын
Probably cause they were both the face of parody in different media departments
@darkwave9345Ай бұрын
spy hard is a masterpiece and i wont hear anything else
@JustinProper26 күн бұрын
This was all over my recommended feed. It's good to know the algorithm works every now & then
@lucasm.alarcon9897Ай бұрын
The Pavarotti gag its actually funny
@RedDragonM1Ай бұрын
What? "Reposessed" was GREAT!
@MonkofmagnesiaАй бұрын
I love "Repossessed" so much that I purchased the DVD
@victorchapa6307Ай бұрын
So did I! 😃
@Joker2259317 күн 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!
@RoshDroz23 күн бұрын
You're a more honorable man than I, tracking down and paying for the actual DVDs of these obscure movies. I'm afraid I probably would've just downloaded them from completely LEGAL sources
@rickastley2308Ай 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.
@HardworlderАй бұрын
I thought I had seen all of these bad movies as a kid, I didn't even know 2001 existed. And I wish I still didn't.
@mightyrobot42Ай бұрын
When I saw the thumbnail I thought that 2001 would be yet another re-titling of Spaceship! a.k.a. The Creature Wasn't Nice a.k.a. Naked Space.
@gedamanАй бұрын
I didn’t think Spy Hard was so bad. Then again I was only 11 years old when it came out. I was much more easily amused when I was younger.
@bevenstarlowАй бұрын
I never knew spy hard wasn't seen as a classic, always loved that film
@mightyfilmАй бұрын
I did enjoy Spy Hard, but it's clearly a Naked Gun 4 fan fic, and it feels like they took the excesses of 33 1/3 up to 11. I will say the one thing that made me actually dislike the movie over time is this. The editing and pacing is screwed up royally. There exists a TV edit that actually ADDS scenes to the movie that help flesh it out a little better. I can't recall them perfectly, but Leslie being strapped to the bed with the bomb attached has a much longer scene, and there's something about them entering the villain's island that at least gives the scene some heft. But they don't even have these preserved on DVD, so you just aren't getting the necessary bulk that keeps the film from being completely "LOL RANDOMZ" and lets things breathe. That said, I saw 2001 and, yeah. The only 2 jokes I legitimately remember are some alien species only taking a dump once a year (something that in retrospect feels like something from Men in Black 2, you know, the worst one), and the Orangina product placement. It feels cheap and like a bad foreign comedy dubbed in English, and the Osama Bin Laden joke at the beginning must've been ADR'd at some point before the US home video release.
@KasumiKenshirouАй бұрын
Seth MacFarlane's The Orville had a similar joke (but with urination instead of defecation) as the plot of an episode. This alien culture had a sacred ritual around it where they had to go to a specific place on their home planet.
@mightyfilmАй бұрын
@@KasumiKenshirou There was a Men in Black cartoon episode where Agent J walked into an alien bathroom, saw a very menacing contraption and sheepishly added "I don't have to go THAT bad." Both jokes at least performed better in their respective shows. I do remember watching 2001 and being disappointed the sci-fi stuff was so brief and unimportant to the film.
@brad_hensilАй бұрын
2001 A Space Travesty feels like a Nostalgia Critic video with a budget
@tylertheguy3160Ай бұрын
"It's Leslie Nielsen, how bad can they be?" Oh you poor, Innocent child. If only you knew...
@torstenscholz6243Ай бұрын
If ZAZ aren't involved, the answer is: Very, very bad.
@berendharmsenАй бұрын
I actually thought that 'worst Leslie Nielsen parodies' meant 'movies with actors that parody Leslie Nielsen style comedies'
@PuppetDungeonАй бұрын
Say what you will about Repossessed, but for it's time it really was something special. Keep in mind this predates Stay Tuned, Hot Shots, Loaded Weapon 1, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and even the abysmal Silence of the Hams. Parody was in it's infancy... and this was even weirder... meta parody. Way ahead of it's time, and despite it's shortcomings... kind of a good time. Linda Blair was brilliant, and Nielsen does a decent job being a supporting character. Also, how can you hate the Devil in a Blue Dress scene? It's a friggin' classic.
@ITSAHARDNUGLIFEАй бұрын
"That's disgusting Mean Gene! I don't think I've ever seen anything like that, in all my years of wrestling!" Haha
@TomGreen99Ай бұрын
Hey, Spy Hard is good! It had a Weird Al song.
@Planag7Ай бұрын
He mentions that that's the only good thing
@loboneiner1034Ай бұрын
I liked Spy Hard. Not as good as Wrongfully Accused but better than the other two movies mentioned
@EvilKatarnАй бұрын
Went from "Never heard of these movies" to "oh yeah i've seen them on tv a dozen times as a kid and blocked them from memory"
@raymolloy7655Ай бұрын
Great show, made my day 👍🏻
@Stonecutter334Ай бұрын
Just watching clips of these things was painful. Can’t imagine sitting through these things.
@catsabotage3362Ай бұрын
Watch Space Travesty. It's actually funny.
@ITSAHARDNUGLIFEАй бұрын
Lol oh we've sat through it many many many times.
@bigduke5902Ай бұрын
I think the handicapped parking joke is implying the figure in the sign is an actual life form and tbose spaces are reserved exclusively for them.
@SpecialK234Ай бұрын
Love your vids. You have a great narrator voice.
@bloodrunsclear10 күн бұрын
Casting Leslie and having him do impressions is like hiring Robin Williams and have him be a ventriloquist.
@Foxy02016Ай бұрын
The Toreador March only became a funny joke like 40 years later because of FNaF
@LeroyPattersonАй бұрын
Repossessed is one of the best comedies ever made, 100%!
@immakingamovie1379Ай бұрын
I love your work
@Patralgan20 күн бұрын
Spy Hard is passable, but Space Travesty is inexcusable. I couldn't even finish it
@fredpertrench2460Ай бұрын
I'd love to hear you talk about the dreadful 2008 kevin farley film "an american carol", which promiently features liesele.
@KasumiKenshirouАй бұрын
I remember liking that one at the time, but I haven't seen it in a long time.
@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819Ай бұрын
It felt like one of the first major instances of conservatives trying to make a "anti-woke" film in the 2000s, except it wasn't funny. And it's not like Michael Moore is hard to make fun of, either, as even people on the left aren't exactly fans of him, but the whole tjinh was just "Moore is a fatty who hates everything about America".
@torstenscholz6243Ай бұрын
@@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819 So true. Moore is such a controversial character that he's really not the hardest target to make fun of. He's so right about so many things and can be so entertaining on one hand, yet is such a pretentious narcissist with such a cult of personality surrounding him on the other hand, and also has been caught lying in his films several times. Yet all An American Carol could criticize about him is "He's fat and doesn't like America". And what makes it even sadder is that the film was directed by David Zucker.