Your choice for the top 3 funniest movies...
10-31-02, 10:12 AM
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Classic:
1- It's a Gift
2- Duck Soup
3- Bringing Up Baby
Modern:
1- Annie Hall
2- Bananas
3- The Big Lebowski
1- It's a Gift
2- Duck Soup
3- Bringing Up Baby
Modern:
1- Annie Hall
2- Bananas
3- The Big Lebowski
10-31-02, 12:25 PM
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Only three? Screw that. In no particular order....
National Lampoon's Vacation
Trading Places
The Producers
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Office Space
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day
Spinal Tap
Monty Python's Life of Brian
What About Bob?
Dumb and Dumber
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Get Shorty
Caddyshack
Raising Arizona
I always forget one or two, but those are most of my faves.
National Lampoon's Vacation
Trading Places
The Producers
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Office Space
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day
Spinal Tap
Monty Python's Life of Brian
What About Bob?
Dumb and Dumber
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Get Shorty
Caddyshack
Raising Arizona
I always forget one or two, but those are most of my faves.
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10-31-02, 01:05 PM
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Classic:
1. Duck Soup
2. Bringing up Baby
3. A Night at the Opera
Unintentional:
1. Glen or Glenda?
2. Superfuzz
3. Plan Nine from Outer Space
Modern:
1. Spinal Tap
2. Take the Money and Run
3. Get Crazy
1. Duck Soup
2. Bringing up Baby
3. A Night at the Opera
Unintentional:
1. Glen or Glenda?
2. Superfuzz
3. Plan Nine from Outer Space
Modern:
1. Spinal Tap
2. Take the Money and Run
3. Get Crazy
10-31-02, 01:40 PM
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My top three has been covered by about a billion other posters,
thus these are Honorable Mentions that hasn't been mentioned:
1.Better-Off Dead
2.BASEketball
3.Romy and Michele's
4.Revenge of the Nerds
thus these are Honorable Mentions that hasn't been mentioned:
1.Better-Off Dead
2.BASEketball
3.Romy and Michele's
4.Revenge of the Nerds
10-31-02, 01:45 PM
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3. South Park: BLU
2. Office Space
1. See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Richard Pryor: "YOU MEAN I'M NOT WHITE!?!?! touching face IT FEELS WHITE... touches afro AHHHH!! DOES DAD KNOW?!?!
2. Office Space
1. See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Richard Pryor: "YOU MEAN I'M NOT WHITE!?!?! touching face IT FEELS WHITE... touches afro AHHHH!! DOES DAD KNOW?!?!
10-31-02, 03:38 PM
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Big Lebowski
High Fidelity
any of Kevin Smith's...probably Mallrats though
also some others:
Raising Arizona
Airplane!
Back to School
SOme of the Pink Panther's (shot in the dark, etc.)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Scary Movie
Not another teen movie
Abbott and Costello movies
on and on.
High Fidelity
any of Kevin Smith's...probably Mallrats though
also some others:
Raising Arizona
Airplane!
Back to School
SOme of the Pink Panther's (shot in the dark, etc.)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Scary Movie
Not another teen movie
Abbott and Costello movies
on and on.
10-31-02, 04:29 PM
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Coming to America- Murphy and Hall at their best
Airplane!- Classic
Ghostbusters- Bill Murray is THE MAN! Cats and dogs living together
Honerable Mention
Friday
Airplane!- Classic
Ghostbusters- Bill Murray is THE MAN! Cats and dogs living together
Honerable Mention
Friday
10-31-02, 08:32 PM
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Originally posted by waskydiver
Animal House
Office Space
Fishing With John
Animal House
Office Space
Fishing With John
11-01-02, 09:33 AM
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As strangely and uniquely hilarious as Fishing With John is, it was a tv mini-series, not a movie.
"the men were all covered with sores and boners"
11-01-02, 01:22 PM
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I can't ever make a list of funniest movies because it depends so much on what your mood is at the moment. Of course, a great comedy is always funny, no matter what your mind is on before you start watching it.
The Big Lebowski is funny to me whether I am tired, alert, sad, happy, whatever. My favorite scene is the introduction of the Jesus character. The camera moves, everything about the way it is handled is brilliant. Philip Seymour Hoffman also steals every scene he is in. The movie is a great success... but... I don't really ever have the laugh out loud, gut-busting guffaws when I watch it. The same can be said of another favorite of mine, This Is Spinal Tap! Everything in the movie is perfect, and I will enjoy it dozens of times in the years to come (as I have in years past). I know that anytime, anywhere, no matter what the situation if you pop it into the player I will sit right down and enjoy it completely from start to finish. But again... I never lose control of myself.
