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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 22, 2008 -> 12:11 AM) Japanese dont use gongs? Not the stereotypical huge banging cacophony ones. They use small "fantan-esque" ones.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Apr 22, 2008 -> 12:46 AM) excellent write-ups on the movies, knightni I'd like to thank wikipedia for this honor...

QUOTE (Steff @ Apr 21, 2008 -> 05:21 PM) :smileyfeedinganothersmileyababybottle

The gong is a Chinese instrument, not Japanese.

Okay. The countdown will resume tomorrow around 11:30am or so.

I have nipples, Greg, could you milk me? 27. (tie) Meet The Parents (2000) (5 of 23 lists - 52 points - highest ranking #6 ChiSox_Sonix, 3E8) Meet the Parents is a 2000 comedy film starring Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller. The film was distributed by Universal Studios and DreamWorks SKG and directed by Jay Roach of Austin Powers fame. A male nurse (Greg Focker) intends to propose to his girlfriend (Pam Byrnes). But before he can even ask, he goes to visit Pam's parents' house on Long Island for the weekend to attend Pam's sister's wedding. Little does Greg know, he will have to endure a troublesome cat, Pam's ex-boyfriend, all of Pam's relatives, and her intrusive father, Jack Byrnes, a retired CIA operative who wonders if Greg is good enough for Pam. Greg struggles to impress Pam's family, but it seems everything he says or does is offensive to the Byrneses. One of the first things Greg learns about Jack is his belief in a system called the "Circle of Trust". The idea of the system is that within Jack's circle of friends, there are no secrets. Throughout the films, this system proves to be flawed, since Jack doesn't trust some people in the circle (namely Greg), and some people in Jack's family are untrustworthy (like his teenage son Denny, who, unbeknownst to his dad, smokes marijuana). Also, the circle permits Jack to invade other people's privacy. Jack uses mind games, lie detector tests, and constant questions to push Greg over the edge. Greg will have to overcome Jack's interrogations and tests to finally persuade Jack to allow him to marry his daughter. At one point towards the end, Jack says to his wife Dina, "Just gotta do one more thing. Meet his parents", thus paving the way for a sequel. . . . In 2004 its sequel Meet the Fockers was released. Another sequel, Little Fockers, has been announced.

I'm Sorry Wendy, but I don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die. 27. (tie) South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) (3 of 23 lists - 52 points - highest ranking #2 FlashTizzle) South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is an Academy Award-nominated animated satirical comedy/musical film released in 1999 and based on the animated television series South Park. The film parodies animated Disney films such as Beauty and the Beast and the Broadway musical Les Misérables, as well as parodying the controversy surrounding itself. It features 12 songs by Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman with additional lyrics by Matt Stone. The Terrance and Phillip movie "Asses of Fire" opens in South Park's movie theater, and despite the R-rating for the film due to numerous crude jokes, constant flatulence humour and excessively strong swearing, Stan Marsh, Kyle and Ike Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick manage to sneak in to watch it. They utter many of the profanities in the film to their peers, causing most of the rest of the student body to eventually sneak in to watch the film and subsequently utter similar profanities, despite efforts by the school's teacher Mr. Garrison and school counselor Mr. Mackey to teach the students to not swear. The only student not to succumb to the film's lure is Wendy Testaburger, Stan's crush, who has fallen for Gregory, a new and better educated transfer student, to whom Stan takes an instant dislike. After seeing a showing of the film, Eric dares Kenny to light a fart as done in the movie; Kenny tries to but ends up blowing himself up and dying. Kyle's mother, Mrs. Broflovski, learns that the kids have been seeing the movie and have learned to swear from it, and takes steps to encourage other parents to help ban the film. Furthermore, Mrs. Broflovski with the help of Dr. Vosknocker (Eric Idle) installs a "V-Chip" in Cartman, which issues an electric shock to him every time he tries to swear, in an attempt to adjust Cartman's behavior; Mrs. Broflovski encourages the rest of the townsfolk to do the same to their kids. Upon learning the film was made in Canada, Mrs. Broflovski vows to stop all Canadian smut from getting to the kids even going as far to convince President Bill Clinton to take a stand. Terrance and Phillip are captured while taping on Conan O'Brien's (Brent Spiner) show, and Canada responds by bombing the mansion of the Baldwin brothers. This prompts the United States to go to war with Canada, and Terrance and Phillip are scheduled to be electrocuted at a U.S.O. show the day before the war is to commence. Meanwhile, Kenny finds himself in Hell and meets Satan and his lover, Saddam Hussein. Satan learns of the potential demise of Terrance and Phillip, which will complete a prophecy that will allow Satan to be able to leave Hell and come to peacefully visit the surface of the Earth, a dream that he secretly desires. Hussein also realizes that he can use this opportunity to take over the world, but when Satan questions his motives, Hussein promises that "he can change", which Satan takes for granted. Kenny tries to tell Satan to dump Hussein before it is too late, as well as attempting to warn Cartman, though as a ghost, he only manages to scare Cartman away. On the surface, as war approaches, the kids of South Park are under curfew, but they manage to meet in secret and form "La Resistance", a group dedicated to saving Terrance and Phillip. Stan is surprised to find Gregory willing to help, and with Gregory's aid, they approach another kid, "The Mole", who hates God, and helps in devising a tunneling plan to free the Canadian actors. At the show, the boys manage to execute part of the plan: Stan and Kyle get Big Gay Al to sing a long song at the show to allow The Mole to tunnel up on stage; however, Cartman, frightened by another appearance of Kenny's ghost, fails to deactivate the alarms, and the Mole is caught and chased & killed by Guard Dogs. However, before anyone can take action, the Canadians attack, with large numbers of fatalities on both sides. The Mothers Against Canada, looking down on the action from a nearby hill, are horrified at what their actions have lead to, except for Sheila, who claims that this is what she wanted the organisation to achieve. Disgusted, the rest of the MAC abandon her to look for their children. In the chaos, Stan, Kyle, and Cartman manage to free Terrance and Phillip, though Cartman receives a large electrical shock that plays havoc with his V-Chip. The boys try to escape with the actors, but are caught. However, as other kids gather around to protect Terrance and Phillip, nearly everyone realizes that the war has been futile - except for Mrs. Broflovski, who shoots both Terrance and Phillip down. As their blood spills, Satan and his minions, along with Hussein and Kenny, emerge from Hell. Hussein quickly takes a dominant position over Satan, and claims control of the world in his name. As the minions attack everyone around, Cartman finds that the shock the V-Chip took gives him the ability to shoot electricity as long as he swears; using this newfound power, he strikes down Hussein several times. At the urging of Kenny, Satan steps in and throws the stunned Hussein back into Hell, impaling him on a large rock and killing him. Satan promises Kenny one wish for his help, and Kenny sacrifices himself to reset the world back before the whole war started. Kenny also shows his real face and un-muffled voice to his friends before his final farewell. As the movie closes, Mrs. Broflovski has realized the error of her ways and takes kindly to Terrence and Phillip, the folks of South Park offer Satan to come back and visit, and Wendy dumps Gregory in favor of Stan. While Kenny is still dead, he is allowed into Heaven and given angel wings for his good deeds and sacrifice. The credits follow, and after them, A scene is shown with Kyle's brother, Ike looking out the window, waiting and waiting, until suddenly he spots a mouse and eats it. . . . The song "Blame Canada" was nominated for an Academy Award. Guest voices * George Clooney - Dr. Gouache * Brent Spiner - Conan O'Brien * Minnie Driver - Brooke Shields * Dave Foley - The Baldwin Brothers * Eric Idle - Dr. Vosknocker * Mike Judge - Kenny's goodbye The movie's use of profanity gained it a spot in the 2002 edition of Guinness World Records for "Most Swearing in an Animated Film" (399 profane words, including 146 uses of f***, 79 uses of s***, and 66 uses of b****, 128 offensive gestures and 221 acts of violence). The film was also banned in Iraq, for its depiction of Saddam Hussein as Satan's lover. While the real Saddam was on trial for genocide charges in 2006, Matt Stone joked that the U.S. military was showing the movie repeatedly to the former dictator. Trey Parker in a VH1 special said he heard that Stephen Sondheim, famed musical theater composer and lyricist, thinks South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is the best musical he's seen in the past 15 years. Parker joked about writing Sondheim a response saying, "We think you've done some good work, too."

