Best Comedy Tournament: Round 1 - Group E

[mae]

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.

Coming to America (1988)

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Three Amigos! (1986)

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This Is the End (2013)

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Meet the Fockers (2004)

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The Princess Bride (1987)

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American Pie (1999)

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What About Bob? (1991)

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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

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The Great Race (1965)

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As Good as It Gets (1997)

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[mae]

Going with five here: Coming to America, This Is the End (loved the meta aspect), American Pie (the original was actually funny), The Wolf of Wall Street, and As Good as It Gets (one of Jack's best roles ever).

[Tommy]

Going with five here: Coming to America, This Is the End (loved the meta aspect), American Pie (the original was actually funny), The Wolf of Wall Street, and As Good as It Gets (one of Jack's best roles ever).

No Princess Bride?

[mae]

First, I doubt it'll need my help and second I'm not a big fan.

[Tommy]

Fair enough

[webstar1000]

WOW... tough line up for me

[Ben Staad]

This is a tough group. There are a few great films in here that I don't think of as comedy. That will make this a bit easier.

[fernandito]

The Three Amigos
The Princess Bride
Meet The Fockers
American Pie
The Wolf of Wall Street
As Good As It Gets

[mae]

Solid choices.

[fernandito]

I agree with your post above, Pablo. AGAIG is defintely Nicholson's best role.

[mae]

Yup. And speaking of trailers, that trailer in the first post for This Is the End is so damn epic. I think it's one of my all-time favorite trailers!

[fernandito]

Woah, this is a very tight group so far!!

[Tommy]

I agree with your post above, Pablo. AGAIG is defintely Nicholson's best role.

Definitely? what about -

Easy Rider
Five Easy Pieces
The Last Detail
Chinatown
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Shining
Prizzi's Honor
A Few Good Men (he was the only thing I liked about that one)
About Schmidt
The Departed
?

[fernandito]

The Shining, Cuckoo's Nest, and As Good as It Gets. Top 3.

[Heather19]

I might be the only one but I absolutely hated As Good As it Gets...

Not sure I can vote for any here. Out of the ones I've seen, the only one I enjoyed was Meet the Fockers, but its so insuperior to the original.

[Tommy]

I might be the only one but I absolutely hated As Good As it Gets...

You're not alone Heather, the happy ending is not earned, Nicholson's character is too damaged to be anything other than an unhappy loner, nothing about it felt genuine to me

[Mattrick]

I agree with your post above, Pablo. AGAIG is defintely Nicholson's best role.

I like About Schmidt Better. Between As Good As It Gets, The Pledge and About Schmidt he had some great roles in those couple years.


This Is The End
What About Bob
Wolf of Wall Street
As Good As It Gets

[divemaster]

The Princess Bride and American Pie. That's it for this round.

[Mattrick]

I might be the only one but I absolutely hated As Good As it Gets...

You're not alone Heather, the happy ending is not earned, Nicholson's character is too damaged to be anything other than an unhappy loner, nothing about it felt genuine to me

So the guy who wrote about people falling in love for decades didn't earn a chance to fall in love for himself?

[Tommy]

I might be the only one but I absolutely hated As Good As it Gets...

You're not alone Heather, the happy ending is not earned, Nicholson's character is too damaged to be anything other than an unhappy loner, nothing about it felt genuine to me

So the guy who wrote about people falling in love for decades didn't earn a chance to fall in love for himself?

What I meant was the movie itself didn't earn that ending not the guy, everyone deserves happiness I suppose but some are nearly incapable of it, Here is a quote from Ebert's review

"If the movie had been either more or less ambitious, it might have been more successful. Less ambitious, and it would have been a sitcom crowd-pleaser, in which a grumpy Scrooge allows his heart to melt. More ambitious, and it would have touched on the underlying irony of this lonely man's bitter life. But "As Good as It Gets" is a compromise, a film that forces a smile onto material that doesn't wear one easily. Melvin is not a man ever destined to find lasting happiness, and the movie's happy ending feels like a blackout, seconds before more unhappiness begins."

He did give it a favorable score, I however felt no chemistry between Hunt and Nicholson and have no desire to watch it again

[Still Servant]

Matt, you just got Eberted.

Matt's usually the one doing the Eberting.

[Tommy]

Matt, you just got Eberted.

Matt's usually the one doing the Eberting.

I've been reading Ebert's reviews for 20+ years now, he's who taught me how to look at film with a critical eye, I didn't always agree with him but even when I didn't agree I respected his opinion, I miss him dearly

[Mattrick]

Yeah, I know his review for that movie haha. I don't agree with it but I still enjoyed it. Sure it could have been a bolder movie and not gone for a happy ending, and maybe his happiness is really brief, but there's something about a person late in life discovering happiness maybe for the first time after a lifetime of misery that just gets me...this is why I love Royal Tenenbaums and About Schmidt so much. Udall was a hopeless romantic trapped inside the body of a prejudiced, angry man who won't let anyone close to him, it's tragic. I'm always happy to see him happy. He wrote what he could not have so he could feel it. I have wheelbarrow full of feels for Melvin Udall, even IF people who talk in metaphors oughta shampoo his crotch.

[Iwritecode]

After reading the last few posts, I just realized I had the wrong Jack Nicholson movie in my head. I kept thinking the nomination was for Something's Gotta Give.

I don't need to change my votes or anything, but I feel dumb now.

[mae]

That's what the trailers are for, to refresh your memory.