Your favorite Peter Sellers movie?

[MC Moot]

I watched “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers” with Geoffrey Rush this weekend……so it got me thinking about his body of work….I think “The Party” is wicked funny and I dream of owning a pad like that….Strangelove is undeniable,his best multiple character flick,I think…..but “Being There”is my very fave…..a very beautiful movie…..what’s yours?
Has anyone seen “I’m All right Jack”? it’s referred to as one of his funniest….I’ve never seen it….

[The Notorious LOL]

A Shot In The Dark


and its not even on your poll, dickface

[abcdefz]

Strangelove. (y) It's not even close.

[Yeti]

I love Being There.

[icy manipulator]

Dr Stranglove is the only one i've seen because we had to watch it in our Game Theory class. good flick tho. Kubrick directed it right?

[abcdefz]

Yesh (y)

[Otis Driftwood]

Murder by Death, I loved this film since I first seen it when I was 7. The plays at the different tv-detectives and crime movie clichés are (y) . Also, I can't get the Pink Panther movies straight, I liked when his butler assumed he was dead and converted the flat to "massage parlor".

[jammytastic]

strangelove should win by a country mile.

[icy manipulator]

Yesh (y)
i have a question for you, since you're pretty much the film lord of the board. have you seen both Kubrick's and the recent version of Lolita? if so do you have an opinion on which is better?

[abcdefz]

I've only seen Kubrick's. The idea of Lynne (sp?) shooting Lolita kind of scared me. :D


Have you seen both? What did you think?

[abcdefz]

Murder by Death, I loved this film since I first seen it when I was 7. The plays at the different tv-detectives and crime movie clichés are (y) . Also, I can't get the Pink Panther movies straight, I liked when his butler assumed he was dead and converted the flat to "massage parlor".



Oh, man, that movie doesn't hold up at all. I saw it on HBO when I was about 12 and loved it. In college, they had a free screening on campus and a couple of us remembered really enjoying it and we got a bunch of people together, and just sank in our chairs as it unwound.

the "Say your goddam prepositions!" is still funny, though.

[MC Moot]

A Shot In The Dark


Not poll worthy....

[MC Moot]

Oh, man, that movie doesn't hold up at all. I saw it on HBO when I was about 12 and loved it. In college, they had a free screening on campus and a couple of us remembered really enjoying it and we got a bunch of people together, and just sank in our chairs as it unwound.

the "Say your goddam prepositions!" is still funny, though.

Hell of a cast though.....just weird enough watching Capote......"Clue" is so much better....

[icy manipulator]

I've only seen Kubrick's. The idea of Lynne (sp?) shooting Lolita kind of scared me. :D


Have you seen both? What did you think?
i've only seen Lynne's version. watched it last night. Jeremy Irons has always been one of my favourite actors tho, and i thought he played a great role in it. i've been meaning to dl kubrick's version but i haven't gotten around to it yet

[Freebasser]

Sellers was great as Quilty in Lolita, but I'm'a have to plump for Dr. Strangelove.

[MC Moot]

Also, I can't get the Pink Panther movies straight, I liked when his butler assumed he was dead and converted the flat to "massage parlor".

Kato's pleasure parlor....the Kato brawls are the best....(y)

[abcdefz]

i've only seen Lynne's version. watched it last night. Jeremy Irons has always been one of my favourite actors tho, and i thought he played a great role in it. i've been meaning to dl kubrick's version but i haven't gotten around to it yet



If I remember reading about it correctly, Lynne's version is played more straight. Kubrick's is kind of hipster dark comedy. But the whole cast -- especially Shelly Winters -- is fantastic.

[MC Moot]

I was just LOL about a memory from "Murder By Death" with Alec Guiness as the blind butler,when he's firing his assitant,the maid....very,very funny.....he was teamed with Seller's in the original "Ladykillers" as well.....:) (y)

[abcdefz]

He was genius in The Ladykillers. What a performance!

You could start a "Best Alec Guiness (film? performance?)" thread. Now that could be tough to call.

[MC Moot]

He was genius in The Ladykillers. What a performance!

You could start a "Best Alec Guiness (film? performance?)" thread. Now that could be tough to call.

I know that he despised that he might be most remembered as Obi Wan....I love the way Tom Hanks mimicked his "speech impediment" in the original......the General was by far the saving grace of the remake.....why they had to cast a Wayans brother I'll never know....I'll vote for "Bridge Over the River Kwai"....;)

[abcdefz]

I actually liked Tom Hanks in that. I think the remake was just awful (except the last gag with the cat), but Hanks' performance had a certain gonzo nerve to it.

[Parkey]

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room"

[roosta]

Steve Martin is the definitive Clouseau....

[abcdefz]

Steve Martin is the definitive Clouseau....



TROLL :D

[Yeti]

George W Bush is Chauncey Gardener

[MC Moot]

Begs the question though,who butchered it more Martin or Benigni?

The role of "Police Commisioner Charles Dreyfus" was also really what made the movies so hilarious...

[Gareth]

birdy num nums

[MC Moot]

Howdy par-den-er....

[YoungRemy]

who's the other one who picked "The Party"?

[TAL]

Me!

[Lyman Zerga]

Tom Thumb

[Documad]

I really loved Murder By Death when I was a kid. It's one of those movies where I remember seeing it in a theater. It's not really that good but it had a great cast. There was a time in the 1970s when comedies had these all-star casts for no reason at all.

[MC Moot]

I really loved Murder By Death when I was a kid. It's one of those movies where I remember seeing it in a theater. It's not really that good but it had a great cast. There was a time in the 1970s when comedies had these all-star casts for no reason at all.

Have you seen "It's a Mad,Mad,Mad World" the sure shot winner for funniest ensemble film of all time....(y)