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Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
« Reply #30 on: February 08, 2026, 10:55:40 PM »
Thinking about cult comedy films with great soundtracks, there's one comes to mind - "Restless Natives".  Great Scottish film from the mid-1980s, quite a few well--known actors with cameos in it (Billy Connoly, Mel Smith, and Bernard Hill)  with a wonderful soundtrack from Big Country, but thanks to legal squabbles over the rights it was all but impossible to find for years. I think it has finally had a DVD release though!!

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« Reply #31 on: February 09, 2026, 08:36:13 PM »
Some years ago I came across live footage on YouTube of Big Country playing the title track of the soundtrack live, someone had left a funny but plaintive comment on it - "God, if we give you Bono, can we have Stuart Adamson back?". If only...
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Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
« Reply #32 on: February 10, 2026, 05:34:31 AM »
Thinking about cult comedy films with great soundtracks, there's one comes to mind - "Restless Natives".  Great Scottish film from the mid-1980s, quite a few well--known actors with cameos in it (Billy Connoly, Mel Smith, and Bernard Hill)  with a wonderful soundtrack from Big Country, but thanks to legal squabbles over the rights it was all but impossible to find for years. I think it has finally had a DVD release though!!

Terrific film!

Sounds very promising and appealing to me, so i had a lookout for a release and found a dvd for 10€ and also a bluray but more than double the price. Went for the dvd this time and looking forward to it big time!
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« Reply #33 on: February 13, 2026, 08:53:18 PM »
I know Cheech & Chong's stoner comedy isn't to everyone's taste but "Up In Smoke" has its moments. I've always loved the bit at the start where Cheech wakes up, seriously hungover, with his nephews and nieces making a racket in the house and staggers into the bathroom. He leans against the wall, starts to empty his bladder, then opens one eye and sees the toilet next to him, looks down and realises he's pissing in the laundry basket...
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« Reply #34 on: February 15, 2026, 11:04:05 AM »
..i immediately have to think about the cockroach-pipe scene ;D..
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Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
« Reply #35 on: February 17, 2026, 01:58:05 PM »
Steve Oedekerk has already been mentioned here with his mindblowing visionary approach of " i buy the rights to an unknown 70's cheap kung-fu flick and overdub it all alone with some extra scenes" that made the masterpiece of Kung Pow, but he is also very famous for his outstanding work-cycle of thumbating old classics. Before James Cameron revolutionized cinema with new digital techniques Steve Oedekerk invented the Thumbation process.
These are his Masterpieces:



I find these so funny and great to watch. There's lots of lovingly detail in the production, it can be sometimes almost a too silly performance but the look of everything is just funny itself.




And here we have Gabba The Butt



The next one is very funny at times, but also can be scary, confusing, is totally suprising and also very tenseful...yes, it is ;-) I love the pace of that movie, the first three minutes give you a glimpse of what is to come, if you like the start then you will be up for some surprises.
It is a low budget movie and you can see it in the sfx, but i love that style, the story is insane and the actors are fantastic. It is directed by Don Coscarelli, maybe some of you know him because of his Phantasm series...
This one you should really just watch without knowing more about it...(but it also still works the 23rd time..)

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« Reply #36 on: February 24, 2026, 03:15:18 PM »
The glory of ordering-too-much-stuff-simultaniously-unconsciously-and-forgetting-about-it: Two movies got in on the same day and i watched them both on one day and had a great time, thanks to your recommendations.

First i watched Restless Natives, never had heard of it before and found it to be a very charming, soulfull work of art with a punk attitude, meaning most of them learned to make a movie by doing it. And they did very well! Watching the making-of-documentary was also very interesting, the collaboration with Big Country...

Then i watched Local Hero and found it to be a lovely comedy, beautiful to watch and without big dramas unfolding but a constant developing of the characters and relationships and many funny moments.
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