1 First. Eat me

2

 

When's the last time you've seen it?

I've only seen it once (and enjoyed it) so I don't know if it can stand the Test-of-Time/repeat viewings rule.

3 A parody of a parody of a parody.

Yes, that movie sucks but do we need a 30 min video saying it sucks.

4 Civilization could be rebuilt using this film as the foundation.

5 Ok.. was gonna say "WTF?"..

Charlton Heston: "You know, movies are really moments."

Good one.. ya got me..  Woody Allen was a nice touch as well.. but where was the Actor's Studio?

6 >>>When's the last time you've seen it? Several years ago but I have seen it so many times I can play it in my head whenever I like. As for test-of-time: If you see a movie so many times it's seared into your memory that doesn't matter anymore; it's not like any joke was going to surprise you anyway.

7 As many oldsters know, there was a point three years ago when this was the movie on the site for references and sockpuppets.

For a moment I thought someone made a movie about the Burr-Hamilton duel and that I'd missed it.

Actually, someone should make that movie.

8 I don't know who I want to kill more, Will Ferrell or the people who watch him.

9 Don't get me wrong, I love the ladies. I mean they rev my engines, but they don't belong in the newsroom.

10 Someone should punch Obama in his ovaries.

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2010 05:14 PM (m2CN7)

No one can afford to take the time off or cost to vacation where he does to do it

11

I saw it once, it was OK. Lot's of semi-funny, but quotable lines...

But best movie in the last hundred years? Only if you couldn't pass a drug test.

12 Sex Panther!

13

 

I still enjoy watching Caddyshack and Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles even though I know all the yuks in the movies by heart.

I liked Superbad, too, but I won't be watching it for the next 30 years.

14 60% of the time, I work... every time.

15 For a moment I thought someone made a movie about the Burr-Hamilton duel and that I'd missed it.

Did they use longbows?  After all, 60% of the time, they work every time.

16 Anchorman #1 since 1910?

Am I allowed to issue a fatwa if I'm not Islamic?

17 Guess what, I do. I know that one day Veronica and I are gonna to get married on top of a mountain, and there's going to be flutes playing and trombones and flowers and garlands of fresh herbs. And we will dance till the sun rises. And then our children will form a family band. And we will tour the countryside and you won't be invited.

18 We should go out, for chicken, and sex.

19

A friend of mine watched this movie w/her husband in the theater.

He left 20 mins in.

They were divorced five months later.

I'm not saying this was the reason, but.....

20 Why don't you naysayers go back to your homes on Whore Island?

21 This movie, and Will Farrell's career-at-large, is anti-comedy.

22 "Dumb and Dumber" was a far superior movie. Even "The Hangover" was decidedly better. Shit-for-brains people thinking that they have to dumb down their lists always screw up when they get to the genuinely good dumb comedies. They don't get it, so they just check the Blockbuster ratings and go from there.

23 I read somewhere that their periods attract bears  The bears can smell the menstruation.

24

 

Is Tits McGee back from vacation?

25 Olberman vs. O'Reilly.  Book the Thunderdome, now.

26 Isn't this what happens the 4th seal is opened in Revelations? I mean Anchorman was hilarious, but our society really is bankrupt if Anchorman is #1 of anything.

27

Most ridiculous movie I have seen in years and I love it every time I see it.  Hey-oh!

 

28 Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention. I've just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story. I need all of you, to stop what you're doing and listen. Cannonball!

29

If I had to guess which comedy has been quoted the most I would have to say Caddyshack.  I spent a couple of years in college calling a lot of people Hey Wang.

Damnitfuck.

Guess that makes me predictable. Time for a new handle.

30

 

no offense?

31 I'm just glad this movie finally received the critical acclaim it so richly deserves. Bravo!

32 Some of you folks have been punked when the intention here was not to punk.

Folks, they are making fun of AFI with this video. There is NO AFI number movie of all time.

AFI rates by genre i.e. top ten Westerns of all Time.

33 31

If I had to guess which comedy has been quoted the most I would have to say Caddyshack.  I spent a couple of years in college calling a lot of people Hey Wang.

Damnitfuck.

Guess that makes me predictable. Time for a new handle.

Does this mean I'm no longer welcome to tie you up with my ties?

34 "Dumb and Dumber" was a far superior movie. Even "The Hangover" was decidedly better.
Shit-for-brains people thinking that they have to dumb down their lists always screw up when they get to the genuinely good dumb comedies.
They don't get it, so they just check the Blockbuster ratings and go from there.
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Well, I've never seen this.. mostly cuz I don't like Will Ferrell (except in wedding crashers).. But "The Hangover" was hilarious..  I never heard laughter in a theatre like that at the end of that movie..

and..  I'm wondering how many here haven't actually watched the clip Ace provided.. or got the joke yet..

35 The comedy that has been quoted the most is probably Animal House. Incidentally it is probably in the top 5 comedies of all time.

36

Everybody's concept of comedy is a little different, so there's really no point in telling us you didn't actually think this was the greatest comedy of all time. I tend to judge a funny film by how many chuckles i get out of it and if the pacing of the chuckles is pretty consistent. Others will die over a movie with a couple of funny gigs.

I prefer Team America to Anchorman, but not many people agree with me there. Between the two of them, if you aren't amused, your funnybone's busted.

37 34 Having seen some actual AFI lists...I'd still like to issue that fatwa.

38 Most quoted round these parts would be "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

39 If I had to guess which comedy has been quoted the most I would have to say Caddyshack.

Or Princess Bride.

