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Old June 4, 2003, 21:18   #91
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Men in Tights was fabulous!
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Old June 5, 2003, 05:22   #92
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Oh yeah, thumbs up for Men in Tights... also among the 5 best...
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Hmm, I'd say Airplane has the edge over Men in Tights - both are miles ahead of Spacebollocks. The only scene I even smiled at has already been listed ("merchandising").

Anyone ever hear of a Michael Caine movie called Water? Very rare here in the UK, but it's got a few laughs in. Not a classic (nowhere near as good as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) but he hasn't done a lot of comedy.
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Old June 5, 2003, 06:12   #94
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I just tried to recollect some funny scenes from Airplane the other day, can't remember any though
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A thread on the funniest movie ever and all I see is talk about Spaceballs and Airplane?? Are you all Americans or something?

Laurel & Hardy: Way out West
Marx Brothers: almost every movie they made
WC Fields: need I say more?
Chaplin: ...
Buster Keaton: same as above...

Three pages of valuable cyberspace and all you come up with is Airplane
If I'm any indication of what Americans have been exposed to, most of us haven't seen many if any of those films. (Remember, I'm an oldie like yourself, so I imagine that younger posters have had even less access to this stuff than I have.) I have seen a few Laurel and Hardies, but they weren't all that great. I prefer Harold Lloyd. WC Fields is good, but I've only seen two of his films. They were funny though. Of Chaplin, I've only seen the Great Dictator and Modern Times. They were both good, but not the sort of thing that makes me die laughing. I have never seen a Buster Keaton film, only cut scenes. It looks cool, but I have no idea what a feature or even an entire short is like. As for the Marx brothers, I have seen their films, and I agree, they blow most of the films mentioned in this thread right out of the water.
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as long as no one mentions airplane2. That movie is a travesty of comedy.
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They made a sequal to Airplane?
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yep, it's about a shuttle, right?

I like the scene with all the different news shows... on Japanese news, the newsman reports some godzilla news, and on that Russian news show, the guy says "and now the good news: hundreds of capitalists will die in a shuttle inferno". pretty funny.

apart from that, like airplane, a silly movie. and they even made a bus sequel, which was completely boring.
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I liked Airplane!, but there was an even better Zucker-Abrams-Zucker comedy:

Ruthless People. My personal favorite. The sets themselves are classics.


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