Best Intellectual Comedy (movie) of Alltime

[thatpfunk]

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if we're talking comedies, the discussion begins and ends with the big lebowski.

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It is CLEARLY The Big Lebowski. It is so good at what it does. I can't believe those guys wrote some junk like "Cruel Intentions" (or whatever that Catherine Zeta Jones movie was) after this philosophical gem.

[Blarg]

Boudu -- A respectable middle class family with a pompous father takes in a bum, who winds up ramping up the sexuality of the place, doing general homeless type stuff with the family property, and making everyone question some of their middle class assumptions. Michel Simon plays the bum and is very very funny.

After Hours - a low grade word processing supervisor who hates his job bumps into a little sexy excitement at the end of his dreary day that pulls him into a vortex of such incredible bad luck, danger, and unlikely weird adventure that his ridiculously dull, unfulfilling life seems like paradise in comparison. Griffin Dunne's reactions to one disaster after another befalling him are priceless. This movie was remade many times with lesser casts.

I'll let someone else describe Strangelove who likes it better.

[lucas9000]

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if we're talking comedies, the discussion begins and ends with the big lebowski.

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It is CLEARLY The Big Lebowski. It is so good at what it does. I can't believe those guys wrote some junk like "Cruel Intentions" (or whatever that Catherine Zeta Jones movie was) after this philosophical gem.

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i liked intolerable cruelty. that might be because i think catherine zeta jones is close to female perfection (her face, at least), and i'm not ashamed to say that i'm a george clooney fan. also it has some great lawyer humor.

[Klepton]

actually intolerable cruelty is a pretty funny movie, but i'm a sucker for george clooney (swoon)

[YourFoxyGrandma]

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Dr. Strangelove

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[MrWookie47]

Airplane!

"You ever been in a cockpit before?"
"No, sir. I've never been up in a plane before!"
"You ever seen a grown man naked?"

[thatpfunk]

I can understand people liking it. I found aspects amusing.

But then I think of Fargo and TBL and I scowl at what it wasn't.

Also, for those voting Dr. Strangelove, it is a very, very good satire. However, the philosophical intricacies of TBL are not only excellent, but unnecessary for one to understand to enjoy the movie. The writing is brilliant.

[PokerFink]

I'm gonna throw Swingers into the discussion.

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Dr. Strangelove

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[microbet]

Dr. Strangelove, as I said before, but someone should say Annie Hall.

Someone should also say Brazil and maybe Time Bandits. Oh, and maybe Philadelphia Story, crap and maybe some Marx Bros.