Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!absary From: absary@watmath.UUCP (Al Sary) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Funniest movies Message-ID: <16916@watmath.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 19:42:37 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.16916 Posted: Fri Oct 18 19:42:37 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Oct-85 04:05:51 EDT References: <16915@watmath.UUCP> Reply-To: absary@watmath.UUCP (Al Sary) Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 66 Summary: Now let me say what I think of the message I posted previously: In article <16915@watmath.UUCP> absary@watmath.UUCP (Al Sary) writes: >After posting a suggestion to net.movies enquiring about people's funniest >movies, I received the following mail message, which I thought I should post. >I will elaborate on this message in my next article: > >> >> In article <16870@watmath.UUCP> you write: >> >After reading the totally bad movies list, I thought that someone should >> >start a funniest movies list. >> >> You might not get a consensus on this, because tastes vary so much. >> To make my point, I'll nominate some movies that I thought were the >> funniest I have ever seen. But if you post them, you'll probably get >> lots of mail questioning my taste. It is obvious that people's tastes differ a great deal, be it funny movies or not (or anything else other than movies for that matter). From the discussion on totally bad movies, for example, it seems that one's totally bad movie is others' favorite. >> >> My nominees: >> >> "Airplane" was the funniest movie I have ever seen. It is probably >> ... >> >> "National Lampoon's Vacation" (Not European; the original) was the second >> ... >> >> "Airplane II" was the third funniest movie I have seen. This is probably >> ... >> I also thought these movies were very funny, although they are not the funniest movies I have ever seen (I liked Vacation a lot, although a lot of people didn't find it as funny as I did; Airplane and Airplane II were great too). >> Other nominations from RCA Cylix, taken from other workers here, show >> how diverse comedy tastes are: >> >> "Friday the 13th," and all sequels. >> "Jaws" >> "Halloween," and all sequels. >> "Murder by Death" >> "Young Frankenstein" >> Among these movies, only Young Frankenstein is a comedy (it is a rather good one too, but not the funniest movie I have ever seen). (I don't know if Murder by Death is a comedy or not.) I am a bit puzzled about the others; also keep in mind that just because a movie is so bad that it is funny, it doesn't make it the funniest movie (at least I am hard pressed to think of such a movie for myself.) (you really have to be a pschyco to find Friday the 13th or Halloween funny, or even Jays - I can't remember anyone laughing when I saw Jays) I realize that you also have to be in a certain mood to really enjoy a funny movie; sometimes a movie seems really funny, and the next time you see it it isn't such a big deal. But then, this is true for other type of movies too: the second time may give you a different perspective.