how im gonna make up something universal, doesnt even make any sense: IT"S THE TOP 100 COMEDY FILMS RESULTS THREAD

Ghostbusters 2 is good enough that I could believe anyone annoyed by the hype surrounding the original could love it by comparison.

i quote the Vigo/Peter MacNicol stuff almost as much as anything from the first movie

"Vy are you came?"

You might be right about Lebowski, I don't know--I remember mostly positive reviews, though obviously not at the level of Fargo. (Better than Barton Fink, though, surely.) It's harder to dig up reviews online that predate 2000. Ebert's sometimes a decent weather-vane: "The Coen brothers' The Big Lebowski is a genial, shambling comedy about a human train wreck..." (Three stars.)

xpost to Eric, Some Dude...this just proves that you guys really need a challops movie poll

Def remember EW's review, though I thought they had given it a C. (It was a B-.)

it's not challops to say GB2 is not that bad. this thread is practically the first time i've ever seen any real strong hatred for it, most people i know admit it's good for a few aughs.

laughs

I should just say that, for years, I didn't understand what the gripe about Ghostbusters 2 was because I hadn't seen it since it first came out (when I was in junior high and The Dead Milkmen were my favorite band). Then I bought the two-fer DVD set and watched both movies back-to-back and oh dear god did I understand what the gripe was about.

Like, it's not bad on paper, necessarily. It's just bad on the screen.

You can't spell 'laugh' w/o 'ugh'

it's horrible

Now, back to whining: I CAN'T BELIEVE BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS JUST MISSED OUT! GRAAARGH! WE COULD HAVE MADE IT HIGHER!

been having those same feelings about death race 2000, so i understand. fact that pink flamingos and repo man both made it consoles me. hard to be too grumpy after that.

(Better than Barton Fink, though, surely.)

Remember nothing but critical adoration for Fink! Would have been the first I ever heard of the Coen Bros, too.

You might be right about Lebowski, I don't know--I remember mostly positive reviews...

i seem to remember it getting mixed but generally positive reviews. as though it were entertaining enough, but a bit pointless and a disappointment after the likes of fargo. certainly not the widespread acclaim it eventually earned.

WC FIELDS YOU BLATHERING BROBDINGNAGIAN BANSHEES

and yeah, barton fink got great reviews, esp relative to the big lebowski

I think people who claim it's great spend too much time thinking their coworkers are hilarious instead of fantasizing about how to murder them.

o god, i think it's exactly the opposite. the more brutal your workplace and awful your coworkers, the funnier that movie gets.

I never believed Mr Veg when he said his office was exactly like Initech. And then I visited him at work.

O_O

it's exactly like initech. IT LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME INSIDE.

(he works at Int3l)

the darkest irony of Office Space is that constant references to it have become as much a grim joyless ubiquitous ritual in most workplaces as anything depicted in the movie

xpost

Yeah, pretty sure there's just the one cubicle/office decor company in this country.

I mean, I work in a cubicle but mine is 3 times the size of Mr Veg's...it's like the size of..,well...him, with room to stick out your elbows, and then a SEA of them in all directions, all the cube walls at eye level so you can't see anyone IN the cubes...it's the most soul crushing place I've seen and I've worked on a factory floor

i was thinking about it for some reason and i think the only really disappointing absence for me is 'metropolitan' esp considering how well wes andersons movies did itp. i mean obv itd have been nice if a few more of the movies i voted for placed in the poll but i think thats really the only one that i think is both really funnie and integral to explaining how i think abt the world or w/e

Surprised at how few of these (that I've seen) I feel ambivalent about. Either I like them or I can't stand them (ie Big Lebowski, Napoleon Dynamite).

yeah I think I'm kinda the same.

I don't think there's any I've seen that I actively dislike. Just some I'm maybe way less crazy about than others.

Surprised at how few of these (that I've seen) I feel ambivalent about.

haha i feel p much the opposite

huh, there are tons that i'm cool with but don't have strong feelings abt either way, including a bunch of the top finishers (airplane, ghostbusters, etc).

Actually, I think it's been too long since I've seen most of the ones that didn't get my vote. I'm starting to realize that I don't remember a thing about a lot of them.

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.

^ always meant to see harvey but never have. was one of my late stepfather's favorites, that's all i know.

Don't sweat it. Seth MacFarlane's got the spiritual remake covered.

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.

Harvey is GREAT but not as funny as prob any other b&w film in this, except Young Frankenstein, which sucks

it is for sure an academically classifiable ~comedy~ though, so

#109 - 216 pts - 8 votes - 0 first place: BETTER OFF DEAD

;_;

so close..

Man, that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white movie like that.

One Crazy Summer deserves some love too tbh

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.

A shame that Bedazzled didn't make it despite getting 8 votes.

no shots nate, I love Step Brothers. Definitely the best Ferrell/McKay effort

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

Nelson, after sneaking into Naked Lunch: "I can think of two things wrong with that title."

Missed that one. My own equivalent around that age would be something like The Day of the Locust.

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.

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.

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.

used to cry like a baby at harvey right up till i was like idk 19

probably why it was not considered

Bits of it are straight farce - the aunt ending up getting committed instead of Dowd, for example.