it's the best apatow movie (and the least woman-hating!)
― ryan, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:21 (sixteen years ago)
so other than knocked up and superbad, what other comedies even have a shot? zoolander? that's basically it, innit?
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:21 (sixteen years ago)
as far as I did like it (say 3 stars), YES
xxxp
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:21 (sixteen years ago)
it's the supporting performances in 40 Year Old Virgin that are most memorable for me: Gerry Bednob, Jane Lynch.
― Dan S, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:22 (sixteen years ago)
xp iatee - I think American Psycho might place - I think both J0rdan and I put it in our top 5.
― sarahel, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:22 (sixteen years ago)
bad santa & anchorman, maybe
― johnny crunch, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:22 (sixteen years ago)
please, no
oh yeah bad santa's an ilx favanchorman I dunno
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:22 (sixteen years ago)
Anchorman should be there - would be a travesty if that one doesn't make it.
― sarahel, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:24 (sixteen years ago)
i got really high before Miami Vice, and the minute my friends and i left the theatre, we looked at each other, then agreed that that movie was SO FUCKING EMBARASSINGLY BAD that we had to get high again and then go to the bar.
― arch-enemy Gay Cowboy Monster (the table is the table), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:24 (sixteen years ago)
that is really the first shocker on this list for me.
jeez i make tea and come back to this?
― do you want to be happier? (whatever), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:25 (sixteen years ago)
re comedies: jackass (1/2) has a chance to make it right?
also 'bourne supremacy'
― vincent gallogina (J0rdan S.), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:26 (sixteen years ago)
don't forget I Killed Hitler with My Funny Accents
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:26 (sixteen years ago)
was bourne supremacy a comedy?
― sarahel, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:27 (sixteen years ago)
You are forgetting the Wes Anderson films.
― sofatruck, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:27 (sixteen years ago)
jackass in the top 50 seems pretty unlikely, but who knows
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:27 (sixteen years ago)
I mean comedy-comedy
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:28 (sixteen years ago)
Shawn of the Dead?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:28 (sixteen years ago)
i liked 40-yr-old virgin but can't imagine voting for it? at the same time i never feel like seeing apatow's other ones i dunno
― harbl, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:28 (sixteen years ago)
No sign of the Coen Brothers yet, though I guess if anything polls now it will be NCFOM, Oh Brother... and A Serious Man rather than their more straight ahead comedies.
― The Man With the Magic Eardrums (Billy Dods), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:29 (sixteen years ago)
you forgot to put < / bait > there tabes
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:30 (sixteen years ago)
there are quite a few comedies that could place in the top 50, without even thinking much I came up with
superbadthe hangovershaun of the deadknocked upo brother where art thoubad santajackass
xpssss
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:30 (sixteen years ago)
and I'm the guy who had one comedy on his ballot
nooo way the hangover is making top 50 and I wouldn't really consider 'o brother' a comedy movie, but yeah, that list looks like what we've got
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:31 (sixteen years ago)
+ zoolander, I hope
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:32 (sixteen years ago)
like, about human beings? Eternal Sunshine ftw
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:32 (sixteen years ago)
Best in Show?
― Darin, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:33 (sixteen years ago)
im a massive apatow stan but am surprised by this getting in ahead of miami vice etc.
― pro bono publico (history mayne), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:33 (sixteen years ago)
I wouldn't really consider 'o brother' a comedy movie
OK, what the hell
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:33 (sixteen years ago)
I'd kill to see Mean Girls on this list. also I don't think ILX is gay enough for a Prada showing.
― danzig, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:33 (sixteen years ago)
o brother has about one funny line, so no, not a comedy
i voted mean girls
― pro bono publico (history mayne), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:34 (sixteen years ago)
I don't think enough people have seen A Serious Man for it to be in any sort of contention. I voted for it, though.
― Simon H., Monday, 8 February 2010 20:34 (sixteen years ago)
comedy movie = the #1 goal of the film is to bring the lol, and I don't think that's the case w/ o brother
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:35 (sixteen years ago)
i know i'm british and all, but where are the jokes in the apatow films? or is there just one?
