Box Office Theory's Fifty Funniest Films | Deadline: 4 October

[chasmmi]

1 Old School
2 Galaxy Quest
3 South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut
4 22 Jump Street
5 Mike Bassett: England Manager
6 Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
7 Groundhog Day
8 Crocodile Dundee
9 The Emperor's New Groove
10 Tropic Thunder

 

 

11 Men in Black
12 Shrek 2
13 Aladdin
14 21 Jump Street
15 There's Something about Mary
16 Toy Story 2
17 Coming to America
18 Cabin in the Woods
19 Guardians of the Galaxy
20 Dodgeball

 

 

21 Gremlins: The New Batch
22 Liar Liar
23 The Waterboy
24 Ghostbusters
25 Kung Fu Panda 2
26 Shrek
27 Men in Black 3
28 50 first Dates
29 Idle Hands
30 Trading Places

 

 

31 Back to the Future
32 Dogma
33 Orgasmo
34 Knocked Up
35 Chasing Amy
36 Ghostbusters 2
37 Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
38 Baseketball
39 Team America World Police
40 Life of Brian

 

 

41 Johnny English
42 Wreck it Ralph
43 Zack and Miri make a porno
44 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
45 Love Actually
46 Van Wilder
47 Mystery Men
48 Notting Hill
49 Naked Gun
50 The Simpsons Movie

Edited October 3, 2015 by chasmmi

[Avatree]

Will we have through the end of the day tomorrow?

1. Frozen

2. Mega Shark vs Mecha Shark

There is the beginning of.my list I'll come back numerous times through out today (and tomorrow?) As I get the film in an order I like

It's fine, just send it to me whenever you can.

 

Actually, seeing your top 2 choices... maybe I don't need your list. 

I'm joking.

[TalismanRing]

I sent in my top 50 List

 

Might as well list it here

1. Arsenic & Old Lace [1944]
2. Bringing Up Baby [1938]
3. This Is Spinal Tap [1984]
4. Monty Python & The Holy Grail [1976]
5. The Producers [1967]
6. The General [1927]
7. Some Like It Hot [1959]
8. Tootsie [1982]
9. The Princess Bride [1987]
10. Marriage Italian Style [1964]
11. Dr. Strangelove [1964]
12. Groundhog Day [1993]
13. Blazing Saddles [1974]
14. Midnight Run [1988]
15. Young Frankenstein [1974]
16. The Muppet Movie[1979]
17. The Court Jester [1955]
18. Back To the Future [1985]
19. Romancing The Stone [1984]
20. The Apartment [1960]
21. Harvey [1950]
22. It Happened One Night [1934]
23. To Be or Not to Be [1942]
24. Duck Soup [1933]
25. Ghostbusters [1984]
26. The Great Race [1965]
27. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang [2005]
28. The Ladykillers [1955]
29. The Bank Dick [1940]
30. His Girl Friday [1940]
31. Born Yesterday [1950]
32. Raising Arizona [1987]
33. One Two Three [1961]
34. A Christmas Story [1983]
35. Wonder Boys [2000]
36. Sleeper [1973]
37. Animal House [1978]
38. When Harry Met Sally [1989]
39. Heathers [1988]
40. My Man Godfrey [1936]
41. Tropic Of Thunder [2008]
42. The Matador [2005]
43. Monty Pythons Life of Brian [1979]
44. The Thin Man [1934]
45. Bullets Over Broadway [1994]
46. The Russians Are Coming [1966]
47. The Big Lebowski[1998]
48. Innerspace [1987]
49. Trading Places [1983]
50. Hot Fuzz [2008]

 

Looking at other lists I missed some - Modern Times, Time Bandits & Best In Show, a few 30s & 40s screwball comedies and I wished I'd remembered Ed Wood but I have no intention of trying to re-order things so

Edited October 5, 2015 by TalismanRing

[misafeco]

DAJK, Tele, numbers, Kalo, Spaghetti, Jake Gittes, Misafeco, Ethan, chasmmi... you know you want to do this... :)

List sent!

[Kalo]

DAJK, Tele, numbers, Kalo, Spaghetti, Jake Gittes, Misafeco, Ethan, chasmmi... you know you want to do this... :)

 

would monday be to late? I am working like crazy this weekend and am completely exhausted. 

[Avatree]

would monday be to late? I am working like crazy this weekend and am completely exhausted. 

no that's fine I won't start the countdown immediately, I will leave a gap so people can get late lists in too.

[Kalo]

no that's fine I won't start the countdown immediately, I will leave a gap so people can get late lists in too.

 

thanks I'll try to get a list together by then, it's really hard because a lot of my favorite movies are very funny. but there are movies I may think funnier that I may not like as much as a whole, if that makes any sense. 

[Avatree]

thanks I'll try to get a list together by then, it's really hard because a lot of my favorite movies are very funny. but there are movies I may think funnier that I may not like as much as a whole, if that makes any sense. 

Yep that makes sense. Judge it however you like.

[Fancyarcher]

Just sent mine in Tree.

