Movie recommendations?

[dld]

The Party? the hilarious Peter Sellers screamer (I say that in a good way). "Birdie Num Nums Birdie Num Nums" and "Howdy Pardner"?

if theres such a genre as understated farcical slapstick, this is it. A blake Edwards gem. Not as good as S.O.B. but still good despite AMG's **1/2.

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Untalented extra accidentally destroys gazillion dollar set, gets fired by producer, and then inadvertently asked to the producer's big party and totally wrecks it. Paucity of dialogue. Carol Wayne = yummy

[tentoze]

The Party? the hilarious Peter Sellers screamer (I say that in a good way). "Birdie Num Nums Birdie Num Nums" and "Howdy Pardner"?

if theres such a genre as understated farcical slapstick, this is it. A blake Edwards gem. Not as good as S.O.B. but still good despite AMG's **1/2.

SPOILER_____VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV______

Untalented extra accidentally destroys gazillion dollar set, gets fired by producer, and then inadvertently asked to the producer's big party and totally wrecks it. Paucity of dialogue. Carol Wayne = yummy

I guess I don't know who Carol Wayne is, or don't remember what she did in The Party. IIRC, Claudine Longet was Sellars' love interest, and she was yummy indeed. Of course, that was before she developed a penchant for using ski bums for target practice..............at any rate, damn funny movie. And the psychedelic ending with the elephant in the pool and all is a great period piece. And while we're waxing nostalgic along these lines, nobody mentioned The Magic Christian????

[dld]

[QUOTE=tentoze]I guess I don't know who Carol Wayne is, or don't remember what she did in The Party. QUOTE]

Carol Wayne was the prototypical DBHLBB
Ditzy Big Haired Large Breasted Blonde. Serial number 00003 (I believe Monroe and Mansfield were 00001 & 00002 respectively)

In the movie I believe she may have been the cowboy movie actor's date or if not, she was a guest at the dinner table for sure.

Was a semi regular on Carson many years ago.

[tentoze]

[QUOTE=dld]

I guess I don't know who Carol Wayne is, or don't remember what she did in The Party. QUOTE]

Carol Wayne was the prototypical DBHLBB
Ditzy Big Haired Large Breasted Blonde. Serial number 00003 (I believe Monroe and Mansfield were 00001 & 00002 respectively)

In the movie I believe she may have been the cowboy movie actor's date or if not, she was a guest at the dinner table for sure.

Was a semi regular on Carson many years ago.

Seems familiar, but the ski-bum killer was droolingly fine..................

[Dusty Chalk]

You know, I almost went back and added 12 Monkeys. Yet another good call.

If you have to watch some kid movies, Spirited Away definitely qualifies (there's nothing that can't be seen in it, unlike, for example, Blood, or Mezzo Forte, or Kite...). Also, the classic, Jungle Book, and the contemporary instant classic, Emperor's New Groove. The anime Metropolis is also pretty safe...I think...you may want confirmation on that...I'm not remembering anything that can't be seen by kids...it's wonderful eye-candy, highly stylized...(EDIT: seems Troy confirms below that it's pretty safe.)

I'm embarassed to say that I actually watch those without a kid around to justify it.

Alright, not really (embarassed, that is). They're good movies.