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Oh, so they will release Spaceballs: Search for More Money?
No, this is Spaceballs 2: The New One. Mel Brooks said he found the money in his basement, so it needed a new title.
Yeah they should make movies for free. /s 🙄
Pretty good got me there
I was excited about this one until I heard Josh Gad was in charge. That guy is comedy poison. How he ever had a career is a mystery to me.
Listen...Gad fucked Qbert and had Qbert hybrid offspring. For that, he's tolerable in my book.
I haven't been to see a movie in theaters in almost three decades. I might go see this.
Pros: Sound, projection, and seats are all better. Assigned seating is a godsend.
Cons: Prices, people on cell phones, prices, previews/ads push actual start to 20 + (d20 roll) minutes after the listed start, and prices.
Cons
And people's feet on the backrest. I don't mind the feet, but often times they move them all the time and the backrest, too.
I'm curious how the space balls humour will translate to the present and how my mind will judge it. My mind... It changed over time. Plus my memory removed the bad parts in the original movie.
Your theater hasn't updated to recliner couches yet? Only the super tall still kick the back of seat otherwise its a nice way to relax, my theater got them heated seats too.
Pros: Alamo Drafthouse has a strict no phone policy (they eject without refund) and no ads before the show. The only thing they show is kitschy stuff related to the movie. And for Spaceballs, that’s gonna be fun.
Unfortunately, they’ve updated how ordering works and it’s phone based now so people are using their phones during the movie :(
Yeah I still like them over other theaters but I hate that decision. It’s made worse by the fact that they haven’t implemented Apple/google pay so you have to type in the full credit card info every time.
I spoke with a server when they first started doing that and they told me that they were also supposed to speak with guests as little as possible. The servers are often movie lovers so I miss being able to talk about the movie before the show. Fuckin’ Sony.
I was gonna say that it fucking sucked the last time I went there and everyone was on their phones the entire time.
On the other hand, I went to a drive in theater and watched a movie in the trunk of my car with my wife, while people's kids ran around the parking lot playing. That was genuinely fun.
See that's kind of the same for me. I think it's all about expectations vs reality.
Drive in theater - I expect all that, expect the audio to be whatever because it's my car speakers, expect kids and people running around, expect some noise and chaos. It's annoying when people leave their car lights on though or headlights and don't realize it.
Movie theater - dark AF, phones are distracting as hell because my eyes can't ignore a giant bright light appearing out of nowhere and you're at the goddamn movie theater. Turn your phone off. If you can't keep your phone off for the duration of a movie or live theater show then do not go for the love of God.
Just inconsiderate assholes ruining it for others.
Con: The nearest Alamo Drafthouse is almost 2 hours away.
Don't besmirch my sound system. It has a box that says Dolby somewhere
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Mel Brooks is pulling the stops. He's not dead, and neither is his comedy.
What I love is that he's taking risks.
It's not perfect, but we all appreciate it. Fuck the haters, man.
Lol, receiving a boatload of cash to strap your name to a sequel to a successful movie you did decades ago and then keeping your hands out of it, is "taking risks"?
Josh Gad wrote this one not Mel Brooks.
I'm mostly concerned because Mel Brooks hasn't made a good film since Spaceballs.
I know a lot of people love Men in Tights, but it was just a bunch of reused jokes from earlier films. Even the title song was just "Jews in Space" from the epilogue of "History of the World Part I."
Mel Brooks is pulling the stops.
He's literally 100 years old and has no fucks to give.
Pretty sure the film will be horrible but that they pulled off geting Moranis back is simply amazing.
I was sure the new Naked Gun would be terrible but I laughed my ass off. I'll give Spaceballs a chance.
That may be the best endorsement anyone could possibly give
I mean, it's all the same crew, including Mel Fucking Brooks. It's gonna be good.
John Candy 😭
I feel like Mel fucking Brooks may have less energy available at this point in his career to push his artistic vision through.
I feel like this movie is the cinematic equivalent of 90-year-old congresspeople giving us “greatest hits of ideas that played well decades ago”.
Go. Retire. You had a great career for a long time. Now find a smaller audience.
Brooks had very little to do with this sequel aside from reprising his role as Yogurt. He neither wrote nor directed.
Recent successes in revival movies and comedies, like The Naked Gun, make me hopeful.
It can be done, you just have to want to do the work.
As do we. Let's stop rising old franchises to the hole in the roof during a storm.
This one gets a moment in time. It's pretty much the last chance to do something with most of the original cast and creator.
While I share your sentiment usually, this one really is an exception to the reboot slop we have seen over the last decade or so
This one gets a moment in time. It’s pretty much the last chance to do something with most of the original cast and creator.
You can say that for most of these reunion/reboots. Meryl Streep is pushing 80, so The Devil Wears Prada 2 had to happen now. We've already lost one Ghostbuster, so we really needed to make Afterlife happen stat.
Not that I want to harsh anyone's buzz. I've enjoyed some of these things, and this may turn out to be one of the good ones. But I'm not seeing anything setting it apart from the others, either.
One person isn't the majority of the entire cast.
Rick Moranis retired from acting almost 30 years before this project and it was a project worth him coming back for in his opinion.
That's different from your examples in a fundamental way. I'm not sure how I can explain it to you, but the difference for this one is clear and unambiguously a different situation then what you are comparing them to me
One person isn’t the majority of the entire cast.
When it's The Devil Wears Prada and we're talking about Streep, she may was well be.
Moranis is an amazing get, I'll give you that. I'm not trying to write this movie off, I just don't automatically write any of these things off. I don't think the glut of backwards looking projects is good for the industry as a whole, but most do have potential on an individual basis, and a couple of them deliver on it. I'm certainly hoping this will be one of them.
comedies are the exception to rebootslop (generally), for example i desperately want another austin powers movie
I've been waiting for this danged movie since they hinted about it in the original movie almost 40 years ago. Insane production time.
What a reason for him to come back. You were sorely missed, sir.
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I totally missed that
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It's just a jump to the right...
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