Best Comedy Tournament: Round 3 - Group D
For the Round 3 polls, please vote for up to two 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 two titles will be moving on to the Octofinals.
Airplane! (1980)
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The Naked Gun (1988)
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
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Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
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This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
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This is one of the toughest groups so far, I think. All great movies, classics, all from the '80s. Hard choice but I went with The Naked Gun and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
Airplane!
This Is Spinal Tap
Airplane!
This Is Spinal Tap
Only two winners here. Hate that stupid silly comedy like Naked Gun. Only two intelligent ones for me that were actually funny... Beverly Hills and Planes.
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The Naked Gun brought spoof films up to an art form. I just recently rewatched Airplane, and it's a little too stilted. NG is just a bit better.
I wanted to vote for Naked Gun, but This Is Spinal Tap won instead. And I couldn't not vote for Airplane!
The art form peaked with Airplane!
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Spinal Tap!
This is closing in two days, so get your votes in! PT&A needs more love!
This one is easy for me. Airplane! is one of my favorite comedies of all time and my pick to win the whole thing.
I love Naked Gun, but there is no Naked Gun without Airplane!. I love the Zucker's, but nothing they do or have done will ever top Airplane! for me
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Can't believe Planes, Trains and Automobiles is losing
These are all good comedies, so I'm happy for any of these going through.
I'm pretty much at that point with most of the movies that are left. I have my favorites among them but I won't be completely surprised or unhappy if they lose out to any of the others.Originally Posted by fernandito
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
Airplane! and The Naked Gun are too much alike for this to be fair. We should have had preliminary rounds to decide which one is better. Having two films from one popular director clean up a "pick any two" round doesn't say much in a best comedy tourney except that there's something wrong with that tourney.
People complain about certain groups because films are too different.
Now you're complaining because two films are too much alike?!
No one can ever win!
What people? When was that exactly?
If you're talking about people complaining that films that are good in different ways are hard to choose between, that's not the same kind of complaint. A choice doesn't have to be easy to be meaningful.
What I've been saying is that we should start with different types, then make them all compete against each other. It imbalances the tournament to let similar choices run alongside each other throughout the whole process, IMO.
What different types?What people? When was that exactly?
If you're talking about people complaining that films that are good in different ways are hard to choose between, that's not the same kind of complaint. A choice doesn't have to be easy to be meaningful.
What I've been saying is that we should start with different types, then make them all compete against each other. It imbalances the tournament to let similar choices run alongside each other throughout the whole process, IMO.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
But if people prefer those types of films. Suppose these two both come out near the top, how would separating them early on be more fair?What people? When was that exactly?
If you're talking about people complaining that films that are good in different ways are hard to choose between, that's not the same kind of complaint. A choice doesn't have to be easy to be meaningful.
What I've been saying is that we should start with different types, then make them all compete against each other. It imbalances the tournament to let similar choices run alongside each other throughout the whole process, IMO.
The poll has closed. The following two titles are moving on to the next round:
- Airplane! (1980) 62.50%
- The Naked Gun (1988) 37.50%
And the following three titles have been eliminated:
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) 29.17%
- Beverly Hills Cop (1984) 25.00%
- This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 25.00%
Yeah, I misunderstood your post originally. You meant it was not fair for you to have choose between them lol.
how?It imbalances the tournament to let similar choices run alongside each other throughout the whole process, IMO.
Wait, whut? You mean that you thought that I meant it was not fair for me to have choose between them, right? Because I think I just made it clear that what I meant was that it's less fair for all three other options to get eliminated by our total voters.Yeah, I misunderstood your post originally. You meant it was not fair for you to have choose between them lol.
Just numerically. Again, this round is "pick any two" and it seems we have prolonged putting off picking between these two again. Which makes this round (again IMO) less fair.how?
I think we knew they're both popular. If both of these are in the final, it will be just like we HAD done a "Best Zucker Comedy" prelim, except that we let a general comedy tournament get in the way in the meantime. Perhaps that is what the community is actually trying to say -- "Their movies are so good that we'd rather flush most other comedians before we choose just one." -- in which case it's not unfair, after all; just a little less interesting to me.
Ok, well, I went ahead and analyzed roughly the titles remaining in Round 3, and the situation is actually no longer as bad as I assumed. So maybe I'm just wrong altogether.What different types?
National Lampoon's Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Evil Dead II
Army of Darkness
Meet the Parents
Meet the Fockers
Blazing Saddles
Spaceballs
Raising Arizona
The Big Lebowski
Airplane!
The Naked Gun
Clerks
Dogma
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Life of Brian
A Fish Called Wanda
There's Something About Mary
Tropic Thunder
Animal House
The Blues Brothers
Clue
This Is Spinal Tap
¡Three Amigos!
The Jerk
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Trading Places
48 Hrs.
Beverly Hills Cop
Coming to America
Caddyshack
Stripes
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day
What About Bob?
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Dumb and Dumber
Liar Liar
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Elf
American Pie
Police Academy
The Hangover
Home Alone
Back to the Future
Shaun of the Dead
Mrs. Doubtfire
Beetlejuice
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Happy Gilmore
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Napoleon Dynamite
Major League
Dazed and Confused
Zombieland
Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
Office Space
The Princess Bride
A Christmas Story
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
So now we're gonna start doing different categories within categories for our tournaments?
In my honest opinion, that'll just open the door for more debating, since I can already say that I don't agree with some of the movies you listed as being the same "type" of movie. They may have the same director, actor, etc., but that doesn't make them the same.
If that were the case, I would have voted for Dumb and Dumber and Ace Ventura, which I didn't. (along with a lot of other titles up there).
MOVIE TOURNAMENTCEPTION!!So now we're gonna start doing different categories within categories for our tournaments?
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