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Spaceballs
1987 · Film · 96 min
Directed by Mel Brooks
When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of "The Schwartz." Can he master it in time to save the day?
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Have you seen Spaceballs? Halfway through the movie they stop the story to fast-forward through the VHS of the movie itself.
Making a movie that has basically the same plot as a previous movie with slight changes is a common occurrence.
The thing you have to be wary of with movies is trademark law. Your Star Wars copy can't use the word "Darth Vader", that's trademarked. It can't use Darth Vader's mask, Darth Vader's suit or Darth Vader's breathing either, all trademarked. And with trademark law the bar to pass is basically "would a reasonable but uninformed consumer be at risk of confusing your product for the trademark". LLMs can't launder that for you. You have to make actual changes, like Spaceballs did
I think the film would have been better (though perhaps less successful) if Besson had toned down the occasionally exaggerated tomfoolery, like Chris Tucker's character, or the spaceship Evil (the orb described in the article) which felt almost like a SciFi parody taken out of the movie Spaceballs.
The pacing, the great costumes and set design by Moebius, the actors Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich, and the unusual ideas (like the alien opera singer) were all more than enough to carry the movie.
Rotoscoping is specifically tracing over a sequence of images - usually video or film frames - to create a sequence of drawings that can be used in an animation workflow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping
Spaceballs’ State Of The Art and 9 Fingers are a couple of Amiga demoscene productions that relied on rotoscoping.
Please, God, let Mel Brooks make one more film after Spaceballs 2.
The spoof prophecies are being proven! now we're all stuck in a real-life Spaceballs movie.
Just... sigh
"Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money" was a joke, until it wasn't. I'm happy to see Mel Brooks being his mercenary self only a step from the grave, but he could probably do better than retreads of old IP. Maybe make fun of the Marvel movies instead?
Surprised they aren’t using the tagline announced in the first movie: “Spaceballs 2: The search for more money.”
Named after Enrico Colantoni's character in Galaxy Quest? That was so funny <3
Only spaceballs was a better scifi parody movie and that is hard to beat.
Random thought outburst, feel free to downvote:
This reminded me so much of Spaceballs! And the yogurt merchandise towards the end! Such a great movie that has so many obvious "flaws" like the mirror under the speeder on the desert planet when they comb the desert. And yet I've actually watched that movie more often than even the actual real Star Wars movies (meaning the first three made - all of which are timeless awesomeness)
Sideways
Back To The Future
Cinema Paradiso
Spaceballs
Up In Smoke (Cheech & Chong)
The Incredibles
Indiana Jones 1-3
Indiana Jones: Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (Rifftrax only)
Falling Down
Office Space
Man Bites Dog
Nothing To Lose
Idiocracy
Space Mutiny (MST3k)
Goodfellas
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Groundhog Day
Barbie
Full Metal Jacket
Mallrats
Flight Of The Navigator
The Founder
One Hour Photo
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I'm pretty certain I've rewatched Sideways more than any other film.
Sure thing! I often use it to add code comments to my powershell scripts after I've written them, sprinkling in quotes from some of my favorite movies from the 80s like Spaceballs, Princess Bride, Airplane, etc...
"User '$username' found. Preparing to eject them from the AD universe." "Failed to import Active Directory module. Inconceivable!" "Failed to delete user '$username'. I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
Other times I will ask it questions related to scripting commandlets and it often responds in a tone that is more fun to read at least.
"Firstly, ensure you're connected to the mystical realm of Exchange Online. If you're scratching your head wondering how, refer back to the ancient scrolls on how to establish a connection. It involves Get-Credential, New-PSSession, and a bit of patience."
There was never one culture, but the fragmentation was far more coarse.
I was into D&D, so I was exposed to anime, comics, Monty Python, Mel Brooks, and Tom Lehrer, because those were a certain subculture.
I was never a comic-book nerd, but I could probably name a dozen different series from image comics in the 90s because I was surrounded by people who read them.
I flat out dislike watching Mel Brooks movies, but I can quote about 90% of Spaceballs or Blazing Saddles because that was a part of the vocabulary of that group.
If you think that's weird (2019):
> Moses Lam and Troy Paquette are capturing, compressing and commercializing something most Canadians take for granted — fresh air.
