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25 Favorite Films with Broken Lizard!
by Jen Yamato
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Erik Stolhanske


[The other Broken Lizards chime in with Stolhanske's "favorite films": "Steel Magnolias, Terms of Endearment, Fried Green Tomatoes, Rachel Getting Married, Tea with Mussolini..."]


The Wild Bunch (1969, 97% Tomatometer)
The Wild BunchI'm going to start with The Wild Bunch. Peckinpah. I kind of like the anti-hero movies. I don't like heroes, I like anti-heroes.

Five Easy Pieces (1970, 82% Tomatometer)
Five Easy PiecesWhy Five Easy Pieces? Also an anti-hero movie. Jack Nicholson is not necessarily a likeable character, but you can't help wanting to root for the guy. Especially at the end when he goes to the bathroom and hops in a truck and just takes off. For some reason you still like this guy who leaves his girl sitting at a gas station.

Lemme: And that scene in the diner, "stick the chicken between your knees."

Stolhanske:"Stick the chicken between your knees." Nicholson giving Sally Struthers the business.

Lemme: Sally Struthers naked!

Stolhanske: Wild sex, too. Bouncing off the walls.

Chandrasekhar: We stayed in Sally Struthers' house when we came out to L.A. We were struggling actors and she let us stay in her house, for like a week.


Husbands (1970, 57% Tomatometer)
HusbandsOne summer, they were doing a '70s movie revival at the Film Forum in New York, and Soter and I would go see double features; you pay for one, you see two. All '70s movies. It was great, so we'd go there all the time. One of my favorites was John Cassavetes' Husbands. That was a great, funny movie; first of all, it was cool because a lot of it was improvised. There's Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes...one of their buddies dies, so they basically decide life's too short and they're going to go get drunk one night and reflect on life. So it's one night of these guys going out and drinking, but then they end up going to London.

Soter: What's cool is that was our introduction to Cassavetes and the idea of movies like that, that are so cool and funny, but maybe warm and all over the place. That was the point when we realized that he made those really cool, guy movies.

Stolhanske: Yeah. I mean, it really seemed like they were actually sitting around a table and drinking and improvising these scenes. It felt incredibly naturalistic.


Being There (1979, 97% Tomatometer)
Being ThereI love Being There -- Peter Sellers' Being There. Big Peter Sellers fan, love Hal Ashby.


The Empire Strikes Back (1980, 97%)
The Empire Strikes BackI think my last favorite film would be The Empire Strikes Back. Tough, between Star Wars or Empire Strikes Back, I love them both.

Lemme: Empire had more dangers. It had some cliffhangers, too. Han Solo going down -- I didn't sleep after that one. How do you end a movie like that? What a revolutionary ending for a movie.




Next: Broken Lizard vet, first-time director and erstwhile Farva, Kevin Heffernan
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jokerboy1991
jokerboy1991 writes:
on Jan 16 2009 07:56 PM

Thats a great list. It seems a lot of the interviewes really like Being There, which is awesome and if anyone here doesn't know yet there re-releasing it and its going to be on Blu-Ray. I like Broken Lizard despite Club Dredd and Dukes of Hazzerd sucking (I thought), I think Super Troopers and Beerfest were funny. I hope Slamming Sammy is funny. This must have been such a fun interview.

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UmbrellaLandFood
UmbrellaLandFood writes:
on Jan 16 2009 08:40 PM

i like farva's movie picks the most
strangelove is prolly on my top five


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blattman
blattman writes:
on Jan 16 2009 08:48 PM

I am so glad Airplane made their list. Good variety

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ledawg1138
ledawg1138 writes:
on Jan 16 2009 10:44 PM

Wow, excellent all around. Personally I think everything they touch turns to garbage, but hey that's me.

