1- Mars Attack
2- A fish called Wanda
3- Roger Rabbit
4- La cage aux Folles (the original French movie)
5-Rabbi Jacob Whit Louis De funes
Tell me if my list of movie are funny, I like to point out americans did a flop whit '' La Cage aux Folles'' whit there americans version, here my point what make it that funny in the original is one of the two gay is masculine the other one feminine, americans did not understand the idea and put two super feminine gays this is not like the original idea.
What are your funniest movie ever you laught until your ribs hurts, Mars Attack was my all time favorite movie I never laugh so loud I almost died I magine , me the boy laughing for 10 full minutes I almost collapse.
1. Casablanca (Yes, it's not really a comedy, that doesn't change that it's often extremely funny)
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. There's something about Mary
4. Any of the 3 Austin Powers films
5. Die Hard With a Vengeance (action film rather than comedy but freaking hilarious)
That's my list for today. It may change.
The Odd Couple
Airplane
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Princess Bride
Young Frankenstein
The Pink Panther
The Naked Gun
Quote from: DavidW on July 27, 2021, 10:32:45 AM
The Odd Couple
Airplane
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Princess Bride
Young Frankenstein
The Pink Panther
The Naked Gun
Nice!
The In-Laws (Alan Arkin and Peter Falk) (though I do enjoy the remake as well)
Earth Girls Are Easy (really the only Jim Carrey performance I enjoy)
The Trouble With Harry
Life of Brian
Arsenic and Old Lace
Kind Hearts and Coronets
First to come to mind:
- Duck Soup
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- Patrimonio Nacional
- La grande vadrouille
- Blazing Saddles
Airplane!
Top Secret
Love and Death (Woody Allen)
Play It Again, Sam (Woody Allen)
Dr. Strangelove
Pink Panther Strikes Again ("Does your dog bite?")
Sarge
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on July 27, 2021, 10:47:47 AM
The In-Laws (Alan Arkin and Peter Falk) (though I do enjoy the remake as well)
That's a great one!
Sarge
Quote from: ritter on July 27, 2021, 12:37:57 PM
First to come to mind:
- Duck Soup
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- Patrimonio Nacional
- La grande vadrouille
- Blazing Saddles
I shoud have known I would rue omitting the Bros. Marx and Mel Brooks!
Les Tontons Flingueurs
La Grande Vadrouille
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Le Dîner de Cons
Death at a Funeral (UK version)
Other worthy mentions : Planes, Trains & Automobiles - Burn After Reading
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on July 27, 2021, 01:05:38 PM
Airplane!
Top Secret
Love and Death (Woody Allen)
Play It Again, Sam (Woody Allen)
Dr. Strangelove
Pink Panther Strikes Again ("Does your dog bite?")
Sarge
... and Woody Allen.
What's Up Doc
Ruthless People
Weekend at Bernie's
Fish Called Wanda
Death By Murder
I think the remake of La cage aux folles is decent and Robin Williams is not effeminate, so I don't quite understand this complaint. Although I agree that the original is superior the differences I recall as more subtle. I wonder if with the strongly changed attitudes toward gayness these films work nowadays at all.
I don't rewatch movies that frequently, so I don't know how I would react to Naked Gun or Roger Rabbit (because at a similar time as a teenager I also found Police Academy funny...). Louis de Funes was really popular as well but I recall some as very silly and have not seen them in ages. I also liked Fish called Wanda but Life of Brian or Holy Grail I found too silly.
Modern Times
Arsenic and old lace
Some like it hot
One, two, three
Snatch (although I haven't seen this in 20 years either, maybe the late 1990s comedies aged as badly as the ones from the 80s) I think I like the top 4 anytime I caught them again on TV and there are many more candidates but see above.
The Closeau movies
Dumb and dumber
Some like it hot
Naned Gun (The first one is probably the best)
Quote from: Jo498 on July 27, 2021, 11:17:54 PM
I think the remake of La cage aux folles is decent and Robin Williams is not effeminate, so I don't quite understand this complaint.
