Best Comedy Tournament: Round 2 - Group K

[mae]

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.


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8e/Office_space_poster.jpg/220px-Office_space_poster.jpg
Office Space (1999) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Space)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMIrlP61Z9s

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The Princess Bride (1987) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Bride_%28film%29)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3CIXEAjcc8

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/BruceAlmighty_poster.jpg
Bruce Almighty (2003) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Almighty)


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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/84/What_About_Bob_film.jpg/220px-What_About_Bob_film.jpg
What About Bob? (1991) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_About_Bob%3F)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptmP1lziJw4

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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Ventura:_When_Nature_Calls)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzDjSjwnl1c

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The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Pink_Panther)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ykwFpNa3E

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Annie Hall (1977) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Hall)


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

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The Trouble with Harry (1955) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Harry)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sG_tQ_t5dw

[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.

:o:frown2::beat::panic::doh::confused::scared::wtf :

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.

:o:frown2::beat::panic::doh::confused::scared::wtf :

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]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIYz8tfGjY"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]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIYz8tfGjY"I heard what you were saying..."

"If only life were like this."


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

[pathoftheturtle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL2KOyRvtyk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz8061rjvAU

[Mattrick]

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-annie-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
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[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.

[Tommy]

Celebrity is definitely one of his weakest films. If you're into drama, he did one called Interiors, which he's not in and it is very reminiscent of an Ingmar Bergman film, stark and beautiful and bit emotionally taxing.

Crimes and Misdemeanors has always been right up at the top of the list for me, if you liked Match Point, a lot of the same themes are explored but with more humor.

And if you just want a truly weird experience, Stardust Memories is out there, way, way out there :)

[mae]

Woody is a true genius. Watch this great documentary about him, it was streaming on Netflix but looks like it's been taken off, sadly:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE7rhzMpB3E

[Mattrick]

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

Yep.

I was a huge fan of Hannah and Her Sisters and Mighty Aphrodite too. His recent films like Midnight In Paris and Blue Jasmine are just as good. Woody Allen is the Elton John of movies...he can just pump out quality film after quality film for decades.

[Tommy]

He even did a great musical called Everyone Says I Love You, due for a rewatch soon.

Can you imagine what a Woody Allen horror film would be like? :rofl:

[pathoftheturtle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTc7DHhMIs

[Tommy]

So obviously I love Woody's films but I do have a couple of complaints. For one, try as I might, I cannot think of more than two black characters in all of his movies and one was a prostitute. Two, I really cannot think of any gay characters at all. I'm not suggesting he is racist and/or homophobic but rather those types of characters are simply outside of his comfort zone. I feel that artists should grow as they get older and explore new territory, which he definitely does but I do wish he would stretch a bit and try to create more gay and black characters. I think the more diversity film makers can show in their films, the closer what they make gets to resembling real life.

[fernandito]

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

I'd be able to take your posts more seriously if you provided logic instead of just a list of awards from Wiki or opinions presented as facts, like this one above.

Just sayin!



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.

I think this might be it for me. Like I mentioned earlier on here, I really liked the films he only directed, and not starred in.

My main problem with Annie Hall was Allen himself. The situations he and Diane Keaton found themselves in were ripe for comedy, but everything from his character just came across as pompous and annoying and the film reeked of thinly veiled self glorification.

It was an unremitting barrage of Allen complaining about night life, and complaining about love life, and complaining about crowds in theaters, and complaining about know it alls (ironic), and complaining about people that do drugs, and complaining about parties, and complaining about people's driving skills, and complain complain complain. It just got to be too much. And of course every character in the film is an idiot and not up to his intellectual standards. Then you have grandiose dialogue like "having sex with you is Kafkaesque". Ugh, gimme a break.

I don't want to say that I'll never enjoy a film starring Allen, but at this point I'm leaning toward seeking out films he directed, and not starred in.

[Tommy]

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

I'd be able to take your posts more seriously if you provided logic instead of just a list of awards from Wiki or opinions presented as facts, like this one above.

Just sayin!



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.

I think this might be it for me. Like I mentioned earlier on here, I really liked the films he only directed, and not starred in.

My main problem with Annie Hall was Allen himself. The situations he and Diane Keaton found themselves in were ripe for comedy, but everything from his character just came across as pompous and annoying and the film reeked of thinly veiled self glorification.

It was an unremitting barrage of Allen complaining about night life, and complaining about love life, and complaining about crowds in theaters, and complaining about know it alls (ironic), and complaining about people that do drugs, and complaining about parties, and complaining about people's driving skills, and complain complain complain. It just got to be too much. And of course every character in the film is an idiot and not up to his intellectual standards. Then you have grandiose dialogue like "having sex with you is Kafkaesque". Ugh, gimme a break.

I don't want to say that I'll never enjoy a film starring Allen, but at this point I'm leaning toward seeking out films he directed, and not starred in.

