Spaceballs - Beginning

[@ThrashMetallix]

I love how they made the music impatient at times.

[@charleytisdale6464]

Travis Linton Sinister..... Perfect take on it, as many times as I've seen it, including in the theater. It's spin off "Jaws". You made me laugh hard

[@GothicKnight2]

You can just imagine the look on musicians' faces in the orchestra pit.

[@sha11235]

It's like the music has to keep repeating itself because the ship is so big they need to fill time.

[@SamnissArandeen]

The conductor is that guy from Monty Python that yells "Get on with it!"

[@harvestercommander3250]

Sounds like the Jaws theme.

[@Bloodgod40]

Mel Brooks said on the dvd commentary that if the studio would have let him get away with it, the entire movie would have consisted of 90 minutes of this ship passing by.

[@christopherwellman2364]

It is already quite the sculpture! That would be incredible!

[@victorespino5650]

Lmao

[@unclemikey2004]

I would still watch it....Legend

[@marieeveleduc630]

It would have been even longer

[@elgusaniiiodeljuego6823]

I'd still watch that over the last jedi.

[@thejman3489]

I love how the ship is designed to look like there is going to be a rear end. Like it gets really big or small making it seem like the engines are right there but then it just keeps going.

[@nerdwisdomyo9563]

It’s honestly impressive

[@xinguan2681]

0:29 Like, look at the cylinder!

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@xinguan2681 the cylinder works extremely well. It gives the impression that different parts have different purposes. Yes, it also doubles as false hook for the engines. And after rewatching the movie you know exactly what the cylinders are for. (Hint: a maid needs legs)

I liked how on the DVD commentaries Mel Brooks joked that they wanted to have the whole movie be just this for 90 minutes or so.

[@Urajje]

Haha he said Paramount wouldn't allow it.

[@gamestation2690]

Wade M Paramount didn't release it, MGM did.

[@archangel9363]

I'm surprised nobody has yet to make a 90-minute loop of this, calling it the director's cut... xD

[@HawkbitAlpha]

"Did Mel Brooks really make this movie, OR DID ANDY WARHOL RISE FROM THE DEAD?!!" -Someone name this reference.-

[@h.b.smith_writer]

I remember Mel also joked that this was the longest spaceship in film history.

[@garcia207]

I remember how everyone in the theater was laughing because the ship kept going and going.

[@14031993]

Jennifer Garcia When was this :D

[@DesignByAdrian]

Metatron 200 years ago.

[@nasanchez964]

Design by Adrian I think you mean a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away

[@aigeh1326]

The ship is around 15,690 meters or 10,690 football fields long. Or baybe 6,969 Empire State Buildings or 9,999 US Banks long!

[@op4000exe]

+Karl Jacob Ehm is a football field less than 2 meters? I think you forgot a couple of zeroes on the length of the ship.

[@Mikeanglo]

Whew...the model makers were kept busy for a while on that one.

[@ZC.Andrew]

+Mike Zilla Yes! This is the comment nobody realizes is likely true. This is probably a hand-made model. That makes this all the more impressive.

[@crishemsworth3739]

Oh. I thought it was actually real.

[@lowqualityshitposts8860]

Someone made that of lego once

[@houstonhelicoptertours1006]

The model was 17 ft long. To get it done in time they brought in other staff members to help the regular model makers applying the surface details. Most of it was done by kitbashing, so the surface is encrusted with parts from regular toy models like tanks, planes and ships.

[@maximummatt73]

Yeah this would've taken forever

[@silverqoon]

President Scroob: This ship is too long! If I walked, the movie would be over!

[@2hoterror]

A snail would die just trying to cross the bridge of the massive ship

[@ntothemax8963]

Hahahah that was a great line

[@SqurtieMan]

After the first minute, I was thinking "So, this is the whole movie."

[@isaacbailey3681]

They were actually thinking of making it so.

[@johnkelly90]

Well... The ship was too big... If I walk, the movie would be over.

[@randomdude6719]

Pretty funny movie

[@devilgene7330]

That would’ve been funny

[@InspHCallahan]

This movie is amazing. First it gets a laugh before anyone even says a word. Then, the first line of the movie gets a laugh.