40 Hangover?????

That movie sucked a big one. Not funny at all.

41 >> Anchorman #1 since 1910?
>> Am I allowed to issue a fatwa if I'm not Islamic?

I dunno... slap stick comedies are often underrated in terms of their depth. 
Remember Mark Twain's quote:

  "Watch a poor drama for the laughs; and a good slapstick comedy for the true insight into humanity"

From this point of view, I get the AFI's point here.  It is pretty brave of them, really.

42

Have you seen her lately? She didn't age very well.  Not bad but she had a lot to live up to.   

Yeah. Poor thing. Also, she really should have worn a bra more. I mean, great for the movie and all, but that pesky little thing called gravity. You can't avoid it.

43 I really wish I hadn't eaten that chocolate squirrel.

44

But best movie in the last hundred years? Only if you couldn't pass a drug test. Posted by: Jim in San Diego

but our society really is bankrupt if Anchorman is #1 of anything. Posted by: ChicagoJedi

< Points and laughs at the suckers! >

45 I'm really happy for you, I'll let you finish, but Al Gore has one of the best videos of all time. One of the best videos of all time

46 To this day I still define every word I don't know as a large wooden ship used mainly during the Civil War era.  Or "whale's vagina."

47 Awesome. I love how it shows how ridiculous talking about acting as an "art" is. Acting = pretending.

48 I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal...I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.

49

If I had to guess which comedy has been quoted the most I would have to say Caddyshack

I can't remember the source, but it's been said the two most quoted movies are The Godfather and Airplane!

50

There are few things as unashamedly pretentious and unintentionally funny as when film stars and directors discuss their Craft.

I feel a fit of giggles coming on, I have to go back and watch Candice Bergen pontificate...

51 Mrs. North insists that 2001: is two movies that I tricked her into watching in a row.

52 Mrs. North insists that 2001: is two movies that I tricked her into watching in a row.

Oh come on, the first 47 hours are great!

53 53

There are few things as unashamedly pretentious and unintentionally funny as when film stars and directors discuss their Craft.

I feel a fit of giggles coming on, I have to go back and watch Candice Bergen pontificate...

Want sad and funny at the same time?  Grab the DVD of the Wachowski Brothers' "Bound" and listen to Jennifer Tilly show up on the director commentary only to start pretentiously talking about the little stuff she brought to the role.

54 Posted by: M.C. Clap Your Handz at August 12, 2010 05:17 PM (gLNLT) Psych for the win... And as for most quoted comedy of all time? Easily Down Periscope.

55 I would like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party. The... party? With the... with the pants. Party with pants?

56 Want sad and funny at the same time?  Grab the DVD of the Wachowski Brothers' "Bound" and listen to Jennifer Tilly show up on the director commentary only to start pretentiously talking about the little stuff she brought to the role.

Ebert's commentary on Dark City.  It's even funnier now.  (Yes, yes I'm going right to hell)

57 And as for most quoted comedy of all time? Easily Down Periscope.

I have friends in the Navy who love that movie.

The top line has to be "I'm not sure we should trust a billion-dollar boat to a man who has "welcome aboard" tattooed on his penis."

58

If I had to guess which comedy has been quoted the most I would have to say Caddyshack.

Or Princess Bride.

 

"Airplane"!!

59 "Buckman! I found a fingernail in my food this morning Buckman. And yesterday a band-aid!" "Sorry sir. The band-aid was holding the fingernail on."

60

Is this some kind of joke, or did AFI really rank that movie above classics like Casablanca, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Singing in the Rain, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Thin Man, & a whole host of other movies?

:pinches self, reads Vic's comment:

Oh, thank goodness! I thought it was a sign of the coming Zombie Apocalypse.  

61

"I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong."
-- James Lipton

The profundity is strong in this one.

62 Oh, c'mon!  Best film of all time?  That award goes to Citizen Kane or Casablanca, not this!

Best part of the movie, though: Escupimos En Su Alimento.  (Translate that from Spanish.)

63 You know a funny movie that never got a lot of fanfare? The Hammer with Adam Corolla

64
Ron Burgundy is a lot funnier viewed on an i-phone while snorting blow off a crack whore's ass.

65 Tiny not working for me, but CBS says the chick who got hit with the baseball is breaking up with the douche who dodged it.  Says it's not over that incident, but you just knew that was just the tip of the iceberg there...

66 "That's a really gay taser" My new fave

67

The most influential movie of the last 100 years is Brian's Song, hands down.

The lasting influence is that good movies can debut on television. Other small-screen releases since Brian's Song: Manhunter (later remade as Red Dragon), The Burning Bed, A Painted House, High School Musical and High School Musical 2.

68 If Anchorman shouldn't be #1 on the AFI list, then this isn't America anymore and the terrorists will have won. So fuck you, 57 states!

69 You know a funny movie that never got a lot of fanfare? Dirty Work w/ Norm Macdonald

70 Dave Lizewski: How do I get a hold of you? Hit Girl: [sarcastically] You just contact the mayor's office. He has a special signal he shines in the sky; it's in the shape of a giant cock.

71 Ebert's commentary on Dark City.  It's even funnier now.

Hunnh huhhh hun uhrrrrrrr hun nuh wuh muh.  Uhhhhhhhhhhhn muuuuuuh uhr?  Uh.  Muhhhh muh uhn muh nuh.  Huuuun uhhhhhhhhh.  Uh.  Uhhhhhh nuh muh hun uhhhh.  Uhhh huhhhhhh.  Huuuuuuh nuh muh nuhhhhhhhh!!!

