Cellar Field of 64 #2: Comedy films
Newbs reminder: the first Cellar Field of 64 was
Breakfast Cereals
Our new Field of 64 is Comedy Films.
All are free to NOMINATE comedies that you feel should be in the top 64. Post your nominations in this thread.
Please limit yourself to no more than 20 nominations. Duplicate nominations will count as "votes" and figure into the seeding. You may stagger your nominations in order to think about them, or to add votes to films you hadn't thought of.
Nominations will close tomorrow at 11:59 PM EST. For those in other time zones, that's just over one day and 6 hours from the time of this post. Nominations made after that time will not count.
My first nominations:
Groundhog Day
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Annie Hall
Kingpin
Raising Arizona
Office Space
Caddyshack
Blues Brothers
Animal House
Revenge of the Pink Panther
the holy grrrrraail
Breakfast club
Me Myself and Irene
Something About Mary
Ace Ventura II
HIstory of the World Part 1
The Life of Brian
Stripes
Airplane
Big Trouble in Little China
Waiting for Guffman
Clue
What About Bob?
Best in Show
Spinal Tap
Life of Brian
Brain Candy
My big fat greek wedding
Something about Mary
The Holy Grail
Meet the Parents
History of the World Part 1
Harold & Maude
Withnail & I
Young Frankenstein
tommy boy
airplane
happy gilmore
the whole nine yards
the jerk
what about bob
1942
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
better off dead
ferris bueler's day off
planes, trains, and automobiles
one crazy summer
american pie
friday
LA Story
i dont know why it's hard to think of them, but i DO have a couple of 'seconds':
Happy GIlmore..." The price is WRONG, bitch!", Bueler ...:"Rooney,...You're an asshole!" , planes trains " You're going the wrong way...." "How do they know where we're going?!"
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Young Frankenstein
Duck Soup
A Night at the Opera
Ghostbusters
Airplane
Hollywood knights
cat ballou
Some Like It Hot
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Jekyll and Hyde-Together Again (I laughed so hard I got hiccups)
Mr Roberts
Trading Places
Airplane
Office Space
M*A*S*H
Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Birdcage
Raising Arizona
Fargo
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Cat Ballou
Better Off Dead
Good Morning, Vietnam
Police Academy (only the first one)
A Night at the Opera
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Casino Royale
Sleeper
The Trouble with Angels
Men in Black
King of Hearts
Young Frankenstein
I know I'm going to think of more as soon as I enter this post ...
The Grail (I'm pretty sure this is the funniest film of all time)
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
High Anxiety
A Shot in the Dark
Skin Deep
Victor/Victoria
Operation Petticoat
The Bird Cage/La Cage au Folles
Top Secret
Airplane
in fact...pretty much anything by the Zuckers
Kentucky Fried Movie
The Naked Gun - All of 'em
My Favorite Year
A Night at the Opera
Monkey Business
Bringing up Baby
Arsenic and Old Lace
Harvey
Clerks
The Birdcage and La Cage aux Folle have to be treated as separate films.
Because, well, they are.
La Cage is amusing. The Birdcage is as funny as shit.
I just wanted to give acknowledgement that one begat the other...although I guess I sort of put them in the wrong order.
Harold and Maude
Animal House
The Graduate
Wierd Science
Real Genius
The Odd Couple
The Breakfast Club
(I really better stop now ... I could go on and on and on ...)
Election
Young Frankenstein
Sleeper
Blazing Saddles
A Night at the Opera
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Heathers
Mallrats
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Ed Wood
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
airplane
caddyshack
porkey's
ghostbusters
waterboy
the birdcage
back to the future 1 (comedy? dunno, but i laughed a lot)
50 first dates
aladdin (disney one, with robin williams as the genie)
forrest gump!!
splash
goonies
first wives' club
maverick (god is mel gibson HOT in this...)
bird on a wire
as good as it gets
witches of eastwick
You guys have pretty much covered everything I can think of, so I'll let my input help with the seeding.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Blazing Saddles
Spinal Tap
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Caddyshack
Blues Brothers
Better Off Dead
Real Genius
Stripes
oh yeah, did anyone mention:
A Fish Called Wanda?
These have been nominated, but gotta get my $.02 in.
MP & Holy Grail
Spinal Tap (the first time I saw it, I literally almost passed out from laughing at the Stonehenge bit)
Office Space
What About Bob?
Any Sellers Pink Panther movie.
About a Boy
Love Actually
South Park Movie
What Lies Beneath
All film titles I repeat should be read as "seeding votes" since I agree with many exisiting nominations.
1 -- The Gods Must Be Crazy
(The "anti-christ" Land Rover at the gate is exquisite physical comedy)
2 -- Me, Myself, and Irene
3 -- Young Frankenstein
(What Knockers!)
4 -- Modern Times
(Chaplin, the father of physical comedy)
5 -- A Fish Called Wanda
(What was that part in the middle?)
/retires to think of 15 more.../
6 -- Some Like it Hot
7 -- There's Something About Mary
8 -- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
9 -- Aladdin
(You ain't never had a friend like me!)
10 -- Mrs. Doubtfire
(more Robin Williams insanity)
11 -- Duck Soup
12 -- Raising Arizona
13 -- Rocky Horror Picture Show
(Rocky! Ughh!)
14 -- Groundhog Day
15 -- A Shot in the Dark
16 -- Mask
17 -- The Seven-Year Itch
18 -- Airplane!
19 -- Monty Python's Meaning of Life
20 -- (twenty already?!) Singin' in the Rain
("make 'em laugh")
only 20? /sigh/ Let the games begin!
Lookin for a dark horse:
Things Change
Being There
When Harry Met Sally
The Night We Never Met
Tootsie
It Happened One Night
Desk Set
Zelig
1 -- The Gods Must Be Crazy
(The "anti-christ" Land Rover at the gate is exquisite physical comedy)
Outstanding! I forgot about that one. I found it to be extremely funny at the time.
