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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I'm going to put a dvd list together of the funniest films and thought this crowd might have some good suggestions...
The Monty Python films HG, LOB, MOL, will make the the list.
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Location: NJ | "The Aristocrats" came out on DVD this past Tuesday . . .
(not a film for the FaintOfHeart or the EasilyOffended . . . but funny as HELL!!:-) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | not a film for the FaintOfHeart or the EasilyOffended I, fortunately, am niether. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Recently rented the DVD "Primer". Place it in the Anti-Funny category.
Monty Python, Red Green and "SNL best of"! |
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Location: NJ | Even tho I've never met you, I can attest that YOU Sir, will like this film . . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I'll rent it tonight... |
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Location: Midland, MI | Blazing Saddles. History of the World. Raising Arizona. |
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Location: NJ | GroundHogDay. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Btw Jeff, don't rent "Grizzly Man".....It SUCKS!!!!!!! |
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Location: south east Michigan | Young Frankenstein |
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| Some Like It Hot
The Producers (the original)
Way Out West (Laurel and Hardy)
Young Frankenstein
Flubber (so I'm juvenile)
Airplane
Naked Gun 2 1/2
and don't forget those classics "Porky's 1 thru 9" and "Police Academy 1 thru 27". |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Office Space, Spaceballs |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | One of my favorites is a movie called "Made" with Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau. |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | Little Shop of Horrors.
I also second Schroder's mention of Airplane and Naked Gun. I still laugh out loud, and I know them backwards, especially the Gun ones. Absolute comedy class.
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Location: NJ | Moonstruck.
(but y'have to have grown around NY and/or Italian people to REALLY appreciate the comic factor)
M*A*S*H (the movie) |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | A Very Brady Christmas..... :rolleyes: :eek: :eek: :eek: :rolleyes: |
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The Pink Panther
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Ah, Pink Panther...
For Airplane fans out there check out "Young Doctors in Love"
...Moonstruck-I am Italian and did much time in Jersey. Coulda wriiten that film... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Moonstruck, We're Canadian smalltown WASPs and it's my wifes favourite movie of all time!
The Gods Must Be Crazy!
A Fish Called Wanda
The Mouse That Roared
Dr. Strangelove
Life Is Beautiful
(okay, bittersweet funny. But it makes a case for
just how imprtant humour really is!)
and, for all rockers everywhere
This Is Spinal Tap! |
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Location: NJ | ". . . a wolf without a foot! . . .
. . . a bride without a head!! . . ."
(If someone were to do a stage version, I'd LOVE to play the part of the old man with the dogs) |
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Location: Norman, OK | "Princess Bride"
Inconceivable!!!!
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Animal House
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
My Cousin Vinny
Midnight Run |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Grodin is Hilarious in Midnight Run |
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Location: Tennessee | Canadian Bacon
Slapshot
Raising Arizona |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Alot of the films mentioned here are just mindless slapstick, check your brain at the door type and are not really funny. They have no wit. Check out "O Brother Where Art Thou?". It is witty. |
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Location: Midland, MI | O Brother Where Art Thou is a shameless ripoff/adaptation of Homer's 'Odyssey' and, seeing as it draws heavily on a classical work, is not eligible for 'funny.' Witty, yes, I will grant you that it was witty. But, the OP clearly asked for funny.
Witty is unacceptable in this context, and clever is right out.
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I keed, I keed! |
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Location: Central Florida | 1) My Fellow Americans (Jack Lemmon and James Garner as two former presidents and former opponents).
2) Smokey and the Bandit (Jackie Gleason as Sheriff Buford T. Justice... Classic!).
3) My Cousin Vinnie ("What is a yute?") |
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Location: Southern California | - Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles & Young Frankenstein
- Airplane & Naked Gun (the first ones of each, the sequels are OK but not as good)
- Monty Python's Holy Grail & Life of Brian
- Animal House
- Spinal Tap
Those were all mentioned previously. For new entries, how about:
- The Party (a Peter Sellers offbeat classic)
- Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (so bad it's funny) |
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Location: ms | Fandango,an early Kevin Costner flim with a great score by Pat Matheny. |
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Location: NJ | pink flamingos
and if templeman tells you "team america" don't listen!!!!! |
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Location: North Texas | Overboard, Zoolander, Life of Brian, My Blue Heaven. |
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Location: Germantown, MD | Shrek
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Hard Day's Night |
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Location: North Idaho | Caddyshack, What about Bob? |
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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | My Blue Heaven (Steve Martin)
Three Stooges (but women don't seem to get them) |
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Location: Warwick, RI | Best in Show |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Tommy Boy ("Does this jacket make me look fat?", "No, your face does").
The Inlaws ("Serpentine, Shell!! Serpentine!!")
Napoleon Dynamite ("You've been ruining everybody's lives and eating all our steak!")
