KD in CA Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 Airplane! needs to be top 3, top 5 at least Holy Grail needs to be top 10 at least And one serious snub. I mean seriously how do you put Tootsie and Zoolander on a list but omit [r] Tootsie should be top ten. Including nonsense like Mean Girls and Bridesmaids? That's a joke. And as always, Charlie Chaplin is very over rated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 Tootsie should be top ten We're going to have to disagree over the placement of Tootsie But how do you feel about leaving Spaceballs off the list? The Hangover? South Park? Zoolander? Top 100? South Park "Bigger Longer and Uncut" position on that list as a stand alone movie is debatable South Park's placement on that list, I suspect is more of a nod to their overall body of work. Which IMO is a serious snub. The movie is not the their best work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big C Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 Bananas and Sleeper are both much funnier than Annie Hall. Annie Hall is a brilliant film, but it is not particularly hilarious. Same with the Wes Anderson movies. Meanwhile Pulp Fiction is riotously funny at times but I would not call it a comedy. I think Zoolander is funny and also pervasive in pop culture which is important to comedy films. More so than Step Brothers, which is rated higher than I think it deserves. Most of these lists favor older movies disproportionately, but I think this is fairly balanced. Superbad should have made this list. Tootsie should be top ten. Including nonsense like Mean Girls and Bridesmaids? That's a joke. And as always, Charlie Chaplin is very over rated. Mean Girls and Bridesmaids are funny. Bridesmaids as an all time classic is debatable at this time, but Mean Girls is a valid choice IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Vader Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 Tootsie should be top ten. Including nonsense like Mean Girls and Bridesmaids? That's a joke. And as always, Charlie Chaplin is very over rated. We're going to have to disagree over the placement of Tootsie But how do you feel about leaving Spaceballs off the list? South Park "Bigger Longer and Uncut" position on that list as a stand alone movie is debatable South Park's placement on that list, I suspect is more of a nod to their overall body of work. Which IMO is a serious snub. The movie is not the their best work I'm with KD in CA on this one. Tootsie is a great comedy and it deserves to be higher on this list. /dev/null, I agree with you on South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut. It is a funny movie, that has one or two too many songs. Meanwhile the television show has a lot of great moments. The movie is not their best work, which is why I question it being on this list. You could be right though, it might be a nod to it's overall success, but that still does not justify it being listed here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 (edited) But how do you feel about leaving Spaceballs off the list? It would be on my list, but I can understand why it wasn't included. The South Park movie was good, but not a classic. I think you are right about why it's included. Edited August 26, 2017 by KD in CA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Fischer Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 I don't consider Pulp Fiction a comedy despite some funny moments. Step Brothers and Zoolander should not be on that list. Three movies I'd put on the list off the top of my head are National Lampoon's Vacation, My Cousin Vinny, and Dumb and Dumber. Agree. Pulp Fiction may be in my Top 10 movies, but not a comedy. Step Brothers is amusing but not in my Top 200 funniest. Zoolander has many classic scenes but a lot mediocre as well. Agree Vacation and MCV deserve Top 100 status, and D & D is like Zoolander. I really like Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder but Some Like it Hot seems dated to me. Personally, the Naked Gun is my all-time favorite. To me, every line, every gag is hilarious. Not a wasted moment. Same with Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snafu Posted August 26, 2017 Author Share Posted August 26, 2017 Agree. Pulp Fiction may be in my Top 10 movies, but not a comedy. Step Brothers is amusing but not in my Top 200 funniest. Zoolander has many classic scenes but a lot mediocre as well. Agree Vacation and MCV deserve Top 100 status, and D & D is like Zoolander. I really like Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder but Some Like it Hot seems dated to me. Personally, the Naked Gun is my all-time favorite. To me, every line, every gag is hilarious. Not a wasted moment. Same with Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. I saw Naked Gun in a theatre in London when it first came out. I was there with a few American friends and we laughed our asses off through the entire movie. We were the only ones because the Brits didn't think the scenes with the Queen were funny and they didn't understand any of the baseball jokes. That was one of my all time favorite movie experiences. This list was compiled from votes of an international panel of critics. I think if it were US votes only, then it would have fared better. And personally, I think each of the Mel Brooks films should have been higher. If South Park made it on reputation, then the Simpsons movie should be right next to it. Two that I don't see on the list and should have made the cut are Defending Your Life, and Ace Ventura. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Vader Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 Other movies that are missing on this list: Foul Play Beverly Hills Cop Arthur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 Other movies that are missing on this list: Foul Play Beverly Hills Cop Arthur All worthy candidates. Foul Play was hilarious. Haven't seen that one in probably 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 He said BBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinceThe70s Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Not a movie, but how about an honorable mention to the Family Guy Star Wars episodes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Not a movie, but how about an honorable mention to the Family Guy Star Wars episodes. But if we go that route, have to include South Park's Imaginationland and Black Friday Trilogy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Airplane got screwed. Should be #1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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