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[movies] Award Season: Post your Best of 2023
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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.
1 hot fuzz
2 death of stalin
3 office space
Perfection.
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.
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
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.
Office Space
All of Me
Better Off Dead
Stalin is by far his best, but don’t sleep on David Copperfield
And I think the sequel threads the needle of calling back to the original while being its own thing
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.
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
O Brother Where Art Thou
Joe Versus the Volcano
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Outstanding list, no notes
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."
I nearly put No Country for Old Men on there until I remembered I was thinking of the wrong Coen Brothers’ five-word title
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I love someone that knows their way around an Interoccetor.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Groundhog Day
Burn After Reading
Cabin in the Woods
Gremlins 2 falls closer to ‘gross’ than gory!
1. Life of Brian
2. Airplane
3. Animal House
Apples and oranges, I know
The peaked so early in the run, it's true:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imWlSMgMFGE
~ Buckaroo Banzai
A Serious Man
Death of Stalin
House of Gucci
All time top three:
Blazing Saddles
Holy Grail
JackAss 1-4
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.
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.
1. The Jerk
2. Airplane!
3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
...I may be an old.
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.
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.
2. Spies Like Us
3. Robin Hood Men in Tights
Honorable mention: The Princess Bride
The rest of that movie is pretty crap imo but Scotty Doesn't Know is an absolute top tier comedy moment.
But the beginning has Dan Hedaya! And the first of 3 Meg Ryans!
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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.
You should see 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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