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GET
A LIFE
One of the funniest shows in the
history of television. Chris Elliot stars as
Chris Peterson, a 30 year old paperboy. Because
stupid people didn't watch it, it went off the
air. Finally, videos are now available.
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Volume
One | Volume
Two |
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BACK TO THE FUTURE
The first chapter in the greatest movie trilogy
of all time.
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(laserdisc only)
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BACK
TO THE FUTURE PART II
The futuristic second chapter in
the greatest movie trilogy of all time.
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BACK TO THE FUTURE PART
III
The old west-set final chapter in the greatest
movie trilogy of all time.
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THE
WEDDING SINGER
Adam
Sandler's second-best movie, this Tim
Herlihy-written laugh fest takes place in 1985
and focuses on a wedding singer (Sandler) who
would very much like to get married. And then at
the end he marries Drew Barrymore. So it all ends
happily ever after.
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GOOD BURGER
This spin-off of Nickelodeon's
ALL THAT, starring Keenan Thompson and Kel
Mitchell, is a pretty funny movie. It can drag at
times, but there are quite a few good bits, and
the interaction between Keenan and Kel is great.
Plus, it co-stars both Abe Vigoda AND the fat guy
from HEAD OF THE CLASS (who also co-wrote)! What
more could you possibly want in a movie?
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BEAN
Most
likely the funniest movie of all time. An instant
classic. Just watch it, dammit. Don't be a stupid
idiot.
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CONTACT
A very thought-provoking look at what might
happen if we received a message from outer space.
Good stuff.
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THE
WIZARD OF SPEED AND TIME
Mike
Jittlov's low-budget special effects
tour-de-force. Set in the late 1970s, it's the
story of a filmmaker (Jittlov, playing himself)
producing a sci-fi short for a network television
special created to capitalize on the success of
STAR WARS. If you haven't seen this movie (and
you probably haven't), buy this now.
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FORREST GUMP
Robert Zemekis' 4th best movie.
Academy-award winner for best picture. Blah blah
blah. You know it, it's great.
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Also: Widescreen
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THE
BEST BITS OF MR. BEAN
If
you haven't seen the BEAN television series yet,
check this out.
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THE WATERBOY
A classic of modern cinema.
Hilarious all the way through. Adam Sandler as
Bobby Boucher, Kathy Bates as Mama Boucher, Fairuza Balk as Vicki
Vallencourt, and Henry Winkler as Coach Klein all
light up the screen. If you don't like this
movie, you're probably not a very good person.
Deep down inside, I mean.
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IT NOW from AMAZON.com
Widescreen
DVD | VHS
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WAYNE'S
WORLD
These
two movies suck... NOT! Well, Part II kinda
sucks. But it's okay. Better than IT'S PAT: THE
MOTION PICTURE, that's for sure. Schwing...NOT! Ah, that never
gets old.
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Wayne's
World | Wayne's
World 2 |
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STUART SAVES HIS FAMILY
Despite
what you might have heard, this movie is really
good.
It's not laugh out loud funny, but it's actually
very touching. Al Franken's great performance,
and the well-written screenplay (based on
Franken's book), actually does the impossible,
and makes an SNL character a real person who you
actually care what happens to. Check this out,
you'll be suprised.
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THE
STAR WARS TRILOGY
The
second-best movie trilogy of all time.
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MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
This movie is not a He-Man movie.
He-Man is portrayed as a brain-dead freak (and
doesn't seem to even have the Prince Adam
identity), almost the entire movie is set on
Earth and not Eternia, every character wears
bleak, dark costumes, and there's no Orko, Battle
Cat/Cringer, and most of the other characters
He-Man fans know and love, in sight. But still,
it's called MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, so I just
had to list it. Oh, and Courtney Cox is in it,
plus the guy who played Principal Strickland in
BTTF, so it's not all bad.
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MULAN
Good
characters, good story, good songs, good fun.
Disney's best in years.
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ANTZ
The only computer-generated film
produced so far that I really like a lot. Neat
stuff.
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CABIN
BOY
Not
as good as GET A LIFE, but very funny still.
Chris Elliot stars and co-writes this tale of
"fancy lad" Nathanial Mayweather, who
unwittingly becomes cabin boy of a
barnacle-infested boat called The Filthy Whore.
Guest-starring David Letterman ("Wanna buy a
monkey?") and CONAN O'BRIEN's Andy Richter
(as Kenny, the hilarious original cabin boy).
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GROUNDHOG DAY
Bill Murray stars as a weatherman
who must repeat Groundhog Day over and over and
over again. Great movie. Co-starring Chris Elliot
and Brian-Doyle Murray (who were hilarious
together in GET A
LIFE).
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RICHARD
SIMMONS' SWEATIN' TO THE OLDIES
The original, and still the best.
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TIM BURTON'S BEST FLICKS
All masterpieces of spooky
genius.
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Ed Wood | Mars
Attacks | Beetlejuice
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SUPERMAN:
THE MOVIE
Superman is my favorite superhero
(not counting He-Man, of course), and this movie
best shows why. Superman III, however (in which
Supes' turns evil, gets drunk, and yells at
little kids) , is the best argument against him
being anybody's favorite anything.
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Also: Part II | Part III | Part IV |
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ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
I haven't seen this movie since I
was a kid, but I remember liking it when they
showed it in school. Although, it's hard NOT to
like a movie when they're showing it to you in
school. Take this pick with a grain of salt.