I second The Gods Must Be Crazy.
The Gods Must Be Crazy!!!! times 20. I rescind all my other nominations. I can't believe I forgot it. I didn't belly-laugh any, but I smiled the whole friggin time.
The Gods Must Be Crazy!!!! times 20. I rescind all my other nominations. I can't believe I forgot it. I didn't belly-laugh any, but I smiled the whole friggin time.
YEAH!!! I couldn't breathe, I was laffin so hard! G*wd, what a funny movie.
/wipes tears/
In no particular order
A Christmas story
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Blazing Saddles
Paper Moon
Groundhog Day
Airplane
Forrest Gump
Something About Mary
Moonstruck
Mouse Hunt
Bird Cage
Holy Grail
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
As Good as it Gets
Bull Durham
Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)
Klumps (Eddie Murphy)
What's Up Doc
My Cousin Vinny
holy grail
the princess bride
me, myself and irene
something about mary
anchorman: the legend of ron burgundy
raising arizona
a fish called wanda
white men can't jump
this is spinal tap
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Johnny Dangerously
Airplane
Fahrenheit 9/11
The Gods Must Be Crazy!!!! times 20. I rescind all my other nominations. I can't believe I forgot it. I didn't belly-laugh any, but I smiled the whole friggin time.
Excellent!
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Princess Bride
:biggrin:
Ladies and Gentlemen, your initial seeding:
http://cellar.org/fieldof64/comedies.phpEuroTrip
Vegas Vacation
Once Bitten
Zorro the Gay Blade
Top Secret
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
oops....I'm late. There are some movies that don't qualify as comedies on the list though like Forrest Gump and As good as it gets.
How does one vote?
You wait for me to say....
Airplane!, or Tommy Boy?
tommy boy..."fat guy in a litttle coat"......i try to live my life by that axiom
Only the first answer per game is accepted!
Forrest Gump, or As Good As It Gets?
Run, Forrest!!!
Forrest Gump.
Tommy Boy didn't even belong on the same court. It must have gotten an automatic entry by winning its conference tourney.
aw, nuts! tommy boy is great! it is truly unfortunate that it went up against airplane in the first round. don't you remember - tommy takes a little while to find his groove, but once he's in the zone....
Caddyshack, or Real Genius?
Forrest Gump isn't even a comedy, I mean I smiled over it a few times but definately not a gut busting laugh fest.
Lord how could you pick Real Genius over Caddyshack? Real Genius is amusing. Caddyshack has some all time great moments in comedy.
Forrest Gump isn't even a comedy, I mean I smiled over it a few times but definately not a gut busting laugh fest.
Yeah, but neither was "As Good As It Gets." and Forrest was the better of the two non-comedies. Funnier too.
And i'm surprised that Real Genius beat out Caddyshack. Both are good, but Caddyshack is a classic. So it's got that going for it, which is nice.
real genius remains one of the funniest movies of the '80's IMO. it is a hard decision between that and caddyshack, but i went with my gut. (maybe because it is more forgotten and not as overplayed as every line of caddyshack?)
lines like "can you drive a 6 inch nail through a board with your penis?"
they still make me laugh! i guess it boils down to that if i'm flipping throught the channels and see caddyshack i keep going, i run across real genius and i'm going to leave it there. maybe absence makes the funny bone more sensitive?
Office Space, or The Meaning of Life?
Only the first answer per game is accepted!
Forrest Gump, or As Good As It Gets?
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WHAT?[/SIZE] :bitching: :crazy:
First answer after your question wins the round? You mean
[COLOR=blue]you want me to stalk you[/COLOR] to ensure the will of the people is enforced? The winner of a given round is the movie that is selected in the first reply to your "tip-off"? I don't think I understand this right. Even the nomination process was...democratic permitting "votes" to determine the seeding process.
Please explain it so me and my small smooth brain :idea: gets it too. Pretty-please?
Thanks.
Office Space, or The Meaning of Life?
Meaning of Life
As good as it gets (not a comedy, but more funny than Gump though Gump was a better movie)
Real genius
The meaning of life.
And i'm surprised that Real Genius beat out Caddyshack. Both are good, but Caddyshack is a classic.
Strictly a measure of chance not the value of the movie. One persons snap decision that got there first. :)
hey Bigv - are you volunteering to sit and compile a list of each vote for each question for say 2 hours after the question is asked??? that could make this contest last weeks.
i kind of dig the first answer in wins system personally.
hey Bigv - are you volunteering to sit and compile a list of each vote for each question for say 2 hours after the question is asked??? that could make this contest last weeks.
i kind of dig the first answer in wins system personally.
Hell, I volunteer to take all four conference seedings and give you the winners in every bracket and I won't take 2 hours either...
You know it's only a matter of time before somebody starts a pool on this . . . .
You know it's only a matter of time before somebody starts a pool on this . . . .
...and then sits in front of the computer non-stop so they can make sure the "right" team wins.
...and then sits in front of the computer non-stop so they can make sure the "right" team wins.
/buzz lightyear voice/
You're mocking me, aren't you?
didn't we have an agreement that no one can pick the winner twice in a row? let's face it, i always have the cellar up on my screen, but i only vote on ones i care about - i don't want to totally pack my choices here.
You know it's only a matter of time before somebody starts a pool on this . . . .
And a little more time until somebody dumps chlorine in it. :)
now if only someone would do that to the gene pool
The first rule of the Field of 64 is, there is no whining in the Field of 64.
Better off Dead, or Top Secret?
didn't we have an agreement that no one can pick the winner twice in a row? let's face it, i always have the cellar up on my screen, but i only vote on ones i care about - i don't want to totally pack my choices here.
Agreement? Rules? Ok, I know I'm slow on the uptake, but I
missed the class, ok? First in wins? What elese?
The first rule of the Field of 64 is, there is no whining in the Field of 64.
