About a potential next tournament

[pathoftheturtle]

Yeah, ok. I had some fun last time, apart from the tension and bluster. The important thing is for everybody to have a good time and talk about movies, although it can be frustrating when rubbish gets nominated leaving no more slots for pieces worth discussing. However, hearing opinions is the point, not winning the non-existent trophy. If we can all attempt to state some kind of reasons for or against, that at least is engaging.

My other concern is that it's difficult to compare dark comedy with light comedies. I guess the stress will pay off by the end, though. Or so we can hope.

[mae]

We can actually begin the nominating process now and start the tournament hopefully right after the Oscars. Like I said before, I'll be happy to do this one. Always a pleasure.

[Still Servant]

Yeah, ok. I had some fun last time, apart from the tension and bluster. The important thing is for everybody to have a good time and talk about movies, although it can be frustrating when rubbish gets nominated leaving no more slots for pieces worth discussing. However, hearing opinions is the point, not winning the non-existent trophy. If we can all attempt to state some kind of reasons for or against, that at least is engaging.

My other concern is that it's difficult to compare dark comedy with light comedies. I guess the stress will pay off by the end, though. Or so we can hope.

One man's trash...

[pathoftheturtle]

People wrote books and movies. Movies with stories, that made you care about whose ass it was and why it was farting. And I believe that time can come again!

[Mattrick]

My other concern is that it's difficult to compare dark comedy with light comedies. I guess the stress will pay off by the end, though. Or so we can hope.

I love dark comedies. Some very dark comedies I'd love to see nominated are The Tenant, The Double and Very Bad Things.

[fernandito]

Seeing how subjective comedy is... I have a strong inkling that this might end up being one of our more interesting tournaments lol.

I foresee some very interesting debates.

[Heather19]

I have a really hard time comparing dark comedies to light ones. They're two completely different types of movies to me.

[fernandito]

What I *think* will happen is that dark comedies will get eliminated very, very quickly and the playoff rounds will be populated almost exclusively by light, "conventional" comedies.

[mae]

What I *think* will happen is that dark comedies will get eliminated very, very quickly and the playoff rounds will be populated almost exclusively by light, "conventional" comedies.

Mainly classics, I would hope. If Bringing Up Baby is not in the Finals, I'm deleting the Internet.

[Heather19]

What I *think* will happen is that dark comedies will get eliminated very, very quickly and the playoff rounds will be populated almost exclusively by light, "conventional" comedies.

Quite possibly. I know for myself I consider comedies to be films that are made to make you laugh, while I don't think dark ones do that. However I definitely prefer darker ones to your typical comedy but when it comes to voting, I'm not sure how I could vote for one?

[fernandito]

What I *think* will happen is that dark comedies will get eliminated very, very quickly and the playoff rounds will be populated almost exclusively by light, "conventional" comedies.

Mainly classics, I would hope. If Bringing Up Baby is not in the Finals, I'm deleting the Internet.

I'm not really too concerned with whether or not they're classics, just so long as they make/made me laugh. I'll judge them on how hard and how consistently they made me laugh.

I haven't seen Bringing up Baby, but I'll add it to the list of films I'll watch before it starts. I just looked it up and it has a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes. Impressive.

[mae]

I haven't seen Bringing up Baby

What? It's only the funniest movie ever made.

[Heather19]

Just added it to my list as well. Looks good.

[needfulthings]

I just have to go down to my video room & pull it off the shelf

[Heather19]

Is there a movie you don't own? Seriously though, I'd love to have a video library like yours.

[needfulthings]

Is there a movie you don't own? Seriously though, I'd love to have a video library like yours.

YES

at least in film form.

[Still Servant]

What I *think* will happen is that dark comedies will get eliminated very, very quickly and the playoff rounds will be populated almost exclusively by light, "conventional" comedies.

Mainly classics, I would hope. If Bringing Up Baby is not in the Finals, I'm deleting the Internet.

Get your finger ready. Many people just haven't seen a lot of the classics. Bringing Up Baby is one of my Mom's favorite films. I remember watching it when I was a teen. I really enjoyed it, but it's not a film I would consider one of my favorites. Sure, the case could be made that I was too young to truly appreciate a film like that, especially one from a different generation of filmmaking.

As far as classics are concerned, I prefer Arsenic and Old Lace. I could watch that until the end of time.

PS: Needfullthings, I'd love for you to do a video showing your movie library. I understand why you might not want to do that, but I for one would be very interested in seeing it.

[needfulthings]

The film I literally had tears in my eyes from laughing so the hard the 1st time I saw it was....

Spoiler:

Dudley Moore getting FUCKED OVER by the DEVIL (EVERY TIME) was priceless

[needfulthings]

The ONLY thing wrong with this movie....

Spoiler:

NO KARLOFF

[needfulthings]

What I *think* will happen is that dark comedies will get eliminated very, very quickly and the playoff rounds will be populated almost exclusively by light, "conventional" comedies.

Mainly classics, I would hope. If Bringing Up Baby is not in the Finals, I'm deleting the Internet.

Get your finger ready. Many people just haven't seen a lot of the classics. Bringing Up Baby is one of my Mom's favorite films. I remember watching it when I was a teen. I really enjoyed it, but it's not a film I would consider one of my favorites. Sure, the case could be made that I was too young to truly appreciate a film like that, especially one from a different generation of filmmaking.

As far as classics are concerned, I prefer Arsenic and Old Lace. I could watch that until the end of time.

PS: Needfullthings, I'd love for you to do a video showing your movie library. I understand why you might not want to do that, but I for one would be very interested in seeing it.

1/2 of the just T.V. section.

and small section of the movies. Part of A-F

[Still Servant]

It's...it's beautiful.

I have over 250 DVD's and people keep telling me I have too many. My Godfather has over 1,000 DVD's and VHS movies. It's too bad he stores them in his basement in boxes. I wish he'd display them like yours. He said he's leaving them to me because he knows I'm the only person that appreciates his collection.

Thanks for the pics.

[needfulthings]

[divemaster]

One of my favorite classics is Scaramouche. Comedy and swashbuckling!

[mae]

So it looks like everyone's raring to go, so why don't we begin the nominating process. I'll post the main thread tomorrow.

[fernandito]

My body is ready.