I like
The Birdcage a lot.
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on July 28, 2021, 11:24:21 AM
I like The Birdcage a lot.
The French and American films have different strengths and weaknesses, but the differences often boil down to one was a French movie of the late 70s and the other an American film of the mid 90s.
Quote from: JBS on July 28, 2021, 11:46:45 AM
The French and American films have different strengths and weaknesses, but the differences often boil down to one was a French movie of the late 70s and the other an American film of the mid 90s.
Je comprends.
Play it again Sam and What's up Doc are inspired choices for very funny movies I haven't seen for 40 years and totally forgotten about.
Talking about oldies, another one is It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
Obscure as hell, unavailable anywhere, unheard of except by me and maybe two or three Québécois: Keep It In the Family. Cult comedy from the 1970s. Wish I could find it to stream or on DVD!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132265/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
Would also add:
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
Dr Strangelove
The Jerk
Here are mine in no particular order:
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Uncle Buck
Airplane!
The Naked Gun
Blazing Saddles
Special mentions to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Pee Wee's Big Adventure and those wonderful Pink Panther films.
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on July 27, 2021, 10:47:47 AM
...
Kind Hearts and Coronets[/i]
Yes! An immortal classic.
I have difficulty ranking films, because the ones I really love, and that made the biggest impact, rarely seem to have the same magic when seen again.
Many of the usual suspects have been named. To add something different:
Slapshot. Maybe you need to have played (ice) hockey to get it, though.
Best in Show. I'm a big fan of the "mockumentary" troupe (
This is Spinal Tap,
Waiting for Guffman,
A Mighty Wind, etc.), and
Spinal Tap is pretty much
hors concours, so will go with B I S.
So happy to see Christopher Guest getting some love.
What's Up, Doc?
A Night at the Opera
Best in Show
Mon Oncle
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
--Bruce
Tati is funny, indeed.
Pietro Germi by Pietro Germi
Big Deal on Madonna Street by Mario Monicelli
Getting Any? by Takeshi Kitano
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou by Wes Anderson
Tangentially:
https://www.youtube.com/v/LGb_jzaUWOg
1-Crocodile Dundee 1-2
2-99 franc( a real super classic of comedie)
3-Brewster Millions (because I love mister Richard Pryor)
4-The Money pit whit Tom Hanks
5- The golden child
The Ladykillers - original Alec Guiness version, not the awful one with Tom Hanks (an actor I generally think very highly of)
Little Miss Sunshine (tragi-comedy)
Airplane
Play it Again Sam
A Night at the Opera
Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (I have quite low-brow tastes)
The Return of the Pink Panther
(I know that's seven choices)
+1 for La Cage Aux Folles (original French version) as well - a marvellous film.
Since so many of my favorite movies have already been named, I will go for a totally different post style:
Funniest line reading: Gene Wilder, "The common clay of the new west" speech, Blazing Saddles
Funniest line reading of a single word: Kevin Kline, "asshoooooole," A Fish Called Wanda
Funniest drunk: Jimmy Stewart, The Philadelphia Story
Funniest silent joke: the mirrors, Duck Soup
Funniest sexual innuendo: Josh Brolin eating a frozen banana, Inherent Vice
Funniest movie where the first hour isn't very funny because it's all setup for one hilarious finale: Big Deal on Madonna Street
Funniest overall actor: Madeline Kahn
Funniest overall actor (primarily known for serious acting): Philip Seymour Hoffman
Funniest movie since 2001: Black Dynamite
Funniest last shot of movie: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Separately because it is nonfiction and TV:
Funniest facial expression of all time: Mel Giedroyc when she learns she has to eat a sandwich, "Taskmaster"
The Producers
Arsenic and Old Lace
Dr. Strangelove
It's a Mad....World
Oliver the Eighth
The Russians are Coming
Quote from: Brian on August 04, 2021, 08:03:34 PM
Since so many of my favorite movies have already been named, I will go for a totally different post style:
Funniest line reading: Gene Wilder, "The common clay of the new west" speech, Blazing Saddles
Funniest line reading of a single word: Kevin Kline, "asshoooooole," A Fish Called Wanda
Funniest drunk: Jimmy Stewart, The Philadelphia Story
Funniest silent joke: the mirrors, Duck Soup
Funniest sexual innuendo: Josh Brolin eating a frozen banana, Inherent Vice
Funniest movie where the first hour isn't very funny because it's all setup for one hilarious finale: Big Deal on Madonna Street
Funniest overall actor: Madeline Kahn
Funniest overall actor (primarily known for serious acting): Philip Seymour Hoffman
Funniest movie since 2001: Black Dynamite
Funniest last shot of movie: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Separately because it is nonfiction and TV:
Funniest facial expression of all time: Mel Giedroyc when she learns she has to eat a sandwich, "Taskmaster"
You have some serious amounts of spare time, no?
