28. Raising Arizona (1987, dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)3 votes, 129 pointshttp://www.rowsdowr.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RaisingArizona_quad-1.jpg
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
well if that ain't one of the worst posters ever
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
27. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, dir. Michel Gondry)4 votes, 142 pointshttp://azharikahfi.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/2004_eternal_sunshine_of_the_spotless_mind_wallpaper_001.jpg
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
haha I know rite, I just had to use it instead of the other more common one. it's so off.
i missed the comedy part of ESOTSM
― Mordy, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
voted for four of the last five.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
bull durham's way good. wasn't crazy about roxanne but haven't seen it in years; did vote for steve elsewhere. def come to hawaii vg.
"bawdy-nawdy enough to be french" haha. wau @ that raising arizona poster.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
26. Holiday (1938, dir. George Cukor)4 votes, 147 pointshttp://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/40/4030/1XBLF00Z/posters/holiday-1938.jpg
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
John Barrymore going "ting-a-ling-a-ling" at the beginning of TC still makes me laugh out loud
Holiday is the most special Grant-Hepburn movie.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
Jim Carrey gets beat up by a little kid. Ruffalo dances around drunk in his underwear w Dunst. David Cross. there are small jokes in there. I think plenty of it is funny, in among the heartwrenching stuff
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
find grant/hepburn a lil twee in holiday (and elsewhere) but voted for it cuz lew ayres.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
that's it for today kids!
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
david cross saying "i am MAKING... a BIRDHOUSE" is what came to mind first in terms of eternal sunshine lols. realize that's v minor.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
drink to mother, johnny. she tried to be a seton for a while. till she gave up and died.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
Glad to see Fucking Åmål and Muriel's Wedding on the list, those were my #2 and #3. (And I suspect my #1 will place high in this poll.) Fucking Åmål is probably heavier and more dramatic than most of the movies in this poll, but there's plenty of comedy in it too, and it's one of my favourite movies of all time, so I had to place it high. I remembering just bawling my eyes out at the cinema when I first saw it. I love that there's a lot of other stuff going on besides the most "shocking" content (lesbian romance between two teen girls, can they admit it to others?), so even if times change and this theme will feel a bit outdated, the movie still works.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
Funnier than twentieth century, anyway.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
oh man just realized I forgot to vote for Flirting >:(
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
Anyway, it's been years since I saw Arizona Baby, but I don't remember it having much in the way of a romantic plot? Sure, it has a married couple, but IIRC the movie doesn't really focus on their romance?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
and yet here it is
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
i almost posted an explanation of why someone could find raising arizona both romantic and a comedy but i'd prefer to let the mystery be
lol arizona baby
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
I find it very romantic, in a very funny way.
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
so there you have it
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
I'm not saying people shouldn't have voted for it, I'm just curious to here what makes them think it's a romantic comedy? The same applies to A Matter of Life and Death, which IIRC doesn't really have any comedy at all, it's pure melodrama. Both are great movies, but I didn't put them on my list because I can't see them as romantic comedies, so I'd love to hear why others do?
(xxxpost)
― Tuomas, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
re-watch the opening and closing scenes. the middle may not be about "romance" but it establishes the romantic themes throughout
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
opening and closing montages, rather
biggest asshole on this list (the movie *and* the character)
that's a pretty strange complaint since obviously Knocked Up will be in the top 20
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, August 28, 2014 4:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Knocked Up has one good scene (the one with Harold Ramis) vs. the zero good scenes in Scott Pilgrim, so...
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
holly hunter can't have children, wants children, nicolas cage loves her so much he's willing to kidnap those darling little quintuplets just for her
it's about as stupidly romantic as you can get
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
croup otm -- it's all about the set up and the close
xxxxxpost can i just point out that I have a sentimental attachment to "High Fidelity" only because my alltime favourite album makes an appearance (a movie first & probably last)
http://www.quadrupedmedia.com/mx80/images/Hifi1.jpg
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
H.I.: A man for a husband.Ed McDonnough: That ain't no answer.H.I.: Honey, that's the only answer.Ed McDonnough: That ain't no answer.
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
A Matter of Life and Death, which IIRC doesn't really have any comedy at all, it's pure melodrama.
give up, i have
anything less sobering than 12 Years a Slave is a comedy, apparently
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 August 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
lol
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 August 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
Unfunny P&P vs. unfunny Irene Dunne
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 August 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
vs unfunny Eric H.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 August 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
I'll admit if someone had nommed The Red Shoes I probably would have voted for it without thinking about it too much
― rob, Thursday, 28 August 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
for the record, results so far:
26.Holiday27.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind28.Raising Arizona29.Smiles of a Summer Night30.Twentieth Century31.A Matter Of Life And DeathTIE.32.Bull DurhamTIE.32.Forgetting Sarah MarshallTIE.32.Roxanne33.The Thin ManTIE.34.Scott Pilgrim Vs The WorldTIE.34.Broadcast NewsTIE.34.High Fidelity35.Working Girl36.The Miracle of Morgan's CreekTIE.37.Something WildTIE.37.Pierrot Le FouTIE.38.I Know Where I'm Going!TIE.38.Enough Said39.The Awful Truth40.Sleepless In SeattleTIE.41.Design For LivingTIE.41.There’s Something About Mary42.Gentlemen Prefer Blondes43.Love Me Tonight44.Muriel's Wedding45.Moonstruck46.Breakfast at Tiffany’s47.Fucking Åmål (Aka Show Me Love)48.Amelie49.Harold And Maude50.The Lady Vanishes
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
i'm gonna assume the Finnish subtitles on Matter of Life and Death and Muriel's Wedding were terrible but in different ways
― Daphnis Celesta, Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
a baby named arizona baby who represents the typical arizona baby
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 29 August 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
who represents the typical baby arizona
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 01:22 (nine years ago) link
"Technically, it is brain damage," motherfucker
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 05:11 (nine years ago) link
Carrey furiously masturbating to a catwoman sketch while repeating the word "Shame".
― I Don't Wanna Ice Bucket With You (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 August 2014 05:18 (nine years ago) link
We should I suppose have one of the "Asshole realises he is an asshole due to his Feelings for mysterious lady, tries to shape up" films, and Scott Pilgrim's the best of them, so...
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 29 August 2014 08:04 (nine years ago) link
http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t407/KezzerC/tumblr_lvqvseP7H31qlbgxa.gif
― Daphnis Celesta, Friday, 29 August 2014 08:07 (nine years ago) link
Huh?
― Tuomas, Friday, 29 August 2014 11:52 (nine years ago) link
well the former's a comedy and the latter's pretty much anti-romantic so
― Daphnis Celesta, Friday, 29 August 2014 12:01 (nine years ago) link
I heard that line as a straight-up factual statement tbh.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 29 August 2014 12:59 (nine years ago) link
factual statements can be especially funny
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 13:36 (nine years ago) link
allright everybody, grab your hankies and uh ... whoopie cushions... or something
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link