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Life of Brian 1979

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The 500 movies in this list have been selected by a combination of 10,000 Empire readers, 50 critics and 150 of Hollywood's finest.

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The 100 best British films as chosen by a panel of 150 film industry experts, including directors Sam Mendes, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and Wes Anderson, actors David Morrissey, Sally Hawkins and Thandie Newton, newspaper and magazine critics and the heads of the UK's major cultural organisations.

Source: https://www.timeout.com/london/film/100-best-british-films

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The Criterion Collection is a video distribution company which specializes in licensing and selling "important classic and contemporary films" in "editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements."

This is a list of all films (main feature, extra featurette, making of, box-set meta entry, etc if it has a separate entry on trakt) released under Criterion Collection catalog, Essential Art House, Eclipse, Merchant Ivory collections etc. as DVD/BluRay. So far LaserDisc releases have not been included.

Notes to self:
Reviewed/cross-checked entries till Criterion Collection #200.
Last entry: Criterion Collection Spine #845 / Eclipse Series #44.

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In 1999 the British Film Institute invited a large amount of people working within the film and television industry to take part in finding the 100 top British films of the 20th century.

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"In 1999 the British Film Institute surveyed 1,000 people from the world of British film and television to produce the BFI 100 list of the greatest British films of the 20th century. Voters were asked to choose up to 100 films that were 'culturally British'."

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List of best movies from IMDB top 250 movies

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Includes all the films of the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Book, including films culled to make way for newer releases, up to the 2021 edition.

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List created and maintained by https://listrr.pro

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The 50 best comedies as voted by you, the users.

1 - The Big Lebowski - 65 Votes
2 - Office Space - 58 Votes
3 - Shaun of the Dead - 53 Votes
4 - Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy - 47 Votes
5 - Superbad - 46 Votes
6 - The Hangover - 45 Votes
7 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail - 42 Votes
8 - Airplane! - 40 Votes
9 - Groundhog Day - 33 Votes
10 - Hot Fuzz - 33 Votes
11 - Dr. Strangelove - 32 Votes
12 - Monty Python's Life of Brian - 26 Votes
13 - Clerks - 25 Votes
14 - Pineapple Express - 21 Votes
15 - Caddyshack - 20 Votes
16 - Super Troopers - 20 Votes
17 - Borat - 19 Votes
18 - Dumb and Dumber - 19 votes
19 - Spaceballs - 19 Votes
20 - Young Frankenstein - 17 Votes
21 - The Princess Bride - 16 Votes
22 - Zoolander - 16 Votes
23 - Animal House - 15 Votes
24 - Tropic Thunder - 15 Votes
25 - Zombieland - 15 Votes
26 - Annie Hall - 14 Votes
27 - Rushmore - 14 Votes
28 - Blazing Saddles - 13 Votes
29 - Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle - 13 Votes
30 - 40 Year-Old Virgin - 12 Votes
31 - Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story - 12 Votes
32 - Stepbrothers - 12 Votes
33 - Wedding Crashers - 12 Votes
34 - In Bruges - 11 Votes
35 - The Blues Brothers - 11 Votes
36 - The Jerk - 11 Votes
37 - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective - 10 Votes
38 - Happy Gilmore - 10 Votes
39 - Some Like it Hot - 10 Vote
40 - This is Spinal Tap - 10 Votes
41 - Clerks 2 - 9 Votes
42 - Forgetting Sarah Marshall - 9 Votes
43 - Hot Rod - 9 votes
44 - Little Miss Sunshine - 9 Votes
45 - Mallrats - 9 Votes
46 - Team America: World Police - 9 Votes
47 - Wayne's World - 9 Votes
48 - Wet Hot American Summer 9 Votes
49 - A Fish Called Wanda - 8 Votes
50 - The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! - 8 Votes

(OP) TheJakalope at 2010-12-23T06:49
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UPDATE: VOTING IS NOW OVER

This is a poll like PTP's Top 250 Movies.

It's simple, you list your top 10 comedies, I'll add together all the votes and this will show the favorite comedies of this community. After that's done, I'll get a collection made of all of them.

Rules
Vote only once.
You don't need to order them from 1-10.
No more then 10 Movies in a list.
No stand up, must have an actual plot line.
Though this seems obvious, your entries must be comedies.

I'll start.

