Best Comedy Tournament: Round 2 - Group K

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For the Round 2 polls, please vote for up to four 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 four titles will be moving on to Round 3.

Office Space (1999)

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The Princess Bride (1987)

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Bruce Almighty (2003)

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What About Bob? (1991)

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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)

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The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)

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Annie Hall (1977)

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The Trouble with Harry (1955)

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[fernandito]

I saw Annie Hall last weekend and I didn't find it funny. Like, at all.

[mae]

Are you serious?

[Tommy]

I saw Annie Hall last weekend and I didn't find it funny. Like, at all.

are you a woody fan in general?

[fernandito]

Are you serious?

Yes.

I saw Annie Hall last weekend and I didn't find it funny. Like, at all.

are you a woody fan in general?

I've seen Match Point, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Midnight in Paris, and Blue Jasmine, all of which I thought were excellent.

Annie Hall is essentially just two hours of Woody Allen complaining. It got so irksome after like 20 minutes.

[Mattrick]

Annie Hall, Office Space

[Mattrick]

"Just don't take any class that makes you read Beowulf."

Annie Hall is fantastic.

[T-Dogz_AK47]

I saw Annie Hall last weekend and I didn't find it funny. Like, at all.

Exactly! To think, that shite beat Star Wars by winning Best Picture at the Oscars. It's the biggest travesty the Academy has ever done!

[pathoftheturtle]

"I heard what you were saying..."

[Mattrick]

I saw Annie Hall last weekend and I didn't find it funny. Like, at all.

Exactly! To think, that shite beat Star Wars by winning Best Picture at the Oscars. It's the biggest travesty deserved surprise the Academy has ever done!

Annie Hall is one of the best films of that entire decade, and has a legion of fans who adore it, like me. Just because it's not your kind of movie doesn't mean a lot of people don't consider it one of the best comedies ever made, like me.

[Mattrick]

"I heard what you were saying..."

"If only life were like this."

[pathoftheturtle]

[Mattrick]

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/gr...nnie-hall-1977

Alvy is smarter than the ground rules of Hollywood currently allow. Watching even the more creative recent movies, one becomes aware of a subtle censorship being imposed, in which the characters cannot talk about anything the audience might not be familiar with. This generates characters driven by plot and emotion rather than by ideas; they use catch-phrases rather than witticisms. Consider the famous sequence where Annie and Alvy are standing in line for the movies and the blowhard behind them pontificates loudly about Fellini. When the pest switches over to McLuhan, Alvy loses patience, confronts him, and then triumphantly produces Marshall McLuhan himself from behind a movie poster to inform him, "You know nothing of my work!" This scene would be penciled out today on the presumption that no one in the audience would have heard of Fellini or McLuhan.

"Annie Hall" is built on such dialogue, and centers on conversation and monologue. Because it is just about everyone's favorite Woody Allen movie, because it won the Oscar, because it is a romantic comedy, few viewers probably notice how much of it consists of people talking, simply talking. They walk and talk, sit and talk, go to shrinks, go to lunch, make love and talk, talk to the camera, or launch into inspired monologues like Annie's free-association as she describes her family to Alvy. This speech by Diane Keaton is as close to perfect as such a speech can likely be, climaxing with the memory of her narcoleptic Uncle George falling asleep and dying while waiting in line for a free turkey. It is all done in one take of brilliant brinksmanship, with Keaton (or Annie) right on the edge of losing it.

[T-Dogz_AK47]

I saw Annie Hall last weekend and I didn't find it funny. Like, at all.

Exactly! To think, that shite beat Star Wars by winning Best Picture at the Oscars. It's the biggest travesty deserved surprise the Academy has ever done!

Annie Hall is one of the best films of that entire decade, and has a legion of fans who adore it, like me. Just because it's not your kind of movie doesn't mean a lot of people don't consider it one of the best comedies ever made, like me.

If you're going to quote me in one of your posts, please do so properly and don't manipulate the text of what I originally posted.

[Tommy]

"la-dee-da, la-dee-da"

cut-and-paste job from wikipedia:

"Annie Hall won four Oscars at the 50th Academy Awards on April 3, 1978, and was nominated for five in total. Producer Charles H. Joffe received the statue for Best Picture, Allen for Best Director and, with Brickman, for Best Original Screenplay, and Keaton for Best Actress. Allen was also nominated for Best Actor

The film was also honored four times at the BAFTA awards. Along with the top award for Best Film, Keaton won for Best Actress, Allen won for Best Direction and Best Original Screenplay alongside Brickman. The film received only one Golden Globe Award, for Best Film Actress in a Musical or Comedy (Diane Keaton), despite nominations for three other awards: Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), Best Director, and Best Film Actor in a Musical or Comedy (Woody Allen).

