comment by BillNick (U23088)
posted 26 minutes ago
Did I just see "American Pie"???

with my eyes????
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It was funny when it came out. Not every film has to be a cinematic masterpiece. It’s good sometimes to switch your brain off and just enjoy something, rather than trying to over analyse everything.

American Pie came out as I was going into secondary school so it was the funniest thing ever to me then, so if it's on TV I'll give it a nostalgia watch and chuckle along, despite it's issues.

comment by T-BAD (U11806)
posted 2 minutes ago
American Pie came out as I was going into secondary school so it was the funniest thing ever to me then, so if it's on TV I'll give it a nostalgia watch and chuckle along, despite it's issues.
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American pie is great, some very funny moments

comment by T-BAD (U11806)
posted 6 minutes ago
American Pie came out as I was going into secondary school so it was the funniest thing ever to me then, so if it's on TV I'll give it a nostalgia watch and chuckle along, despite it's issues.
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Yeah but chuckle along doesn't cut it for the top 3 ATG lols, surely?

I find some bits hard to watch but yeah I like it, even the soundtrack alone takes me back to a fun time.

comment by BillNick (U23088)
posted 38 seconds ago
comment by T-BAD (U11806)
posted 6 minutes ago
American Pie came out as I was going into secondary school so it was the funniest thing ever to me then, so if it's on TV I'll give it a nostalgia watch and chuckle along, despite it's issues.
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Yeah but chuckle along doesn't cut it for the top 3 ATG lols, surely?
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No but it wasn't my pick

Shaun of the Dead
I Love You, Man
The Nice Guys
Airplane
Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Quick 5 off the top of my head

I also can't really remember which laughs came from which film but I remember the Jump Street films making me laugh a lot too

Just watched BlackBerry - pretty decent like a mix of the Social network, & the big Short

comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 1 hour, 51 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 2 hours, 4 minutes ago
Ace Ventura, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty

Anything Jim Carrey basically
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Fack that caant...no
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FACK YOU CAANT
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🤭 Made me chuckle

comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 5 minutes ago
Just watched BlackBerry - pretty decent like a mix of the Social network, & the big Short
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ie sheet

comment by #4zA (U22472)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 5 minutes ago
Just watched BlackBerry - pretty decent like a mix of the Social network, & the big Short
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Are you chattin shat donkey boy...?

That's rhetorical btw

comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 17 minutes ago
comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 1 hour, 51 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 2 hours, 4 minutes ago
Ace Ventura, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty

Anything Jim Carrey basically
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Fack that caant...no
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FACK YOU CAANT
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🤭 Made me chuckle
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Donkey boy's been chatting shat on many different threads all day fam

No i ant

I chat fax

Fax is as irrelevant as your opinions these days

I've always found this scene very funny
https://youtu.be/tDSM7AKfVJg?t=189

comment by BillNick (U23088)
posted 5 minutes ago
I've always found this scene very funny
https://youtu.be/tDSM7AKfVJg?t=189
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4got about Pink Panther moovies

They were soooo grate

Very good

His fites with Cato

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=29byfYNuuUM

He was completely insane Peter Sellers.
There's some incredible stories in my greatest 200 move stars book, but none like his.
In the summary version, I get most down to a couple of lines. His is still about 4 pages (almost all about how nuts he was ).

comment by Baz tard - Ineos your face, proud owner of the 100k comment, fack you Michael Edward’s and your 5m, th (U19119)
posted 2 hours, 8 minutes ago
comment by T-BAD (U11806)
posted 2 minutes ago
American Pie came out as I was going into secondary school so it was the funniest thing ever to me then, so if it's on TV I'll give it a nostalgia watch and chuckle along, despite it's issues.
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American pie is great, some very funny moments
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Agreed.

Although it hasn't aged well.

comment by BillNick (U23088)
posted 7 minutes ago
He was completely insane Peter Sellers.
There's some incredible stories in my greatest 200 move stars book, but none like his.
In the summary version, I get most down to a couple of lines. His is still about 4 pages (almost all about how nuts he was).
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Awesome! Will need 2 read up on him