> The pair of Alberta entrepreneurs made headlines back in 2015, largely as a curiosity. Their company, Vitality Air, was reminiscent of the fictional cans of "Perri Air" from the movie Spaceballs.
* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-vitality-air-sales-update-bottled-air-1.5073762
I wonder if this from the spaceballs movie and whether they had to license the sound ...
Oh yes https://movie-sounds.org/sci-fi-movie-samples/quotes-with-sound-clips-from-spaceballs/jammed-raspberry-xzb
Eh, don't worry, the rich among us will bottle up the 'good' air and, well, just watch the clip from the documentary "Spaceballs" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz0xULQIaSU
> I used to work with someone who never watched Star Wars.
I never really watched Star Wars. I've seen part of it, and it never seemed all that interesting. I know enough to "get" the references, and I'll even make them myself, but I never really cared much for the films. As far as I'm concerned the best Star Wars film is Spaceballs (but I can't seem to find my DVD copy right now, but I'll comb my living room for it later).
I'm not trying to be the "cool kid" or something; I'm just saying there's a lot of variation in what people watch, read, listen to, and generally do with their time.
My grandfather died (in 2008) and he had never eaten pizza in his life.
Just a few weeks ago I introduced a woman in her 50s to chickpeas.
A few years ago I mentioned Stephen Hawking to a group of coworkers (I was the only programmer, working in the sales office) and no one knew who he was. "You know, the scientist in a wheelchair, with a robot voice". Nope, no idea.
But then a few weeks later they mentioned ... someone ... I had no idea who they were on about. Apparently it was someone who was on TV all the time, but not the programmes I watch I guess (I have obviously forgotten who).
The first time I heard about this Kim Kardashian person was with the introduction "you must have been living under a rock if you don't know who the Kardashians are!" Yes, this Patrick.
I can go on and on with people who "have never done X" or "have never seen Y", for all sorts of values of X and Y.
Did the title of this post instantly make you think of that line from the movie?
It did for me. Spaceballs was one of the movies that I watched over and over as a kid.
Lampshading something is different than parody it’s goal is to push suspension of disbelief just a little bit further, where parody doesn’t try to maintain it.
You can’t watch “Are We the Baddies?” as a war story. It introduced such elements simply to establish who’s getting made fun of. They remain in character but that’s it, the war story plot doesn’t progress the skit just keeps hammering the parody. Some parody has a more complete story but “Scary Movie” progresses the underlying plot to make fun of different elements of the movies it’s making fun of.
Harry Potter on the other hand calls out many of the tropes it’s using. House of the lions vs house of the snakes, guess who’s supposed to be the hero and who the villain. Except the characters once introduced are telling an actual story.
Snow Crash is between those extremes but focuses too much on the underlying story and its characters to be an actual parody. Over the top elements exist in the world, but they are played straight more Gulliver's Travels than Spaceballs.
which, is kind of cheap isn't it? Some movies that use it:
LOTR Return Of the King Meet The Spartans Team America World Police SpaceBalls
Opinions aside, one of these movies is not like the other and didn't need to include a meme scream for nostalgia
Advertising before a democracy's election is hot garbage on fire meandering down a flooded road and floating with old fossil fueled automobiles in the rain. The Master Plan 3 could have an annex to apply Super A.I. to subj/objective positioning of voter options summarising candidate's pro/cons in six paired bullet points addressing the advertised-to audience along the I.Q. bell-curve. There could be a 400-word GoogleGPT blurb extra to make the persuasive case either way for audiences unable to watch scifi movies like Solaris bu able to watch Spaceballs.
Or Spaceballs for that matter? Wouldn't be the first idea inspired by that film.
Just FYI for those who missed it:
The previous comments were referring to the famous and really hilarious Mel Brooks movie "Spaceballs", this scene in particular:
https://youtu.be/a6iW-8xPw3k
Did people forget what movies the “morchandizing” bit in Spaceballs was making fun of? Because in 1987 it certainly wasn’t The Force Awakens.
Guys are just starting to notice the blatant cash grab additions because the target market for the cutesy ones like bb8 and the porgs is girls and women.
Me too, I can almost quote the movie.
But I wouldn't call it 'great'. A great movie has some weight to it, it establishes a world, has a deeper story. It's original and exceptionally well executed.
Spaceballs was great fun, good gags but it was still a parody lifting on the success of star wars. Without star wars it would not have been very funny at all.
