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

If memory serves, there's more dancing in Swingers than in Singin in the Rain.

i liked it well enough in 1996, though i'd imagine that it hasn't aged well.

also tainted b/c of the neo-swing wank that it inspired.

^^^

I understand why people hate it, but I think it's pretty damn funny. It helps if you are in college high school.

― NA. (Nick A.), Wednesday, May 21, 2003 6:06 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is me basically

Never saw it. I probably should. I like everything else of Liman's that I've seen, and Made was all right.

I haven't seen Swingers since it came out. No desire to watch it again. meh.

i feel like a lot of people havent seen it since it came out

all the ppl who voted for it

i love swingers. yes it's probably aged badly but im ok w/ it being a relic from the mid 90s

i saw it many times in the 5 years after it came out, probably only once or twice in the last 10

why rewatch swingers when we can get the same effect in 1/20th the time by playing youtubes of guy fieri and brian setzer simultaneously

jess OTM

for me high school was all about endless VHS replays of the movies that would soon be thought of as extremely played out 'cult comedies' (see also big lebowski, office space)

You see, without Morbs setting it off, results threads turn into listing how many times we've seen movies.

My girlfriend was watching Swingers recently as a comfort film - I remember liking it at the time, and hate it now because it seems like the template for Bro-dom, but she pointed out that it has proper actual Men in a homosocial environment talking about their Feelings in a fairly brutal and frank way.

http://youtubedoubler.com/3zyS

As she said this Jon Favreau was ruining his eye liner on screen, so I felt I should concede the point.

I saw it for the first time about two years ago. It's cool

lol some dude otm

(sorry) xxp

so what abomination is next?

Thank you for standing in for Morbs.

fuck dat ... i'm chanelling Alex in NYC

(b/c i'm quite sure that "raise yer standards, people!" is gonna be foremost in my mind as the results come in)

Swingers has sentimental value due to it being a bonding movie between myself and a buddy at my First Real Job; dude ended up leaving Boston to move back to Detroit and take care of his sick parents. One of my favorite trips ever was with this dude down to Foxwoods in his crappy car, where I turned $40 into just over $200 at the craps table and we drank lots of free booze.

I didn't vote for it, though.

I voted for Swingers. My gf calls it a men's chick-flick, which sounds about right. And yeh, blokes talking to other blokes about their feelings without collapsing into cliche is still not often done. I can totally see how you could see it as proto-bro-ness, but in none of the protagonist's hi-jinx do they seem like they're having fun . Even the trip of vegas is portrayed as a rubbish idea and a shit time. Also heart the scene with them making Wayne Gretsky bleed.

But yeh, I can also see why this is a very easy film to hate, especially since it's been stripped for parts by lots of lesser films.

i don't hate it ... not at all. i'm just shocked that people not only voted for it, but that someone actually chose it as their top comedy pick.

# 97 (TIE)

NETWORK

Sidney Lumet
1976
United States
(251 pts, 7 votes)

I think it has flaws as a film, but I like Holden, a lot of the acting is great, and the prescience and concept make it classic

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, December 6, 2005 2:32 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gabb, mine is mostly middle-aged curmudgeonliness. You pups gotta remember that.
Iremember around 1980 Network was shown on network TV with several of Finch's 'bullshits' intact, and it was probably the most effective presentation it ever had.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, December 6, 2005 2:59 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gabb, mine is mostly middle-aged curmudgeonliness. You pups gotta remember that.
Chayefsky is nothing if not curmudgeonly! What of that scene where William Holden tells Faye Dunaway about all the funerals he's been attending?

I like this movie for everything illicit and incorrect about it. Not because of its "prescience."

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, December 7, 2005 3:41 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think it's a glib, smug film -- has its moments, but not many. i liek the scene where that guy drops the knowledge on fich, about nations not existing and it all being business. it's so ott it almost works.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, December 7, 2005 3:43 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Network, much like Citizen Kane, is great because it is so theatrical and over the top. As satire it is otm enough to quiet the critical voice within and allow you to just sit back and enjoy the circus.

The Holden and Finch characters being crumbling old men gives the screenplay more resonance and depth, mainly because Chavefsky empathized with these characters and endowed them with some pathos and humanity, but also because the actors empathized, too, and delivered excellent performances. The satire didn't really require either man to be aged. In fact, the satire would have been sharper if they'd both been much younger.

― Aimless, Sunday, January 4, 2009 12:54 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Holden is really great, even if his role rounds aground on Chavesky-isms (he actually says "shrill nothingness" to Faye Dunaway).