72

Brian's Song II: Manhunter

FIFY

73 Oh, thank goodness! I thought it was a sign of the coming Zombie Apocalypse.

"Dawn of the Dead" 1978.  If it ain't here then the list is worthless.

74 And if Down Periscope isn't the most quoted comedy of all time it has to be... Cabin Boy w/ Chris Elliott Cause these pipes are clean!!!

75 One word.

Casablanca

76 I watched Cabin Boy the other night and it's still horrible.

77 "Debbie Does Dallas"!!

78

"It's informative, and harrowing, and...beautifully wrought"(artful hand gestures accompany commentary)

Woody Allen talking about his stepdaughter's chocha.

79 You know a funny movie that never got a lot of fanfare? Bulletproof w/ Adam Sandler and Damon Wayans

80 "Deep Throat"!!

81 It'll never knock Faster, pussycat! Kill! Kill! off the Pedestal of Greatness.

82 I was waiting for the scene where the biker threw the dog off the bridge and Ron Burgundy fell out. That was ALMOST as funny as Cher being intellectoral.

83 Tiny not working for me, but CBS says the chick who got hit with the baseball is breaking up with the douche who dodged it.  Says it's not over that incident, but you just knew that was just the tip of the iceberg there...

I want a chick who knows how to move her ass IYKWIMAITYD.

84 Not sure if this was mentioned in previous posts, but first poll out:

Buck 46, bennett 41.

85 Posted by: Dr Spank at August 12, 2010 05:52 PM (jbVm4) I'm sorry, sir. I was just pondering what drifter's corpse you stole those shoes from.

86

Screw "influential movies". That premise is stupid. You people mean movies you like or someone likes or moviewatchers quote. China Syndrome was the only "influential" movie I can think of because it, along with the lsm, kept us from building nuclear reactors.

Sorry to be a curmudgeon but hollywood worship or even affection makes me ill. It's been disasterous for the country. McCarthy was right and proven so by the USSR document release.

87 WTF?

Who is that and was that really a movie?
Seriously, the suckatude is unparalleled.

88 The most quoted comedy has to be Spinal Tap.  'These go to eleven'.  I wish I had a nickel for every time I've heard a reference to 'eleven!' in the last 30 years...

89 Sorry to be a curmudgeon but hollywood worship or even affection makes me ill.

Oh lighten up.

90 Anchorman has some good moments but it's not all that.

91 "2001: The Movie, A Death-Trap of Random Sequences"

I saw that the first time a few months back after having read the book some 17 years ago. Holy shit! How did people sit through that crap? If I hadn't read the book I would have had no clue what was going on half the time. Jebus, were people so stupid back then that they were impressed with fancy music and nifty special effects?

Oh, wait. Star Wars. Nevermind.

92 I think 'Blazing Saddles' is probably THE most quoted movie ever.

Maybe 'Young Frankenstein,' too, but I think BS edges it...

93 The Weatherman was good, but Talladega Nights blows it away...

94 /sock

95 Sorry, The Anchorman...

96 Oh, puke! Do they even mention movies like "The Best Years of Our Lives" anymore?????

97 Anchorman has some good moments but it's not all that.

Posted by: Corona at August 12, 2010 05:59 PM (woZIc)

It's not even 1/10th of that.

98 Will Ferrell is one of those people who has something about him that just makes you want to hate him, but you can't quite put your finger on what exactly it is. Is it the constant "what? i'm doing something annoying and/or wrong but i lack the self awareness to recognize it so i keep doing it and doing it and doing it and doing it and doing it and doing it and doing it and doing it until people laugh out of pure frustration in the hope i'll finally stop?" Yes, i think that might be it after all.

99 This escalated quickly.

100 106: Or, it could just be the USC connection.

101 Dudes, where's the love for Slap Shot?

102 Will Ferrell is one of those people who has something about him that just makes you want to hate him, but you can't quite put your finger on what exactly it is.

I think it's the stink of desperation.

103 You know what would be a great Movie marathon? Liam Neeson. Chloe, Taken, Darkman, Rob Roy, A-Team, The Dead Pool, Krull, Excalibur, High Spirits, Batman Begins, the first 15 minutes of Kingdom of Heaven...

104

You people.  I swear.  The best all-time movie that effected my life the most is:  "Chicks Who Love Giant Cocks".

105 It jumped up a notch.

106
Can we fit all of those assholes into an airplane en route to Alaska for a fishing trip?

107

The Hollywood fart-sniffers acting all deep and introspective are way funnier than Will Ferrell.

108 Dave Lizewski: How do I get a hold of you? Hit Girl: [sarcastically] You just contact the mayor's office. He has a special signal he shines in the sky; it's in the shape of a giant cock. Yes! Just saw it (the movie, that is) and surprisingly, loved it! Can't wait for #2: Balls to the Wall (filming now).

109

You know what would be a great Movie marathon? Liam Neeson.

haha great choice of words considering what Janice Dickinson said about him in her autobiography.

 

110 Carell's "*cough* look over here!" bit when inviting Veronica to the Pants Party always makes me laugh. 

111 Can I be the first to saying that Brett "Toughest Guy in the World of Sports" Favre is a huge pussy? He's "holding out" on making his decision simply so that Lebron's decision isn't THE decision of the year. Go back to Mississippi you illiterate winner of the sperm lottery. Nobody in the real world cares anymore.

