Shrek is rated above The Producers.
'Nuff said.
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
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Jessica - Jun 02, 2006 10:21:24 am PDT #1990 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
bon bon - Jun 02, 2006 10:25:38 am PDT #1991 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Oh, the Bravo thing isn't really worth discussing. You've all noted the Shrek thing. What else? Oh, yeah: Meet the Fockers ranks better than Meet the Parents. Groundhog Day is somewhere in the 30s. Spinal Tap is somewhere in the 60s, IIRC, ranked around other Chris Guest movies. And Legally Blond is ranked higher than all. My guess is that box office results played a high factor in the rankings. The scary movie ones were so much better done.
Hayden - Jun 02, 2006 10:25:58 am PDT #1992 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Still didn't leave me with any desire to see Manderlay, though. Once was enough.
No freakin' kidding. Even my most die-hard Von Trier-lovin' friends found Manderlay appalling.
Hey, Jessica, do you have any interest in writing for the next High Hat? There's a lot of brilliant people here I'd love to get to write for us (especially now that Nutty has thrown down the guantlet with her fantastic article in the current issue), but the buffistae so rarely pitch for us that I figured I'd just ask directly.
Fred Pete - Jun 02, 2006 10:26:06 am PDT #1993 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
No screwball comedy? No Marx Brothers? No silents -- not even Harold Lloyd hanging off the clock in Safety Last?
Does not compute.
Jessica - Jun 02, 2006 10:27:47 am PDT #1994 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'd also guess that movies produced by Universal are disproportionately represented. (Synergy makes clip rights cheap!)
Hayden - Jun 02, 2006 10:28:24 am PDT #1995 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Eh, most published lists are amazingly stupid. Why have screwball comedies when there's Jim Carrey contorting his face?
Jessica - Jun 02, 2006 10:32:59 am PDT #1996 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Hey, Jessica, do you have any interest in writing for the next High Hat? There's a lot of brilliant people here I'd love to get to write for us (especially now that Nutty has thrown down the guantlet with her fantastic article in the current issue), but the buffistae so rarely pitch for us that I figured I'd just ask directly.
Um, wow! I'm incredibly honored to be asked, but I'm not much of an article-writer type person. I'm better in forums where I only have to sound clever for a few sentences at a time...
(I did point DH at your request for Altman submissions -- he wrote a really good piece a while back for an Altman blogathon, that could very easily be tweaked for publication. He's currently writing about 80-zillion other things, but I'll nudge him again to email you if he has time.)
Fred Pete - Jun 02, 2006 10:33:01 am PDT #1997 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Why have screwball comedies when there's Jim Carrey contorting his face?
Um, because comedies are supposed to be funny?
(But then, I am so not a fan of Jim Carrey.)
JZ - Jun 02, 2006 10:42:44 am PDT #1998 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Shrek is rated above The Producers.
'Nuff said.
Exactly. Bless you! Not to mention Arthur rated above The Producers, and The Wedding Singer at #7 and Groundhog Day somewhere in the 30s? And no Bringing Up Baby or To Be Or Not To Be or The Lady Eve?
Hayden - Jun 02, 2006 10:44:35 am PDT #1999 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I did point DH at your request for Altman submissions -- he wrote a really good piece a while back for an Altman blogathon, that could very easily be tweaked for publication. He's currently writing about 80-zillion other things, but I'll nudge him again to email you if he has time.
Thanks! That would be great. I'd love to get you to write for us, too, though. Think of it as a long post!
Um, because comedies are supposed to be funny?
Sorry, I know the Internet doesn't carry smells, but my sentence was soaked in sarcasm.