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.
― picture jean rollin (Pillbox), Thursday, 5 April 2012 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Thursday, 5 April 2012 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
used to cry like a baby at harvey right up till i was like idk 19
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 5 April 2012 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
probably why it was not considered
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 5 April 2012 13:18 (twelve years ago) link
Bits of it are straight farce - the aunt ending up getting committed instead of Dowd, for example.
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Thursday, 5 April 2012 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
btw guys ppl quote from Ghostbusters for the same reason they sing the old Almond Joy/Mars Bar jingle
whereas when I say "I'll be back in a minute and a huff..."
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
C'mon guys, this is hilarious:
Wilson: [reading from an encyclopedia] "P O O K A - Pooka - from old Celtic mythology - a fairy spirit in animal form - always very large. The pooka appears here and there - now and then - to this one and that one - a benign but mischievous creature - very fond of rumpots, crackpots, and how are you, Mr. Wilson?" "How are you, Mr. Wilson?" Who in the encyclopedia wants to know?
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
...it's for the same reason people used to sing the Dr. Tingle's Restorative Tincture jingle?
― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
u keep forgetting to add WOCKA WOCKA WOCKA to yr posts
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
You're right, I do. My bad.
― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
Ok so I just watched Airplane after shutting it off after 20mns the first time I tried. And nope, try as hard as I can, still not funny. Did not laugh once during the entire movie. I wish i could understand what made ppl choose it as the funniest movie of all time or whatever but there's no explaining comedy.
silby, i'm still with you on team airplane! sucks !
― Jibe, Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
Jibe, I just wanna tell you good luck. We're all counting on you.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
Surely you can't be serious.
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
It's an entirely different kind of comedy, altogether.
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
it seems kind of obvious to me why people would pick Airplane/ whether you love it or hate it, it's one of the most prominent and most extreme examples of a certain strain of comedy.
― ferrante's inferranteno (some dude), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
if the thread is going to degenerate into us quoting from our favourite films, i will proceed to share with you guys the greatest love letter ever written:
"Dear attractive woman number 2, only once in my life have I responded to a person the way I've responded to you. But I've forgotten when it was or even if it was in fact me that responded. I may not know much, but I know that the wind sings your name endlessly, although with a slight lisp that makes it difficult to understand if I'm standing near an air conditioner. I know that your hair sits atop your head as though it could sit nowhere else. I know that your figure would make a sculptor cast aside his tools, injuring his assistant who was looking out the window instead of paying attention. I know that your lips are as full as that sexy French models that I desperately want to fuck. I know that if for an instant I could have you lie next to me, or on top of me, or sit on me, or stand over me and shake, then I would be the happiest man in my pants. I know all of this, and yet you do not know me. Change your life; accept my love. Or, at least let me pay you to accept it."
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
― hot and brothered (Eric H.)
It's an entirely different kind of comedy.
― etc, Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
Almost made my ballot. I heart that movie.
― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
i haven't seen Harvey in ages but i kinda wish i voted for it.
― ferrante's inferranteno (some dude), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
you didnt laugh ONCE??
― piscesx, Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
part of me thinks that Airplane requires non-grownup brain. And I don't mean that in a condescending way, I just think you sort of have to just relax with it. I get so much childish glee out of that movie...and for years I did NOT get it at all. But I think it was because I was looking for something more than the lines that are delivered. But that's really all it is.
meh, it's not for everyone. but I love it.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
It is kind of a mood thing when you see these films as an adult. I had a painful experience trying to get a Z-A-Z neophyte to watch The Naked Gun, and a year or so later came across Hot Shots! on TV with them and they started laughing their ass off.