112 I'm just glad Citizen Kane got knocked off its mighty perch. Never cared for that movie.

113

Dudes, where's the love for Slap Shot?

I know this is like throw-down-NOW-motherfucker talk, but I just didn't get why people love that movie so much.  And the ending was like some of the old cartoons where it was obvious they didn't know how to wrap it up. 

Sorry, flame away.

114 And the ending was like some of the old cartoons where it was obvious they didn't know how to wrap it up. 

Posted by: Burn the Witch at August 12, 2010 06:13 PM (fLHQe)

What, Michael Ontkean used his air brakes?

115 Will Ferrett's crowning achievement is the Actor's Studio skit where he plays James Lipton interviewing....James Lipton.

The rest is....meh.

116 Ok, now that was fucking funny.

117 Seriously.

118 For a moment I thought someone made a movie about the Burr-Hamilton duel and that I'd missed it.

Actually, someone should make that movie.

Posted by: DrewM. at August 12, 2010 05:16 PM (X/Lqh)

Got milk?

119 Major League has more laughs in it than all of Will Ferrell's films combined.

Shit, so does Ol' Yeller.

120 Lincolntf: "...Brett 'Toughest Guy in the World of Sports' Favre is a huge pussy? He's 'holding out' on making his decision simply so that Lebron's decision isn't THE decision of the year..."

Yeah. I'm thinking about smashing his face into a car windshield, and then taking his mother Dorothy Mantooth-Favrah out for a nice seafood dinner and never calling her again.

121 My Favorite Year is a damn funny (and quotable) movie.

Or do morons only like dumb comedies?

122 Major League has more laughs in it than all of Will Ferrell's films combined.

Shit, so does Ol' Yeller.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 12, 2010 06:19 PM (Ulu3i)

Hear, hear!

123

Damnit, alexthechick beat me to it again.  Yes, in my life, the movie I've heard quoted most often is easily Princess Bride.  Runner up is probably Monty Python & The Holy Grail.

124 Yes, in my life, the movie I've heard quoted most often is easily Princess Bride.

How's that working out for you?

125 My brother and I still regularly quote "House of 1000 Corpses". That never gets old.

126 "Love Story"

127 Yo, "tis but a flesh wound" is the funniest line of all time

128 Jack Black kicking Baxter over the bridge railing was a classic moment

129 The movie I quote most? Surprisingly, Heathers.

130

If you haven't seen it, one of the most inadvertently funny movies ever was Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samuri.  That thing left me crying with laughter. 

131 dagny: "Screw 'influential movies'."

I'm a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That's what kind of man I am. You're just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a third the size of us. It's science.

132 Re Ghost Dog, about half the time it seemed like a really good tongue-in-cheek put on, the movie equivalent of a good Onion piece.

133 Or Princess Bride.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 12, 2010 05:29 PM (eRjGt)

You killed my father.  Prepare to die.

134 One of the greatest movie lines of all time was from Awakenings, when Robin Williams tells a colleague:

"I'm sorry.  If you were right, I'd agree with you."

135 Don't forget: Meterorite shower tonite.

136 I'm riding a furry tractor, too.

137 I don't know about the most "quoted" movie but Netscape lists "I'll be back" from Terminator as number 1 and "Frankly my dear" from GWTW as number 2.

AFI's actual top 100 quotes lists "Frankly my dear" as number 1 and "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." as number 2.

138

If you haven't seen it, one of the most inadvertently funny movies ever was Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samuri.  That thing left me crying with laughter. 

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 12, 2010 06:27 PM (Adi4S)

I felt almost the same way about The Happening.  Mark Wallenberg pleading with a plastic potted plant not to kill him -- I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.

139 This is a joke, right?  This isn't serious.

140 Oh my God, it's the fuckin' Boid Man!

141 Como estan, bitches?

142

One user review from IMDB for Ghost Dog kind of sums up my experience.

The image of Forest Whitaker as a modern-day samurai warrior made me laugh out loud when I saw the trailer, and the movie itself proved to be just as unintentionally funny. Granted, the film never really even tries to simulate reality (we're dealing with a world in which license plates say "The Industrial State" instead of revealing the obvious New York setting, and in which someone can take five bullets in the chest and keep on walking), but seeing that big, sleepy-looking black guy practicing with a katana just totally locked me out of the movie and whatever point it tried to make. The stereotypical Mafia guys aren't much better either, though it is interesting that they always seem to be watching cartoons. But the worst thing about Ghost Dog is its length. The film could very easily have ended with the 'bear hunter' scene, and everyone would have been happy; I'd actually be saying good things about it right now if they had stopped it there. But Jarmusch stretches it out for about another half hour with a bunch of scenes that either mean nothing at all or unsatisfactorily resolve the many subplots. Much of the movie is also made up of just long shots of Whitaker walking with his briefcase, driving and looking like he's about to fall asleep at the wheel, or engaging in redundant bilingual conversations with a French-speaking ice cream man (an initially funny comic relief device that REALLY overstays its welcome). I seemed to be in the minority opinion at that particular screening though; most of the audience laughed at the parts that were meant to be funny, and a burst of clapping erupted as the end credits began to roll. Maybe if I saw Ghost Dog again I'd come to understand it a bit more, but at this point I really don't want to walk down this particular path a second time.