Thanks for sharing your opinion in a well-thought-out manner instead simply referring to it as "shite" :)

[T-Dogz_AK47]

Originally Posted by Tommy
Thanks for sharing your opinion in a well-thought-out manner instead simply referring to it as "shite"*

Why use 200 words to describe something when 1 is sufficient? LOL! :P

[pathoftheturtle]

In an overall way, I'd say my top five are
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Deconstructing Harry
Hannah & Her Sisters
Manhattan
Annie Hall

There are different ways of splitting up his body of work for special consideration, though. For example, I could talk about his early farces on a whole level of appreciation aside from those highest matters of overall theme.

[Mattrick]

I've got the DVD's of Manhattan, Sleeper and Match Point here but I just haven't gotten around to watching them yet.


My main problem with Annie Hall was Allen himself. The situations he and Diane Keaton found themselves in were ripe for comedy, but everything from his character just came across as pompous and annoying and the film reeked of thinly veiled self glorification.

It was an unremitting barrage of Allen complaining about night life, and complaining about love life, and complaining about crowds in theaters, and complaining about know it alls (ironic), and complaining about people that do drugs, and complaining about parties, and complaining about people's driving skills, and complain complain complain. It just got to be too much. And of course every character in the film is an idiot and not up to his intellectual standards. Then you have grandiose dialogue like "having sex with you is Kafkaesque". Ugh, gimme a break.

I don't want to say that I'll never enjoy a film starring Allen, but at this point I'm leaning toward seeking out films he directed, and not starred in.

You described the things I loved about the film. He's narcissistic man with an inferiority complex, so he complains and insults everything, being very wordy and pompous about it, all to mask the fact that he dislikes himself so much. What makes the scene with him waiting in the movie line so great is he gets mad at the guy for pontificating the way he is, when he himself is prone to doing the exact same thing, just in a different way. That's why I love the usage of the Groucho Marx quote, "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member", as Woody Allen's character lives and breathes that quote, feeling that anyone would would accept him obviously isn't up to his own standards since he thinks so little of himself. Funny how you can hate what I love and vice versa lol

[fernandito]

I wouldn't have minded if that was just one (seemingly large) facet of his character, but when it becomes the entire fulcrum around which his character's ethos orbits, it becomes too much.

I did like the Groucho Marx bit too. That's a very um, interesting self assessment.

What Allen should I watch next?

[pathoftheturtle]

I don't like or identify with the man personally and I disagree with his philosophy on most points, but I respect doing philosophical comedy at all and I can certainly distance myself enough to acknowledge how clever his writing is.


What Allen should I watch next?Bananas. Plain and simple farce, super funny, not off-putting in the later ways; should restore your basic interest.

[fernandito]

Noted, thanks!

[pathoftheturtle]

Sleeper is the same. Maybe even better if you don't want to bother much about his personality or cultural references. For someone who doesn't mind him, though,

Manhattanis a great film. I think you'd be glad you watched it, Matt.

[fernandito]

Match Point is fantastic.

[pathoftheturtle]

Match Point is fantastic.
It doesn't say much that he didn't say 15 years before in Crimes and Misdemeanors. It's more clear on the one idea, I guess, perhaps a cleaner package. I just felt that revisiting a point like that after so long shows how he doesn't really progress over his life; he has his outlook, and sophisticated as it may be, that's it, that's who he is.

[Tommy]

Originally Posted by Tommy
Thanks for sharing your opinion in a well-thought-out manner instead simply referring to it as "shite"*

Why use 200 words to describe something when 1 is sufficient? LOL! :P

Because it was nicer.

[Tommy]

My top 10 besides Annie Hall would be (no order):

Match Point
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Manhattan
Radio Days
Broadway Danny Rose
Stardust Memories
Deconstructing Harry
Everyone Says I love You
Midnight In Paris
The Purple Rose of Cairo

ask me on another day and it might be slightly different (like right now I'm thinking about Blue Jasmine and Another Woman moving up closer to the top 10)

[mae]

I'm a huge fan of Mighty Aphrodite. Mira Sorvino definitely deserved that Oscar.

[Tommy]

I'm a huge fan of Mighty Aphrodite. Mira Sorvino definitely deserved that Oscar.

Came close for me just now, It is very a-mus-ing! :emot-roflolmao:

haha see what I did there? :cool:

[Jon]

No. What? LOL

[Tommy]

No. What? LOL

In Mighty Aphrodite, Woody uses a chorus of Greek Muses style theater to help tell the story, amusing - muses, get it? :cool2:

[Tommy]

The Trouble with Harry was one of the first Hitchcock films I ever saw, so good! :excited:

[Heather19]

Hope it makes it on.

[Tommy]

What is everyone's favorite Hitchcock film?

[fernandito]

Vertigo, unquestionably.

[Tommy]

Vertigo, unquestionably.

