davidh777

After covering an unnecessary mustache on Wednesday, I went with Silver Streak for the real theme day. Still a really good film, and looks great on Anchor Bay BD.

After that, I opened my Twillight Time BD of Pal Joey, which also looks great. The film itself is not my favorite, but Sinatra's singing is spectacular. I got hooked on the soundtrack back when I was in a Sinatra phase and always thought it was interesting that the album included some versions that were not in the film (e.g., the swinging version of There's a Small Hotel). The performance of The Lady Is a Tramp is pretty much definitive.

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That's pretty much what I thought, but I'll probably watch it again this month just to keep trying to get it.

I saw that for the first time last year in this challenge!

ParadiseVendors

Comic Strip Theme - Finally watching the Tales of the Far Side cartoons that I've had on a hard drive for years but never watched.

davidh777

Based on a comic strip or comic book: Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia (2012)

This is a bizarre French film based on the comic. I'm not a huge fan of the book, but I am intrigued by the idea of a live-action film of something so over-the-top slapstick-y.

coyoteblue

I've got the first two, Astérix & Obélix Take on Caesar (1999) and Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002). Gérard Depardieu has portrayed Obélix in all four live action adaptions, since 1999. There are nine animated movies. The live action films are more easily found than the animated movies.

Cardsfan111

Surprised to see the new Thor film with a comedy label. Then went to see it and can completely understand why. Lots of laughs throughout.

jholmes

I didn't watch a comedy last night because Wonder Woman Blu Ray came from Netflix so we watched that. Think I'll watch Support Your Local Sheriff today for the western.

shadokitty

I might miss today’s theme. I was going to watch ‘Dripalong Daffy ‘ on YouTube this morning, but YouTube wasn’t loading. I do have a couple more possibilities tonight, but might not watch them.

LJG765

Cool. I am going to see it tomorrow and it's nice to know it'll count.

Question: When's the last time the theme nights were updated (other than adjusting for Thanksgiving)? Maybe we could rework them at the end of the challenge this year for next year? I was looking through them to kind of plan a head last night and realized they were all ones we've had before and on the same days even...

I have a feeling we've kind of covered most of the types of comedy movies out there, but I do kind of think it needs something to change it up a bit. Maybe I'm in the minority?

shadokitty

I like that idea. A lot of times I end up watching the same things for theme nights.

shadokitty

I am just trying to narrow down what I want to watch for today’s theme. I bought Blazing Saddles on Google Play, and I also have some Three Stooges I can watch.

LJG765

I have to admit, neither of those are my favorites! I usually like Mel Brooks films, but I just don't enjoy Blazing Saddles as much as his other films. Though, if you haven't seen it all, I'd go that route.

I watched Three Amigos for the first time in years. I don't know that it held up super well for me, but it was fun seeing all the SNL actors in it (which makes sense since I think Lorne Green wrote it/was involved somehow.)

davidh777

The only thing I've done with the theme nights the last couple years was drop political comedy in for the election year then out again. Happy to use some new themes if there's interest!

I haven't opened my Twighlight Time BD of the Sheriff movies so I was considering that too.

Kinda like when I saw Wonder Woman in theaters and realized it counted for the historical/war challenge.

LJG765

I'm up for the change, but you probably guessed that! lol! I'll try to think of new themes as I watch movies through the month and post them here..

shadokitty

I decided on the Three Stooges short, ‘Whoops, I’m An Indian’ for today’s theme. Some time this month, I’ll probably watch Blazing Saddles , as I enjoy Mel Brooks.

jholmes

I enjoyed "Support Your Local Sheriff" with James Gardner for today's theme. It was fun and smile-funny if not laugh-out-loud funny. It was a nice innocent film -- a change from all the recent horror. :-)

shadokitty

I saw it for the first time as a kid and enjoyed it. I might watch it sometime this month, as it is available on Starz On Demand.

The talk about Thor reminds me that I have Season 1 of the 1966 Batman series, so I’ll probably watch some episodes of that.

ParadiseVendors

Awesome. I didn't realize that would count and I'm definitely going to go see it soon.

For today's theme I watched Edgar Wright's Fistful of Fingers. I can definitely see why it still hasn't had a proper release. The humor didn't really work for me, hard to believe he would go on to make two of my all-time favorite comedies.

jholmes

Yeah, I found it on Amazon and was surprised to see I could watch it for free because I have a Starz sub there. Don't even remember signing up for that. I'm going to have to go through all those subs soon and cull them.

shadokitty

I had planned to watch a Simon's Cat short, on YouTube for today's theme, but YouTube was still giving me issues loading. Instead I looked on Amazon Prime, and found a Buster Keaton short to watch. I decided on 'Daydreams', a cute little short about a foul up moving to the big city, in order to prove to his sweetheart's father that he could support her and make a big success of himself.

ParadiseVendors

Getting into some Harold Lloyd shorts on youtube as a break from work, and to hit today's theme. The early appearances of The Boy character don't really show the potential for what he would become in the later features.

jholmes

I'm not a big fan of silent films, so last night I watched another horror comedy, Night of the Creeps (1986). It had some funny moments, but overall wasn't great. For today's sex comedy, I'll probably watch a Date and Switch (2014) on Amazon. It looks cute.

wishbone

I watched Scavenger Hunt with commentary yesterday. Unfortunately there was a lot of dead air but director Michael Schultz did offer some items like Arnold not wanting to have his shirt off for the gym scene -- he was saving that for Conan, Richard Benjamin attacked Cloris Leachman for real at the end of the movie since her antics was wearing on his nerves, and the city of San Diego was very accommodating for location shooting. Thanks to this movie I now pronounce microscope meek-ro-scope.

davidh777

Feel free (batches would be easier than, say, one every three posts , and then I'll run a poll at the end to see what people think sounds appealing. Then we'll have to see what people would want to drop. The mustaches theme always feels a bit strange, but it is actually tied to Movember this month so it makes some sense.

Thanks for the info! The one I saw was fine for what it was, and I like how they tried to capture the spirit of the books, but the live-action format was limiting, and it didn't help that it's not a book that I'm very familiar with (I've read probably fewer than a dozen Asterix stories, and the ones I've read more than once I could probably count on one hand). The animated ones sound more appealing to me.

davidh777

Took care of today's theme with Friends with Benefits, and yes, I probably used it for the theme last year as well. I find it very entertaining, with the dialogue and the Kunis-Timberlake chemistry.

Because movies always come out in pairs, I remember watching the Portman-Kutcher version as well, but didn't think much of it.

ParadiseVendors

Hitting the theme for the day with the painfully bad The Erotic Adventures of Pinocchio. I went through a few lists of sex comedies and had seen everything that was highly rated. Since I'm trying to watch only stuff I haven't seen I dug through my plex B-movie list for something that would fit, and settled on this one.

Mercifully it's just under 80 minutes, but it feels like I've been watching for hours.