[@OzzyOscy]

*_Then the ship hyperspaces away_* and the camera suddenly pans down to a smaller ship where everyone really is.

[@whatsf2]

OzzyOscy ｐｅｒｆｅｃｔ

[@Statalyzer]

That would have been amazing.

[@TheThejayman32]

That would actually have been hilarious.

[@justsomevikingwhodiscovere1026]

*GENIUS!!*

[@falconrei9836]

Took me a minute but I got it hahahahaha

[@codyerickson3550]

My favorite part about this whole scene is how you can clearly hear the orchestra getting louder and more frantic as they start to get frustrated. 😂

[@outdoorscholar6016]

I can just imagine the conductor flipping off the ship as he has his orchestra start from the top

[@elibailey3761]

Never thought about it that way, you’re a genius!

[@allanegleston13]

i was expecting a sign on the ship saying " long , isnt it "?

[@Screamingurchin]

allan egleston makes sense

[@sha11235]

Nah, that would be a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

[@vanessaalineschunke7502]

Here in Brazil the sign in the back was translated as "sorry, no hitchhikers".

[@christopher32074]

That’s already taken in Blitz Wolf

[@JBlooey]

True Spaceballs fans watch at .25 speed

[@michaelwolf2033]

What a ludicrous thing to say.

[@AntP95]

That's ludicrous speed

[@jessebakken3649]

Just did it.

[@matthewgg9286]

No watch it in 2X, if it's .25 speed the movie will be over

[@MrDamakoEndurance]

The music sounds down right terrifying at that speed.

[@MettanAtem]

This really should've taken at least five times as long.

[@lexithomas7053]

Watch at 0.25 speed

[@isakjohansson7134]

@@lexithomas7053 4 times as long

[@YoungFizzysMusic]

I love this part, even the orchestral piece conveys this so great, pure magic

[@Mac14329]

I must say, for a space opera/science fiction parody, the effects for Dark Helmet's mothership are as impressive as the Star Destroyer itself.

[@henrybierman8431]

More impressive

[@JamaicanCastle]

I was just thinking what scale they used to get this shot, the miniature must've been huge!

[@thecianinator]

ILM did them both

[@hjalfi]

@@JamaicanCastle17 feet! It's in a collection somewhere, although apparently the front section fell off long ago and has been replaced with a mockup.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

That is the right way for a spoof. They have to be functional in the genre in their own right. And Spaceballs is a good spoof that also works as a good scifi comedy.

[@SilVer-gl9sp]

The bumper sticker was worth the wait.

[@sha11235]

They did that in History of the World too.

[@theocruz4544]

Great lesson in punchlining right into timing.

[@nathangarratt9091]

“The lockdown won’t last that long” The lockdown:

[@DanFrederiksen]

too soon

[@bendumpaccount574]

I was thinking that

[@maximummatt73]

This is one big spaceship-assed pandemic, tho, I ain't gonna lie

[@Dlippincott8607]

*11 months ago*

[@PeopleWithPlushies]

@@DanFrederiksen Not anymore 😂

[@themandownthehall]

All that 90 seconds of ship to set up "we break for nobody". Mel Brooks is just amazing

[@Michael-jw6et]

Nope. The ship being that long was not to set up 'We break for nobody.' If the humor was just that, it could have been a regular sized ship and the effect would have been the same. The comedy in this scene was how ridiculously long the ship is. In fact if 'we break for nobody' wasn't on the back of the ship, the humor would have still been the same. So, I guess what I am saying is, you missed the joke.

[@MrPaddy5526]

Nah, it’s just a fun poke at Star Wars having a Star destroyer passing by which already was ridiculously long for a movie

[@actingempty3108]

@@Michael-jw6et Man you must be really fun to hang out with.

[@NiiloPaasivirta]

This is the prime, brilliant example of absolute mastery of timing in comedy.

[@Adam-ms5xt]

Someone please make a 10 hour version of this

[@randomdude6719]

Hold my beer

[@panther7584]

@@randomdude6719 well????

[@iwishic0uldw1n24]

@@randomdude6719 well??????

[@mi39471]

@@randomdude6719 ??????

