#rickducommun

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my Star Wars Movie 🎥 Marathon...a little intergalactic levity...Spaceballs (1987) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #comedy #scifi #spaceballs #starwars #billpullman #johncandy #ripjohncandy #rickmoranis #DaphneZuniga #JoanRivers #ripjoanrivers #DickVanPatten #ripdickvanpatten #melbrooks #AbeVigoda #MichaelWinslow #JohnHurt #DomDeLuise #stephentobolowsky #PhilHartman #ripphilhartman #rickducommun #riprickducommun #HarryShearer #DickWarlock #tommyswerdlow #vintage #vhs #80s #starwars47 #starwarsday #maythe4thbewithyou #maytheforcebewithyou #maytheschwartzbewithyou

[horrororman]

Remembering Rick Ducommun (July 3, 1952 - June 12, 2015).🕯

#RickDucommun

#comedy #thriller #horror #action

[geekynerfherder]

#TheBurbs, first released in cinemas #OnThisDay in 1989 #TitleScreen #TomHanks #CarrieFisher #BruceDern #RickDucommun #CoreyFeldman #HenryGibson #Klopek #JoeDante https://www.instagram.com/p/CLZ5nfvnoyt/?igshid=1egfpvghm6wi4

[adamwatchesmovies]

Little Monsters (1989)

Little Monsters is awful. Finding witty ways to say it would be a waste of time. It’s irritating and mean-spirited. As I sat watching it, I cursed my commitment to seeing every movie I review all the way through to the end.

After moving to a new house and new school, Brian (Fred Savage) is miserable. His parents (Margaret Whitton and Daniel Stern) are always fighting, he’s getting blamed for every random thing that happens around the house, and his brother Eric (Ben Savage) keeps pestering him about monsters living under his bed. Then, Brian discovers that there IS a monster living under the bed. His name is Maurice (Howie Mandel) and he loves to pull pranks.

Little Monsters is an insufferable rip-off of Beetlejuice. The signs are all there. It was released one year after the famous Michael Keaton/Tim Burton movie. It features a morbid world filled with outrageous & creepy creatures. There’s a lot of foul, bordering on dark humor. Then, there's Maurice himself. The monster talks a lot, very quickly, and doesn’t quite grasp the rules of the human world.

Here's the difference, and what makes this less Beetlejuice than Beetlejuice 2. In the Tim Burton venture, Beetlejuice is not the main character. He’s not even a secondary character. He’s more of a plot point so outlandish and memorable he steals the show. Beetlejuice doesn’t overstay his welcome so he never actually becomes annoying but he would in a theoretical follow-up in which his popularity has made him the star. Boy does Maurice overstay his welcome. The guy’s so annoying the only way you can stay mentally unbroken by the 103-minute running time is by imagining yourself throttling the blue creature’s throat until it falls over dead.

There's no shortage of reasons to hate this film. How about... the premise? The world makes no sense whatsoever but nobody bothered to patch up the holes or ask questions because “It’s just a dumb kid’s movie”. The idea is that when children fall asleep, monsters from some place underground (we’ll call it Hell) sneak into their rooms to pull “pranks” they will be blamed for in the morning. We get to see the old “clear plastic wrap over the toilet bowl seat” but for the most part, these go from vandalism (setting up Brian’s bike to be run-over and destroyed) to hazardous to human health (replacing a boy’s apple juice with urine for example). Drawing all over someone’s walls and getting somebody else to take the blame isn’t a prank, it’s just being the equivalent to a matt of hair that’s clogging up your shower drain. Secondly, how are children still getting blamed for this? If monsters have been doing this for hundreds of years, children who were blamed for these pranks have grown up into adults. They wouldn't dismiss nightly vandalism as childhood fantasies! And to what end? It’s not like the monsters can just hang out in broad daylight and snicker as the kids get punished!

Maybe you remember liking this movie as a kid. You’re saying “oh come on, don’t try and be scientific about this one!”. Alright, let’s take your advice and see this is “dumb entertainment for children”. Are Maurice's numerous allusions to masturbation for kids? Are the frightening scenes for the little kids who will miss the half-dozen curses peppered throughout? Is that what you want your little angels to see?

Despite some colorful (and disgusting) characters thrown in, there’s no material here to enlighten a spark of creativity within the audience, no ambitions aside from making money at the expense of easily swayed rugrats, and no imagination whatsoever. I laughed two times during the movie, proving that even a broken clock can be right sometimes, but that doesn’t make this redeemable in any way whatsoever. Eventually out of exhaustion even the most stoic viewers will laugh at something.

The only thing I could compliment in Little Monsters are the costumes and special effects. They’re alright for a cheaply made movie like this. I hated it, and you should too on the principle that it’s nothing but a bunch of elements liberally borrowed from other, better movies and then stitched together with the gamble that Fred Savage (and his little brother, whom this film is clearly grooming to be a film star too) will blind you. I say no. No to children’s movies who take and give nothing in return and a resounding NO!!! to Little Monsters. (On VHS, January 6, 2016)

[adafine]

Watching one of the all-time greats, “The ‘burbs” #theburbs #tomhanks #brucedern #rickducommun #carriefisher #coreyfeldman #henrygibson #wendyschaal #brothertheodore #courtneygains #galegordon #dickmiller #robertpicardo #corydanziger #franklynajaye #rancehoward #joedante #danaolsen #jerrygoldsmith #robertmstevens #shoutfactory #shoutselect #bluray (at La Casa De Sweeney) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHgfNpnJ0eq/?igshid=fjoq2unh9ib8

