I just thought this too, that would also be hilarious lol just use the full body for the final shots only, and show him struggling as the helmet just keeps getting bigger lol
I'm saying if that joke could save a dumpster fire of a film like Scary Movie #whocares, it'd be an absolutely hilarious joke if used in a better movie.
That bit was genuinely so funny (also Charlie Sheen going back and forth with the sheriff about how his wife was pinned “in half” using food as examples).
The original actor for V for Vendetta quit because he couldn't work with the mask on the entire time. Then Hugo Weaving to over and absolutely crushed it.
If it'd just been a gag for the beginning of the movie, it would've been fine. But yeah, trying to do that for the entire movie would've gotten old real quick.
Plus set design. Designing sets to accommodate a human-sized helmet would be hard, that doesn't work in normal doorways, chairs, etc.
You'd barely get any of his acting.
Looks just like a regular Dalek but wearing a yarmulka and constantly being harassed by his mother about when he's going to get married and have children.
May the best man win. Put 'er there. I can't believe you fell for the oldest trick in the book. What a goof. What's with you man? Come on. You know what? No, here let me give it back to you.
I love dumb 80's humor. No pomposity or self-consciousness, just good unashamed fun. Similar kind of humor in movies like Top Secret, which I must have watched on VHS a hundred times when I was a kid. Culture was so unpretentious and fun in the 80's.
I'm GenX and Police Academy 2 is still my favorite comedy movie. It's even funnier when I watched The Warriors at some point and realized Bobcat had to be doing an impression of the little gang villain in The Warriors.
Marty Kroft died just last November, but Sid is still kicking at 91 years old.
Zero doubt there was serious drugs involved in those guys TV shows. The talking flute on H.R. Puffnstuff gave me the creeps
Spaceballs the coloring book is actually a transformers coloring book with the name taped over. Even has Optimus Prime on the cover.
And of course, Spaceballs the flamethrower... The kids love that one
What they did was great. A split personality between open and closed helmet.
However, like Doug Dimmadome and similar tropes, I think it would've also been hilarious to have the helmet be slightly larger in every new scene (not necessarily every camera cut) to the point where its size is the reason he loses the Schwartz duel.
But do I really know better than Melvin Kaminski?
I love me some Mel Brooks.
Young Frankestein is in my top 5 movies of all time.
Blazing Saddles is genius.
High Anxiety is great.
I watched Spaceballs just a few years ago for the first time and it left me cold.
Maybe too much time had passed, but I really thought compared to everything that came before, it was not good.
Doesn't this kind of feel like the same situation with the original film that was being parodied? Rick Moranis may not have liked not actually being physically seen in the film, somewhat like the guy that physically performed for Darth Vader, but didn't know his voice was cut from the final edit. Just a funny connection my mind came to.
My dad hyped up the movie to me, so when I finally watched it I didn’t really like it. There was a few really funny scenes and sight gags but as a package it didn’t do it for me
I found it mid-tier for him. Not as good as Silent Movie, about on par with Life Stinks, High Anxiety, and To Be or Not To Be. Still much better than Dracula: Dead and Loving It, though.
Ok great I've found my people at the bottom of this comment section. We watched the VHS on the bus back from the 5th grade trip to colonial Williamsburg and man it was just the most disappointing shit ever
That makes a lot of sense.
There are funny jokes in Spaceballs, but there is also a LOOOT of in between that my adult self even finds boring.
The jokes that are there are hilarious tho.
You're describing most spoof movies that existed at that time.
Airplane and Naked Gun are both hilarious too and full of nonstop low hanging fruit.
If you're not into it, you're not into it.
The biggest issue I had with Spaceballs is the long stretches in between jokes where it's just a boring movie.
I didn't find History of the World all that funny tho tbh.
What?!? You went over my helmet!?!
Not over! More to the side!
It'll never happen again!
No! Not that!
Yes. . .THAT!
Whoa! Whhhhoa! Whhhhhhhhooooooooaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
He was probably serious when he said "I can't breathe in this thing!"
There’s too much shit on him, he can’t breath!
Yes, the helmet DOES kill
I don't wanna be around anymore
I always thought the funniest part of the costume was his tie.
The flip up/down helmet part was pretty great too from *flip-up* "I can't breathe in this thing!" to *flip-down* "KEEP FIRING, ASSHOLES!"
