noooo, I think it's a great movie and funnier than what's listed #100 through to #46 until Raising Arizona.
I love this film but don't consider it a comedy by any means. Very dark. Lots of scenes make me feel uncomfortable when watching them. I think the closest Scorsese ever got to a comedy was Afterhours which I haven't seen in years.
noooo, I think it's a great movie and funnier than what's listed #100 through to #46 until Raising Arizona.
I love this film but don't consider it a comedy by any means. Very dark. Lots of scenes make me feel uncomfortable when watching them. I think the closest Scorsese ever got to a comedy was Afterhours which I haven't seen in years.
the bits with DeNiro shouting at his mom and the Sandra Bernhard and Jerry Lewis scenes are funny to me.
yea, After Hours is great...Catherine O'Hara especially.
i laughed during American Psycho and Man Bites Dog, too, though i don't think King of Comedy is funny in the same way...maybe our senses of humour are different?
Strangelove's on there, right below meet the parents.
Shit, I think my eyes had switched off in disgust by that point.
yea, After Hours is great...Catherine O'Hara especially.
i laughed during American Psycho and Man Bites Dog, too, though i don't think King of Comedy is funny in the same way...maybe our senses of humour are different?
After Hours is hilarious - if you can't laugh at human suffering what can you laugh at? I always felt a little bit guilty at hoe much I laughed at the point in Man Bites Dog when they wake up hungover among the mutilated corpses of the couple they rape/murder.
I always felt a little bit guilty at hoe much I laughed at the point in Man Bites Dog when they wake up hungover among the mutilated corpses of the couple they rape/murder.
the scene with the old woman is what made me laugh out loud and yea, there was this initial feeling of "am i sick? no one else is laughing", but from that point i saw how ridiculous the movie was. i think i'd rather laugh at that movie than take it seriously, you know?
Am Psycho is just camp from beginning to end - as if John Waters did a stylish horror.
Oh yea, no John Waters on the list either is there?
This list is way too high on movies made in the last five years. I would say no Shrek, Zoolander, and Anchorman at all.
Well, consider the primary audience who actually watched this special. With that in mind, it isn't horrible. Frankly, I'd rather have it as-is instead of adding some more mid-70s token picks, if just to prevent their VH1-I's Love The XXs/Best Week Ever-esque commentary on 'em.
man I love Rushmore...but it's not really that "funny" of a movie.
That's another pickle - do you consider great films (e.g., Rushmore, The Philadelphia Story, The Apartment, etc.) that fit in the fairly broad definition of comedy, or do you focus purely on gut-busting laughfests?
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yeah, the "Coming to America" obmission is criminal..
also no Billy Wilder movies? ...Jack Lemmon is a funny motherfucker.
Also "Best in Show" show should be in there "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles"(John Candy was a genius in that movie...I know sappy ending, but funny as hell) and "Christmas Story"...holiday comedy classics
How about unintentionally hilarious films like Black Belt Jones and any Uwe Boll movie? All of my friends and I were crying from how (hilariously) bad Alone in the Dark was.
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noooo, I think it's a great movie and funnier than what's listed #100 through to #46 until Raising Arizona.
Not really a comedy but do yourself a favor and watch this one.
I love this film but don't consider it a comedy by any means. Very dark. Lots of scenes make me feel uncomfortable when watching them. I think the closest Scorsese ever got to a comedy was Afterhours which I haven't seen in years.
I'm sayin! major oversight here. one of the funniest films ever.
Also, Noz is spot on.
No Duck Soup?
No Cary Grant screwball comedy?
No Dr Strangelove?
No Buster Keaton?
Also I take it from this list that we have proof once and for all that "foreigners" don't make funny films?
That's a bold quote bell... It might be true but a bold statement...what about short circuit 2?????
(Ican't believe I've mentioned this movie in two threads today)
Some aren't even comedies.
And yes, no Fletch?
Strangelove's on there, right below meet the parents.
LOL.
I retract my previous statement.
Maybe there needs to be a 'worst movie EVAR' thread.
the bits with DeNiro shouting at his mom and the Sandra Bernhard and Jerry Lewis scenes are funny to me.
yea, After Hours is great...Catherine O'Hara especially.
i laughed during American Psycho and Man Bites Dog, too, though i don't think King of Comedy is funny in the same way...maybe our senses of humour are different?
And Ghostbusters should be top 20 at worst.
Shit, I think my eyes had switched off in disgust by that point.
After Hours is hilarious - if you can't laugh at human suffering what can you laugh at? I always felt a little bit guilty at hoe much I laughed at the point in Man Bites Dog when they wake up hungover among the mutilated corpses of the couple they rape/murder.
Fuck that. It is a masterpiece. And while they're at it they need to add Cable Guy. Stiller is the greatest comedic director of the 90s.
And I agree that Mel Brooks is criminally underrepresented. Albert Brooks too, for that matter.
man I love Rushmore...but it's not really that "funny" of a movie. Certainly not funnier than the fucking BLUES BROTHERS or Raising Arizona!
Also where the fuck are Spaceballs and UHF????
SUPPLIES!!!!!
cosign.
Also where the fuck is Pootie Tang, Harlem Nights, & Coming to America?
and is comedy a recent invention or soemthing?
no preston sturges on the list, no Charlie Chaplin, no WC Fields?
the scene with the old woman is what made me laugh out loud and yea, there was this initial feeling of "am i sick? no one else is laughing", but from that point i saw how ridiculous the movie was. i think i'd rather laugh at that movie than take it seriously, you know?
Am Psycho is just camp from beginning to end - as if John Waters did a stylish horror.
Oh yea, no John Waters on the list either is there?
Well, consider the primary audience who actually watched this special. With that in mind, it isn't horrible. Frankly, I'd rather have it as-is instead of adding some more mid-70s token picks, if just to prevent their VH1-I's Love The XXs/Best Week Ever-esque commentary on 'em.
That's another pickle - do you consider great films (e.g., Rushmore, The Philadelphia Story, The Apartment, etc.) that fit in the fairly broad definition of comedy, or do you focus purely on gut-busting laughfests?
Coming to America being omitted is a travesty.
also no Billy Wilder movies? ...Jack Lemmon is a funny motherfucker.
Also "Best in Show" show should be in there
"Planes, Trains, and Automobiles"(John Candy was a genius in that movie...I know sappy ending, but funny as hell) and "Christmas Story"...holiday comedy classics
I liked pootie tang but it was kind of a mess. Hardly top 100 material.
Pootie sons a whole lot of the films on this list
that is actually our family tradition to watch that on Thanksgiving. my mom always cracks up when steve martin cusses out ed rooney's secretary