The best scenes are the quiet ones in the beginning between Dunaway and her staff: her assistant reciting proposals for different shows in which a "crusty-but-benign" old coot stars, etc.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:47 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The famous line is usually misquoted. It's actually "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this any more!"

― Alba, Sunday, October 28, 2007 3:40 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"I'm mad as hell & I'm not gunna take it any more!" -- the thread for Network

I voted for it.

ok this is a bit better now ...

are you being all RAISE YOUR STANDARDS-y about "Singin' In The Rain", too? because if so ETERNAL GASFACE

looooooooooooved ned beatty's yelly network monologue in high school. haven't really seen it since then but remember all the OMG FAYE DUNAWAY TALKS ABOUT RATINGS IN BED SHE'S A MONSTER stuff being pretty strident/lame.

probably not as prescient as, like, rollerball, but pretty prescient.

and for me, the "famous line" from network isn't the mad as hell rant, but "man, give her the fucking overhead clause!"

it might be a truly great film without the speeches.

or maybe if all the speeches were knowingly scene-chewes ala ned beatty.

xp also robert duvall: "i'll strangle him with a... SSSSSSSASH CORD!"

are you being all RAISE YOUR STANDARDS-y about "Singin' In The Rain", too? because if so ETERNAL GASFACE

well, in the sense that i think it should be ranked much HIGHER than #100 (and certainly should be ranked higher than swingers).

Swingers is funnier than Network

I'm sure that there will be plenty of movies in these results that I don't care for, but I'm having a hard time imagining anything I actively dislike showing up, for some reason.

well, in the sense that i think it should be ranked much HIGHER than #100 (and certainly should be ranked higher than swingers).

ha I can't really argue with you there

I am getting the sense that I've had exactly the wrong idea as to what Network is all about for all of these years; I should see it someday

ok i hadn't noticed that someone had Swingers as their #1, that is pretty insane. it was literally #50 on my ballot.

Swingers is the worst.

And I fucking hate Vince Vaughn. I have never laughed at him. His whole shtick seems to be the normal guy alongside funnier people. Kinda a pre-Bradley Cooper guy.

I'm trying to remember if I voted for Network. I think it was on my shortlist but fell just short of making it onto my ballot. Excellent dark comedy, though.

not at all, in Vaughn's funniest roles he's the obnoxious chatterbox and someone else is his straight man

imo one of the worst offenders of the films that dudes think they should model their friend group dynamic after

and for me, the "famous line" from network isn't the mad as hell rant, but "man, give her the fucking overhead clause!"

― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 10:30 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Mine is, "Because you're on television, dummy."

Network is great and has some laughs but again it's a movie i wouldn't have even dreamed of voting for in this.

good morning!

looooooooooooved ned beatty's yelly network monologue in high school

Actually did it as a monologue in HS acting class.

the thing is, the movie doesn't really portray them in a positive light. Vaughan is meant to be an asshole

#283 - 77 pts - 2 votes - 1 first place: OSS 117: Cairo nest of spies
Aww. Wondering who the #1 voter was.

someone who has seen one comedy film

this Lebowski shit has got to stop

also wrong Wilder-Lemmon film on top

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170820-the-25-greatest-comedies-of-all-time

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170821-the-100-greatest-comedies-of-all-time

I didn't realize that Gene Wilder directed Grumpy Old Men, but I agree.

If this were held today, which high finishers drop way down on the list? I'd guess Annie Hall, Lebowsky, Rushmore, Superbad, South Park.... what moves up, and what newcomers make the list?

I don't think the backlash against Lebowski has really grown since 2012?

Lady Bird is the only new comedy that I'd be confident would place reasonably high. What might get a look in:

Booksmart
Crazy Rich Asians
The Death of Stalin
The Favourite
Hail, Caesar
Hunt for the Wildepeople
Inside Llewyn Davis
Knives Out
Spy

Don't know how much support it would get, but Appropriate Behaviour is easily the best post-2012 comedy I've seen.

#283 - 77 pts - 2 votes - 1 first place: OSS 117: Cairo nest of spies
Aww. Wondering who the #1 voter was.

― the european nikon is here (grauschleier), Sunday, September 11, 2016 5:44 AM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

someone who has seen one comedy film

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Sunday, September 11, 2016 6:37 AM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Quality years-later Morbz drive-by zing, RIP

Never forget

Really, he was just all-time at those.

otm