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mae
02-23-2015, 07:08 AM
For the Round 1 polls, please vote for up to six titles to move on to the next round. You can vote for less, but please make sure you are not voting for more before clicking that Vote button. The poll will be open for one week. The top six titles will be moving on to Round 2.


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ac/Beetlejuice_film_poster.jpg/215px-Beetlejuice_film_poster.jpg
Beetlejuice (1988) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetlejuice)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euZTIOB9PhU

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/55/Being_John_Malkovich_poster.jpg/220px-Being_John_Malkovich_poster.jpg
Being John Malkovich (1999) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_John_Malkovich)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UuRFr0GnHM

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/64/Movie_poster_Anchorman_The_Legend_of_Ron_Burgundy. jpg/220px-Movie_poster_Anchorman_The_Legend_of_Ron_Burgundy. jpg
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorman:_The_Legend_of_Ron_Burgundy)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T3wnP91OnI

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/The_Palm_Beach_Story_postr.jpg
The Palm Beach Story (1942) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Palm_Beach_Story)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upNFW9NPpJo

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cf/Posterpdl.jpg/215px-Posterpdl.jpg
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch-Drunk_Love)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRbca0W1pJ4

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/The_Naked_Gun_Poster.jpg/220px-The_Naked_Gun_Poster.jpg
The Naked Gun (1988) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Gun:_From_the_Files_of_Police_Squad!)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PACTQutbow4

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/One_two_three43.jpg/220px-One_two_three43.jpg
One, Two, Three (1961) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One,_Two,_Three)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCAMJoj9uM8

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/RobinHoodMeninTights_Poster.jpg/215px-RobinHoodMeninTights_Poster.jpg
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood:_Men_in_Tights)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX4Ik-cyp-I

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Back_to_School_Movie_Poster.jpg
Back to School (1986) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_School)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnvwN8yntok

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/47/c1/8c/47c18c82242908bb16bff5fa6fc10b4f.jpg
Safety Last! (1923) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_Last!)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhNtSU8ubf0

mae
02-23-2015, 09:26 AM
Going with six again, great group: Being John Malkovich, Anchorman, The Palm Beach Story, One, Two, Three, Back to School, and Safety Last! If anyone hasn't seen One, Two, Three, I implore you to seek it out before you vote. You have a week.

Tommy
02-23-2015, 09:30 AM
One, Two, Three is amazing! One sucky thing that happened because of it was James Cagney walking away from films for 20 years because he was so disgusted with his experience from making it though

Mattrick
02-23-2015, 04:04 PM
Being John Malkovich/Punch Drunk Love/Anchorman/The Naked Gun

mae
02-23-2015, 07:27 PM
Men in Tights, really?

skyofcrack
02-23-2015, 07:44 PM
Sad to see not many here are Preston Sturges fans.

mae
02-24-2015, 07:44 AM
Sad to see not many here are Preston Sturges fans.

Yeah, The Palm Beach Story and One, Two, Three are WAY better than Robin Hood: Men in Tights :( Not to mention Safety Last! which is an all-time classic.

Iwritecode
02-24-2015, 09:33 AM
Men in Tights, really?

We seem to be on completely opposite ends of the spectrum regarding which comedy movies we like. :lol:

mae
02-24-2015, 09:56 AM
I like all kinds of comedy, including much of Mel Brooks and other spoof comedies like Naked Gun and Airplane. Men in Tights wasn't very good, I thought.

fernandito
02-24-2015, 09:57 AM
Men In Tights is fucking brilliant.

"And why should the people listen to you?
Because, unlike other Robin Hoods... I can speak with an English accent."

mae
02-24-2015, 09:58 AM
:cool_002:

skyofcrack
02-24-2015, 11:10 AM
I used to love Mel Brooks' History of the World Part 1 when I was younger. I recently saw it again and did not laugh nearly as much. Young Frankenstein has held up much better over time.

Girlystevedave
02-24-2015, 11:35 AM
Men In Tights is fucking brilliant.



You stole the words right from my lips. :)

Prince John: You mean you changed it TO Latrine
Latrine: Yeah. Used to be Shithouse.

:rofl:

Iwritecode
02-24-2015, 11:41 AM
Hey Blinkin!
Did you just say Abe Lincoln?

Theli
02-24-2015, 11:55 AM
Savin' some of the best for last. Voted in Beetlejuice, Being John Malkovich, The Naked Gun, Anchorman and Robin Hood Men in Tights.

fernandito
02-24-2015, 11:56 AM
Savin' some of the best for last. Voted in Beetlejuice, Being John Malkovich, The Naked Gun, Anchorman and Robin Hood Men in Tights.

This guy.

This guy right here.

This is the guy.

fernandito
02-24-2015, 11:57 AM
Hey Blinkin!
Did you just say Abe Lincoln?