What kind of convenience store do you run here? 29. (tie) Clerks (1994) (5 of 23 lists - 51 points - Highest ranking #3 southsider2k5) Clerks is a 1994 film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also appears in the film in a minor role. Starring Brian O'Halloran as Dante Hicks and Jeff Anderson as Randal Graves, it presents a day in the lives of two store clerks and their acquaintances. Clerks was the first of Smith's "View Askewniverse" films. It introduces several characters, notably Jay and Silent Bob, who reappear in his later works. Dante Hicks is a clerk at the Quick Stop, a local convenience store in Leonardo, New Jersey. One morning, he receives a phone call from his boss, who claims that another employee is sick. After a brief argument, he reluctantly agrees to work, on the promise that he will be relieved at twelve o'clock so he can play hockey with his friends. When he arrives to open up the store, he realizes that the shutters outside will not open because someone jammed gum in the locks. With the shutters down, the store appears closed, so he writes "I assure you; we're open" in shoe polish on a large bed sheet and hangs it in front of the store. Next, a man enters the store to buy coffee and talks a customer into buying chewing gum instead of cigarettes after showing him a human lung corroded by tar. As more cigarette buyers come in, the man's interventions become more impassioned, eventually turning them into a mob, who form around Dante angry that he is "selling death", and begin calling him a "cancer merchant". After Dante is assaulted with cigarettes, his girlfriend Veronica Loughran enters, acting quickly and calming the crowd by spraying them with a fire extinguisher. After a conversation, it is revealed that the agitator was a representative for a chewing gum company, and was stirring up the smokers with intent on selling more gum. Later, Dante and Veronica have a conversation regarding Dante's current disposition, as he seems to be in a rut but has no motivation to change. After the conversation, a customer arrives who is an old boyfriend of Veronica's, Willam "Snowball" Black (known as such for his enjoyment of his own semen being passed back into his mouth after fellatio a.k.a. snowballing). It is revealed that Veronica has, throughout her life, performed fellatio on 36 men other than Dante, which makes him furious, considering Veronica hit him previously for admitting to having sex with twelve different women. Dante's fellow clerk, Randal Graves, who works at the neighboring video store, shows up late once again. Dante finds out from Randal that his unfaithful ex-girlfriend Caitlin Bree is to be married to an Asian design major, much to Dante's disdain. As they pass time during the day they converse about many things, such as if the contractors working on the second Death Star when it was destroyed at the end of Return of the Jedi were innocent victims or not. Dante eventually learns that his boss is in Vermont, and no one is going to relieve him at noon as promised. He convinces his friends to play hockey on the store roof, and closes down the store, leaving a sign on the door explaining, "Store Closed. Will Re-open After 1st Period." Twelve minutes into the game an irate customer shoots their only ball off the roof and into a gutter. The two reopen the store and Dante finds out another of his ex-girlfriends has died and her memorial service is today. Randal talks him into closing the store again and going to the wake. The audience does not see what happened inside the house containing the memorial service, simply seeing them go in, time pass, a woman scream and the two run out (it should be noted that due to an unfilmed scene inside the house being animated for the 10th Anniversary Edition DVD, it is now known that while at the memorial Randal accidentally knocks over her coffin after trying to retrieve keys that are dropped in as an accident, and the body falls out). They rush back and when they return to the store, Randal asks to borrow Dante's car to rent a film from another video store (despite the fact that he works in a video store, he knows the other one is better). While on duty, a fitness trainer enters the store, and criticizes Dante's body size, and observes that he's out of shape, even asking a customer for her opinion. It turns out the three actually attended high school together, and the two customers reveal that even they knew of Caitlin's infidelity, although Dante was oblivious. During the conversation, another man enters, and questions Dante about where he was earlier in the day, then serves Dante a summons. It turns out the man is there to serve Dante a $500 fine for selling cigarettes to a four-year-old, even though it was Randal who actually sold the cigarettes. After the trainer, girl, and health department rep. leave, Dante is surprised by a visit from Caitlin. After some banter Dante becomes torn between her and Veronica. Dante finally decides he will go on a date with Caitlin and drives home to change, after Randal returns. When Dante returns he discovers Caitlin has had sex with a dead man in the bathroom mistaking him for Dante (the man had earlier entered the bathroom with a pornographic magazine and collapsed with a heart attack). In severe shock, Caitlin is taken away in an ambulance, along with the corpse she recently fornicated with. Afterwords, Jay and Silent Bob enter the store. Jay invites Dante to come to party with them, but Dante refuses. Jay, frustrated, leaves. Silent Bob, who knows about Dante's predicament, stays behind. He then says to Dante, his only line in the movie, "You know, there's a million fine-looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you." It is then that Dante realizes that he loves Veronica. Later, Veronica comes into the Quick Stop and yells at Dante after Randal tells her he was in love with Caitlin. The two, Dante and Randal, get into a huge fight then reconcile. The film ends with Randal walking out of the store before briefly returning to toss Dante's sign at him stating, "You're closed!" The lost scene The events of Julie Dwyer's wake were scripted by Smith, but unfilmed due to the probable cost of producing the scene. For the tenth anniversary Clerks X DVD release, the scene was produced using an animation style similar to that of Clerks: The Animated Series. The "lost scene" was also presented in comic book form of the Clerks comic book series, with the title of "The Lost Scene". Dante and Randal, after hearing of the death of Dante's former high school flame Julie Dwyer, go to her wake. At the wake, Randal picks up some death cards from a table and discusses collecting them like baseball cards. Dante also runs into another former high school classmate, Alyssa Jones. Alyssa tells Dante that she was going to see Julie's appearance on Truth or Date (see Mallrats) before she learned of her death. Randal walks over to the two and greets Alyssa with "Hey, 'Finger Cuffs'!", prompting her to angrily storm off. As Dante and Randal wait in line to see Julie Dwyer's casket, Dante recalls the time he and Julie were caught having sex by her parents. When the two arrive at the casket, they question the choice of Julie's funeral clothing (a tube top), and Randal decides he's bored and wants to go to the car. Dante throws him the keys, but Randal misses the catch and the keys fall into Julie's pants. Dante reaches into the pants to find the keys while Randal rubs his shoulders, making it seem like Dante's upset. Julie's father pushes Randal out of the way and, after seeing Dante's actions, pounces on him. Randal is then pushed by Mrs. Dwyer and bumps into Julie's casket, which topples over, as does Julie's body. Randal catches the keys as they fly into the air, and he and Dante run out abruptly. The Alternate Ending An alternate ending was written for the film, but was removed after Clerks shown at a film festival and viewers commented that it was too sad and violent. After Randal leaves the store in the ending, Dante goes back behind the counter. The camera perspective switches to the perspective of a man entering the store. Dante apologizes and says that the store is closed. The man then pulls out a gun and fires it, presumably killing Dante. He walks behind the counter and fills a folder with money from the cash register. After he leaves, the camera focuses on Dante's body, blood dripping down his hands, and the movie ends. Fans have discussed how this ending may have made shed more light on the Star Wars conversation, since it would have ended the movie on 'down notes' such as Veronica leaving Dante, Caitlyn being left in a catatonic state, and Dante being shot in the end, all ironically because "he wasn't supposed to be there that day". Fans have also talked about how if the ending had happened, there would not be any other movies in the line such as Mallrats or Clerks 2. . . . The film is in black-and-white and roughly edited due to a very modest budget of US$27,575. To acquire the funds for the film, Smith sold a large amount of his extensive comic book collection in 1993, maxed out eight to ten credit cards with $2000 limits, dipped into a portion of funds set aside for his college education and spent insurance money awarded for a car he and Jason Mewes lost in a flood. The film was shot in 21 straight days (with two "pick-up" days). A Quick Stop convenience store (located at 58 N. Leonard Avenue in Leonardo, New Jersey) where Smith worked was the primary setting for the film. He was only allowed to film in the store at night while it was closed (from 10:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m.). This is why in the film "someone jammed gum in the locks" and the steel shutters had to remain closed; otherwise, it would seem odd that it was dark outside during all the daytime scenes. Because Smith was working at Quick Stop during the day and shooting the film at night, he slept no more than an hour a day. By the end of the 21 day shoot, Smith was unable to stay awake while some of the most climactic scenes of the film were shot. The MPAA originally gave Clerks an NC-17 rating, based purely on the film's explicit dialogue — it contains no real violence, and no clearly depicted nudity. This was a financial death sentence, as very few cinemas in the United States will screen NC-17 films. Miramax hired civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz to appeal the decision; the MPAA relented and re-rated the film with the more commercial "R" rating, without altering a single frame or word.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Apr 21, 2008 -> 06:41 PM) oh lord....

Vizzini: No more rhyming now, I mean it. Fezzik: Anybody want a peanut? Vizzini: DYEEAAHHHHHH. 29. (tie) The Princess Bride (1987) (6 of 23 lists - 51 points - highest ranking #7 vandy125) The Princess Bride is a 1987 film, based on the 1973 novel The Princess Bride by William Goldman, combining comedy, adventure, romance and fantasy. The movie was directed by Rob Reiner from a screenplay by Goldman. The main narrative of the movie is framed by a scene between a grandson (Fred Savage) and a grandfather (Peter Falk). The grandson is home ill, and the grandfather has come to read him a story. The plot of the movie is the enactment of the story as it is being read, which is sometimes interrupted by comments by the grandson and grandfather. This resembles the original book, wherein the author presents a fictionalization of his own darkly comic or lightly tragic relationships with the book, his father, and his wife. In a Renaissance-era fairy-tale world, a beautiful woman named Buttercup (Robin Wright) lives on a farm in the fictional country of Florin. She delights in verbally abusing the farm hand Westley (Cary Elwes) by demanding that he perform chores for her. Westley's only answer is, "As you wish," which represents his great affection for her. After Buttercup realizes the true meaning of the words, as well as the fact that she returns his love, Westley leaves to seek his fortune so they can marry. He promises to return, but Buttercup later receives word that his ship was attacked at sea by the Dread Pirate Roberts, who is notorious for taking no prisoners. Five years later, believing Westley to be dead, Buttercup becomes reluctantly engaged to Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon), heir to the throne of Florin. Before the wedding, Buttercup is kidnapped by a trio of outlaws: the short Sicilian criminal genius Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), the Spanish fencing master Ínigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin), and the enormous and mighty Turk Fezzik (André the Giant). A masked man in black follows them across the sea and up the Cliffs of Insanity; Vizzini orders Ínigo to stop him. Ínigo arranges a fair fight, allowing his opponent to rest before the duel, during which Ínigo reveals that he is seeking revenge on a six-fingered man who killed his father. The man in black wins their duel, but leaves the Spaniard alive. Vizzini, stunned, orders Fezzik to kill the man in black. Fezzik, also honorable, throws a rock as a warning, and challenges the man in black to a wrestling match. He chokes Fezzik until the giant blacks out. The man in black catches up with Vizzini, who is holding Buttercup hostage. He then challenges Vizzini to a battle of wits, which Vizzini accepts. The man in black produces a vial of "iocane powder" (a fictitious, undetectable poison), hides two goblets of wine behind his back as if to poison one of them, then instructs Vizzini to choose a goblet. Vizzini uses logic to deduce which cup is poisoned, drinks from one, and dies. The man in black then reveals to Buttercup that he had poisoned both goblets, but was not affected because he had built an immunity to iocane powder. With Prince Humperdinck's rescue party in hot pursuit, the man in black flees with Buttercup, and confirms her guess that he is the Dread Pirate Roberts, Westley's murderer. Enraged, she shoves him into a gorge, yelling "You can die, too, for all I care!" only to hear him call, "As you wish!" She realizes that he is Westley, who tells her that the Dread Pirate Roberts did attack his ship, but kept Westley alive after hearing the depths of his love for Buttercup. Westley had signed on as his apprentice, learning to sail, fence, and fight. Eventually, Roberts secretly passed his name, captaincy, and ship to Westley, just as the previous Roberts had done for him. Westley and Buttercup travel through the feared Fire Swamp to evade Humperdinck's party, surviving the explosions of flaming gas from the ground; a fall into the quicksand-like substance known as "lightning sand"; and an attack by the huge, carnivorous "Rodents Of Unusual Size". On exiting the swamp, they are captured by Humperdinck and his menacing six-fingered vizier Count Tyrone Rugen (Christopher Guest). Buttercup negotiates for Westley's release and returns with Humperdinck to the palace to await their wedding. Rugen, who has no intention of releasing Westley, instead takes him to the Pit of Despair where he is first cared for by the Albino (Mel Smith), and then tortured. Buttercup later has several nightmares regarding her marriage to the prince. She expresses her unhappiness to Humperdinck, who proposes a deal: he will send out four ships to locate Westley, but if they fail, Buttercup will marry him. Humperdinck secretly reveals to Rugen that although he arranged Buttercup's kidnapping in order to start a war with neighboring country of Guilder, her safe return won the affection of the people, so it will be better propaganda if she dies on her wedding night. On the day of the wedding, Ínigo and Fezzik meet by chance while Fezzik helps enforce a royal decree to empty the city's slums. Ínigo learns of the existence of Count Rugen and decides he must kill him. Therefore, they seek out the man in black, hoping that his wits(which Ínigo decides must have beaten the absent Vizzini) will help them overcome the guards. Buttercup learns that Humperdinck never sent the ships, and taunts him with her enduring love for Westley. Enraged, he tortures Westley, apparently to death. Westley's screams draw Ínigo and Fezzik to the scene; upon finding Westley's body, they enlist the help of Miracle Max (Billy Crystal), a magician who had worked for Humperdinck's father before the prince expelled him. Max is initially reluctant to help, but changes his mind to spite Humperdinck. He pronounces Westley to be merely "mostly dead" and resurrects him, though Westley only slowly regains the use of his limbs over the course of the rest of the film. Westley devises a successful plan to invade the castle during the wedding. Upon hearing the resulting commotion, Humperdinck orders the wedding ceremony cut short. Buttercup decides to commit suicide as soon as she reaches the honeymoon suite. Ínigo pursues Rugen through the castle, repeating throughout his much-rehearsed challenge: "Hello. My name is Ínigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." Severely wounded, he finally kills Rugen. Westley reaches Buttercup before she commits suicide and assures her that her marriage is a sham, since she never made any vows. Still partly paralyzed, he bluffs his way out of a sword fight with Humperdinck. Instead of killing his rival, Westley decides to leave him alone with his cowardice. The party rides off into the sunset on white horses, conveniently discovered by Fezzik. Westley offers the role of Dread Pirate Roberts to Ínigo, who has avenged his father and now needs a new purpose in life. The story finished, the grandfather gets up to leave. Before he goes, the grandson—who started out not wanting to hear the story at all—asks his grandfather to come back and read it to him again the following day. The grandfather replies, "As you wish." . . . This film is number 50 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies" and number 88 on The American Film Institute's (AFI) "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions" listing the 100 greatest film love stories of all time. André the Giant had undergone major back surgery prior to filming, and despite his great size, could not support the weight of the much lighter Cary Elwes or Robin Wright for a scene at the end of the movie. For the wrestling scene, when Elwes was pretending to hang on André's back, he was actually walking on a series of ramps below the camera during close-ups. For the wide shots, a stunt double took the place of André; on close examination, it is apparent that the double is much smaller than André When Count Rugen hits Westley over the head, Cary Elwes told Christopher Guest to go ahead and hit him for real. Guest hit him hard enough to shut down production for a day while Elwes went to the hospital.

