The forbidden Lesley Neilsen | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
I grew up with Airplane! movies and they were I suppose entertaining, or the first one was at any rate.
To me, Airplane is Lesley Neilsen. Straightforward visual gags with dry, laconic humour or classical plays on words, there's been many a laugh.
I'm no expert on Neilsen's career. IMDB says he's done heaps of stuff including the Naked Gun and other comedy titles for which I suppose he is best known.
None of them however compare with what I would rate as one of my favourite films of all time, The Forbidden Planet.
Sailing the digital high seas with my skull and cross bones raised high, I happened across this 1956 masterpiece the other day and am watching this now as a friday night special, considered to be a thinly veiled interpretation of "The Tempest".
That's as maybe (and never having read The Tempest I cannot really comment), but it's a darn good movie. It's just occured to me that it's 50 years old, and whilst some of the effects are a little dated and the budget is nowhere near the 150-200 million monsters we have these days, this is a movie that will more than punch its weight.
Next on the list is that favourite of both mine and my fathers; The Day the Earth Stood Still. I'm about 60% of the way through downloading that one - rather than a concise rip, TDTESS is a full DVD rip complete with half a dozen language tracks and my monthly DSL download quota "canna take any more captain"
Gort Feringa!
To me, Airplane is Lesley Neilsen. Straightforward visual gags with dry, laconic humour or classical plays on words, there's been many a laugh.
I'm no expert on Neilsen's career. IMDB says he's done heaps of stuff including the Naked Gun and other comedy titles for which I suppose he is best known.
None of them however compare with what I would rate as one of my favourite films of all time, The Forbidden Planet.
Sailing the digital high seas with my skull and cross bones raised high, I happened across this 1956 masterpiece the other day and am watching this now as a friday night special, considered to be a thinly veiled interpretation of "The Tempest".
That's as maybe (and never having read The Tempest I cannot really comment), but it's a darn good movie. It's just occured to me that it's 50 years old, and whilst some of the effects are a little dated and the budget is nowhere near the 150-200 million monsters we have these days, this is a movie that will more than punch its weight.
Next on the list is that favourite of both mine and my fathers; The Day the Earth Stood Still. I'm about 60% of the way through downloading that one - rather than a concise rip, TDTESS is a full DVD rip complete with half a dozen language tracks and my monthly DSL download quota "canna take any more captain"
Gort Feringa!
