Too funny!
Posted on 08/31/2017 11:11:11 AM PDT by Phlap
this year BBC Culture decided to get serious about comedy. We asked 253 film critics – 118 women and 135 men – from 52 countries and six continents a simple: “What do you think are the 10 best comedies of all time?” Films from any country made since cinema was invented were eligible, and BBC Culture did nothing to define in advance what a comedy is; we left that to each of the critics to decide. As always, we urged the experts to go with their heart and pick personal favourites, films that are part of their lives, not just the ones that meet some ideal of greatness.
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These lists are always a little silly; there's no real metric for humor. I'd probably add Ruthless People, another Zucker Brothers project. I'm not a Marx Brothers fan, but I'm a little surprised not to see their names in there somewhere.
Bookmarking for additional Freeper suggestions. Mine is “The Ladykillers” with Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness.
The DVD version has an interview with the late Harold Ramis, who directed the movie. He cites a survey that was done some years after the movie was released, in which this movie was selected as the one movie of its generation that would still be considered a timeless classic even a hundred years from now.
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That movie was made just as they were building Berlin Wall.
Difficulties forced them to move to Munich.
Three movies with Jerry Louis in them.... who was voting the French?
I’d put Bananas or Sleeper over Annie Hall.
The most underrated Zucker Brothers movie, “BASEketball”.
It’s silly, but it made me laugh a lot. Don’t know why Parker and Stone hate on it so much.
My favorite, “Office Space”, at least made the list — #80.
Too funny!
Here’s a question: How many of those could get made today?
Earth to Hollyweird....
Doctor at Sea.
“When Harry Met Sally”?
Oh my gosh! I’d gauge my eyes out before I’d watch that again. I got tricked into seeing that in 1989. Not funny at all!
Amazon Women on the Moon
Some odd choices!
I just saw Annie Hall in a revival house in NYC last month and very young women were walking out on it. “Sexist! Bigoted!” They screamed.
It’s still his best movie. So funny.
The only good Woody Allen movies are “Take the Money and Run” and “Bananas”.
You can say that but then you probably believe the Loch Ness monster was Jack the Ripper, don’t you?
However, there is one movie out there that I truly enjoy that I believe that I am the only person who ever watched it: Undercover Blues - 1993 - Kathleen Turner, Dennis Quaid, and Stanley Tucci.
"My name ... is Muerte!"
"Well, hi, Morty ... I'm Jeff."
Not true. Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and her Sisters are classics.
“Raising Arizona” with an honorable mention to the hugely underrated “Used Cars”
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