Say goodbye to your two best friends, and I don't mean your pals in the Winnebago. 33. (tie) Spaceballs (1987) (4 of 23 lists - 49 points - highest ranking #2 ChWRoCk2) Spaceballs is a 1987 science fiction parody film co-written, directed by, and starring Mel Brooks. It was released on June 24, 1987, and earned only modest returns, but it has gone on to become a cult classic on video. Its plot and characters contain numerous parodies of elements from the original Star Wars trilogy and Star Trek in particular, as well as other popular science fiction films. The script was written by Mel Brooks in only six months, and was approved by George Lucas, as he was a big fan of Brooks's previous films.[1] Planet Spaceball, led by President Skroob (Mel Brooks), has wasted all of its air and, desperate to find more, aims at the extortion of all the air from planet Druidia. They plan to kidnap the Druish Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga), who is about to marry the narcoleptic Prince Valium. Resenting this marriage, Vespa runs off from the altar with her Droid of Honor, Dot Matrix (Joan Rivers), and escapes into space, where she is attacked by the Spaceballs under the command of Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis). Vespa's father, King Roland (Dick Van Patten), hires Captain Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his mawg Barf (John Candy) who are desperate for money to pay back their debts to the Mafioso Pizza the Hutt (Dom DeLuise), to rescue his daughter. They manage to rescue her and escape the Spaceballs, but crash-land on a desert planet. There, they meet Yogurt (Mel Brooks), who introduces Lone Starr to The Schwartz. However, the Spaceballs trick Vespa and capture her again. Lone Starr and Barf rescue the Princess again, but not before the Spaceballs have succeeded in forcing King Roland to reveal the entry code to Druidia's atmosphere. Their spaceship Spaceball I transforms into Mega Maid with a vacuum cleaner, which starts to extract the air from Druidia. Lone Starr uses his Schwartz ring to reverse the procedure, defeats Dark Helmet in a duel using lightsaber-like weapons emanating from their Schwartz rings, and causes Mega Maid to self-destruct. Lone Starr returns the Princess to Druidia and, since his creditor Pizza the Hutt "ate himself to death" while locked in his car, leaves without taking the agreed payment, a million spacebucks, instead taking 248 spacebucks. Shortly afterwards, on finding out that he is a "certified Prince", he returns in time to interrupt the marriage and marry Vespa. . . . As of 2007, an animated sequel TV series is in preparation. George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic was also involved in the special visual effects for the film. The majority of the scenes and characters are parodies of Star Wars, although the film parodies other movies as well, most notably: * Jaws (gigantic shark-like space ship with Jaws-like music) * Transformers (Spaceball One; during the merchandising scene with Yogurt, Spaceballs The Coloring Book has Optimus Prime on the cover, the lunch box is also from the Transformers The Movie product line, except with "SPACEBALLS" on it. * Battlestar Galactica * Superman: The Movie (musical score) * The Police Academy movies (Michael Winslow sound effects; Winslow has a cameo in the film as a Spaceball officer) * The Sir David Lean films The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia * The Wizard of Oz (first meeting with Yogurt) * Planet of the Apes (crashed remains of Spaceball One) * Rambo * Star Trek The beaming sequence with the character Snotty (a parody of Scottish character Montgomery "Scotty" Scott), and the scene where Lone Starr attempts to knock out a Spaceball by performing (at first, unsuccessfully) the Vulcan Neck Pinch. Also, the interior of Lone Starr's Winnebago is very reminiscent of Star Trek: The Next Generation. * Max Headroom * Back to the Future * Rocky (including its supposed continuation up to "Rocky Five ... Thousand") * 2001: A Space Odyssey * It Happened One Night * Alien (John Hurt reprising his famous death scene from that movie, and even groaning in despair, "Oh no! Not again!"; the chestburster emerges from the victim, screams, smiles, puts on a straw boater hat with a miniature cane in one hand, and begins dancing and singing like Michigan J. Frog, performing Hello! Ma Baby) * Dumbo (Yogurt saying to Lone Starr that he doesn't need the ring)

You realize we're all going to go to college as virgins. They probably have special dorms for people like us. 33. (tie) American Pie (1999) (4 of 23 lists - 49 points - highest ranking #5 ChiSox_Sonix, ControlledChaos) teen comedy film directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz and written by Adam Herz. This was the first film directed by the Weitz brothers and the first of the American Pie Presents series. The movie is centered on four boys who make a pact to lose their virginity by their high school graduation, and their subsequent adventures. As the theatrical poster implies, the title of the movie refers to a scene in the film in which the lead character is caught having sex with a pie after earlier being told that "third base" feels "like warm apple pie". American Pie is the story of four Michigan high school seniors who make a pact to lose their virginity before graduation after a geeky classmate, Chuck Sherman (Chris Owen) claims to have done so at a party at Steve Stifler's (Seann William Scott) house. Kevin Myers (Thomas Ian Nicholas), the initiator of the pact, tries to repair his relationship with his girlfriend Vicki (Tara Reid) after she has a serious fight with him at the party. Chris "Oz" Ostreicher (Chris Klein), who is on the school lacrosse team with Stifler, joins the jazz choir to pick up girls, as the girls there know little of his insensitive jock reputation. Paul Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas), the mochaccino-drinking sophisticate, pays Vicki's friend Jessica (Natasha Lyonne) $200 to spread rumors of his sexual prowess, hoping that will increase his chances of success. Jim Levenstein (Jason Biggs) pursues Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth), an exchange student from Czechoslovakia. She comes to his house to study with him, and has to change clothes there after ballet practice, so Stifler convinces Jim to set up a webcam so they can all watch her change. Jim runs over to Kevin's house to watch. Once he gets there, Nadia is seen on the computer discovering his pornography collection hiding in his dresser, and instead of finding it offensive, she begins looking through it while masturbating (this scene ranked #10 in the 100 Greatest Sexy Moments). Kevin urges Jim to run back home, saying this is his best opportunity. Jim arrives, and Nadia orders him to strip; meanwhile, it turns out that he had incorrectly addressed the e-mail to Kevin and Stifler, so instead of the link being sent to only his two friends, every mailbox in the school directory received the link; virtually the entire student body is watching. As Jim slowly caresses her leg up to her genitals, he then climaxes prematurely. As Nadia is about to leave, he convinces her to stay, but upon seeing her nude and touching her pubic area, he climaxes prematurely again, humiliating himself before the entire school. In desperation, Jim asks band geek Michelle Flaherty (Alyson Hannigan) to the senior prom, as she is apparently the only girl in the entire school who does not know what happened. Finch, meanwhile, has his own troubles. Stifler, angry that a girl turned him down for the prom because she was holding out for Finch, puts a laxative into Finch's mochaccino. Unable to do his usual routine of heading home to use the toilet (Finch is paranoid about the lack of cleanliness in the school restrooms), Stifler directs him into the girls' restroom, for him to emerge before all of the other students, humiliated and left dateless. At the prom, everything seems hopeless for the four boys until Vicky asks the girl that Sherman claimed to have bedded about her "first time". She gets even by proclaiming to the entire prom that she and Sherman did not have sex at Stifler's party, humiliating him. The revelation takes the pressure off of Jim, Kevin, Oz and Finch, and they head to the post-prom party with new hope. At the party at Stifler's house after the prom, all four boys fulfill the pledge. Kevin and Vicki have sex in an upstairs bedroom, but the act is very awkward. Vicki breaks up with him afterward on the grounds that they will be too far apart in college, with him at Michigan and her at Cornell. Oz confesses the pact to Heather (Mena Suvari), a girl from the glee club, and renounces it, saying that just being together with her made him a winner. They fall in love, begin a relationship, and end up making love on the porch. Having reformed, Oz never admits that they did. Finch strays downstairs to the recreation room where he meets Stifler's mom (Jennifer Coolidge). She is aroused by his maturity, and they have sex on a pool table. Stifler finds them together in the morning and faints. Jim and Michelle have sex after he finds out that she saw the "Nadia incident" after all. She accepted the date because of it, knowing he was a "sure thing", but she makes him wear two condoms to combat his earlier "problem" with Nadia. Jim is, to put it mildly, rather surprised by Michelle's behavior in bed. In the morning he wakes up to find her gone, an inflatable dinosaur in her place. Essentially, she used him (which Jim thinks is "cool"). The morning after prom, Jim, Kevin, Oz, and Finch, eat at their favorite restaurant, Dog Years. . . . This film ranked number 49 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies", and ranked number 22 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted American Pie the 6th greatest comedy film of all time. It was a box-office hit and spawned two direct sequels: American Pie 2 in 2001, American Wedding in 2003. Singer Don McLean was credited for allowing the name of his hit song to be used as the title. Taglines: There's something about your first piece. Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets pie. Come again! Fill that sticky hole! Much of the film is based on the writer's days at East Grand Rapids High School in East Grand Rapids, Michigan an upper middle class suburb of Grand Rapids, Michigan.[1][2] In the film, the town is called "East Great Falls" and the high school sports the same school colors - blue and yellow - along with a similar mascot - the Trailblazers instead of the Pioneers. The restaurant hangout Dog Years is based on Yesterdog, a popular hotdog restaurant in the nearby Eastown neighborhood of Grand Rapids.[3] The "Central Chicks" and "Central" Lacrosse team that East Great Falls plays against is an amalgam of nearby Forest Hills Central High School and Grand Rapids Catholic Central High School.[4] The movie was actually filmed in Southern California, most notably in Long Beach using Robert A. Millikan High School (of the Long Beach Unified School District-LBUSD), whose school colors are also Blue/Yellow or Gold (in the same neighborhood where Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Donnie Darko were filmed). In the original version, when Stifler drinks the semen-filled beer, Thomas Ian Nicholas' character says "Hey Stifler, how's the man chowder?" However, the MPAA would not allow this line (not even in an NC-17 rated cut), so the line was changed in postproduction to "Hey Stifler, how's the pale ale?" The "pale ale" Stifler drinks is actually beer with egg whites in it. Also, The MPAA refused to allow Jim to masturbate with the pie by lying on top of it and thrusting into it on the counter. He could do it only standing up. The original scene was put back in for the Unrated version of the DVD.