King illegal forest to pig wild kill in it a is!

mae
02-24-2015, 12:00 PM
This is bonkers!

pathoftheturtle
02-24-2015, 04:02 PM
Sam Kinison in Back To School -- Great teacher; he really seems to care. About what, I have no idea!

Still Servant
02-24-2015, 04:21 PM
Savin' some of the best for last. Voted in Beetlejuice, Being John Malkovich, The Naked Gun, Anchorman and Robin Hood Men in Tights.

Oh, trust me, we have a ways to go, my friend.

divemaster
02-24-2015, 05:58 PM
I only voted for one.

The Naked Gun. I would have voted for it 6 times if I could. Love it.

Men in Tights? Nah. Funny at times but not all that good.

I almost cast a vote for Back to School, but it, too, is uneven. A couple of really good scenes (Kinison, of course; and Burt Young) but not enough to swing a vote.

I'll put the Lloyd and Wilder films in my Netflix queue to watch at some point.

pathoftheturtle
02-24-2015, 06:30 PM
The best way to watch RH: MiT is back in time when Costner was a big hit. Still funny in spots, but not as enduringly relevant as some other Mel Brooks spoofs.


I used to love Mel Brooks' History of the World Part 1 when I was younger. I recently saw it again and did not laugh nearly as much. Young Frankenstein has held up much better over time.Yes, but the Torquemada production will always be funny.

mae
02-24-2015, 08:33 PM
That's the problem with direct spoofs, they don't age as well.

needfulthings
02-24-2015, 08:38 PM
http://imageshack.com/a/img912/4989/7SyPnQ.jpg
http://imageshack.com/a/img673/8017/a4SRod.jpg
LET'S NOT FORGET OUR ROOTS.
http://imageshack.com/a/img661/2604/sVePBC.jpg
1982

mae
02-24-2015, 10:29 PM
Anyone else surprised at all the Beetlejuice love?

T-Dogz_AK47
02-24-2015, 10:48 PM
Anyone else surprised at all the Beetlejuice love?

Nope. It's a great movie!! :thumbsup:

mae
02-24-2015, 11:02 PM
It is, but first place?

T-Dogz_AK47
02-24-2015, 11:20 PM
It is, but first place?

In this group, most definitely! :thumbsup:

pathoftheturtle
02-25-2015, 12:51 AM
Not sure why you would be surprised. It's a Tim Burton original, a Michael Keaton tour de force, witty, quotable, eye-catching, layered...

mae
02-25-2015, 01:21 AM
It's just that to me there are at least six better ones, including One, Two, Three, which seems to have been blown out in the first round, sadly.

pathoftheturtle
02-25-2015, 01:58 AM
Some movies here are better in some ways, but I can honestly say that it might be the comedy in this group that is good in the most ways, if that makes sense. I understand your disappointment, but I don't feel as much antipathy over this particular success as I have for certain other overrated contemporary movies. If it was all up to me, Anchorman would be in second place, Naked Gun would be in seventh, Men in Tights would also be out and the three classics would be in. Not how these things work, though.

mae
02-25-2015, 02:37 AM
Now, Naked Gun I have no problem with, clever comedy and well-made. But outright classics like Safety Last and One, Two, Three deserved better. But you're right, that's why we have these tournaments. It's all for fun.

pathoftheturtle
02-25-2015, 03:25 AM
I agree Naked Gun is pretty good comedy. I said I "have a problem with" the poll's implication that it is better than Anchorman. It is cleverer, but it has no point except punchlines. You can be goofy, but goofiness only goes so far. Like a mouthful of cotton candy: refreshing, for 1.5 seconds. And it's not made more memorable to me like earlier spoofs by being earliest or by bringing in new elements like some later movies in the same line, such as Anchorman.

skyofcrack
02-25-2015, 08:04 AM
The problem I have with The Naked Gun is that it's so vastly inferior to Police Squad!

Still Servant
02-25-2015, 02:11 PM
Men In Tights is fucking brilliant.

"And why should the people listen to you?
Because, unlike other Robin Hoods... I can speak with an English accent."

This is why he is my brother from another madre.

mae
02-26-2015, 07:16 AM
I agree Naked Gun is pretty good comedy. I said I "have a problem with" the poll's implication that it is better than Anchorman. It is cleverer, but it has no point except punchlines. You can be goofy, but goofiness only goes so far. Like a mouthful of cotton candy: refreshing, for 1.5 seconds. And it's not made more memorable to me like earlier spoofs by being earliest or by bringing in new elements like some later movies in the same line, such as Anchorman.

What those guys did better than anybody else, including Mel Brooks, were those awesome visual gags where they took figurative things literally. You know what I mean. And that was their only point, to take things to the absurd. Mel's Robin Hood has a few nice gags but overall isn't a very good outing. Even his last movie, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, was better.

fernandito
02-26-2015, 12:27 PM
Men In Tights is fucking brilliant.

"And why should the people listen to you?
Because, unlike other Robin Hoods... I can speak with an English accent."

This is why he is my brother from another madre.

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2001_Training_Day/001TRD_Denzel_Washington_004.jpg

BROWNINGS CHILDE
02-26-2015, 12:55 PM
Anyone else surprised at all the Beetlejuice love?

Nope, one of only two I voted for.
Back to School was the other one.

I expect Beetlejuice to do quite well in this tourney actually.

pathoftheturtle
02-26-2015, 03:51 PM
I agree Naked Gun is pretty good comedy. I said I "have a problem with" the poll's implication that it is better than Anchorman. It is cleverer, but it has no point except punchlines. You can be goofy, but goofiness only goes so far. Like a mouthful of cotton candy: refreshing, for 1.5 seconds. And it's not made more memorable to me like earlier spoofs by being earliest or by bringing in new elements like some later movies in the same line, such as Anchorman.

What those guys did better than anybody else, including Mel Brooks, were those awesome visual gags where they took figurative things literally. You know what I mean. And that was their only point, to take things to the absurd. Mel's Robin Hood has a few nice gags but overall isn't a very good outing. Even his last movie, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, was better.

Dead and Loving It better than Men In Tights? Uhm...no. Close, but I disagree. And how can you pick away that one movie from that director's other work right after binding the movie you're arguing for together with everything those guys did, anyway? Just compare apples to apples.

Still Servant
02-26-2015, 04:47 PM
I agree Naked Gun is pretty good comedy. I said I "have a problem with" the poll's implication that it is better than Anchorman. It is cleverer, but it has no point except punchlines. You can be goofy, but goofiness only goes so far. Like a mouthful of cotton candy: refreshing, for 1.5 seconds. And it's not made more memorable to me like earlier spoofs by being earliest or by bringing in new elements like some later movies in the same line, such as Anchorman.

Mel's Robin Hood has a few nice gags but overall isn't a very good outing. Even his last movie, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, was better.

No way... no way. Men in Tights is way more memorable and quoteable than Dracula: Dead and Loving It.

mae
02-27-2015, 07:10 AM
I agree Naked Gun is pretty good comedy. I said I "have a problem with" the poll's implication that it is better than Anchorman. It is cleverer, but it has no point except punchlines. You can be goofy, but goofiness only goes so far. Like a mouthful of cotton candy: refreshing, for 1.5 seconds. And it's not made more memorable to me like earlier spoofs by being earliest or by bringing in new elements like some later movies in the same line, such as Anchorman.

What those guys did better than anybody else, including Mel Brooks, were those awesome visual gags where they took figurative things literally. You know what I mean. And that was their only point, to take things to the absurd. Mel's Robin Hood has a few nice gags but overall isn't a very good outing. Even his last movie, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, was better.

Dead and Loving It better than Men In Tights? Uhm...no. Close, but I disagree. And how can you pick away that one movie from that director's other work right after binding the movie you're arguing for together with everything those guys did, anyway? Just compare apples to apples.

I was merely comparing the late Mel Brooks movies, namely Robin Hood and Dracula. To me, Dracula was the funnier one, but both were pretty bad overall.

Still Servant
02-27-2015, 08:14 AM
True, Men in Tights and Dracula can't compare to some of the classics Brooks was turning out early in his career, but I just loved Men in Tights growing up. I was 13 when it came out and because of that it's always been held to a higher standard in my brain. It just hit on all the right notes that my 13-year-old brain was looking for.

pathoftheturtle
02-27-2015, 08:43 AM
I was merely comparing the late Mel Brooks movies, namely Robin Hood and Dracula. To me, Dracula was the funnier one, but both were pretty bad overall.Neither is his best work. I can see that point. And I had already said that I'd personally rank RH:MiT below NG. But I've also suggested repeatedly that it is not the main standout of the Zuckers, although it's certainly closer to their peak than MiT is to Brooks's, and I was merely arguing in turn that to focus on his later works without touching that point is uneven. Unless it was that one film only that you were talking about. In which case, for the sake of argument, we could look at how the sight gags in, say, High Anxiety stack up. But I would still put Beetlejuice and Anchorman highest here.

mae
03-02-2015, 07:09 AM
The poll has closed. The following six titles are moving on to the next round:


Beetlejuice (1988) 81.25%
The Naked Gun (1988) 65.63%
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) 56.25%
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) 43.75%
Being John Malkovich (1999) 40.63%
Back to School (1986) 34.38%


And the following four titles have been eliminated:


Safety Last! (1923) 15.63%
One, Two, Three (1961) 12.50%
The Palm Beach Story (1942) 9.38%
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) 6.25%

fernandito
03-02-2015, 09:07 AM
I voted for 5 of the 6 that are moving on.

Me happy. :)

mae
03-02-2015, 09:52 AM
I was at 50%, three moving on, three not.