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The two genres I love most in entertainment are comedy and sci fi. Whilst I could name you 50 great sci fi movies, with comedy I think I'd struggle to name 5 really great ones. I liked the silliness of the Pythons and Airplane!, Men In Black was amusing, Some Like It Hot was pleasant but not really laugh out loud, The Big Lebowski (which everyone seems to love) I thought was massively overrated.
The Alan Partridge movie was good, but not as great as the TV series,' Anchorman was alright, the Austin Powers films were fairly amusing. Spinal Tap, meh, dumb. The various Simon Peg ones are pretty good.
I dunno, am I missing something or does comedy just not work was well in a movie format? Any I've missed that are really good? Annie Hall is usually up there in the 'best' lists, not seen that.
Maybe I've just been fed too many dumb American teen/comedy movies over the years, but while I can happily binge on funny podcasts or TV series', I tend to be disappointed when I sit down for a comedy movie.
Peter Cooke as a psychotic Prime Minister and Rik Mayall as a very excitable SAS Captain!
I bought it on VHS when I was 14, 35 years ago, and have loved it ever since.
Assumption is to make an ass out of you and me.
Those who assume they know you, when they don't are just guessing.
Those who assume and insist they know are daft and in denial.
Those who assume, insist, and deny the truth are plain stupid.
Those who assume, insist, deny the truth and tell YOU they know you (when they don't) have an IQ in the range of 35-49.
The hangover, the first time I watched that in the cinema I was genuinely laughing out loud at points. It takes a lot for me to be like that, Todd Phillips has done some good comedy films.
Old school, Road Trip are good comedy films.
You’ve also missed out on Anchorman, the first is a classic but comedy is very subjective.
Try Laurel and Hardy, particularly Way out West, Saps at Sea, and their short films. Then there is Chaplin, Lloyd and Keaton. While some of these may not be laugh out loud, they are so clever.
Really great is subjective, for me it's what tickles the funny bone for each of us individually, what makes us laugh can change... Some of what made me laugh at 17 doesn't now (Monty Python's Meaning of Life)
So here goes for a list of comedy films in no particular order or claims of greatness;- Life of Brian History of the World Part One Blazing Saddles Spaceballs Stir Crazy Silver Streak Stripes Ghostbusters Animal House Carry on Camping Cannonball Run Guest House Paradiso Supergrass Pink Panther It's a Mad Mad World Soggy Bottom USA Airplane Naked Gun
Blazing Saddles (most things by Mel Brooks in fact) (combining your genres) Galaxy Quest The Pink Panther Films The Man WIth Two Brains In The Loop Four Lions
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Really great is subjective, for me it's what tickles the funny bone for each of us individually, what makes us laugh can change... Some of what made me laugh at 17 doesn't now (Monty Python's Meaning of Life)
So here goes for a list of comedy films in no particular order or claims of greatness;- Life of Brian History of the World Part One Blazing Saddles Spaceballs Stir Crazy Silver Streak Stripes Ghostbusters Animal House Carry on Camping Cannonball Run Guest House Paradiso Supergrass Pink Panther It's a Mad Mad World Soggy Bottom USA Airplane Naked Gun
Blazing Saddles (most things by Mel Brooks in fact) (combining your genres) Galaxy Quest The Pink Panther Films The Man WIth Two Brains In The Loop Four Lions
The hangover, the first time I watched that in the cinema I was genuinely laughing out loud at points. It takes a lot for me to be like that, Todd Phillips has done some good comedy films.
Old school, Road Trip are good comedy films.
You’ve also missed out on Anchorman, the first is a classic but comedy is very subjective.
Most mentioned - Blazing Saddles and Galaxy Quest get my second. Mr Hulot’s holiday - Jacques Tati, is wonderful. Police Academy, the usual reduction in quality with each film aside and I loved The Cannonball run.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople is great, same director as What we do in the shadows and JoJoRabbit - both worth watching.
Grand Budapest hotel (plus other Wes Anderson), Four lions both very good, also more direct / slapstick comedy similar to those listed above.
In the Loop very funny political comedy. Death of Stalin would be funny if you enjoy the writing of Armando Ianucci.
Not much of a mention so far for dark comedies, such as Three billboards outside roping, missouri In Bruges
I don't really think of In Bruges as a comedy. A very dark one. I do like it though.
We watched 3 Billboards recently. We liked it but I can't really see how it would be described as a comedy.
I guess there are different levels/definitions of "comedy." Like the above films have comedic bits in them - even Star Wars has comedic bits - but I wouldn't call them comedy movies.
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