QUOTE (Felix @ Apr 21, 2008 -> 07:15 PM) Gump as a comedy? Wow, that's pretty shocking. Also, Ferris Bueller was robbed. The fact that Borat is above it is terrible (but then again, I found Borat stupid, as opposed to funny). Hmmm. I don't recall a list being sent to be by a Soxtalk member named "Felix".

Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say "YES"! 33. (tie) Ghostbusters (1984) (6 of 23 lists - 49 points - highest ranking #6 southsidehawkweye) Ghostbusters (titled on-screen as Ghost Busters) is a 1984 Sci-fi-comedy film about three eccentric New York City parapsychologists-turned-ghost exterminators. The film was released in the United States on June 8, 1984. It was produced and directed by Ivan Reitman and stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver, Annie Potts, and Ernie Hudson. Three misfit parapsychology professors are booted out of their paranormal studies research jobs at New York City's Columbia University.[5] Despite their relative lack of funding, they start an enterprise called Ghostbusters, a spectral investigation and removal service. One of the men has a plan to catch and contain supernatural entities, though it has never been properly tested. Undeterred, they obtain a former fire station as a base and a 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor Ambulance dubbed Ecto-1, and begin advertising on local television. At first, their clients are few and far between, and the Ghostbusters have to depend on their individual talents to keep the business alive: Dr. Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) is a scientific genius, Dr. Raymond "Ray" Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) is an expert on paranormal history and metallurgy, and Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) has charm and business savvy, although he is in some ways a charlatan. Although he initially comes off as a bit of a wise guy, Venkman eventually finds a subtly heroic side to himself when he learns that a creature called "Zuul" is haunting the apartment of Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver), a client who has become the object of his lustful (and possibly deeper) intentions. The business is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy until one night, when Janine Melnitz (Annie Potts), the Ghostbusters' personal secretary, answers a desperate call from the Sedgewick Hotel about a ghost that needs to be removed quickly and quietly. Although the Ghostbusters have no practical experience and their equipment has never been tested -- each man uses a nuclear accelerator (also referred to as a proton pack) which produces a powerful and destructive energy stream -- they successfully catch the ghost after a destructively clumsy hunt. It is also during this first real test for the team, that Egon makes mention that crossing the energy streams would be, in his words, "bad" (he further explained that doing so would cause the instant annihilation of anything in the vicinity by changing the proton streams to antiprotons). Peter thanks him for this "important safety tip". Business soon picks up dramatically and the company becomes a household name, partially due to an unexplained increase in supernatural activity. Peter meets Dana and informs her that Zuul refers to a demigod worshiped around 6000 BC by the Hittites, Mesopotamians and Sumerians. Dana reads out loud from Peter's notes that "Zuul was the minion of Gozer", after which her additional questions are turned into a date-proposal by Peter. The Ghostbusters add a fourth member to their team, the blue-collar Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson), to deal with the rapidly increasing workload. The company captures so many ghosts that the scientists become concerned about the capacity of their ghost-containment facility. Unfortunately, it soon becomes apparent to the Ghostbusters that the spike in paranormal events means they are headed toward a climactic confrontation with an entity called Gozer (Slavitza Jovan), whose presence was implied by bizarre occurrences such as the demonic Zuul appearing in Dana Barrett's apartment. Gozer's minion entities—monstrous, dog-like demons called Zuul (the Gatekeeper) and Vinz Clortho (the Keymaster) — soon begin seeking human hosts. Zuul is easily able to possess Dana Barrett in her apartment by trapping her in her chair with three hideous arms and then pulling her into the fiery chamber that was once her kitchen. Vinz Clortho at first goes unnoticed as he waits in the bedroom of Louis Tully's (Rick Moranis) apartment where a party is being held to celebrate Louis's fourth year as an accountant; but then the minion becomes impatient and crashes the party. Louis flees into Central Park, but the beast corners him near the Tavern on the Green and possesses him. Dana/Zuul gets a visit from Venkman, and she/it tries to seduce him. He realizes something is up (after Dana starts levitating over her bed) and sedates Zuul with a large dose of thorazine. The possessed accountant Tully is found roaming Manhattan and is eventually brought to Ghostbusters HQ by the police and examined by Egon. He claims to be Keymaster to Gozer and appears as a horned entity on Egon's infrared scanner. It is determined that Dana and Louis must never meet, as the "Keymaster" and "Gatekeeper" would literally open the gates of Hell. Vinz remains rather passive, waiting for a "sign" that Gozer will come. However, an overzealous EPA inspector, Walter Peck (William Atherton), arrives and starts asking questions, concerned about the alleged use of toxic chemicals in the Ghostbusters' business. Initially brushed off by Venkman, Peck angrily returns with a court order to shut down the ghost containment facility, although he is warned that it will bring dire consequences. An ConEd electrician reluctantly shuts the grid down, and all the captured ghosts immediately burst forth in a fantastic explosion. A massive number of supernatural events spark chaos throughout the city as long-dead spirits run wild terrorizing the populace. Peck accuses the Ghostbusters of causing the explosion due to their own negligence and has them arrested. Meanwhile, Louis Tully/Vinz Clortho wanders off during the mayhem, mumbling to himself that the eruption of the containment grid was the omen he was waiting for. While the Ghostbusters are in jail, they examine the blueprints of Dana Barrett's apartment building. Ray explains that the structure is "a huge, super-conductive antenna designed and built expressly for the purpose of pulling in and concentrating spiritual turbulence." Egon elaborates further by telling them how an insane surgeon, Ivo Shandor, having deemed society "too sick to survive" after World War I, created a secret society worshipping the Sumerian god Gozer. The rituals performed were designed to bring about the end of the world. Eventually, the mayor of New York (David Margulies) summons the Ghostbusters from jail in hopes that they can explain the various supernatural phenomena. Walter Peck makes a series of baseless accusations that the Ghostbusters are con artists; however, none of the department heads at the meeting are able to support Peck's claims, and with Venkman persuading the politicians, the Ghostbusters convince the mayor to let them deal with the crisis. The Ghostbusters, along with representatives of the New York Police and local Army units, arrive at Dana's apartment building to a waiting crowd. The Ghostbusters collect their equipment and observe the building from street level, watching as the skies darken and the earth shakes beneath their feet. They wave at the adoring crowd before disappearing into the darkened apartment building. The Gatekeeper and Keymaster finally meet and share a lustful kiss atop the art deco–style apartment building. The Ghostbusters climb wearily to the top of the tall building and find the two just as they transform into their true, demonic forms. The demon-dogs then use their combined powers to open a crystalline inter-dimensional gateway. The Ghostbusters watch in awe as the gate doors slide open and Gozer materializes before them in the form of a red-eyed woman with a flattop. Upon finding that the Ghostbusters are mere mortals, Gozer attacks them at once, hurling bolts of lightning from her fingertips. The Ghostbusters retaliate, but the entity is far too elusive, soaring 20 feet through the air and landing behind her attackers. The Ghostbusters try a second time, but the energy currents of their proton streams merely pass right through Gozer. She finally disappears altogether. Believing Gozer to be destroyed, the Ghostbusters begin to celebrate, but Egon's readings suggest otherwise. A huge earthquake rocks the building as Gozer's disembodied voice echoes down from the dark clouds above. Gozer gives them the opportunity to choose the form of their doom (and the city's, presumably). While the other Ghostbusters deliberately clear their minds and think of nothing, Ray reflexively chooses a seemingly innocuous corporate mascot, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. A giant sailor-hatted marshmallow man instantly appears, trampling everything in his path. The Ghostbusters attack Mister Stay Puft with their particle accelerators, but this only makes the creature angry and it begins climbing the building. Egon suddenly realizes that "the door swings both ways" and suggests that the Ghostbusters cross their proton pack streams within the world on the other side of the portal, as Egon himself had informed them earlier that such an action would likely be cataclysmic. The plan succeeds in causing "total protonic reversal", destroying the world inside the gate and annihilating Gozer. The explosion generated by the event incinerates Mister Stay Puft, raining molten marshmallow down onto the roof of the skyscraper and the street below and Peck. The dark sky becomes sunny again and all the ghosts (seemingly) disappear. As the city settles moments after the explosion, the Ghostbusters pull themselves from the wreckage. Peter is notably quiet, faced with the likely implication that Dana (in Terror Dog form) was killed during the explosion. However, this fear is put to rest when the team sees signs of life and frees both Dana and Louis from the petrified shells of what were once the Terror Dogs. The Ghostbusters and the no-longer-possessed apartment dwellers exit the building to massive applause from the crowd, who cheer them on as Peter shares a passionate kiss with Dana, and Janine runs towards Egon and hugs him. The team loads their equipment up into Ecto-1 and everyone, excluding Louis, departs in the car, followed closely by a running and cheering crowd. The theme song plays while the credits roll. The scene fades on a newly released Slimer screaming as he flies up to the camera (which was actual footage of him flying towards Peter). . . . The concept was inspired by Aykroyd's own fascination with the paranormal, and it was conceived by Aykroyd as a vehicle for himself and friend and fellow Saturday Night Live alumnus John Belushi. Louis Tully was originally to be a conservative man in a business suit played by comedian John Candy, but Candy was unable to commit to the role. The role was taken by Rick Moranis, portraying Louis as a geek. Winston Zeddemore was written with Eddie Murphy in mind, but he had to decline the role as he was filming Beverly Hills Cop at the same time. If Murphy had been cast, Zeddemore would have been hired much earlier in the film, and would've accompanied the trio on their hunt for Slimer at the hotel and be slimed in place of Peter Venkman. When Ernie Hudson took over, it was decided that he be brought in later to indicate how the Ghostbusters were struggling to keep up with the outbreak of ghosts. Huey Lewis successfully sued Ray Parker, Jr. for plagiarism, citing that Parker stole the melody from his 1983 song "I Want A New Drug". Ironically, Lewis was approached to compose the main theme song for the movie, but he declined due to his work on the soundtrack for Back to the Future. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Ghostbusters the 44th greatest comedy film of all time. The American Film Institute ranked it 28th in its list of the top 100 comedies of all time (in their "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs" list). In 2005, IGN voted Ghostbusters the greatest comedy ever. In 2006, Bravo ranked Ghostbusters 76 on their "100 Funniest Movies" list.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 21, 2008 -> 07:07 PM) I didn't even think of Gump as a comedy. I wouldn't have included it at all, dispite how much I liked it. I am a list zombie. I do what the lists tell me.

