Quote: Leevil @ June 8 2008, 12:05 AM BSTThe man with Two Brains isn't good in my books.
Maybe your looking at the wrong book?
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Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 8 2008, 12:02 AM BSTThats just very wrong! LA Story
Fave LA Story quote:
Harris: I could never be a woman, 'cause I'd just stay home and play with my breasts all day.
I love you, IMDB.
I actually really f**king hate all the Airplane films.
Don't judge me. (But frankly if you do I don't care, cos you've clearly got rubbish taste anyway...) 
Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 8 2008, 12:06 AM BSTMaybe your looking at the wrong book?
Maybe the film just doesn't work and forgot the jokes 
Quote: Alan C @ June 8 2008, 12:01 AM BSTBest film ever, IMHO of course, was Lindsay Anderson's If but that sounds like another thread to me
I'm a big If fan. I love the way it gradually gets more surreal as the film goes on. Malcolm McDowell made such a good debut in it.
From Airplane:
[as the plane prepares to take off]
Lady: Nervous?
Ted Striker: Yes.
Lady: First time?
Ted Striker: No, I've been nervous lots of times.
Quote: Leevil @ June 8 2008, 12:08 AM BSTMaybe the film just doesn't work and forgot the jokes
Im still going to have to go with the wrong book thing.
Quote: zooo @ June 8 2008, 12:07 AM BSTI actually really f**king hate all the Airplane films.
Don't judge me. (But frankly if you do I don't care, cos you've clearly got rubbish taste anyway...)
Remember when I said everything you say is gospel? Apart from that.
Quote: zooo @ June 8 2008, 12:07 AM BSTI actually really f**king hate all the Airplane films.
Second one doesn't count, it's not a ZAZ.
But Airplane itself, in my view, is the finest comedy of all time.
Aw, sorry.
I saw them when I was 10 and laughed. But since then I just hate them quite passionately. I don't know why.
Funniest piece of dialogue from an 80's comedy?
From Ghostbusters:
Dr Ray Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.
Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
Mayor: Is this true?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes it's true.
[pause]
Dr. Peter Venkman: This man has no dick.
And that is all.
I love this thread, I'm in 80s comedy heaven.
Maybe I had some sort of terrible childhood experience whilst watching Airplane.
Ghostbusters might be the second best 80s film. (after that other one, what I already said was the best, and now can't go back on...)
Quote: Winterlight @ June 8 2008, 12:10 AM BSTFunniest piece of dialogue from an 80's comedy?
From Ghostbusters:
Dr Ray Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.
Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
Mayor: Is this true?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes it's true.
(pause)
Dr. Peter Venkman: This man has no dick.And that is all.
Murray is the bomb, he came up with a lot of his own lines in that movie too.
It's not 80s but my favourite line from The Jerk,
"It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child"
More Airplane:
Captain Oveur: You ever been in a cockpit before?
Joey: No sir, I've never been up in a plane before.
Captain Oveur: You ever seen a grown man naked?