97. Peter Sellers CBE (Born 1925 Film Debut 1955)
Sellers’ parents were variety entertainers. When he was two weeks old he was carried on stage at the Kings Theatre in Southsea, Portsmouth, England. The crowd sang "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow", which caused the infant to cry.
Soon after entering Catholic school, Sellers discovered he was Jewish. Sellers recalled that a teacher scolded the other boys for not studying, saying: "The Jewish boy knows his catechism better than the rest of you!"
His father doubted Sellers' abilities in the entertainment field, even suggesting that his son's talents were only enough to become a road sweeper.
With the outbreak of war, Sellers’ finished school at age 14. Early in 1940, the family moved to the north Devon town of Ilfracombe, where Sellers' maternal uncle managed the Victoria Palace Theatre. Sellers got his first job at the theatre, aged fifteen, starting as a caretaker. He was steadily promoted, becoming a box office clerk, usher, assistant stage manager and lighting operator.
During the war he joined the Royal Air Force’s Gang Show entertainment troupe, which toured the UK and also did the rounds in India, Ceylon and Burma. In 1948 Sellers gained a six-week run at the Windmill Theatre in London, which predominantly staged revue acts: he provided the comedy turns in between the nude shows on offer.
After a chance meeting with a North American Indian spirit guide in the 1950s Sellers became convinced that the music hall comedian Dan Leno, who had died in 1904, haunted him and guided his career and life-decisions.
Roger Lewis observed that Sellers immersed himself completely in the characters he enacted during productions, that "He'd play a role as an Indian doctor, and for the next six months, he'd be an Indian in his real [daily] life."
In 1960 Sellers did play an Indian character, Dr Ahmed el Kabir, in Anthony Asquith's romantic comedy The Millionairess. Sellers was not interested in the role until he learned that Sophia Loren would be his co-star. Sellers and Loren developed a close relationship during filming, culminating in Sellers declaring his love for her in front of his wife. Sellers also woke his son at night to ask, "Do you think I should divorce your mummy?" Sellers' wife at the time, Anne, afterwards commented, "I don't know to this day whether he had an affair with her. Nobody does."
Sellers' behaviour towards his family worsened in 1962; according to his son Michael, Sellers asked him and his sister Sarah "who we love more, our mother or him. Sarah, to keep the peace, said, 'I love you both equally'. I said, 'No, I love my mum.'" This prompted Sellers to throw both children out, saying that he never wanted to see them again.
After his father's death in October 1962, Sellers decided to leave England and was approached by director Blake Edwards who offered him the role of Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther. Although the Clouseau character was in the script, Sellers created the personality, devising the costume, accent, make-up, moustache and trench coat. Penelope Gilliatt, writing in The Observer, remarked that Sellers had a "flawless sense of mistiming" in a performance that was "one of the most delicate studies in accident-proneness since the silents".
In 1963, Stanley Kubrick cast Sellers to appear in Dr. Strangelove, a farce about nuclear war. The director asked Sellers to play four roles. Kubrick later commented that the idea of having Sellers in so many of the film's key roles was that "everywhere you turn there is some version of Peter Sellers holding the fate of the world in his hands".
During the filming of A Shot in the Dark, Sellers and co-star Blake Edwards fell out and would often stop speaking to each other, communicating only by the passing of notes. Towards the end of filming, in February 1964, Sellers met Britt Ekland, a Swedish actress who had just arrived in London. Just ten days after their first meeting, the couple married.
On the night of 5 April 1964, prior to having --x with Ekland, Sellers inhaled amyl nitrites (poppers) as a --xual stimulant in his search for "the ultimate org---m" and suffered a series of eight heart attacks over the course of three hours. On 20 January 1965 (9 ½ months after Sellers’ multiples heart attacks), Sellers and Ekland announced the birth of a daughter.
Sellers signed a $1 million contract for Casino Royale (1967) ($8,500,000+ in 2022 dollars) co-starring Woody Allen and Orson Welles. A poor working relationship quickly developed between Sellers and Welles, and Sellers eventually demanded that the two should not share the same set. Sellers left the film before his part was complete, and a further part was written in with another actor to cover his departure. During the filming of The Bobo (1967), which co-starred Ekland, the couple's marital problems worsened. Three weeks into production in Italy, Sellers told the director to fire his wife, saying "I'm not coming back after lunch if that b---h is on the set".
Ekland served him with divorce papers shortly afterwards. Sellers' friend Spike Milligan sent Ekland a congratulatory telegram. Blake Edwards says of the actor's mental state at the time of The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), "If you went to an asylum and you described the first inmate you saw, that's what Peter had become. He was certifiable.". The film was popular nonetheless. Vincent Canby of The New York Times said of Sellers in the film, "There is, too, something most winningly seedy about Mr. Sellers' Clouseau, a fellow who, when he attempts to tear off his clothes in the heat of passion, gets tangled up in his necktie, and who, when he masquerades—for reasons never gone into—as Quasimodo, overinflates his hump with helium."