Better off Dead, or Top Secret?
fine :D
better off dead
:thumbsup:
If it's not fun this way, let us know a way that would be more fun. The only rule is you don't get to declare two winners in a row. We have voting once we get to the final four.
http://cellar.org/fieldof64/comedies.php
A Night at the Opera, or Seven-Year Itch?
If it's not fun this way, let us know a way that would be more fun. The only rule is you don't get to declare two winners in a row. We have voting once we get to the final four.
http://cellar.org/fieldof64/comedies.php
A Night at the Opera, or Seven-Year Itch?
It's fun the way it is. This way, we get to pick on people when they don't make a choice we agree with. And a certain amount of randomness is throw in, which is good.
Seven Year Itch? What are you, nuts? What an upset!
History of the World pt 1, or The Blues Brothers?
Top Secret (but both are good)
Blues Brothers
If it's not fun this way, let us know a way that would be more fun. The only rule is you don't get to declare two winners in a row. We have voting once we get to the final four.
http://cellar.org/fieldof64/comedies.php
A Night at the Opera, or Seven-Year Itch?
It's not "not fun", it's more the case that I got here late, didn't know what was going on and plus, having the Meaning of Life displaced (I refuse to say defeated) by Office Space thrust me into a state of perfect discombuberation. Now you know what I sound like when I'm discombuberated.
Anyway, as a comptetion these rules are ok. I was/am ignorant. But I do have an idea... At the risk of changing it from the competition format into a raw poll, if voting is ok on the final four, what about voting in the earlier rounds? I know that sounds like a lot of collating and counting, but you could sidestep the whole hanging chad issue by making use of your poll tool. Each level of the bracket could be one poll. Post the entire level at once, and let the voting be open for a short time (tick tock tick tock) and the votes accumulate and the whole level is decided at once. Really, it's not a lot different than what you have happening now, only the number of votes deciding the winner of a given match increases from one to something more than one, and the timeframe increases from one instant post to maybe a quarter hour? longer? shorter? Your poll tool still prevents ballot box stuffing with the one vote per member, and there could be cheering and jeering during the individual matches, as the vote totals accumulated. More time to enjoy the match in progress.
I dunno, just an idea. It
is fun this way too.
And thanks for letting me come over to your place to play, sincerely.
Seven Year Itch? What are you, nuts? What an upset!
History of the World pt 1, or The Blues Brothers?
I guess I keep hoping that Marilyn Monroe will fall out of her dress. The dramatic tension keeps me watching. Wait, um, this is the comedy competition. My bad. Sorry.
Seven Year Itch? What are you, nuts? What an upset!
History of the World pt 1, or The Blues Brothers?
yeah, Blues Brothers!
hey radar - either you're missing something, or i am. first vote gets the win, but you have to wait until UT gives us the match up.
Radar, you have to wait until UT asks the question. Then the first to answer has chosen the winner, end of battle, and we wait for UT to make another move.
if you are curious, there are currently 22 people anxiously awaiting the next matchup.
and refreshing like crazy......
if you are curious, there are currently 22 people anxiously awaiting the next matchup.
What if I don't post one?
Nah, I will. But nobody said it has to be in order! In fact it should be mixed up so it isn't predictable. So:
Fahrenheit 9/11, or Aladdin?
Fahrenheit 9/11
if you are curious, there are currently 22 people anxiously awaiting the next matchup.
Slackers. Drop and give me 20.
It's gonna piss me off if that movie ultimately wins the tournament. Just sayin'.
What About Bob? or Fargo?
what - you don't think absurd comedy is worthy of an award?
*zips up flame retardent suit*
What if I don't post one?
Nah, I will. But nobody said it has to be in order! In fact it should be mixed up so it isn't predictable. So:
Fahrenheit 9/11, or Aladdin?
hehehheh... good idea. way more funner.
It's gonna piss me off if that movie ultimately wins the [best comedy of all time]. Just sayin'.
It'll also piss off the guy who has to scrape tw off the pavement directly below the 31st floor balcony.
What About Bob?
wrong. back of the line, buddy.
OK, that is all the games for this afternoon. (You can stop refreshing the thread now.)
http://cellar.org/fieldof64/comedies.phpi'll, i mean, he'll be laughing too hard to scrape the pavement...
what - you don't think absurd comedy is worthy of an award?
Isn't absurd comedy something the French like? :)
OK, that is all the games for this afternoon. (You can stop refreshing the thread now.)
http://cellar.org/fieldof64/comedies.php
Ok, ok, that was fun! So, if ya don't mind my askin, when is the next set of matches scheduled to start or do I have to revert to [size=1][color=Silver]stalker mode [color=Black][size=3]again?[/size][/color]
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It all depends on my copious but unpredictable free time.
a la Jerry Lewis?
a'la Richard Dreyfus and Emilio Estevez in Stakeout
Not stalker, lurker. ;)
Thank you for the correction. I stand (in the shadows) corrected.
I want my votes to count but I am at work and can't keep checking in and the votes are going quickly, so here are the remainder of my first round votes...
Young Frankenstein
Alladin
Happy Gilmore
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Life of Brian
What about Bob
Princess Bride
Raising Arizona
Blazing Saddles
A shot in the Dark
A Fish Called Wanda
White Men Can't Jump
Gods Must Be Crazy
Spinal Tap
Stripes
Something About Mary
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Ghost Busters
Sleeper
Me, Myself, and Irene
My Cousin Vinny
Birdcage
Southpark: Bigger, Longer, and uncut
L.A. Story
Um, Radar...
I mean. Ok. Yeah, sure. Your votes will count. Yeah. That's the ticket.
No need to play the rest of the round really.
Well, that was fun. What's next?
let me just say one thing:
the first person that votes against the holy grail will become my personal bitch& whipping boy. no, really.
hey, bully boy - your knuckles look like they are getting a little raw, why don't you quit dragging them?
let me just say one thing:
the first person that votes against the holy grail will become my personal bitch& whipping boy. no, really.
