What if Dean Martin got shrunken down and put inside Jerry Lewis?

September 19, 2014 10:59 AM

Max Landis comments on 1987's Innerspace trailer. [SLYT]

Background on Max Landis (tldr: son of John Landis and Deborah Nadoolman Landis, Max is a screenwriter who wrote 2012's Chronicle).

Related: FanFare – Innerspace

posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome (20 comments total)

I've been rewatching both Death and Return of Superman and Regarding Clark about once a week for the last few months. No idea why. I just love watching this man talk.
posted by cthuljew at 11:07 AM on September 19, 2014

I've been waiting for the right opportunity to post this!: Max Landis just wrote an SCP about a magical Tupac album that cracks unsolved mysteries.
posted by Iridic at 11:41 AM on September 19, 2014 [8 favorites]

Innerspace is a movie that was totally awesome (still is, actually), that if they tried to make today would be a massive screwed-up mess and a failure.
posted by hippybear at 11:55 AM on September 19, 2014 [6 favorites]

If Dean Martin had been shunk down and put into Jerry Lewis, Jerry Lewis would have died from a delighted, extended attack of of priapism. Does nobody read Datalounge any more?
posted by Auden at 11:57 AM on September 19, 2014

I'm pretty sure the only direction Dennis Quaid was given during this film was "No, act more like Han Solo. More! MORE!"
posted by dng at 12:36 PM on September 19, 2014 [3 favorites]

I imagine he'd catch a buzz at the very least.
posted by jonmc at 12:50 PM on September 19, 2014

All I have to say is: Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Cowboy
posted by General Tonic at 12:58 PM on September 19, 2014 [1 favorite]

I had a mega-crush on Dennis Quaid in this movie when I was like thirteen.
posted by leesh at 1:05 PM on September 19, 2014 [1 favorite]

Then expanded and boom! No more fucking Jerry Lewis #joy
posted by GallonOfAlan at 1:28 PM on September 19, 2014 [1 favorite]

All I remember about this movie is that I was on a date and accidentally said "Innerspace" instead of "Spaceballs" when buying the tickets, and we didn't bother straightening it out. To this day, I still haven't seen Spaceballs all the way through in one sitting.
posted by gimli at 1:41 PM on September 19, 2014

The practical effects of this movie are when practical effects were at a peak, in the late 80s, before CGI took over. A remake of this--I'm sure it'll happen eventually--will be CGI from start to finish and be totally forgettable. Innerspace is a really fun movie and seems to have been largely forgotten these days as well.
posted by zardoz at 2:16 PM on September 19, 2014 [1 favorite]

You made the right call, gimli (even if by accident). This movie is waaay better than Spaceballs.
posted by Atom Eyes at 2:59 PM on September 19, 2014 [1 favorite]

I loved this movie.

I still find myself saying, "Where's my Sub-Zero?" at moments of varying appropriateness.
posted by Mister Moofoo at 3:15 PM on September 19, 2014

Max Landis is an insufferable sociopath. Stop rewarding this horrible little narcissist with your eyeballs.
posted by smithsmith at 3:30 PM on September 19, 2014 [4 favorites]

The practical effects of this movie are when practical effects were at a peak, in the late 80s

Like that scene in the trailer where that guy is hanging between the back of the truck and the car... THAT WAS ACTUALLY FILMED! THAT WAS A GUY THERE, NOT A GREEN-SCREEN EFFECT!
posted by hippybear at 4:04 PM on September 19, 2014 [1 favorite]

I don't care much for Innerspace beyond being a goofy action movie, but there's some really cool stuff on this Trailers From Hell thing, so thanks for that.
posted by buriednexttoyou at 5:38 PM on September 19, 2014

Does nobody read Datalounge any more?


Datalounge on MetaFilter?! It's like finding out your ex-boyfriend and your new boyfriend already know each other. I don't like it.
posted by MoxieProxy at 5:57 PM on September 19, 2014

Max Landis is an insufferable sociopath. Stop rewarding this horrible little narcissist with your eyeballs.

Did you base your opinion on this little video or something else...? I don't understand.
posted by zardoz at 8:06 PM on September 19, 2014

I looked into it. Smithsmith might be referring to this interview, in which Landis reveals some pretty fucking repugnant attitudes towards women.
posted by Iridic at 8:48 PM on September 19, 2014 [2 favorites]

That amongst other things, Iridic...

I'm not going to hijack this thread by saying anything more.
posted by smithsmith at 8:54 PM on September 19, 2014