Best Intellectual Comedy (movie) of Alltime

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After Hours

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[TimM]

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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.

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This was on HBO a few months ago. It's really out there. It's actually a bit annoying in some ways, since there were so many ways for Griffin Dunne's character to cut his losses early, but instead he keeps doing things that are obviously just going to get him in deeper and deeper.

The best part is the way every time there he has a conversation with one of these nutty characters he meets, it's obvious that they only care about their own little world.

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Might be the best comedy (i dont think so but its in my top 5) but I don't know about it as an 'intellectual' comedy...

[The Stranger]

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clerks

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Might be the best comedy (i dont think so but its in my top 5) but I don't know about it as an 'intellectual' comedy...

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more intellectual than The Big Lebowski

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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.

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I'm afraid I missed all of them.

[TripleH68]

Love and Death. -Woody Allen

Little known, but I like it just as much as Annie Hall.
Woody is a Russian named Boris who cooks up a plan to assassinate Napoleon.

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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.

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This was on HBO a few months ago. It's really out there. It's actually a bit annoying in some ways, since there were so many ways for Griffin Dunne's character to cut his losses early, but instead he keeps doing things that are obviously just going to get him in deeper and deeper.

The best part is the way every time there he has a conversation with one of these nutty characters he meets, it's obvious that they only care about their own little world.

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Usually it's his consistent desire not to offend and desperate clinging to optimistic hope that everything will work out all right and is indeed probably better than it seems -- or at least could be -- which gets him into more trouble. It's his endearingly pathetic good nature that makes him such a fish out of water in situations that rapidly and inevitably careen into disaster, all coming back to punish him for the tragic hubris of just wanting a little fun in his bleak life.

Most of the fun is in the tension of watching him helplessly try to cope and be a decent guy in situations that look like they could maybe, just maybe work out okay, while you're waiting for them to slowly and slyly slip into unescapable nightmarish chaos.

It's a very funny reworking of tragedy, with the act of hubris against the gods that he must be punished for and for which he must be shown his true place in the universe after going through heroic travails and disappointments, being hilariously reworked into pretty much the poor schlep's even daring to leave his apartment.

After the gods finally finish schooling him, his pay-off is priceless.

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The Jerk

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Love and Death. -Woody Allen

Little known, but I like it just as much as Annie Hall.
Woody is a Russian named Boris who cooks up a plan to assassinate Napoleon.

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By far Allen's funniest movie. Almost non-stop gags.

Lots of really memorable lines in that one.

"Ooh, sleet! My favorite!"

"I was the men's freestyle fleeing champion."

"History will remember my name -- Sydney Applebaum!"

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Zoolander.