Well, according to my calculations, Monty Python and the Holy Grail doesn't face any serious opposition until the final eight, when it loses to Groundhog Day.
By the way, I will be casting that vote, laughing boy.
I can't believe anyone voted against Monty Python's meaning of life, which is even more funny than the Holy Grail.
That would be me.
I found Office Space more comedic. Not that I don't love Python (Holy Grail is definitely one of my favorites, as is Life of Brian) I just think OS is more funny overall.
*shrug*
I can't believe anyone voted against Monty Python's meaning of life, which is even more funny than the Holy Grail.
sorry, my fault. The sun was in my eyes, there was a crosswind, the ref is blind, um. I shoulda had that one. A travesty, really.
Sorry.
Office Space--weak.
I own both, watched both in the last year and Office Space is superior. Meaning of Life suffers from long, drawn-out sections that are not funny at all. Sure, it has the "wafer thin mint", but little else to it. Meanwhile Office Space is a spot-on critique of modern society for about 50% of us.
Jacquelita doesn't agree.
Ferris Beuller's Day Off, or Police Academy?
Ferris Beuller's Day Off!
terrific, UT's time becomes copious as mine becomes meager...
It will be interesting to see the results later.
Planes Trains and Automobiles, or Waiting for Guffman?
Blazing Saddles, or Revenge of the Pink Panther?
Hey! I nominated Revenge of the Pink Panther! Against Blazing Saddles??? Oh dammit. Oh dammit. If I pick Revenge of the Pink Panther, Radar will hate me and lumberjim will beat me up. Crap!
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo....
Blaz..Rev..ing..enge..Sad..ofthe..dles..pinkPanther!!!
Hey! I nominated Revenge of the Pink Panther! Against Blazing Saddles??? Oh dammit. Oh dammit. If I pick Revenge of the Pink Panther, Radar will hate me and lumberjim will beat me up. Crap!
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo....
Blaz..Rev..ing..enge..Sad..ofthe..dles..pinkPanther!!!
spaz
Young Frankenstein, or Modern Times?
Rocky Horror Picture Show, or White Men Can't Jump?
Oh my goodness, what an exciting day you have all had! I do regret that my rather bizarre schedule kept me from participating :(
There were some amazing upsets, and probably an about equal number of victories that I'm quite pleased about.
Since we're working this out as we go ... how's about for future rounds limiting people to 10 nominees (As long as the interest holds out and we'd fill the field that way)?
I think the spontaneous vote when the matchup is annouced is a good way to go in the early rounds. But, to catch people who (ahem, like me) login late at night ... what about the person who makes the pick annouces the next matchup? We did that a couple of times on the Cereal Field of 64, and it seemed to work all right. That method doesn't rely on UT's constant attention to the process, and also enforces the "no two in a row" rule.
Oh, and radar needs to review the rules, such as they are.
Wasn't aware there were any rules other than picking those you like the best. If it's a contest to hang around all day hoping you'll happen to be online the moment they announce the next matchup so you can vote, it's a completely stupid game. I thought the goal was to see which of these the people in the cellar like the most, not which of these those who happen to be online during a particular 3 minute period like.
Some of us have jobs.
Don't participate in any thread you don't read. The first rule is no whining.
Naked Gun
"Nice Beaver"
*Snort*
Life of Brian, or Best In Show?
Rule #2 is don't vote for two things in a row.
Oh, I get it. It's a completely stupid game for people who have no lives. I mistook it for a poll of which funny movies the members of this board liked best, which it clearly isn't. I'm sorry I took part in it. And that's not whining, it's an accurate description.
Oh, I get it. It's a completely stupid game for people who have no lives. Some of us have jobs.
Completely stupid: CHECK!
People with no life: CHECK!
People with no job: CHECK!
That's me. Unemployed, stupid and living under a bridge. With a stolen laptop, a can of sardines and a hacked WiFi. :) Life is good.
NEXT!
Radar, after you read that the rule is no whining, just leave the thread without whining. It makes you look smarter, fulfilled, and employed.
Naked Gun
"Nice Beaver"
*Snort*
this is a travesty. i watched something like 5 more suck ass adam sandler movies because of how hysterical happy gilmore was, just hoping for something half as good. "you eat little pieces of shit for breakfast?"
sigh
The Wedding Singer was pretty good. Not top 64 material though.
Trading Places, or Stripes?
this is a travesty. i watched something like 5 more suck ass adam sandler movies because of how hysterical happy gilmore was, just hoping for something half as good. "you eat little pieces of shit for breakfast?"
sigh
I'm afraid Sandlers body of work as a whole has tainted Happy Gilmore. Everytime I watch it I get annoyed at how much time of mine he has wasted.
Psycho: The name's Francis Sawyer, but everybody calls me Psycho. Any of you guys call me Francis, and I'll kill you.
Leon: Ooooooh.
Psycho: You just made the list, buddy. Also, I don't like no one touching my stuff. So just keep your meathooks off. If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I'll kill you. And I don't like nobody touching me. Any of you homos touch me, and I'll kill you.
Sergeant Hulka: Lighten up, Francis.
Classic. :thumbsup:
Wow. I really liked Stripes (boom-shaka-laka) but the competition offered by Tradiing Places was quite extreme, I thought it would prevail.
--snip-- the competition offered by --snip--
is like saying
Red offers competition to Blue...i thought he got fired?
He got rehired.
UT, do us a favor and put the link to the standings into your sig line while this is on.
thanks so much
This is Spinal Tap
or
Breakfast Club
Princess Bride, or Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
princess bride
whew. i was worried about that one
Raising Arizona, or Big Trouble in Little China?
princess bride
whew. i was worried about that one
yer right to be worried, given that WFRR is a much funnier movie than PB
yer right to be worried, given that WFRR is a much funnier movie than PB
it's really really close, and i think roger rabbit may have had slightly more laughs in it, but the princess bride has sooooo many great quotes in it.
