A2 warrants a place on the basis of the ViewScreen gag alone (still my all time favourite visual gag).

Galaxy Quest gets a guernsey for the line: "Look around, can you construct some form of rudimentary lathe?"

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Since all the good ones have been taken I'll nominate Disney's Rocketman. Juvenile and half-baked as it was it did have the occasional moment.

Not sure if Terry Gilliam's Brazil was meant as a satire but I'll add that one too.

Monty Python's Life of Brian does have that brief foray into space.

Do you possibly mean The Rocketeer, with Timothy Dalton as the evil Hollywood star/Nazi spy?

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

They do have similar names...but Rocketman was a 1997 comedy starring Harland Williams as a goofball replacement astronaut for an upcoming Mars Mission. Think Don Knotts as The Reluctant Astronaut...updated....somewhat. Let's just say I don't think it'll win best sci-fi comedy but it can be in the running. A link....

http://apolloguide.com/mov_fullrev.asp?CID=355

Rocketeer was an enjoyable flick though. Whatever happened to Timothy Dalton?

Oh, yes. Rocketman. I didn't see it; it looked awfully bad.

Timothy Dalton's still around. By the look of it, he's about balancing his time with TV (Miss Marple, yet!) these days, and thanks Gods we haven't had Beautician and the Beast II inflicted on us!

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China had decidedly comic aspects and was a great fantasy film.

Dave Mitsky

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Good! There is life after Bond.

Big Trouble in Little China...nice choice

Thought I'd throw the 2005 big screen adaptation of The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy on the heap. Truncated muddle that it was, the Douglas Adams genius still shines though.

Yes, I'd say that fits the category, and I liked it too.

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Maybe, but I really liked the BBC TV version. Compared to that (or the books, or the radio version), for me that movie was painful.

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"Hardware Wars"
"The Rocky Horror Picture Show"

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Speaking of Monty Python, I'll make another last nomination: The Meaning of Life.

I'll leave it to someone who liked it to nominate Holy Grail.

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*cough* *cough*

That is by far my favorite of the Python movies.

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Dang, how did I miss that in Van Rijn's list? I got all of the rest. . .

Holy Grail generally works though it gets a bit TOO silly at times. The ending completely blew it for me, though.

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Well, it was a long list.

Quite agree, quite agree, too silly, far too silly . . .

The first time I saw it, that was quite a shock for me too, after the big buildup. But it makes a certain kind of sense, since they had already broken the fourth wall and they were working on such a minimal budget.

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One of my few guilty pleasures:

Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy

The opening scene, Jane: pre-Hanoi, the closing song, Duran-Duran, man bongs, and the script:

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I know that voting has already started, but is it to late to put in a nomination for Repo Man?

Nope. Polling will close with poll 1L in about 24 hours. This being the 60th nomination, it would work out evenly.

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SEX AND DEATH 101 was pretty good as well. Basic romantic comedy but not much romance. Mostly just a the hottest woman in hollywood getting BANGED. By the way Winona Ryder, hasn't looked this hot in years. Its sci fi because the dude has a list that shows all the women he'll ever sleep with. Its like a program or something. I'm not sure saw this trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF3Km-dcBjc

thought of this thread and had to but it up.

by the way Has anyone heard anything about THE GRAND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_lChWgiK-s