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Favorite Comedies or Unintentionally Funny Films

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22:24 / 28.12.04

Got a sick friend and want to send him some DVDs to cheer him. Suggestions?

Brigade du jour

23:04 / 28.12.04

Ghostbusters, Trading Places, Airplane!, A Fish Called Wanda, The Blues Brothers, Flash Gordon, His Girl Friday, Annie Hall, Pulp Fiction, The Naked Gun, Wayne's World, American Pie, The Tall Guy ...

Brigade du jour

23:14 / 28.12.04

Being John Malkovich, Shaun Of The Dead, Raising Arizona, Ghost World, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Gung Ho, This Is Spinal Tap ...

Ahh, all pretty obvious I suppose.

23:16 / 28.12.04

Obvious is okay! My friend has very different taste from mine so any suggestions are very welcome, thank you.

23:25 / 28.12.04

The Jerk.

00:05 / 29.12.04

Austin Powers 1 & 3, Shrek 2, The Emperor's New Groove, Strictly Ballroom.

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

00:16 / 29.12.04

Lucky you. Anchorman was just released today.

Sean the frumious Bandersnatch

03:20 / 29.12.04

Silly kung fu movies always cheer me up. Master of the Flying Gillotine, Return of the Five Deadly Venoms, Kid with the Golden Arm, Monkey Kung Fu, or Swordsman with an Umbrella (should you be so lucky!) are my favorites.

I know I'm forgetting a few. Oh, well.

Haus of Mystery

14:06 / 29.12.04

Unintentionally funny?

Dead Poet's Society without a fucking doubt. Never has a film been so far up it's own arse. All those floppy fringes and self-discovery through jazz and pottery (oops I mean poetry). One of the odious little cunts even wears a beret for Crikey's sake. And lest we forget that this film is partially responsible for Robin 'punch-my-face-off' Williams' domination of the multiplex for a spell.

'Captain my captain' - Hoo Ha! I piss myself evry time.

Other contenders - 'Reality Bites' Etahn Hawke and Winona Rider spout faux deep drivel drinking coffee talkjing about coffee. Unbelievably hatable charcters drip angst like anyone outside of their heads would possibly give a shit. So funny. So painful

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SFW with the Dorfffmeister himself in a treatise on Gen X nihilism. With a bungled robbery! Hysterically ugly, self satisfied, contrived bullshit which, once again, never fails to raise a giggle. Oh yeah - 'SFW' stands for 'So Fucking What'. Dude.

14:35 / 29.12.04

Old School.

Oh! and, even better, Wet Hot American Summer. I'm really not one for repeat viewings, and yet I watched that one three times and could watch it again right now. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go hump the fridge....

Foust is SO authentic

14:47 / 29.12.04

Tetsuo! The most unintentionally funny film EVER.

I watched this at a small film festival nearly a year ago. I laughed my throat hoarse - I was seriously in pain for a week.

Let me describe one scene to you. A man - for whatever reason - is slowly turning in a piece of machinery. Bits of metal are popping out of him, etc.

So this guy is having sex with a woman, and he starts to get violent. She hits him to the ground and backs away. Now, he's partly lying underneath a low, shin-high Japanese table. Suddenly, a huge drill pops up out of the table. I stared in wonder as the man stood up, revealing a huge, menacing drill where his penis should be.

For some impenatrable reason, she mounts him. And then the drill turns on, to bloody results.

The final scene is a a huge, spherical mass of metal with two human heads popping out ROLLING DOWN THE STREET while the two human heads discuss their plans to conquer the world. "Nothing can stop our love!"

Maybe it doesn't sound funny to you. But I thought this movie was the most hysterically head-disappeared-up-it's-own-ass movie ever made.

15:23 / 29.12.04

i think it's hard to top Freejack in the hysterically bad movie category. every cyberpunk cliche in the book, plus Emilio Estevez and Mick Jagger. christ almighty.

19:24 / 29.12.04

Funniest movies I've ever seen are To Kill a Mockingbird and Man Without a Face. ...Yes, I'm a sick bastard.

Otherwise, go with Evil Dead movies. Or Bubba Ho-Tep. And yes, Ghostbusters, Blues Brothers, etc.

Brigade du jour

21:03 / 29.12.04

Oh my god, I just remembered one of the funniest things I ever saw - Michael Caine and Sean Young doing an overactive sex scene in a film called 'Blue Ice' (from, IIRC, the director of 'Highlander').

14:45 / 02.01.05

Dead Poet's Society without a fucking doubt. Never has a film been so far up it's own arse. All those floppy fringes and self-discovery through jazz and pottery (oops I mean poetry). One of the odious little cunts even wears a beret for Crikey's sake. And lest we forget that this film is partially responsible for Robin 'punch-my-face-off' Williams' domination of the multiplex for a spell.

'Captain my captain' - Hoo Ha! I piss myself evry time.

Other contenders - 'Reality Bites' Etahn Hawke and Winona Rider spout faux deep drivel drinking coffee talkjing about coffee. Unbelievably hatable charcters drip angst like anyone outside of their heads would possibly give a shit. So funny. So painful

Um, you are aware that that is the whole point, right? They're meant to be like that. Don't you have any memory of what it's like to be an adolescent? Or did you never do or say anything pretentious in your teens/early twenties?

15:59 / 02.01.05

I'd go for either St Elmo's Fire or Triumph Of The Will.

19:09 / 02.01.05

Airplane 1 & 2

Big Lebowski.

The Last Dragon.