"Sthtop ryhming, i mean it!"
"anybody wanna peanut?"
inconcievable!
jou keep using that word. i do not think it means what you think it means.
Ok, on the "facts" it is really close, but I just love Roger Rabbit. It has it's own quotes too:
"They say no toon can resist _Shave and a Haircut_"
"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way" (damn)
"My problem is I got a forty year old lust and a three year old dinky"
Oh, my God.......IT'S DIIIIIP!!!!!!! (dedicated to the smokeless tobacco fiends in the audience)
YAY! Princess Bride made the cut. I was worried, too.
Except after c, Dave.
two chez
Duck Soup, or A Shot In The Dark?
LJ , Who cares ????? Do you dare defame the good name of the Marx Bros ?????
Sir , I FART in your general direction for that defamation !!!!!!!
The Birdcage, or When Harry Met Sally?
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, or Tootsie?
bruce, you ignorant slut. i'm appalled. and yet, i knew some motherfucker would do that shit. didn't think it'd be you, although it makes perfect sense.
motion to have bruce tarred and feathered.
and in closing, just let me say......."cock!"
The Gods Must Be Crazy, or Men In Black?
(I'm appalled, but it leaves the door open for one of the other number ones, or possibly even for Ghostbusters to make it out of the West.)
YOU made the rules!
Gods must be crazy
Just had to test the validity of the whole process, didn'tcha, Bruce? :eek:
Naughty, naughty bruce! You voted twice in a row!! (I'll be over to issue your spanking).
As it happens, though, I also vote for The Gods Must be Crazy over MIB, so the result stands anyway.
I've a bulletin:
Half of Monty Python's material is outrageously funny.
The other half is boring and stupid.
Were it not for the "me too" cult factor and drugs, they would have never made it off of Brit TV.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. :p
"He's a witch! Burn him!!!"
Cat Ballou, or Ghostbusters?
Just in case xoB's vote is declared invalid due to reasons of insanity, (Tootsie over Holy Grail?? It's the freakin "Holy" "Grail" fercryinoutloud), or because he voted twice in a row, let me ensure that The Gods Must Be Crazy (they surely are) advances over, um, over...over whatever opposes it.
There, I feel better.
(edit:--Thank you wolf, posted immediately after I saw the accident, then read your post. Yeah, xoB, I read your post too. Enjoy your story, ya bum)
A Fish Called Wanda, or Zoolander?
DAMMIT!
"Mer-MAN... MER-MAN!"
Way to go K-k-k-k-k-k-k-ken!
There's Something About Mary, or The Waterboy?
Hey, UT:
I'd like to start my list of nominees for Most Shameful Waste of Movie Resources (film, screen time, oxygen, etc.), but I have a question--Does "Adam Sandler" count as one entry, or do I have to list each of the offenses individually?
Thanks.
sorry. waterboy made me laugh. i don't like most of what sandler does, but i liked that one. and ben stiller can make almost any movie unbearable with his mere presence.
Ditto for Ben Stiller, but give him two votes. Ewww.
waterboy [is funnier than There's Something About Mary]
:eek:
Somebody hand me a rusty screwdriver so I can gouge out my eyeballs.
i'll show you obdula oblongota (sp)
suggestion: votes need to be seconded. best 2 out of 3? something. gah
princess bride
whew. i was worried about that one
great. retro to here? doubt it.
well, retro wouldnt be fair, maybe next topic. anyway, i think pb would get 2nded over wfrr. punk
well, retro wouldnt be fair, maybe next topic. anyway, i think pb would get 2nded over wfrr. punk
Eddie Valiant: Seriously, what do you see in that guy--[color=Red]lumberjim[/color]?
Jessica Rabbit: He makes me laugh.
I had thought of that and we'll go to two out of three in the next round. But since we went through such a long nomination process, you would expect that a more accurate game would lead to no upsets at all, which wouldn't be fun either.
It's funny how this is playing out - the field of 64 idea - because nobody *cares* enough about cereals to moan about big upsets, so this category is funner in a certain way. But it seems like every category would be different that way! What a pain it would be to go 2 out of 3 on cereals. It's something to consider... different house rules for each category?
Me, Myself and Irene, or Zelig?
sh*t, fired too soon.
Me myself and irene, somebody, please!
Sorry, never seen either one, I can't help ya BigV.
Zelig (sorry--art must stand)
zelig is sorry art, I'll give you that...compared to MMI
Zelig was brilliant. MMI??? Come ON! After Bruce fucked up and--oh, never mind.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High, or LA Story?
Oooh, tough choice.
I'll pass on this one.
LA Story
Steve Martin preening at the stoplight is toooo funny.
"I'm gonna kick 100% of your ass!"
Groundhog Day, or My Cousin Vinny? (This one's trouble too, somebody's gonna be unhappy)
Groundhog Day
"Don't drive angry." :thumbsup:
yes, someone's goin home sad
BUT NOT ME!!!!!!
/after 30 secs in penalty box, thank you, sir, may I have another!/
might I suggest that we do rock bands next?
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, or Some Like It Hot?
the holy grail!
oops.....
south park
The first round is done!
For the next round we will go to best of three voting. Once the name is announced, you are free to make a choice. The second vote for an entry will make it the winner of the game.
Once a game has a winning second vote, there is no need to vote any further!
Airplane!, or Forrest Gump?
Oh yes, and - if you have a vote in the previous game, you can't vote the following game. That rule has to remain in effect so that two people don't dominate the voting.
The Naked Gun, or Planes, Trains, and Automobiles?
Planes Trains & Autos
Who's with me?
/watches from sidelines/
Go, glatt, go!
Stripes, or The Waterboy?
Current Cellar Field of 64: Comedies
Is there a page where these fields o' 64 are/will be collected and linked to? If not, could I suggest it be located at
http://cellar.org/fieldof64/ ?