You look like a cholo dressed up for Easter. 33. (tie) Knocked Up (2007) (4 of 23 lists - 49 points - highest ranking #6 FlashTizzle) Knocked Up is an American romantic comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by Judd Apatow was released in 2007. It stars Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann. It is rated R for crude sexual content, frequent language and drug use. The movie follows the repercussions of a drunken one night stand between Rogen's slacker character and Heigl's just promoted media personality that results in an unintended pregnancy ("knocked up" is a chiefly American slang expression for being pregnant). Ben Stone (Rogen) is a lazy, dimwitted and immature 23-year-old Jewish- Canadian slacker and alleged illegal immigrant from British Columbia, living off funds received in compensation for an injury and sporadically working on a Mr. Skin-like website with his roommates. Allison Scott (Heigl) is a career-minded woman who has just been given an on-air role with her employer, E! Entertainment Television, and is living with her sister Debbie's (Mann) family. While celebrating her promotion, Allison meets Ben at a local night club. After a night of drinking, they end up having sex. Due to a misunderstanding, they do not use contraception: Alison uses the phrase "just do it" to encourage Ben to put the condom on faster, which he misinterprets as "a condom is not needed." The following morning, they quickly learn over breakfast that they have little in common. Eight weeks later, Allison experiences morning sickness at work, and several home pregnancy tests later, discovers she is pregnant. She contacts Ben for the first time since their one-night stand to tell him the news. Although taken aback, Ben says he will be there to support Alison having the baby. While he is still unsure about being a parent, his father (played by Harold Ramis) tells him that he was the best thing that ever happened to him. Allison's mother tries to convince her daughter to have an abortion, but Allison decides to keep the child. Later, Allison and Ben decide to give their relationship a chance. The odd couple's efforts include Ben making an awkward marriage proposal with a ring box without a ring, promising to get her one someday. Allison thinks it is too early to think about marriage, because she is more concerned with hiding the pregnancy from her boss, who asked her when she first got the on-air job to be "firm" and "tight" for the cameras. After a somewhat promising beginning, tensions surface in the relationship. Allison is increasingly anxious over Ben's lack of responsibility and is fearful that he will leave her a single mother. These thoughts race through her mind due to her sister's unhappy marriage. Debbie's husband Pete (played by Rudd) works as a talent scout, but he leaves at odd hours in the night which makes her suspect he is having an affair. Upon investigating, she learns that he is actually part of a fantasy baseball draft, which he explains that he needs to have some time free from Debbie's controlling manner. Similarly, Ben feels that Allison is overly controlling. As a result of Pete's confession to his wife, they decide to split up because Pete feels he cannot connect with Debbie and vice-versa. Allison is further convinced Ben will not be supportive after seeing he has not read books on child birth he had bought and promised to read earlier. While driving to the doctor's office, they erupt into a furious argument, resulting in Ben getting out of the car and walking the remaining three miles. Upon finally arriving, he blames her hormones for making her this way, and in response, she tells him that it would be better if they stopped seeing each other. After the break up, Ben decides to go with Pete on a road trip to Las Vegas. Under the heavy influence of psychedelic mushrooms, they realize their loss and decide to return and take responsibility. Eventually, Pete and Debbie reconcile at their daughter's birthday party. When Ben tries to work things out with Allison, she is still reluctant to get back together with him, since she feels they are different and have little in common. At the same time, her boss finds out about her pregnancy, but this has increased ratings among female viewers. After an unsuccessful talk with his father, Ben decides to take responsibility and starts reading the birth books. He goes to great effort to change his ways, including moving out of his friends' house, getting a real job as a web designer and an apartment with a baby's room. Subsequently, Allison goes into labor and is not able to contact her doctor, forcing her to contact Ben again due to Debbie and Pete's out-of-town trip. Ben also tries to contact her gynecologist, but finds out through his secretary that he is out-of-town, violating a promise to deliver the baby in person. During labor, Allison apologizes for doubting Ben's commitment and admits that she never thought the man who got her pregnant would be the right one for her. A while later, Debbie and Pete arrive, but Ben, still angry over Debbie's influence on Allison, makes them wait outside, as he wishes to take care of Allison. When Debbie protests, Ben threatens to have her arrested if she does not comply. The couple welcomes the birth of a baby girl (a boy in the alternate ending) and settle down happily together. . . . The film made the top ten list of the jury for the 2007 AFI Awards as well as the top ten lists of several well-known critics, with the AFI jury calling it the "funniest, freshest comedy of our this or any other generation." and a film that "stretches the boundaries of romantic comedies." John Newman, respected film critic for the Boston Bubble called the film "a better, raunchy, modern version of Some Like it Hot." On December 16, 2007, the film was chosen by the American Film Institute as one of the ten best movies of the year, It was one of the two pregnancy comedies on the list (Juno being the other). E! News praised the film's generally unacknowledged success, saying that, "The unplanned pregnancy comedy, shut out of the Golden Globes and passed over by the L.A. and New York critics, was one of 10 films selected Sunday for the American Film Institute's year-end honors."

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: Have you found Jesus yet, Gump? Forrest Gump: I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir. 34. Forrest Gump (1994) (4 of 23 lists - 47 points - highest ranking #4 rangercal, FlashTizzle) Forrest Gump is a 1994 drama film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom and the name of the title character of both. The film was a huge commercial success, earning US$677 million worldwide during its theatrical run making it the top grossing film in North America released that year. The film garnered a total of 13 Academy Award nominations, of which it won six, including Best Picture, Best Visual Effects, Best Director (Robert Zemeckis), and Best Actor (Tom Hanks). The film tells the story of a man with an IQ of 75 and his epic journey through life, meeting historical figures, influencing popular culture and experiencing first-hand historic events while largely unaware of their significance, due to his lower than average intelligence. The film differs substantially from the book on which it was based. The movie begins with a feather falling to the feet of Forrest Gump who is sitting at a bus stop in Savannah, Georgia. Forrest picks up the feather and puts it in the book Curious George, then tells the story of his life to a woman seated next to him. The listeners at the bus stop change regularly throughout his narration, each showing a different attitude ranging from disbelief and indifference to rapt veneration. On his first day of school, he meets a girl named Jenny, whose life we follow in parallel to Forrest's at times. Having discarded his leg braces, his ability to run at lightning speed gets him into college on a football scholarship. At graduation, he enlists in the army and is sent to Vietnam, where he makes fast friends with a black man named Bubba, who convinces Forrest to go into the shrimping business with him when the war is over. Though Forrest ends up saving much of his platoon, Bubba is killed in action. Forrest is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism. While Forrest is in recovery for a bullet shot to his "butt-tox", he discovers his uncanny ability for ping-pong, eventually gaining popularity and rising to celebrity status, later playing ping-pong competitively against Chinese teams. At an anti-war rally in Washington, D.C. Forrest reunites with Jenny, who has been living a hippie counterculture lifestyle. Returning home, Forrest endorses a company that makes ping-pong paddles, earning himself $25,000, which he uses to buy a shrimping boat, fulfilling his promise to Bubba. His commanding officer from Vietnam, Lieutenant Dan, joins him. Though initially Forrest has little success, after finding his boat the only surviving boat in the area after a hurricane, he begins to pull in huge amounts of shrimp and uses it to buy an entire fleet of shrimp boats. Lieutenant Dan invests the money and Forrest is financially secure for the rest of his life. He returns home to see his mother's last days. One day, Jenny returns to visit Forrest and he proposes marriage to her. She declines, though feels obliged to prove her love to him by sleeping with him. She leaves early the next morning. On a whim, Forrest elects to go for a run. Seemingly capriciously, he decides to keep running across the country several times, over some three and a half years, becoming famous. In present-day, Forrest reveals that he is waiting at the bus stop because he received a letter from Jenny who, having seen him run on television, asks him to visit her. Once he is reunited with Jenny, Forrest discovers she has a young son, of whom Forrest is the father. Jenny tells Forrest she is suffering from a virus (probably Hepatitis C, though this is never definitively stated).[1][2][3] Together the three move back to Greenbow, Alabama. Jenny and Forrest finally marry. Jenny dies soon afterward. The film ends with father and son waiting for the school bus on little Forrest's first day of school. Opening the book his son is taking to school, the white feather from the beginning of the movie is seen to fall from within the pages. As the bus pulls away, the white feather is caught on a breeze and drifts skyward. . . . Ken Ralston and his team were responsible for the film's visual effects. Using CGI-techniques it was possible for Tom Hanks to meet dead presidents and even shake their hands. Archival footage was used and with the help of techniques like chroma key, warping, morphing and rotoscoping, Tom Hanks was integrated into it. This feat was honored with an Oscar for Best Visual Effects. The CGI removal of actor Gary Sinise's legs, after his character had them amputated, was achieved by wrapping his legs with a blue fabric, which later facilitated the work of the "roto-paint"-team to paint out his legs from every single frame. At one point, while hoisting himself into his wheelchair, his "missing" legs are used for support. Dick Cavett played himself in the 1970s with make-up applied to make it appear that he was much younger than the actor was during the filming. Consequently, Cavett is the only well-known figure in the film to actually play himself for the feature, rather than via archive footage.