Nice thread idea DP :)
Quote from: Brian on August 04, 2021, 08:03:34 PM
Funniest movie since 2001: Black Dynamite
That
is a serious contender ;D
Sarge
Quote from: vandermolen on August 05, 2021, 12:51:10 AM
Nice thread idea DP :)
Thanks buddy , Vandermolen you're one cool guy man. like you a lot, mazel tov my friend merci vous etes super!!!
Hard to stop when you get a good laugh, so here's 7:
Snatch
La grande vadrouille
The General (silent)
Trading Places
Ghostbusters
La Cage aux folles (French original)
Coming to America
Quote from: deprofundis on August 05, 2021, 09:30:20 AM
Thanks buddy , Vandermolen you're one cool guy man. like you a lot, mazel tov my friend merci vous etes super!!!
:)
I'd like to add 'The Lavender Hill Mob':
(//)
best sight-gag - Woody Allen playing cello in a Marching Band (take the money and run)
Quote from: Roasted Swan on August 06, 2021, 04:07:22 AM
best sight-gag - Woody Allen playing cello in a Marching Band (take the money and run)
I'll have to watch that again!
I see a lot of classics that would also make my list so I'll avoid any repeats. But I will add The Death of Stalin as one of the funniest, and honestly one of the best acted and brilliantly written films of the this century.
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I really like the first three Police Academy movies, but the third has always been my favorite:
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNWM0NGQ2ZTctZDNiZi00MzlmLTlhODAtMWQ5Y2Q0YTFjOTcwL2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTQxNzMzNDI@._V1_.jpg)
Did I miss it, or did no one list Animal House? personally, I found it a lot of fun the first time, in the cinema, but I don't think it wears well.
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on August 07, 2021, 06:29:00 AM
I see a lot of classics that would also make my list so I'll avoid any repeats. But I will add The Death of Stalin as one of the funniest, and honestly one of the best acted and brilliantly written films of the this century.
(https://resizing.flixster.com/8WOX6jsw-rHxNvMRjoYh6pYxwMo=/ems.ZW1zLXByZC1hc3NldHMvbW92aWVzLzYzMTAzZDJmLWJlZWUtNGIzZS05ZjI5LTRjMzNiMTgzZDZmNi53ZWJw)
My girlfriend and I laughed our asses off at this movie.
Ooh, Death of Stalin is a GREAT answer, as is his previous movie, In the Loop.
Quote from: The new erato on August 05, 2021, 12:41:47 AM
You have some serious amounts of spare time, no?
Without going into detail, the day of writing that post, I had a sickness which left me with lots of spare internet time because I couldn't do what I wanted to do.
No one has mentioned Withnail and I until about 2 inches to the left. (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/Smileys/classic/angry.gif) (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/Smileys/classic/angry.gif) (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/Smileys/classic/angry.gif)
Good ones. I agree, having seen both, Death of Stalin and Withnail and I should have come up earlier.
Though it wasn't strictly a comedy, Wonder Boys had many hilarious moments...e.g. Terry Crabtree (Robt. Downey Jr.): I gather you two staged a little raid on the Crabtree pharmacopoeia...
