OT: Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies of All Time

[gary135r]

http://boards.boston.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&tsn=1&tid=231&webtag=bc-movies


As usual these lists are pretty lame but, while we are stuck in the dog days here I ask, what is your all time favorite?

My vote is for "Young Frankenstein "

[mike p]

How can you not have a single Coen Bro's film on the list? The Big Lebowski--nuff said. The list stinks.

Mike

[Serpico]

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The Big Lebowski--nuff said.

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:beer: agreed, but it's on the list as #31

otherwise, there's a lotta bad films on that list--I'm surprised this is from Bravo (seems more like E! channel criteria, based on the films they chose)

[Kahuna]

I know Roy Munson's favorite! ;)

[keno]

That My Cousin Vinnie ain't there speaks volumes, as do Young Frankenstein at 56 and The Aristocrats at 93. A list not worth a giggle. The list seems to have movies that aren't the slightest bit funny, absent particularly low mirth thresholds.

(mikep, they have Raising Arizona, but that's a detail.)

keno

[Sandy]

Another vote for My Cousin Vinnie. Great casting!



Sandy

[Sandy]

What about the Blues Brothers? I don't remember that one on the list.

Oops! Never mind. I just found it. Sorry.


Sandy

[Kevan]

"The Gods must be Crazy", what a hoot.

[DJR]

A bit obscure, but I vote for "Snatch" with Brad Pitt.

[Kevin]

Top three - Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Airplane

Kevin

[mike p]

:beer: agreed, but it's on the list as #31

otherwise, there's a lotta bad films on that list--I'm surprised this is from Bravo (seems more like E! channel criteria, based on the films they chose)


I must be blind. Thats what happens when I look at lists at 2:00 am.

Mike

[L84dinr]

Didn't make the list! A very funny movie. John Candy at his best.

Couple in car: "You are going the wrong way"

John Candy: "How do you know where we are going? (John Candy mimicking drinking and acting tipsy)"

Steve MArtin: "Yeah how do you know where we are going?"

One of my faves.

Uncle Buck was "dissed" as well.

[znfdl]

http://boards.boston.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&tsn=1&tid=231&webtag=bc-movies

My vote is for "Young Frankenstein "

+1

[Ray]

No Kelly's Heros? No Richard Pryor Live in Cocert? This list is worthless.

Edit: No LIFE OF BRIAN!!!!! Jeeeez.

-Ray

[theprep]

How about "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", plus it had Pheobe Cates in a bikini. If you are around 38 years old, you had to have had a crush on her.

The movie where I laughed the hardest, so much so that I was in pain and could not get off the floor was " A Fish Called Wanda". For some reason though it didn't work for me the 2nd time.

[Tom]

Karen still doesn't get it when we're driving somewhere and I start going "Ohhh, kay."

Or "Serpentine, Shel!"

[Lifelover]

It's on there in the 80's but should be atleast a top 20

[Archibald]

"Battlefield Earth," a classic feel good comedy. Travolta's role was inspiring! :banana:

Seriously, "Clerks" is the all time funniest followed closely by "Dogma."

[Climb01742]

for pure laughs and zero artistry, airplane. not even close. but for laughs_and_artistry, 3 films: my man godfry, sullivan's travels and at least one silent movie from chaplin or keaton (buster, not michael). there were films before any of us were born. :beer:

[39cross]

Man, what a crappy list that is. Must have been compiled by teenage summer interns at Bravo.

For me, I love Buster Keaton's (and his spiritual descendents) physical comedy - I can't help it, I love it when he steps on a board and gets wacked upside the head.

[Len J]

No Kelly's Heros? No Richard Pryor Live in Cocert? This list is worthless.

Edit: No LIFE OF BRIAN!!!!! Jeeeez.

-Ray

is at 56 I have to questions the voters!

Len

[67-59]

for pure laughs and zero artistry, airplane. :beer:

I'm with Climb.

"Roger, Roger."

"Huh?"

[gdw]

The list must have been put together by someone who isn't aware of the fact that comedies were produced before the 1960's . No classics....Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Chaplan, Keaton, etc. Dr Stranglove is the oldest film that I saw in a quick scan of the list.

