"Dumb & Dumber" and movies that are STILL funny, NOT AS funny, or were NEVER funny?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

I watched "Dumb & Dumber" last night for the first time in about two years. I would say that it was about 85% as funny as I thought it was, back in the day. Of course, that might be due to the fact that there was a FLOOD of movies trying to clone the format that followed.

So name your movies that are STILL funny, USED to be funny but have fallen in stature, or were N-E-V-E-R funny.

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[rbnyc]

1. Cool topic.

I'll just do the first 3 that pop into my head.

Still and always funny: Caddyshack.

Used to be funny: Trading Places

Never Funny: The Mask

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. Right with you on all three...

...matter of fact, I watched Caddyshack a couple of weeks ago and it is every bit as good as I remembered it.

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[rbnyc]

7. It's one of my all time faves.

Just for fun, 3 more:

Still good: A Christmas Story

Not as good: National Lampoon's Vacation

Never good: School of Rock

[OhioChick]

2. Dumb & Dumber was hysterical...

I still like Happy Gilmore and Bil & Ted. (hiding) :)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. I think my favorite part in Dumb & Dumber...

...is when Jeff Daniels is in the snow with Lauren Holly and he throws that snowball. Absolute "Roadrunner & Coyote" cartoon-y stuff.

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[OhioChick]

5. Or when he "decorates" the snowman...

:rofl:

[valerief]

13. -1

[Mad_Dem_X]

31. I hated "Dumb & Dumber"

I saw it in the theater and almost walked out.

[jonnyblitz]

38. i thought it was unbearably awful but then I thought all 3 Austin

Powers movies were hideously idiotic as well and had people seriously mad at me over that opinion. I don't have the same sense of humor as most apparently.

[flvegan]

6. Animal House, the Monty Python catalog: still hilarious!

Never funny? 90% of any of Eddie Murphey's recent work, all of Martin Lawrence's work.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. Watched "The Cycle Tour" last week...

...I like all of the Python "bits," but that episode was BEYOND amazing.

You must have really disliked "Life"...Murphy and Lawrence in the same flick! (It did suck, but not for that reason alone).

Still love Animal House...for some unknown reason I was haunted by the ghost of Dean Wormer last week. For about three hours I kept hearing "Put Neidermeyer on it. He's a sneaky little shit, just like you, right?" in my head. I can't think of many films that had so many quotable characters.

:rofl:

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[XemaSab]

9. Still funny: Office Space

:D

[valerief]

12. +1

[Amerigo Vespucci]

21. "And I'll see that you get another copy of that memo..."

Before I started my own business in 2001, I spent a MAJOR chunk of my life working for companies just like Initech, and working for bosses like Bill Lundberg. I'm still amazed that the film tanked at the box office and went on to be one of the biggest "cult" films of all time. The satire is so real and so vivid and so TRUE that maybe it belonged in living rooms and NOT in multi-plexes from Day 1.

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[XemaSab]

24. I know that the picture is small, but this is my last boss. Yeah.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

26. Looks like he was just getting ready to announce Hawaiian Shirt Day

:rofl:

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[abq e streeter]

10. Animal House...still the funniest movie I've ever seen

even though I practically have it memorized at this point. Blues Brothers I think still stands up well too...two modern ones that I not only didn't think were funny, but am baffled as to why they're even considered comedies, are Sideways ( one of the most depressing movies I've ever seen) and Pineapple Express ( just an orgy of extreme violence with occasional half assed bits of humor). And I guess I'm just the wrong generation but also couldn't for the life of me understand why Clerks was supposed to have been great . I think the Harold and Kumar movies are pretty damn funny ; it'll be interesting to see if they hold up...

[hibbing]

17. A pledge pin, on your uniform?

Hey,
Interesting comments, I too probably have every line of Animal House memorized. I get the whole depressing thing of Sideways, I find the mix of humor and totally depressing interesting in some of his movies. What did you think of About Schmidt? I thought Sideways was a very good movie that had some really funny scenes, but overall it was depressing because of the state of the main character.

Peace

[abq e streeter]

19. I know I saw About Schmidt, but must not have made much of an impression

because I can't remember anything about it ( and saw it long after I stopped having fun reasons for not remembering things, so that's not it). We'll have to agree to disagree about Sideways; I don't remember anything that I thought was funny, or even just plain "good" ; just found it terribly depressing and no more.......... At my age, and my hard core stoner days now fading into the distant past ( Christ, seven years of college down the drain), I probably should be embarrassed to love the Harold and Kumar movies, but I do.

Animal House trivia---who's the bass player for Otis Day and the Knights ( on camera for just a few seconds)?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

20. About Schmidt is a "wobbler"...

...I have it sitting in the stack of movies I plan to watch this weekend. If I'm in the mood for it, I really enjoy it. Put it in the DVD player in the wrong mood and on the wrong day and out it comes. I like Howard Hesseman's character, and the daughter's love-slash-utter disgust for Nicholson is one honest facet of humanity that's seldom explored (it's always daughter loves dad, daughter hates dad, seldom both in equal, schizophrenic proportions).