I'll be like the Iron Chef of pounding Vag. 35. Superbad (2007) (4 of 23 lists - 46 points - highest ranking #3 shipps) Superbad is a 2007 comedy film written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who began writing the script when they were both 13 years old. They completed a draft by age 15.[2] The film's main characters have the same given names as Rogen and Goldberg. The film is directed by former television director Greg Mottola and is produced by Judd Apatow. Evan (Michael Cera) and Seth (Jonah Hill) are friends in their final year of school about to leave for college. Jules (Emma Stone) asks Seth to bring alcohol to a party she is hosting and he agrees, as their mutual friend, Fogell, (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) has recently acquired a fake ID and Evan invites his long time crush Becca (Martha MacIsaac) to the party. While purchasing the alcohol, Fogell is assaulted by a hooded robber and the police are called. The two officers, Michaels (Seth Rogen) and Slater (Bill Hader), who appear to be fooled by the fake ID, offer Fogell a lift to the party, but make numerous stops first. The officers display many instances of incompetence, including drinking on the job, unnecessary use of police lights, and improper use of a firearm. They quickly become friends, referring to Fogell by his one-word pseudonym, McLovin. While the police officers are talking to Fogell at the liquor store, Seth is hit by a car and as compensation, the driver (Joe Lo Truglio) agrees to take them to a party, where they reason they can steal the alcohol they need. However, the driver is not welcome at the party and Seth and Evan are forced to leave, but not before smuggling out laundry detergent containers that have been filled with beer. They get into an argument about their friendship when Fogell, Slater, and Michaels happen to hit Seth with their police cruiser. As officer Slater prepares to bust the teens to cover up his own blunder, the boys flee into the night. The three finally arrive at Jules's party with the alcohol, still upset from their fight. At the party, a drunken Becca nearly seduces Evan, but ends up vomiting. A drunken Seth attempts to explain his feelings for Jules, but ends up head-butting her when he passes out on her, resulting in a black eye. Fogell successfully seduces Nicola (Aviva Farber) and gets her into bed, only to have officers Slater and Michaels break up the party. Seth, realizing Evan is passed out on a couch, carries his friend away and back to Evan’s house. They reconcile, realizing everything they've been through as they've grown up. Officers Slater and Michaels reveal to Fogell that they were aware of his forgery all along, but they wanted to show him they were normal guys too. They pretend to haul him off to jail in front of the entire party to boost his popularity. In return, Fogell signs an affidavit to a concocted story to explain the condition of the wrecked police car. The following morning, Evan and Seth run into Becca and Jules at the mall. Seth takes Jules to get cover up for her eye, while Evan takes Becca off to look for a replacement comforter for Jules. The two guys take a long, private look at each other before they part ways with their new friends. . . .

Did Doogie Houser just steal my f***ing car? 36. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) (4 of 23 lists - 43 points - highest ranking #6 TheBlackSox8) Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (released in some countries as Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies) is a comedy film released in 2004. The plot revolves around the two title characters, who decide to go to the fast food restaurant White Castle after smoking marijuana, only to find themselves on a series of comical misadventures instead. The film was written by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, and directed by Danny Leiner. Starring Kal Penn and John Cho, it also features appearances by Paula Garcés, Anthony Anderson, Dan Bochart, Ethan Embry, Jamie Kennedy, Bobby Lee, Christopher Meloni, Ryan Reynolds, Shaun Majumder, David Krumholtz, Eddie Kaye Thomas, and Neil Patrick Harris. While smoking some marijuana in their Jersey City apartment one evening, they see a TV ad for White Castle and decide to make a trip for some hamburgers. Finding a White Castle ends up being more difficult than they imagined, and they find themselves on a chaotic road trip full of drug-fueled, politically incorrect philosophy.[3] During their quest for a 24-hour White Castle their trip becomes more and more bizarre. Buying drugs from a college hippie ends up being a mistake. It turns out he is a self proclaimed "business hippie" who grossly overcharges them.[3] They blow off what they think will be a boring, highbrow gathering with Princeton's East Asian Students Club for "some fun" with two promiscuous college girls. The pair discovers, though, that their hot dates are gross and their intellectual friends really know how to party.[3]They eventually are attacked by a raccoon and attempt to pass themselves off as surgeons (in the hopes of finding access to medical marijuana).[3] A hideous but helpful tow truck driver later proves to have an unbelievably attractive wife. Their excitement when she propositions them, however, is short-lived; when it turns out the husband will join in.[3] They also run into Neil Patrick Harris (playing an alternative-reality version of himself),[3] who is strung out on ecstasy[4] and hitchhiking in the middle of nowhere. Harris plans to use his child star status to get laid. Harold and Kumar later see Harris flying down the road in the car he stole from them while snorting coke off the buttocks of a partially naked stripper.[3] Happening across Harold’s unrequited crush, they discover that she shares his love of John Hughes’ 1980s Americana films.[3] After being arrested by a cop for looking different, the two encounter an African-American man, arrested, of course, for being black. The pair break out of jail and steal the "business hippie"'s huge bag of marijuana, which had been confiscated by the police, before returning to their on-going quest for fast food nirvana.[3] Stealing a truck from a stupid, macho jock allows them to uncover the jock’s secret love of cheesy ballads. They ditch the car after being spotted by the police and use a hang glider to get to the White Castle nearby.[3] In the end, the duo gets their "Sticks and Sliders", find a small measure of revenge against Harold’s co-workers and have their car returned by a repentant Harris. As they dine on their burgers, Kumar observes that there are many kinds of “burgers” in America, and all he really wants is the right to enjoy them all.[3] After this, the duo heads back to their apartments, there Harold finds the girl of his dreams in the elevator and ends up making out with her. Unfortunately, she is leaving for ten days in Amsterdam. . . . The sequel, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, is due for release in the USA on April 25th 2008.

