What are your favourite fun movies?

[Gingerbread Demon]

I like the Three Musketeers with the balloon airships and stuff. Though casting Milla in this seemed pointless as she was playing the character she does in other movies. But yes why can't we have flying sailing ships?

I had a fun disaster movie night on Saturday.

2012
San Andreas
The Day After Tomorrow

Then to lighten the mood I watched Treasure Planet which I adore

 

[JanewayRulz!]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086886/ American Dreamer

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091306/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Jumping Jack Flash

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093690/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_28 Outrageous Fortune

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101921/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Fried Green Tomatoes

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105417/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_129 Sister Act.

 

[eyeresist]

I like the Three Musketeers with the balloon airships and stuff. Though casting Milla in this seemed pointless as she was playing the character she does in other movies.

I thought her regal look was appropriate to the character (that jawline!), and she brought off the mix of emotion and untrustworthiness pretty well. I'm surprised at people who say Christoph Waltz was bad in the film. I thought he was great as Richelieu, with the bland demeanour concealing an amoral puppet-master (and apparently Waltz really got into the character, doing a lot of research).

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I thought her regal look was appropriate to the character (that jawline!), and she brought off the mix of emotion and untrustworthiness pretty well. I'm surprised at people who say Christoph Waltz was bad in the film. I thought he was great as Richelieu, with the bland demeanour concealing an amoral puppet-master (and apparently Waltz really got into the character, doing a lot of research).

It's definitely a fun movie. Milla was the only thing I felt iffy about.

 

[eyeresist]

Not everyone likes her

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Not everyone likes her

I love her in The Resident Evil movies and Fifth Element, just didn't like her in the Musketeers movie.

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

I found another great fun movie has had a Blu-ray release recently. I've got Brewster's Millions winging its way to me as I type! Perfect viewing for EU referendum week and US election year. None of the above!

 

[Greg Cox]

I'll also recommend the little-known horror film Horror Express. Starring Cushing & Lee, it's a heap of fun, with some laugh-out-loud lines and great creepy moments. (Plus it's set on a train!)

That's a very strange and fascinating horror movie, full on odd twists and ideas. Somebody really ought to consider remaking it one of these days.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Horror at 30,000 feet.

OMG Shatner knows how to ham it up. It was OK fun

 

[RandyS]

The Last StarFighter is fun.

I just watched that again this morning and I agree. I should have put it on my list but it's been a few years since that DVD as been off the shelf.

 

[eyeresist]

That's a very strange and fascinating horror movie, full of odd twists and ideas. Somebody really ought to consider remaking it one of these days.

Speaking of such things, I once had the brainwave that Tim Burton ought to remake First Men in the Moon. Sadly, he might not be up to it these days.

 

[Tim Walker]

One movie I can recommend is World's Fastest Indian.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Airplane!

Star Trek IV

 

[Random_Spock]

Airplane!

Star Trek IV

Love those two! And don't call me Shirley!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I would have added the Naked Gun movies to that list if they had stuck more closely to the spirit of Police Squad! which they were based on.

That show - and also Airplane! - was funny because the characters basically played it straight. That's the real reason they were so hilarious...the Naked Gun movies, on the other hand, tried way too HARD to be funny and just turned into stupid slapstick.

I mean, come on, you can't seriously tell me that Frank Drebin was anywhere near as funny in the movies as he was on the show...he's not supposed to be a bumbling moron, the whole point is that Drebin is a normal person, a GOOD cop, just somebody who's so serious that he doesn't notice the funny things happening around him.

"Our next stop was a neighborhood known as Little Italy..."

Oh, and if they ever reboot Police Squad!: Michael Hogan as Drebin. You KNOW you want it.

 

[eyeresist]

There was no way to directly translate Police Squad! into a movie, because it was so dependent on the TV format it was parodying.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ True dat.

"We're sorry to bother you at a time like this, Mrs. Twice. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then."

 

[DarrenTR1970]

@eyeresist and mr. Laser Beam
I don't know if you're aware of this but after Police Squad was cancelled by ABC, ZAZ went to the studio head with a proposal to create a Police Squad movie using clips from the show.
The premise would have been that Frank Drebin would be on trial for use of excessive force and the various characters that he had arrested over the course of the series would be called to testify against him. Cue the clips.
They got as far as filming the wraparound courtroom scenes before the plug was pulled.
The surviving footage can be found as an extra on the Police Squad Special Edition DVD.

 

[Tim Walker]

What I have on now is Mystery Men. Very dumb, but in a fun sort of way.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

Airplane!
Black Dynamite
The Day After Tomorrow
Evil Dead II
Ghost Busters
Independence Day
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist
Pulp Fiction