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Post by misstique on Mar 21, 2017 16:27:46 GMT
The Expendables II??? Really?  ?? |
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Post by Nalkarj on Mar 21, 2017 16:36:07 GMT
From your list I picked The Pink Panther, Duck Soup, and Arsenic and Old Lace.
To be honest, though, it's difficult to any poll of "funniest" or "best" without leaving out some great movies, so I'll offer my choices for "funniest comedies" as Duck Soup, Bringing up Baby, Some Like It Hot, and Young Frankenstein. (There're probably others, but I can't think of them at the moment.)
Comedy is so subjective that I wouldn't be surprised if someone decides to track me down and roast me alive for this comment, but... I find Airplane! one of the least funny and most overrated pictures ever made, and I find Blazing Saddles and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, while far funnier than Airplane!, to be overrated as well. (I love Mel Brooks and Monty Python, but I'm not so crazy about these particular movies.)
Yeah, yeah, I know, them's fightin' words!
EDIT: I should probably put something from Laurel and Hardy on there too, because I just can't bear leaving "the Boys" out. (They're my favorite comedy duo.) In terms of best film? Hard to say. Way Out West, for balancing cinematic and comedic elements the best? But for sheer laugh content--probably Blockheads. May not make any sense, but it's doggone hilarious.
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Post by marth on Mar 21, 2017 16:47:44 GMT
I´ll add Weekend at Bernie´s
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 18:39:41 GMT
Airplane
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Mar 21, 2017 19:13:13 GMT
Airplane on the list
Not on the list - Dumb & Dumber. I have never laughed so hard in a movie theater and never have been in a theater that wherever laughed so hard.
Also, Naked Gun is missing isn't it?
Also Part II, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner is barely a comedy.
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Post by sariz on Mar 21, 2017 19:20:44 GMT
Non of the above
my pick would be Legally Blonde
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Post by cineastewest on Mar 21, 2017 20:16:57 GMT
Excellent list, but you forgot "Some Like it Hot."
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Post by drystyx on Mar 27, 2017 18:05:08 GMT
Airplane, Grail, and Ghostbusters lead the parade here.
Quite different than the science fiction poll, which is being led by mainstream Hollywood formula movies pushed by critics, actors, and insiders. Here, we're getting what I would call three "cult" films on top.
So many comedies, I couldn't include them all, as there is a limit on the number one can use. I've never understood the fascination with "Some Like It Hot", but I meant to include it. I just filled up with others, trying to get a decent cross section of old and modern.
But SURELY you don't mean AIRPLANE will win? (Is no one going to give the punch line?)
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Post by shield on Mar 27, 2017 18:33:33 GMT
I am serious.... and don't call me Shirley!
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Post by miike80 on Mar 28, 2017 8:12:43 GMT
The Expendables II??? Really? ?? Expendables 2 but no Chaplin. I know at the core they are more drama than comedy but still. No fuckin' Chaplin?? |
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Post by misstique on Mar 28, 2017 8:38:59 GMT
The Expendables II??? Really? ?? Expendables 2 but no Chaplin. I know at the core they are more drama than comedy but still. No fuckin' Chaplin?? It just seems moronic to list "Expendables 2" as one of the funniest film ever. |
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Post by miike80 on Mar 28, 2017 8:40:03 GMT
Expendables 2 but no Chaplin. I know at the core they are more drama than comedy but still. No fuckin' Chaplin?? It just seems moronic to list "Expendables 2" as one of the funniest film ever. It wasn't even the funniest film of the week it was released in probably |
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Post by drystyx on Apr 3, 2017 22:58:04 GMT
Airplane has a huge lead diving into the runway.
Expendables II was definitely a comedy. Not saying it was good, but it was obviously a comedy. It was included as part of a cross section of movies I wouldn't agree with, but the movies do have followings. I think AIRPLANE and the others here are more generally accepted comedy than those that have narrow followings. True, some are "cult" comedies, but the cross section is intended to include modern (post 1965) and classic (pre 1965), as well as mainstream, dark, family, cult, and "dry" (I hate dry comedy, but I included them).
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 3, 2017 23:01:48 GMT
Airplane has a huge lead diving into the runway.
Expendables II was definitely a comedy. Not saying it was good, but it was obviously a comedy. It was included as part of a cross section of movies I wouldn't agree with, but the movies do have followings. I think AIRPLANE and the others here are more generally accepted comedy than those that have narrow followings. True, some are "cult" comedies, but the cross section is intended to include modern (post 1965) and classic (pre 1965), as well as mainstream, dark, family, cult, and "dry" (I hate dry comedy, but I included them).
Oh, Lord, probably why I had trouble finding movies I liked on this poll. Nearly all of my humor is dry. |
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Post by politicidal on Apr 4, 2017 1:06:22 GMT
Dammit, locked. Put me up for AIRPLANE regardless!
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Post by geekesmind on Apr 4, 2017 11:18:54 GMT
from the list it be blazing saddles and grumpy old men
LIFE and Grumpier Old Men and The Odd Couple would be some other ones
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Post by gspdude on Apr 4, 2017 14:56:22 GMT
I voted for Duck Soup, Dr. Strangelove, and Blazing Saddles. Honorable Mention: Young Frankenstein which wasn't listed. Young Frankenstein would be my choice. I suppose if someone's not at least somewhat familiar with the Universal horrors some of the jokes would go over their head, but the timing and performances were near perfect. |
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Post by drystyx on Apr 4, 2017 21:13:12 GMT
I voted for Duck Soup, Dr. Strangelove, and Blazing Saddles. Honorable Mention: Young Frankenstein which wasn't listed. Young Frankenstein would be my choice. I suppose if someone's not at least somewhat familiar with the Universal horrors some of the jokes would go over their head, but the timing and performances were near perfect. I included the major Mel Brooks comedies, his two "big ones". A third would be too much. Sure, there are many Marx Brothers on the list, but the Marx Brothers were unbeatable, you have to admit (if you don't admit it, then you don't have to admit it).
Young Frankenstein didn't come across as very funny. It tried, but failed. I would have included it as a second Mel Brooks film if his other two "big ones" weren't so far above it. They were natural comedy, not forced the way Young Frankenstein was.
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Post by drystyx on Jul 10, 2017 20:58:59 GMT
winner is AIRPLANE! Surely, you jest. I said "surely".
Second place to MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL.
I can live with both picks. Worthy picks from you wipers of other people's bottoms. |
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Post by detour on Jul 11, 2017 15:37:39 GMT
I missed out on the voting, but surely everyone knows the funniest film of all time is Airplane!
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