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FFA Movie Poll - 1978 Lists due 8/26 (1 Viewer)

KarmaPolice said:
Whoa, good question.  I would probably have to think about that.  (and PM you since I take enough #### about my crap comedy tastes as it is) ;)  
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Nearly impossible to answer... based purely on laughs off the top of my head: City Lights, Bringing Up Baby, Some Like It Hot, Dr. Strangelove but I could just as easily go

This is Spinal Tap, Monty Pyhton and the Holy Grail, Superbad and Dumb and Dumber. 

 
Ilov80s said:
Nearly impossible to answer... based purely on laughs off the top of my head: City Lights, Bringing Up Baby, Some Like It Hot, Dr. Strangelove but I could just as easily go

This is Spinal Tap, Monty Pyhton and the Holy Grail, Superbad and Dumb and Dumber. 
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Yeah, mine would be a lot newer than that.  

Off the top of my head movies like Kingpin, Step Brothers, Clerks, Dumb and Dumber came to mind with Cable Guy, There's Something About Mary, 40 Year Old Virgin on the cusp or rotated in.  I think it would take me quite a bit before I got to pre-90s comedies as far as what I would grab off my shelf to watch if I needed a laugh.  

ETA:  :scared:

 
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KarmaPolice said:
:lol:

Yeah, mine would be a lot newer than that.  

Off the top of my head movies like Kingpin, Step Brothers, Clerks, Dumb and Dumber came to mind with Cable Guy, There's Something About Mary, 40 Year Old Virgin on the cusp or rotated in.  I think it would take me quite a bit before I got to pre-90s comedies as far as what I would grab off my shelf to watch if I needed a laugh.  

ETA:  :scared:
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D&Der is great. Same with 40 YOV and Mary. Those are well worthy of Rushmore spots. 

 
Ilov80s said:
D&Der is great. Same with 40 YOV and Mary. Those are well worthy of Rushmore spots. 
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I think of those I listed, Cable Guy would be the odd man out for most.  So many scenes crack me up though - from basketball game to porno password to first scene when he comes to Brodrick's house.   Don't know how the general population feels about Kingpin, either.   

 
KarmaPolice said:
I think of those I listed, Cable Guy would be the odd man out for most.  So many scenes crack me up though - from basketball game to porno password to first scene when he comes to Brodrick's house.   Don't know how the general population feels about Kingpin, either.   
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Kingpin is good. I feel like  it has a Step Bros rep. 

 
Watched "Revenge of the Pink Panther" last night.  As I mentioned in the 50s thread, I love Peter Sellers.  I had avoided Revenge because I had always understood that it's where Blake Edwards started to lose his touch.  I would agree with that, although still not a bad movie.  Plenty of slapstick and laughs to be entertaining; nothing great, but an above average comedy.  But, if someone was unfamiliar with the series, I'd certainly put "A Shot in the Dark" well above it (a classic which would miss my Comedy Rushmore only because I would want to limit myself to one Sellers, and that would have to be Strangelove), and "Return of the Pink Panther" a step above it too.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
Oof.  Sadly I can't think of any really recent stuff, but again, my comedy meter is off.  I tried more popular stuff like Game Night and thought it was pretty terrible.  

 Best I could think of that I remember really liking was Bad Words, but that was 2013.  I also seem to gravitate towards squirm-enducing, uncomfortable comedies.   

HERE  is a list of the Rolling Stone's top 50 comedies of the 21st Century.  Some toward the top I love (Step Brothers, Tropic Thunder) others I hate (Wes Anderson, and surprisingly Punch Drunk).   But a lot of that list also feels like most of the list is from the 1st part of the decade.  
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Was Punch Drunk Love really a comedy? I actually like it but I don't really see it as a comedy but then again not sure what you could label it otherwise.

 
Dr. Octopus said:
Was Punch Drunk Love really a comedy? I actually like it but I don't really see it as a comedy but then again not sure what you could label it otherwise.
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:shrug:

Not sure on a bunch of those as far as how much of a "comedy" they are.   Ladybird, A Serious Man, Punch Drunk, etc..    Not as bas as some of the horror lists I see (Super Size Me is the scariest movie of the year! ), but a lot feel to me like they are trying a tad to hard to shoehorn some in to make their list a little different.  

 
Doesn't seem to be a ton of interest in this year.  Of course it's one that I had more excitement for the top movies than most years in the 70s.  ;)

I watched Jaws 2 and The Fury this week, and that didn't do much to convince me about any better quality towards the middle to bottom of the list of movies (no surprise there). 

Still going to get in Last Waltz and maybe a Dawn of the Dead re-watch, but it might be time to start up some '94 research. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
Doesn't seem to be a ton of interest in this year.  Of course it's one that I had more excitement for the top movies than most years in the 70s.  ;)

I watched Jaws 2 and The Fury this week, and that didn't do much to convince me about any better quality towards the middle to bottom of the list of movies (no surprise there). 