Fun and entertaining and great are not necessarily the same IMO.
The movie came out 15 years later and I doubt anyone remembered or knew about titanium balls falling on New Zealand. Spaceballs was always meant to be a direct parody of Star Wars.
I remember from that time people were more freaked out about Skylab falling down to earth--there were novelty t-shirts with a big target and "Skylab target" printed on them, all the late night TV hosts joked about it, etc. Skylab falling back to earth was a big event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoVXuKQ__0s
Is this the origin of the name for the film SPACEBALLS?
That’s 2,598 tweets to transmit a single megabyte.
So, if I wanted to tweet the movie Spaceballs, encoded at 4K UHD (20MB/s), I estimate that I will need to make 20,945,455 tweets.
Twitter limits the posts made by nobodys (like me) to 2,400 tweets per day… so, it is going to take me just under 24 years to complete my task.
I’d better get started.
Also: Airplane! and Airplane 2 DVD: $6. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XGD93BP Spaceballs $7, less if you're ok with used: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004TJ1H32 Cannonball run, $10, though less if used and there are some $10 "Cannonball Run + another movie" sets on Amazon as well.
While I tend to agree that piracy and/or ripping isn't something everyone can do, I've filled out my Plex collection legally lately with DVD acquisitions at bargain-bin prices. Used doesn't matter if you only have to be able to read the disc once to rip it, and I'm yet to get something used off Amazon that couldn't be read once. (I haven't even had to clean it or anything, it's all just worked.)
So, my Plex install in terms of raw content isn't up to Netflix's size. However, I rather suspect there are some people reading this who have more hours of video on their Plex than Netflix even has available. And while mine isn't that large, it is much better tuned for me and my family's interests at this point. And I don't have to worry about getting halfway through a series, only for some licensor to notice it has become popular enough to pull it and run it on their own service. Netflix has the problem now that anything that becomes popular on their service will get yanked. I do not know how they overcome that. They hoped to do it with enough original content, but to my eye, that has failed, and there is now no longer enough time to fix that. While I understand the complaints that they treated it too much like "content", to be honest, I've never thought this would work out, from the moment they announced it. A single company just can't produce a sufficiently diverse set of "content" to be the everything-to-everybody they would have needed to be to justify a Netflix valuation.
Does “encounter for free” also include instant access? I seem to recall that movies like Spaceballs would be shown for free, but probably next week.
The $3 is for fast-forwarding Mr Video to next week.
In my case, it's where they wrapped up the long-tail movies. Want to watch Airplane!....$3 rental. Spaceballs? $3 rental Cannonball Run? $3
I am not going to pay to rent stuff I used to be able to encounter for free by surfing channels...well, on top of my dish/cable bill
Shakespeare is excellent, but it took me years - long past when I graduated from school - to recognize its excellence.
I place the blame here squarely on how it is presented in schools. First, it was dropped in abruptly, after years of focusing heavily on largely apoetic work like Old Yeller and Great Expectations. When poetry was introduced, it was typically dropped as part of some hermetically sealed unit, and all possibility of enjoyment was eradicated by analyzing each poem to death. [1] How are people supposed to learn to enjoy play on words when any hint of actual play has been surgically excised from the experience?
And then, since this is a class, there will be a test, and so you have to format the presentation in a manner that makes it more amenable to testing. This means that, if the play is a comedy, then you'll have to stop every few lines to have the teacher explain, in detail, why what you just read is funny.
Which it may not be, because performance comedy is all about presentation and timing, but we're not watching a performance, we're reading the text. Imagine encountering Spaceballs for the first time in script form, so that you're completely unable to associate any of the lines with the performances of John Candy or Rick Moranis. It won't be nearly as good. And having someone sitting over your shoulder repeatedly interrupting you to say, "Now, in the actual movie, this part is hilarious because..." only makes it less funny.
If the work being studied is a tragedy, well, it's a similar story, only in this case it is kind of funny because the tragedy has gone meta. Not that anyone sitting in the classroom is in a position to realize that. They're too focused on taking notes so they can remember details - especially details about the teacher's interpretation of the story - for the coming test. Because furiously scribbling in notebooks and trying to memorize every detail is an essential part of the way in which members of the groundling audience, literate and illiterate alike, experienced performances in the original Globe Theatre.