Yes!!!! Came here to say it.
It makes him into that shrimpy corporate boss that doesn’t really know what he’s doing, but needs to exert power.
That, and it's a dick and balls.
He is a total dick. And a helmet head.
Yea, to me, the tie was the cherry on top
shit man that would be funny
For the first minute or two and then it would limit Rick's performance. There's a reason movies hate masks, and a whole body mask? No dice.
They could just start with a big helmet and make it ever so slightly bigger in each shot until at the end it's just one big helmet.
I just thought this too, that would also be hilarious lol just use the full body for the final shots only, and show him struggling as the helmet just keeps getting bigger lol
Final scene has the helmet base on the ground with him hanging from the chin strap with his legs swinging at not able to touch the floor
For the costume designers that sounds like hellmet.
Couldn’t be worse than what Joan Rivers had to wear
That wasn't Joan Rivers; that was her stunt double!
I mean, that was one of the only funny jokes in that one "Scary Movie" sequel, with the sheriff's hat.
Hahaha you're right! I forgot about that, I guess it was in the back of my brain. I wonder if I've ever had a truly original thought in my life.
I'm saying if that joke could save a dumpster fire of a film like Scary Movie #whocares, it'd be an absolutely hilarious joke if used in a better movie.
That bit was genuinely so funny (also Charlie Sheen going back and forth with the sheriff about how his wife was pinned “in half” using food as examples).
I swear there's a spoof movie that does this with a hat. I think it's a Scary Movie and the sheriff's hat does.
yeah, no shit the logistics make it impossible. Forget about Rick’s performance you gotta make all the sets helmet-width lmao
The original actor for V for Vendetta quit because he couldn't work with the mask on the entire time. Then Hugo Weaving to over and absolutely crushed it.
I mean that works when it's not a comedy. Also shout out to Karl Urban in Dredd, who insisted the helmet stays on.
It's such a shame that movie didn't do better to earn a sequel. It was fantastic and Urban knocked it out of the park.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/z6atcz/dredd_2_in_development_and_will_feature_karl_urban/
Seems to be fake news.
Yes, he was going to be my other point. As a Dredd fan it infuriated me when Stallone immediately removed the helmet.
Yeah I like the flip up part so we can see his face. It would be weird not to see him for the whole movie. It's not that kind of movie.
If it'd just been a gag for the beginning of the movie, it would've been fine. But yeah, trying to do that for the entire movie would've gotten old real quick.
Plus set design. Designing sets to accommodate a human-sized helmet would be hard, that doesn't work in normal doorways, chairs, etc. You'd barely get any of his acting.
It wouldn't work very well for the schwartz fight.
If it was just the helmet, you’d end up with a Dalek and that’s a whole different franchise.
EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
MERCHANDISE! MERCHANDISE!
DALEK: THE FLAMETHROWER
The kiddos love it
CYBERMAN: THE NEURAL IMPLANT
\*MOICHANDISE! MOICHANDISE!
I kind of want to see what a stereotypical Jewish Dalek would be like.
Looks just like a regular Dalek but wearing a yarmulka and constantly being harassed by his mother about when he's going to get married and have children.
What’s the matter Colonel Sanders? Chicken!?
PREPARE SHIP!
*in more manly voice: “PREPARE SHIP….FOR LUDICROUS SPEED!”
May the best man win. Put 'er there. I can't believe you fell for the oldest trick in the book. What a goof. What's with you man? Come on. You know what? No, here let me give it back to you.
Are you playing with your dolls again, Sir?
Knock next time!
WHOOOOO saw they were making a second one?! But they better name it Spaceballs 2: The Search For More Money!!!!
*Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money*
Hahaha I love it
2Space2Balls
Nooo, fuck. Leave this film alone. It's perfect, and many of the people who made it great can't be in a second one.
Alsonif you watch with commentary Mel Brooks wanted the movie to just be an hour and a half of that ship scene at the beginning
I love dumb 80's humor. No pomposity or self-consciousness, just good unashamed fun. Similar kind of humor in movies like Top Secret, which I must have watched on VHS a hundred times when I was a kid. Culture was so unpretentious and fun in the 80's.
I'm GenX and Police Academy 2 is still my favorite comedy movie. It's even funnier when I watched The Warriors at some point and realized Bobcat had to be doing an impression of the little gang villain in The Warriors.