Still going to get in Last Waltz and maybe a Dawn of the Dead re-watch, but it might be time to start up some '94 research. 
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I am watching a few films but my list will be short. I just don't like a lot of these 70s films. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
Doesn't seem to be a ton of interest in this year.  Of course it's one that I had more excitement for the top movies than most years in the 70s.  ;)

I watched Jaws 2 and The Fury this week, and that didn't do much to convince me about any better quality towards the middle to bottom of the list of movies (no surprise there). 

Still going to get in Last Waltz and maybe a Dawn of the Dead re-watch, but it might be time to start up some '94 research. 
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Jaws was a film that shouldn't have had any sequels from an artistic perspective but obviously :moneybag:  rules.

 
KarmaPolice said:
Doesn't seem to be a ton of interest in this year.  Of course it's one that I had more excitement for the top movies than most years in the 70s.  ;)

I watched Jaws 2 and The Fury this week, and that didn't do much to convince me about any better quality towards the middle to bottom of the list of movies (no surprise there). 

Still going to get in Last Waltz and maybe a Dawn of the Dead re-watch, but it might be time to start up some '94 research. 
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I liked this year, and thought it was deeper than 1974 and 1971.  Easier for me to get to at least 10 than it was in those years.  I haven't really discovered anything that wowed me in research, but I've liked quite a few in research digging past the well-known ones (like Blue Collar and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith).

ETA: Ringer story on Blue Collar (although they get the year wrong).  Guardian story on The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith.

 
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The Last Waltz is still the gold standard for concert films.  Scorsese had a great event to record but that's not what makes the movie great.  The film's structure works well with the interview segments and musical numbers complimenting each other.  The way the film is shot and cut is what sets it apart.  The director and editors had an uncanny knack for selecting the perfect shot throughout the movie and just as importantly, held that shot for much longer than typical in concert movies.

It's unfair to compare a film that was carefully edited after the event with a live concert feed but it seems like directors of the latter always err on the side of too many cuts.  They try to create excitement by switching rapidly between cameras but the net result is often disorienting for the audience.  The Last Waltz was shot on 35mm with large, complex cameras.  Modern concert footage can use much more advanced technology including remote controlled cameras that can provide almost limitless angles but they still can't duplicate what Scorsese did over 40 years ago.

 
1996 is loaded in the middle with so many great "fun" films, but this will be interesting.  Besides Fargo, there is not much that I see on first pass as far as dramas/critical darlings that will get a lot of points.   I am hoping that the Coens keep us from having a Major League type of year.  

 
20th C Rushmore: The Producers (1968), A Night at the Opera, Holy Grail, Dr Strangelove (Groundhog Day, if Dr S is disqualified as a drama)

21st C Rushmore: Borat, 40yo Virgin, Juno, Napoleon Dynamite

ETA: point of reference - none of the 21st C comedies crack the all-time comedy Rushmore

 
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wikkidpissah said:
20th C Rushmore: The Producers (1968), A Night at the Opera, Holy Grail, Dr Strangelove (Groundhog Day, if Dr S is disqualified as a drama)

21st C Rushmore: Borat, 40yo Virgin, Juno, Napoleon Dynamite

ETA: point of reference - none of the 21st C comedies crack the all-time comedy Rushmore
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I am really good with that list.

I'm swapping in Something about Mary for ND, which never completely worked for me. also might add Arsenic and old Lace, which I remember being completely zany. definitely adding Spinal Tap. big fan of Groundhog Day... had an architecture studio critic try to get us to do a whole project based on the thing in grad school. that didn't fly, but I still love the movie on a lot of levels.

 
KarmaPolice said:
Wikkid always has a surprise for me on his lists - this time it's Napoleon Dynamite.  
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I'm a sucker for brands of humor which havent before been mined so, for all its dead spots, the purity of and faith in personal weirdness in NP made me laugh & cry.

ETA: it was between NP and a choice that surprised you earlier, The Other Guys - makes me giggle like a puddle of pixiepiss every time....

 
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wikkidpissah said:
I'm a sucker for brands of humor which havent before been mined so, for all its dead spots, the purity of and faith in personal weirdness in NP made me laugh & cry.
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:thumbup:

I've noticed that a lot of my favorite comedies are ones that I really didn't love (or even like at all in Napoleon's case) the first time, but grew on me after repeat viewings.   Napoleon, Cable Guy, Kingpin, would fall into this category.  The opposite are movies like The Hangover where I laughed a bit the first time, but got less and less funny on repeat viewings.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
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I've noticed that a lot of my favorite comedies are ones that I really didn't love (or even like at all in Napoleon's case) the first time, but grew on me after repeat viewings.   Napoleon, Cable Guy, Kingpin, would fall into this category.  The opposite are movies like The Hangover where I laughed a bit the first time, but got less and less funny on repeat viewings.  
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Cable Guy's gonna be very high on my '96 list - for my money  that's when they finally got solo Carrey right

 
wikkidpissah said:
Cable Guy's gonna be very high on my '96 list - for my money  that's when they finally got solo Carrey right
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Yep, that and Kingpin are the same year, so that means a comedy might actually get some pretty high points from me for once.   We will see because there is a lot of stuff I love from the year.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
@Eephus - I see it as '78.   Wiki's first line states it's a 78 film and it looks like it premiered at Cannes that year.  