[dauwhe]

Top three - Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Airplane

Kevin

Ah, a man of refined taste. Fine films, all.

[dauwhe]

The list must have been put together by someone who isn't aware of the fact that comedies were produced before the 1960's . No classics....Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Chaplan, Keaton, etc. Dr Stranglove is the oldest film that I saw in a quick scan of the list.

Duck Soup!!!!!

[Serpico]

one word (okay, maybe two): Wes Anderson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Anderson)

Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

how many other directors' films go straight to the Criterion Collection (http://criterionco.com/asp/)?

this is the guy Scorsese likes (http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2000/scorsese/000301_mfe_scorsese_wanderson.html)

http://www.royaltenenbaums.com/images/royal_tenenbaums_dvd.jpg

[CNY rider]

How about "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", plus it had Pheobe Cates in a bikini. If you are around 38 years old, you had to have had a crush on her.

The movie where I laughed the hardest, so much so that I was in pain and could not get off the floor was " A Fish Called Wanda". For some reason though it didn't work for me the 2nd time.

Well I'm 36, and I can't tell you I remember anything about her bikini, but I do CLEARLY remember the rest of that scene, post-bikini. ;)

[fiamme red]

for pure laughs and zero artistry, airplane. not even close. but for laughs_and_artistry, 3 films: my man godfry, sullivan's travels and at least one silent movie from chaplin or keaton (buster, not michael). there were films before any of us were born. :beer:One of the funniest films I've ever seen is Harold Lloyd's "Why Worry?". I'm a big fan of Lloyd's silent comedies. His talkie "Movie Crazy" is also very funny.

[72gmc]

the fact that the wedding singer is in the top ten and the pink panther is at 62 tells me all i need to know about those who made this list.

no history of the world part 1? sire, you look just like the pissboy!

i have to go listen to a monty python album now so i can cleanse this list from my mind....

[Climb01742]

whoever created the list has seemingly missed 98% of not only the funniest movies ever made, but the best movies ever made. history did not begin in 1960 or there abouts.

take this paraphrased line from duck soup uttered by groucho: you talk so much, at birth you must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

would the person/people who created this list even know/remember what a phonograph needle was?

:crap:

[fiamme red]

the fact that the wedding singer is in the top ten and the pink panther is at 62 tells me all i need to know about those who made this list.The funniest of the Pink Panther series, in my opinion, is "A Shot in the Dark."

And Sellers' funniest film is "The Party"; well, at least the first two-thirds of it.

[67-59]

The funniest of the Pink Panther series, in my opinion, is "A Shot in the Dark."

And Sellers' funniest film is "The Party"; well, at least the first two-thirds of it.

I don't recall "The Party," but I agree with your opinion about "A Shot in the Dark." The others in the series were good, but could never quite reach the level of that one....

[KKevin]

PORKY'S

If I have to use ones on the list then its Airplane.

[palincss]

How can you not have a single Coen Bro's film on the list? The Big Lebowski--nuff said. The list stinks.

Mike

How could they have left off Preston Sturges, Jacques Tati, and every screwball comedy? And as long as we're talking about classics, how about Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Abbott and Costello, W.C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers?

I'm with you - the list stinks.

[Bill Bove]

Spaced Invaders! Freaking hillariuos. The Martians invade on Halloween and everybody thinks they're in costume.

Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes. :banana:

Reefer Madness :beer:

[Kevin]

Well I'm 36, and I can't tell you I remember anything about her bikini, but I do CLEARLY remember the rest of that scene, post-bikini. ;)

At 40 I can still close my eyes and see the whole scene. Oh oh, the wife is coming up the stairs, I better lock the bathroom door. :D

Kevin

[72gmc]

At 40 I can still close my eyes and see the whole scene.

i would guess that most guys in our neighborhood (i'm 35) envision phoebe cates whenever they hear "moving in stereo" by the cars.

[stevep]

road trippers
funniest movie i think i ever saw. never heard of it again.
rented the tape.