Monday, June 27, 2005

FUNNY MOVIE SCENES!


Since yesterday's BLOG post was unavoidably long, I'm making today's post shorter to get you thinking about what you consider the funniest scenes in movies. Here are some of mine:
  1. From: "10": The bedroom argument scene over the definition of the word "Broad" with Julie Andrews and the late Dudley Moore. Hysterical!
  2. From: "That's Life": Jack Lemmon's character Harvey Fairchild decides to attend Mass given by his Notre Dame buddy played by Robert Loggia. Fairchild doesn't know it, but he''s about to be called to the Lectern to give a reading from the Book of Matthew on Adultery, when suddenly he is stricken with an attack of crabs. Sorry if this offends some of my mild mannered readers, but I promise you if you see this scene you'll be on the floor laughing so hard, someone may have to summon the paramedics with oxygen! Not to be missed in this scene: the reaction of the two altar boys trying to keep a straight face!
  3. From: "Save the Tiger": Yeah, it's a great drama, one of Jack's best. But don't miss Lemmon's facial expression after throwing out his back while dancing at a Disco!
  4. From: "Downhill Skier": Robert Redford confronts a girl he is dating about why she stood him up on Christmas Eve. She tries to B.S. her was through it with pathetic excuses as they are sitting in her car, when Redford (in the passenger seat) has heard enough and leans over with his hand and shoves the car horn for five seconds, stares at her and exits the car. Game over. Wow. If you've ever been stood up--check it out.
  5. From: "Skin Deep": the John Ritter movie (careful, there is a second movie with this same title)--his best comedy. Basically the entire movie rates. When it debuted, a buddy and I were threatened by a movie theatre manager that unless we could control ourselves from laughing so hard and falling into the aisle, we would have to leave. (This was a Matinee with only five other people inside!). Good luck if you can locate the VHS tape version-no DVD yet.
  6. From: "Joe Kidd": Clint Eastwood is fed up with Robert Duvall's murdering ways in this spaghetti western and walks up a hotel staircase to confront him, when a guard standing at the top of the stairs tries to ask "And just where the hell do you think you're going?" but never gets to complete his line, as Eastwood grabs him by the belt buckle and throws the goon down the stairs. (You had to be there).
  7. From: M*A*S*H (the original motion picture): The surgeons are playing a poker game and discussing how to help "Painless Pauley", billed as "the best equipped dentist in the Army", who is considering suicide after expectations didn't rise to the occasion the night before during a date. When Ho-John the Korean mess hall boy says: "Here he comes, the Jaw-Breaker!" focus on actor Donald Sutherland facing the camera trying not to laugh. The dialogue with Elliott Gould and Tom Skeritt is to die for! (Pardon the pun).
  8. From "The Commitments": A group of Irish kids from Dublin put a cover band together to play Motown hits (they are still touring!). During the closing credits, as the camera frames each band member, one of kids (apparently having a bad moment) throws a milkshake against the glass window in a recording studio (the cameraman was on the other side)! What can I say? It was funny!
  9. From "Desperately Seeking Susan": Rosanna Arquette innocently framed by the camera from a distant shot is driving a motor scooter slowly up a garage ramp with perfect posture unaware she is being pursued. (No, I don't know why this is funny? Sorry!).
  10. From "The Verdict": Paul Newman picking up Charlotte Rampling in a bar. Newman: "Furthermore, you came here tonight to see me". Rampling: "And what if it wasn't you that I came here to see?" Newman: (straightening his tie) "Well, you got lucky!"

Yes, I realize there are more, and yes these are older movies but it's difficult to think of anything recent that had anything hysterical besides Will Smith in "Hitch"--a funny movie. What are your favorites?

3 Comments:

At 10:02 AM, Blogger mrsmogul said...

Meet the Parents was a movie that made me laugh a lot! too bad meet the fockers was bad!

Desperately seeking susan? Umm that's really weird LOL just kidding.

A lot of movies suck so bad now. that's why I left for awhile. But may return :)

 
At 9:50 PM, Blogger Digital man said...

Some scenes that always get me laughing:

(1) John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd dining at the upscale restaurant in the Blues Brothers.

(2) Scotty trying to communicate with a 20th century computer in Star Trek 4. "Computer? computer?" He's handed a mouse "Hello, computer."


(3) And my favorite scene in movie history. Indiana Jones shooting the swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Classic.

 
At 10:09 PM, Blogger Michael Manning said...

Mrs. Mogul: Yeah, I relate. We are definitely in a "dry spell" here. But take heart! Maybe Blake Edwards will be inspired to hit us again with his talent!

digital man: Upscale is the word.To the Maitre'd: "Those two smell BAD". Funny! Star Trek: Bones to William Shatner: "Dammit Jim! I'm JUST a doctor!!" I don't recall the Harrison Ford bit?

 

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