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Post by london777 on Dec 24, 2019 1:36:16 GMT
Get Shorty (1995) dir: Barry Sonnenfeld. Great cast! Don't bother with the sequel, "Be Cool", though. 
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Post by millar70 on Dec 24, 2019 1:42:44 GMT
It hasn't been brought up yet in this thread, but I gotta mention Tropic Thunder.
Not just one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, but a strong contender for funniest movie of the 2000s thus far.
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Post by london777 on Dec 24, 2019 1:52:09 GMT
Shaun of the Dead (2004) dir: Edgar Wright. Though the first and best of the Cornetto trilogy, the others are worth a look too. 
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Post by london777 on Dec 24, 2019 2:09:38 GMT
The Ladykillers (1955) dir: Alexander Mackendrick, whose "Sweet Smell of Success" appeared two years later. From this gentle but hilarious comedy to a great, cynical and bitter, Noir. A tragedy he did not produce more masterpieces, but he had his demons. The Coens remade "The Ladykillers" in 2004. It is not awful, just pointless. Why bother? 
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Post by london777 on Dec 24, 2019 2:24:50 GMT
Withnail and I (1987) dir: Bruce Robinson. Two urban loafers are fish out of water in the countryside. Richard E Grant's finest hour. 
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Post by london777 on Dec 24, 2019 2:36:50 GMT
And london777 -- Thanks for all the great titles. So many I haven't seen, but that gives me a lot to add to the list. Good laughs aren't easy to come by. Spider, good comedy is incredibly hard to write and to act. And it dates badly, whereas dramas do not so much. My own preference is for black comedy, but I have not gone there in your thread. I think you might like most of the titles I have listed. They are what I call "innocent" comedies, a genre that has all but died out. Sorry but I cannot share your fondness for comedies from the 1930s and earlier. I give them every respect as innovative trailblazers, worthy of preservation and study, but if I want to laugh, they just do not do it for me. My loss, no doubt.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 24, 2019 16:13:35 GMT
Another that has improved with age   I remember, one of the first conversations I had on the old IMDb was speculating as to what color dress Colbert was wearing.... I think we decided that it was shades of browns and golds !  |
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Post by london777 on Apr 3, 2020 19:23:46 GMT
Feeling the uncertainty looming in the world ... Spiderwort sensed the onset of Covid-19 way back in April 2017!
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Post by kijii on Apr 3, 2020 20:05:15 GMT
Feeling the uncertainty looming in the world, how about a shout-out to some films and tv shows that make you laugh and feel happy, be they good or bad. Some of mine: As Time Goes By (TV) Tootsie His Girl Friday Bringing Up Baby Auntie Mame Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House The Miracle of Morgan's Creek Please Don't Eat the Daisies My wife and I have seen Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House so many times we have worked up a parallel conversation to what color we are talking about Muriel Blandings [Myran Loy] : I want it to be a soft green, not as blue-green as a robin's egg, but not as yellow-green as daffodil buds. Now, the only sample I could get is a little too yellow, but don't let whoever does it go to the other extreme and get it too blue. It should just be a sort of grayish-yellow-green. Now, the dining room. I'd like yellow. Not just yellow; a very gay yellow. Something bright and sunshine-y. I tell you, Mr. PeDelford, if you'll send one of your men to the grocer for a pound of their best butter, and match that exactly, you can't go wrong! Now, this is the paper we're going to use in the hall. It's flowered, but I don't want the ceiling to match any of the colors of the flowers. There's some little dots in the background, and it's these dots I want you to match. Not the little greenish dot near the hollyhock leaf, but the little bluish dot between the rosebud and the delphinium blossom. Is that clear? Now the kitchen is to be white. Not a cold, antiseptic hospital white. A little warmer, but still, not to suggest any other color but white. Now for the powder room - in here - I want you to match this thread, and don't lose it. It's the only spool I have and I had an awful time finding it! As you can see, it's practically an apple red. Somewhere between a healthy winesap and an unripened Jonathan. Oh, excuse me...
Mr. PeDelford [Emory Parnell] : You got that Charlie?
Charlie, Painter : Red, green, blue, yellow, white.
Mr. PeDelford : Check.
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Post by kijii on Apr 3, 2020 20:09:54 GMT
Along Came Jones (1945) in a new favorite
Especially conversations between Gary Cooper and William Demarest.
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Post by london777 on Apr 3, 2020 21:45:38 GMT
So you can dive into your black comedies now. And feel free to add them here if you wish. One of the treasures of this board is that we are all allowed to have our differing persuasions. 
No, thanks, I will not mess up your thread, where the suggested titles generally enjoy a certain consistency as it stands. Though I suppose all comedy is black comedy? Is there any comedy which does not arise from someone's misfortune or discomfort? Your pants slipping down in public or being beheaded by a falling advertising board, it is just a question of degree. I am not inflexible. Even as we write, a DVD of "Ball of Fire" is winging its way from Miami to this pestilent island on the strength of your recommendation and a brief clip on YouTube.
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Post by DanaShelbyChancey on Apr 4, 2020 14:19:22 GMT
There is one scene in The Naked Gun 2 1/2 : The Smell of Fear that will make me laugh so hard I am gasping... every time I see it. The one where Frank Drebin and Dr Meinheimer are tied up in a room, and Frank tries to saw through the ropes, and a series of sports equipment falls on Dr M's head, and something about it is so funny to me. This scene: |
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Post by marshamae on Apr 4, 2020 14:34:19 GMT
A Night at the Opera
Animal Crackers
Duck Soup
Coconuts
The Awful Truth
His Girl Friday - the most satisfying of all the versions of the Front Page
Adams Rib - the scene where tracy goes after David Wayne And Kate with a licorice gun is brilliant
People will Talk
The Egg and I
TGE Pink Panther
The Wrong Box
Georgey Girl
Moonstruck
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Post by cynthiagreen on Apr 4, 2020 20:23:30 GMT
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Post by spiderwort on Mar 5, 2022 2:33:36 GMT
Okay, I'm bumping this thread, because of the horrific tragedies occurring in Ukraine right now. My original comments still hold. Feel free to review and/or add, as it's been awhile since my original post. I recently re-watched a couple that make me laugh and feel good in general:   (Highly recommend PADDINGTON to those who haven't seen it. And heartfelt prayers for those in Ukraine.) |
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Post by Penn Guinn on Mar 5, 2022 2:55:24 GMT
spiderwort Great Idea for Bumping this thread ... we could all use a bit of comedy right now and sharing it with old friends (some departed) is a real walk down memory lane.
I watched The Maltese Falcon the other night and found myself quite delighted and really noticing the comedy bits with Joel Cairo and Gutman and gunsel Wilmar. Am not much of an off line LOLer but watching Lorre and Bogart interact,I did several times !
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Post by Rufus-T on Mar 9, 2022 17:42:25 GMT
I did not post on this thread? I love a good comedy. Three movies I remember seeing on big screen and laughed hard nearly the whole movie. The Return of the Pink Panther (1975): I saw this one in the school auditorium  Police Academy (1984): Not as funny the 2nd time around  Borat (2006)  |
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Post by Rufus-T on Mar 9, 2022 17:46:11 GMT
Also, back in the early 90s, my little sister like to rent Steve Martin films. We had good laughs watching them.  |
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Post by Penn Guinn on Mar 9, 2022 23:48:03 GMT
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Post by stryker on Mar 10, 2022 16:39:55 GMT
Animal House.
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