Watching Dan Aykroyd eating that salmon through that minging Santa beard on the bus still makes me laugh out loud, decades after seeing it for the first time. It's just inspired.
No, the chunk of smoked salmon covered with dirty Santa beard hair is the grossest prop in history. When he eats it on the bus, the beard hair gets caught in his teeth.
@@overratedgm5713 I had to look this up as I had never heard of it. This guy and the people who commented disagree with you, you had better get over there and put your two cents in 😬 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--yWIasPnm6w.html
Yeah I just (re)watched _Weekend at Bernie’s_ - amazing. Not just the comedy of it but the film in its entirety. Upbeat, zany, optimistic and not afraid to demonstrate a bit of ‘sex appeal’.
One of my favorite comedy movies. Akroyd and Murphy at their best alongside very accomplished actors, Ameche, Bellamy and Elliott. It must have been a riot to be on set. I wish they did a “Making of” documentary like was done for Caddyshack.
Really foretells the shifting away from the Republican control of the period in which it was made to the shift to Democrats we've seen since then... or was that not the point?
Definitely a comedy classic. I’m actually surprised they don’t show this film during the holidays more often there are plenty of other movies are shown with less Christmas moments. Eddie Murphy & Dan Aykroyd love them!
Dan Aykroyd has always been one of my favourite comedic actors, he was in many of the best 80s comedies. Ghostbusters, Trading Places, Spies Like Us, The Blues Brothers and The Great Outdoors to naame but a few. The 80s produced so many of my favourite comedic films. Nowadays it's all nob gags and bodily fluids.
I LOVE the comparison between the two old men talking about the 'second party turning to crime' immediately followed by Valentine exposing the Duke's crime... Such good writing!
I like the contract between Winthorpe and Valentine in this scenario. At the start of the film, Louis Winthorpe was living it high without a care in the world to hitting rock bottom and (maybe) understanding being poor, while Billy Ray Valentine changed from a penniless con-man to an upright, hardworking employee, even having different personalities compared to their former selves. I love this Movie (even if it has some dated moments).
After 30 years today was the first day I watched the “clean version” on Comedy Central. Not as “clean” as the original... Billy R. Valentine is my idol.
Second movie sucked. It’s like a damn Disney movie. Forced comedy. Nothing natural. Just a movie to stay relevant into todays feminist era with lots of “woke” undertones that have nothing to do with the base storyline and just injected artificially into every crevice of the movie to appease gen z. I vomited when I watched it and I saw ur comment about the movie and I came to 🤮 here also.
I like the part when another black man greets Mister Duke, just after seeing Valentine speaking with them. Confirmation that familiarity makes for much better relations, even if the Dukes were full of shit, haha!
I love Trading Places, but like any film that was set in New York or even had clips there before 2001, it still feels very poignant and sad to see the skyline as it once was.......but huge props to the country of America and its people for the re-build and sticking two fingers up to pure evil. Good wins in the end.
Would just point out at the time of this movie... Qualuudes wouldn't have been illegal. :D It was in 1984 they were moved to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Federal Schedule I, so Quaaludes are no longer legally available in the United States. Trading Places was filmed in 1983. :D (would have been a controlled substance tho... but it was still widely prescribed.)
@@Greenredfield My point is Winthorpe says they are illegal drugs. They weren't. :) "Ludes" didn't become a Schedule I narcotic until 1984... it was no longer available without a prescription by the end of 1983. But at the time this movie was purported to have taken place... you could legally buy Methaqualone. :) That said... by 1980... there was a campaign to remove it as dangerous. UK, Canada, and Australia already had made the drug equivalent to a "Schedule I" narcotic. Ludes were no longer manufactured in the US by 1985. Oddly enough - it's Pfizer that holds the rights to the brand name. :)
I choke my laughteron re-watching this many years after the movie came, - the loss of style coming with the real horror of a sabotaged life, situation, stolen rights, home, money hits too close to home to be funny now.Although doing it to us today is not as trivial as that bet of Duke and Duke.
That office is nothing but wood. Even the walls. I feel sorry for the poor maid that has to Pledge wipe all of that. Probably goes through like 20 cans in one day.
Look up the director of this movie. Learn about the other movies and documentaries he made. We are all currently living through what he warned us about because we ignored what he said.
And just think this was originally written for Richard Pryor and Gene wilder. Thank God the Director fought so hard For the actors he wanted. It would’ve been total cheese ball.
Christmas movies that are actually about Christmas (bar Scrooge/Christmas Carol) suck. Great movies that happen to be set at Christmas are the best (This/Home Alone/Die Hard etc.)
🤣...Yes indeed you can't sleep on nobody especially when they show that they don't like you..they will try to set you up like Dirty Santa just tried so be careful out there😉
You know, valentine would've probably left the $10k check alone if they didn't act so weird about it. If they said he was an outside consultant that the firm hired, and that check paid out his contract. It would've been believable.
Probably because she was not going to let him sit there. She said earlier "taxis cost money, my apartment costs money and groceries cost money!" In his own way, he was doing what he could to forage for food and not be drain on her (although in his hampered state it was quite haphazard).
