This movie is soooo bad....it's actually great, memorable and the laughs just don"t stop!
Any other accidential comedys come to mind?
How about Highlander 2 "The Quickening"
Warlock. That is one hilarious film.
I am in a thousand winds that blow,
I am the softly falling snow.
'Passenger 57'. For one should always bet on black.
Or try 'Dungeons & Dragons', it has Jeremy Irons in it and still manages to be bad.
Coincidentally they both boast a performance by Bruce Payne. There's something amiss about his face, something feminine, menacing and crazy all at the same time.
Hell, watch 'No Holds Barred' too. It wasn't meant to be serious, just another wrestling flick, but Hogan's performance gives it a whole new dimension.
Yeah, it's full of belly laughs from beginning to end. It's hard to hate this film. Whether it's the ludicrous plot reveals dead-panned so earnestly by the ridiculous cast of characters, or Pacino's inexplicable rage and confusion, it's absolute gold.
I like how Pacino's bit of detective methodology was essentially to scream at everyone he comes in contact with and accuse them of being this murderer stalking him.
It started to occur to me about halfway through the film that Pacino may have been suffering from a spell of senility and he actually did not understand what was going on during filming.
Why was it even called 88 minutes?! Everything about this movie fails, hilariously...
Edit: OMG, I just realized I forgot the scene where Pacino commandeers the taxi...
Funny things about this movie:
1 Pacino's hair
2 Neither the Attorney-General's Office, the FBI, the local police or the campus police are actually seen to do any investigating ... at all! They just leave it up to Pacino, when they're not being suspicious of him.
3 The state of the large campus police office who are so busy investigating the murders (NOT), that they can't seem to find the time or raise the interest to interview the assaulted Lauren.
4 Shelley's memory lapse.
5 Shelley's embarrassment in front of Gramm re: said memory lapse.
6 Shelley's patching skills. "Patch me through to Parks please Shell, ask him to run a security check on..."
7 Al spending much of the movie running around with girls at least half his age.
"Why would he want to get married?" he says at one stage. Why indeed?
8 Kim following Gramm around like some faithful red-haired puppy, only better house trained.
8 Kim forgetting about the violent death her ex-hubbie suffers in front of her, in oh, about 30 seconds of screen time.
10 Dean Carol's glasses.
11 Parks's will I arrest/not arrest him charade. (Nah! I'll give you 10 minutes more Jack, seeing I haven't done any thing productive myself for the whole film.)
12 The killer's enthusiastic industriousness. 3 successful murders in 24 hours, with 2 more planned. Am I doing good John?
13 The convicted killer's live interviews direct from Death Row on the day he was to meet his maker.
14 The energetic approach and the speed with which the killer set up the death scenes and situations, whilst not actually being seen at all, especially that last one.
15 The generous nature of the cabby in letting Al drive his cab for relatively few dollars and then us seeing the way Al does drive it.
16 The fax machine in Jack and Shelley's office that can't quite seem to make up its mind whether it is broken or not.
Really surprised there were no Razzie nominations. This would have had to be a front-runner.🐭
How about the fact, that the killer is trying to coral him to this meticulously plotted and choreographed place 88 minutes from the first call...and then spends 88 minutes trying to kill him and frame him for murder and set the police on him. The entire conceit of the film makes no sense, without even mentioning it's much longer than 88 minutes, which doesn't even take into account the miraculous teleporting nature of the traffic transit scenes! The framework alone is a mind-boggling mess before you even get to every other silly element in every scene.
I heard someone say The Odd Couple had more gags per minute than any other comedy in history. I think 88 Minutes really attempts to test this claim.
How did you not mention the taxi commandeering scene though?! For me, that's this film in a nutshell. If you had to compress 88 Minutes into one scene to show to someone so they could understand the sheer ridiculous and indecipherable insanity of this film, it's when Pacino's character commandeers a taxi for no reason. I like how the taxi driver is pretty affable about the whole ridiculous thing, steps out...and then hops in the backseat. WTF?!
I'm pretty sure Pacino adlib'ed that scene, cause it made no sense.
Pacino: "Nuh-uh, Jack Gramm, doesn't take a cab uptown. Jack Gramm TAKES a cab uptown. Move over buddy."
And the extra driving the cab was like, "alright..." and didn't know what to do, so he just kinda steps out mutely now that everything is way off script and gets in the backseat. And the director thought it was gold for some reason, and kept insisting that Pacino just adlib as much as he wants.
Like, the extra was a professional driver, and he wasn't really allowed to let anyone else drive that car? Like, I'm going to guess he thought Pacino was just gonna step into the vehicle, but then he caught a look in his eye, and decided he needed to get back in the car?! It's the strangest scene I've ever scene on film.
Pacino: "YEAH! Now we're GETTIN' somewhere. Just gonna adjust my mirror here, check my blind spot...YEAH! We're really going to be rushing across town any minute now! Hey! Cabby! I'm good on your side, or what? I'm engaging the turn single to let everyone know Pacino wishes to cautiously merge. We're really keeping the energy up in this scene, and this was entirely necessary, right?! This isn't going to be 5 minutes of Pacino attempting to merge into traffic followed by an immediate slam cut to his arrival at the place he is going, despite the teased bit of of vehicular 'race across town' being entirely cut.
Yeah, I dunno how this film dodged sweeping the Razzies. I hadn't even thought of that.
I just remembered Gramm also has flashbacks to things he never witnessed, in his 'ah-ha' moment. He's a third party in his own impossible flashbacks. Bizarre.
There is also a weird thing where Pacino is constantly providing backing monologue to the action. Like, his dialogue doesn't make any sense.
"Oh, yeah, now this is something, huh? We're really gettin into it now, right? This is a real twist, as they say. Suspicious, right? Guy Lafarge is a real silly name...Guy LeFarge..."
WHO are you talking to and why do you love saying Guy LeFarge so much?! Pacino says "Guy LeFarge" so often it's practically punctuation, and he really digs into it every time. Pacino loves saying 'Guy LeFarge' so much.
How did you not mention the taxi commandeering scene though?!I did. See 15 above. A little more abbreviated than you, but yes, just daft scenes. share
Taken, hands down. I laughed almost from start to the end of Taken.
shareTaken is pretty funny. Taken 2 is even better, because the premise is really stretched at this point. Why does this family continue to vacation out of country when this obviously DOES NOT WORK for them?! I'm pretty sure it's a struggle for this family to go to the corner grocery store without someone getting kidnapped and Liam Neeson having to murder the population of a small town.
Liam Neeson's character should just objectively accept the hand fate has dealt him. Sometimes you're just, That Guy Whose Family Is Always Getting Kidnapped Due to Familial Blood Oath. I think we all have a friend who's That Guy.
Troy! So much unintentionally hilarious dialogue and ham sandwich acting.
shareOh come on! Everybody knows the best unintentional comedy of all time is The Wicker Man 2006 with Nic Cage. Talk about belly laughs 😂😂
shareThe Wicker Man is some real Mastercheese Theater.
One that would make a perfect Godfather Double Feature with 88 Minutes is The Island of Dr. Moreau with Brando. It's soooo bad
The assistant's name is KIM CUMMINGS lol
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