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Old 20 April 2006, 06:36 PM
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Anybody have any recommendation of good comedies they have recently seen?

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Old 20 April 2006, 06:45 PM
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Old 20 April 2006, 06:49 PM
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Haven't seen many comedies recently, and I'm not a huge comdey fan, but anything by the Farrelly brothers is going to be good, IMO. I think there is one with Johnny Knoxville called The Ringer that is supposed to be funny.

Wedding Crashers was quite good.
Old 20 April 2006, 07:18 PM
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thought the ringer was preety poor
not up to usual farrelly brothers standards

in fact i cant even call it a comedy
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I recently saw Napoleon Dynamite, not that new but very funny in a weird way!
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Seen all those apart from Ringer, which looks poor
Old 20 April 2006, 09:14 PM
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Recent (ish) good ones;

-Wedding Crashers
-Anchorman
-Shaun of the Dead
-Old School
-Get Rich or Die Tryin'
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Watched 40 year old virgin the weekend was quiet funny, apart from that not seen much lately that was funny.
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Have seen all of those. Ended up watching 'The Terminal' for the 3rd or 4th time. Good film.

Any other recommendations for the weekend? Non-comedy included.
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The Business is great fun
Sin City
Batman Begins
History of Violence
King Kong

Some good stuff out.
Old 21 April 2006, 11:44 AM
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try new labour's party political broadcast (any one)

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I tend to just read NSR.

HTH
Old 21 April 2006, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Petem95
The Business is great fun
Sin City
Batman Begins
History of Violence
King Kong

Some good stuff out.
Yeah, History of Violence really had me splitting my sides - top comedy !
Old 21 April 2006, 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by MJW
Yeah, History of Violence really had me splitting my sides - top comedy !
Originally Posted by BOB'5
Any other recommendations for the weekend? Non-comedy included.
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as above....any good recent films will do
Old 21 April 2006, 04:52 PM
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It's not recent, but was re-released on DVD last year.

Mean Streets, directed by Martin Scorcesse with Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro. Great film, one of my favourites.

Batman Begins is probably the best recent film I've seen in the last six months.

History of Violence was quite good.
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The Business I thought was one of the worst films I had ever seen, which is a shame as I like most of the stuff the cast had done before and a good director, but total toilet I thought and if the script took them more than half an hour to write I'll be amazed.
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Lately I've seen:

Inside Man - quite good... entertaining but a bit too long at 2hrs10.

Syriana - better than I expected, I liked it.

Wallace & Grommit & were-rabbit - a good laugh, excellent animation. Not a huge fan (chicken run was a bit dull) but I did like this one.

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance - I loved it, but I'm a fan of Chanwook Park. Maybe not to everyone's taste... if you do like it, Oldboy and Mr Vengeance are worth seeing on DVD.

The Libertine - tedious.
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Watched OldBoy on saturday night, quite good, and a little gory in places. Excellent true to life corridor fight scene

Batman Begins gets my vote as does 40 y/o Virgin, hilarious film.
Serenity was quite good, and has promted me to rent the tv series it was based on.

Apart from that, I've spent all week catching up on tv, green wing, curb your enthusiasm, larry sanders show , click and talking movies.

All up to date now
Old 24 April 2006, 12:43 PM
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If you like gory, watch Silent Hill
Old 24 April 2006, 12:50 PM
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Just like Heaven ..........romantic comedy,very good.
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