- Spiderman 3 - A man struggling with super powers battles two villians, also with super powers, while trying to win back the girlfriend he alienated. How is this any different than My Blue Heaven? Not my favorite. A little too light on the Moranis. Still solid.
- Children of Men - Basically, My Blue Heaven set in a post-apocalytpic world
- Spice World - Of all the films on this list, this one comes closest to honoring God's original commandment, "Girl power"
- Blue Brothers 2000 - One of the many films released in 1998.
- Fahrenheit 9/11 - Not as overly political as My Blue Heaven, but still solid.
- GoodFellas - Whimisical and inspirational! A laugh a minute! 146 laughs in 146 minutes. Do the math. It checks out.
- Kill Bill, Vol. 2 - Tarantino did little to mimic The Moranis's recipe for success, so this film makes the list for doing a credible job of bringing My Blue Heaven's co-star Joan Cusack's life story to the screen.
There you have it. I could have included 8 more, but I wanted to allow you, the reader, to come up with your own. Film historians often point to 1989 as the "Year of the Blue Heaven." Do you passionately agree? Or do you just agree? Let's hear it, America, what do you think?
My Blue Heaven is like some sort of fossil or artifact from which scientists can deduce that Steve Martin was once funny.
ReplyDeleteWell that's all for me, off to watch Pink Panther 2.
I would like to include the family classic Red Heat. Few onscreen duos compare to Belushi and Schwarzenegger. Really only Hanks and Beasly the Dog from the action thriller Turner and Hooch. Red Heat came out in 1988, which is the year before the "Year of the Blue Heaven," just further proof of the overwhelming consensus that Red Heat was ahead of its time.
ReplyDeleteFor me, Cloverfield really answered a lot of the questions left unanswered by My Blue Heaven.
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