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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Here is my list (and I'm limiting it, not to the last 25 years, but to movies that came out during my lifetime):
1. Trading Places (not just the greatest comedy, the greatest movie of all time)
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Vacation
4. Caddyshack
5. Animal House
6. Stripes
7. Office Space
8. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
9. Raising Arizona
10. Fletch
11. Airplane
12. Young Frankenstein
13. What About Bob
14. My Cousin Vinny
15. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
16. Swingers
17. Anchorman
18. The Gods Must Be Crazy
19. Elf
20. The Jerk
21. Bachelor Party
22. Austin Powers
23. Weird Science
24. Beverly Hills Cop
25. Holy Grail (Should be higher, but I thought of it too late)
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I agree with most of this, except the exclusion of Lebowski is incapable of explanation, as is the inclusion of Elf, which had exactly one funny scene (the one with the dude from The Station Agent) and a series of totally phoned-in performances by Newhart, Deschanel, Caan, and yes I'll say it, Farrell. That movie was turned up to eight, and it needed a ten to be tolerable. Farrell was great in Old School and Anchorman, and really quite good in Stranger Than Fiction, but shit, he got upstaged by everybody else in Talladega Nights, and that was supposed to be a star vehicle for him. I don't know that America has that much patience left for That Character He Plays. What made Stranger Than Fiction so interesting is that he wasn't That Character He Plays.
I could quibble with one or two other movies you chose to include, but at the risk of sounding like Sebby, you pretty much nailed it.
Resolved: The following is the funniest dialog ever committed to film:
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Maude: Do you like sex, Mr. Lebowski?
Dude: 'Scuse me?
Maude: Sex. The physical act of love. Coitus. Do you like it?
Dude: I was talking about my rug.
Maude: You're not interested in sex?
Dude: You mean coitus?
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That made me laugh just cutting and pasting it.
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