Rick Moranis Ended Acting Retirement After Nearly 30 Years and Says ‘It Was Very Strange’ on ‘Spaceballs 2’ Set: ‘I Felt Like I Was in a Time Warp’
3 months ago by TheImpressiveX to c/movies
Pros: Sound, projection, and seats are all better. Assigned seating is a godsend.
Cons: Prices, people on cell phones, prices, previews/ads push actual start to 20 + (d20 roll) minutes after the listed start, and prices.
Pros: Alamo Drafthouse has a strict no phone policy (they eject without refund) and no ads before the show. The only thing they show is kitschy stuff related to the movie. And for Spaceballs, that’s gonna be fun.
Yeah I still like them over other theaters but I hate that decision. It’s made worse by the fact that they haven’t implemented Apple/google pay so you have to type in the full credit card info every time.
I spoke with a server when they first started doing that and they told me that they were also supposed to speak with guests as little as possible. The servers are often movie lovers so I miss being able to talk about the movie before the show. Fuckin’ Sony.
I was gonna say that it fucking sucked the last time I went there and everyone was on their phones the entire time.
On the other hand, I went to a drive in theater and watched a movie in the trunk of my car with my wife, while people's kids ran around the parking lot playing. That was genuinely fun.
Con: The nearest Alamo Drafthouse is almost 2 hours away.
My sofa isn’t all ripped up, and the reclining backs work.
Don't besmirch my sound system. It has a box that says Dolby somewhere
Cons
And people's feet on the backrest. I don't mind the feet, but often times they move them all the time and the backrest, too.
I'm curious how the space balls humour will translate to the present and how my mind will judge it. My mind... It changed over time. Plus my memory removed the bad parts in the original movie.
Thank you for listing all of the reasons why I will wait a month or two to download this onto my Plex server for free. it saves me the time of doing it myself.
I don’t care how good the movie is, I will wait to watch it in the comfort of my own home for free. Nothing, NOTHING could possibly drag me back into the nightmare of spending $25-$45 just to endure everyone else’s bullshit just to watch a movie. Nothing could possibly make it worth it.
Never again.
I even got a tattoo to mark the last film I saw in a theater 8 years ago: Ready Player One (not a great film, but I was drunk and stoned, so I enjoyed it)
Old-school 3D glasses. I thought it apropos
I appreciate any recommendation to improve my cinematic experience, however 3-D films give me a headache.
The tattoo is a symbolic nod to the enjoyable cinema-going experiences of yore, not an expression of enthusiasm for the 3D medium in particular. But, thank you, nonetheless.
That said, if you know of any fan edits of that film that can improve it in any way, please, do let me know.
I often describe that film as: for all of what it wasn’t, it quite nearly was
Recent successes in revival movies and comedies, like The Naked Gun, make me hopeful.
It can be done, you just have to want to do the work.
I mean, it's all the same crew, including Mel Fucking Brooks. It's gonna be good.
John Candy 😭
I feel like Mel fucking Brooks may have less energy available at this point in his career to push his artistic vision through.
I feel like this movie is the cinematic equivalent of 90-year-old congresspeople giving us “greatest hits of ideas that played well decades ago”.
Go. Retire. You had a great career for a long time. Now find a smaller audience.
What a reason for him to come back. You were sorely missed, sir.
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I totally missed that
Same, and that's brutal because I fucking love Dave Thomas. He always killed as Scott Aukerman's dad on Comedy Bang! Bang!
You Hoser! Take off eh.
(I missed it too, I'm also a Hoser.)
This one gets a moment in time. It's pretty much the last chance to do something with most of the original cast and creator.
While I share your sentiment usually, this one really is an exception to the reboot slop we have seen over the last decade or so
This one gets a moment in time. It’s pretty much the last chance to do something with most of the original cast and creator.
You can say that for most of these reunion/reboots. Meryl Streep is pushing 80, so The Devil Wears Prada 2 had to happen now. We've already lost one Ghostbuster, so we really needed to make Afterlife happen stat.
Not that I want to harsh anyone's buzz. I've enjoyed some of these things, and this may turn out to be one of the good ones. But I'm not seeing anything setting it apart from the others, either.
One person isn't the majority of the entire cast.
Rick Moranis retired from acting almost 30 years before this project and it was a project worth him coming back for in his opinion.
That's different from your examples in a fundamental way. I'm not sure how I can explain it to you, but the difference for this one is clear and unambiguously a different situation then what you are comparing them to me
One person isn’t the majority of the entire cast.
When it's The Devil Wears Prada and we're talking about Streep, she may was well be.
Moranis is an amazing get, I'll give you that. I'm not trying to write this movie off, I just don't automatically write any of these things off. I don't think the glut of backwards looking projects is good for the industry as a whole, but most do have potential on an individual basis, and a couple of them deliver on it. I'm certainly hoping this will be one of them.
My download queue is ready and waiting…
Edit: before anyone gives me any shit about only 18 hours of uptime, I just did my monthly update and roboop, so gimme a break. This is a 14 year-old iMac, and my standard uptime is 30+ days before I run system updates and reboop.
Uptime is not a flex.
Mel Brooks is pulling the stops. He's not dead, and neither is his comedy.
What I love is that he's taking risks.
It's not perfect, but we all appreciate it. Fuck the haters, man.
Lol, receiving a boatload of cash to strap your name to a sequel to a successful movie you did decades ago and then keeping your hands out of it, is "taking risks"?
Josh Gad wrote this one not Mel Brooks.
I'm mostly concerned because Mel Brooks hasn't made a good film since Spaceballs.
I know a lot of people love Men in Tights, but it was just a bunch of reused jokes from earlier films. Even the title song was just "Jews in Space" from the epilogue of "History of the World Part I."
Mel Brooks is pulling the stops.
He's literally 100 years old and has no fucks to give.
No, this is Spaceballs 2: The New One. Mel Brooks said he found the money in his basement, so it needed a new title.
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I haven't been to see a movie in theaters in almost three decades. I might go see this.
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