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Posts: 22703 | Location: Montana | Registered: November 01, 2010
"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
Posts: 18494 | Location: Sonoma County, CA | Registered: April 09, 2004
Yep, the first that I saw of the ratings were a thing from the "Today" show. I noticed a great many were from the past 20-30 years. Thought "Blazing Saddles" would have been much higher, "Young Frankenstein" a bit higher. Not so sure "The Naked Gun" would be my #1; definitely in the top five.
Posts: 4038 | Location: Fairfax Co. VA | Registered: August 03, 2015
I went through the list to get the first one I agreed with. Young Frankenstein at number 9 does rate to be up there. I don't see Groundhog Day as funny; while I liked it, it's a time loop sci fi story to me.
Who the fuck is alive today that watched Sherlock Jr. (1924)??? And does the list writer guarantee I'll laugh at this, I'm guessing, silent movie?
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
Posts: 21704 | Location: The Free State of Arizona - Ditat Deus | Registered: March 24, 2011
Originally posted by Browndrake: That list is stunningly bad.... wow.
A list that does not mention Animal House and It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World. And Ghostbusters.
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
Posts: 19275 | Location: Texas | Registered: May 13, 2003
From overlooked generations, "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation", "Support Your Local Sheriff", "The Ladykillers", "The Graduate", "Who'd Afraid of Viginia Woolf" (OK not a comedy, or is it.... )
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Posts: 9192 | Location: Flown-over country | Registered: December 25, 2008
Bamboozled is not a comedy. It's not even in the vicinity of comedy. It's an angry racist rant by an angry racist.
There is nothing funny about it. This is not an exaggeration. It's an angry, cynical, race-obsessed film, made by an angry, cynical, race-obsessed man, Spike Lee.
It's a bad film, period, in any genre you choose to include it.
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Originally posted by Ripley: "Who'd Afraid of Viginia Woolf" (OK not a comedy, or is it....
No, it's not a comedy. It's self-important, pretentious claptrap
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