Best Comedy Movie of the 90's

[Harlan Huckleby]

Don't like the list? 1-800-eat-shit

[Iron Mike]

Not a single Christopher Guest mockumentary, and yet "Wayne's World." Hmmmm.

[Harlan Huckleby]

What's wrong with u IM? Wayne's World was frickin hilarious. Game on! At least I spared you Austin Powers.

"Waiting for Guffman" was a great 90's movie, I laughed, I cried. I couldn't remember them all in one late-night coffee bender. I'd say Christopher Guest's mockumentaries after that one were good, but a little played.

[hoosier]

The exclusion of Miller's Crossing is unconscionable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXQ940YSD2A

[3irty1]

Ace Ventura

[SkinBasket]

CB4 fuckface. What a pretentious fucking list.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFY2kJ96jNY

[Deputy Nutz]

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIzNzkxODk1Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODI4OTQyMQ@@._ V1._SY317_CR4,0,214,317_.jpg&sa=X&ei=sAioT67JH4e46QG5kOmkBA&ved=0CAsQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNH8M5mH41ss_qsCQJolOmuJ3VcMDQ

[Harlan Huckleby]

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[Harlan Huckleby]

CB4 fuckface. What a pretentious fucking list.

What does this list need to make it unpretentious? Are you saying "Big Mama's House" movies with Martin Lawrence or Eddie Murphy made-up as fat ladies?

Listen here, not everybody gets an English degree from the University of WI, and my taste in movies is bound to reflect it. Wait a sec, I guess you're the one with the English degree. Speaking of pretense, what's with the wigger routine?

[Harlan Huckleby]

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIzNzkxODk1Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODI4OTQyMQ@@._ V1._SY317_CR4,0,214,317_.jpg&sa=X&ei=sAioT67JH4e46QG5kOmkBA&ved=0CAsQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNH8M5mH41ss_qsCQJolOmuJ3VcMDQ

Hah! Figures. I'm going back to calling Skinbasket "Dice". You definitely have a taste for wimpy bad boys in leather jackets.


BTW, Kyle Dake killed David Taylor at Olympic trials. And Andrew Howe nearly beat Jordan Burroughs. If you weren't humbled by my snappy remark above, those results ought to shake you up a little.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmrElljx9Ks

http://www.flowrestling.org/coverage/238800-World-Team-Trials-2011/video/495605-74-f-Andrew-Howe-NYAC-vs-Jordan-Burroughs-Sunkist

[swede]

The exclusion of Miller's Crossing is unconscionable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXQ940YSD2A

Ha ha! I heard it said of a melodramatic death scene in a Dickens novel that anyone who could read it and not laugh out loud had no soul.

Miller's Crossing is one of those films that I have caught parts of three different times. I hadn't thought of laughing, but that might be the best way to make it through the whole thing if I ever catch it from the beginning.

When Harry Met Lloyd was better than the first D and D.

Tommy Boy is pretty funny.

I liked Fargo a lot better than the Big Lebowski.

If I had to pick one I'd watch tonight I'd probably have D and D edge out Tommy Boy.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Fargo was pretty damn funny. I just noticed that Coen Brothers wrote O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, The Hudsucker Proxy, Barton Fink, and (drum roll) Miller's Crossing

I think the 90's was a good decade for movies. Definitely better than last 10 years.

[SkinBasket]

What does this list need to make it unpretentious?

How about some movies that are funny, not just movies everyone tells each other are funny.

As a comedic reference point, see Turd Ferguson.

[Harlan Huckleby]

This is so awesome. I certainly chose popular movies, I picked movies that people probably saw. Because it's a poll. For fun.

I did watch a million movies back in the 90's, I liked "Igby goes Down", "The House of Yes", "Welcome to the Dollhouse", "Chuck & Buck", blah blah blah. Would filling the poll with indy titles be more or less pretentious?

But enough about me. "Turd Ferguson" isn't much to work with. What are some of the truly funny movies?

[pittstang5]

Happy Gilmore

[swede]

Fargo was pretty damn funny. I just noticed that Coen Brothers wrote O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, The Hudsucker Proxy, Barton Fink, and (drum roll) Miller's Crossing

I think the 90's was a good decade for movies. Definitely better than last 10 years.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is good on so many levels!

My problem is that I don't really like comedies.

I like certain moments in comedies-- "You can't go in there!" "It's all right I'm a chauffeur! Aaagh!"--but the expositions are generally hard to sit through.

I think I like Men in Black because it is a pretty good action movie with laughs interspersed. I read all of my grandpa's Louis L'Amour paperbacks when I was ten or eleven and they doomed me to liking action/adventure thrills from the cheap to the worthy. MiB, A Few Good Men, Unforgiven, Fargo, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Fifth Element, The Punisher, Van Helsing, Shawshank Redemption, and The Quick and the Dead are some of the movies for which I stop surfing and settle in to watch.

I'm over Starship Troopers. I'm done with Die Hard also, although I did like it back in the day.

[George Cumby]

I can't stomach 75% of the shit I used to watch. I just don't have the time for it. It better be worthwhile or I'm turning it off.

Voted for "Mary" cause is made me laugh really hard at the time. I don't think it would do the same for me now.

[Brando19]

I voted Dumb and Dumber...but Nutty Professor was a FUNNY movie. Bulletproof was another good one.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I didn't see Nutty Professor, but if that was with Eddie Murphy, I guess I will try it.

Eddie Murphy is really talented, but he lands in so many worse-than-terrible movies. He was fricking hilarious in a 90's Steve Martin movie, "Bowfinger"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cb5Ka9SqGM

[Brando19]

I didn't see Nutty Professor, but if that was with Eddie Murphy, I guess I will try it.

Eddie Murphy is really talented, but he lands in so many worse-than-terrible movies. He was fricking hilarious in a 90's Steve Martin movie, "Bowfinger"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cb5Ka9SqGM

The first Nutty Professor with Eddie Murphy is the best...way better than the sequels. You won't regret watching it.

[SkinBasket]

I can't stomach 75% of the shit I used to watch. I just don't have the time for it. It better be worthwhile or I'm turning it off.

Voted for "Mary" cause is made me laugh really hard at the time. I don't think it would do the same for me now.

That's pretty much the problem with most of those movies. The art of comedy was lost to Hollywood long ago. Well, maybe not that long, but certainly before the 90s. These "funny" movies don't stand up over time because they're mainly based on quippish pop culture references which make the audience feel hip because they "get it." I never really liked Mel Brooks, but at least he put some effort into his comedy.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I think you should kill yourself.