Airplane ("You can tell me, I'm a doctor")
Animal House ("Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son")
Pulp Fiction ("Whose chopper is this?"..."It's Zed's"..."Who's Zed?"..."Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.")
That last one may not be a proper comedy, but I still thought it was funny as hell.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Gotta go with fillhixx, The Gods Must Be Crazy. The Rover scenes were hysterical. Something About Mary, too. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Coincidentally, I was trying to explain the plot to 'The Gods Must Be Crazy' to a cow-orker two days ago. It's just one of those things you have to see, I guess.
When I was in collage (sic), in one of my Sociology-type classes, we did a whole term on that movie. Miraculously, I got an A. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | The New Guy (funny as hell). |
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Location: NJ | Was that funny Stephen??
I never saw the whole thing . . .
. . . I just kept rewinding thru Eliza Dushku's mechanical bull and dressing room scenes . . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I wish I could have studied funny movies in college. I know, they would have been silent black and white back then. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Cliff, I think I went temporarily blind after Eliza's scenes but the rest of the movie "sounded" pretty damn funny :D |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I wish I could have studied funny movies in college. I know, they would have been silent black and white back then. In addition to a semester of Sociology centered on 'The Gods Must Be Crazy,' I also did a term of 'Technical Writing' (I believe it was a 200-level course) that delved into 'Citizen Kane' (and a few others that I can not recall for the life of me). The instructor for that one was (nearly) infamous for not handing out anything higher than a B. He even made a point of telling everyone at the start of the first lecture that (I paraphrase) 'if you are here for an easy A, and you are one of those strange little people who worship a 4.0, you might as well drop now.' I got an A in that class, as well. I must add the disclaimer that Citizen Kane is my all time favorite movie and I can write pages on somethign as silly as the topic of the use of shadow in given scenes and their metaphorical importance in the overall filmic milieu. (IOW, I can BS real well) Seriously, though, Orson Welles was a genious.
I just thought of another movie to add to the list, 'Batman, The Movie.' The one with Adam West. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Eurotrip...
Sophomoric teen romp, yes, but, chronicles Witko's adventures through Amsterdam....and come on, you know ya wanna learn "Scotty Doesn't Know"
(I've got the tabs if any one wants) |
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Location: New Hampsha | Strange Brew, Eh!
Fleshy headed mutants in sector 12! |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | This is Spinal Tap
Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.
Simply the best ! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | For your listening pleasure...
Scotty Doesn\'t Know |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | I thought of two more, but these are from around 1970. Very, very funny though.
Where's Poppa? With George Segal and Ruth Gordon. a/k/a Going Ape. Directed by Carl Reiner.
Putney Swope. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | . . . . "whole bag of Oreos, my ass!!". . . . .
Edit: Oops, wrong film...I think this qoute is from one of the Clint Eastwood/Orangutan movies... |
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Two nights ago I saw "The Burbs" for the first time in a long time. It's almost brilliant. |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | Bought The Rutles this weekend, and laughed myself silly.
I'm not sure whether it'll mean anything to you guys on the US side of the lake, but it's a spoof of a Beatles-esque group.
If you like The Beatles, and enjoy Monty Python humour, you'll love it. Spot the cameo's from George Harrison, and a really well spoken/acted interview from Mick Jagger. I'll be watching it again this weekend, that's for sure.
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Location: Texas | Has anyone mentioned "Rat Race"?
The cow, hanging from the hot air balloon, hitting the "Lucy" bus windshield, and Cuba Gooding's reaction: Priceless.
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Location: Avondale, AZ | JB Bought The Rutles this weekend, and laughed myself silly.
I'm not sure whether it'll mean anything to you guys on the US side of the lake, but it's a spoof of a Beatles-esque group.
Great movie. I was really into the Beatles and Python in high school. This movie came out my senior year. I bought the album and still have it.
"Shoot me down in flame if I should tell a lie. Cross my heart. I promise that it's true. I've been in love many times before, but never with a girl like you." A quote from "A Girl Like You". I would say the Ruttle's best and it would stack up with any Beatle's song. |
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Location: Scotland | Neil Innes from the Bonzo Dog DooDah Band wrote all of The Rutles Material and was a significant musical contributor to the Pythons. Coincidentally Innes has used Ovations almost exclusively throughout his solo career
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Gotta vote for Blazing Saddles, or any other Mel Brooks stuff. Spinal Tap and Monte are at the top of the list too. Then there is Wanda Whips Wall Street, oh wait a minute, that's a different category. |
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Location: Scotland | The Spinal Tap "Quadrilogy"
This Is Spinal Tap
Best In Show
Waiting For Guffman
A Mighty Wind
Though "A Mighty Wind" is by far their finest moment
Anyone seen Orgazmo or Baseketball? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Just saw Orgazmo a few nights ago...
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WTFOT....Funniest Films?