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Into The Night...John Landis' best film...?

posted 17 years ago by chiefbrody2001
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Watching it again, I really think it is. Link to my review is below:

http://filmjournal.net/danielstephens/2007/05/16/into-the-psyche-of-a-broken-manrevisiting-john-landis-into-the-night/

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[–] jrs-8 17 years ago

I think this is very underrated but I don't think any other Landis film comes close to touching "Animal House."

[–] joonas1038 16 years ago

I HAVENT SEEN IT BUT I LOVE TO SEE IT

[–] zeke2677 17 years ago

easily the worst movie i have ever seen in my life.

[–] Don-102 16 years ago

You people are sick.

This movie is a horrifying relic of the 80's.

[–] 16 years ago

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[–] jrs-8 16 years ago

Thanks Don. Nice to know people are construed as sick just because they disagree with your opinion.

[–] sarchiorama 16 years ago

I rated it tops and is still a careful constructed mechanism

[–] bobbyklump 16 years ago

Absolutely hilarious. You have a bunch of towel heads chasing pheiffer and Goldberg. English assassin with some frog and some ‘mothers’. Great cameos by famous film makers. A really great funny film, maybe Landis's best*

[–] Brude_Stone 16 years ago

I think "American Werewolf In London" is his best film but this is among his best. "Blues Brothers," "Animal House" and "Trading Places" are his only other movies that I think are worthy films. "Kentucky Fried Movie" was fine for its time but I don't think it holds up. Besides that I think he's done only middling to poor films - basically nothing since "Trading Places" has been more than average and some have been downright poor.

[–] rstonesfan 16 years ago

I'd like to say that I somewhow missed this movie during the great 80s rentathons when I was growing up. I recently seen it on cable a couple months ago. I really enjoyed it. I don't know it is the best Landis film but it is another good movie by him.

[–] hemmo 16 years ago

"An American Werewolf in London" is his best in my opinion.

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[–] MrSiegal 12 years ago

"An American Werewolf in London" is his best in my opinion.

As much as I like Into the Night, I agree. It was scary and sexy with dark humor (not comedy) sprinkled in.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 3 years ago

And the difference between humor and comedy is . . . ?

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[–] shalps 12 years ago

Into the Night is a good film, which gets bumped up (IMO) for all the director cameos. But none of his work beats Animal House.

[–] oldmotem 12 years ago

Yes, this is a great film which isn't known as well as it should have been. It reminds me of another film which is a Golan-Globus production. "Detective School Dropouts" which I cannot find anywhere. If you like this, DSDO is just a raucous slapstick chase with some great moments, but not near as good as this film.

Both 80s type comedic pieces.

CORRECTION? It looks like Amazon can make "Detective School Dropouts" on demand. It's a DVD made on demand released in 2011.

[–] franzkabuki 12 years ago

Not at all - it´s a far cry from the freewheeling, often very funny craziness of The Blues Brothers and don´t come very close to American Werewolf, either. Better than the massively overrated bundle of juvenile, unfunny teeny jokes Animal House, though. Not to mention the awful Spies Like Us.

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

[–] MrHooba 10 years ago

Anyone who calls Animal House massively overrated and unfunny has no comedy credibility.