Best Comedy Tournament: Round 1 - Group N

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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.

Four Rooms (1995)

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MASH (1970)

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Bruce Almighty (2003)

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Time Bandits (1981)

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The Blues Brothers (1980)

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About a Boy (2002)

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Meet the Parents (2000)

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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

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The Apartment (1960)

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Real Life (1979)

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Six again: Four Rooms (Tim Roth is astonishingly funny here), MASH, Time Bandits, Meet the Parents, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, and the super classic The Apartment.

[pathoftheturtle]

In case you didn't know Albert Brooks is a genius, he was the first to parody reality television... 15-20 years before it existed.

[Ben Staad]

MASH is one of my favorite all time films. Just thought I would share that.

[mae]

Bruce Almighty is in second place?

Four Rooms needs more attention!

[Still Servant]

I love Tarantino and Rodriguez, but I didn't like Four Rooms very much.

[mae]

There are lots of great scenes in Four Rooms (the last part of course is the best), but my favorite part of the film is Tim Roth's manic performance throughout. Amazingly funny:

[fernandito]

I love all the potshots Austin Powers takes at the James Bond franchise;

"Begin the unnecessarily slow dipping mechanism."

[mae]

I love all the potshots Austin Powers takes at the James Bond franchise;

"Begin the unnecessarily slow dipping mechanism."

While it's certainly making fun of the Bond films, clearly, I always thought Austin Powers was a standalone enough creation, not a true spoof or parody.

[skyofcrack]

I seriously don't get how no one here has seen Real Life.

[Mattrick]

Four Rooms was hilarious when I was a kid. Outside the final skit, I find it very unfunny now.

Voted: About A Boy (TWO VOTES WTF PEOPLE? A GREAT FILM HERE!), Meet the Parents, Austin Powers and The Apartment.

[mae]

Four Rooms was hilarious when I was a kid. Outside the final skit, I find it very unfunny now.

Really? You don't think Tim Roth is absolutely hilarious? Check out that clip above. I also loved his performance in Gridlock'd which I nominated but it wasn't seconded. He was very funny is that, too.

[Mattrick]

Not the way it used to be funny. His constant panick gets old after while. That's probably why I enjoy the last skit still since he's a lot more toned down.

[mae]

I realize Austin Powers is very popular and I voted for it as well, but actually I believe Mike Myers is best in this movie:



Can't believe we didn't nominate it.

[Ben Staad]

I'm surprised as well. Great movie and very funny.

[Theli]

Time Bandit's absolutely rocks, but I don't specifically think of it as a comedy, so I ain't voting it in. Blues Brothers and Austin Powers get my votes.

[Theli]

I realize Austin Powers is very popular and I voted for it as well, but actually I believe Mike Myers is best in this movie:



Can't believe we didn't nominate it.

It's a good one, but I'm partial to Wayne's World.

[pathoftheturtle]

You know when Robin Hood gave to the poor, Marion really did punch them -- no joke!

[divemaster]

Time Bandit's absolutely rocks, but I don't specifically think of it as a comedy, so I ain't voting it in. Blues Brothers and Austin Powers get my votes.

That's why I didn't vote for Time Bandits! A movie I did enjoy.

[Ben Staad]

Same here. I like Time Bandits but never considered it a comedy.

[pathoftheturtle]

That's hilarious! If other people also take Time Bandits seriously, then that has to be the most genius thing about it yet! How funny.

[mae]

This is closing tomorrow, so please get your votes in!

Time Bandits and The Apartment are tied for the last spot. As much as I like Gilliam and Time Bandits, The Apartment needs to move on. Let's break that tie!

[mae]

Now The Apartment is behind

[mae]

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

1. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) 67.86%
2. Bruce Almighty (2003) 50.00%
3. The Blues Brothers (1980) 50.00%
4. Meet the Parents (2000) 46.43%
5. MASH (1970) 42.86%
6. Time Bandits (1981) 35.71%

And the following four titles have been eliminated:

1. The Apartment (1960) 28.57%
2. Four Rooms (1995) 21.43%
3. About a Boy (2002) 10.71%
4. Real Life (1979) 7.14%

[Mattrick]

The Apartment got eliminated? And About A Boy? This is a sad day for Canada, and therefore, a sad day for the rest of the world. Yet Bruce Almighty moves on. What fresh hell is this?