143 How many people have even seen Citizen Kane or Casablanca since like 1970, except people that go to film school? If I want depth and character development, I'll read a book. Movies really lend themselves to two things: cheap laughs and explosions.

I don't like Will Ferrell as a person all that much either, but Anchorman was hilarious, and Semi Pro was seriously underrated. Plus his "wife" had an amazing rack in that one.

144 My Favorite Year is a damn funny (and quotable) movie.

Posted by: nickless at August 12, 2010 06:20 PM (MMC8r)

Without My Favorite Year, there would have been no Perfect Strangers -- and the world would have been deprived of Cousin Balki.

145 I don't know about the most "quoted" movie but Netscape lists "I'll be back" from Terminator as number 1

I wonder if they take into account the fact that that was one of the most used lines in English even before anyone had an inkling of a Terminator movie?  It's like Nike trying to trademark "Just do it" as if they thought that up themselves.

146 97 Sorry to be a curmudgeon but hollywood worship or even affection makes me ill.

Speaking of Curmudgeon, what ever happened to him?  He used to post here often.

147 Nee yoi da pee-goo

148 That Zombie McCain movie was a real side splitter with the line "[Obama is] a decent person and a person you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States"

149

41 If I had to guess which comedy has been quoted the most I would have to say Caddyshack.

How about the most quoted movie lines used to describe current events:

"Cats and dogs living together! Mass hysteria!!"

150 How many people have even seen Citizen Kane or Casablanca since like 1970, except people that go to film school?

I have seen Casablanca within the last 2 or 3 years. As for citizen Kane, I never saw what the critics saw in that movie. I thought is was boring.

151 "I'll be back" was my line, bitches

152 well that was 7+ wasted minutes................

153 I can't understand why no one has mentioned Panic in Year Zero yet, but I'd rather sit through a Ray Milland film festival than the trailer for any Will Ferrell film.

154 How many people have even seen Citizen Kane or Casablanca since like 1970, except people that go to film school? If I want depth and character development, I'll read a book. Movies really lend themselves to two things: cheap laughs and explosions.

Posted by: GS at August 12, 2010 06:32 PM (O+Lmx)

Ever see Sullivan's Travels?  It's a movie about a director of silly comedies who can't get the studio to back his plan to make a serious drama, a modern retelling of The Odyssey.  Eventually, his travels, trials and tribulations through the landscape of the Great Depression teaches him that making silly comedies is a noble calling, because people need laughter.

By the way, his retelling of the Odyssey was to be called O Brother, Where Art Thou?  And the Coen brothers made it in real life -- as a kind of silly comedy.

155 5 Civilization could be rebuilt using this film as the foundation. Posted by: Dave in Texas at August 12, 2010 05:16 PM (WvXvd) I must have missed the David Caruso cameo...

156 I Married a Communist in 1949 is due for re-release with Michelle O

157

I felt almost the same way about The Happening.  Mark Wallenberg pleading with a plastic potted plant not to kill him -- I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.

Yeah.  It seems like once the funny angle occurs to you, you can't watch it the way the movie makers intended.

I know that Leslie Nielsen' terribly funny later movies had a similar effect on me:  They made it difficult for me to watch his earlier stuff.  The later ones make it feel like the funny was just around the corner in movies like Forbidden Planet.  His delivery was exactly the same.  He just changed the timing a little bit.

158 Posted by: General MacArthur at August 12, 2010 06:35 PM

Hey, Dugout Doug, I thought you said "I shall U-turn," yo....

159 162 Movies really lend themselves to two things: cheap laughs and explosions. Posted by: GS at August 12, 2010 06:32 PM (O+Lmx) Don't forget T&A, dude.

160

151  Anchorman was funny; his funniest movie imho (well, Elf was kinda cute and funny), but this is a joke, isn't it?

 

161 AFI's actual list of top 100 comedies:

http://tinyurl.com/oswnkh

LIke usual you will not agree with most of it.

162 143 Don't forget: Meterorite shower tonite.

Posted by: Moi at August 12, 2010 06:30 PM (Ez4Ql)

That's "meteor." If it's in space it's a meteoroid, burning up in the atmosphere a meteor, and on the ground a meteorite.

Hate to nitpick but I'm an astronomy guy and I'm supposed to do that.

163 This is a joke, right?  This isn't serious.

Posted by: unknown jane at August 12, 2010 06:31 PM (5/yRG)

Shirley, you can't be serious.

164 I know that Leslie Nielsen' terribly funny later movies had a similar effect on me: They made it difficult for me to watch his earlier stuff. The later ones make it feel like the funny was just around the corner in movies like Forbidden Planet. His delivery was exactly the same. He just changed the timing a little bit." Posted by: rdbrewer at August 12, 2010 06:37 PM (Adi4S) ******** That's the most crushing critique of an actor's lifework that I've ever read. I think I'm going to cry now...

165 171 "This is a joke, right? This isn't serious." Posted by: unknown jane at August 12, 2010 06:31 PM (5/yRG) Shirley, you can't be serious. Posted by: stuiec at August 12, 2010 06:40 PM (7AOgy) As cereal as a hear attack...

166 164 I Married a Communist in 1949 is due for re-release with Michelle O

The Manchurian Candidate is also due for re-release, staring (mmm, mmm, mmm) Barrack Hussein Obama.

167 If I hadn't read the book I would have had no clue what was going on half the time.

What happens in the book and what happens in the movie aren't the same things. The movie is only what you see. Kubrick doesn't leave anything out; he takes things out.