[@73yologamer]

​@@randomdude6719 well?

[@ridsouto]

What a long ship. It's as long as my Schwartz

[@Gauravkoolwal]

may the Schwartz be with you

[@jasham4762]

I see your Schwartz us as big as mine

[@grantp287]

**high pitched may the Schwartz be with you**

[@Yellowolfgaming101]

Let’s see how well you handle it

[@maximummatt73]

It's not the size, it's how you use it

[@Gimodon]

Something I never noticed until now: you can actually hear the engines starting at about 0:25, which further leads you into thinking "this has to be end, right?"

[@backgroundcharacterj5071]

I remember I saw this on TV as a kid and spat out my cereal dying from laughter

[@MrTmel123]

I don't know why it's so funny but it is.

[@maxerAA]

I love how subtle this humor is, I was watching the opening with a couple friends once and they didn't get it.

[@HellDoggyjr]

It be freaking hilarious if they made it go for 5 Min only for a narrator or director say 'Hurry up already' and it's just a 10m wide Ring ship just spinning around lol.

[@spvxter]

HellDoggyjr this made me crack up so hard

[@FreemanicParacusia]

Monty Python “GET ON WITH IT!!!”

[@MrZoom689]

When the music gets bored you know it’s gonna be good

[@MajesticBiscuit]

This still makes me laugh, one of my favorite scenes how spaceball one just goes on and on lol

[@legodamenOG]

Just imagine how much money it would cost to make a ship that big! 😭

[@thesparduck117]

Lego Damen that’s probably what happened to Planet Spaceball’s air, they sold it to build the leviathan.

[@christopher32074]

The ship itself is big enough that it contained a zoo, a shopping centre, a circus, and all other props used by Spaceballs in this movie.

[@jaredruff9823]

Maybe 10 times as much as it was to build the Titanic, I would think. Lol

[@SioxerNikita]

@@jaredruff9823 What? This thing is at minimum 100 times the size of Titanic, which is generous. It would need very very exotic materials to not break itself apart from the sheer mass during any maneuver adding angular momentum. It would likely require the entire planets resources and most manpower to construct in less than 100 years. This thing is absolutely massive, and it is in space :9

[@jaredruff9823]

@@SioxerNikita Maybe you're right. I was only guessing.

[@redsquirrelftw]

It's the little things like this that make this movie so hilarious. I need to watch it again.

[@wendygm55]

This is my favorite part of any movie ever. The drama is perfect. The looooooooooooooong shot of the battleship kills me every time. I always have to replay everytime I watch because I love it so much.

[@TheNightSpy]

This is how it feels to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey

[@azuredivina]

i had never watched Space Balls until a couple of years ago. by the middle of this scene, i was in tears. lol.

[@felicity4711]

That is one gorgeous model. They don’t make them like that anymore

[@DJDelta0]

I remember when I first saw this movie, I was like "wait, is something wrong with the tape?"

[@imnotdavidxnsx]

had you not heard of mel brooks before?

[@gakkerout]

What makes this scene even better is the fact that it comes up again later on. President Skroob has to run to make the scene, otherwise the movie would end before he got there!

[@Choices2aa]

WE BRAKE FOR NOBODY! I was laughing so hard! This movie is 25 yrs old still funny and gets me every time! BARF, Lone Star, Princess Vespa, Dot, RIP John Candy!

[@7th_Heaven]

If they did a reboot they could play Apollo 440 Can't Stop the Rock or at least have like a cultural reference to it and the Independence Day "I'm Baaack" guy. lol

[@7th_Heaven]

If they did a reboot they could play Apollo 440 Can't Stop the Rock or at least have like a cultural reference to it and the Independence Day "I'm Baaack" guy. lol

[@stephenbyrne2170]

That is literally the longest starship I have ever seen.

[@MattSipka]

Someone needs to make an accurate 3d model of spaceball one, compare its size to other sci-fi ships.

