What your top five funniest movies ever?

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JBS

Quote from: vandermolen on September 02, 2021, 08:06:25 AM
+1 for choices 1-3. Don't know the others.

I saw Mad Mad World as a little kid with my parents, but never since. But it impressed me enough that I still remember Spencer Tracy kicking the bucket and the importance of a certain scenic element (I am being vague so you can fully enjoy it if you watch it).

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vandermolen

Quote from: JBS on September 02, 2021, 07:14:46 PM
I saw Mad Mad World as a little kid with my parents, but never since. But it impressed me enough that I still remember Spencer Tracy kicking the bucket and the importance of a certain scenic element (I am being vague so you can fully enjoy it if you watch it).
Oh - I did see that as a child (and remember 'The Big W') and enjoyed it.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

LKB

Quote from: JBS on September 02, 2021, 07:14:46 PM
I saw Mad Mad World as a little kid with my parents, but never since. But it impressed me enough that I still remember Spencer Tracy kicking the bucket and the importance of a certain scenic element (I am being vague so you can fully enjoy it if you watch it).

SPOILER ALERT

Not to quibble, but l believe it was Jimmy Durante who kick's the bucket at the beginning... One might say that Mr. Tracy walk's away with the bucket at the end.

;),

LKB
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JBS

Quote from: LKB on September 03, 2021, 10:54:10 AM
SPOILER ALERT

Not to quibble, but l believe it was Jimmy Durante who kick's the bucket at the beginning... One might say that Mr. Tracy walk's away with the bucket at the end.

;),

LKB

My memory is probably at fault.
But it's not a spoiler because of the nature of that particular joke.

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The new erato

Quote from: LKB on September 03, 2021, 10:54:10 AM
SPOILER ALERT

Not to quibble, but l believe it was Jimmy Durante who kick's the bucket at the beginning... One might say that Mr. Tracy walk's away with the bucket at the end.

;),

LKB
Yes indeed. And I think I mention ed this movie in my list.

geralmar

#85
Start the Revolution Without Me (1970).  Hugh Griffith as King Louis XVI dressed as a chicken ("I thought it was a costume ball.")  Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland.

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975).  Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Leo McKern.

Bananas (1971).  Woody Allen.

Sleeper (1973).  Woody Allen.  The pleasure "orb".

The President's Analyst (1967).  James Coburn.  (Satire may be outdated and too U.S. bound-- although it gets the gun culture right.)

Todd

Dr Strangelove
Blazing Saddles
Ghostbusters
Kingpin
Tropic Thunder
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Rosalba

Ground Hog Day
Galaxy Quest
Carry On Up The Khyber
Toy Story
When Harry Met Sally

Olias

Off the top of my head.....

City Slickers
Zorro: The Gay Blade
A Hard Days Night
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
The Princess Bride
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Three Amigos
Spaceballs
Miss Congeniality
Chattanooga Choo Choo
Airplane
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The new erato

The only time I have left a movie theatre during a performance was Three Amigos.

LKB

Quote from: The new erato on May 29, 2022, 01:34:55 AM
The only time I have left a movie theatre during a performance was Three Amigos.

I saw that one in the theater, and while l didn't flee l remember absolutely nothing about it save the costumes.  ::)
Mit Flügeln, die ich mir errungen...

LKB

Revised list:

Airplane!
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Young Frankenstein
Galaxy Quest
Mit Flügeln, die ich mir errungen...

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Our Relations (1936)
The Return Of The Pink Panther (1975)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Planes, Trains And Automobiles (1987)
Idiocracy (2006)
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San Antone

#93
Horse Feathers
Duck Soup
A Night at the Opera
Annie Hall
Manhattan

relm1

Monty Python Holy Grail
Monty Python Life of Brian
There's Something About Mary
Dumb and Dumber
Airplane
Borat
Oh yeah, early Woody Allen!

Alot of Pink Panther bumbling moments are hysterical though!  This kills me! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jOtVy3t7-Q&list=WL&index=38

T. D.

Maybe more in the "black humo(u)r" category, but since
Kind Hearts and Coronets
hasn't yet been mentioned...

vandermolen

Quote from: Rosalba on May 25, 2022, 01:24:44 AM
Ground Hog Day
Galaxy Quest
Carry On Up The Khyber
Toy Story
When Harry Met Sally
Agree with all of these choices  :)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

geralmar

#97
"Spaceship" (1981). AKA: "The Creature Wasn't Nice"; and "Naked Space":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWPmXJ3Kwqw
Song and dance number.

Guilty pleasure.  Released two years after "Alien".


TheGSMoeller

I see some great Woody Allen films mentioned here, but one that still always gets me to laugh out loud is Shadows and Fog, the overall absurdness of the characters and story are fantastically utilized.  Of course there is also Allen's usual psychological elements thrown in around the chaos.