Steven Bach, the senior vice-president and head of worldwide productions for United Artists, who worked with Sellers on a 4th Pink Panther film in 1977 considered that Sellers was "deeply unbalanced, if not committable” adding, “that was the source of his genius and his truly quite terrifying aspects as manipulator and hysteric."
He refused to seek professional help for his mental issues. Sellers would claim that he had no personality and was almost unnoticeable, which meant that he "needed a strongly defined character to play." (in other words that it was all an act). When he appeared on The Muppet Show in 1978 and Kermit the Frog told Sellers he could relax and be himself, Sellers replied: “But that, you see, my dear Kermit, would be altogether impossible. I could never be myself ... You see, there is no me. I do not exist ... There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed.”
In 1979 Sellers starred in the black comedy Being There as Chance, a simple-minded gardener addicted to watching TV who is regarded as a sage by the rich and powerful. Co-star Shirley MacLaine found Sellers "a dream" to work with. Sellers' performance was universally lauded by critics and is considered by critic Danny Smith to be the "crowning triumph of Peter Sellers' remarkable career". In 1980 Sellers asked his 15-year-old daughter Victoria what she thought about Being There: she reported later that "I said yes, I thought it was great. But then I said, 'You looked like a little fat old man'. ... he went mad. He threw his drink over me and told me to get the next plane home." His other daughter Sarah told Sellers her thoughts about the incident and he sent her a telegram that read "After what happened this morning with Victoria, I shall be happy if I never hear from you again. I won't tell you what I think of you. It must be obvious. Goodbye, Your Father."
Sellers died aged 54 from a heart attack at the Dorchester Hotel in 1980, the day he was due to have a reunion dinner with his G--n Show partners Milligan and Secombe. Spike Milligan later considered that Sellers' heart condition had lasted for over 15 years and had "made life difficult for him and had a debilitating effect on his personality." Harry Secombe said "I'm shattered. Peter was such a tremendous artist. He had so much talent, it just oozed out of him". Richard Attenborough said that Sellers "had the genius comparable to Chaplin".
Filmmaker Jack Arnold, who directing Sellers in The Mouse That Roared, said, “Peter was a marvellous improvisational actor, brilliant if you got him on the first take. The second take would be good, but after the third take he could be really awful. If he had to repeat the same words too many times they became meaningless. But it was such a joy to work with Peter….Sometimes he would literally knock me off my feet. I’d fall down convulsed with laughter.”
A private funeral service was held at Golders Green Crematorium. Sellers' final joke was the playing of "In the Mood" by Glenn Miller, a tune which all the Go--s (other comedians from his early radio show The G--n Show), disliked, because he knew they would have to sit there in silence and listen to it.
Although Sellers was reportedly in the process of excluding his fourth wife Frederick from his will a week before he died she inherited almost his entire estate worth an estimated £4.5 million (£20.5 million in 2022 pounds) while his children received £800 each. Spike Milligan appealed to her on behalf of Sellers' three children, but she refused to increase the amount. In 1982 Edwards released Trail of the Pink Panther, which was composed entirely of deleted scenes from his past three Panther films. Frederick sued, claiming the use of the clips was a breach of contract; the court awarded her $1 million ($3 million today).
Sellers' biographer, Ed Sikov, notes Sellers is "the master of playing men who have no idea how ridiculous they are." The film critic Elvis Mitchell said that Sellers was one of the few comic geniuses who was able to truly hide behind his characters, giving the audience no sense of what he was really like in real life.
In a 1962 interview for Playboy Sellers explained, "I start with the voice. I find out how the character sounds. It's through the way he speaks that I find out the rest about him. ... After the voice comes the looks of the man. I do a lot of drawings of the character I play. Then I get together with the makeup man and we sort of transfer my drawings onto my face…After that I establish how the character walks. Very important, the walk. And then, suddenly, something strange happens. The person takes over. The man you play begins to exist." John Cleese called him "the greatest voice man of all time", adding, "If he could listen to you for five minutes, he could do a perfect impersonation of you." So important was the voice as the starting point for character development, that Sellers would walk around London with a reel-to-reel tape recorder, recording voices to study at home. Comedians who have named Sellers as a major influence on their work have included Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams.
Legendary British comedian Peter Cook described Sellers as "the best comic actor in the world".