Movie Night 79: Spaceballs and Zoolander -:- Tuesday, February 26, 2008

It was the night of silly stupidity (because of the movies, duh), and a bunch of new faces. People were just in a goofy mood. We selected two flicks to watch during what was almost a non-Movie Night (which i'll need to have one of these soon - schedule pending).


Movie Night 79: Spaceballs (1987)
Director: Mel Brooks
Cast: Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Mel Brooks
Plot: Lone Starr (Pullman) is an outsider among the space community, living in a flying mobile home spaceship with his friend, Barf (Candy). When Pizza the Hutt tells Lone Starr that he owes 100,000 space bucks, he makes a deal with a king to rescue his daughter from the dreaded Dark Helmet (Moranis) and the Spaceball Empire. Hilarious situations and very quotable scenes follow!


Movie Night 79: Zoolander (2001)
Director: Ben Stiller
Cast: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Christine Taylor, Will Ferrel, Milla Jovovich, Jerry Stiller, David Duchovny, Jon Voight, and many others
Plot: Mugatu (Ferrel) is a fashion designer that also belongs to an international cartel of criminals that are looking out for their own interests. When the new Prime Minister of Malaysian starts implimenting child labor laws, Mugatu is forced to hire an operative to dispatch of him - and who stupider than male model Derek Zoolander (Stiller)! Full of celebrity cameo appearances (including Billy Zane, Christian Slater, and David Bowie), this movie is very stupid...but very very funny!

As I mentioned above, I'm thinking about getting a schedule going again for Movie Night (especially since I'm going to be taking some vacation time starting in April), and I wanted to bring back some theme nights and have a few non-Movie Nights (since the last one was in June 2007). Ergo, here's the schedule that I'm thinking for the next month or so:

February 29: Anime Night
March 7: Superhero Night (Batman, Superman, whatever)
March 14: Nerd Night (Star Trek, sci-fi, Clerks....)
March 21: Laura's 21st birthday party!
March 28: Prison Night (Could be a Johnny Dangerously in here)
April 4: Time Burton Night
April 11: Game Night
April 18: POSTPONED (I'll be in New York City)
April 25: TBD

Here's the original list of themes that we came up with back in September 2006. Feel free to help me add to it:

- 70s Night
- 80s Night
- 90s Night
- Action Movie Night
- Anime Night
- Bad Movie Night
- Band Night - we watch movies about (or starring) bands!
- Buddy Cop Night
- Cheesey Movie Night - We watch movies that are cheesey and campy, but still entertaining to watch. Trouble in Little Tokyo, Big Trouble in Little China, and anything with Jean-Claud Van Dam comes to mind here....
- Classic Horror Movie Night
- Classic Movie Night - I'm all about the Hitchcock, or perhaps we'll go back even further to some Charlie Chaplin!
- College Night - Movies about being in college!
- Comic Night
- Crazy Night - we watch movies about people in mental hospitals...I vote for In the Mouth of Maddness, or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest!
- Date Night
- Drugs are Bad Night - Trainspotting, Blow, Goodfellas...you get the idea!
- Eastwood Night - 'nuf said!
- Gangster Night - It's all about wacking people over here!
- Guilty Pleasures
- Horror Night - Halloween
- Kids Movie Night - Nostalgic Movies from when we were younger!
- Martial Arts / Kung-Fu Night
- Musical Night
- Nerd Night - Sci-Fi Movies only, bitches!
- Night Court - Your favorite law-related movies would be watched here!
- Non-Movie Night
- Porn Night - Orgazmo, baby!
- Pride Night
- Prison Night - Bring your favorite movie about jail!
- Prom Night
- Rebel Without a Cause Night - The greatest rebel movies! We'll stick it to "the man" in style!
- Roman Orgy Night - Toga!
- Samurai Night - Akira Kurosawa Marathon, chicas!
- Series Night - We watch some TV...on DVD!
- Silent Movie Night
- Sports Night
- Superhero Night
- Theater on Screen - your favorite plays and musicals on the silver screen!
- Thriller Night - Not the Michael Jackson video (but that could be cool, too), but instead movies that make you jump in your seat!
- Tim Burton Night - it'll be like a Monday at Necto, only on Friday at my place!
- TV Night - TV shows turned into movies...could be a good "Bad Movie Night"...
- Western Night
- WW2 Night - John Wayne, Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, and Steve McQueen will show us what war is really like!





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