2001 and The Shining are the only two movies I can think of that aren't just better than the books, they're better ideas than the books, because all the narrative self-interpretation is stripped off. They're pure.

They're also boring.

168

169 AFI's actual list of top 100 comedies:

http://tinyurl.com/oswnkh

LIke usual you will not agree with most of it.

It's like they just made a random list of 100 comedies.

169 That's "meteor." If it's in space it's a meteoroid, burning up in the atmosphere a meteor, and on the ground a meteorite. Duck, M'fer

170 BTW, Anchorman is not even on the list and Caddyshack is at #71 below some movies which aren't even comedies.

I think that kind of shit is why the above video spoofing them was made.

171

That's "meteor." If it's in space it's a meteoroid, burning up in the atmosphere a meteor, and on the ground a meteorite.

Hate to nitpick but I'm an astronomy guy and I'm supposed to do that.

Posted by: Aaron at August 12, 2010 06:39 PM (XUIJ5)

I'm gonna hunt you down and kick you in the balls.

172 Greatest Comedy of All Time: MAJOR PAYNE

173 Chooga chooga chooga chooga, chooga chooga chooga chooga... toot toot!

174 "Night of the Meteor" was pretty cool.  The chicks got Uzis, or did they bitch about not getting UZis?

175 180 What?  No mention of Stripes yet?

That movie was funny and that's the fact, jack!

General Barnicke: Where have you been soldier?
John Winger: Training, sir.
Soldiers: Training, sir.
General Barnicke: What kind of training?
John Winger: Army training, sir.
Soldiers: Army training, sir.

176 162,

Loved O Brother Where Art Thou.. It's the only Clooney movie I can watch besides the Ocean's movies when I'm drankin.

177

I know that Leslie Nielsen' terribly funny later movies had a similar effect on me:  They made it difficult for me to watch his earlier stuff.  The later ones make it feel like the funny was just around the corner in movies like Forbidden Planet.  His delivery was exactly the same.  He just changed the timing a little bit.

 

I'm the same way.  And he used to play the "heavy" in a lot of TV detective shows too.

178 Sorry to say, I wasn't fond of Anchorman.  It was okay.

179 Don't forget T&A, dude.

Posted by: CoolCzech at August 12, 2010 06:38 PM (tJjm/) 

You are correct sir, yes.

180 Those are almost impossible to watch now without an occasional smirk or laugh.

181 They're also boring.

2001 is a movie I've never had the patience to sit through more than once, but The Shining has for me stood up to repeated viewings for years.  It's the greatest example of pure atmospheric horror I've ever seen, and that's the best and most effective kind.  And yes, the movie far outdoes the book, something that I think King himself has recognized and been frustrated by for years (which surely spurred the awful, "more faithful" mini-series starring that guy from "Wings").

182 Posted by: Vic at August 12, 2010 06:39 PM

I've seen all but one of these. The list strikes me as the usual "filmmaker's list of most Important" films. Pretense over laffs.

The Chaplin features listed were far from his best (or funniest) films, WC Fields didn't make it at all, and some of the rest are just, well, not funny.

That said, some of the comedies from the 1930s are truly wonderful. I like 'em, despite them receiving the AFI seal of approval..

This reminds me why I never post my "Top 10" or "Top 100" lists of anything. Tastes vary, and nowhere is that more true than comedy.

_{Even though I am always right.}

183 AFI's top 100 overall list

http://tinyurl.com/ptv6fe

Here are their top 10:

1.CITIZEN KANE (1941)
2.CASABLANCA (1942)
3.GODFATHER, THE (1972)
4.GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
5.LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
6.WIZARD OF OZ, THE (1939)
7.GRADUATE, THE (1967)
8.ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
9.SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)
10.SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)

184 181 Greatest Comedy of All Time:


MAJOR PAYNE

Posted by: ChicagoJedi at August 12, 2010 06:46 PM (WZFkG)

Major Payne: There's gotta be someone left needs killin...

Officer: I'm sorry Major, you've killed them all.

185 And Dark Star...!  Existential conversations with a thermonuclear bomb is pure entertainment.

186 Full Metal Jacket was funny and it made me a better teacher.

187

The best comedy hands down is "Pooty Tang".

188 That's "meteor." If it's in space it's a meteoroid, burning up in the atmosphere a meteor, and on the ground a meteorite.

Duck, M'fer

Posted by: nameless rock falling from space
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I don't much like snorting coffee through my nose but it was worth it for that.

189
Biggest buzzkill commenters :
1) Vic
2) ?

190 And Dark Star...!  Existential conversations with a thermonuclear bomb is pure entertainment.

Posted by: Gandalf de Blanco at August 12, 2010 06:53 PM

Word.

191

"Dawn of the Dead" 1978.  If it ain't here then the list is worthless.

Word, Flyboy.

192 Here are their top 10:

1.CITIZEN KANE (1941)
2.CASABLANCA (1942)
3.GODFATHER, THE (1972)
4.GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
5.LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
6.WIZARD OF OZ, THE (1939)
7.GRADUATE, THE (1967)
8.ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
9.SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)
10.SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)

Posted by: Vic at August 12, 2010 06:52 PM (/jbAw)

It's true: Schindler's List was much funnier than Anchorman.

193 1.CITIZEN KANE (1941)
2.CASABLANCA (1942)
3.GODFATHER, THE (1972)
4.GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
5.LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
6.WIZARD OF OZ, THE (1939)
7.GRADUATE, THE (1967)
8.ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
9.SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)
10.SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)

Posted by: Vic at August 12, 2010 06:52 PM (/jbAw)

Notice what all of those movies have in common?

