Tuesday 18 January 2011

Top 5: Funny films

Last week I was asked what my Top 5 films are. An easy question you might think - but not to me. That depends what you mean by top 5... because the top 5 films ever made (in my humble opinion - Shawshank Redemption, Pans Labyrinth, To Kill a Mockingbird, Singing in the Rain and It's a Wonderful Life) are not my favourite five films of all time. And then there are films which I have seen thousands of times but I still wouldn't class them as my top 5 favourites.

I came close to deciding but it then became top 10 because other favourites kept popping into my head and I couldn't choose between them. It was marginally easier to class my top 5 films by genre. Top 5 80s movies, top 5 funny films, top 5 animated, foreign, horror (you get the point!)


So here is today's question: what are your Top 5 funny films of all time?

Mine are:

  • Monty Pythons Life of Brian (genius, in film form)
  • Airplane (Leslie Nielsen and co deliver some of the funniest lines ever uttered on the big screen!)
  • Top Secret (80s classic with a very young Val Kilmer)
  • Zoolander (come on, you know you've done blue steel in photos!)
  • Monty Pythons Holy Grail (most random of all MP films but has the best one liners of them all)

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4 comments:

  1. Little Eva18 January 2011 at 02:53

    Ems said:
    "life of brian, holy grail, kingpin, airplane, ummmmmmm..... .....i'll get back to you on number 5!...oooh oooh- blazing saddles!!! :)"

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  2. turnipician18 January 2011 at 04:31

    Ghostbusters
    Baseketball
    Funny People
    South Park - Bigger, Longer, Uncut
    Class

    (no particular order, probably think of more)

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  3. turnipician18 January 2011 at 04:38

    right, logged onto my flixster for the 1st time in 3.5 years and would like to scrap sout park for Shaun of the Dead (how could I forget?)
    oph and swap funny people with Office Space.
    If Back to the future is a comedy, (I guess it is, swap with Class.

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  4. turnipician18 January 2011 at 04:39

    So in conclusion;

    Ghostbusters
    Back to the Future (trilogy)
    Office Space
    Baseketball
    Class

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