25 Favorite Films with Broken Lizard!
Jay Chandrasekhar
Reservoir Dogs (1992, 95% Tomatometer)
Reservoir Dogs, I love for the dialogue. I think it's just unbelievably brilliant and funny. Original, and just strange -- the little conversations between Joe and Michael Madsen when they're in the office, and Chris Penn comes running in and he goes, "I see you sitting there, but I don't believe it!" I just love every inch of that movie.This is Spinal Tap (1979, 97% Tomatometer)
Spinal Tap --- I think you could make an easy argument that that's the funniest movie ever. It's just top to bottom quotable and brilliant, and I guess improvised? I'm curious to know how much of it was improvised. But it's a tremendous movie.
48 Hrs. (1982, 97% Tomatometer)
I think 48 Hrs. is the perfect tough, funny buddy movie. I think Eddie Murphy exploded off of it --- he was on Saturday Night Live, but...in his intro when he's singing "Roxanne," and going to the hillbilly bar, and Nick Nolte being such a hilarious, racist prick. I loved it. "Sorry about the watermelon joke." Halloween (1978, 91% Tomatometer)
I think it's the scariest movie I've ever seen. It was supposedly shot in Hattenfield, IL and I lived in a small town in Illinois. I just found it just horrifying. I still, to this day, find it incredibly horrifying; the music gives me the chills. The actual street, though is here in Hollywood right by our Blockbuster. So I always look down there. "I don't see Michael Myers..."
Heffernan: That's when he's at his most dangerous!
Billy Liar (1963, 100%)
There's a movie called Billy Liar that Tom Courtenay is in, which I saw with Paul. It's this guy who's a daydreamer, and the movie goes deep into his daydreams and it's so hilarious and bizarre.
Soter: It's an older movie that is not dated at all, in terms of the comedy. I'm jumping in here because it's on my list and I have to take it off ---
Chandrasekhar: Ha-ha.
Soter: Jay and I were like, they're showing this revival of this old movie we've heard good things about, and we go and the both of us are screaming through the whole movie, laughing our asses off. I can't believe it was made in 1963; it was such a revelation, the idea that a very British, black and white movie would feel very immediate and hysterical.
Next: Last but not least, Paul Soter wraps up with his favorite flicks
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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. (Reply to this) |
on Jan 16 2009 08:40 PM i like farva's movie picks the most strangelove is prolly on my top five (Reply to this) |
on Jan 16 2009 08:48 PM I am so glad Airplane made their list. Good variety (Reply to this) |
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. (Reply to this) |
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 (Reply to this) |
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. (Reply to this) |
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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. (Reply to this) |
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. (Reply to this) |
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?!? (Reply to this) |
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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. (Reply to this) |
on Jan 17 2009 09:26 AM You know "Jaws" was actually rated PG when it was released (Reply to this) |
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 . . . (Reply to this) |
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. (Reply to this) |
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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. (Reply to this) |
on Jan 17 2009 05:30 PM Definitely more taste than talent with that group. (Reply to this) |
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on Jan 17 2009 06:19 PM Hey you know who has sexy breasts? Megan Fox. check her out. (Reply to this) |
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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. (Reply to this) |
on Jan 17 2009 07:26 PM So glad Breaking Away made it. That is one really, good, movie. (Reply to this) |
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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. (Reply to this) |
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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 (Reply to this) |
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