Ugh. It makes me irritated all over again just thinking about it. Primary and secondary education classes are seemingly predicated on the notion that the best place to study everyday human experience is in a cadaver lab. Largely only because the courses are being designed by people who sell scalpels and formaldehyde for a living.
[1] Exhibit A: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/01/07/poet-i-cant-answer-questions-on-texas-standardized-tests-about-my-own-poems/
This is a plot element of the movie "Spaceballs".
> Sure, back in the day studios had the same imperative, but the licensed toy game was still young, so they didn't realise that maybe if they made Die Hard PG instead of R they could sell some John McClane action figures to younger viewiers.
Merchandising! Merchandising! Merchandising! Where the real money of the movie is made!" - Yogurt, Spaceballs (1987) Heck, most of the 1980's cartoons were designed to sell toys.
> I agree that more and more we are optimizing for artifice; fitness classes, extra curricular activities, holidays, concerts and events we attend, just to keep up an appearance online or in person. And in those activities we often don't get the true value out of them because we're doing them for the wrong reason.
Social media did this. Before narcissism became en vogue, gym rats and party people existed and no one else really cared because they were not visible. Now they show up in your social media feed every day. They make you feel small and less complete. Maybe you should go to the gym and more clubs to keep up otherwise you aren't cool or interesting. Meanwhile its all senseless, shallow peacocking and hedonism.
>it's almost never the case that some creative person has a brilliant story come out perfect in the first draft.
I've got a book i ended up getting in a free box of books. It's some fantasy novel.
It's probably the worst book i've ever seen in print. Everything from the description on the back to the font choices, sometimes four or five in different sizes on one page, to the actual writing reads like something a child would write.
Curious about how such a thing could exist, i looked into it more. Turns out it was a self published book edited by the author's wife.
Now this next part is speculation...
But you can almost picture his wife trying to edit this thing and the author just being like, nope we'll keep it my way.
Like, basic spelling and grammar mistakes, terribly worded sentences, a story that made absolutely no sense.
The thing is, getting past it all, there were some good ideas in there and likely, in the hands of a good editor and publisher, it could maybe have been turned into an alright, if still not that great of a book rather than, i'm not actually exaggerating here, literally the worst book i've ever seen.
Another example that just kind of popped into my head while writing this, the original drafts of star wars.
https://old.reddit.com/r/StarWarsCantina/comments/afvlzk/links_to_every_scanned_star_wars_screenplay_that/
I've read some of them and honestly, they were pretty bad, like scyfy movie bad. Without the team of screenwriters and editors that worked through those drafts, we'd probably have no idea what 'Star Killers' was other than some weird cult scifi b-movie with a dedicated fan base of a few hundred people that get together once a year, get drunk, dress up as their favourite characters and complain about how nobody understands just how great George Lucas and Star Killers is.
And then Spaceballs would never have been made and that just woulda sucked a whole lot.
This actually gives that term used as the spoof-equivalent of "The Force" from the movie Spaceballs a surprising double meaning. Had no idea.
This reminds me of Spaceballs: The Movie :)
https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/1400xauto/public/wire/legacy/Screen_Shot_2017-06-09_at_7.19.18_PM.png
Lonestarrrr
(From Spaceballs the movie)
> So...you're upset to see space opera played straight in your space opera?
No, I like space opera too. I'm upset that ST has become Buffy the Vampire Slayer in Space. (Don't get the wrong idea, I like Buffy too.)
> Have you forgotten entirely about S1 of TNG, or just chosen to ignore it?
You'll have to clue me in to what specifically you're referring to, I re-watched it last year but I don't want to guess at what you mean.
> DS9 is "not Roddenberry"
I agree. DS9 was, in part, created specifically to explore "not Roddenberry" directions in the ST universe.
There's a book, I can't find it at the moment, and I don't remember the title, but it's all excerpts from interviews with cast and crew. That's it. It's amazing.
Anyhow, I bring it up because, reading it, it became clear what, for me anyway, is the crucial defining aspect of ST that differentiates it from other sci-fi franchises: In ST, people in the future have gotten over their bullshit. They are emotionally mature, guided by reason and rationality and their higher values. That's the key difference (from say, Star Wars or Farscape or Firefly...) People in the future pretty much have their shit together.
