What are your top 5 funniest movies?
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jesus...I read the title before coming to read the thread and I read this...
threw me off guard.
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interesting behind the scenes on caddyshack since a lot of you listed it in top 5
Inside the drug-fueled, hilarious set of Caddyshack
Inside the drug-fueled, hilarious set of Caddyshack
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I could find my top 5 on the first page or two of this thread. office space, tropic thunder, etc.
I am surprised to see the love two groups of movies are getting
naked gun/hot shots/etc
best in show/a might wind/etc
If you find these movies even a little bit chuckleworthy there is some difference in our brains more extreme than male vs female or liberal vs conservative. Both of those groups of movies are to me the epitome of tryhard not funny at all comedies.
I am surprised to see the love two groups of movies are getting
naked gun/hot shots/etc
best in show/a might wind/etc
If you find these movies even a little bit chuckleworthy there is some difference in our brains more extreme than male vs female or liberal vs conservative. Both of those groups of movies are to me the epitome of tryhard not funny at all comedies.
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In no particular order at all.
Tropic Thunder
Holy Grail
Super Troopers
The Big Lebowski
and...
Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Fuck you I know what you are going to say and you can just stow it. Dracula musical in the Hawaiian bar make me lose my shit every goddamn time.
Boiling the list down to five is impossible, but those are the 5 I would take with me into space.
It's just differences in humor. Some people see zero humor at all in a bunch of British dudes running around the countryside yelling and making funny faces at bad props. For ones like Hot Shots and Naked gun, the tryhardness of them IS part of the funny. It's meant to be very over the top and relies on a lot of subtle word pun humor. Airplane is probably the best example of that style.
As for the Christopher Guest films (Waiting for Guffman, Mighty Wind etc etc, and you can somewhat include This is Spinal Tap since he was a primary writer), a lot of the humor comes from knowing and understanding the over-dramatized people in those subcultures he is mocking. We all know that crazy dog person that gives full open mouth kisses to their dog while everyone else just stands their awkwardly. And that awkwardness is also part of the humor. We all know the insane drama nerd from High School that never got their shot at the Big Time. It's an empathetic or vicariously embarrassed kind of humor.
Tropic Thunder
Holy Grail
Super Troopers
The Big Lebowski
and...
Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Fuck you I know what you are going to say and you can just stow it. Dracula musical in the Hawaiian bar make me lose my shit every goddamn time.
Boiling the list down to five is impossible, but those are the 5 I would take with me into space.
It's just differences in humor. Some people see zero humor at all in a bunch of British dudes running around the countryside yelling and making funny faces at bad props. For ones like Hot Shots and Naked gun, the tryhardness of them IS part of the funny. It's meant to be very over the top and relies on a lot of subtle word pun humor. Airplane is probably the best example of that style.
As for the Christopher Guest films (Waiting for Guffman, Mighty Wind etc etc, and you can somewhat include This is Spinal Tap since he was a primary writer), a lot of the humor comes from knowing and understanding the over-dramatized people in those subcultures he is mocking. We all know that crazy dog person that gives full open mouth kisses to their dog while everyone else just stands their awkwardly. And that awkwardness is also part of the humor. We all know the insane drama nerd from High School that never got their shot at the Big Time. It's an empathetic or vicariously embarrassed kind of humor.
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For those that call Hot Shots absurdism, I respond with "Gummy bears, gummy bears, sprinkles, sprinkles!"
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