There is a particular breed of comedy that does wonders for my soul. Slapstick, gross-out, deadpan stupidity. I can't explain it, but I know that movies like Kingpin have the power to move me to tears. I think... I tend to select them (subconciously, perhaps) when I am in a really funky state. When I am down, vulnerable, exhausted (physically and emotionally), et cetera. When I watch lowbrow "broad" comedy, if I am in the proper mindframe, I basically succumb to the will of the filmmakers and make a complete ass of myself. I roll around on the floor, tears seem to literally *squirt* out of my eyes, and yes... I have lost control of my bladder once or twice.
I remember going to see Wrongfully Accused in the theater with a buddy during one of the lowest points of my life. I can't remember at all what he and I were thinking when we said "Hey, lets go see that". What I do remember is that probably before the director's name came up on screen, I was laughing harder than I ever have in my life. I was gasping for air, roaring (and I have a roaring laugh that anyone who knows me would describe as deafening), my body was wracked with spasms. My laughs were so hard that I could hardly hear the dialogue, and I was hacking and coughing trying to breath. It was pretty much non-stop for the duration of the film. I am sure that for the first few minutes I was a major disruption to the rest of the audience- I could hear all of them murmuring "what the hell is wrong with that guy" and they probably weren't watching the movie, just watching me. It was a weird experience... eventually, everyone in the audience (maybe 40 people) were doing the same. I know that I made them laugh probably more than the movie did. But I bet there are a few New Yorkers out there now who will always shake their heads and wonder "Why did I love that movie so much the first time I saw it?". I know from experience around my friends that when I lose control like that, other people start to lose control also just watching me. It is a little terrifying.
Needless to say, Wrongfully accused has never had the same effect on me as it did that first time. But I do find it funnier than probably all of the other bad Leslie Neilsen movies. Just thinking about it makes me laugh now.
Also, many movies that aren't meant to be funny make me laugh harder than my favorite comedies when I watch them with a certain friend of mine. He and I stay up late enough that we a practically delirious and then put in new movies with doofuses like Van Damme or Ice-T and then kill each other with our jokes the whole way through.
The Big Lebowski is funny to me whether I am tired, alert, sad, happy, whatever. My favorite scene is the introduction of the Jesus character. The camera moves, everything about the way it is handled is brilliant. Philip Seymour Hoffman also steals every scene he is in. The movie is a great success... but... I don't really ever have the laugh out loud, gut-busting guffaws when I watch it. The same can be said of another favorite of mine, This Is Spinal Tap! Everything in the movie is perfect, and I will enjoy it dozens of times in the years to come (as I have in years past). I know that anytime, anywhere, no matter what the situation if you pop it into the player I will sit right down and enjoy it completely from start to finish. But again... I never lose control of myself.
There is a particular breed of comedy that does wonders for my soul. Slapstick, gross-out, deadpan stupidity. I can't explain it, but I know that movies like Kingpin have the power to move me to tears. I think... I tend to select them (subconciously, perhaps) when I am in a really funky state. When I am down, vulnerable, exhausted (physically and emotionally), et cetera. When I watch lowbrow "broad" comedy, if I am in the proper mindframe, I basically succumb to the will of the filmmakers and make a complete ass of myself. I roll around on the floor, tears seem to literally *squirt* out of my eyes, and yes... I have lost control of my bladder once or twice.
I remember going to see Wrongfully Accused in the theater with a buddy during one of the lowest points of my life. I can't remember at all what he and I were thinking when we said "Hey, lets go see that". What I do remember is that probably before the director's name came up on screen, I was laughing harder than I ever have in my life. I was gasping for air, roaring (and I have a roaring laugh that anyone who knows me would describe as deafening), my body was wracked with spasms. My laughs were so hard that I could hardly hear the dialogue, and I was hacking and coughing trying to breath. It was pretty much non-stop for the duration of the film. I am sure that for the first few minutes I was a major disruption to the rest of the audience- I could hear all of them murmuring "what the hell is wrong with that guy" and they probably weren't watching the movie, just watching me. It was a weird experience... eventually, everyone in the audience (maybe 40 people) were doing the same. I know that I made them laugh probably more than the movie did. But I bet there are a few New Yorkers out there now who will always shake their heads and wonder "Why did I love that movie so much the first time I saw it?". I know from experience around my friends that when I lose control like that, other people start to lose control also just watching me. It is a little terrifying.
Needless to say, Wrongfully accused has never had the same effect on me as it did that first time. But I do find it funnier than probably all of the other bad Leslie Neilsen movies. Just thinking about it makes me laugh now.
