Coneheads

Here's the trailer of Coneheads, a movie which I like very much but which I haven't had the opportunity to watch for several years. Fortunately, I've got the DVD and I'll watch it in July or August. Till then, I can enjoy the trailer. From the Wikipedia entry (slightly edited):

Coneheads has been said to have made an "accidental" or "unintentional" political statement or social commentary about the nature of the immigrant experience in America, the filmmakers' ostensible intent being merely to entertain.

The film's plot premise: the adventures of the Conehead family — whose ship, as part of an advance scouting mission for an invasion, is shot down by a F-16 fighter-interceptor of the New Jersey Air National Guard, and they try to assimilate into American society and pursue the immigrant's American dream.

The film stars Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin as Beldar and Prymaat Clorhone (who later Anglicize their Remulakian surname to "Conehead"), parents of Connie (Michelle Burke), but also Michael McKean (seen in Dream On as Gibby), and supporting actors Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, the late Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Jason Alexander and Alexander's Seinfeld co-star, Michael Richards, makes a cameo appearance.

Unfortunately extracts from the film are scarce on YouTube, so I propose you watch this fine example of rickrolling… (Remember?)

Happy Gilmore: we want more!

Yesterday I gave you a small teaser about Happy Gimore, with Adam Sandler at the beginning of his career, before he plays in Big Daddy, the more romantic Punch-Drunk Love, the brillian Mr. Deeds and Anger Management with Jack Nicholson. He's also a well-known comedian in the US, being a Saturday Night Live cast member.

Since I don't have much time to write (because one of our professors thought we had nothing to do, so we were given a "delightful" project on linguistic landscapes), here's the Wikipedia plot summary that I enhance with scenes kindly posted on YouTube by benevolent people:

Happy (Adam Sandler) is an aspiring ice hockey player who masters a powerful slapshot that his father taught him as a child. However, his aggression and poor skating ability render it impossible for him to make any hockey team. His grandmother (Frances Bay), with whom he's lived almost all his life due to an unfortunate hockey related incident which killed his father, has not paid taxes on her home for several years. As such, she owes $275,000 to the IRS and the house that Happy's grandfather "built with his bare hands" is about to be repossessed. Due to a series of events that lead Happy to believe in his own ability to use his powerful slapshot in the game of golf, he joins the PGA Tour in order to win enough money to buy back his grandmother's house from the government.

Aspiring PGA Tour winner Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald) sees Gilmore as a threat, and tries to thwart any attempt of his to steal his thunder. Although his golf game and his manners on the green aren't rounded- his driving is excellent but he has trouble when it comes to putting-, Happy is guided by one-handed golf coach Chubbs Peterson (Carl Weathers) and the tour PR head (Julie Bowen), who help him in finding his own way to win tournaments with a cooler head. Although his time on the course is jeopardised when he goaded into attacking Bob Barker,

Happy manages to make some extra money by signing an endorsement deal with Subway, thus earning the $275,000 he needs to buy back his grandmother's house. The movie itself is actually promoted at many Subway resturaunts.

Unfortunately, at the auction, he is outbid by Shooter McGavin, who offers Happy the house under the terms that he in exchange quits the tour. Happy is persuaded to continue with his new golf career by the notion that his grandmother would rather see him succeed than have the house. Shooter agrees to give Happy the house if he beats him in the tour championship.

With some help from Chubbs and some lessons at the nearby Crazy Goly course, Happy improves his putting skills, but Chubbs subsequently dies in an accident. Determined to win the game for Chubbs, Happy goes head-to-head with Shooter, and- despite Shooter's attempts at sabotage…

… such as having a deranged fan drive onto the course and topple a TV tower in front of the last hole- wins the championship, becoming a pro golfer and in turn getting his grandmother's house back.

Before she got her house back, Happy's grandmother went to an institution for elderly people run by Ben Stiller:

— Sir, could I trouble you for a glass of warm milk: it helps put me asleep.
— You can trouble me for a glass of—shut the hell up! Now you'll go to sleep, or I will put you into sleep.

I love Ben Stiller's moustache. Not that I'd like to have one, but I find it funny. And by the way, Frances Bay (the grandma) played in a couple of episodes of Seinfeld, being the lady who gets stolen her rye bread.

Later in the film, Stiller uses his authority to oblige his residents to work for him:

— My fingers hurt…
— What's tha'?
— My fingers hurt.
— Well… oooh. Now, your back's gonna hurt, because you've just pulled landscaping duty…

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Happy Gilmore: some witty quotes

Watch this excerpt from Happy Gilmore, a tremendous movie in which I saw Adam Sandler for the first time:

— You're gonna beat me? At golf?!? Haha! Oh, you're on. You're in big trouble though, pal: I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!
— You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?!
— Nooo… … …

So, this Shooter McGavin guy is a complete asshole, as you can see. He also threatens Richard Kiel, the guy who played the character of Jaws in some of the James Bond movies:



I'll tellk you more about the film tomorrow. This was just a kind of a teaser.



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It speaks for itself, huh?

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