1.Anchorman
2.Hot Rod
3.Pineapple Express
4.Hot Fuzz
5.Zombieland
6.The Royal Tenenbaums
7.Shaun of the Dead
8.Knocked Up
9.Monty Python and the Holy Grail
10.Mean Girls

EDIT: thisguy has generously offered to send 1000 Points to everyone who votes!
Last edited by TheJakalope 2010-12-27T06:28
"""

Californian's vote at 2010-12-26T07:26
"""
Here's my list, and I can't really choose an order except to say that Zoolander is probably my favorite movie ever. And thanks for having us make this; I need to download some of these still and watch them again (and again)!
Zoolander
Anchorman
Office Space
Superbad
The Hangover
Knocked Up
In Bruges (kinda dark, but still a comedy in my book)
Thank You For Smoking
I Love You, Man
Pineapple Express
"""

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I well remember being taken to Blazing Saddles at the age of 10, when I was far too young to understand most of the jokes. At the same time, I could see how important Blazing Saddles was to my parents and their friends. They quoted from it for months—years—afterward.

As much as savoring a particular joke, I realize now, they were trying to reclaim that initial, joyful shock to the system. There’s not a film on the WGA’s 101 Funniest Screenplays that doesn’t produce such an unexpected jolt, if not a sustained quake, and for the same reasons Blazing Saddles did—by transgressing accepted norms.

One question that this list asks, however: Should a great comedy simply be gauged by the laughter it elicits? “Satire is what closes on Saturday night,” George S. Kaufman famously quipped. A number of the comedies on this list went under-appreciated at the box office and by critics; years, if not decades, had to pass before the work began to receive its due. This was as true for Buster Keaton’s The General as it was nearly half a century later for Harold and Maude, and 30 years after that for Office Space.

The oldest movie on the list is Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush (1925), while the most recent is Bridesmaids, released in 2011. The latter also has the distinction of being written by two women—Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, working in slapstick, a genre historically dominated by men. Bridesmaids comes in at no. 16, immediately after When Harry Met Sally, written by the legendary Nora Ephron. Comedy screenwriting has long been a playground that women and writers of color have not had enough time in. The work of Richard Pryor on Blazing Saddles, Tina Fey on Mean Girls, Amy Heckerling on Clueless, and Hagar Wilde, co-writer of Bringing Up Baby, makes you wonder what a list would be if the playground had been more inclusive all along.

In the end, the variety of films on the list—as different as Being There is to Airplane! or Duck Soup is to Fargo—indicates how difficult it is to gauge a great comedy by any set of particular criteria. Better to say the best comedy writers and comedians are like astronauts, launching themselves beyond the ozone layer of the tasteful and the expected in order to find the forbidden or the outrageous or the merely uncomfortable. Whether that produces an outrageous comedy like Mrs. Doubtfire or a satire like Dr. Strangelove, the goal is still provocation. And truth.

Written by Paul Brownfield
2015-11-15

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I started off by gathering ratings from IMDB (User/Critic Average), Rotten Tomatoes (Tomatometer, Critic Average, Audience Score, User Average), Metacritic (Critic Average, User Average) and Letterboxd (User Average). I was then able to determine a rating (out of 10) for each individual rating and therefore come up with an average rating for each site. Each site’s average rating was then weighted fairly so that no site’s ratings were favored above the rest.

The next step was to make sure that each film was treated fairly. Other top movie list’s like IMDb’s Top 1000 removes films that have under a certain viewing number (25,000 I think), but rather than ruling out films that may have been overlooked by the general audience (especially older films), I opted to alter these films score by carefully deducting points depending on how many people have seen it, and therefore voted on it. I also thought it was needed to make sure that recent films (released within the past 36 months) were also not favored, as it usually takes 3 years for the average rating to settle down. So I also added a deduction to these films that fell under this rule.

Taken from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/3hbiio/update_1001_greatest_movies_of_all_time_plus/

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Movies of the 70's, Jürgen Müller (ed.) Taschen.

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Monty Python (also collectively known as the Pythons) were a British surreal comedy troupe who created the sketch comedy television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, which first aired on the BBC in 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series. The Python phenomenon developed from the television series into something larger in scope and influence, including touring stage shows, films, albums, books and musicals. The Pythons' influence on comedy has been compared to the Beatles' influence on music. Regarded as an enduring icon of 1970s pop culture, their sketch show has been referred to as being "an important moment in the evolution of television comedy".

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