ultra long xpost to silby about airplane! : i feel like we had the exact same experience with this movie. i watched around 20-30mns of it, didn't laugh once and decided i had better things to do. i just downloaded it again and will give it a try tonight. maybe i was just not in the right mood for this the first time.
i'm curious to know who else voted for the OSS 117 movies too.
― Jibe, Thursday, 5 April 2012 06:11 (twelve years ago) link
Harvey is GREAT but not as funny as prob any other b&w film in this, except Young Frankenstein, which sucks
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Thursday, 5 April 2012 06:18 (twelve years ago) link
it is for sure an academically classifiable ~comedy~ though, so
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Thursday, 5 April 2012 06:19 (twelve years ago) link
#109 - 216 pts - 8 votes - 0 first place: BETTER OFF DEAD
;_;
so close..
― japeries & the unfunny ball-achiness thereof (Pillbox), Thursday, 5 April 2012 07:38 (twelve years ago) link
Man, that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white movie like that.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 April 2012 07:45 (twelve years ago) link
One Crazy Summer deserves some love too tbh
― japeries & the unfunny ball-achiness thereof (Pillbox), Thursday, 5 April 2012 08:05 (twelve years ago) link
Who had Step Brothers at #1? I must know
― Number None, Wednesday, April 4, 2012 7:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
That would be me and I stand by it.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 5 April 2012 08:09 (twelve years ago) link
A shame that Bedazzled didn't make it despite getting 8 votes.
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 April 2012 09:20 (twelve years ago) link
no shots nate, I love Step Brothers. Definitely the best Ferrell/McKay effort
― Number None, Thursday, 5 April 2012 11:15 (twelve years ago) link
Remember nothing but critical adoration for Fink!
and yeah, barton fink got great reviews, esp relative to the big lebowski
I based my assertion on a wide sample of reactions: I didn't like it, Kael didn't like it, and, I'm willing to bet, the 10-year-old Springfield demographic didn't like it either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CNyzdmXhe0
― clemenza, Thursday, 5 April 2012 11:34 (twelve years ago) link
Nelson, after sneaking into Naked Lunch: "I can think of two things wrong with that title."
― da croupier, Thursday, 5 April 2012 11:37 (twelve years ago) link
Missed that one. My own equivalent around that age would be something like The Day of the Locust.
― clemenza, Thursday, 5 April 2012 12:06 (twelve years ago) link
I just put the film that made me laugh more than any other film at #1. I'm amazed and sad that it didn't make the top 100.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 5 April 2012 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
i rated Raising Arizona & The Big Lebowski over it in terms of lols, but Barton Fink is my overall favorite Coen Bros & was on my ballot as well.
― picture jean rollin (Pillbox), Thursday, 5 April 2012 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
Only 4 people remembered that Harvey exists. To be fair, if I had voted it probably would have stayed where it was because I only remembered it during the top 10 results.
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Thursday, April 5, 2012 6:18 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Harvey is a good film, but I can't remember laughing at any point during it. In fact, I remember it as being way more depressing than any of the other depressing comedies I did put on my ballot.
― emil.y, Thursday, 5 April 2012 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
used to cry like a baby at harvey right up till i was like idk 19
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 5 April 2012 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
probably why it was not considered
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 5 April 2012 13:18 (twelve years ago) link
Bits of it are straight farce - the aunt ending up getting committed instead of Dowd, for example.
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Thursday, 5 April 2012 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
btw guys ppl quote from Ghostbusters for the same reason they sing the old Almond Joy/Mars Bar jingle
whereas when I say "I'll be back in a minute and a huff..."
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
C'mon guys, this is hilarious:
Wilson: [reading from an encyclopedia] "P O O K A - Pooka - from old Celtic mythology - a fairy spirit in animal form - always very large. The pooka appears here and there - now and then - to this one and that one - a benign but mischievous creature - very fond of rumpots, crackpots, and how are you, Mr. Wilson?" "How are you, Mr. Wilson?" Who in the encyclopedia wants to know?
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
...it's for the same reason people used to sing the Dr. Tingle's Restorative Tincture jingle?
― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
u keep forgetting to add WOCKA WOCKA WOCKA to yr posts
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
You're right, I do. My bad.
― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
Ok so I just watched Airplane after shutting it off after 20mns the first time I tried. And nope, try as hard as I can, still not funny. Did not laugh once during the entire movie. I wish i could understand what made ppl choose it as the funniest movie of all time or whatever but there's no explaining comedy.
silby, i'm still with you on team airplane! sucks !