"Sideways"...I think this movie works on a couple of levels and fails on a couple of others. The screenplays for "Schmidt" and "Sideways" were both written by Alexander Payne (married to "Sideways" star Sandra Oh at the time, since divorced). "Sideways" was a "buddy film," but not like the traditional "buddy films," and a "road movie," but not like the traditional "road movies." Giamatti's character is a loser, steals money from his own mother, constantly holds pity parties for himself, etc etc etc, while Haden-Church is mounting everyone with a pulse just moments before his wedding, so it's a stretch to call the characters "likeable"...and so, how do you "root" for them? They don't even qualify as "anti-heroes"...they're just two former college roommates who never really accomplished anything great, and Virginia Madsen's ham-fisted delivery of the central metaphor (the bottle of wine Giamatti has been hoarding in his closet...same age as Giamatti...has "peaked" and is on its steady, slow decline) is a groaner.

BUT...having said all of that...there's something that fascinates me about the film, something that has made me watch it several times and will make me watch it several more. Some movies are like that...I can tell you exactly why I watch some, and when it comes to others, it's nothing more than "a certain je ne sais quoi."

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[peekaloo]

33. Robert Cray (trivia)

:-)

we yelled toga, toga, toga at him during one of his shows and he wagged a finger at us.

[abq e streeter]

34. "Otis...He LOVES us.."

[XemaSab]

29. You have to be in the right frame of mind for Sideways

I saw it with the right person and I ROARED.

I think that the "point" of the film is how some people consider it to be a celebration of wine culture, and other people consider it a satire of wine culture.

[valerief]

11. Still funny

Ladies' Man
Shakes the Clown
S.O.B. (a classic)

[gratuitous]

14. Let's see . . .

Still funny, The Ref.

Nowhere near as funny, Arthur.

Never funny, anything with Jim Carrey, but How the Grinch Stole Christmas should have every copy burned in the biggest motherfuckin' bonfire ever seen, and everyone in it, involved in its production, distribution, marketing, or anything else even tangentially involved in that piece of dreck should be hunted down for sport. Except for the luscious Christine Baranski.

[Lars39]

15. Grumpy Old Men has held up well.

[valerief]

18. +1

[hibbing]

16. mine

Hi,
Great topic, thanks!
Still Funny - Caddyshack, Animal House, and I will agree with you on Dumb & Dumber
Never Funny - Ghostbusters, never got the appeal, and I am a huge Bill Murray fan too.

Peace

[sasquatch]

22. This movie gets funnier almost every time I see it: The Big Lebowski

[Amerigo Vespucci]

27. I know people who love it and people who hate it, no one in between

It definitely claimed its own piece of permanent cinematic turf...

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[bluesbassman]

23. Still and always will be funny - Blazing Saddles

Used to be funny - Wayne's World (although Tia Carrere will always be worth watching :) )

Never Funny - The Master of Disguise

[Amerigo Vespucci]

28. I recently watched Wayne's World II for that very reason...

...and in part 2, Christopher Walken seriously ups the "cheese" factor. But Tia? Yes, the only reason needed.

[Common Sense Party]

25. Hmmm...some obvious answers for still funny

Still funny: Caddyshack, Princess Bride, Airplane, Monty Python & Holy Grail, Groundhog Day, Fletch, Animal House, Blazing Saddles

Used to be: Sister Act (admit it: way back, Whoopi was funny as a nun), Wayne's World, Austin Powers

Never were: (Where do I begin?) Police Academy series, Porky's, most Adam Sandler movies, most Jim Carrey movies (D&D being an exception)

[Mad_Dem_X]

30. Still funny: Tootsie

Especially Teri Garr and Bill Murray. I still recite Teri Garr's lines ("A guy named Les is sending you candy?" "Why is he thanking you for a lovely night in front of the fire?").

[elocs]

32. "What About Bob?" and "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" Still funny. n/t

[peekaloo]

35. I was going to say WAB, too. So, 'Raising Arizona' takes it place.

still debating the not as funny but 'Swingers' was NEVER funny. (as goes for most Vince Vaughn atrocities on film).

[DainBramaged]

36. Slapshot

With Paul Newman gone it holds more significance now. Every July 4th for the past 20 years I've watched it.

You know you stupid when you do dat, some English pig

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_w4MV_LwMw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMZUvDqBSh0

[TheMightyFavog]

37. Best scene from that movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zM6Na3cZz8&feature=related

[DainBramaged]

40. They brought their FUCKING TOYS with them.....

LOLOLOL

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[Auggie]

39. No one has mentioned Young Frankenstein --it's still funny

Watched it last night.

I'll add my vote to Caddyshack and Animal House. Plus My Cousin Vinny. Still great.

[Whisp]

41. 1. Big Lebowski 2. Animal House 3. Silent Movie

some more on my still funny list are:

Rommie and Michelle's High School Reunion
Jackass the Movie
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues