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    A Match Cut Consensus List: Funniest Movies Ever Made

    Okay folks, here's the deal. I want you to make a list of the 20 funniest movies ever made. The criteria is simple: list the movies that made you laugh the longest and loudest. That is all. Nothing else matters.

    I want recommendations, I want to know your sense of humor, and maybe if we get enough lists, I will make a consensus list.

    To start, for me (ordered according to how much they make me laugh, not my overall score for the film):


    1. Life of Brian
    2. When Harry Met Sally
    3. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
    4. The Emperor's New Groove
    5. This is the End
    6. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    7. Fight Club
    8. Ed Wood
    9. Groundhog Day
    10. Dazed and Confused
    11. In Bruges
    12. Annie Hall
    13. Everyone Says I Love You
    14. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    15. There's Something About Mary
    16. Hot Rod
    17. East is East
    18. About a Boy
    19. Down with Love
    20. Hot Shots!
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    (90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)

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    The Whistlers
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    Pawn (2020) 62
    Matilda (1996) 37
    The Town that Dreaded Sundown
    (1976) 61
    Moby Dick (2011) 50

    Soul
    (2020) 64

    Heroic Duo
    (2003) 55
    A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
    As Tears Go By (1988) 65

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    I love that you have Gremlins 2 so high.

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    Interesting thought experiment. What I did was looking on letterboxd at comedy genre films in which I gave 4+/5, then whittling them down to "real" comedies (sometimes even a slight part of comedy will have it classified into that, such as Out of Sight) and my own liking. About it having to be 4+/5, I know that great comedy doesn't have to be as great a film, but my own reasoning/criteria is that if the comedy is really that good, it will overpower story's or other weakness to gain at least a 4/5 in my view. That said, my ranking goes the same by you in how hilarious I think/remember the films are, not according to their scores (a couple of 4/5 films above His Girl Friday, which is a 5/5 film for me, for example).

    Double spaces separate different personal comedy pantheons.


    1. The Emperor’s New Groove
    2. Singin’ in the Rain
    3. Love and Death
    4. A Fish Called Wanda

    5. Kung Fu Hustle
    6. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
    7. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
    8. His Girl Friday
    9. Groundhog Day

    10. Flirting with Disaster
    11. Some Like It Hot
    12. Chicken Run
    13. Sherlock Jr.
    14. Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
    15. Game Night
    16. Gremlins
    17. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    18. Down with Love

    19. Everybody Wants Some!!
    20. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday

    Midnight Run (1988) - 9
    The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
    The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
    Sisters (1973) - 6.5
    Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5

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    1. Ghostbusters
    2. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    3. Wayne’s World
    4. Young Frankenstein
    5. Back to the Future
    6. Shaun of the Dead
    7. The Princess Bride
    8. Hot Fuzz
    9. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
    10. Kung Fu Hustle
    11. Old School
    12. Rushmore
    13. Dumb and Dumber
    14. Groundhog Day
    15. Step Brothers
    16. Spaceballs
    17. Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
    18. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
    19. Tommy Boy
    20. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
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    Amelie
    Back to the Future
    Barton Fink
    Beetlejuice
    Christmas Vacation
    Clueless
    Dumb and Dumber
    Ghostbusters
    Groundhog Day
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    Jane Austen's Mafia
    The Jerk
    Observe and Report
    Playtime
    Step Brothers
    Superbad
    Team America: World Police
    There's Something About Mary
    This is the End
    Tommy Boy

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    Bones and All - ***
    Tar - **


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    Sort of like this:

    1. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    2. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
    3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    4. Step Brothers
    5. Young Frankenstein
    6. The 40 Year-Old Virgin
    7. Blazing Saddles
    8. Superbad
    9. jackass: number two
    10. jackass: the movie
    11. jackass 3d
    12. Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    13. Office Space
    14. In the Loop
    15. Booksmart
    16. Pineapple Express
    17. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    18. Wet Hot American Summer
    19.Groundhog Day
    20.The Wolf of Wall Street
    last four:
    black widow - 8
    zero dark thirty - 9
    the muse - 7
    freaky - 7

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    1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    2. Spaceballs
    3. The Big Lebowski
    4. Super Troopers
    5. Office Space
    6. Galaxy Quest
    7. Clerks
    8. Three Amigos
    9. Real Genius
    10. Observe and Report

    11. Blazing Saddles
    12. Heathers
    13. Brewsters Millions
    14. Coming to America
    15. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
    16. UHF
    17. Trading Places
    18. Airplane!
    19. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
    20. Clue
    21. Half-Baked
    22. Up In Smoke
    23. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

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    I didn't even consider the Jackass films. I need to redo my list.
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    Christmas Vacation
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    Uncle Buck
    Old School
    Airplane!
    Dazed & Confused
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    Young Frankenstein
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    The first twenty movies that come to mind:

    • A Dog's Life (Charles Chaplin, 1918)
    • Die Puppe (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)
    • Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
    • Hard to Handle (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933)
    • La Règle du jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)
    • His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
    • The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges, 1944)
    • Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949)
    • What's Opera, Doc? (Chuck Jones, 1957)
    • Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin, 1957)
    • One, Two, Three! (Billy Wilder, 1961)
    • Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi, 1964)
    • PlayTime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
    • Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (Woody Allen, 1972)
    • The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May, 1972)
    • Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982)
    • Tampopo (Itami Juzo, 1985)
    • Dick (Andrew Fleming, 1999)
    • Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, 2004)
    • The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
    Just because...
    The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
    Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
    The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild

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    Just thought of a couple more:

    • Taking Off (Miloš Forman, 1971)
    • W.R. Mysteries of the Organism (Dušan Makavejev, 1971)
    • You, the Living (Roy Andersson, 2007)
    Just because...
    The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
    Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
    The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild

    The last book I read was...
    The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain


    The (New) World

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    Some others that haven't been mentioned yet:

    • The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Lev Kuleshov, 1924)
    • I Was Born, But... (Ozu Yasujiro, 1932)
    • Real Life (Albert Brooks, 1979)
    • Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip (Joe Layton, 1982)
    • Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)
    • Virile Games (Jan Švankmajer, 1988)
    • Election (Alexander Payne, 1999)
    • The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki, 2002)
    • Pas sur la bouche (Alain Resnais, 2003)
    • Our Sunhi (Hong Songsoo, 2013)
    • The Forbidden Room (Evan Johnson/Galen Johnson/Guy Maddin, 2015)
    • Synonymes (Nadav Lapid, 2019)
    Just because...
    The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
    Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
    The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild

    The last book I read was...
    The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain


    The (New) World

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    - Midnight Run
    - Airplane
    - A Fish Called Wanda
    - The Pink Panther Strikes Again
    - La Grande Vadrouille (aka don't look now, we're being shot at!)
    - American Pie
    - Road Trip
    - Sideways
    - Dumb and Dumber
    - Bad Santa
    - The Naked Gun
    - Pulp Fiction
    - Hot Fuzz
    - Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    - The Wolf of Wall Street
    - Notting Hill
    - American Pie 2
    - The Last Boy Scout
    - Stakeout
    - Office Space


    Very tough I gotta say, but this about sums it up.
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    • Dark (S2) ✦✦✦✦
    • Moon Knight (S1) ✦✦½ [-]
    • Get Carter (Hodges, 1971) ✦✦✦½ [+]
    • Prey (Trachtenberg, 2022) ✦✦✦ [-]
    • Black Bird (S1) ✦✦✦✦
    • Better Call Saul (S6) ✦✦✦½ [+]
    • Halo (S1) ✦✦✦ [-]
    • Slow Horses (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
    • H4Z4RD (Govaerts, 2022/BE) ✦✦½ [-]
    • Gangs of London (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
    • We Own This City (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
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    "MILO?? Where are you calling from, the bottom of the pool??"



    Sidenote: I should've put Hudson Hawk on my list.

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    1. The Big Lebowski
    2. Dr. Strangelove
    3. Duck Soup
    4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    5. Kung-Fu Hustle

    6. The World's End
    7. Life of Brian
    8. Zelig
    9. The General
    10. The Day of the Beast

    11. The Philadelphia Story
    12. Shaun of the Dead
    13. Common Wealth
    14. Raising Arizona
    15. Annie Hall

    16. Bad Santa
    17. The Cameraman
    18. The Kid
    19. Modern Times
    20. Dying of Laughter

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    Quote Quoting Skitch (view post)
    Sidenote: I should've put Hudson Hawk on my list.
    Hell yeah, moi aussi.

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    Quote Quoting Skitch (view post)
    "MILO?? Where are you calling from, the bottom of the pool??"



    Sidenote: I should've put Hudson Hawk on my list.
    "You touch me again, I'll kill ya."
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    • Fall (Mann, 2022) ✦✦✦½ [-]
    • Ms. Marvel (S1) ✦½ [+]
    • Dark (S2) ✦✦✦✦
    • Moon Knight (S1) ✦✦½ [-]
    • Get Carter (Hodges, 1971) ✦✦✦½ [+]
    • Prey (Trachtenberg, 2022) ✦✦✦ [-]
    • Black Bird (S1) ✦✦✦✦
    • Better Call Saul (S6) ✦✦✦½ [+]
    • Halo (S1) ✦✦✦ [-]
    • Slow Horses (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
    • H4Z4RD (Govaerts, 2022/BE) ✦✦½ [-]
    • Gangs of London (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
    • We Own This City (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
    • Thor: Love and Thunder (Waititi, 2022) ✦✦ [+]


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    Ghostbusters
    The Jerk
    Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
    Uncle Buck
    Airplane!
    Animal House
    Revenge of the Nerds
    Police Academy
    The Meaning of Life
    Modern Times
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    Pee-wee's Big Adventure
    A Fish Called Wanda
    North by Northwest
    Blazing Saddles
    Young Frankenstein
    Raising Arizona
    Dumb and Dumber
    There's Something About Mary
    Rumble in the Bronx
    Rush Hour
    Not Another Teen Movie
    MacGruber
    Freddy Got Fingered
    Borat
    Jackass 1-2
    Hot Fuzz
    Vacation
    European Vacation
    Wayne's World
    Team America
    Last edited by Pop Trash; 05-26-2020 at 05:19 PM.
    Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:

    Top Gun: Maverick - 8
    Top Gun - 7
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
    Crimes of the Future - 8
    Videodrome - 9
    Valley Girl - 8
    Summer of '42 - 7
    In the Line of Fire - 8
    Passenger 57 - 7
    Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6



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    I'll be honest, there's only three times in recent memory I remember belly laughing. Those scenes are below.

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    Quote Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
    North by Northwest
    Intriguing choice. It certainly has a bit of comedy from its wrong man plot going screwball at times, but I think from Hitchock oeuvre, Rear Window or The Lady Vanishes have more comedic elements.
    Midnight Run (1988) - 9
    The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
    The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
    Sisters (1973) - 6.5
    Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5

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    Quote Quoting Peng (view post)
    Intriguing choice. It certainly has a bit of comedy from its wrong man plot going screwball at times, but I think from Hitchock oeuvre, Rear Window or The Lady Vanishes have more comedic elements.
    Cary Grant kills me in that. Drunk Cary Grant. Totally flabbergasted Cary Grant. The scene at the auction. The bits with his mom. Pure gold. Even the scene where he is waiting on the side of the road and realizes the plane is out to get him. Hitch's direction of draaaaaaging it out plus Grant's facial expressions is pure wordless comedy to me. As good as Chaplin and Keaton.
    Last edited by Pop Trash; 05-26-2020 at 05:26 PM.
    Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:

    Top Gun: Maverick - 8
    Top Gun - 7
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
    Crimes of the Future - 8
    Videodrome - 9
    Valley Girl - 8
    Summer of '42 - 7
    In the Line of Fire - 8
    Passenger 57 - 7
    Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6



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    Haha McGruber! That was also pretty funny. Like when they threaten to put the scissor in his mullet. Lol.
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    Per belly-laughing:

    I didn't put Babe: Pig in the City in my list because overall it's not that full a comedy and I haven't seen since I was like, at most, 15, but I remember that the film is both my first full belly laugh, and also the first film I watched in theater, because I vividly recall laughing myself silly at the bungee jump scene, at age 7 in theater.

    This Singin' in the Rain scene, however, I rewatched just now and still found it hysterical:



    (Although the filming scene is aces too)
    Midnight Run (1988) - 9
    The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
    The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
    Sisters (1973) - 6.5
    Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5

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    Quote Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
    I'll be honest, there's only three times in recent memory I remember belly laughing. Those scenes are below.
    Seth may be adjusting his glasses at 1:20, but I will never believe that was anything other than him stifling laughing.

    Hot Rod very nearly made my list but I haven't seen it enough.

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    #1: What's Up, Doc? (Bogdanovich)

    Followed by everything else...

    I'll see about making a list.

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