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ERNEST GOES TO JAIL
The best of the ERNEST films
finds Ernest off to jail after being switched
with a criminal look-a-like during Jury Duty. It
ends with Ernest being fried in the electric
chair and gaining electro-powers. Wacky fun.
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SPACEBALLS
Mel Brooks' crazy take on STAR
WARS. Very underrated.
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MYSTERY
SCIENCE THEATER 3000
Set in "the not too distant
future, next Sunday A.D.," MST3K is the
adventures of a human sent into space by mad
scientists, who make him and his 'bots watch the
worst cheesy movies they can find. Keen supreme.
If you're new to MST3K, I suggest you start with
"Manos"
or "Pod
People." "I Accuse
My Parents" is great, too.
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Mitchell | Pod
People | Shorts 1| Shorts 2 | Manos:
Hands of Fate | Cave
Dwellers | Eegah | I Accuse
My Parents | Red Zone
Cuba | The
Atomic Brain | The
Brain That Wouldn't Die | The
Gunslinger | The
Unearthly | Angels
Revenge |
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THE CARE BEARS MOVIES
Yes, I will admit that as a small
child, I enjoyed the feature film adventures of
the delightful Care Bears (and let's not forget
their wacky half-breed Care Bear Cousins). I
carried my Swiftheart stuffed doll to school with
pride, and I frequently daydreamed of venturing
to the land of Care-A-Lot and becoming an
honorary Care Bear. Now that I look back on it,
it's amazing I wasn't beat up more frequently.
But as amazing as that is, it's just as sad that
kids today are growing up without being taught
how to care by little bears with hearts in their
stomachs.
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Part I | Part II | Part III
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MYSTERY
SCIENCE THEATER 3000: THE MOVIE
The MST3K gang take on "This
Island Earth" in their first (and probably
last, sadly) motion picture.
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THE PEANUTS MOVIES
The TV specials were great, but
there's nothing like watching a full-length film
starring Charles M. Schulz's amazing creations,
the PEANUTS gang. It's almost hypnotic.
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A Boy
Named Charlie Brown | Snoopy,
Come Home! | Bon
Voyage, Charlie Brown | Race For
Your Life, Charlie Brown
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ROCKY
Sylvester Stallone both wrote and
starred in all five ROCKY movies, including the
first, which won the Academy Award for Best
Picture in 1976. Yet in all the time between the
ROCKY movies, he just churned out a bunch of
crap. He must have been too busy on the set
writing the next movie to notice he was starring
in crap film after crap film. Oh well. ROCKY's
keen.
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POOPIE! THE OFFICIAL
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 OUTTAKES REEL
Outtakes from MST3K!
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THE SHORT CIRCUIT
TWOLIGY
Number Five is ALIVE! Check out
good ol' Johnny Five in the original (starring
Steve Gutenberg and Ally Sheedy) and the sequel
(which Gutenberg and Sheedy decided they were way
too big stars to be in, so Fisher Stevens took
over).
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Part I | Part II
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YOUNG EINSTEIN
Beloved by Australians the world
over, Yahoo Serious' epic comedy on the early
life of Albert Einstein never caught on in the
U.S. I don't know why, though, because it's
pretty cool. If you haven't seen it yet, check it
out.
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THREE
AMIGOS
This is pretty much the only
really good movie Chevy Chase ever made.
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OVER THE TOP
This is probably the only good
movie about arm-wrestling ever made.
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THE
NAKED GUN TRILOGY
Thanks to these three classic
comedies from the Files of Police Squad, I still
think murderer O.J. Simpson is a great guy.
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Naked
Gun | 2 1/2 | 33 1/3 |
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THE WIZARD
This pop cultural milestone of a
movie stars Fred Savage as the older brother of a
mentally-crazy kid (not played by Ben Savage),
who is a "Wizard" at playing 1980s
Nintendo video games like "Double Dragon
2" and "Rad Racer". Christian
Slater co-stars as the older older brother of The
Wizard, giving what is quite possibly the best
performance of his career after "Hard
Rain". His role in the movie consists mainly
of playing the "Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles" video game and smirking. This movie
is most notable for introducing to the world both
the "Power Glove" and "Super Mario
Bros. 3". Which were both radical and
tubular.
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BACK
TO THE FUTURE: THE ANIMATED SERIES
A
decently-produced animated spin-off of the
greatest movie trilogy of all time, focusing
mainly on Doc's sons, Jules and Verne.
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THEM NOW from AMAZON.com
Volume
One | Volume
Two | Volume
Three | Volume
Four | Volume
Five | Volume
Six | Christmas
Special | Family
Vacation | Solar
Sailors |
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THE BEST OF THE SIMPSONS
Best cartoon on TV ever.
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Boxed
Set I | Boxed
Set II | Boxed
Set III | Christmas
Special
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MALLRATS
This
movie isn't the greatest, but it gets on the list
because comic book legend Stan Lee is in
it. Stan Lee is keen.
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Also: Clerks | Chasing
Amy |
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STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE
HOME
This is the best movie in the
STAR TREK film series, most definitely. The
original Enterprise crew time-warps to 1987 to
save 23rd century Earth from a wacky
cylinder-type thing in the sky that wants to talk
to humpback whales, which are extinct in Kirk and
Spock's time. When will people LEARN?
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