I stanned for them a little when they went mi**lebrow, much like the rest of Film Comment's target demo. But Mary is filled with not funny things.
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
Jonathan Richman as greek chorus is pretty inherently funny though
― internet somebody (some dude), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
i have fond memories of stuff matt dillon did, but i have no desire to revisit Mary really.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
not really a true lewis film tho, it would be like julie andrews placing in the musical poll for S.O.B.
never knew Lewis and Scorsese were married.
it's a little premature to say that any film is not gonna make
No, bcz about 80% of the voters have not seen a Fields or Lewis film, and never will.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
what, only you can judge films without seeing them?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
haha shut up Morbs
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
<I>Is</I> there a famous WC Fields film?
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
(will be performing HTML pratfalls all day)
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
I could see the bank dick placing
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
you know how ilx loves dick joeks
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know what this 'never will' stuff is. i'm one of the whippersnappers who voted for a bunch of microwaved modern comedies but i absolutely want to someday see all the oldies morbs scolds us for not knowing, and imagine i will enjoy most or all of them.
― internet somebody (some dude), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
lol at me having a quote in support of swingers. i would probably not rep for it today. but i haven't seen it in a million years.
i don't think i voted for any of these so far? probably should have voted for singin' in the rain though.
― future worm food (n/a), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
approve of results so far. except for Swingers, which is straight obnoxious garbage.
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
Had this been a top 100 ballot I bet I would have run out of modern kicks and included more "that was fun, bet it blew minds in 1943, glad this movie is in the smithsonian"-type films
― da croupier, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
#89 (3-WAY-TIE)
TROUBLE IN PARADISE
Ernst Lubitsch1932United States(259 pts, 6 votes)
i watched trouble in paradise with a girl over the holiday break and she squealed joyously through most of it.kind of a keeper, that one.― do you want me to share what i know w/ you or not? (forksclovetofu), Monday, January 2, 2012 6:15 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
trouble in paradise is indeed the best film ever, b&w or not. are we having a 1930s movie poll soon?― :| (....), Wednesday, January 5, 2005 3:10 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hi dere, I like this movie.― Remy IS THE Snush (x Jeremy), Saturday, January 15, 2005 1:35 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
be sure to watch the RESTORED version of Trouble in Paradise, with Miriam Hopkins shitting in a sink― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, March 5, 2012 2:53 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
trouble in paradise
― (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
TONSILS!
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
Harland Williams is the funniest thing in There's Something About Mary, and he's in it for all of, what, three minutes?
― jpattzlovevampz 2 hours ago (Phil D.), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
ah i remember harland williams. i voted for half baked!
― internet somebody (some dude), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
lost in america is such a weird, minimalist, ruthless movie; i remember it as only having like five scenes, and it ends in such brutal collapse. shoulda been higher.
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:55 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^ this. Although I wouldn't call "And I eat shit?" a brutal collapse necessarily, but yeah, a dashing of his dreams.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
^phil otm! 7 its all abt 7. 7 chipmunks swingin on a branch eatin lots of sunflowers on my uncles ranch, you know that old tale from the sea!
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
also, Morbz seems to grasp some basic math principles -- i.e., if the "handful" of old-timey film stans cram the top of their ballots with keaton, chaplin, wc fields and jerry lewis films and the old-timey fans aren't massively underrepresented vis-a-vis the non-old-timey fans then there's still a good chance that certain of their films could make the Top 100.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
seems to need to grasp some basic math principles, i meant
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
total shutouts for Buster Keaton, WC Fields and Jerry Lewis, obv. Chaplin too?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:52 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Jeez, Morbz, all you had to do was put The Errand Boy in your top 10 like I did.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
6 votes for Trouble in Paradise = average 43 points! I suspect that'll be hard to beat.
xp or not, that is a good point.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
TIP might've been my #1 (I don't remember).
Either way it's perfect.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
it's one of the few movies – let alone comedies – that manages to create and sustain a tone.
― da croupier, Tuesday, March 27, 2012 12:06 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ok, this is what i think of trouble in paradise -- maybe i should watch it again (and i can respect someone voting for it), but this is def an example of quaint-lol-1930s AFAIC.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
amused that the two movies so far that i voted for (trouble in paradise, lost in america) are both morbspix, let's see how long i can keep this affinity up
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
xpost But it made a modern girl squeal!
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
i've only seen one lubitsch, which i voted for (not TIP) - his work is definitely the biggest gap in my comedy canon viewing, aside from keaton.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Some gaps don't need to be filled.
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Byron couldn't have said it more graciously.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
hey guys trouble in paradise had 1 first place vote. left that off. sincere apologies!
― (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
I try to avoid not-high-enough disbelief, but I'm genuinely surprised Lost in America is so low.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
Herbert Marshall proving you can be sexy with a fake leg and being shown in profile for 90% of the movie.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
I saw Trouble In Paradise for the first time a couple of months ago and i dunno, it seemed a bit too restrained or something? In comparison to the '30s stuff i really like anyway. I'm probably a philistine though
― Number None, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
Well, it's not screwball, and, yeah, the tone and pace take getting used to. It's like Congreve or something.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
"Are there really people talking like this?"
My favorite part of "Trouble In Paradise" is to play 'spot the gondolas'... try to find them; I'm convinced there are an even dozen of them scattered throughout the film.
― aka vanilla bean (remy bean), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
show me where lubitsch touched you
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
but I do find the Edward Everett Horton joeks go on a bit
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
like some brain cavities and dance cards
Eisbaer not understanding the precious few all-timers are going to vote for different masterworks.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
and then they will die
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
RELEASE THE APATOW
PINK FLAMINGOS
John Waters1972United States(259 pts, 8 votes)
I like how all of the scenes he had to cut in Pink Flamingos are really short, but he left in heaps of shots of the trailor burning! I mean really I'm sure there was room for that pig latin bit. Pink Flamingos is my favourite and I could read Shock Value over and over again, well I have.― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Sunday, March 9, 2003 5:12 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Waters has been one of the leading advocates of obtaining parole for Leslie Van Houten. He even dedicated "Pink Flamingos" to Sadie, Katie & Leslie.― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Tuesday, July 20, 2004 7:40 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
PINK FLAMINGOS!!! "You can eat shit for all I care!", "There's two kinds of people in the world, my kind and assholes", "No one sends you a bowel movement and lives!", "Do my balls, mama!", "But WHAT if one day there's no more EGGS?!"― dave q, Friday, September 7, 2001 7:00 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"You stand convicted of Assholism!" -- in praise of John Waters
― (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost
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"Oh, I've wasted my life."
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
I think I voted for that just to make sure it got in, but it was probably the lowest of the 4 or 5 JW movies on my ballot.
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
i.e. a strategic vote
Arrow's impossibility theorem strikes again.
― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
Unsurprisingly, you're more than a little myopic in the use of your amazing precognitive powers.
― Michael J. Fuxxx (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link