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Weed17
Weed17 writes:
on Jan 17 2009 04:39 AM

i hated beerfest. excuse me if i am not an usual run of the mill stupid man joke loving stooge. i do like beer tho :] hvnt seen super troopers, but i heard its good

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lestatthevampire
lestatthevampire writes:
on Jan 17 2009 07:56 AM

Dude, even in interviews these guys are tight. They are a great comedy team.
BTW... Jokerboy is right. Saw Being There last weekend. AMAZING movie. If I had seen it like ten years ago after graduating high school I probably would've went searching the world for meaning. It's a movie that is a state of mind.


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He's a Cockapoopoo
He's a Cockapoopoo writes:
on Jan 17 2009 08:01 AM

Husbands! Five Easy Pieces! I looked up to Erik before when he busted through P 90 plyometrics on one leg, but he's taken on a whole other level of cool. I'm so amped I'm gonna spend the next few hours ripping into reviewers that gave Husbands a rotten.

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Mr. Bo Ziffer
Mr. Bo Ziffer writes:
on Jan 17 2009 09:01 AM

Very cool list. I like a lot of variety, but I can agree with the repeats these guys threw out (Reservoir Dogs, Spinal Tap, etc.). I'm really looking forward to Slammin' Salmon.

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Hamboner
Hamboner writes:
on Jan 17 2009 09:10 AM

They make 40,000 bottles of beer a day. I drink 40 off the line, AND I'M THE *** HOLE?!?

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Hamboner
Hamboner writes:
on Jan 17 2009 09:18 AM

You have to dominate the swordfish, only then can you saute it.

When Michael Clark Duncan said that line in the trailer I couldn't stop laughing for about 5 minutes.


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Spitknot420
Spitknot420 writes:
on Jan 17 2009 09:26 AM

You know "Jaws" was actually rated PG when it was released

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tomwaitsjr
tomwaitsjr writes:
on Jan 17 2009 11:57 AM

Braveheart at 76%? WOW.

Thanks Jen. You put a lot of work into this and it shows.

I've seen their films, and just found them mildly nice. My juvenile friends who still think they are in college, however, absolutely love them . . .


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~*Admiral Snowstorm*~
~*Admiral Snowstorm*~ writes:
on Jan 17 2009 12:29 PM

Well, surprisingly great picks from Paul Soter. Airplane! and Crimes and Misdemeanors are amongst my favorites of all time too, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy Butch Cassidy. Reasonably good picks from the rest, too. I wasn't expecting anything too high-brow, and they didn't deliver anything too high-brow.

I've seen Super Troopers and I quite liked it. Beerfest was pretty good fun as well. However, most seem to agree that those are their best works, and I seem to have unintentionally avoided their less-loved works. So I guess I can't be an accurate judge of them. I'll probably see Slammin' Salmon at one point or another, though.


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magnolianights1990
magnolianights1990 writes:
on Jan 17 2009 04:28 PM

In reply to this comment (#2261109)
Dude, why do you have pennywise as a picture?

You'll scare the hell out of kids.


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nathanpoitras
nathanpoitras writes:
on Jan 17 2009 05:30 PM

Definitely more taste than talent with that group.

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SterlingCinematic
SterlingCinematic writes:
on Jan 17 2009 06:19 PM

Hey you know who has sexy breasts? Megan Fox. check her out.

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SterlingCinematic
SterlingCinematic writes:
on Jan 17 2009 06:20 PM

In reply to this comment (#2262345)
Hey you know who has sexy breasts? Megan Fox. check her out.

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rle4lunch
rle4lunch writes:
on Jan 17 2009 07:26 PM

So glad Breaking Away made it. That is one really, good, movie.

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Mr. Bo Ziffer
Mr. Bo Ziffer writes:
on Jan 17 2009 09:02 PM

In reply to this comment (#2262263)
Red hair . . . Pasty white skin . . . Mangled teeth . . .
He kind of looks like me.


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jorel1114
jorel1114 writes:
on Jan 18 2009 12:39 AM

These guys really suck at life...there's a reason that their movies consistently don't make money...it's because they're not funny. I get that maybe starting out things would be slow, that you'd build a cult following. but they've actually gotten worse with time. What a bunch of asshats

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