Funniest movies
Al Sary
movies, I received the following mail message, which I thought I should post.
I will elaborate on this message in my next article:
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> Subject: Re: A suggestion
> Newsgroups: net.movies
> In-Reply-To: <16...@watmath.UUCP>
> Organization: RCA Cylix Communications Network, Inc.
> Status: R
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> In article <16...@watmath.UUCP> you write:
> >After reading the totally bad movies list, I thought that someone should
> >start a funniest movies list.
>
> You might not get a consensus on this, because tastes vary so much.
> To make my point, I'll nominate some movies that I thought were the
> funniest I have ever seen. But if you post them, you'll probably get
> lots of mail questioning my taste.
>
> My nominees:
>
> "Airplane" was the funniest movie I have ever seen. It is probably
> because it is the closest thing to my bizarre sense of humour.
> My sister-in-law can sit through airplane and not crack a smile;
> she is instead quite perplexed at how anyone could find anything
> in that movie funny.
>
> "National Lampoon's Vacation" (Not European; the original) was the second
> funniest movie I have seen. I saw the cleaned-up version on TV.
> The funniest scene in the movie is where the cop stops Chevy
> Chase for dragging his dog with the car. My wife found this
> horrifying, but I laughed until I cried. She had not seen the
> movie; I was trying to describe it to her, and you just had to
> see the movie and see how obnoxious that little mutt was before
> you could really get the humour. Even then, you have to have a
> cruel streak, like me, in order to really appreciate it.
>
> "Airplane II" was the third funniest movie I have seen. This is probably
> the nomination you will get the most disagreement about. Most
> "Airplane" fans found the sequel inferior, and I agree, but I
> found it funny as well.
>
> Other nominations from RCA Cylix, taken from other workers here, show
> how diverse comedy tastes are:
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> "Friday the 13th," and all sequels.
> "Jaws"
> "Halloween," and all sequels.
> "Murder by Death"
> "Young Frankenstein"
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> Dave Kirby ( ...!ihnp4!akgub!cylixd!dave)
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Al Sary
In article <16...@watmath.UUCP> abs...@watmath.UUCP (Al Sary) writes:
>After posting a suggestion to net.movies enquiring about people's funniest
>movies, I received the following mail message, which I thought I should post.
>I will elaborate on this message in my next article:
>
>>
>> In article <16...@watmath.UUCP> you write:
>> >After reading the totally bad movies list, I thought that someone should
>> >start a funniest movies list.
>>
>> You might not get a consensus on this, because tastes vary so much.
>> To make my point, I'll nominate some movies that I thought were the
>> funniest I have ever seen. But if you post them, you'll probably get
>> lots of mail questioning my taste.
It is obvious that people's tastes differ a great deal, be it funny movies
or not (or anything else other than movies for that matter). From
the discussion on totally bad movies, for example, it seems that one's
totally bad movie is others' favorite.
>>
>> My nominees:
>>
>> "Airplane" was the funniest movie I have ever seen. It is probably
>> ...
>>
>> "National Lampoon's Vacation" (Not European; the original) was the second
>> ...
>>
>> "Airplane II" was the third funniest movie I have seen. This is probably
>> ...
>>
I also thought these movies were very funny, although they are not
the funniest movies I have ever seen (I liked Vacation a lot, although
a lot of people didn't find it as funny as I did; Airplane and Airplane
II were great too).
>> Other nominations from RCA Cylix, taken from other workers here, show
>> how diverse comedy tastes are:
>>
>> "Friday the 13th," and all sequels.
>> "Jaws"
>> "Halloween," and all sequels.
>> "Murder by Death"
>> "Young Frankenstein"
>>
Among these movies, only Young Frankenstein is a comedy (it is a rather
good one too, but not the funniest movie I have ever seen).
(I don't know if Murder by Death is a comedy or not.)
I am a bit puzzled about the others; also keep in mind that just because
a movie is so bad that it is funny, it doesn't make it the funniest movie
(at least I am hard pressed to think of such a movie for myself.)
(you really have to be a pschyco to find Friday the 13th or Halloween
funny, or even Jays - I can't remember anyone laughing when I saw Jays)
I realize that you also have to be in a certain mood to really enjoy
a funny movie; sometimes a movie seems really funny, and the next time you
see it it isn't such a big deal. But then, this is true for other
type of movies too: the second time may give you a different
perspective.
Allan McKillop
> (I don't know if Murder by Death is a comedy or not.)
I just saw Murder By Death tonight on my VCR, and i had a couple
of questions for people who have seen it before both on tv and
in the theater (which i had never done).
MBD is shown every year or so on a local independant channel, and that is
where i first saw it, but when i watched it tonight on VCR, i noticed some
differences (and so did the people i was with). The first thing we noticed
was that miss witherspoon (jessica marble's nurse) had some extra lines
(most noticably muttering "Jesus H. Christ" at one point). The other thing
we noticed (or more exactly failed to notice) was Sherlock Holmes late
arrival on the VCR version. Has anybody else out there noticed these
differences between a tv and movie version? is there anyone out there
who saw it when it was actually playing in the movie theaters who
noticed other scenes added or cut from the origional?
Thanks,
--
Allan McKillop
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John Slasher Wersan III
> >> My nominees:
> >>
> >> "Airplane" was the funniest movie I have ever seen. It is probably
> >> ...
> >>
> >> "National Lampoon's Vacation" (Not European; the original) was the second
> >> ...
> >>
> >> "Airplane II" was the third funniest movie I have seen. This is probably
> >> ...
> >>
>
Animal House
Start to finish it is all laughs (Even my mother, who NEVER
laughs, thought this was a very funny movie)
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