― da croupier, Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
One of the weird things there is Leslie Nielsen goes from Serious Actor before Airplane, to Airplane, to 8 more years of Serious Actor and also a 6-episode series called Police Squad, to Naked Gun, and then he makes the switch and it's Repossessed / Surf Ninja / Dead and Loving It ad infinitum.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
ya - there was def some of the time/place effect mentioned WAY upthread in effect with Nielson.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
I still have to go back and watch Police Squad, I got it for Mr Veg for Christmas and have yet to see it.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
It is sooo good, better than Flying High or Naked Gun
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Friday, 6 April 2012 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
Mr Veg said the other day when I was watching Naked Gun that it kinda annoys him, bc Nielsen in that is aware of the camera and pulls his jokes, whereas in Police Squad he didn't. I still enjoyed NG though anyway, I'm not too uptight to laugh at all the silly jokes like I was as a teenager, lol
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
Awesome that my #1 vote won :-)
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 April 2012 08:37 (twelve years ago) link
Leslie Nielsen isn't trying to be "wacky" in Police Squad!, which is why the effect is brilliant, while the NG movies pretty much suck.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 April 2012 11:51 (twelve years ago) link
Police Squaad >> Naked Gun agreed. a lot of that i found to be due to his sidekick who is some sidesplitting dude in the show but the totally unfunny George Kennedy in the films.
― piscesx, Friday, 6 April 2012 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
xpost TV > Movies
― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Friday, 6 April 2012 12:09 (twelve years ago) link
fuck that anti-george kennedy talk
― da croupier, Friday, 6 April 2012 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
ZAZ's moviemaking "skills" make all their work TV
George is funnier in Cool Hand Luke and Modern Romance.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 April 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I love George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke but he felt weirdly out of place in Naked Gun
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
For yer fella Britishes: Repo Chick is on tonight
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 7 April 2012 11:14 (twelve years ago) link
Watched "Mean Girls" again, and yeah, I should have voted for it.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 7 April 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
morbs - can you suggest any further godfrey cambridge to check out? i saw cotton comes to harlem the other day and enjoyed it a lot.
― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Sunday, 8 April 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
watermelon man?
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Sunday, 8 April 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
:(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSXoSeXslZ4&feature=player_embedded#!
― piscesx, Friday, 25 May 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
amazing footage...
― Sisig Steve (stevie), Saturday, 26 May 2012 07:55 (twelve years ago) link
WGA's top 101 funniest screenplays:
http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=5949
― thread of getting sw0le and lena jokes (Eric H.), Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link
Very usual suspectsish + recency bias; 3 in top 20 predate Mel Brooks... and silent comedies had screenplays too, often. This is most ridiculous tho:
95. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)96. All About Eve (1950)
yeah, about 80 places behind When Harry Met Sally… PIFFLE.
morbs - can you suggest any further godfrey cambridge to check out?
Answering 3-yo questions is my specialty! Hollywood really didn't know what to do with him, and he didn't live long enough to sell out, unfortunately. Of what I've seen, Cotton Comes to Harlem and his brilliant monologue near the beginning of The President's Analyst are essential. Bye Bye Braverman, Watermelon Man have their moments.
And there's always his comedy LPs (might be on Spotify?).
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, All About Eve being 85 slots behind Animal House (much less behind The Hangover and Wedding Crashers) has me feeling like Max the old sour puss.
― thread of getting sw0le and lena jokes (Eric H.), Thursday, 12 November 2015 18:08 (eight years ago) link
pro screenwriters voting with box office, nuthin to see here
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 November 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
just wondering if The Miracle of Morgan's Creek has been seen by any more of you since it got FOUR FUCKING VOTES
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 August 2016 19:01 (eight years ago) link
I saw it, it was WONDERFUL (I didn't vote in this poll but it led me to seek out a bunch of great movies I'd never seen before, including, last week, Working Girl)
― An artsy picture, but you know, she was a model. Really successful. (stevie), Monday, 8 August 2016 10:24 (eight years ago) link
(You took "Working Girl" away with you from this poll?)
― Mark G, Monday, 8 August 2016 12:01 (eight years ago) link
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek sounds like some mid-'80s direct-to-video snoozefest starring Wilford Brimley as a grizzled prospector who learns the true meaning of Christmas. No thanks!
― Lyle Lovitz (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 August 2016 12:44 (eight years ago) link
pretty sure 'the miracle of morgan's creek' is the slogan for a mid-tier craft bourbon distiller
― pokemon go speed run (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 8 August 2016 12:52 (eight years ago) link
l@OL
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 August 2016 12:55 (eight years ago) link