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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #250 on: August 06, 2012, 10:23:20 AM »
Brett Ratner
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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #251 on: August 06, 2012, 10:34:30 AM »
AAAutin, I just noticed you have Malick and Herzog on the jury together. That's awesome.

"And the Palme d'Or goes to...THE HUNGER GAMES?"

Brett Ratner

Better keep that shrimp bar stocked.

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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #252 on: August 06, 2012, 02:09:04 PM »
Brett Ratner

Better keep that shrimp bar stocked.

Hah. I just think he might be a better movie watcher than movie maker. :)

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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #253 on: August 06, 2012, 10:53:34 PM »

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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #254 on: August 13, 2012, 12:04:17 AM »
NEW QUESTION:

Name a comedy you love that nearly everybody else thinks is not funny?



Ebert got into a series of questions about this, mostly involving comedies he recommended that were met with letters telling him how wrong he is. "As a critic I am at the service of my personal reaction. If I laughed, I have to say so. I cannot suppress that information and lecture the filmmakers on their taste." This was in response to his praise for Kingpin. "I grant you the vulgarity, the sexism the cheap laughs, even the dreck. But I laughed. Something about the movie's heedless spirit struck me as funny, and once I got hooked, everything seemed funny." He also mentions Congo, which he insists is a comedy mislabeled as an action drama.

I have 2 that come to mind immediately because I saw them in empty theaters and bought them. Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy is even funnier than their TV show and Brain Donors is a modern day attempt at a Marx Brothers movie that would place 3rd if ranked in a list with Marx Brothers movies. John Turturro plays Groucho, and I rest my case on this alone. (Click here for highlights.)

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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #255 on: August 13, 2012, 12:19:12 AM »
I can not think of any. However every time I think of Kids in the Hall I think "I crush your head".

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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #256 on: August 13, 2012, 01:24:24 AM »
For the record, 'Kingpin' is my personal favorite Farrelly bros. movie, and 'Brain Candy' is awesome ... It's difficult to people what portion of viewers do not find a film to be funny, but I guess my answer would be 'Happiness' (Todd Solondz, 1998).  I suspect that it goes way too dark for most people.
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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #257 on: August 13, 2012, 02:12:09 AM »
"Zack and Miri Make a Porno" but I've been a fan of most of Kevin Smith's movies and I laughed out loud in the theater a few times when I first saw it.

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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #258 on: August 13, 2012, 06:22:04 AM »
If this forum has taught me anything, it is that High Strung is my answer to this question.

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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #259 on: August 13, 2012, 07:53:26 AM »
Name a comedy you love that nearly everybody else thinks is not funny?

SOUR GRAPES

'Happiness' (Todd Solondz, 1998).

You're right: I don't find it very funny. But I do like it. Todd Solondz is great.