[@thesparduck117]

It’s about 11 KM long, about 2/3’s Darth Vader’s Super Star Destroyer

[@77PacerStudios]

Spaceball One is said to be 11km (6.8 miles) in length! In feet, that would be 35,904 feet! The RMS Titanic, which measured 883 feet long, would be teeny tiny compared to this thing!! If Spaceball One was to be sent in a nose dive down to the wreck of the Titanic on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, only a third of the ship would be underwater!! Yes, a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet would be like a mosquito compared to the size of Spaceball One!! This thing is HUMONGOUS!!

[@jamesxiaolong2199]

@@77PacerStudios it’s also a good 8 or 900 feet taller than Mt Everest the highest mountain on the planet

[@jondstewart]

I remember seeing this in theaters and kids were giggling at this scene. Nowadays they'd get impatient!

[@annuthegod105]

Me and my friends were just watching this and we were laughing histerically. We're 17

[@phantomzone2725]

Even the orchestra was bored while the spaceship was on the screen XD

[@philthephilosopher9235]

Jon Stewart I just kept giggling because what I thought were the thrusters at the end were actually not thrusters and it kept going on!!!

[@flappymlg3607]

Not true

[@TheInkPitOx]

Nowadays this movie would be rated PG-13 and kids wouldn't be allowed in the theater.

[@jambalolk]

Watched this movie with 4 friends and this part made us lol for like 5 minutes straight xD It keeps going and going...

[@moxieme1174]

I first saw this movie last month. When I saw the ship I was like, “When does it end?!” 😂

[@Statalyzer]

Up there with the traffic scene from Office Space as the best opening to any comedy ever.

[@nopenothing9016]

Come on! isnt that hilarious ahahah "We brake for nobody" god damn I havent laughed that hard since a good while

[@sha11235]

That joke was in History of the World Part 1 too, except it said they brake for wild boars.

[@RockLikeABoss]

Look closely at the section on top of the thrusters at 1:35. Looks an awful lot like a folded-up vacuum cleaner, doesn't it? How's that for foreshadowing?

[@InspHCallahan]

Spaceballs is the only movie I've seen to get me laughing before anyone in the film even says a word.

[@andrewexists4517]

Man, when I first saw this movie, I was crying of laughter from this scene

[@iankravitz5723]

The music is reminding me of Jaws, like the ship is a giant shark.

[@jaredruff9823]

You know what, you're right. I can totally see it now.

[@OpenMawProductions]

*DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN* "This ship is too big, if I walked the movie would be over."

[@ScaricoOleoso]

You've captured their STUNT DOUBLES!!!

[@Superbat577]

Fun Fact: George Lucas gave Mel Brooks permission to use ILM, but he said not to have merchandise for the movie.

[@paveloleynikov4715]

So they set up merch shop INSIDE the freaking movie!

[@mariokart8054]

Saw this movie for the first time baked out of my mind and I could have sworn this segment was 5 minutes long. Hilarious.

[@americanlordbusiness]

Very reminiscent of the spaceship crawl in 2001: A Space Odyssey at around 52 minutes into the movie

[@scottmcphee2076]

I remember reading about this joke in a movie magazine but it was so much funnier to see it for myself, instead of it being described in a non partisan review.

[@MasterAnakinSkyWalker]

With a ship that big, do you think they’re all compensating for something?

[@Denladouceur]

As a kid, because I watched this so many times the VHS tape broke, I always remembered that when I saw the largest "wing" at 1:04 the end of the ship was near.

[@jamiejones7325]

Anyone else still prefer models as opposed to CGI, especially for comedy, that’s amazing.

[@georges.mccarthy]

Even the soundtrack in this movie is slick and parodies John Williams!

[@The_Nerd_King]

Best opening Ever! *WE BREAK FOR NOBODY!*

[@Vayshen]

...and there's only one bathroom. ouch

[@MrDamakoEndurance]

If you play it 2x playback speed, it's as if the ship itself is too impatient with the scene so it picked up the pace.

[@apexrogers]

best ship ever, it just goes on and on

[@smokeybear5460]

I remember randomly laughing really hard at this. Still do actually. Something about the doomy music makes it funny as well.

[@IWitnessDnB]

still one of the best opening scenes ever

[@newyorkedit0r]

And that's just the shortest ship in the whole fleet.

[@chuckwright3754]

This NEVER gets old!!!