Oh, and Ice Castles or something - I haven't seen it, but it sounds like the unintentionly funniest film ever - about a figure skater who goes blind, but learns her routine and goes on with the show - she does amazingly well and everyone loves her (no one knows she is blind) and they throw flowers on the ice as she wins something, and she trips over the flowers, ha ha ha haaaaaaaaa, genius!

19:06 / 03.01.05

Rocky 4 must be the best unintentionally funny film of all time. Pure cold war nonsense:

5 foot nine Italian American, weighing about 160 pounds soaking wet, beats steroid injected, 6 foot five 220 pound Russian (who just happens to look like a John Paul Gautier advert, gay sailor)

better yet, the Italian Stallion does this by training in the snow with a log on his back and if you see the fight the punches miss by about 4 feet each time

classic! has me in stitches everytime I am unfortunate enough to catch it (though I cannot turn it off out of some warped masochistic streak)

Intentionally funny:

This is Spinal Tap (as mentioned above) is probably the cleverest parody I have ever seen and I still cringe in certain places everytime I watch it

Even though I think he is massively overrated, I did like 'Happy Gilmore', it didn't get as overly sickly as some of Sandlers' other films and his lack of acting ability didn't get in the way of my enjoyment

thought Fight Club was funny as hell in some places, particularly the scenes with the English woman in....she was great

Kingpin with Woody Harrelson and the fella (is it Randy Quaid?) who plays the Aimish (sp?) kid is fantastic

A movie I really enjoyed for it's dark humour was something like 'Confessions of a Gameshow host ' (somebody will correct me I hope)

George Clooney cameo'ed in this film and it was dark and funny at the same time. I highly highly recommend it

19:14 / 03.01.05

'Confessions of a Gameshow host ' (somebody will correct me I hope)

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which Clooney actually directed. Written by Charlie Kaufman, from the alleged memoir by Chuck Barris.

Previous thread on the film here. Good call: nice 'n' twisted.

19:38 / 03.01.05

thanks

the coffee scene with Julia Roberts was scarey and funny as hell all at once

Hattie's Kitchen

10:02 / 04.01.05

Showgirls.

One of the most unintentionally hilarious films ever. Gems include lead character Naomi getting so excited by a Las Vegas showgirl dance routine she's watching that she starts doing Vogue-style poses, and also the classic lines: "She looks better than a ten-inch dick and you know it!" and "I got it from Ver-sayce"...

10:24 / 04.01.05

Zoolander, which is intentionally funny, and entirely brilliant. The DVD extras make me extremely happy as well (they contain even more Will Ferrell)

12:33 / 04.01.05

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Tongan Ninja

.....never fail to amuse me

12:37 / 04.01.05

Silly me, I nearly forgot Mr Jackson's demented masterpieces...

Braindead
Meet the Feebles

13:22 / 04.01.05

Schindler's List

14:04 / 04.01.05

cobra. over the top. rambo N. anything with sly really.

14:27 / 04.01.05

intentionally funny romantic comedy:

Steve Martin's L.A. STORY.

16:10 / 04.01.05

"Matador"- an early film by Pedro Almodavar in which two serial killers find love
"Fletch"- yeah, it's Chevy Chase, but it has more lines you'll want to use for the rest of your life than seems possible in one movie 'It's ALL ball bearings these days.'

Sean the frumious Bandersnatch

16:35 / 04.01.05

Oh, yeah, and Shaolin Soccer. Not unintentionally funny, like my earlier picks, but still...a great movie.

16:52 / 04.01.05

See my fresh thread on Billy Jack.

Aw, yeah. Vengeance. Improv. Karate. Pacifism. Snakes. The HAT.

21:27 / 04.01.05

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter.
I saw this for the first time the other night and nearly laughed myself off the chesterfield it was so hilarious.

22:19 / 04.01.05

Also unintentionally funny: anything with Charlton Heston in it. See: Naked Jungle, Soylent Green...

Oh, and Pollock. With Ed Harris.

Haus of Mystery

23:50 / 04.01.05

Don't you have any memory of what it's like to be an adolescent? Or did you never do or say anything pretentious in your teens/early twenties?

No, and no.
I found these films funny. I take it they meant a lot to you?

01:29 / 05.01.05

cobra. over the top. rambo N. anything with sly really.

Fie, the only OTT action film worth bothering with is The Last Boy Scout. All others are but pale imitations. Even the ones that came first.

Last Boy Scout is kinda self-consciously ludicrous, though. Maybe a 14 year-old boy would think it terribly serious, but it knows all the grown-ups are going to be laughing - it’s like a hyperviolent equivalent of the 60s Batman tv series in that respect.

Unintentionally funny would be Color Of Night. Wants to be a gripping, psychological, erotic thriller. And, er, isn’t. In fact, this film will probably make your eyes bleed *unless* you view it through tears of laughter. Humour as protective response.

06:53 / 05.01.05

Try The Dark Side of the Sun or Train to Hell if you want to go for the full MST3K treatment.

... or you could just watch MST3K.

Heatvision and Jack is awe inspiring, and won't take that long to download. Jack Black plays an ex-Nasa astronaut who flew too close to the msun on his last mission, coming back from space super intelligent (but only in the daytime). His best friends got hit by an experimental raygun while trying to break him out of Nasa's research labs, getting fused with his bike (the talking bike is voiced by Owen Wilson). On their tail is another ex-Nasa astronaut, gifted actor and cold blooded killer, Ron Silver playing himself. It's a half-hour standalone written and directed by Ben Stiller, a pilot for a TV show that was probably never intended to exist. Godly.

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