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SRB

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@great-big-stees said
Bedazzled...yes. I forgot about that one. GREAT.
Yeah, I'm going to watch that again. It's a risky thing though revisiting movies that you loved a few decades ago. Doesn't always work out for me. Especially if you have recommended them to one of your daughters without re-watching it first (memories of withering looks).

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Blazing Saddles. Oh so politically not correct, but Mel Brooks could get away with it.

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Roxanne, a 1987 retelling of Edmond Rostand's 1897 verse play Cyrano de Bergerac.

Yes, it is kind of a sweet and sappy rom-com of the era, but it captures Daryl Hannah at the peak of her beauty and Steve Martin at the peak of his comedy. Martin's rather intellectual comedy had me laughing out loud at times.

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My current top 5 (flexes except #1)

1) Life of Brian
2) This is Spinal Tap
3) Groundhog Day
4) The Blues Brothers
5) Young Frankenstein

Also anything by Chaplin or Laurel & Hardy

Want to see but haven’t:
- The Big Lebowski

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catch 22 but not as good as the book

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@divegeester I found the big Lebowski mainly unfunny...while I share most of your list (didn't see the Spinal tap movie, but my son highly recommended that one.

I like Monsiuer Claude und seine Töchter (orig. French: Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu?) {English: Serial (Bad) Weddings}

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@ponderable said
@divegeester I found the big Lebowski mainly unfunny...while I share most of your list (didn't see the Spinal tap movie, but my son highly recommended that one.
Spinal Tap works if you recognise the satire aimed right across the entire hard rock (mainly) industry and bands. The movie contains some of the best one-liners I’ve ever heard, but it can divide opinion.

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@divegeester said
Spinal Tap works if you recognise the satire aimed right across the entire hard rock (mainly) industry and bands. The movie contains some of the best one-liners I’ve ever heard, but it can divide opinion.
I was primed by my son πŸ˜‰

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Best Steve Martin movie for me was Parenthood. For me the best comedy is observational and the grandmother's comment at the end makes the film for me.

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I like silly and slapstick comedies from all years. Buster Keaton’s movies are great and I also enjoy Mel Brooks zaniness.

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@divegeester said
My current top 5 (flexes except #1)

1) Life of Brian
2) This is Spinal Tap
3) Groundhog Day
4) The Blues Brothers
5) Young Frankenstein

Also anything by Chaplin or Laurel & Hardy

Want to see but haven’t:
- The Big Lebowski
I wonder where the rug is. Good movie. The Big Lebowski https://duckduckgo.com/?q=big+lebowski+rug+scene&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dfijel3upu2c

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Something About Mary
A Fish Called Wanda

Among the funniest films ever made.

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@moonbus said
Blazing Saddles. Oh so politically not correct, but Mel Brooks could get away with it.
lol, great one. No they could never do this today.

"Is it twue what they say about you people? It's twue, it's twue!!"
or
"Where all the white women at?"

holy cow.

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@earl-of-trumps said
lol, great one. No they could never do this today.

"Is it twue what they say about you people? It's twue, it's twue!!"
or
"Where all the white women at?"

holy cow.
Reminds me a bit if “Bigus Dicus”.πŸ€”

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@great-big-stees said
Reminds me a bit if “Bigus Dicus”.πŸ€”
They did a good job dubbing that: