The Artist
Being
John Malkovich
Bernie
The
Big Lebowski
Bridesmaids
Burke and Hare (2010)
But,
I'm a Cheerleader!
Cecil
B. Demented
Chicken With Plums
The Color Wheel
Dark Shadows
Dear White People
Easy A
The Eiger Sanction
Election
Enchanted
Escort in Love
The Family
A Foreign Affair
Frances Ha
Friends With Benefits
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Go West
The Gold Diggers of 1933
The Gold Diggers of 1935
Goodbye, Charlie
Grabbers
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Great Beauty
Hail, Caesar!
Hedwig
and the Angry Inch
High
Fidelity
His Girl Friday
Horrible Bosses
Hot Fuzz
The Hot Rock
I Know Where I'm Going
In & Out
The Intouchables
In A World...
It
Happened One Night
It's a Funny Kind of Story
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Libeled Lady
Life
is Beautiful
Mars
Attacks
Matinee
Melinda and Melinda
Men in Black III
Moonrise Kingdom
The Muppets
Nebraska
One More Day
Philomena
The Return of the Killer Tomatoes
Return
To Me
Rock
and Roll High School
Safety Not Guaranteed
The Sapphires
Scialla!
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
Secretary
A Serious Man
The Sessions
Shanghai
Noon
Show People
Silver Linings Playbook
Singin' In the Rain
Small Pond
Some
Like It Hot
There's
Something About Mary
Stage Door
Transamerica
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
24 Hour Party People
Unfaithfully Yours
The
Whole Nine Yards
The Wolf of Wall Street
The World's End
You've
Got Mail
Young Adult |
Comedies are probably
my least favorite type of movie. Oh, don't get me wrong, when a comedy is
working the way it's supposed to work, I like it as much as the next person,
but there is nothing worse, to me anyway, than a bad comedy. I mean, in
a bad sci-fi flick or a bad western or a bad horror movie or even a bad
drama, there might be some laughs. In a bad comedy, by definition, there
are no laughs. One sits through them in stone silence, occasionally checking
the time to make sure that it hasn't stopped somehow. Even mediochre comedies
labor under this problem.
Ah, but when they work...there is nothing more cathartic
than a good comedy. Good comedy is the cinematic equivalent of ambrosia,
that food of the gods that lightens the soul and lifts the spirits. And
great comedies, well, those hold a particularly lofty place in the pantheon
of the arts. Are there cinematic experiences to compare with The Gold
Rush, The General, Some Like It Hot, or Duck Soup?
For me, I don't think so.
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