Is there a page where these fields o' 64 are/will be collected and linked to? If not, could I suggest it be located at http://cellar.org/fieldof64/ ?
So it shall be! Of course, it will need some design work...
I'd volunteer, but you'd be hard pressed to apply the word "design" to my
31337 HTML skillz.
Real Genius, or Office Space?
Real genius
Bless you, HM, and your happy fingers, too :)
Edited cuz nothing showed up....
Witty comment inserted below...
Note to self - send Happy Monkey a Red Swingline Stapler and promote him out of the basement office :) <note to="" self.....send="" happy="" monkey="" a="" red="" swingline="" stapler=""></note>
Better Off Dead, or Seven Year Itch?
Bless you, HM, and your happy fingers, too :)
Couldn't have done it without Clodfobble!
Is "seconding" in play now? Cool.
Yeah, for this round it needs 2 out of 3. But once again, I've never seen either of the movies currently up on the chopping block, so I don't want to vote...
(Which means we need another vote for Better off Dead, or two for Seven Year Itch.)
Better Off Dead.
I want my $2.
Princess Bride, or Raising Arizona?
Come on Arizona! Somebody?
Anybody?
Blues Brothers, or Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
Anyone voting for Ferris Beuller's Day Off will have to spend one whole day pushing Radar's hot dog cart around East LA.
Uhhhh people... "we're on a mission from God."
Now dust off those keyboards and commence doing the Lord's work!!
Sorry it took me so long, Beestie. I had to scroll back and see if I was eligible to vote yet.
Whew! That was close.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to drive to the Cook County Assessor's Office. I think there's a really good shortcut through the shopping mall :)
The other good thing is that now Sean Penn has been eliminated from the contest.
Young Frankenstein, or Fahrenheit 9/11?
Young Frankenstein...
F 9/11 was laffable, but not amusing.
Fahrenheit 9/11 is a joke as well as Michael Moore but I like Young Frank as a comedy too. Tough choice but I gotta go with 9/11.
Young Frankenstein
What Knockers!
The Gods Must Be Crazy, or The Breakfast Club?
come on, someone back me up here. please???
The Gods
Come on,
somebody back him up here!!!
where is Slang and his multiple personalities when i need him???
I'd love to help but I got voted off the island on the last selection.
Come on Breakfast Club!
Both movies are funny in different ways. I love them both. I think I nominated BC ...
But i gotta vote for The Gods Must Be Crazy.
That Rhino!!
But, I gotta hand out some serious asswhippings over the Raising Arizona loss ... what were you morons thinking?? oh wait. Morons. You can't.
wolf - i am so disappointed. i may not be able to work for the rest of the day.
am i the only person who just didn't think the gods was that funny?
and i realized last night that i forgot to nominate one of the funniest (dumb) movies ever - Weekend at Bernie's. oh well.
--snip--
But i gotta vote for The Gods Must Be Crazy.
That Rhino!!
thanks for the vote!!
But, I gotta hand out some serious asswhippings over the Raising Arizona loss ... what were you morons thinking?? oh wait. Morons. You can't.
hahahahaha!
btw, Raising Arizona was
robbed.
Tootsie, or Ghostbusters?
/patiently, for a change witholds fire for a really important target.../
Oh, Bruuuuuuuccey! You're up!
Ghostbusters
Sorry Bruce. I love you dearly, but some things are above love ...
Checking the standings, there are some VERY nailbiting matchups in this round.
Blazing Saddles, or Duck Soup?
Blazing Saddles...Duck Soup wasn't the funniest Marx Brothers film, anyway.
Blazing Saddles.
(no matter how funny the Marx Brothers are, Mel Brooks wins for overall hilarity. Darn! Now I realized I didn't even think about The Producers during nominations.)
You can't vote again yet, wolf... But I vote Blazing Saddles too. :)
Maybe fewer people have seen Zelig? Warch nominated it I think.
I saw both of these... it's a tough call but I would give it to Sleeper. I'll vote Sleeper just to get a vote in.
Zelig (sorry--art must stand)
Ironic that Woody Allen is in both corners...
*sheepish*--I thought Zelig was funny.
I vote Zelig.
/stretches---/
at least the next vote will bring up the next contest
wow - who knew that the cellar 64 would crumble due to a decided lack of interest in 2 films?
i've not seen either one, so i have no vote.
I voted in the last one, or I'd break my have-to-have-seen-it rule and just vote Sleeper...
apparently mis-titled, should be Snoozer
fine - i'll vote for sleeper on your word
Life of Brian, or What About Bob?
what about bob!
I'm Saaaaaaiiiiiling!
oh dammit ! i can't vote again, someone bail me out and vote for WAB, please.
Brian has more belly laughs in the first 20 minutes then Bob has in the entire film. It is funny on so many levels.....it isn't funny. :lol:
crucifixion? good, one cross each, line on the left.
"What Jesus fails to understand is that it's the meek that are the bloody problem."
Classic.
oh, no. that puts it up against the princess bride in the next round. that's a toughie. i'll have to abstain from that one. they both rock.
oh, no. that puts it up against the princess bride in the next round. that's a toughie. i'll have to abstain from that one. they both rock.
I told you PB was goin DOWN!
you;re almost as bitter as i am about the......the......the.....
THE WHAT!?
the grail?
THE GRRRRRAAAAAAIIIIILLLLLLL?
yes, i mean no. that is.....i think so?
Hey, LJ, picture this: Tootsie versus The Black Knight!!!
hehehehehe
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, or L.A. Story?
Hey, LJ, picture this: Tootsie versus The Black Knight!!!
hehehehehe
[size=6]NONE SHALL PASS![/size]ecxept freakin tootsie, bruce ya dick.
Groundhog Day, or The Birdcage?
Tough call. Groundhog day is a better movie, but Birdcage is more funny. Since the catagory is FUNNY movies, I'll have to go with Birdcage.