Quote from: T. D. on August 07, 2021, 03:42:34 PM
Though it wasn't strictly a comedy, Wonder Boys had many hilarious moments...e.g. Terry Crabtree (Robt. Downey Jr.): I gather you two staged a little raid on the Crabtree pharmacopoeia...
"Are you drunk professor Tripps, right now?"
(smoking weed)"No"
Wonder Boys is one of my all time favorite films.
Death of Stalin was wonderful. Hilarious but also thought provoking.
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 07, 2021, 07:13:34 PM
"Are you drunk professor Tripp, right now?"
(smoking weed)"No"
Wonder Boys is one of my all time favorite films.
+1
Quote from: The new erato on August 07, 2021, 09:50:40 PM
Death of Stalin was wonderful. Hilarious but also thought provoking.
+1
Good soundtrack too.
Bullets Over Broadway.
The Teahouse of the August Moon.
The Shakiest Gun in the West.
The Death of Stalin
Tampopo.
Somebody needs to mention Preston Sturges. An amazing director I found thanks to GMG's own Ken B, who would have said here that his favorite movie of all time is The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.
Quote from: Brian on August 08, 2021, 09:46:39 AM
Somebody needs to mention Preston Sturges. An amazing director I found thanks to GMG's own Ken B, who would have said here that his favorite movie of all time is The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.
You remind me: it's time to listen again to the
Mennin Eighth 8)
Airplane!
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Producers ( 1967 )
Quote from: LKB on August 08, 2021, 02:06:49 PM
Airplane!
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Producers ( 1967 )
Frau Blücher!
Quote from: LKB on August 08, 2021, 02:06:49 PM
Airplane!
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Producers ( 1967 )
Humour is SO personal but that is a GOOD list!!
Quote from: Roasted Swan on August 09, 2021, 10:41:06 AM
Humour is SO personal but that is a GOOD list!!
You're darned tootin'!
Another long-standing favorite, which I should've mentioned in my 'honorable mentions':
(https://fanart.tv/fanart/movies/957/movieposter/spaceballs-55429ee8df996.jpg)
Quote from: Mirror Image on August 09, 2021, 10:21:50 PM
Another long-standing favorite, which I should've mentioned in my 'honorable mentions':
(https://fanart.tv/fanart/movies/957/movieposter/spaceballs-55429ee8df996.jpg)
That reminds me of this one which I found very funny indeed. Fine performances from Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman, sending themselves up:
(//)
This might be rather British humour but I find the first two minutes of 'Mike Bassett, England Manager' when the open-top celebrations goes horribly wrong, when the team bus goes the wrong way into the one way system, absolutely hilarious (the opening was filmed just before they demolished the old Wembley Stadium):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33G8rUpUI08
Not yet mentioned:
In The Loop
also:
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Peewee's Big Adventure
The Kentucky Fried Movie
Amazon Women On The Moon
Elephant Parts
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 10, 2021, 01:42:35 AM
Not yet mentioned:
In The Loop
also:
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Peewee's Big Adventure
In the Loop was good but not nearly as good as the original TV series for me. Steve Martin definitely deserves a nod;
My ALL TIME FAVOURITE Steve Martin line(s);
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spefM2OjKp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT0CScFzp1o
Quote from: Roasted Swan on August 10, 2021, 01:46:02 AM
In the Loop was good but not nearly as good as the original TV series for me. Steve Martin definitely deserves a nod;
My ALL TIME FAVOURITE Steve Martin line(s);
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spefM2OjKp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT0CScFzp1o
I love the top one.
Quote from: Papy Oli on July 27, 2021, 01:22:43 PM
Les Tontons Flingueurs
La Grande Vadrouille
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Le Dîner de Cons
Death at a Funeral (UK version)
Other worthy mentions : Planes, Trains & Automobiles - Burn After Reading
Never got to see it, although I know it has a cult status. I found our library had it, so I'll watch it tonight. :)
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on August 07, 2021, 06:29:00 AM
I see a lot of classics that would also make my list so I'll avoid any repeats. But I will add The Death of Stalin as one of the funniest, and honestly one of the best acted and brilliantly written films of the this century.
