jess OTM
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― internet somebody (some dude), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
You see, without Morbs setting it off, results threads turn into listing how many times we've seen movies.
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://youtubedoubler.com/3zyS
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
As she said this Jon Favreau was ruining his eye liner on screen, so I felt I should concede the point.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
I saw it for the first time about two years ago. It's cool
lol some dude otm
― dies irate (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
(sorry) xxp
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
so what abomination is next?
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
Thank you for standing in for Morbs.
― Michael J. Fuxxx (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
fuck dat ... i'm chanelling Alex in NYC
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
(b/c i'm quite sure that "raise yer standards, people!" is gonna be foremost in my mind as the results come in)
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― get ready for the banter (NotEnough), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
# 97 (TIE)
NETWORK
Sidney Lumet1976United 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
― (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
I voted for it.
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
ok this is a bit better now ...
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
are you being all RAISE YOUR STANDARDS-y about "Singin' In The Rain", too? because if so ETERNAL GASFACE
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
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, 27 March 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
it might be a truly great film without the speeches.
or maybe if all the speeches were knowingly scene-chewes ala ned beatty.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
xp also robert duvall: "i'll strangle him with a... SSSSSSSASH CORD!"
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
well, in the sense that i think it should be ranked much HIGHER than #100 (and certainly should be ranked higher than swingers).
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
Swingers is funnier than Network
― Number None, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Michael J. Fuxxx (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
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
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
ok i hadn't noticed that someone had Swingers as their #1, that is pretty insane. it was literally #50 on my ballot.
― internet somebody (some dude), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
Swingers is the worst.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Michael J. Fuxxx (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
not at all, in Vaughn's funniest roles he's the obnoxious chatterbox and someone else is his straight man
― internet somebody (some dude), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
imo one of the worst offenders of the films that dudes think they should model their friend group dynamic after
― mh, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
― 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."
― jpattzlovevampz 2 hours ago (Phil D.), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
Network is great and has some laughs but again it's a movie i wouldn't have even dreamed of voting for in this.
― internet somebody (some dude), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
good morning!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
looooooooooooved ned beatty's yelly network monologue in high school
Actually did it as a monologue in HS acting class.
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
the thing is, the movie doesn't really portray them in a positive light. Vaughan is meant to be an asshole
― Number None, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
― jpattzlovevampz 2 hours ago (Phil D.), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:38 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Mine is "I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship."
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
Donald O'Connor rooles. That's all.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
lol Eric, that one should be deployed more on ILX, I think.
― jpattzlovevampz 2 hours ago (Phil D.), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
It's not any particular movie's fault that mentally ill people might actually do things like that.
― Michael J. Fuxxx (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
alfred who are you saying good morning to and why?
― internet somebody (some dude), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
To you and you and you.
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
Because he talked the whole night through.
#97 (TIE)
ARMY OF DARKNESS
Sam Raimi1992United States(251 pts, 8 votes)
Aw come on, Army of Darkness was hilarious! Silly, but that was the point. Great fun.― Trayce (trayce), Monday, October 20, 2003 1:21 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, the first one is an impressive achievement for the (complete lack of) budget, but ED2 is the influential masterpiece and Army of Darkness is one of my fave movies ever. So, so funny.― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, October 20, 2003 8:35 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The Evil Dead - Classic or Dud?(sorry! hard time finding a thread dedicated to army of darkness.)
Bruce Campbell vs. the Franchises of Darkness
― (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
The one of the trilogy that tries the hardest to be funny seems, to me, the least.
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like satire is really gonna suffer in this poll because it doesn't fit a lot of people's idea of a comedy movie.
― Michael J. Fuxxx (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
― internet somebody (some dude), T
a man can't be polite?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
incidentally all of Network's Golden Globes were in the drama categories instead of the musical/comedy ones
― internet somebody (some dude), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:48 (twelve years ago) link