A Fish Called Wanda or Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Radar, you are now eligible to vote, until two votes are placed for the same film.
Here ccccommes kken..
he's cccoming to kkill me!
Stripes, or The Waterboy?
Stripes ,
"Boom chug-a-luga-luga BOOM "!!!!!!
It's the Sweet Sixteen! And it's up for grabs too... there are only three entries that seem unlikely to make it to the final.
well the way i see it , office space over air plane ( for all you damn geeks ) , Blues brothers over BOD , Young Frank over PTO, LB over PB , BS over Wanda ????, Stripes over GMBC, Sleeper over GB, SP over GD ,
just my 10 cents , cos my 2 cents is free
Here we go, best two outta three continues.
Airplane! or Office Space?
(no matter how much fun counting flare is, it falls flat in the face of things like "Surely you can't be serious", "It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now", "I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue", and "Sluggish, like a wet sponge.")
The Life of Brian, or The Princess Bride?
She also meant Brian.
She badly misspelled it.
Blazing Saddles, or A Fish Called Wanda?
Wow, that's hard. I loved them both. But for me, it's got to be:
Blazing Saddles.
Sitting around the campfire and farting. That's my level of humor.
Blazing Saddles
Cleavon Little holding himself hostage has got to be one of the greatest moments in comedy history.
She also meant Brian.
She badly misspelled it.
:)
These are tight matchups.
damn, I typed too slow.
But, hey, you won,
and can vote in the next matchup!
Groundhog Day, or South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut?
But, hey, you won, and can vote in the next matchup!
Good Point.
South Park
Better Off Dead, or The Blues Brothers?
Damn. My being able to vote wouldn't have helped anyway.
"Look at that. Folks be throwing away a perfectly good white boy."
Ghostbusters, or Sleeper?
(an aside: this thread googles #3 for "field of 64" and the actual march madness college basketball field of 64 begins real soon now. I swear I didn't plan that. :)
The Gods Must Be Crazy, or Stripes?
Bill Murray departs the field!
Young Frankenstein, or Planes, Trains, and Automobiles?
This is freaking cool! Good idea Tone.
I can't touch this one, love them both.
It's the Elite Eight! For this round we will have new rules, best three out of five and repeat voting is allowed, I say again, repeat voting IS allowed this round.
Sleeper, or South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut?
south park.
sleeper has sand in its vagina
Airplane! or The Blues Brothers?
Bluuuuuuueeeessss Brothers!!
Down to the wire!
Didn't jinx cinch it for Jake and Ellwood??? Thought it was best 3 outta 5.
yeah, guess you're right. Sloppy threadwork on my part. Got headfaked by Happy Monkey.
Let's call it a celebration as we await the next contest.
Blazing Saddles, or The Gods Must Be Crazy?
Didn't jinx cinch it for Jake and Ellwood??? Thought it was best 3 outta 5.
Perhaps it wasn't the best use of the term. I meant that it got all the way to game 5, unlike Blazing Saddles, for example.
The Gods are indeed crazy to have permitted this to happen. May you spontaneously combust and be stamped out by a crash of pyrophobic rhinocerii.
Stupid job.
Young Frankenstein, or The Princess Bride?
Princess Bride. The only movie I can actually quote start to finish.
Blazing Saddles, indeed.
Man, this is sooooooo hard! I can't make the decision!!! *copping out*
Young Frankenstein and anyone who thinks the Blues Brothers is more funny than Airplane doesn't know funny.
Shit.
The Princess Bride is funny, but mostly just cute.
Somebody just put the Princess Bride as the winner even though it was crushed by Young Frankenstein. This little experiment has been very enlightening. I finally realize that very few of you actually have a sense of humor. The mere fact that movies like Forest Gump, Tootsie, Zoolander, Breakfast Club, Cat Ballou, Ghost Busters, When Harry Met Sally, Zelig, White men can't jump, Big trouble in little china, Fahrenheit 9/11, Aladdin, Modern Times, Seven-Year Itch, A Night at the Opera, Duck Soup, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Men in Black, Waiting for Guffman, What About Bob?, Fargo, and As Good as it Gets were on the list proves it completely invalid.
Tootsie beating the Holy Grail is absolutely idiotic.
Zelig beating anything is stupid.
Breakfast Club beating Spinal Tap is bullshit
Gods must be crazy beating stripes is ridiculous.
Princess Bride beating the life of Brian is retarded and beating Young Frankenstein is a travesty
Yesterday my dog somehow wound up with a dried chunk of shit on her ass. It clung there, attached to her butt. I got a paper towel and put some warm water on it and pulled at the chunk slowly and carefully until it worked its way out of the fur around her butt. And now I realize,
I care more about that chunk of dried dogshit than I do about your opinion.
Everyone in the Cellar except me is a moron
Whenever I read "one of those posts from Radar" like that one I can't get the scene out of my head in Matchstick Men where Nicolas Cage's character loses all his meds down the sink and I think: Oh, boy, here we go again.
Somebody just put the Princess Bride as the winner even though it was crushed by Young Frankenstein.
It's not hard to understand - first to get 3 votes wins. You seem to have been behind the curve oon the rules the whole time. If you care enough to complain, you might as well put the time in to figure out the rules.
I care more about that chunk of dried dogshit than I do about your opinion.
Why wouldn't you? It has the same worth as you and an even better personality. You should keep that dried chunk of dogshit and keep it in your wallet as ID.
It's the semi-final! Send me a private message with your choice for BOTH games:
Blues Brothers, or The Princess Bride?
Blazing Saddles, or South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut?
If you've never sent a private message before, you don't have to feel strange about it. It's just a message, we're all cool, no big deal.
Everyone may vote once for the next 24 hours, at which time a winner will be announced and the finals will begin.
You may express opinions about any of the films in the thread, and about the heritage of those who prefer each.