Now this is something that some of the writers don't get. You find them complaining in their own words that Gene won't let them write an episode involving interpersonal drama between bridge crew. (Apparently this is really hard for some writers. No judgement intended.) It wasn't until after he died that Berman/Braga started to relax that.
Now to me, this is wrong (for ST) for two reasons:
First, it makes sense to me that these folks who fly around the galaxy in machines that can destroy worlds would have to be level-headed to use them w/o destroying themselves.
Second, and more importantly, that's a huge part of what made ST so endearing and appealing in the first place: the deep and abiding love that Kirk/Spock/McCoy (most obviously) and the rest of the crew (less obviously) feel for each other.
I mean, when Spock tells McCoy that he would also wish him to be present at his Pon farr, oh man, my eyes well up with tears.
When it comes down to it, the characters in the "real" ST (if I may) treat each other like members of a healthy family do, and that's wonderful to see (in any context, not just space operatic sci-fi.)
That's also the source of the "moral" superiority of Star Fleet: they actually are good guys. (And Vulcans don't lie.) You erode that and you've got Spaceballs.
> To be honest, I don't get the mockery angle at all. I mean, you're talking about a show whose first season not only has antimilitarism as a major through-line in the way Lorca's story plays out, but concludes with a war being ended by a couple of people having a conversation about why more fighting sucks for everyone, and implementing a clever technobabble-driven plan to bring about peace. There's a lot I don't love about Discovery - most of its second season, for a start - but come on, what could possibly be more Star Trek than that?
I've only seen ~4 minutes so I can't speak to the good things about the show, feeling mocked was my subjective response (I don't think the ST:D folks sat down and twirled their mustaches while contemplating how much they despise ST fans, hey?)
It was things like how the Klingons are space orcs; the Romulan guy looks like space Legolas the elf. The people wearing hoodies (why does everyone in space wear hoodies these days?) The gay guys are the only ones married? Why does the female lead have a masculine name? It seems like they're trying to tick the diversity boxes without actually rattling anybody's cages (and I say that as a SJW, pro-diversity.) The rolling spaceship is ridiculous, the flash illuminating the nebula was just idiotic. The whole thing feels superficial and lazy despite obviously being the result of a lot of hard work by a lot of skilled, talented people. Maybe they're just pandering to the tastes of a younger audience (with whom I am out of touch.)
Let me see if I can sum it up... Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones seem similar, yeah? But LotR is about Good vs. Evil whereas GoT is about aristocrats being really really shitty to each other. They are both entertaining, but I wouldn't let my kids watch the latter.
Cheers!
I've seen all of them, and loved all of them.
To me, most of the criticism feels like it comes from people who have had time to rationalize the old plots and settings, but who see the new ones with a more jaded mind or a set idea of what they "should" be like instead of approaching them with an open mind. They have flaws, but so does the original trilogy.
Star Wars from the beginning were silly westerns set in space with all kinds of ridiculous aliens thrown in. Taking them too seriously and applying that as a constraint on the following trilogies would never end well.
When people complained about Jar Jar, for example, all I could think about was how people could take issue with Jar Jar but take no issue with Chewbacca, or the ewoks, or R2D2 and C3PO. They're also incredibly cheesy in other ways in a way that was common in the 80's, but that is really dated today (e.g. the Ewok celebration scene).
I think seeing e.g. Spaceballs is a good way of having it driven home how just how ridiculous Star Wars really is and looked at the time if you don't let yourself be immersed in it. Spaceballs crosses the line from "serious" space opera to comedy very clearly, but it to me it also illustrates just how ridiculous lengths they had to go to in order to clearly be a send-up instead of a cheap Star Wars knockoff. They'd not had to cut that many jokes and toned back that many things before it'd have seemed like an attempt at being serious.
Star Wars is fun in part because it manages to "sell" a setting that is on the face of it so crazy and not taking itself too seriously. But it seems a lot of the fans of the original trilogy bought into that and then decided to take it all very seriously instead of seeing them as light adventure movies and "space westerns".
The challenge is also in no large part a question of changing tastes in other ways as well - my son finds the original trilogy horribly slow moving to the point of boredom, for example, and I can understand that. Tastes have changed. Pacing has changed. Composition and cinematography has changed. But that also means that the modern trilogies had to be very different or fall flat with younger audiences in ways that would always annoy the die hard fans; they're trying to reflect how we remember them more than how they are, but different people remember them in different ways.