(https://resizing.flixster.com/8WOX6jsw-rHxNvMRjoYh6pYxwMo=/ems.ZW1zLXByZC1hc3NldHMvbW92aWVzLzYzMTAzZDJmLWJlZWUtNGIzZS05ZjI5LTRjMzNiMTgzZDZmNi53ZWJw)
Another vote for
The Death of Stalin, which I saw somewhat unexpectedly, without knowing much about it. (It was also one of the last movies I saw in an actual theater, before COVID.) It is the blackest of black comedies, with a great concept and cast -- and uproarious.
--Bruce
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 10, 2021, 01:42:35 AM
Not yet mentioned:
In The Loop
also:
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Peewee's Big Adventure
The Kentucky Fried Movie
Amazon Women On The Moon
Elephant Parts
(I did mention In the Loop. :) It's great. And a career best performance for several of its actors, especially David Rasche.)
Quote from: André on August 10, 2021, 05:28:13 AM
Never got to see it, although I know it has a cult status. I found our library had it, so I'll watch it tonight. :)
Oh André, you are in for a treat. Michel Audiard created so many cult lines for French cinema with this movie. I envy you in a way of seeing it for the first time.
Some people have seen it so many times, that probably 30 years after first seeing it, one got offered some Tontons Flingueurs slippers at his last Christmas (Bernard Blier on the left slipper, Lino Ventura on the right - pictures from the "kitchen scene" with the beetroot - it will make sense when you get to it :D)
On a side note, I expected a lot from The Death of Stalin... and it was a massive disappointment eventually :-[
Neil Simon's The Cheap Detective
Quote from: vandermolen on August 10, 2021, 01:05:54 AM
That reminds me of this one which I found very funny indeed. Fine performances from Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman, sending themselves up:
(//)
Galaxy Quest... definitely an honorable mention, equal parts parody and homage.
NGUNS,
LKB
Quote from: Brian on August 10, 2021, 06:26:00 AM
(I did mention In the Loop. :)
Ah, so you did. Apologies. I had jumped over the Death Of Sralin talk as for some reason that film didn't click with me the way it has with so many others.
Quote from: LKB on August 10, 2021, 08:43:44 AM
Galaxy Quest... definitely an honorable mention, equal parts parody and homage.
NGUNS,
LKB
Yes, indeed.
Toxic Avengers
Hercules whit lou ferrinio
Short Circuits 2 (when the robot get pummel)
The godfather part 3, because the only funny moment is when Sophia Coppola received a bullet , and she not super good actress, don't get me wrong I love the trilogy but the third one not so good :laugh:
These are so bad there not comedy but super funny.
Real cult comedy
3 O'clock High vf 3h30 l'heure du crime
Heather'S whit Christian Slater
24 hours whit Nick Nolte and Eddy murphy
Un Prince a New york whit Eddy Murphy also
Revenge of the nerds 1-2 (I'm the pot head of the lot, but aspire to be Gilbert, the mentor of the gang of nerds (cool films)
Quote from: Papy Oli on August 10, 2021, 06:42:56 AM
Oh André, you are in for a treat. Michel Audiard created so many cult lines for French cinema with this movie. I envy you in a way of seeing it for the first time.
Some people have seen it so many times, that probably 30 years after first seeing it, one got offered some Tontons Flingueurs slippers at his last Christmas (Bernard Blier on the left slipper, Lino Ventura on the right - pictures from the "kitchen scene" with the beetroot - it will make sense when you get to it :D)
On a side note, I expected a lot from The Death of Stalin... and it was a massive disappointment eventually :-[
We watched it yesterday night !
Good visual gags and an abundance of sophisticated one-liners indeed. I watched it in the French version, but no french subtitles were available on this copy. They might have come in handy at times. There's a lot of parisian underworld slang from the era (1960s) I didn't get - or understood only a few seconds later. Sometimes humour is like the catch of the day: it doesn't travel well ;D. The maniacal german in full machine gun delirium being carried away is a hoot !
