No screwball comedy? No Marx Brothers? No silents -- not even Harold Lloyd hanging off the clock in Safety Last?
Does not compute.
Hey! What a surprise! Hostile 17! Can I get you a drink, Hostile 17?
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
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Fred Pete - Jun 02, 2006 10:26:06 am PDT #1993 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
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.
megan walker - Jun 02, 2006 10:45:39 am PDT #2000 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Yeah, the lack of screwballs is what gets me.
There are lots of good movies on that list. The order is just way out of whack. Basing myself on the criteria of funny, from their list my top 10 would be something like (in no particular order): This is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Best In Show, The Producers, Caddyshack, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Trading Places, Young Frankenstein, Stripes.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 02, 2006 10:46:44 am PDT #2001 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
2001: A Post Odyssey
Jessica - Jun 02, 2006 11:00:07 am PDT #2002 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Apropos of nothing - Corwood, have you been watching The Thick of It on BBCA? It's like The Office, but with the cranky dry wit turned up to eleven. I've only seen the pilot so far, and I practically broke something laughing.