Best Comedy Tournament: Round 1 - Group E (Tiebreaker)

[mae]

For the tiebreaker poll, please vote for one title to move on to the next round. The poll will be open for four days.

Meet the Fockers (2004)

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This Is the End (2013)

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[mae]

This is surprisingly close so far and it shouldn't be. Watch that trailer again for TITE.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

I will abstain, as I have not seen This is the End.

[Theli]

This Is The End FTW! Just brought it back to a tie!

[Still Servant]

I'm shocked there are 6 people on the planet that think Meet the Fockers was good. I'm going to justify it by saying 6 people thought they were voting for Meet the Parents. Judging by the success of the far inferior sequel, Meet the Parents is going to go a long way.

Exhibit A why Fockers should go. Just dreadful.

[RUBE]

I was going to vote for Meet the Fockers just because of how little I liked This is the End but you have now convinced me neither deserves my vote.

[pathoftheturtle]

I didn't hate it totally, but I'm still not convinced I should try to see This Is the End.

Abstaining.

[Still Servant]

I know I've posted it before, but desperate times and all. If it pleases the court, I'd like to call my client to the stand:

[mae]

This Is the End is hilarious throughout and insanely meta. It's awesome.

[mosheprigan]

I vote for Meet the Fockers! Dustin Hoffman is my fav.

[mae]

Those voting against TITE, I would love to hear their view on why Fockers is better. I understand that humor is very subjective, but still. TITE is a much funnier and better made film. Fockers has a lowly 38% on RT, while TITE is a whopping 88%.

[divemaster]

I didn't see either one, so am not voting. But I must say, the trailers for Fockers looked so bad that I can't imagine having to sit through it. I though the first movie was passable at best.

This Is The End at least looked funny enough for me to put it in my Netflix queue.

[mae]

You still have time to watch it and vote. The poll will close in three days.

[frik]

I vote for Meet the Fockers! Dustin Hoffman is my fav.

Streisand + Hoffman are pure magic!

sk

[Still Servant]

I vote for Meet the Fockers! Dustin Hoffman is my fav.

Streisand + Hoffman are pure magic!

sk

Pure magic in Fockers? Wow.

It's easily one of Hoffman's worst performances of his career. Some truly cringe-worthy scenes.

I love Hoffman too, but this isn't Kramer vs. Kramer or Rain Man. You have to vote for the film, not the actor in the film. I could make the case that after Meet the Fockers, Hoffman stopped getting good movie roles.

By the logic you guys are using, you would consider Little Fockers a good film as well. If that's the case, I just don't know what to say.

EDIT: Then again it seems like I'm preaching to the choir since you have Streisand as your profile pic.

[RUBE]

FYI, preaching to the choir doesn't fit since you don't hold the same opinion. It would be more like preaching to an atheist.

Anyway, Fockers isn't good but neither is TITE. I had high expectations for TITE and was let down when I watched it. I was actually kind of disgusted by the movie.

[T-Dogz_AK47]

Pure magic in Fockers? Wow.

It's easily one of Hoffman's worst performances of his career. Some truly cringe-worthy scenes.

I love Hoffman too, but this isn't Kramer vs. Kramer or Rain Man. You have to vote for the film, not the actor in the film. I could make the case that after Meet the Fockers, Hoffman stopped getting good movie roles.

Okay, let's analyse that....

First of all, Dustin Hoffman's role in Meet The Fockers won him the MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance in 2005. So it's hardly one of the worst performances of his career.

Secondly, since the release of Meet The Fockers in December 2004, Dustin Hoffman has gained further critical acclaim with the following film roles:

2008 - Kung Fu Panda - won the Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production.

2009 - Last Chance Harvey - Nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

2010 - Barney's Version - won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. He also won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film.


It's therefore quite apparent that Dustin Hoffman is still getting good movie roles.

[Iwritecode]

Pure magic in Fockers? Wow.

It's easily one of Hoffman's worst performances of his career. Some truly cringe-worthy scenes.

I love Hoffman too, but this isn't Kramer vs. Kramer or Rain Man. You have to vote for the film, not the actor in the film. I could make the case that after Meet the Fockers, Hoffman stopped getting good movie roles.

Okay, let's analyse that....

First of all, Dustin Hoffman's role in Meet The Fockers won him the MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance in 2005. So it's hardly one of the worst performances of his career.

Secondly, since the release of Meet The Fockers in December 2004, Dustin Hoffman has gained further critical acclaim with the following film roles:

2008 - Kung Fu Panda - won the Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production.