May the best/funniest films (which is a deeply personal and individual judgement) win!
i'm writing in the holy grail. i can do that, right?
i'm writing in the holy grail. i can do that, right?
I'd like to but it would put me in agreement with... Its kind of like our Presidential race you'll never get the best. I'm gonna PM Blues Brothers/Blazing Saddles and be happy about it. :thumbsup:
I'd like to but it would put me in agreement with... Its kind of like our Presidential race you'll never get the best. I'm gonna PM Blues Brothers/Blazing Saddles and be happy about it. :thumbsup:
Agreed. Agreed. And Agreed.
Damn, I'm so agreeable with Griff this morning!
Don't listen to any of this. If you're just coming to the cellar for the first time, please send a private message to UT with 5 words: "Princess Bride and Blazing Saddles". I think he's giving away a prize or something.
If you're just coming to the cellar for the first time, please send a private message to UT with 5 words: "Princess Bride and Blazing Saddles". I think he's giving away a prize or something.
Note to newbies: Don't fall for the newbie trick that Mr. Noodle is trying to play on you. What he
really means is PM Undertoad with "Blues Brothers" and "South Park." Dont' fall for his treachery.
current exit poll results please
Semi-final results are IN
Game one: Blues Brothers 10 The Princess Bride 8
Game two: Blazing Saddles 13 South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut 5
Twice the voting of the first field of 64, there was clearly great interest in this topic and much closer games. And now...
It's the Final! Send me a private message with your choice for:
The Blues Brothers, or Blazing Saddles?
Everyone may vote once for the next 24 hours, at which time a winner will be announced.
May the best/funniest film win!
Blues Brothers wasn't funny. Neither was that whole period of SNL that everyone goes apeshit over. Blazing Saddles is the only choice.
I should shut up, I'm jinxing my teams. I guess I can take off my lucky Princess Bride boxers now.
my lucky Princess Bride boxers
That has to be the TMI of all TMIs.
Just thinking about these scenes makes me laugh...
TMI =___ mental image?? sorry, haven't had my caffeine this morning. Unfortunately I have had a crazy week, and haven't been able to really check in to put my $0.02 in, till now. what crawled up radars ass? Going to go vote now, and await the results. This thread has given me a lot of ideas for movies to rent that I haven't seen. Thanks!
Too Much Information :cool:
How much for the women? I want to buy the little girl. How much?
Which one of you can tell me who was the waiter in that scene in the Blues Brothers?
Who can tell me the name of the prison guard releasing Jake from prison?
Who can tell me the name of the man at the end of the movie they give the money to so they can pay off the taxes for the orphanage?
RAdar, I cannot answer your questions as I'm still shocked and stunned over the Holy Grail loss...NO Python in there at all??? I resign my Laughometer!
and PS--when the Blues Brothers WINS it will only re-inforce the concept that the Cellar is a WASP community. Not that there's anything wrong with that...
PS--when the Blues Brothers WINS it will only re-inforce the concept that the Cellar is a WASP community.
Why would a Blues Brother's victory prove that the Cellar is full of wasps? Not enough black people in the movie for you? Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, John Lee Hooker, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Chakha Khan, James Brown to name a few... WTF???
Right--too many white people in it. It's a white movie about the blues. How white can you get?? and if you blinked, you missed a lot of those guys you mention. 'Cept for 'Retha and Scat. This was a vehicle for Belsuhi and Ackroyd.
and if you blinked, you missed a lot of those guys you mention.
:confused: You blink long...
TMI =___ mental image??
When that expression first came into vogue I had some difficulty with it, because I live in the same state as Three Mile Island.
So much for Chopped Liver. (Errrrr, I mean Cab Calloway.)
Come on, if you want to talk racism in Hollywood, fine. There's lots of fuel for that fire. But relating that back to alleged Cellar waspiness is almost a non sequitur. Would Princess Bride have been a better choice? What about Airplane? For that matter what would a Blazing Saddles victory say? (I personally think Blues Brothers is far from a foregone conclusion. There are a lot of Brooks fans here.)
I really think Holy Grail woulda been a contender ...
PS--when the Blues Brothers WINS it will only re-inforce the concept that the Cellar is a WASP community. Not that there's anything wrong with that...
Besides Cleavon Little, how many black people did you see in Blazing Saddles? Seems to me that more WASPs would vote for BS than BB if your theory held water.
That's a toughie. I think true WASPs hate the Jews worse, because more of them can pass.
Well damn, and here I've been hating the wrong group all these years. Do I have to switch my bigotry and start hating Jews now?....or can I just hate both? :rolleyes:
The fact that the BB was a movie about a black music form--starring two white guys--that's why it's waspy. D'UH.
And Blazing Saddles is a movie about a black sheriff in the wild west. Looks like you get to pick your favorite racial improbability movie.
What makes the cellar waspy is the fact that these conversations happen
I'm W, and I may or may not be AS, but I ain't P!
The white stars provided a mass audience for a movie that celebrated black culture. Cab, a black man, was the father the boys never had at the *cough* Cath-o-lic orpanage. In real life Aykroyd is a huge booster of the Blues. Not a WASP film, an American film. A purple :thumbsup: for a BB victory. Even though BS is a pretty good flick.
Well damn, and here I've been hating the wrong group all these years. Do I have to switch my bigotry and start hating Jews now?....or can I just hate both? :rolleyes:
It's so much simpler to just hate everyone.....fairer too. ;)
Ladies and Gentlemen by a close vote of 10 - 7 your Field of 64 winner
BLAZING SADDLES
Good games all around!
Life of Brian would have been my first choice, but I can satisfied Blazing Saddles.
Mind you, History of the World is the best thing Mel has done....
Yes, but Blazing Saddles is at least a deserving winner. It could have been much worse. Now if you'll excuse me I need to go eat my Cheerios. ;)
A worthy champion, indeed.
I think I was the first to nominate it so I'm pleased it won. :thumbsup:
Guess I'll have to rent it now...