Also, many movies that aren't meant to be funny make me laugh harder than my favorite comedies when I watch them with a certain friend of mine. He and I stay up late enough that we a practically delirious and then put in new movies with doofuses like Van Damme or Ice-T and then kill each other with our jokes the whole way through.
11-02-02, 12:23 AM
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if i can only choose three then they r as follows:
1: Trading Places
2: Stripes
3: Groundhog Day
honorable mention:
4: Ghostbusters
5: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
6: UHF
7: Top Secret
8: The New Guy
9: Chasing Amy
10: Monty Python and The Holy Grail
1: Trading Places
2: Stripes
3: Groundhog Day
honorable mention:
4: Ghostbusters
5: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
6: UHF
7: Top Secret
8: The New Guy
9: Chasing Amy
10: Monty Python and The Holy Grail
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11-02-02, 03:05 AM
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My Top 3:
1.AIRPLANE!
2. Airplane!
3. Airplane!
The rest:
all the Naked Guns
Wrongfully Accused
Meet The Parents
Black Sheep
Austin Powers 3
Tommy Boy
Office Space
Trading Places
so many more to list
1.AIRPLANE!
2. Airplane!
3. Airplane!
The rest:
all the Naked Guns
Wrongfully Accused
Meet The Parents
Black Sheep
Austin Powers 3
Tommy Boy
Office Space
Trading Places
so many more to list
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11-02-02, 06:02 AM
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I'd be even more enthusastic than Premiere magazine who nominated Groundhog Day as the best comedy of the last 15 years and say it's my favourite ever.
Don't feel strongly enough about any other comedies to mention them.
Don't feel strongly enough about any other comedies to mention them.
11-02-02, 10:58 AM
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Too many... lots of good ones mentioned, so I'll try to list three that haven't been even though they might not belong at the top of anybody's list.
Which Way Is Up?
- not generally considered great I guess, but it's Pryor's most hysterically funny imo... and with a Wurtmuller sscreenplay even...
Liquid Sky
- another personal favorite and probably an acquired taste, but I doubt anyone familiar with early 80's NYC can resist this entirely
Female Trouble
- Waters' best and funniest
honorable mention:
the record player scene from Strait Jacket!
Which Way Is Up?
- not generally considered great I guess, but it's Pryor's most hysterically funny imo... and with a Wurtmuller sscreenplay even...
Liquid Sky
- another personal favorite and probably an acquired taste, but I doubt anyone familiar with early 80's NYC can resist this entirely
Female Trouble
- Waters' best and funniest
honorable mention:
the record player scene from Strait Jacket!
11-02-02, 08:40 PM
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1 Young Frankenstein (over 70 viewings and still hilarious, plus IMHO the most quotable movie of all time)
2 Blazing Saddles ( a movie Hollywood wouldn't dare make today)
3 Caddyshack (all the comedy greats in early prime)
4 Holy Grail (love those Pythons)
5 A Fish called Wanda ( see 4 above)
and so glad to see a couple of mentions for Murder by Death!!! thought I'd be the only one who remembers that gem.
Oh, and for the kids.....check out Some Like It Hot one night....you'll thank me later
2 Blazing Saddles ( a movie Hollywood wouldn't dare make today)
3 Caddyshack (all the comedy greats in early prime)
4 Holy Grail (love those Pythons)
5 A Fish called Wanda ( see 4 above)
and so glad to see a couple of mentions for Murder by Death!!! thought I'd be the only one who remembers that gem.
Oh, and for the kids.....check out Some Like It Hot one night....you'll thank me later
11-03-02, 08:30 PM
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Obscure movies that are funny (to me):
1. Brain Donors - I can't believe that no one has mentioned this one yet!
2. The Trinity Series (They Call Me Trinity, Trinity Is Still My Name) - The best of the Spaghetti Westerns1
3. Noises Off! - I laugh my head off everytime I watch it!
1. Brain Donors - I can't believe that no one has mentioned this one yet!
2. The Trinity Series (They Call Me Trinity, Trinity Is Still My Name) - The best of the Spaghetti Westerns1
3. Noises Off! - I laugh my head off everytime I watch it!
11-03-02, 10:33 PM
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Little Shop of Horrors (weird choice, I know)
Young Frankenstein
and
Hmmmmmmmm.....
torn a little......
What About Bob or Dr. Strangelove or....
so hard to pick...
even if I am tired of Austin Powers, I did love the original.
well cant pick 3, and if I type for much longer I will keep adding more.
Little Shop of Horrors (weird choice, I know)
Young Frankenstein
and
Hmmmmmmmm.....
torn a little......
What About Bob or Dr. Strangelove or....
so hard to pick...
even if I am tired of Austin Powers, I did love the original.
well cant pick 3, and if I type for much longer I will keep adding more.