― do you want to be happier? (whatever), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:35 (sixteen years ago)
the fat guy makes lots of jokes
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:36 (sixteen years ago)
but yeah they're the same joke
u hafta be BLAZED
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:36 (sixteen years ago)
no you don't
― goole, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:37 (sixteen years ago)
Miami Vice scored a 47% on RT and 65% on metacritic. It's low showing may have something to do with no one outside of ILX caring either way about this film.
― Darin, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:37 (sixteen years ago)
Hm... looks like I'm watching Grizzly Man first then.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:38 (sixteen years ago)
wtf?
i didn't even vote for an apatow-directed film but if you don't think knocked up or 40yov bring the lols then... no lols for you.
― pro bono publico (history mayne), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:38 (sixteen years ago)
yeah but no one outside of ilx voted in the ilx poll, so
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:38 (sixteen years ago)
except omar's gf
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:39 (sixteen years ago)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/killbill2.jpg
i enjoyed it a bunch. but, yeah, i couldn't shake the weird feeling that i waited 4 months to see the second half of a movie. it FELT like a second half whereas the first part felt like an entire movie. Does that make any sense? but, anyway, very enjoyable. Fun for the whole family.
― scott seward
Kill Bill also gave me weird Oliver Stone/David Lynch deja vu for some reason. But in a good way. in an americana-gone-bad/sweaty desert/fucked film stock kinda way. that naturalbornwildatheartlosthighwayu-turnpulpfiction feeling. but i like that feeling. i haven't felt it in a while. Q.T. is too goofy to fill me with dread like lynch and too 70's cop show to give me flashbacks like Oliver, but that's okay.
I agree, this was OKAY, but kind of a let down. They should have put this out months ago and not waited so long, or gone ahead and put the whole film out together because I think the relative comedown in this half would be more like a welcome relief. I wish she'd killed bill earlier because the fucker would not shut up!
But all the non-bill scenes were pretty excellent. Especially Elle's end!
― anthony kyle monday
I loved this so much more than the first, tho obv they need to be seen together for the second to work. But all the honor/survival themes got big emotional payoff here. The gimmicky coffin blackout, revelation of elle's treachery, surprise when she meets bill were all BIG payoffs for me.
Also the way he let the camera rest on her face, the range she could bring, this is just like one of the best roles I've seen for an actress to just... do that, the same way the male brat pack got to in some of the better 70s stuff.
― Sterling Clover
Obviously the reason why the Bride knows the monk's moves is because Bill SAID 'No one gets taught this' and in these types of movies from the beginning of time til now, as soon as the antagonist says 'No one knows THAT' the protagonist suddenly picks it up, cf at the end when Bill says 'He taught you that?' and Bride replies 'Of course he did' which I thought was v. funny (as funny as a scene that had me really choked up could be). Of course this is because I spent way too long as a fucking film studies major and the world would be better off to take Dan's sensible explanation that doesn't actually involve the word "homage".
The buried alive scene is one of the most unsettling, horrifying things I have ever seen in filmed arts in my entire life and is one of the only accurate artistic depictions of feeling trapped that I have ever seen (if not the only one, since I can't think of a counter-example at the mo).
― Allyzay
Come Anticipate Kill Bill Vol. 2 With Me (now contains spoilers)
#48
Kill Bill: Vol. 2Quentin Tarantino2004United States(364 points, 16 votes)
― ('_') (omar little), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:39 (sixteen years ago)
I'm not so sure.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:39 (sixteen years ago)
metacritic and rotten tomatoes aggregate the views of lots of stupid people iirc
xpost
FUCK KILL BILL
― pro bono publico (history mayne), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:40 (sixteen years ago)
the action-movie-going public doesn't think much of mann as an action-movie director, relative to the 300 or whatever
ilx film bods think more of mann than the average internet film bod does
maybe?
some xps, forget who i'm even talking to now
― goole, Monday, 8 February 2010 20:41 (sixteen years ago)
kill bill 2 was my #2 behind kill bill 1 -- combined it's my favorite film ever
― vincent gallogina (J0rdan S.), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:43 (sixteen years ago)
nooo way the hangover is making top 50
I would have said "nooo way the 40 year old virgin is making the top 50" but you know here we are
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:44 (sixteen years ago)