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[movies] Award Season: Post your Best of 2023

AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered User regular
It’s the movie thread! Undying and eternal! A ceaseless revenant!

It’s spooky season right now, too, so let’s kick this off with the best macabre films to watch after dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight:

https://youtu.be/A6X4VAHdDVg?si=oI6RFYA225dRe_Mg

https://youtu.be/97OQ7MQC5Ck?si=kIhF4la5fDCXYR97

https://youtu.be/Cd8NNcd4Oeo?si=3jrc4eHLAjhoiIKV

https://youtu.be/3eqxXqJDmcY?si=0EQKGT3CsuCO2lsU

https://youtu.be/AlugldzO9zY?si=n9Sr4SCW6pYCPFTB

https://youtu.be/ickbVzajrk0?si=hJhNyG3n8lDO6ak0



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  • MatevMatev Cero Miedo Registered User regular
    Carrying from last thread, stiff competition on the comedies front, but I think it's:

    1. Clue
    2. Death of Stalin
    3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    and just off to the side of the podium are Duck Soup, Young Frankenstein, and Office Space.

    "Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
    Hail Hydra
  • FrozenzenFrozenzen Registered User regular
    To continue the top 3 comedy thing.

    1 hot fuzz
    2 death of stalin
    3 office space

    Perfection.

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    I can't do three. I just can't.

    I can name 10 right now I'd watch if they were on and sit through till the end, but I can't narrow it down to my favorite three.

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    I have no idea how poorly it holds up but I'd have to put Eurotrip in contention

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  • flamebroiledchickenflamebroiledchicken Registered User regular
    edited October 2023
    It's more slice of life than comedy, but I can throw on American Graffiti anytime and never get sick of it.

    Edit: American Graffiti, Clerks, and Spinal Tap might be my 3. Office Space and Hot Fuzz are up there too.

    Double edit: I just realized most of my favorite comedies have a coming-of-age element. American Graffiti, The Breakfast Club, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Superbad

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  • MatevMatev Cero Miedo Registered User regular
    I have no idea how poorly it holds up but I'd have to put Eurotrip in contention

    Oh yah, there's tons of comedies I'd cheerfully throw on if I don't feel like chewing through backlog. Pretty much any Mel Brooks and most of Python's fair game. Hot Fuzz, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Accepted, The Simpsons Movie, Ferris Bueller, Mystery Men, Austin Powers, the Spy Who Shagged Me, etc.

    Just tons of stuff I think has a least a couple good bits and is eminently watchable, which is why the top 3 are just the ones that start with their foot on the gas and don't let up.

    "Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
    Hail Hydra
  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    I was sort of meh on Drag Me to Hell. VVitch next tho

  • ElJeffeElJeffe Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Because I posted at the end of the last thread:
    Pailryder wrote: »
    Top 3 Comedies that you can watch at any time and laugh. Pick the first three that pop in your head
    1. Tommy Boy
    2. Blazing Saddles
    3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    Office Space
    All of Me
    Better Off Dead

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    It’s hard to say Armando Ianucci is underrated given his prolific successes, but I think he’s a name very few people know, which is a crime.

    Stalin is by far his best, but don’t sleep on David Copperfield

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Horrible Bosses is kind of wrecked with Spacey being in it, but I still really like it as a comedy

    And I think the sequel threads the needle of calling back to the original while being its own thing

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  • TastyfishTastyfish Registered User regular
    edited October 2023
    Atomika wrote: »
    It’s hard to say Armando Ianucci is underrated given his prolific successes, but I think he’s a name very few people know, which is a crime.

    Stalin is by far his best, but don’t sleep on David Copperfield

    Four Lions is one of his too isn't it?

    [edit] No, Chris Morris. But in my defence they've worked on a lot of things together.

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Alright

    I really want to put Three Amigos on the list but I also want to put Wayne's World on the list as well and there can't be two SNL movies in a top 3

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  • knitdanknitdan Registered User regular
    Young Frankenstein
    O Brother Where Art Thou
    Joe Versus the Volcano

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
    -Indiana Solo, runner of blades
  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    knitdan wrote: »
    Young Frankenstein
    O Brother Where Art Thou
    Joe Versus the Volcano

    Outstanding list, no notes

  • GyralGyral Registered User regular
    Three comedies:

    Mystery Science Theatre the Movie
    Hot Fuzz
    Trains, Planes and Automobiles.

    And with it being October, my wife wants to watch "Halloween Movies". Actual exchange:

    "Let's watch some Halloween-type Movies."
    "So, how about--"
    "Nothing scary. Or gory."
    "..."
    "Hocus Pocus it is."

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  • knitdanknitdan Registered User regular
    I have a rather inclusive definition of comedy

    I nearly put No Country for Old Men on there until I remembered I was thinking of the wrong Coen Brothers’ five-word title

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
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  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered User regular
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    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    Gyral wrote: »
    Mystery Science Theatre the Movie

    I love someone that knows their way around an Interoccetor.

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  • OneAngryPossumOneAngryPossum Registered User regular
    Alright, if we’re going first to come to mind:

    Groundhog Day
    Burn After Reading
    Cabin in the Woods

  • OneAngryPossumOneAngryPossum Registered User regular
    Gyral wrote: »
    Three comedies:

    Mystery Science Theatre the Movie
    Hot Fuzz
    Trains, Planes and Automobiles.

    And with it being October, my wife wants to watch "Halloween Movies". Actual exchange:

    "Let's watch some Halloween-type Movies."
    "So, how about--"
    "Nothing scary. Or gory."
    "..."
    "Hocus Pocus it is."

    Gremlins 2 falls closer to ‘gross’ than gory!

