Day #21 of the 30 Day Film Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day #21 of 30 Day Film Challenge...

Okay, I'm changing the prompt again. The prompt is "a film that makes you angry.." and honestly? I drew a blank, and well, I don't know about anyone else - but everything seems to make me angry nowadays. Work makes me angry.
The pandemic makes me angry. The national political situation makes me angry. I'm frigging tired of being angry - it's making me snappish and irritable.

So, you can do that prompt if you want...in your own journals.

Personally? I want films that make me laugh. Although, the problem with comedy is what makes one person laugh may offend or make another angry.

A Film That Makes You Laugh

Mine?

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I've seen it twice now - both times it makes me roar with laughter. The first time - my entire family was roaring with laughter (well except for my brother who wasn't there).

Comments

[cactuswatcher]

Glad you changed this one, too. I had one but decided I wouldn't post it. No need digging that up!

This didn't fit with 'makes me happy,' but 'make me laugh,' yep.

The Producers (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTW2ZSjG5N0

[shadowkat]

Oh, I adore the original Producers with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. The musical is nowhere as good as the original film - a small gem, that not many people knew about. I remember stumbling upon it on television once in the 1980s, and laughing my head off.

Springtime for Hitler has got to be one of the most innovative satirical bits that I've seen.

[cjlasky7]

We have enough anger in our lives these days. Let's have some laughter.

The In Laws (1979), dir. by Arthur Hiller

The In Laws is both a wild political satire and a buddy film, starring the unlikely comedy team of Peter Falk and Alan Arkin. Falk is at his best here, spinning out outlandish stories to his baffled future in-law, while dragging him into increasingly hazardous and absurd predicaments. Arkin counters with just the right balance of terror and exasperation.

("Serpentine, Shel, serpentine!")

https://youtu.be/W9MU2oXzSL4

Andrew Bergman (Honeymoon in Vegas, The Freshman) delivers an airtight script (it all does make sense at the end!) with a ton of funny set pieces. Kind of a lost classic; avoid the remake.

[shadowkat]

That movie was hilarious. I remember laughing hard at it.

[petzipellepingo]

I'm going for The Lady Eve , more Preston Sturgis.

However, if I want to stick with the original question, I'd go for Black Robe . Not that I have a problem with the actual film BUT it's partly funded by the Canadian government which has an office for Native actors. So who does the film get to play the "Indians"- some Natives but also Asians, Eurasians and whites. "sighs"

[cjlasky7]

For the "angry" movie?

Batman and Robin.

Do NOT get me started.

[shadowkat]

LOL!

One summer I saw that movie and Speed 2 - just to escape the heat. I had no air conditioning that year - I was subletting an apartment from my brother. My first two-three years in NYC, I had no A/C. So I'd go to cheap movies on weekends to escape the heat (they had cheap movies back then).

It's a toss-up which of those two movies was worse. Considering I can't remember Speed 2 - I'm going with Batman & Robin.

[shadowkat]

I've never heard of the Black Robe. But they were admittedly horrible at casting Native actors in these roles - up through 2010. I remember people at church getting upset about Christian Bale playing Moses in the Ten Commandments, yet they apparently have no issues with Charlton Heston...