Baron Cohen worked day and night to fuck up any legacy, in fairness.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
i barf at your baffle.
we are friends again, hey!
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
the movie i laughed at the hardest in this period was probably wizard people, dear reader
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
i reckon they;re trying to do a bit of a re-assessing of the recent cult classics canon; deliberately putting Bad Santa, Zoolander, KFH really low down in the list as they haven't 'aged well' or w/e. not saying they're wrong mind!
― piscesx, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, that was funny, but probably doesn't count. Whoever mentioned Klown probably otm, iirc I liked that a lot more than I thought I would.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
this list makes a horrible argument for modern american comedy
jackass 1, 2, & 3 are the funniest movies of this time period
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:08 (seven years ago) link
also: meet the parents
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
Meet the Parents just makes me feel bad. If I were the protagonist the whole back half of the movie would be me having a pity party and watching movies by myself.
― Evan, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
Surprised first Hangover not on here actually....
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:43 (seven years ago) link
Biggest snub is Hot Rod
― poolboy skew (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:46 (seven years ago) link
xp good call. I wonder if the sequels dampened everyone's enthusiasm for the original
also this:
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link
dlh otm
― O, Barack: flaws (wins), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:59 (seven years ago) link
How High should be on there if only for the whole digging up and smoking the corpse of John Quincy Adams sequence.
― methanietanner, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
How High rules.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
My personal list would include Observe & Report and 21 Jump Street, and even though it's not a "good movie" by any stretch, I'd also put Grandma's Boy just for being so quotable. And iirc I learned about all 3 of those from ILX bc at the time I didn't have any TV or cable signal, so I had virtually no access to movie ads.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
over time i've come to realize that i never really liked rogen/apatow movies in the first place but of that slice of the canon i accept superbad as pretty great
pineapple express is their best tho
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 12 July 2016 19:48 (seven years ago) link
cosign except "over time"
― O, Barack: flaws (wins), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
I can't think of any movies from the Rogen/Hill/Apatow crew that I rate particularly highly. Certainly nothing I'd call a favorite. The ones I've seen have been okay at best.
― Night Jorts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
of the movies on this list i would say bridesmaids is pretty easily the funniest
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 12 July 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
Snatch was on cable last night, listed as a 2000 release so it oughta be here too. style over substance, sure, but really fucking funny and quotable.
― evol j, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 20:03 (seven years ago) link
fwiw Borat is astute about America, and yes, pretty funny.
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
https://www.comedy.co.uk/images/library/comedies/300x200/t/trigger_happy_tv.jpg
― O, Barack: flaws (wins), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
i've seen 35 of these, and only have a seething hatred for Punch-Drunk Love, and an intense dislike for Knocked Up. Superbad was OK but ruined by too many Rogen-Hader cop scenes.
The paucity of foreign films is typical. The Lobster, which I like very much, is only there bcz it's mostly in English, has Anglo-American movie stars in it, and came out 2 months ago.
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
Thought Bridesmaids was really poor (ditto Spy). Perhaps because both were over hyped. Of those sort of movies, Knocked Up is pretty funny but from the list it's a straight up choice between KKBB or TGBH for me.
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
borat was surprisingly ephemeral; people really did laugh Very Hard at it in the theater but nobody's dared to go back to announce their "funniest movie of all time?" thinkpieces have been vindicated.
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, July 12, 2016 11:48 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ppl are worried abt being problematic
movie is great tho
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 22:51 (seven years ago) link
bridesmaids is 1000x funnier than knocked up
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 22:52 (seven years ago) link
think you forgot to include "less" before funnier
Unless you're saying both suck but Bridesmaids sucks less. The movie was endless and that airplane scene -- ugh
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
The paucity of foreign films is typical
Wow, you and I actually agree on something. Would love to have seen the two OSS 117 movies on there, of course they're hugely "problematic."
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
yeah those >>>> The Artist, by a lot
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 23:23 (seven years ago) link
watched offside last night thanks to this thread. did not disappoint at all, loved it.
― Jibe, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 08:01 (seven years ago) link
"God...This is Jonah Hill...from Moneyball..."
― Any Given User (Eazy), Thursday, 14 July 2016 04:39 (seven years ago) link
The price of being a middlebrow pseud is having to pretend a bunch of snoozy late era Christopher Guest movies and wack Apatow shit is somehow funnier than like actually funny movies like MacGruber, Pootie Tang, Freddy Got Fingered, Jackass 3, How High, Let's Go to Prison, etc
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:41 (seven years ago) link
I see this has been covered
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:43 (seven years ago) link
Echoing upthread, where's "The LEGO Movie"? I'm a pretty highbrow guy but my daughters came out of the cinema and said "dad you laughed harder than any of the kids in there".
― MatthewK, Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:47 (seven years ago) link
I really hated Borat and Napoleon Dynamite in the theater, but I won't say this isn't a personal distaste for humor built around awkwardness.
Between In The Loop, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Bad Santa for me.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:52 (seven years ago) link
49. Songs From The Second Floor (2000)
51. Children of Men56. The Road74. Time of the Wolf
― Wes Brodicus, Thursday, 14 July 2016 06:16 (seven years ago) link
Obviously none of us are letting our personal tastes interfere - for shame, Milo!
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 14 July 2016 06:51 (seven years ago) link
^^^^
movie is so underrated
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:53 (seven years ago) link
Okay I just noticed that somehow Burn After Reading (which has a few funny bits) is on here and A Serious Man (which has more huge laughs than almost anything on here) is not. Sad!
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:55 (seven years ago) link
^otm
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
Burn After Reading was entertaining alright but not really all that funny, IMO of course
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
Serious Man is def funnier
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 July 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link
Probably a bunch of goys at the Onion.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 14 July 2016 16:02 (seven years ago) link
i seem to like Soderbergh's experiments more than the avg ilxor, but The Informant! was almost disaster-level.
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 July 2016 16:11 (seven years ago) link
― Wes Brodicus, Thursday, July 14, 2016 7:16 AM (9 hours ago)
Eh, Songs From the Second Floor definitely has comedy as one of its genres, though personally I love it for its bleakness. Basically I have the same argument about Andersson as I do about Beckett, which is that yes, I do know their work is funny, but overplaying the funnies just ruins the whole point about the desperate and horrific absurdity of existence.
Obviously I voted for it.
― emil.y, Thursday, 14 July 2016 16:13 (seven years ago) link
in before somebody's point about [some proper comedy] also being about the desperate &c
― O, Barack: flaws (wins), Thursday, 14 July 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
So did I.
Only half-kidding about Children of Men, that movie is funny as hell; it's just that the lulz make things worse for the viewer.
― Wes Brodicus, Friday, 15 July 2016 10:28 (seven years ago) link
Hot Rod is funnier than like 90% of these. Criminally underrated.
― circa1916, Friday, 15 July 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
OK, finally watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and its a lot of fun. I probably like it better as an action movie than a straight-up comedy, but that is mostly because I like even fewer action new movies these days than I do new comedies (honestly, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is the only other action pic from the last decade that I can think of that I even liked). Extra credit for its genuine and non-condescending empathy for its female characters. Kilmer's character needs his own series.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
*new action movies