When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.
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Life in the Burbs, Предградията, Burbs, The (1989)
Somewhere around the early 90s, Tom Hanks became really boring.
He stopped making comedies and started making 'serious' films. As such, we missed out on him making more films like this and more films where we have to watch him talk to a sodding volleyball for the best part of 2 hours or doing a bad Alec Guinness impression.
Okay, that is been gravely unfair to Hanks and of course he HAS made or been a part of some great films in the 23 years since the release of The 'Burbs. But I can't be the only one who STILL misses the days when you saw his name on a film poster or box and you knew you were in…
One of my favorite films of all time.
Art's character is bar none my favorite comic performance.
The ending "it's us" monologue is historic.
The soundtrack, the neighborliness, it's all just so fun and wonderful.
I needed this.
On a normal Tuesday. Except I don't work til late. After yet another night put down by the poisonous thoughtloops of my barely contained obsessive-compulsive childish illogical but damn it still consuming fear -- there's nothing like the sunlight on a quiet Tuesday. Work is still far away. Everything just slows down. I can feel the chasm of my fear vibrating away on the edges of the day. But it's easier to keep it there. On the edge.
Because there's something to the sunlight streaming in the window. Something to a marginally clean house and fresh, clean, cold cans of soda. So, to keep the fear out and the hopeful sunlight vibe in, I flip this on.…
dante's slapstick Rear Window. understand the objection to the ending—which on its surface undermines hanks' righteous realization that suburban conformity is much darker and weirder than any strange outsider—but even if the voyeur element isn't as strong the same is true here of hitchcock's version imo: the fact that our hero ends up being right about his creepy neighbors doesn't really matter because whether its true or not the expression here of a truly unhinged desire for murderous cannibals to have moved in next door, under the presumption of heroically restoring "normalcy", is deeply revealing of the perverse psychology and hysteria of suburban america. feels particularly apt in the age of QAnon.
Mark Rumsfield: Klopek... what is that, Slavic?
Reuben: NO.
Mark Rumsfield: 'Bout a nine on the tension scale, Reub.
Nobody knocks off an old man in my neighborhood and gets away with it.
Tom’s back in the ‘hood and this time he’s done being neighborly!
Jumping back into his everyman comedy mode, Hanks has some great Hanks moments, especially towards the end, but this time he’s surrounded by a ensemble cast that actually rises to his level. Many of his earlier comedies rested squarely on his shoulders and if Hanks had been missing the movie would have dropped several ratings. Perhaps, for the first time though, as good as he is, this doesn’t feel like a Hanks dependent movie, but rather a movie where Hanks is a solid supporting member. Everybody is pitch perfect for…
This was a staple movie in my childhood and now it’s on Shudder so this is only the first of many rewatches. I love this so much. Tom Hanks gives one of his greatest 80’s performances and Carrie Fisher is divine in her floral print halterneck dress and flawless comic timing.
Also, when Tom explains to everyone that all he wants to do on his time off is lay around the house in his pajamas, let me tell you that I relate to that shit on the deepest level.
This is one of those movies I’ve seen so many times that I can just pop it on in the background to feel good, it’s one of my biggest comfort movies.
8.75/10
I watched it as a child and was thrilled and scared and entertained at the same time. Now as an adult I am still very entertained but not as much thrilled. What I could appreciate now ist Bruce Dern. He is one of the funniest precences on screen ever! I have to check out if he did more comedy stuff. This is just genius.
Tom Hanks and his neighbors investigate new mysterious neighbors in this uneven comedy.
What more can be said about The Burbs.
An hilarious, yet relatable premise. One in which im sure we have all participated in joking about our neighbours with there quirks and coming up with crazy back storys for the ones you dont know too well.
Imagine if one of those storys came true?
Relatable in every sense. With a tremendous, charismatic cast that will make you laugh and wince at their crazy actions throughout.
The Burbs Has to be my favourite picture Tom Hanks stars in. Also, a shoutout to Rick Ducommun who steals the show with a side splitting performance.
My thoughts on this film can be summarized with the joyous reaction I had to a nightmare sequence cutting away to a clip from Mr Rogers.
An overstressed suburbanite and his fellow neighbors are convinced that the new family on the block are part of a murderous Satanic cult.
"Meine teuflischen Nachbarn" ist eine angenehm seichte Horrorkomödie und eine gnadenlose Parodie auf das Spießbürgertum. Es gibt ein wenig Grusel und eine gute Menge zu Lachen, gut aufgelegte Darsteller, eine ordentliche Inszenierung und eine nette Atmosphäre. Alles in allem ein gelungener und sehr kurzweiliger Film.
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