:shrug:
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not that it much matters, but i'd like to replace Desire with Maria Braun in my top 20 then. My favorite Fassbinder til Krista turned us on to Ali and definitely a flick to check out

 
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8 years old and went to a lot of movies. A few of these I saw multiple times in the theater. A funny memory was my friend and I going to see Attack of The Killer Tomatoes with our moms. It was so bad they took us and walked out not even 20 minutes into it. We had begged them to see it.....they were not taking it anymore. They then took us straight into Midnight Express....that's right. We grew up in the 70's and 80's and did not live in a bubble and drank from water hoses. 

RIFKEEEEEEE!!!!!

Is forever ingrained in my brain.

Here is my awesome sauce list of a great year in the movies.

Halloween - 30

Midnight Express - 30

Animal House - 30

Grease - 30

Dawn Of The Dead - 10

The Boys From Brazil - 10

Jaws 2 - 10

Every Which Way But Loose - 10

Superman The Movie - 10

Invasion of The Body Snatchers - 10

The Deer Hunter - 5

Heaven Can Wait - 5

Foul Play - 1

American Hot Wax - 1

Battlestar Galactica  - 1

Damien Omen II - 2

I Spit On Your Grave - 1

Magic - 1

Piranha - 1

Up In Smoke - 1

 
ok... I didn't get to see Northern Lights, Big Wednesday or Killer of Sheep- not available on my streaming services, and I never saw them originally or since. I have a feeling they'd all go above most of the things I've listed here.

a few sentimental favorite comedies and kung-fu films, but in another year with better movies, they'd probably not rate.

  1. Days of Heaven- 30
  2. The Deer Hunter- 30
  3. National Lampoon's Animal House- 30
  4. The Last Waltz- 30
  5. The Tree of Wooden Clogs- 15
  6. Heaven Can Wait- 10
  7. Foul Play- 10
  8. La Cage aux Folles- 5
  9. Revenge of the Pink Panther - 5
  10. Watership Down- 5
  11. Gates of Heaven- 5
  12. Drunken Master- 5
  13. Boys from Brazil- 5
  14. Five Deadly Venoms- 5
  15. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin- 5
  16. Up in Smoke- 3
  17. The Driver- 1
  18. Movie Movie- 1
 
one of the weakest years yet:

The Deer Hunter 27

Animal House 26

Halloween 20

Grease 18

Dawn of the Dead 18

Up in Smoke 14

Heaven Can Wait 11

The Wiz 11

The Lord of the Rings 10

Invasion of the Body Snatchers 10

Capricorn One 9

The Cheap Detective 8

Superman 8

The Boys From Brazil 7

The Buddy Holly Story 3
 
I should say though- Days of Heaven and Dear Hunter are two of my upper tier films... top 20ish. so amidst the drek, there are those gems.

 
Animal House  30

The Deer Hunter  30

Goin South  25

Midnight Express  17

Coming Home  17

Revenge of the Pink Panther  15

Up In Smoke  15

Blue Collar  15

The Boys from Brazil  10

Heaven Can Wait  10

Dawn of the Dead  6

American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince  4

The Punk Rock Movie  4

Battlestar Galactica  2

 
It's good to see The Driver get some love (well, 1 point from Floppo :rolleyes: ).  I'll give it a few more than that.

Film noir went out of style in the 60s but It returned in the 70s thanks to movies like this.  Walter Hill's second film as a director set him up for a very successful run of solid action movies in the 80s.  It probably would have been better if the title character had a bit more gravitas than Ryan O'Neal could provide but he was a bankable star at the time.  And you just can't beat big old 70s vehicles when it comes to car chases.

 
El Floppo said:
ok... I didn't get to see Northern Lights, Big Wednesday or Killer of Sheep- not available on my streaming services, and I never saw them originally or since. I have a feeling they'd all go above most of the things I've listed here.

a few sentimental favorite comedies and kung-fu films, but in another year with better movies, they'd probably not rate.

  1. Days of Heaven- 30
  2. The Deer Hunter- 30
  3. National Lampoon's Animal House- 30
  4. The Last Waltz- 30
  5. The Tree of Wooden Clogs- 15
  6. Heaven Can Wait- 10
  7. Foul Play- 10
  8. La Cage aux Folles- 5
  9. Revenge of the Pink Panther - 5
  10. Watership Down- 5
  11. Gates of Heaven- 5
  12. Drunken Master- 5
  13. Boys from Brazil- 5
  14. Five Deadly Venoms- 5
  15. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin- 5
  16. Up in Smoke- 3
  17. The Driver- 1
  18. Movie Movie- 1
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Holy #### I forgot about Watership Down. Brutal!! I really dug that as a kid.

 
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