2009 - Last Chance Harvey - Nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

2010 - Barney's Version - won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. He also won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film.


It's therefore quite apparent that Dustin Hoffman is still getting good movie roles.

I didn't know Hoffman did a voice in Kung Fu Panda. Never heard of those other two movies.

Never heard of the Annie or Genie awards either...

[Still Servant]

Pure magic in Fockers? Wow.

It's easily one of Hoffman's worst performances of his career. Some truly cringe-worthy scenes.

I love Hoffman too, but this isn't Kramer vs. Kramer or Rain Man. You have to vote for the film, not the actor in the film. I could make the case that after Meet the Fockers, Hoffman stopped getting good movie roles.

Okay, let's analyse that....

First of all, Dustin Hoffman's role in Meet The Fockers won him the MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance in 2005. So it's hardly one of the worst performances of his career.

Secondly, since the release of Meet The Fockers in December 2004, Dustin Hoffman has gained further critical acclaim with the following film roles:

2008 - Kung Fu Panda - won the Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production.

2009 - Last Chance Harvey - Nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

2010 - Barney's Version - won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. He also won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film.


It's therefore quite apparent that Dustin Hoffman is still getting good movie roles.

I didn't know Hoffman did a voice in Kung Fu Panda. Never heard of those other two movies.

Never heard of the Annie or Genie awards either...

You've never heard of those two films? Exactly.

The defense rests.

As for Kung Fu Panda, the success of that movie had nothing to do with Hoffman's performance. It's an animated film. Maybe I should have been more clear, Hoffman has failed to get larger roles in bigger films since Fockers. Hell, he had like 5 lines in the Indie film Chef this past year.

I have no idea how Hoffman got nominated for a Globe for Last Chance Harvey, the film opened on like 5 screens. Probably because it's in the category of Musical/Comedy and there's usually not a whole lot else to nominate. Barney's Version is another film without a wide release. All I'm saying is that he hasn't been in a ton of major films since Fockers. Maybe it's unfair to blame that on Fockers. This tends to happen to older actors. I'm sure some would blame I Heart Huckabees, which also came out the year he released Fockers.

Also, you didn't just seriously use a win for an MTV Movie Award to prove a point did you?

[T-Dogz_AK47]

For any fence sitters out there wondering which film to vote for, please read the following newspaper review for TITE...

300 F-words, zero laughs: Foul-mouthed, crude and conceited, Seth Rogen's latest attempt at comedy is a new low...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-2350175/This-Is-The-End-review-Seth-Rogens-latest-attempt-comedy-new-low.html

There is also a whole bunch of reviews for TITE that were posted on the IMDB website, with titles such as:

"This Is The End - THE END didn't come quick enough for me"

"This movie was awful, self indulgent and funny maybe twice in two hours."

"This is the End of me ever attending a Seth Rogen creation."

"So so so so very disappointed."

"This is a Big Let Down"

"Had potential but failed miserably"

"Just bad"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245492/reviews

Some real stellar reviews there!!!

Meet The Fockers may have some minor flaws, but next to TITE it's an absolute masterpiece!!!

I think TITE should be renamed as SHITE!!!

[Still Servant]

If you want to throw numbers out there then look no further than Rotten Tomatoes. Meet the Fockers has a 38% fresh rating and End has 83%. You can cherry pick all the bad reviews you want, but facts are facts. More critics enjoyed End over Fockers. Actually, End is higher rated among audiences as well.

There are 97 rotten reviews for Fockers, so I don't want to dig through them all to find the worst ones. Also, I'm not sure it makes sense to reference user reviews on IMDB. Have you been on an IMDB message board in the last 10 years? In order to take those reviews seriously, I would have to take into account how much the reviewers know about the actors in the movie. I have a friend that hated End too, but he had never heard of most of the actors in the film. I feel that it's the kind of movie you have to be in on the inside joke. You have to know the actors and the movie business. My friend knows neither and so he hated it. I'm sure you're down on all that stuff and still hated it, so I know that's possible too.

It doesn't matter what I say, Fockers is going to win. It will quickly get destroyed in the next round. I haven't seen every film in the tournament, but of the ones I have seen, Fockers is the worst.

[mae]

Gotta get three more votes at least for This Is the End

[Still Servant]

Not gonna happen, Pablo. All we have is Barbara Streisand giving a massage to Robert DeNiro because that's just hilarious.

[divemaster]

T-Dogz_AK47's post inspired me. I voted for This Is the End, just on general principle. MTV awards? Really?

[Still Servant]

I thought I was fighting too hard for This is the End and was going to cost it votes, which I probably already did, at least we got one back.