I just picked up The Ref at Target the other day. I had forgotten what a freaking fantastic movie that is. I had also forgotten that Kevin Spacey plays essentially the same character in both that movie and American Beauty.
Jayne, you'll scare the women.
Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
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Kate P. - Aug 25, 2005 4:29:14 am PDT #6755 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Fred Pete - Aug 25, 2005 4:34:27 am PDT #6756 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Kate, I think the greatness of The Ref relies on several things. Mainly -- Dennis Leary and the Kevin Spacey/Judy Davis chemistry.
juliana - Aug 25, 2005 4:39:08 am PDT #6757 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Recent laughing-so-hard-oxygen-deprivation-becomes-a-problem moments -
The end of 40 Year Old Virgin
"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!"
Any of Depp's 5 million takes during Pirates Of The Carribean
Anchorman - "Yeah, there were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident!" (That one ended up requiring shutting the DVD off for a bit. It was just so perfect, because I was running through the previous scene in my head, going "they had horses and fire and a trident, WTF?", and then Carrell said it, and I lost it.
Zero Mostel in The Producers
Not hysteric-inducing, but I always giggle all the way through the swordfight in Princess Bride
Kate P. - Aug 25, 2005 5:11:35 am PDT #6758 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Kate, I think the greatness of The Ref relies on several things. Mainly -- Dennis Leary and the Kevin Spacey/Judy Davis chemistry.
Oh, totally.
Other recent funny movies? Wet Hot American Summer continues to make me cry with laughter. "It's always so great to get away from camp. Even if only for an hour."
P.M. Marc - Aug 25, 2005 5:12:57 am PDT #6759 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I was thinking about hilarious movie scenes last night on my drive home, and thought I'd bring the idea up in thread today: what movie (or mass entertainment) scenes made you laugh the hardest?
While the cumulative effect of the second viewing of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was to laugh so hard I lost my voice, there wasn't any one scene that did me in.
So the nod has to go to Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, when they start singing Hold On.
Every single time I see it, I keep thinking it can't be that funny, and every single time it's funnier than I remember.
Nutty - Aug 25, 2005 5:13:08 am PDT #6760 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I don't often succumb to comedy, but the Anchorman news-team gangfight was pretty effing good. Double points for Tim Robbins in a white-man's fro and pipe, and for the amputation outtakes later on the DVD.
Tom Scola - Aug 25, 2005 5:15:41 am PDT #6761 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Springtime for Hitler in The Producers had me literally rolling on the floor.
juliana - Aug 25, 2005 5:22:16 am PDT #6762 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
That just came from Netflix yesterday!! ::bounce::
bon bon - Aug 25, 2005 5:31:21 am PDT #6763 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
In Anchorman, when Ferrell is in the phone booth and he can't finish the sentence, he just bellows his pain...OMG. Couldn't. Stop. Laughing.
Vonnie K - Aug 25, 2005 5:32:12 am PDT #6764 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
Oh my God, the bag o' weed montage. I nearly killed myself laughing.