  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered User regular
    top 3 comedies for me:
    1. Life of Brian
    2. Airplane
    3. Animal House

    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    I like the Monty Python movies but I don’t feel any of them lived up to the first two seasons of the show

    Apples and oranges, I know

  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    I like the Monty Python movies but I don’t feel any of them lived up to the first two seasons of the show

    Apples and oranges, I know

    The peaked so early in the run, it's true:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imWlSMgMFGE

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  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    Recently watched comedies:

    A Serious Man
    Death of Stalin
    House of Gucci

    All time top three:
    Blazing Saddles
    Holy Grail
    JackAss 1-4

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    edited October 2023
    Atomika wrote: »
    I like the Monty Python movies but I don’t feel any of them lived up to the first two seasons of the show

    Apples and oranges, I know

    The peaked so early in the run, it's true:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imWlSMgMFGE

    Most stories place the blame at the feet of John Cleese

    He was always the most obstinate member of the group and least-liked by the others, and for years denied that acting was his day job even when Python was acsendant. He left the group in the third season.

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  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    From other thread:
    Atomika wrote: »
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Atomika wrote: »
    Clue
    The Death of Stalin
    Blazing Saddles

    Now this isn't bad.

    Getting a Horsefeathers or Duck Soup in there would be fun, but still, a solid triple absolutely

    I’ve come around to the notion The Death of Stalin may be one of the best movies ever made

    I think I’ve watched it about six times this year

    Death of Stalin is great and funny but it's just so dark that it's not a "put on whenever" kind of movie for me.

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  • AbsoluteZeroAbsoluteZero The new film by Quentin Koopantino Registered User regular
    This is incredibly difficult but I think I have to go

    1. The Jerk
    2. Airplane!
    3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    ...I may be an old.

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    edited October 2023
    From other thread:
    Atomika wrote: »
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Atomika wrote: »
    Clue
    The Death of Stalin
    Blazing Saddles

    Now this isn't bad.

    Getting a Horsefeathers or Duck Soup in there would be fun, but still, a solid triple absolutely

    I’ve come around to the notion The Death of Stalin may be one of the best movies ever made

    I think I’ve watched it about six times this year

    Death of Stalin is great and funny but it's just so dark that it's not a "put on whenever" kind of movie for me.

    I think the darkness is actually why I prefer it to his other similar efforts, The Thick of It, In the Loop, and Veep.

    The characters in Stalin are truly awful people, and all these things happened in real life (albeit not exactly as the film shows, the timeline is very squished in that), so that detachment and ability to wish the worst on everyone makes it easier to tolerate just how grim the comedy can be.

    But also the film very much wants to to engage with the horror in a very real way. Maria and Svetlana especially aren’t played with any comedy, they’re largely innocents drug into the fray against their will, so we feel their emotions much more clearly. Svetlana’s deep affection and caretaking for her brother come through even with Vasily’s brash conspiratorial pomposity being hilarious at all times.


    I don’t think you can make a broad comedy about a pivotal event in Soviet history that’s layered in mass murder, betrayal, and assassinations. But you can make a bleak comedy.

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  • chrisnlchrisnl Registered User regular
    knitdan wrote: »
    Young Frankenstein
    O Brother Where Art Thou
    Joe Versus the Volcano

    Man I love Joe Versus the Volcano, but I couldn't put it on my list because the beginning (which is very necessary!) is just soooo slow. The rest of it is just, like, peak Tom Hanks for me though.

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  • davidsdurionsdavidsdurions Your Trusty Meatshield Panhandle NebraskaRegistered User regular
    1. Clue
    2. Spies Like Us
    3. Robin Hood Men in Tights


    Honorable mention: The Princess Bride

  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    I have no idea how poorly it holds up but I'd have to put Eurotrip in contention

    The rest of that movie is pretty crap imo but Scotty Doesn't Know is an absolute top tier comedy moment.

  • knitdanknitdan Registered User regular
    chrisnl wrote: »
    knitdan wrote: »
    Young Frankenstein
    O Brother Where Art Thou
    Joe Versus the Volcano

    Man I love Joe Versus the Volcano, but I couldn't put it on my list because the beginning (which is very necessary!) is just soooo slow. The rest of it is just, like, peak Tom Hanks for me though.

    But the beginning has Dan Hedaya! And the first of 3 Meg Ryans!

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    Also last thread was talking about sequels to comedies and Gremlins 2 is way better then the original and may be one of the few times that happens with those kind of films.

  • knitdanknitdan Registered User regular
    I’ve never seen Gremlins 2 but I have seen the Key and Peele sketch about Gremlins 2

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    I love Eurotrip, it's the best "trip" movie, surpassed Road Trip by miles. Just a good raunchy comedy that a lot of people who worked on Seinfeld also made (and it has Kenny Bania as the absinth fairy). Cooper was played perfectly and was never completely annoying like many of the sidekick characters turn into. I love the "this is why France and Germany have always been allies" bit, I always say it to people just to get that same reaction Scotty gives.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdP0JXZpbx0

    The only downside is it probably doesn't connect with anyone who was born past 1990 because they don't rely on smartphones and Jamie used an actual camera with film.

  • DiannaoChongDiannaoChong Registered User regular
    knitdan wrote: »
    I’ve never seen Gremlins 2 but I have seen the Key and Peele sketch about Gremlins 2

    You should see Gremlins 2.

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  • BursarBursar Hee Noooo! PDX areaRegistered User regular
    knitdan wrote: »
    I’ve never seen Gremlins 2 but I have seen the Key and Peele sketch about Gremlins 2

    That sketch is spot-on about the content of the film, but Gremlins 2 is still a fun movie.

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  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    Ernest Goes to Camp
    Anchorman
    Austin Powers

  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    I thoroughly detest Gremlins 2, so ymmv

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