194 Despite Janeane Garofalo, Wet Hot American Summer was hilarious. When I saw it in the theater, people were rolling in the aisle. It's also very quotable.

195

It's true: Schindler's List was much funnier than Anchorman.

Posted by: stuiec at August 12, 2010 06:57 PM (7AOgy)

Did you make out during the movie?

196 Thanks but no thanks, think I'll stick with the Three Stooges.

197 Grandma's Boy was also pretty funny. I'm surprised no one has mentioned Rob Schneider's oeuvre. Deuce Bigalow 1 & 2 and The Animal. Screen magic...

198 "Notice what all of those movies have in common?" They all star someone who's seen Debbie Reynolds naked.

199 Did you make out during the movie? No, but you know what happened.

200

I know that Leslie Nielsen' terribly funny later movies had a similar effect on me:  They made it difficult for me to watch his earlier stuff.  The later ones make it feel like the funny was just around the corner in movies like Forbidden Planet.  His delivery was exactly the same.  He just changed the timing a little bit.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 12, 2010 06:37 PM (Adi4S)

I never compare Leslie Nielsen in Forbidden Planet to Leslie Nielsen in AIRPLANE! or The Naked Gun.  I compare him to William Shatner as Capt. Kirk.  Seriously, it's a wonder nobody sued Gene Roddenberry for plagiarizing Forbidden Planet.

201 I try not to compare, stuiec; it's just that occasionally I can't keep from snickering.

202 LOL, Buzzkill????

I waited until there were a lot of comments. We can't let too many of the morons punk themselves.

203 "My Favorite Year," most definitely... very under rated and clever.

204

The most quotable movie for me is GoodFellas.

(Now I gotta go home. I gotta get my hat.)

205 What about funniest television show? I'd have to go South Park. Runners Up: Archer, 3 Stooges, Married with Children, Futurama, Arrested Development, Honorable Mention: Seinfeld I'm probably forgetting a lot of shows.

206

Pulp Fiction -- Not billed as a comedy but hilarious lines throughout.  Don't you crack up at half the things Jules says in the movie

I used the same fucking soap you did and when I got finished the towel didn't look like no godamned Maxi pad

207 Notice what all of those movies have in common?



What?

208 There were a lot of funny one-liners in "Sin City".

209

Anyone see this?

The WSJ:

How to Fix a Dysfunctional Senate: Cut 98 Senators

WASHINGTON—Apparently the Senate can work quickly after all. You just have to limit it to two senators.

On Thursday, the chamber approved a $600 million border-security bill in 31 minutes, from opening gavel to final passage. While their colleagues were enjoying a summer recess, Sen. Chuck Schumer flew in from New York and Sen. Ben Cardin drove his Pontiac from Baltimore to represent the entire Senate in the cavernous chamber.

210 I'm probably forgetting a lot of shows. Posted by: ChicagoJedi at August 12, 2010 07:06 PM

You sure are, Buckaroo.

The Honeymooners, Barney Miller, WKRP in Cincinnati, early episodes of the Simpsons....

And who could forget that laff riot, the Keith Olbermann Show?

_{I could. At least I'd like to try}.

211 What would George Washington watch?

212 Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at August 12, 2010 07:15 PM (Yq+qN) Terrifying that these two leftist douchers had the ability to pass anything or confirm judges all by themselves.

213 Who the hell is Suzi Quatro, and why does YouTube keep suggesting her to me?

214 i find myself rewatching Raising Arizona, whenever i can free the tv from kids cartoons

215

221 More:

If Republicans were concerned about Mr. Schumer, a strong partisan and shrewd operator, having the Senate under his complete control, they professed otherwise. In theory, Mr. Schumer could have passed other major bills unilaterally—climate-change legislation, for example—or named a string of post offices after himself in Texas...

Messrs. Cardin and Schumer admitted they were intrigued by the notion of instantly enacting the entire Democratic agenda while Republicans were out of town.

"I went over with Sen. Schumer whether we could get some of our judges done," said Mr. Cardin. "No one could have objected. By the time they got back, they would be sworn into office."

Agreed Mr. Schumer, with a grin: "We had a long list of things we were tempted to bring up and pass."

 

Pro-forma

216 Funniest TV shows of all time - No particular order

Jack Benny
Red Skelton
Beverly Hillbillies
Burns and Allen
The Honeymooners
You Bet Your Life
Sat Night Live (first 2 or 3 seasons)
Married With Children

217 The movie moment that made me laugh the hardest wasn't found in a comedy, but in an action film - Rambo: First Blood, Part 2.

Some background.  While I was in undergrad, my roommate was skeptical that somebody of my "taste" had never seen Rambo.  So we bought it from the WallyWorld bargin bin and watched it one night.

Of course when Coh showed up, I thought: "Damn.  Rambo's going to get decadent with her at some point".  Fast forward to after Rambo escapes the Vietnamese prison camp with Coh's help.  It's daylight and Rambo and Coh stop to rest near a stream.  "Oh no", I though, "the decadence is coming".  Sure enough, Rambo promises to take Coh back home to the States with her and they kiss.

"Goddamn it!", I yelled.  I leaped out of my chair and walked to the kitchen, shaking my head in disgust all the while.  I had just gotten a soda and turned around to look one last time at the TV when suddenly Coh received a hail of bullets.