What's up with it, Vanilla face? Me and my homie Azamat just parked our slab outside. We're looking for somewhere to post up our Black asses for the night. So, uh, bang bang, skeet skeet, n****. Just a couple of pimps, no hos. 37. Borat:Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) (3 of 23 lists - 42 points - highest ranking #5 3E8, shipps) Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (also known simply as Borat), is a 2006 mockumentary comedy film directed by Larry Charles and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was written, produced by, and stars the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in the title role of a fictitious Kazakh journalist, journeying through the United States recording real-life interactions with Americans. It is the second film built around one of Cohen's characters from Da Ali G Show, following Ali G Indahouse, which also featured a cameo by Borat. Borat Sagdiyev (played by Sacha Baron Cohen), a popular Kazakh television personality, leaves his homeland for the "Greatest Country in the World," the "US and A" to make a documentary film at the behest of the fictitious Kazakh Ministry of Information. He leaves behind his mother, his wife Oxana, and the town rapist, and brings along his producer Azamat Bagatov (played by Ken Davitian). Much of the movie features unscripted vignettes of Borat interviewing and interacting with Americans who believe he is a foreigner with no understanding of American customs.[4] While in New York, he sees an episode of Baywatch on television and immediately falls in love with Pamela Anderson. While interviewing a panel of feminists, he learns her name and that she lives in California. He receives a telegram and learns, much to his delight, that his violent wife has been violated and killed by a bear, so he resolves to go to California to make Anderson his new wife. Borat and Azamat were supposed to remain in New York, but Borat justifies the trip by telling the skeptical producer that "Pearl Harbor is there. So is Texas". As Azamat is afraid to fly there for fear of a repetition of the September 11, 2001 attacks, which he believes were the work of the Jews, Borat takes driving lessons and buys a dilapidated ice cream truck for the journey. During the cross-country trip, Borat acquires a Baywatch television show booklet at a yard sale, and continues gathering footage for his documentary. He meets gay pride parade participants, politicians (including Alan Keyes and Bob Barr) and African American youths playing cee-lo. He is also interviewed on live television and proceeds to disrupt the weather report. Visiting a rodeo, the reporter, after first exciting the crowd with jingoistic pro-U.S. remarks, sings a fictional Kazakhstan national anthem to the tune of "The Star-Spangled Banner", which receives a strong negative reaction. Staying at a bed and breakfast, Borat and his producer are stunned to learn that their hosts are Jewish. Fearful of death (or worse) at the hands of their hosts, the two "escape" after throwing money toward cockroaches which they believe are their Jewish hosts self-transformed. While Azamat advises a return to New York (where at least, he believes, "there are no Jews"), Borat attempts to purchase a handgun to defend himself against Jews. When told he cannot buy a gun because he is not an American citizen, Borat purchases a bear, which he names after his late wife, for protection. Borat later attends a private dinner at an eating club in the South, at which he (unintentionally) insults or otherwise offends the other guests, and visits an antique shop with a display of Confederate heritage items, breaking glass and crockery. The journey is interrupted when Borat, just out of the bathtub, exits the bathroom of his hotel room and sees Azamat masturbating over a picture of Pamela Anderson in the Baywatch book. Borat becomes enraged and reveals that to get Pamela Anderson was his real motive for travelling to California. Azamat becomes livid at Borat's deception, and the situation escalates into a fully nude brawl, with what have been described as homoerotic undertones,[5] which spills out into the hallway, a crowded elevator, and ultimately into a packed ballroom filled with mortgage brokers at a convention. The two are finally separated by security guards. As a result, Azamat abandons Borat, taking his passport, all of their money, and their bear, whose head is later seen inside Azamat's motel refrigerator. Borat begins to hitchhike to California, but is soon picked up by Anthony, Justin and David, drunken University of South Carolina fraternity brothers. On learning the reason for his trip, they show him the Pam and Tommy sex video, revealing that she is not the virgin he thought she was. After leaving the three students, Borat becomes despondent, burning the Baywatch booklet and, by mistake, his return ticket to Kazakhstan. He regains his faith after attending a United Pentecostal camp meeting, at which Republican U.S. Representative Chip Pickering and Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice James W. Smith, Jr. are present. He learns to forgive Azamat and Pamela. He accompanies church members on a bus to Los Angeles and disembarks to find Azamat dressed as Oliver Hardy (though Borat thinks that he is dressed as Adolf Hitler). The two reconcile and Azamat tells Borat where to find Pamela Anderson. Borat finally comes face-to-face with Anderson at a book signing at a Virgin Megastore. After showing Anderson his "traditional marriage sack," Borat pursues her throughout the store in an attempt to abduct her until he is tackled and handcuffed by security guards. Afterwards, Borat seeks out and marries a prostitute named Luenell, whom he had befriended earlier in the film, and returns to Kazakhstan with her. The final scene shows the changes that Borat's observations in America have brought to his village, including the apparent conversion of the people to Christianity (the Kazakh version of which includes crucifixion of Jews) and the introduction of computer-based technology, such as iPods, laptop computers and a high-definition, LCD television. . . . Controversy surrounded the film even before its release. It has been objected to for having a protagonist who is sexist and antisemitic (although the director, and both producers, including Cohen are Jewish), and some of those who appeared in the film later spoke against, and even sued, its creators. All Arab countries, except for Lebanon, banned it,[2] and the Russian government discouraged cinemas there from showing it No Kazakh language is heard in the film. Borat's neighbors in Kazakhstan were portrayed by Romanians who were unaware of the film's subject. The Cyrillic alphabet used in the film is the Russian form, not the Kazakh one, although most of the words written in it (especially the geographical names) are either misspelled, or make no sense at all. The lettering on the aircraft in the beginning of the film is in fact merely the result of English characters on a reversed image, while promotional materials spell "BORДT" with a Cyrillic letter for D substituted for the "A" in Faux Cyrillic style typically used to give a "Russian" appearance. Sacha Baron Cohen speaks Hebrew in the film,[18] while Ken Davitian, who plays Azamat, speaks the Eastern dialect of Armenian .[15] They also use several common phrases from Slavic languages: Borat's trademark expressions "jagshemash" (jak się masz) and "chenquieh" (dziękuję) come apparently from Polish (or other related languages) for "How are you?" and "thank you".[19] While presenting his house, Borat says "tishe" to his house-cow; "tiše/тише" is Russian (similar words exist in other Slavic languages) for "quiet(er)" or "be quiet". The film's official debut was in Toronto on September 7, 2006, at the Ryerson University Theatre during the Toronto International Film Festival. Sacha Baron Cohen arrived in character as Borat in a cart pulled by women dressed as peasants. Twenty minutes into the showing, however, the projector broke. Cohen performed an impromptu act to keep the audience amused, but ultimately all attempts to fix the equipment, including one by Michael Moore, failed. The film was successfully screened the following night, with Dustin Hoffman in attendance.

Sorry folks, park's closed. Moose out front shoulda told ya. 39. (tie) National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) (6 of 23 lists - 40 points - highest ranking #10 daa84) National Lampoon's Vacation is a 1983 comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, and Anthony Michael Hall. The film features numerous others, such as comedic powerhouses John Candy and Imogene Coca, supermodel Christie Brinkley and future Ally McBeal regular Jane Krakowski, in smaller roles. The screenplay was written by John Hughes, based on his short-story in National Lampoon magazine, "Vacation '58" (the screenplay changes the year to 1983). The original story is (reportedly) a fictionalized account of his own family's ill-fated trip to Disneyland (changed to "Wally World" for the film) when Hughes was a boy. The success of the movie helped launch his screenwriting career. Food additives researcher Clark Griswold (Chase) wants to spend more time with wife Ellen (D'Angelo), as well as children Russ and Audrey (Hall and Dana Barron). So, he decides to lead the family on a cross-country expedition from the suburbs of Chicago all the way to wonderful "Wally World" — billed as "America's Favorite Family Fun Park" — in Los Angeles. However, the Griswolds' vacation begins to go comically awry before it even starts. Arriving to pick up a new car, Clark finds the dealership has "made an error", and had the wrong car delivered. As Clark tries to complain to the salesman, his old car is flattened in a car crusher. Insistent on leaving for California the next morning, Clark reluctantly agrees to take the car on hand: a Wagon Queen Family Truckster - a hideous metallic pea-green station wagon (modeled after a Ford LTD), clad in faux wood paneling and bearing eight headlights. Typically, Clark convinces himself this car is just what the family needed, anyway. When he brings the car home, the engine continues to run after being switched off, and the air bag deploys quite inappropriately. But Clark brushes off Ellen's last-ditch attempt to persuade him to fly to California instead, and the next morning they depart. Lost in St. Louis, the Griswolds ask for directions in a very suspect neighborhood, only to have their car tagged. They stay overnight in St. Louis, where Ellen tries to enjoy a hot (and revealing) shower before being scared by, Clark (in a homage to the infamous shower scene from 'Psycho'). Meanwhile, Clark has periodic encounters with a voluptuous young woman (Brinkley) as she drives her flashy red Ferrari; he casually flirts with her while Ellen dozes in the passenger seat, and nearly wrecks the car An overnight stop in Coolidge, Kansas, to visit Ellen's cousins Catherine (Miriam Flynn) and Eddie (Quaid) gets much more complicated for everyone: Eddie hits Clark up for money and then foists crotchety Aunt Edna (Coca) and her vicious dog "Dinky" on the Griswold family, so they can drive her to her son Normy's home in Phoenix, Arizona, which is "on the way". Cousin Eddie's son Dale (John P. Navin Jr.) introduces Rusty to pornography and masturbation, while his sister Vicki (Jane Krakowski) shows Audrey a shoebox full of pot. At a picnic area, they discover that Dinky has urinated on the picnic basket. Later, leaving the smelly "Kamp Komfort", in South Fork, Colorado, they remember far too late that they've also left poor Dinky tied to the back of the car. Lost in the desert, Clark inadvertently drives off the end of a closed road, wrecking the car, breaking Rusty's nose, and causing Audrey's first period. Stranded, Clark goes looking for help, only to become hopelessly lost, but eventually the Griswolds reunite at a gas station just a few miles away. There, Clark spends the last of his money repairing the car, thanks to the shoddy mechanics who repaired his car. The Griswolds are only a few hours from Phoenix when they discover Aunt Edna has died in her sleep. Increasingly frustrated and on-edge, Clark decides to cover the old woman with a tarp and tie her to the roof of the car, as his wife protests this shabby treatment in the driving rain. In Phoenix, the Griswolds find Normie is out of town, so Aunt Edna's body is left sitting unceremoniously in a lawn chair in his backyard. with a note pinned to her sleeve explaining what has happened. Disillusioned by the disastrous turn of events, Ellen and the kids beg to go back to Chicago before anything else can go wrong. Clark, however, is now grimly determined to see his vacation through, and insists they press on. The next day, the Griswolds finally arrive at Wally World and find the parking lots strangely silent and empty. At first congratulating themselves for arriving early, they soon encounter a giant statue of Marty Moose, whose goofy cartoon voice tells them, "Sorry folks! We're closed for two weeks to clean and repair America's favorite family fun park!" Clark angrily punches the statue in the nose, caving it in and causing a slurred repeat of the message. Incredulous and now completely bonkers because nothing on this vacation has gone right, Clark buys a realistic-looking BB gun and returns to the park, where he holds security guard Russ Lasky (John Candy) at gunpoint, and demands to be allowed into the park. The Griswolds ride several rides with Lasky in tow, but eventually the SWAT team arrives. Clark and his family are about to be arrested when owner Roy Walley (Eddie Bracken) himself intervenes and opts not to press charges after hearing Clark's impassioned epitome of the American Vacation and about the two weeks of living hell that the family spent trying to drive to Walley World from Chicago. At last, the Griswolds can enjoy their vacation. . . . The film's location for Walley World was set at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, north of Los Angeles. Two of the film's major roller coasters, known as Revolution (renamed to the "Whipper Snapper" in the film) and Colossus still operate at the Six Flags park today, over a quarter-century after being built. National Lampoon's Vacation spawned a number of sequels: * National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) * National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) * Vegas Vacation (1997) * National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure (2003) With the exception of the last film, each sequel saw Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo reprise their roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold, enduring their unique and unenviable brand of vacation misadventure in various locales. However, the children Rusty and Audrey are played by a different set of actors in each film (except for Audrey in the last sequel). This fact is joked about early in Vegas Vacation: when we first see the kids again, Clark tells them that he "hardly recognizes" them anymore. The various actors were Anthony Michael Hall and Dana Barron in Vacation, Jason Lively and Dana Hill in European Vacation, Johnny Galecki and Juliette Lewis in Christmas Vacation, and Ethan Embry and Marisol Nichols in Vegas Vacation. Dana Barron again plays Audrey in Christmas Vacation 2, but Rusty, like his parents, could not make it for "Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure", an NBC TV movie. However, Miriam Flynn and Randy Quaid reprise their roles as cousins Catherine and Eddie, as they did in each film aside from European Vacation. Each sequel also manages to reference "Wally World" in some way.

