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Frankenette
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 Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:34 am Post subject: TOP 20 Favorite Comedies |
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Ok, another list, the criteria is that these are movies that you find yourself watching no matter if you own the DVD and you will watch them on any crap channel, with interruptions and egregious cutting... Here's mine:
20. Let It Ride
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| You could be walking around lucky, and not even know it. |
19. Holiday
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| When I find myself in a position like this, I ask myself what would General Motors do? And then I do the opposite! |
18. His Girl Friday
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| Take Hitler and stick him on the funny page. |
17. Defending Your Life
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| Y'know if you really wanna make this place feel like Earth, you should open a few of those mini-malls. |
16. Beverly Hills Cop
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| Foul-mouthed? Fuck you, man. |
15. The Big Lebowski
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| Fuck sympathy! I don't need your fuckin' sympathy, man, I need my fucking johnson! |
14. A Night at the Opera
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| And now, on with the opera. Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor. |
13. Hannah and Her Sisters
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| You see the whole culture. Nazis, deodorant salesmen, wrestlers, beauty contests, a talk show. Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling? But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers. Third grade con men telling the poor suckers that watch them that they speak with Jesus, and to please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up. |
12. Annie Hall
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| What's with all these awards? They're always giving out awards. Best Fascist Dictator: Adolf Hitler. |
11. Manhattan
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| No, I didn't read the piece on China's faceless masses, I was, I was checking out the lingerie ads. |
10. The Breakfast Club
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| Excuse me a sec. What are you babbling about? |
9. About Last Night
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| She baked us a pie! |
8. The Money Pit
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Ahh, home crap home! |
7. Coming To America
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The royal penis is clean. |
6. Quick Change
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| "Baby! Up your butt with a coconut!" I think he was prepared to do it! Except I saw no coconut. He, uh, he had no coconut to my knowledge. |
5. Caddyshack
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| You're a lot of woman, you know that? Yeah, wanna make 14 dollars the hard way? |
4. Back To School
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| Call me sometime when you have no class! |
3. Groundhog Day
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| Did he actually refer to himself as "the talent"? |
2. Stripes
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Ma'am, I'm sure there are a lot of ways I've gone that you haven't. |
1. Trading Places
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| He was wearing my Harvard tie. Can you believe it? My Harvard tie. Like oh, sure he went to Harvard. |
What's ya'lls?
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Slfriend79
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20. 'It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' - I think ever comedian of the time was in this one.
19. 'Desk Set' - My favorite Tracy & Hepburn Movie.
18. 'What A Way To Go' - Shirley Maclaine's Husbands Keep dying on her.
17. 'Dogma' - Worth it for the 'Poop Monster' alone.
16. 'The Bird Cage' - Gene Hackman in Drag.
15. 'Young Frankenstein' - Enough Said.
14. 'The Philadelphia Story' - Hepburn, Grant & Stewart
13. 'Animal House' - The original 'Frat Boy' Movie.
12. 'Casino Royal' 1967 - Just silly fun.
11. 'Blazing Saddles' - A great comedy Western.
10. 'Grumpy Old Men' - Lemmon & Matthau were hilarious.
9. 'Pillow Talk' - Hudson's & Day's best.
8. 'The Producers' - "Spring Time For Hitler And Germany..."
7. 'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid' - Only Steve Martin Movie I like.
6. 'A Christmas Story' - The quest for the 'Red Rider'
5. 'Time Bandits' - David Warner as 'Evil'
4. 'Caddy Shack' - "A Cinderella Story..."
3. 'The Bell Boy' - Funniest Jerry Lewis Movie ever and he did it in Six Weeks.
2. 'Ghost Busters' - "He Slimmed Me Ray."
1. 'Monty Python And The Holy Grail' - Best Comedy ever.
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Mark Pogue
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"The Money Pit"
"Stripes"
"History of the World Part 1"- Mel Brooks
"Shawshank Redemption"- Morgan Freeman
"Men of Honor"- Love the dialogue!
"Glory"- Love the struggle for equality!
"My Wicked,Wicked Ways"(bio of Errol Flynn)
"They Died With Their Boots On"- Errol Flynn
"The Birds"- Alfred Hitchcock
"Young Frankenstein"
"Coming To America"
"Stir Crazy"
"An Inconvenient Truth"
"Fahrenheit 911"
"Life"- Eddie Murphy/Martin Lawrence, "White people here are sure serious about their pie!"
"Meet The Fockers"
"Hail, Hail Rock and Roll!"
"Night of the Living Dead"
"Bean"(the movie)
"Back To School"
"Frances"
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Bob Dobalina
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A Hard Days Night:
JOHN
(to PAUL)
Eh, he's a nice old man, isn't he?
PAUL
Oh yeah, he's very clean, y'know.
JOHN
You see.
(to Grandad)
You know your trouble -- you should have gone
West to America. You'd have wound up a Senior
Citizen of Boston. As it is you took the wrong
turning and what happened, you're a lonely old
man from Liverpool.
GRANDFATHER
(fighting back)
But I'm clean.
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hellotracy
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i like this one
Fuck sympathy! I don't need your fuckin' sympathy, man, I need my fucking johnson!
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the roser
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20Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke
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| Jeez, I hope your dick's bigger than this, man. |
19. The Big Lebowski
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| Nihilists! F*k me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos. |
18. Caddyshack
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| So I got that goin' for me, which is nice. |
17. 48 Hours
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Reggie: You said bullshit and experience is all it takes, right?
Jack: Right.
Reggie: Come on in and experience some of my bullshit. |
16. Something About Mary
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Pat Healy: I work with retards.