"Oh yeah!", I screamed.  "This movie is officially awesome again!".  I must have laughed for about 5 minutes after that scene, literally.  Didn't help that Rambo looked pissed and started going on a killing rampage after that.  Best.  Comedic.  Moment.  Ever.

/FYI.  Originally during that scene, Rambo yelled "NOOOOOOO!" as he held Coh in his arms as she died.  However, that part was cut because everybody in the test theater started laughing.

218 You sure are, Buckaroo. The Honeymooners, Barney Miller, WKRP in Cincinnati, early episodes of the Simpsons.... And who could forget that laff riot, the Keith Olbermann Show? I could. At least I'd like to try. Posted by: MrScribbler at August 12, 2010 07:17 PM (Ulu3i) Wow, maybe it's because I wasn't born yet when they were on but most of those shows bore me to tears. WKRP... really? That's up there with MASH for being unwatchable. Just like Olbermann. Whatever floats your boat I guess.

219 Who the hell is Suzi Quatro, and why does YouTube keep suggesting her to me? Posted by: FireHorse at August 12, 2010 07:20 PM

I dunno. Any relation to Audi Quattro?

220 "Who the hell is Suzi Quatro, and why does YouTube keep suggesting her to me?" She's the Wild One, the Glycerine Queen! I love Suzi.

221 Jack Benny
Red Skelton
Beverly Hillbillies
Burns and Allen
The Honeymooners
You Bet Your Life
Sat Night Live (first 2 or 3 seasons)
Married With Children

Posted by: Vic at August 12, 2010 07:23 PM (/jbAw)

Anyone know what all of those shows have in common?

222 Yeah, they were all picked by me.

223 Who the hell is Suzi Quatro, and why does YouTube keep suggesting her to me?

Posted by: FireHorse at August 12, 2010 07:20 PM (cQyWA)

Because YouTube loves you and wants you to be happy.

224 Deadliest erection killer: Thelma and Louise. Except the ending. I laughed until my sides hurt, and dragged the wifey upstairs to the bedroom by her hair.

225 I've never seen Anchorman.  What's his face is funny in small doses, but a whole movie?  Ugh.

226 Most infuential television show ever: Chico and the Man.

227 And Dark Star...!  Existential conversations with a thermonuclear bomb is pure entertainment.

Pinback, it's your turn to feed the alien...


Anyone know what all of those shows have in common?

Yes.  It means there's dirt younger than Vic.


Want sad and funny at the same time?  Grab the DVD of the Wachowski Brothers' "Bound" and listen to Jennifer Tilly show up on the director commentary only to start pretentiously talking about the little stuff she brought to the role.

Paint me confused.  I thought her tits weren't that little.

228 Anchorman was seriously ho hum movie. 

229 Looks more like a prank to me.

Spinal Tap
Blazing Saddles
Blues Brothers
Monty Python (anything)

If you want quotable, go there.

230 Yes.  It means there's dirt younger than Vic.

Actually it means that TV has turned to shit in the past 30 years.

231 Actually it means that TV has turned to shit in the past 30 years.

Heeyyyoooo!!  Curmudgeon alert!

232 I wish someone would explain to Will Farrell that TALKING REALLY LOUDLY, while it can be funny at times, usually isn't.  'Course, when that's the only thing you've got, I guess you have to stick with it.

233 Curmudgeon or not, Vic is right about the current state of TV, although ironically I think TV was even worse in the late Seventies-early Eighties. Perhaps Vic meant to say "forty years ago". In any event, there was a short renaissance from roughly 1985 - 1995, but then reality TV was incubated, and now, yes, the general level of TV drama is crap.

234 Fuck me but that AFI list of top comedies stinks on ice. Cat Ballou? Harvey? Tootsie? The Graduate?

And all of them ranked above Caddyshack?

235 144 I'm riding a furry tractor, too.

Posted by: Barry O's Facebook relationship status

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Yes, but are you plowing a Furry Furrow?

236

Yea I saw it, but only to see Christina Applegate.  Hate Farrel with a passion.  Would pay money to Christina revive "Kelly Bundy 2010" ... gawd where would she be now?

237 Did I ever tell you guys the story of how I helped Christina Applegate wash her undies in the middle of the night?

238

Cat Ballou was kinda funny, and I loathe Jane Fonda (as an actress; I hate her as a person)

If it hasn't been mentioned yet, it should have been: Bubba Ho-tep

239

I was thinking the story of Peter Lemongello would make a great subject for a funny musical or play.  This guy was the first person to sell over a million albums through direct marketing.  He was a real estate geek who decided one day he wanted to become a crooner.  So he did. 

And he's still going strong.  Has a show in Branson now, I think. 

That would be just perfect for something whimsical, funny, and poignant.  A story about a fake who breaks through personal and public barriers.  There was a wall of criticism about him being an artifical star.  But he kept selling albums.  Eventually, even SNL spoofed him. 

It should be called, simply:  "Lemongello."

240 Oh, yeah.  Or maybe a movie.

241

Erata:  Not a "fake."  A real person who wanted something more.  A hard core dreamer.

242

And Lemongello is still being spoofed.  Here's a scene for scene spoof of the vid I linked above.

243 It saddens me that so many regulars didn't get that the Anchorman #1 movie of all time piece was a parody of the AFI list.  Even though I don't care for Will Ferrell's politics, I still thought it was funny.

244 That, friends, is how parody is done.

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