[4815162342]

ordering my list but in the meantime, FYC:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCpVh8Wox1U

[4815162342]

1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2. Arsenic and Old Lace
3. Airplane
4. Blazing Saddles
5. Animal House
6. Duck Soup
7. Caddyshack
8. Raising Arizona
9. Coming to America
10. A Fish Called Wanda
11. In the Loop
12. Groundhog Day
13. Dr. Strangelove

14. In Bruges
15. Ghostbusters
16. His Girl Friday
17. Trading Places
18. South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut
19. Shaun of the Dead
20. Austin Powers
21. Young Frankenstein
22. This is Spinal Tap
23. Four Lions
24. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
25. Happy Gilmore
26. The Princess Bride
27. Zoolander
28. Spaceballs
29. Big Trouble in Little China
30. Galaxy Quest
31. Hot Fuzz
32. The Naked Gun
33. Fargo
34. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
35. Brazil
36. The Big Lebowski
37. Dogma
38. Dodgeball

39. My Cousin Vinny
40. Wayne’s World
41. Monty Python’s Life of Brian
42. Bringing Up Baby
43.Anchorman
44. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
45. The Producers (1968)
46. Superbad
47. Burn After Reading
48. Liar Liar
49. Best in Show
50. Men in Black

Edited October 7, 2015 by 4815162342

[Jake Gittes]

1. The Big Lebowski

2. Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

3. Some Like It Hot

4. In the Loop

5. Black Dynamite

6. Batman: The Movie (1966)

7. This Is Spinal Tap

8. Election

9. The Wolf of Wall Street

10. A Serious Man

11. To Be or Not to Be

12. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

13. The Palm Beach Story

14. Burn After Reading

15. Modern Times

16. Libeled Lady

17. After Hours

18. Schizopolis

19. Hellzapoppin’

20. Braindead

21. Flirting with Disaster

22. Scott Pilgrim vs the World

23. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

24. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

25. Computer Chess

26. Ninotchka 

27. Kind Hearts and Coronets

28. Pulp Fiction

29. In Bruges

30. Withnail & I

31. Back to the Future

32. Being John Malkovich

33. The Lego Movie

34. Fantastic Mr. Fox

35. The Incredibles

36. The Informant!

37. Raising Arizona

38. Hot Fuzz

39. The Major and the Minor

40. My Man Godfrey

41. There’s Something About Mary

42. Evil Dead II

43. Shaun of the Dead

44. Bruno

45. Design for Living

46. Ball of Fire

47. Our Hospitality 

48. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

49. Attack the Block

50. This Is the End

[grey ghost]

Oh snap!

 

I forgot about Election.

[Plain Old Tele]

I avoided movies that had humor but that I felt were more focused on an additional genre (drama, etc), so movies like BRAZIL and BACK TO THE FUTURE didn't make my list.

 

Also just missing my (typically spur-of-the-moment) top 50, in alphabetical order:

 

All of Me (1984)

Dead Alive aka Braindead (1992)

Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)

Galaxy Quest (1999)

The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)

Office Space (1999)

Overboard (1987)

Re-Animator (1985)

Repo Man (1984)

Summer School (1987)

Time Bandits (1981)

Waiting for Guffman (1996)

Weekend At Bernie’s (1989)

Edited October 5, 2015 by Telemachos

[Walt Disney]

My Vote:

 

1. Dumb and Dumber
2. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
3. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
4. My Cousin Vinny
5. March of the Wooden Soldiers
6. Billy Madison
7. Old School
8. Maverick
9. EuroTrip
10. Animal Crackers
11. Coneheads
12. Tommy Boy
13. Big Daddy
14. Anger Management
15. Bad Santa
16. The Cable Guy
17. The Waterboy
18. Spaceballs
19. Robin Hood: Men in Tights
20. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
21. Blades of Glory
22. Death to Smoochie
23. Superbad
24. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
25. Mrs. Doubtfire
26. Stripes
27. Home Alone
28. Duck Soup
29. Dirty Work
30. Wedding Crashers
31. Groundhog Day
32. 50 First Dates
33. Step-Brothers
34. Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
35. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
36. Police Academy
37. Liar Liar
38. Bruce Almighty
39. Little Nicky
40. The Benchwarmers
41. Problem Child
42. Ted
43. Drop Dead Fred
44. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
45. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
46. Heavyweights
47. Overboard
48. Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo
49. Problem Child 2
50. Borat

[Kvikk Lunsj]

I will to send one tonight but I have homework to do. 

[4815162342]

Tree, note that I took out Back to the Future at #38 and replaced it with My Cousin Vinny

[Avatree]

Thanks for all the lists guys! People are still welcome to send lists to me over the next day or two, but we've got a good number so far.

 

Tree, note that I took out Back to the Future at #38 and replaced it with My Cousin Vinny

Thanks for telling me, sorted.

[grey ghost]

Yeah I added Election and Step Brothers to my list today.

[JohnnY]

I had a few ones (This is Spinal Tap, Naked Gun, Dazed and Confused) to watch here before making the list but I didn't have enough time...

 

1. Life of Brian

2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

3. Airplane

4. The Room

5. Mean Girls

6. Borat

7. House [Hausu]

8. In Bruges

9. Moonrise Kingdom

10. Fantastic Mr. Fox

 

11. Bridesmaids

12. Finding Nemo

13. Jackass 3D ... sue me

14. Shaun of the Dead

15. Robogeisha

16. Barbarella

17. Happy-Go-Lucky

18. Little Miss Sunshine

19. The Grand Budapest Hotel

20. Sharknado

 

21. Trainspotting

22. The Rocky Horror Picture Show

23. I'm a Cyborg, but that's ok

24. Fargo

25. Inside Out

26. Toy Story 3

27. Toy Story 2

28. Toy Story 

29. Scott Pilgrim vs. the Word

30. Hercules

 

31. The Cabin in The Woods

32. Easy A

33. Up

34. Kick-Ass

35. Best Worst Movie

36. Jackass: The Movie ...no, really, sue me

37. Jackass: Number Two

38. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

39. Rushmore

40. The Royal Tenenbaums

 

41. Clueless

42. In The Loop

43. The Apartment

44. Brain Damage

45. Crazy Stupid Love

46. Death at a Funeral (2007)

47. Monsters Inc.

48. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

49. Shrek

50. Carnage

Edited October 6, 2015 by JohnnY