Mary: Isn't that a little, uhm, politically incorrect?
Pat Healy: Well, heh, to hell with that... no one's going to tell me who I can and can't work with, right? |
15. Stripes
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| You can't leave! All the plants will die! |
14. Superbad
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Evan: I heard she got breast reduction surgery.
Seth: What? That's like slapping God across the face for giving you a beautiful gift. |
13. A Fish Called Wanda
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| Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not "Every man for himself." And the London Underground is not a political movement. |
12. Napolean Dynamite
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| You know, there's like a boat-load of gangs at this school. This one gang kept wanting me to join because I'm pretty good with a bow staff. |
11. 40 Year Old Virgin
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| If I have to hear "Yamo Be There" one more time, I'm going to "Yamo" burn this place to the ground. |
10. Dogma
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| Human beings have neither the aural nor the psychological capacity to withstand the awesome power of God's true voice. Were you to hear it, your mind would cave in and your heart would explode within your chest. We went through five Adams before we figured that one out. |
9. Young Frankenstien
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| Wait Master, it might be dangerous... you go first. |
8. Swingers
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| Trent, the beautiful babies don't work the midnight to six shift on a Wednesday. This is like the skank shift. |
7. Blazing Saddles
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| Hello, handsome, is that a ten-gallon hat or are you just enjoying the show? |
6. The Jerk
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| He hates these cans! |
5. Animal House
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| Christ. Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the f*king Peace Corps. |
4. Blues Brothers
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| I ran out of gas. I, I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts. IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD. |
3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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| Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of silly persons! |
2. Fargo
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| I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work, there, Lou. |
1. Raising Arizona
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Policeman: Do you have any disgruntled employees?
Nathan Arizona Sr.: Hell, they're all disgruntled. I ain't running no damn daisy farm. My motto is "Do it my way or watch your butt!" |
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Bob Dobalina
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| So I got that goin' for me, which is nice. |
That's a classic line. Caddy Shack is a fun packed movie!
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| Pat Healy: Well, heh, to hell with that... no one's going to tell me who I can and can't work with, right? |
This is one of my favorite lines from There's something about Mary:
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| TUCKER: Don't flatter yourself--I was following her, I always do. |
I also like that is has cameo appearances with Johnathan Richman.
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archvixer
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A few of these aren't from movies that you would find just flipping through the channels, but a few are.
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| I'd like to think that the last thing that went through his head, other than that bullet, was to wonder how the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him. |
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| He's got two left feet. |
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| Charlie, they took my thumb. |
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| So you hired a dick to find an asshole? |
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| Just a minute - just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was - why, in the twenty-five years since he and Uncle Billy started this thing, he never once thought of himself. Isn't that right, Uncle Billy? He didn't save enough money to send Harry to school, let alone me. But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Potter, and what's wrong with that? Why - here, you're all businessmen here. Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers? You - you said - what'd you say a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even ought to think of a decent home. Wait? Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken down that they... Do you know how long it takes a working man to save five thousand dollars? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well, in my book he died a much richer man than you'll ever be. |
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| I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! |
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| Because it's Hitler's harmonica. You can't play Hitler's harmonica. |
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| "We just put Sir Issac Newton in the driver seat." |
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| Champ, wake up, Champ! Hey, don't sleep now. We got to go home. Got to go home, Champ. |
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| Do I make you horny? Randy? Do I make you horny, baby, yeah, do I? |
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| Nobody tosses a dwarf! |
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| These go to eleven. |
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| Who, me? Why, I'm not a witch at all. I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas. |
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| Absolutely. Two little mice fell into a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned, but the second mouse, he struggled so hard that he eventually churned that cream into butter and he walked out. Amen |
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| From what I've heard from the outside sources for many years I was very, very much surprised and I'm very happy to say we think the people of this country should be proud of these kids, not withstanding the way they dress or the way they wear their hair, that's their own personal business; but their, their inner workings, their inner selves, their, their self-demeanour cannot be questioned; they can't be questioned as good American citizens. |
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DixieLaneChange
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"Get Shorty" Elmore Leonard is one of my favorite authors.
There are so many funny lines, loaded with very colorful language.
Here's a link to some of the best quotes.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113161/quotes
" I once asked this literary agent, uh, what kind of writing paid the best... he said, "Ransom notes."
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mostomotus
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| Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:34 am Post subject: |
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Has anyone said My Cousin Vinny?
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DixieLaneChange
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| Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 4:53 am Post subject: |
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| "...two yutes"! Funny scene among many. |
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"two yutes", Marisa Tomei's "my biological clock is ticking" speech, the various conversations about grits, and many other bits.
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Bob Dobalina
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Marisa Tomei has got the Brooklyn attitude down. She's exactly like every woman from Brooklyn I've ever known.
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| "State and Main" clever script. |
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Bob Dobalina
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There are lots of great comedies so I don't know how to quantify which are the top 20; but here's a few of my favorites not in any particular order:
1 Any early Woody Allen movies, except for What's New Pussy Cat (which even Woody hated)
2 A Hard Days Night (which was inspired by the Marx Brothers),
3 Any Marx Brothers Movie
4 Any WC Fields Movie
5 Animal House
6 Caddy Shack
7 Meet the Parents
8 Any Mel Brooks Movie
9 Any Bill Murry Movie
10 Blues Brothers
11 Trading Places
12 Napoleon Dynamite
13 I saw Zombie Land this week. That was classic!
14 The Jerk
15 Kelly's Heroes
16 Life of Brian
17 Analise This
18 Natural Born Killers
19 Delicatessen
20 Any Clint Eastwood spaghetti western body count movie
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