[@danielplainview2584]

Once you "get" this joke it instantly becomes one of the funniest things ever. I don't know if I've ever laughed this hard at a movie, ever.

[@FramedHamProductions]

Mel Brooks has gone on the record that he would've had this go on for two hours if thought he could get away with it

[@AdvancedDefense]

You just gotta love those loooooooong openings.

[@aigeh1326]

WE BRAKE FOR NOBODY

[@adriankeller7726]

I bet the camera flew with ludicrous speed.

[@kamenriderloud6570]

You can hear the orchestra players getting more frustrated. 😂

[@wowo4389]

The parody of Alien (intro) and Jaws (music) in one scene

[@jonnnyren6245]

Honestly this is a good parody of a Star Destroyer entrance. I mean if they used this angle for the Executor's entrance on Empire, it would nearly look and take as much time as this. Well done this I say. A surprise to be sure but a welcome one.

[@defblinders9585]

Anyone ever notice that the ship is so big the music can't even keep up with it has to get progressively louder as it passes?

[@robbyosborne8830]

that ship is probably longer than the star wars ship

[@jejeakle]

Twice, actually

[@WinslowLeach1974]

The Executor/Super Star Destroyer from Return of the Jedi is bigger actually. Oh man, did I just sound like a big Star Wars geek. Ok, I am. (Love Spaceballs though)

[@howard582]

The Mega-class star destroyer of the First Order now probably holds the record of the largest ship. It’s 60km wide

[@tres9007]

Executor-Class Star Destroyer: 19 km Eclipse-Class Dreadnought: 17 km Sovereign-Calss Dreadnought: 15 km Mega-Class Star Destroyer: 60 km Spaceball 1: 11 km So it's big, not as big than the dreadnoughts on this list but that opening scene is pretty long. Imagine Episode 5 opened with the Executor panning to the screen? It would take like 2 minutes and 30 seconds to pan the entire ship

[@KiwiKugai]

That's a b BIG fraking ship!

[@FuzedBox]

Yeah, it's pretty big (11,000m long), but pretty small compared to a lot of other fictional ships. Check out this awesome comparison of different ships from various media: fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/171/0/1/size_comparison___science_fiction_spaceships_by_dirkloechel-d6lfgdf.jpg WARNING: *Huge image*, may crash some browsers Have fun searching for Spaceball One!

[@FuzedBox]

***** It's portrayed in white, about 2/3 toward the bottom, south of center, and perfectly visible without zooming in.

[@FunkMasterFlex3]

FuzedBox That chart is wildly inaccurate, its showing the Super Star Destroyer as being bigger then the Eclipse, the Eclipse is at least twice as big.

[@FuzedBox]

FunkMasterFlex3 It's perfectly accurate. The Eclipse is at least twice as massive, *not* twice as long. Some of the original portrayals showed it as being longer than the Executor, but those have since been retconned; the Executor class is 19km, and the Eclipse is 17.5km. That's from official sources if you care.

[@atmosrex7126]

FuzedBox I am wondering. Where is the CSO Supercarrier? Is it too big to appear?

[@kenshin6553]

tfw you have to go to the bathroom and it's at the opposite side of the ship

[@rhodie5396]

Imagine if the movie was this but longer😂

[@pauljmorton]

Damn I'd love to be on a ship like that in outer space. I'd go there even if it meant working for the bad guys.

[@AwkwardHypernerd413]

That has got to be the biggest space ship in sci Fi history,

[@0hvist]

I dunno, the _Cathedral Terra_ from Gurren-Lagann is the largest actual vessel I've ever seen in media: easily in the ballpark of around *twice the length of our Moons' diameter.* Its' so large that the crewmen have no choice but to rely upon an internal teleportation network to be able to get anywhere around the ship fast enough. Its production capacity alone is frighteningly efficient that in just a matter of minutes; it is able to create an entire armada of Space Gunmen: Mecha that are roughly around 500 meters in height that can themselves house up to 180,000 people outside of combat: easily large enough to support a population equivalent to that of Ontario, California.

[@TheCosmicViewer]

Correction it is the longest ship in sci-fi history

[@thesparduck117]

I think you need to dive into the 40k universe.