― Jibe, Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
Jibe, I just wanna tell you good luck. We're all counting on you.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
Surely you can't be serious.
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
It's an entirely different kind of comedy, altogether.
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
it seems kind of obvious to me why people would pick Airplane/ whether you love it or hate it, it's one of the most prominent and most extreme examples of a certain strain of comedy.
― ferrante's inferranteno (some dude), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
if the thread is going to degenerate into us quoting from our favourite films, i will proceed to share with you guys the greatest love letter ever written:
"Dear attractive woman number 2, only once in my life have I responded to a person the way I've responded to you. But I've forgotten when it was or even if it was in fact me that responded. I may not know much, but I know that the wind sings your name endlessly, although with a slight lisp that makes it difficult to understand if I'm standing near an air conditioner. I know that your hair sits atop your head as though it could sit nowhere else. I know that your figure would make a sculptor cast aside his tools, injuring his assistant who was looking out the window instead of paying attention. I know that your lips are as full as that sexy French models that I desperately want to fuck. I know that if for an instant I could have you lie next to me, or on top of me, or sit on me, or stand over me and shake, then I would be the happiest man in my pants. I know all of this, and yet you do not know me. Change your life; accept my love. Or, at least let me pay you to accept it."
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
― hot and brothered (Eric H.)
It's an entirely different kind of comedy.
― etc, Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
Almost made my ballot. I heart that movie.
― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
i haven't seen Harvey in ages but i kinda wish i voted for it.
― ferrante's inferranteno (some dude), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
you didnt laugh ONCE??
― piscesx, Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
part of me thinks that Airplane requires non-grownup brain. And I don't mean that in a condescending way, I just think you sort of have to just relax with it. I get so much childish glee out of that movie...and for years I did NOT get it at all. But I think it was because I was looking for something more than the lines that are delivered. But that's really all it is.
meh, it's not for everyone. but I love it.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
It is kind of a mood thing when you see these films as an adult. I had a painful experience trying to get a Z-A-Z neophyte to watch The Naked Gun, and a year or so later came across Hot Shots! on TV with them and they started laughing their ass off.
― da croupier, Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
One of the weird things there is Leslie Nielsen goes from Serious Actor before Airplane, to Airplane, to 8 more years of Serious Actor and also a 6-episode series called Police Squad, to Naked Gun, and then he makes the switch and it's Repossessed / Surf Ninja / Dead and Loving It ad infinitum.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
ya - there was def some of the time/place effect mentioned WAY upthread in effect with Nielson.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
I still have to go back and watch Police Squad, I got it for Mr Veg for Christmas and have yet to see it.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
It is sooo good, better than Flying High or Naked Gun
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Friday, 6 April 2012 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
Mr Veg said the other day when I was watching Naked Gun that it kinda annoys him, bc Nielsen in that is aware of the camera and pulls his jokes, whereas in Police Squad he didn't. I still enjoyed NG though anyway, I'm not too uptight to laugh at all the silly jokes like I was as a teenager, lol
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
Awesome that my #1 vote won :-)
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 April 2012 08:37 (twelve years ago) link
Leslie Nielsen isn't trying to be "wacky" in Police Squad!, which is why the effect is brilliant, while the NG movies pretty much suck.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 April 2012 11:51 (twelve years ago) link
Police Squaad >> Naked Gun agreed. a lot of that i found to be due to his sidekick who is some sidesplitting dude in the show but the totally unfunny George Kennedy in the films.
― piscesx, Friday, 6 April 2012 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
xpost TV > Movies
― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Friday, 6 April 2012 12:09 (twelve years ago) link
fuck that anti-george kennedy talk
― da croupier, Friday, 6 April 2012 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
ZAZ's moviemaking "skills" make all their work TV
George is funnier in Cool Hand Luke and Modern Romance.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 April 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I love George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke but he felt weirdly out of place in Naked Gun
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
For yer fella Britishes: Repo Chick is on tonight
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 7 April 2012 11:14 (twelve years ago) link
Watched "Mean Girls" again, and yeah, I should have voted for it.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 7 April 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
morbs - can you suggest any further godfrey cambridge to check out? i saw cotton comes to harlem the other day and enjoyed it a lot.
― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Sunday, 8 April 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link