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The Spectacle Blog
Surely they can’t be serious. Well, they are serious and don’t call them Shirley.
Well, perhaps it was their way of paying tribute to Leslie Nielsen.
I actually watched Airplane! on AMC yesterday. The perfect movie for a snow day in Boston.
The Pink Panther, The Exorcist, All The President’s Men, Saturday Night Fever, The Empire Strikes Back and Malcolm X were amongst the other films selected by the National Film Registry.
Personally, I would like to have seen The Blues Brothers added to the list. Besides having arguably the best car chase sequence ever captured on film (outside of Bullitt and The French Connection) how many films can boast the presence of John Lee Hooker, Cab Calloway, James Brown, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin? Almost all of them are gone and with Franklin’s recent surgery for pancreatic cancer who can tell if she has sung her last song? Still, rumors of the demise of The Queen of Soul have been greatly exxagerated. Yet all the more reason for the National Film Registry to consider honoring Jake and Elwood Blues and their musical inspirations at this time next year.
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Richard Baker| 12.28.10 @ 12:20PM
Remember, they were on a mission from God. The image of them in the nun's office in those tiny desks was hilarious.
Alan Brooks| 12.28.10 @ 4:06PM
"We have to call the hospital."
"What is it?"
"It's a place where they take sick people."
Eric Cartman| 12.28.10 @ 1:11PM
Surely, you jest?
Occam's Tool| 12.28.10 @ 2:36PM
No, and stop calling me Shirley. Good to have you back, Eric.
Now, a piece of trivia---who played the Cook County Clerk in that film near the end?
Tim the Enchanter| 12.28.10 @ 3:21PM
I know this (for once!). Steven Spielberg!
Tim the Enchanter| 12.28.10 @ 3:33PM
Umm... do I get a prize?
M. Kane| 12.28.10 @ 7:20PM
My favorite Blues Brothers cameo (actually, make that one favorite - there are so many great ones):
"Do you have a Miss. Piggy?" *CRASH!*
Eric Cartman| 12.29.10 @ 12:07AM
Good to be back, OT! I had my daughter in town for teh last day. Sad to see her go, but we had a good time today :-)
JimH| 12.28.10 @ 2:38PM
The Blues Brothers has some great moments. But is is to long and needed a good editing. But that's not important right now.
M. Kane| 12.28.10 @ 7:29PM
BTW, Airplane fans should definitely try to track down Dennis Prager's interview with the Zucker, Abrams and Zucker team who produced the film. I want to say it was aired about 6-8 weeks back? Anyway, its fun stuff.
steve in Pittsburgh| 12.28.10 @ 8:19PM
What about Airplane 2, all 3 The Naked Guns (I confess to not seeing the 3rd one) and both Hot Shots? Not to mention Dracula: Dead and loving it (disd't see that one either) and Robin Hood: Men in Tights...which I did see. It was ok.
Surely I jest...sort of.
Ken in People's Republic of MD| 12.29.10 @ 8:19AM
That's a very eclectic list. I wonder how they came up with those movies? But I am glad to see the often under appreciated genre of "comedy" getting its just due. "Airplane" is a fine example, but so many others, "Blazing Saddles", "Young Frankenstein", "Aminal House", sorry, no comedies after 1990 should be allowed.
How about "My Man Godfrey", "His Girl Friday", or the one that started it all, "It Happened One Night." I guess they wanted stuff from lesser known stars. I mean, two hundred years into the future, if there's still a Library of Congress, would people rather see Robert Hays, or William Powell, Clark Gable, and Cary Grant?
And you gotta have something from Rodney Dangerfield, I don't care which movie you pick, but Rodney just has to be there.