Oh, it's me, Dr. Rosenpenis. I'm just here to check out Alan Stanwyk's file. 39. (tie) Fletch (1985) (4 of 23 lists - 40 points - highest ranking #4 CanOfCorn) Fletch is a 1985 comedy film about a wisecracking investigative newspaper reporter, Irwin Fletcher (Chevy Chase), who writes under the name of Jane Doe. The film was based on the popular Gregory Mcdonald novels and the screenplay was written by Andrew Bergman. The film was directed by Michael Ritchie and released by Universal Pictures. The film opens with one of Fletch's many, often humorous, monologues. The drug trade is Fletch's latest story, and while investigating undercover as a beach wanderer one day he is approached by a well-groomed man, Alan Stanwyk (Tim Matheson). Stanwyk says he wants Fletch to murder him because he has inoperable cancer; this way his family will receive his life insurance. Unaware that Fletch is actually an undercover reporter, Stanwyk thinks he would be the perfect man for the job, as he is a recluse and can just disappear after the shooting. Fletch agrees to kill Stanwyk when offered a considerable sum of money, but is suspicious of Stanwyk's motives. Fletch starts to dig and uncovers a story much greater than his exposé of small-time drug dealers. As he uncovers the lurid truth about Stanwyk, he also discovers that a sinister police chief (Joe Don Baker) is behind the drug trafficking on Los Angeles' beaches. . . . In the animated film Hoodwinked!, Wolf W. Wolf is based directly on Fletch, according to the directors. Wolf's theme music, disguises, pseudonyms and verbal patois all resemble Chase's interpretation of Fletch. He also wears Fletch's favorite Magic Johnson #32 Los Angeles Lakers jersey. The film has since developed a cult following and was followed by a 1989 sequel, Fletch Lives. A prequel, Fletch Won, is currently in pre-production.

I'm looking for Ray Finkle...[A shotgun cocks and is pointed at his head.]...and a clean pair of shorts. 40. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) (3 of 23 lists - 37 points - highest ranking #3 knightni) Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is a 1994 wacky comedy movie, directed by Tom Shadyac. It stars Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Tone Loc, Sean Young, among others. Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino also portrays himself in a major role. The story follows the adventures of Ace Ventura, an eccentric gumshoe who specializes in cases involving pet animals, in his search for "Snowflake", the missing mascot of the Miami Dolphins. Ace is easily identified by not only his loud Hawaiian shirts but also his beat-up blue Chevy which he drives maniacally and his hairdo and sunglasses. Ace, disguised as a delivery man, steals a kidnapped dog from its brusque, unhygenic, violent captor and restores it to its owner, a gorgeous woman who proceeds to seduce Ace in lieu of monetary payment. Ace himself lives in an apartment, which he retains by deceiving his landlord Mr. Shikadance. Many animals of several species live with Ace, who shares an affinity with them. Because Shikadance forbids pets, Ace conceals them, going to great lengths to do so. At Dolphin Stadium, the mascot of the Miami Dolphins, Snowflake, is kidnapped in the middle of the night, a week before the team is due to play the Super Bowl. Mr. Riddle, the team's owner, knows how superstitious football players can be, and believes they will lose the Super Bowl unless Snowflake is returned. He gives his Head of Operations, Roger Podacter, and Chief Publicist, Melissa Robinson, until Super Bowl Sunday to find Snowflake, or they will both be fired. On the recommendation of the team secretary, Melissa contacts Ace, seeking help. Ace meets Melissa, who explains that Snowflake is a rare bottlenose dolphin who is trained to perform football-themed tricks. After meeting Podacter, Ace enters the dolphin tank in search of clues. Shortly afterward reporters show up for coverage of Snowflakes new tricks. Ace gets out of the tank and acts as an unusually crazy trainer "Heinz Getwellvet" to shoo them away to the press confrence going on (This part of the scene was unusually removed in the new Ace Ventura DVD combo release, even though it was in the original VHS. Warner Bros. claims it was simply the difference between the "Original" and "Theatrical" versions of the movie. Surprisingly they did not even add it, as well as other scenes, in as Extra deleted scenes, and no "Theatrical" DVD release is planned. It is thought by many to be one of the funniest parts of the movie.) Ace then searches the filter and finds his first clue: a rare cut orange amber. At the police station, Ace learns from his friend in the police force, Emilio, that Sergeant Aguado is working on the Snowflake case. The fearsome Lt. Lois Einhorn (Sean Young) storms in, warning Ace to avoid the Snowflake case altogether. Ace visits his ecologist friend Woodstock, who's lair is a locked chamber under a concert stage (where there is a Cannibal Corpse concert going on), to find out who would have enough money to purchase equipment used to capture and hold a dolphin. The prime suspect is a billionaire Ronald Camp, who is throwing a lavish party. Ace, accompanied by Melissa, attends the party. Ace, searching, finds a large tank full of water, but discovers that it contains a great white shark. On his way out of the party (after falling in the tank), he eyes a ring on Camp's finger and discovers it has stones in it similar to the one he found in the tank. The stone, a rare trianglar-shaped amber piece, had fallen from a 1984 AFC Championship Ring. Camp wore an identical ring that night, but it was not missing a stone. Ace, trying to find whose ring is missing a stone, he finds ways of making the players show him their rings. The first time Ace was teasing a player by almost ramming his car into the player's so the player would give him the middle finger, and Ace saw that the player's ring wasn't missing a stone. He would keep track of which player he had seen with a picture of the 1984 Dolphins roster, and he would X out any player he had seen. Melissa and Ace learn that Roger Podacter is dead. The police believe it to be a case of suicide. Ace disproves this by taking the information that Podacter's neighbor heard a scream (supposedly from Podacter's fall from his balcony) and the fact that the sliding door leading to the balcony was closed when the apartment manager entered; because the door is made from double-paned, soundproof glass, Podacter's neighbor could not have heard the scream if Podacter had committed suicide and closed the door himself. Instead, he was thrown off the balcony, whereas the killer closed the door on the way out. Ace humiliates Einhorn with this revelation and is driven away as a result. While trying to figure out how Podacter's death is connected to Snowflake, Ace learns of a Dolphins' player named Ray Finkle, whom Ace has not investigated. Melissa explains that Ray Finkle was a star kicker who was added to the team after the photograph was taken that Ace has used as a reference. Finkle had missed the potential game-winning field goal kick at the end of the Super Bowl game that year, losing to the San Francisco 49ers. After the season, Finkle received an AFC Championship ring; however his contract was not renewed. Ace drives down to Finkle's hometown to meet the football player's parents at their home, which is defaced with anti-Finkle graffiti. Finkle's mother is senile, and his father is a suspicious, shotgun-wielding old man who confides to Ace that his son was put into a mental institution after his career ended. Finkle's room contains a hate shrine to player Dan Marino, consisting of cardboard stand-ins and photos of the football star, the words "DIE DAN DIE" scrawled in red, and knives sticking out of Marino's face. A film projector in the middle of the room plays recorded footage of the field goal that Finkle missed. Finkle blames Marino for the incident, believing he was holding the football inaccurately when Finkle kicked it. Ace realizes that Dan Marino is probably about to be kidnapped and alerts Melissa to send help, but is unable to prevent the kidnapping. Ace returns to Miami and lays out Finkle's motive to Lt. Einhorn. The hypothesis is that Finkle kidnapped Snowflake because the dolphin was assigned Finkle's jersey number 5 and taught how to kick a field goal, which Finkle took as an insult. In light of this evidence, Einhorn suddenly starts attempting to seduce Ace; Ace turns her down after feeling something "digging into" his hip. He assumes it to be Einhorn's gun. Searching for Ray Finkle, Ace enters Shady Acres, the mental hospital in Tampa from which Finkle escaped. Ace searches the storage room and finds a box of Finkle's belongings. Looking through it, he finds a newspaper article stating that Lois Einhorn was a missing hiker whose body was never recovered. Ace immediately calls Emilio, who looks through Einhorn's desk, finding a love letter to Einhorn from Potecter. While trying to determine how Finkle and Einhorn were connected, Ace's dog puts his head down on a picture of Finkle, whereupon the dog's hair alters the image of Finkle's head, so that he looks like a woman. Looking at it, Ace realizes that Einhorn is actually Ray Finkle posing as the deceased Lois Einhorn. Now knowing that he was seduced by a man, Ace is shellshocked; vomiting, cleaning his mouth via exaggerated methods, burning the clothes he wore during the homosexual encounter, and continues to purge himself until he is exhausted. Ace follows Einhorn to a warehouse by the docks. After knocking out Einhorn's henchmen, he finds Dan Marino tied up, but is himself caught by Einhorn. When the cops arrive to arrest Ace (on Einhorn's orders), Melissa and Emilio stop them. Ace explains Finkle's motive and that Einhorn is actually Finkle. No one believes him; therefore Ace attempts to find proof by attempting to remove the lieutenant's hair thinking it was a wig, then ripping off her blouse and skirt to show that she has breasts and apparently no penis, failing to prove either. On a cue from Marino, Ace turns Einhorn around and reveals that Einhorn/Finkle had tucked his genitals between his legs. It also comes to the conclusion that Einhorn/Finkle killed Podecter because Podecter discovered who Einhorn is. The assembled squad are disgusted. Einhorn makes one last attempt to kill Ace, but is thwarted and exposed as the owner of the incomplete ring. Marino is returned to the team in time for the Super Bowl, as is Snowflake. While sharing a tender moment with Melissa at the game, Ace sees an albino pigeon, whom he had been chartered to find, and tries to catch it. The Philadelphia Eagles' mascot, Polly scares the bird away, enraging Ace. The audience takes notice and the announcer displays Ace on the JumboTron, reading aloud Ace's dedication and love for "all animals" while Ace is punching the headpiece of the Eagles' mascot. Ace, seeing the camera, strikes a pose. . . . A scene in the movie where Spike is jumping around Ace's apartment was used as the original Rally Monkey for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in 2000. The movie incorrectly referred to the 1984 Super Bowl as "Super Bowl XVII" instead of the correct "Super Bowl XIX". Coincidently, the Dolphins also played in Super Bowl XVII, but lost to the Washington Redskins, 27-17. Miami Dolphins kicker Pete Stoyanovich plays the role of Einhorn/Finkle's "kicking" double and does the scene (in a dress, wearing flat dress shoes instead of high heels) where Einhorn/Finkle kicks the football through the hole in the roof. Ace Ventura's detective character is a parody of Clint Eastwood's character Dirty Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry movies. Carrey, who has appeared in two of Clint Eastwood's movies, spoofed some of Dirty Harry's traits such as his wavy hairdo, sporty sunglasses, large 1970's sedan, and occasional tough-guy attitude. The name of the mental institution in the film "Shady Acres" is a play on director Tom Shadyac's surname.