I particularly enjoyed the acting of Blier (one of my favourite french actors) and Ventura is excellent, as always. I'm still trying to figure what the surprise cameo by Paul Meurisse in the wedding scene means. A
clin d'oeil to the
Monocle films perhaps ? I'll have to give it another go in a few months.
Quote from: André on August 11, 2021, 10:27:35 AM
We watched it yesterday night !
Good visual gags and an abundance of sophisticated one-liners indeed. I watched it in the French version, but no french subtitles were available on this copy. They might have come in handy at times. There's a lot of parisian underworld slang from the era (1960s) I didn't get - or understood only a few seconds later. Sometimes humour is like the catch of the day: it doesn't travel well ;D. The maniacal german in full machine gun delirium being carried away is a hoot !
I particularly enjoyed the acting of Blier (one of my favourite french actors) and Ventura is excellent, as always. I'm still trying to figure what the surprise cameo by Paul Meurisse in the wedding scene means. A clin d'oeil to the Monocle films perhaps ? I'll have to give it another go in a few months.
Hi André,
Glad you liked it. It is a silly movie in itself but the dialogues and Blier/Ventura just make any repeated viewing worthwhile. I have a particular affection for the butler. Yes Sir !!
You might be onto something regarding Meurisse. I have found this online :
À la fin du long métrage, les observateurs auront remarqué un homme avec un monocle noir venu saluer Lino Ventura. Il s'agit de Paul Meurisse, qui fait là un clin d'oeil au film Le Monocle noir, que Georges Lautner avait réalisé trois ans plus tôt. Cette comédie policière avait permis au réalisateur d'obtenir un grand succès commercial, et ses aventures avec Meurisse en agent secret plaisent tant au public qu'il leur donnera deux suites (L'Œil du monocle et Le monocle rit jaune). Still by Lautner, you could try "Les Barbouzes" next, if you have not seen it. Still with Blier and Ventura. Not as good as Les Tontons but still a silly entertaining movie.
Oh, and there's Mireille Darc too 8)
(http://www.tv5monde.com/programmes/uploads/2018/03/programme_barbouzes-les-nb_826_489.jpeg)
Blazing Saddles
To Be or Not To Be (Lubitsch version with Jack Benny)
Some Like It Hot
There's Something About Msry
It's a Gift (W.C. Fields)
worst attempt at a feature-length comedy: It's Pat!
Quote from: listener on August 12, 2021, 03:28:01 AM...
worst attempt at a feature-length comedy: It's Pat!
So I'm assuming that's a
dishonorable mention? :P
Quote from: Roasted Swan on August 10, 2021, 01:46:02 AM
Steve Martin definitely deserves a nod;
And no more so, in my book, than for
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdkgV3MFkr0
Dr. Strangelove
The Producers (older version)
Some Like It Hot
Look Who's Back
Mad....World
Quote from: DaveF on September 01, 2021, 10:51:37 PM
And no more so, in my book, than for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdkgV3MFkr0
Nice!
Quote from: david johnson on September 01, 2021, 11:13:18 PM
Dr. Strangelove
The Producers (older version)
Some Like It Hot
Look Who's Back
Mad....World
+1 for choices 1-3. Don't know the others.
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).
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.
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
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.
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.
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.)
Dr Strangelove
Blazing Saddles
Ghostbusters
Kingpin
Tropic Thunder
Ground Hog Day
Galaxy Quest
Carry On Up The Khyber
Toy Story
When Harry Met Sally
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
The only time I have left a movie theatre during a performance was Three Amigos.
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. ::)
Revised list:
Airplane!
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Young Frankenstein
Galaxy Quest
Our Relations (1936)
The Return Of The Pink Panther (1975)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Planes, Trains And Automobiles (1987)
Idiocracy (2006)
Horse Feathers
Duck Soup
A Night at the Opera
Annie Hall
Manhattan
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
Maybe more in the "black humo(u)r" category, but since
Kind Hearts and Coronets
hasn't yet been mentioned...
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 :)
"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".
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.