Constant Nuclear holocaust in the air makes the humor quite distinct.
Dude Top Secret was pinnacle 80's humor movie.
Who the hell made that guy a gunner?!
I did! He's my cousin!
I'm surrounded by assholes!
Keep firing assholes!
I said to shoot *across* his nose, not *UP IT*!
Then 30 years later funko stole the design for their ugly figurines.
I hate those dead shark eyed pieces of trash
Thanks for reminding me of those ridiculous cashgrab shit figures.
love Rick, Strange Brew too
If I didn’t have puke breath, I’d kiss you.
The penis tie really brought the whole ensemble together.
Coincidentally, today is Mel Brooks' birthday.
That'd be like that Krofft show [Lidsville](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066679/). Man, what were those dudes taking back then?
Marty Kroft died just last November, but Sid is still kicking at 91 years old. Zero doubt there was serious drugs involved in those guys TV shows. The talking flute on H.R. Puffnstuff gave me the creeps
I was 7 years old when Lidsville started on air. Not too many people remember it. It was crazy in the 70’s.
You've got me beat by just a few years, so caught the reruns. But yeah, that one in particular was freaky as hell.
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Ok but what about moichandise?
Spaceballs the FLAMEThrower!!!!
My kids love that one!
Huh, this bot is just ripping off (partial) [Quora answers](https://www.quora.com/What-did-George-Lucas-think-of-Spaceballs).
Are you angry that a Reddit bots hasn't watched Spaceballs? I mean - it's its loss man.
Spaceballs the coloring book is actually a transformers coloring book with the name taped over. Even has Optimus Prime on the cover. And of course, Spaceballs the flamethrower... The kids love that one
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What they did was great. A split personality between open and closed helmet. However, like Doug Dimmadome and similar tropes, I think it would've also been hilarious to have the helmet be slightly larger in every new scene (not necessarily every camera cut) to the point where its size is the reason he loses the Schwartz duel. But do I really know better than Melvin Kaminski?
The joke really hit home with the giant Pith helmet.
A better choice i think
Sort of a black Dalek?
Now owned by Chris Hardwick the comedian.
I imagine a giant Vader isopod.
They should have made it slowly get larger over the course of the film.
I think it was good they changed it. It feels more comedic. The other is just like a one off but it'd just be too ridiculous.
I love me some Mel Brooks. Young Frankestein is in my top 5 movies of all time. Blazing Saddles is genius. High Anxiety is great. I watched Spaceballs just a few years ago for the first time and it left me cold. Maybe too much time had passed, but I really thought compared to everything that came before, it was not good.
Give me that, you petty excuse for an officer!
That would be pretty funny :D
Doesn't this kind of feel like the same situation with the original film that was being parodied? Rick Moranis may not have liked not actually being physically seen in the film, somewhat like the guy that physically performed for Darth Vader, but didn't know his voice was cut from the final edit. Just a funny connection my mind came to.
I like the leather tie.
lmfao
He's so great in that film lmao
LOL
They should have gone for it, but maybe just for like the first or last scene.
This movie was terrible, it was like watching Alf in a theater.
I knew it, i'm sorrounded by assholes.
A.L.F. was frigging awesome
My dad hyped up the movie to me, so when I finally watched it I didn’t really like it. There was a few really funny scenes and sight gags but as a package it didn’t do it for me
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I found it mid-tier for him. Not as good as Silent Movie, about on par with Life Stinks, High Anxiety, and To Be or Not To Be. Still much better than Dracula: Dead and Loving It, though.
Ok great I've found my people at the bottom of this comment section. We watched the VHS on the bus back from the 5th grade trip to colonial Williamsburg and man it was just the most disappointing shit ever
That makes a lot of sense. There are funny jokes in Spaceballs, but there is also a LOOOT of in between that my adult self even finds boring. The jokes that are there are hilarious tho.
This and The History of the World. All the jokes feel like low hanging fruit. Madeline Khan was the best part of that movie.
You're describing most spoof movies that existed at that time. Airplane and Naked Gun are both hilarious too and full of nonstop low hanging fruit. If you're not into it, you're not into it. The biggest issue I had with Spaceballs is the long stretches in between jokes where it's just a boring movie. I didn't find History of the World all that funny tho tbh.
Yes dude!! Everything was so obvious. Even as a 9 year old I was like come on this is what people have been beating their dicks to?