[@RealBelisariusCawl]

@@thesparduck117 Assuming that bringoutthelegos takes your advice, we'll see them again in ... oh, two years, if they make 40k lore research a full-time endeavour.

[@77PacerStudios]

This ship is GINORMOUS, measuring 11km (6.8 miles) in length! Going by the time it takes to view the entire ship, Spaceball One would be traveling at a speed of 237.67 miles per hour! Each one of the engines has a diameter that appears to match the overall length of the LZ-129 Hindenburg, which measured 804 feet long! If one were to send Spaceball One down to the wreck of the RMS Titanic (which lies 2.5 miles underwater at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean), in a direct nose dive, only a third of the ship's overall length would be submerged! I'm also certain that the metal alloys that were used in the construction of Spaceball One would be strong enough to endure the pressures encountered in those kind of water depths. UPDATE: Tues, 11/16/2021 @ 00:16 Hours: I got more details that will help give a really good idea of the size of Spaceball One: a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet measuring 250 feet long would take up three quarters of the diameter of the radar dish that is "jammed"! Another place on Spaceball One that you can put the 747 airliner is on top of the bridge of the ship! And the tower supporting that huge radar dish appears to be a bit taller than the Saturn V rocket that took the first men to the moon. Saturn V measures 363 feet tall!

[@2hoterror]

Holy shoot, howd you calculate that?

[@77PacerStudios]

@@2hoterror I used an online calculator to calculate the speed.

[@MioAkiyama3686]

its this long as a joke starship, but it is still MUCH smaller than some starships from serious franchises.

[@shcubadupa24]

this is exactly what watching 2001: a space odyssey feels like

[@Xurreal]

This goes on for all of some time.

[@Dragman2008]

“Jump straight to ludicrous speed” LORD HELMET NO

[@ConcordeStudios20]

You think they're compensating for something?

[@kellon511]

One of the creators had a certain length for the ship, but with the length he wanted, one scene would be the whole movie!!

[@unclemikey2004]

This part felt like forever when i was a kid,,,

[@elgusaniiiodeljuego6823]

WE BRAKE FOR NOBODY

[@Rgoid]

“We brake for nobody”

[@reality2046]

This hits different when your high af!

[@MeBeTheDB]

Oy Gevalt! It must have taken 6 months to build that opening scene spaceship! Having seen the STAR DESTROYER at ILM whilst they were making EMPIRE, the 11 ft. new one (as opposed to the 3 footer for NEW HOPE) I was told it took 6 months to build -- hence why it looked so damn cool. Now this one! Wowza indeed. Kudos to the effects house and Mel Brooks for creating this outstanding model. If they did it these days in CGI, they better get some real artistes as the newbies get lazy and just 'duplicate-duplicate-duplicate' just to get it done. A pity.

[@sha11235]

I think it is a model.

[@dreademperor2094]

@@sha11235 I think they were saying the model must've took 6 months to build

[@princesspixel3151]

To be fair, the constant duplication might be used as part of a joke 😂

[@zakree9258]

Love how the ship has parts that make think its the end

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

Lol, I expected the ship to have passed by numerous times with the sections dipping down, but nope. 0:30, you would think that's the engine exhaust. 0:56, you would then think, oh this is the aft bridge so it's almost over.

[@cloverfield911]

i love how at 0.31 you think you have finally reached the engine....but then you find theirs more....and more....and more!!! lol

[@Tommy94Gunz]

I watched this for the first time high as hell and it was the trolliest thing ever. Me and my friend were freaking out

[@aigeh1326]

THIS SHIP IS SO DAMN LONG!

[@aigeh1326]

#ErlenAndersenKinn Challenge may be NOT accepted. We don't know the other interior of this ship. Probably we'll just make our own. Right?

[@theheavymetalbrony2257]

To quote President Skroob; The ship is too big. If I walk, the movie will be over. XD

[@JimRyan-e4h]

Chilling. Really scary.

[@NTMonsty]

Spaceball-1 The longest ship in the galaxy "This thing makes the U.S.S. Cygnus look short!"

[@2117ao2]

Do you think Dark Helmet’s compensating for something?

[@jaredruff9823]

🤣🤣🤣