A haunted, beautiful film. I love the significance of the three locations that Madeleine/Judy/Carlotta(?) travel to during her day trip. The one in which James Stewart's character follows her at the beginning of the film. First the flower shop, then the museum, then the graveyard and finally the waterfront scene. It's subtle brilliance in that each location represents ... Beautiful dead things. The dead flowers at the flower shop, the painting at the museum is a portrait of a dead woman and the graveyard is filled with beautiful tombstones which leads to the "suicide" attempt scene near the bridge.
Stellar choice! :thumbsup:

[Mattrick]

I've only watch Vertigo, Rear Window, Rebecca and The Birds...and I really have no idea. It's probably between Rebecca and Vertigo.

[Ben Staad]

Tough to answer this one. I really enjoy Rear Window but there are aspects of other films that I love.

[pathoftheturtle]

I will say The Trouble with Harry. It's not true, but close enough for this thread. All I'm wanting right now is for more votes to come in. My picks were Office Space / Princess Bride / Annie Hall / Trouble with Harry - closest I've come to y'all so far, apparently... but Ace Ventura obviously is harshing my buzz.

[Tommy]

I've only watch Vertigo, Rear Window, Rebecca and The Birds...and I really have no idea. It's probably between Rebecca and Vertigo.

I love Rebecca. That was his first American film and probably the project in his career he had the least amount of control over due to the producer being David O. Selznick. It would be in my top ten but not top five.

[Tommy]

Tough to answer this one. I really enjoy Rear Window but there are aspects of other films that I love.

Rear Window is always fun to watch, a definite Top Five for me.

[Heather19]

Its definitely Rebecca for me. Absolutely love that film. Rear Window would also be right up near the top. And Strangers on a Train would probably make my top 3. I also loved Shadow of a Doubt. I could just keep going :lol:

What's yours Tommy?

[mae]

Psycho, Rear Window, and Rope for me as my top 3 probably.

[Tommy]

Set out to do a "Top Three" but wound up with TOP 14 and in no order:


Psycho
Vertigo
Notorious
Rope
Frenzy
Shadow of a Doubt
Rear Window
Strangers on a Train
North by Northwest
The Lady Vanishes
The Birds
Spellbound
The 39 Steps
Rebecca

I could watch any one of these films again tomorrow and thoroughly enjoy it. The Master of Suspense.

:clap::clap::clap:

Sorry I brought him up in a comedy tournament but one of his films was nominated and he is my favorite director so I had to speak about him just a little bit. :redface:

[Heather19]

No worries, he's one of my favorites too. I think we have a thread for him, I'll have to dig it up.

[mae]

This is closing in two days on April Fools! And we've got a three-way tie for fourth with Bob, Annie, and Harry. Vote for the girl!

[Tommy]

This is closing in two days on April Fools! And we've got a three-way tie for fourth with Bob, Annie, and Harry. Vote for the girl!

Annie

[Tommy]

Set out to do a "Top Three" but wound up with TOP 1416 and in no order:


Psycho
Vertigo
Notorious
Rope
Frenzy
Shadow of a Doubt
Rear Window
Strangers on a Train
North by Northwest
The Lady Vanishes
The Birds
Spellbound
The 39 Steps
Rebecca
Lifeboat
The Trouble with Harry

I could watch any one of these films again tomorrow and thoroughly enjoy it. The Master of Suspense.

:clap::clap::clap:

Sorry I brought him up in a comedy tournament but one of his films was nominated and he is my favorite director so I had to speak about him just a little bit. :redface:

numbers 15 and 16 would be

Lifeboat
The Trouble with Harry

And if I had to pick just one Hitchcock Film it would be PSYCHO

[mae]

This is closing in two days on April Fools! And we've got a three-way tie for fourth with Bob, Annie, and Harry. Vote for the girl!

Annie

Even though The Trouble With Harry is really really fun, it's not Hitchcock's best, but Annie Hall is probably Woody Allen at the very top of his game.

[mae]

The poll has closed. The following four titles are moving on to the next round:


Office Space (1999) 64.52%
The Princess Bride (1987) 51.61%
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) 41.94%
What About Bob? (1991) 35.48%


And the following four titles have been eliminated:


Bruce Almighty (2003) 29.03%
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) 29.03%
Annie Hall (1977) 25.81%
The Trouble with Harry (1955) 25.81%

[T-Dogz_AK47]

Originally Posted by Pablo
And the following four titles have been eliminated:

1. Bruce Almighty (2003) 29.03%
2. The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) 29.03%
3. Annie Hall (1977) 25.81%
4. The Trouble with Harry (1955) 25.81%


:evil:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nefiVY1DDT8

[pathoftheturtle]

Down and Out in Beverly Hills is better than What About Bob?. It's not even in Bill Murray's top ten.

[Merlin1958]

:evil:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nefiVY1DDT8

LOL Great clip!!