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Friend of mine asked me yesterday what was my top 5 of all time comedy movies and I found myself extremely hard pressed to come up with an answer because theres so many funny movies it's hard to place them above one another. So I was thinking ...if given a list of "list your top 5s"...what would your answer be and how hard would it be for you to come up with the answer? So:

 

Top 5 actors/actresses?

Top 5 comedies/action/gangsta/horror?

 

Top 5 actors to me:

 

Denzel, will smith, Leo DiCaprio, samuel adams... I meant samuel jackson...al pacino

 

Movies I have a hard time coming up with but

 

Action would be...john wick 3, expendables, Rambo, and idk...

 

Gangsta..scarface, godfather, goodfellas, american gangster, hell I'd throw breaking bad even tho it wasnt a movie but was that good.

 

And that's all i can muster up...what about you?

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Top 5 actors:

Denzel Washington is the greatest actor of all time, period.

Meryl Streep

Robert DeNiro

Samuel L. Jackson

Al Pacino

 

Comedies:

Coming to America

Don’t be a Menace in South Central

Friday

Old School

Anchorman/40 Year Old Virgin/Girls Trip

 

Action:

John Wick

Heat

Terminator 2

Mad Max Fury Road

The Matrix

 

Gangster:

Godfather 1

Godfather 2

Goodfellas

Carlito’s Way

Blow

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Difficult and very subjective. I think one would have to look at what comedies are still being laughed about/quoted/used/remembered years after they hit the theater.

 

So

#1 Airplane (is there another movie out there referenced more commonly than this one?)

#2 Dr. Strangelove

#3 Blazing Saddles

#4 Life of Brian

#5 Team America: World Police

 

(My favorite comedy is "I'm Going to Git You Sucka", but few seem to have seen it). 

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Actors.

 

Actors probably shouldn't be ranked -  Just put them into a top 100 list and leave out a rank order once you get into that top 100.

 

But here you go. (Tommorow I'd probably list 5 entirely different actors).

#1 Daniel Day Lewis

#2 Kevin Spacey

#3 Anthony Hopkins

#4 Johnny Dep

#5  Peter Sellers

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Action Movies:

 

1. Hard Boiled

2. Die Hard

3. Terminator

4. Lethal Weapon

5. Robocop 

 

Actors:

 

1. Deniro

2. Al Pacino

3. Daniel Day Lewis

4. Brad Pitt (it's a shame he still doesn't get the respect he deserves due to starting off being known as a "pretty boy")

5. Philip Seymour Hoffman (it was tragic that he passed when he did, he was well on his way)

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Movies: 

 

Once Upon a Time in the West.  

2001.

Princess Bride (Glad to see at least one person mentioned it.) 

Casino Royale.  (No, not the joke one.)  

Star Trek: The Motion Picture.  (Yes, I know I'm gonna get things thrown at me for this.)  

 

Actors:  

 

Johny Depp.  (Again, glad to see somebody else has taste.)  

Harrison Ford.  

Vincent D'Onofrio

 

After that, it gets tough for me.  I think to be on that list, the actor has to have done a spectacular performance in at least two different, memorable, roles.  And that's tough to think of.  

 

Might consider Peter Weller for that list.  

Henry Fonda.  (Based on The Men Who Shot Liberty Valance, and Once Upon, above.)  

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21 minutes ago, Larry said:

Actors:  

 

Johny Depp.  (Again, glad to see somebody else has taste.)  

Harrison Ford.  

Vincent D'Onofrio

 

After that, it gets tough for me.  I think to be on that list, the actor has to have done a spectacular performance in at least two different, memorable, roles.  And that's tough to think of.  

 

Might consider Peter Weller for that list.  

Henry Fonda.  (Based on The Men Who Shot Liberty Valance, and Once Upon, above.)  

 

Pacino?  Deniro? Denzel Washington? Nicholson? DiCaprio? 

 

Edit: Also Anthony Hopkins, Daniel-Day Lewis

 

I like Harrison Ford, but his range was limited.  He was always kind of playing himself. 

 

Johnny Depp I agree on - he is vastly underrated.  Probably because people always think of him as Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands, and they haven't seen Donnie Brasco, Blow, Black Mass etc.

 

A little our of left field, but I might put Gary Oldman in my top 5.  His range was insane.   

 

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In no particular order...

 

Top 5 Actors 

 

1.) Jack Nicholson

2.) Robert DeNiro

3.) Daniel Day-Lewis

4.) Denzel Washington

5.) Al Pacino

 

Top 5 Comedies

 

1.) Coming To America

2.) Friday

3.) Dumb & Dumber/Ace Ventura (tie)

4.) Superbad

5.) The 40 Year Old Virgin

 

Crime/Gangster

 

1.) Godfather & Godfather II

2.) Scarface

3.) Goodfellas

4.) Carlito’s Way

5.) Pulp Fiction

 

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42 minutes ago, DCSaints_fan said:

Pacino?  Deniro?

 

Maybe I just haven't seen enough Pacino, but to me, they all seem the same.  (But no doubt there's lots I haven't seen.)  

 

I was thinking the same about DeNiro.  But then I thought about it.  About Al Capone.  Analyze This!  And Ronin.  Yep, that's some range.  

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no particular order for my lists:

 

Actors:

Denzel Washington

Robert DeNiro

Meryl Streep

Daniel Day Lewis

Paul Newman

 

Action:

John Wick

The Raid

Die Hard

The Matrix

Oldboy

 

Comedies:

Coming To America

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

40 Year Old Virgin

48 Hours

Friday

 

Gangster/Crime:

Godfather II

City of God

Goodfellas

Godfather 1

Pulp Fiction

 

 

Overall top 5 movies:

Raging Bull

Godfather II

The Exorcist

The Hustler

City of God

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Top 5 Comedies

 

Princess Bride

Space Balls

Caddy Shack

Animal House

Young Frankenstein

 

The criteria I decided to use is comedy whose lines were so good that the language became part of everyday speech. Each of these, for a time, developed a series of catch phrases echoed throughout our lives. Several became so popular that I wonder if people realize their comedy movie origins.

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10 minutes ago, Burgold said:

Princess Bride

. . . 

 

 

The criteria I decided to use is comedy whose lines were so good that the language became part of everyday speech. Each of these, for a time, developed a series of catch phrases echoed throughout our lives. Several became so popular that I wonder if people realize their comedy movie origins.

 

Long ago, I think on Facebook, I was a member of a Princess Bride fan group.  And like half of the posts in the group was people saying that when they got married, the first thing their minister said to them was "No, I will not say 'mawaige'".  

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8 minutes ago, Larry said:

 

Long ago, I think on Facebook, I was a member of a Princess Bride fan group.  And like half of the posts in the group was people saying that when they got married, the first thing their minister said to them was "No, I will not say 'mawaige'".  

I went to a Con where Shawn Wallace was one of the guests. Apparently, he'll do anything except say "Inconceivable."

 

I can't imagine how many times he had to say it over the years.

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3 minutes ago, Burgold said:

I went to a Con where Shawn Wallace was one of the guests. Apparently, he'll do anything except say "Inconceivable."

 

I can't imagine how many times he had to say it over the years.

 

I'm imagining a t-shirt for him:  

 

It DOES mean what I think it means, dammit!

 

(And you got his name backwards.)

 

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