In 1992, the United States' Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in its National Film Registry that includes "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" films. The film is often mentioned among the greatest comedies of all time. The American Film Institute lists it 31st in American cinema history. In 2000, they named it second greatest romantic comedy in American cinema. Keaton's performance of "Seems Like Old Times" was ranked 90th on their list of greatest songs included in a film, and her line "La-dee-da, la-dee-da." was named the 55th greatest movie quote. The screenplay was named the sixth greatest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America, West while IGN named it the seventh greatest comedy film of all time. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted it the forty-second greatest comedy film of all time, and the seventh greatest romantic comedy film of all time. Several lists ranking Allen's best films have put Annie Hall among his greatest work

In June 2008, AFI revealed its 10 Top 10—the best ten films in ten classic American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community and Annie Hall was placed second in the romantic comedy genre. AFI also ranked Annie Hall on multiple other lists. In November 2008, Annie Hall was voted in at No. 68 on Empire magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. It is also ranked #2 on Rotten Tomatoes' 25 Best Romantic Comedies, second only to The Philadelphia Story. In 2012, the film was listed as the 127th best film of all time by Sight & Sound critics' poll. The film was also named the 132nd best film by the Sight & Sound directors' poll. In October 2013, the film was voted by the Guardian readers as the second best film directed by Woody Allen"

Current rotten tomatoes scores
Critics 98%
Audience 93%

IMDB rating 8.1

National Film Registry and has won an Oscar, wasn't that your criteria for not nominating a film for worst ever Timothy?

"shite"

"la-dee-da, la-dee-da"

[T-Dogz_AK47]

National Film Registry and has won an Oscar, wasn't that your criteria for not nominating a film for worst ever Timothy?

"shite"

"la-dee-da, la-dee-da"

Just because I find it shite and hate Woody Allen with a passion doesn't mean that I don't recognise the fact that the Academy gave it several Oscars, even though I thought it was a travesty that it beat Star Wars to Best Picture. Yes I hate this movie, but I also know that many people including the Academy actually like it, which is why I made the suggestion of keeping movies that were recognised by the National Film Registry or won an Oscar out of the Worst Movie Tournament.

I also found Titanic to be absolutely crass and cheesy, but I still recognise the spectacle of it and the fact that it won 11 Oscars. I didn't make my suggestion for the Worst Movie Tournament without considering these films. The real stinkers with no saving grace are Hollywood Blockbusters that won Raspberry awards like Catwoman or killed entire franchises like, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull or Batman and Robin.

[pathoftheturtle]

That's reasonable. Probably oversimplifies the subject of which films are worst, but your examples certainly are pretty bad. Anyhow, you're still entitled as anyone to express your personal opinion. I don't really believe in beating people over the head with awards. For my part I just thought that trotting out a couple more respected comedy directors with comments was kind of a cute idea here for once.

[Mattrick]

Sure this movie must be in the running for worst of all time consideration haha

[mae]

Annie Hall is light years better than Star Wars and Woody Allen is one of the funniest people ever. Empirical fact.

[Merlin1958]

George Costanza, was a much funnier, Woody Allen!!! LOL

[Ben Staad]

It is interesting how people can have such differing viewpoints. I have never been a fan and have always wondered why Woody has so many fans of his work. I always thought my viewpoint was due to my inability to wrap my mind around the New York City (locale) way of life.

[Tommy]

It is interesting how people can have such differing viewpoints. I have never been a fan and have always wondered why Woody has so many fans of his work. I always thought my viewpoint was due to my inability to wrap my mind around the New York City (locale) way of life.

Is it Woody himself you do not like, which considering his private life it is understandable how someone would be turned off by him or his films, the ones he stars in I mean? I know a few people who LOVE his films, that is the ones he is not a star in. A close friend owns Midnight in Paris and says it is one of his favorite films ever but when I show him Woody's films where he is the star, he doesn't like them because of Woody.

What's funny about that is that almost all the time when Woody has done a film in which he doesn't star, there is still a character in the film that is "doing him" or imitating some aspect of his personality; his neuroses, his humor etc. Such as in Midnight in Paris, I feel that if Woody had made this film 30 years ago, he would have played the Owen Wilson character. I think in Blue Jasmine, Blanchett is channeling Woody's neurotic hang-ups.

He is definitely someone people either love or find annoying. I've never been to NY (except for one time I spent 8 hours in an airport waiting for a flight back home but that's beside the point) but I also have a bro-in-law who is from NY and can't stand Woody either. So I agree with you that it is fascinating how people have such differing views on him.

[Ben Staad]

I do not enjoy Woody in any acting situations. I'm sure some of that is a bleed over from what I've read about his personal life however the nervous, neurotic, twitchiness isn't appealing to me. Also the setting(s) and personal interplay in many of his films are from perspectives that I just can't wrap my mind around...this is all generally speaking.

This may not be a very good comparison but I have a similar feelings when watching Larry David. Although I do actually enjoy Larrys work when he is acting I get a sense that the character is detached and has a general disassociation with the larger world. That is not an appealing or interesting type of character to me and both Larry and Woody bring the same type of energy to their roles.

[Tommy]

... both Larry and Woody bring the same type of energy to their roles.

Might be why David was picked to star in Woody's Whatever Works, have you seen that one? I think the film would have been nearly identical if Woody had played the part he wrote for David so I never really understood why Woody didn't star in it in the first place.

[Heather19]

... both Larry and Woody bring the same type of energy to their roles.

Might be why David was picked to star in Woody's Whatever Works, have you seen that one? I think the film would have been nearly identical if Woody had played the part he wrote for David so I never really understood why Woody didn't star in it in the first place.

I might have to check this one out, I love Larry David. As for Woody Allen, I've never been a huge fan of his, although I've only seen a handful of his films. I enjoyed Match Point and Vicky Christina Barcelona. Also saw Midnight in Paris and Blue Jasmine which I didn't really care for. And I've also seen Celebrity, but it was so long ago, I remember nothing about it.