[darthtalon89]

#nowwatching #currentlywatching #TheBurbs #comedy #JoeDante #TomHanks #BruceDern #CarrieFisher #RickDucommun #CoreyFeldman #WendySchaaland #HenryGibson #GaleGordon #suburbanenvironments #eccentric #TheBurbsMovie #TheBurbsFilm https://www.instagram.com/p/ByS08cIHiq9/?igshid=1dbwnovfvdcob

[alicesadventuresintherye]

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🎃Happy 17th Day of Halloween! I’ll be sharing one of my favorite spooktacular things to watch each day of October. TODAY’S FRANTASTIC FRIGHT: The 'Burbs is one of those movies that I find myself quoting constantly. This horror comedy is a true gem with a great cast: Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher, Corey Feldman, Henry Gibson, Rick Ducommun and Bruce Dern 👻 #frantasticfrights #Halloween #👻 #halloweenseason #🎃 #spooktacular #horror #boomerang #horriblytakenpicturesofmytv #theburbs #tomhanks #carriefisher #coreyfeldman #henrygibson #rickducommun #brucedern https://www.instagram.com/p/B3uv07eJhQK/?igshid=wm4ss7x2win4

[catmigliano7]

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#FastRepost from @devilsplaythingg by @fastrepost_app ••• Watching The ‘Burbs for the millionth time with a touch of Texas Chainsaw massacre 2 to boot! @willicaroline #theburbsmovie #theburbsbluray #thetexaschainsawmassacre2 #carolinewilliams #raypeterson #stretch #rickducommun #carriefisher #brucedern #bluraycollection #tomhanks @tomhanks #joedante #favoritemovie #classic #mindyourownbusiness #artsgotagun @choptopmoseley #tobehooper Does @tomhanks realize how freaking funny this movie is???? #Hanx (at The Burbs) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Z7wy8ntOY/?igshid=1a2vqki0i995q

[jamest541975]

HOLIDAY-A-THON 2019 VIDEO 21: DIE HARD #holidayathon2019 #diehard #brucewillis #johnmcclane #alanrickman #hansgruber #williamatherton #alexandergudonov #jamesshigeta #robertdavi #terrilynndoss #rebeccabroussard #georgechristy #bonniebedelia #reginaldveljohnson #hartbochner #devoreauxwhite #clarencegilyard #wilhelmvonhomburg #paulgleason #hansbuhringer #alleong #taylorfry #andreaswisniewski #kymmalin #dennishayden #maryellentrainor #rickducommun #grandlbush #tracyreiner https://www.instagram.com/p/B6UUU7RlGAa/?igshid=1jkudg74g0kud

[duranduratulsa]

Now showing on my 80's Fest Movie 🎥 marathon...Spaceballs (1987) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #comedy #scifi #spaceballs #starwars #billpullman #johncandy #ripjohncandy #rickmoranis #DaphneZuniga #JoanRivers #ripjoanrivers #DickVanPatten #ripdickvanpatten #melbrooks #AbeVigoda #MichaelWinslow #JohnHurt #DomDeLuise #stephentobolowsky #PhilHartman #ripphilhartman #rickducommun #riprickducommun #DickWarlock #tommyswerdlow #BubbaSmith #vintage #vhs #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas5thannual80sfest

[horrororman]

Remembering #RickDucommun

July 3, 1952 - June 12, 2015.🕯

#horror #comedy

[geekynerfherder]

#TheBurbs, first released in cinemas #OnThisDay in 1989 Art by #BlakeArmstrong (@spaceboycomics) #CoolArt #Art #TomHanks #BruceDern #CarrieFisher #RickDucommun #CoreyFeldman #WendySchaal #HenryGibson #JoeDante https://www.instagram.com/p/B8qqlciHqVC/?igshid=1qgxnkkjj0pf8

[adafine]

Horror Movie Marathon (2020) October 3rd 9. Ghost in the Machine (1993) Directed by Rachel Talalay #ghostinthemachine #karenallen #chrismulkey #graemerevell #philmeheux #rickducommun #brandonquintinadams #anchorbay #dvd #wilhorneff #jessicawalter (at El Apartamento De Sweeney) https://www.instagram.com/p/CF6ENSNA-FM/?igshid=1fmga81rrq3ai

[alicesadventuresintherye]

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🎃Happy 17th Day of Halloween! I’ll be sharing one of my favorite spooktacular things to watch each day of October. TODAY’S FRANTASTIC FRIGHT: The 'Burbs is one of those movies that I find myself quoting constantly. This horror comedy is a true gem with a great cast: Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher, Corey Feldman, Henry Gibson, Rick Ducommun and Bruce Dern 👻 #frantasticfrights #Halloween #👻 #halloweenseason #🎃 #spooktacular #horror #boomerang #horriblytakenpicturesofmytv #theburbs #tomhanks #carriefisher #coreyfeldman #henrygibson #rickducommun #brucedern https://www.instagram.com/p/BpDuYCyBmp3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=oiatp3pgkv87

[duranduratulsa]

Concluding my Star Wars Movie Marathon 🎥 with a little levity...Spaceballs (1987) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #comedy #scifi #spaceballs #starwars #georgelucas #melbrooks #rickmoranis #JohnCandy #ripjohncandy #billpullman #DaphneZuniga #JoanRivers #DickVanPatten #ripdickvanpatten #JohnHurt #DomDeLuise #stephentobolowsky #MichaelWinslow #PhilHartman #ripphilhartman #rickducommun #DickWarlock #80s #vintage #vhs #starwarsday