[I tend to treat criticism of the last Indiana Jones in much the same way; people venerate the original movies, but they were extremely cheesy and contrived, involving literal deus ex machina, but surviving a test explosion in a fridge and interdimensional aliens is suddenly over the top]
As for Rogue One, to me it's one of the most enjoyable movies of the franchise. In no small part because they were allowed to explore the setting with much more freedom (ok to let characters more central to the plot die for example).
Spaceballs was released 32 years ago. Not such a young crowd anymore:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/
In any case, Volkswagen is going for Star Wars references with Porsche:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo95p9mdiWg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc-fWmWxx4Q
And Marvel references with Audi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmgwBKzHIuA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hpNFDpRNlc
Technology has advanced, but the product has changed little. I don't want to pay a monthly subscription and pay for all of the content on 300 channels, 280+ I will never ever watch. Despite paying $200 a month, I still don't even have the option to watch Spaceballs (substitute any particular movie here) on demand any time I want even if I am willing to pay for that privilege.
We have the technology to make the content of those 300+ channels available to me in a piecemeal a la carte fashion, but cable companies say if I want to watch ESPN I have to pay for 100 other channels. If I only want to watch Game of Thrones, I have to pay a bit under $20 a month to get a whole bunch of other stuff from HBO I will never watch.
I want to pay for only what I watch, but the cable and streaming services want me to pay for whats available to me. That is the big disconnect IMHO. There is no technical reason we can't have one service (like netflix) that has the world's digital content on it, and I can search and pick what I want to watch on it and pay for it and have the content owners get a cut of it. Netflix was kinda close for awhile, but then due to their licensing deals started pushing and pulling titles at random, and then different studios are now trying to put up Chinese walls to ensure that they have exclusive rights to content. I feel everyone loses here, and I myself can't imagine ever paying for a separate service just to watch star wars or Disney movies. There seems to be a real network effect here of just making everything available.
Who would have thought the Spaceballs movie was actually predicting the future.
The easter egg that I love is the actual, physical reference to the Spaceballs movie.
https://cdn.instructables.com/ORIG/FYX/9FR4/JNULHKMJ/FYX9FR4JNULHKMJ.jpg
Spaceballs and Blazing Saddles are my favorite movies from him.
Anyone thinking at SPACEBALLS THE MOVIE?
> Thin air from France, thin air from Japan
That reminds me of "Perri-Air" from the movie Spaceballs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzbIrb7LUJA
I think the science fiction movie "Spaceballs" was head of its time. Planet Druidia had an enclosure to protect its oxygen, but Lord Helmet tried to suck it out with MegaMaid.
NASA might have to think about how to counter such threats, possibly from a future and more hostile Earth civilization.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTSWdHY9Ny4
Just checking a few random movies.
Movies I checked that have this disclaimer:
- Despicable Me 2
- Django Unchained
- Inception
- Jurassic World
- James Bond: Spectre
- Avatar (extended cut)
- Spaceballs
Movies I checked that don't have this disclaimer:
- Tangled
It's usually among the very last lines of the end credits, among the statements about dedication to the environment, distance from the tobacco industry, lack of animal abuse etc. If you're not watching the end credits you will never notice it.
> You like Monty Python but not Spaceballs? I find that pretty weird.
DIfferent tastes for different people. I loved Monty Python from the first time I heard it on an audio record to the 10 times I watched each episode on PBS.
However, even as a Mel Brooks fan (Blazing Saddles is an all-time favorite of mine) I found Spaceballs un-funny and boring.
This article contains more logical fallacies than the movie Spaceballs
Spaceballs was not supposed to be a documentary.
> Seems like they took inspiration from the branding on the Chromebook Pixel LS (Ludicrous Speed)
More likely, both Google and Tesla took inspiration from the movie Spaceballs.
This reminds me of this scene from the movie Spaceballs; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6iW-8xPw3k
It's how I imagine the commanders get the code.
It's from the movie Spaceballs.
Spaceballs reference? Ludicrous speed!
Colonel Sandurz: We can't stop, it's too dangerous! We have to slow down first! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/quotes
Google and the Spaceballs seem to have a lot in common.