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07-07-22
Yeah there's no doubt Black Dynamite is a comedy. It is amazingly silly at times.

I get the concern re: why not just watch the "real" thing, but trust me, it hits entirely new heights (and has things that are just independently funny, send-up or not). If you've ever enjoyed chuckling at the excesses of that era, it's a no-brainer watch.



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07-07-22
Haven't seen any of these. Haven't even heard much about Black Dynamite, even though I have heard about it. Re: Kung Fu Hustle, someone recommended it to me on a challenge I did at the beginning of the year where I asked 12 people to recommend me 12 films to watch. I haven't gotten to it, but it's on the plate.


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Woo hoo, I've seen both again. Kung Fu Hustle would quite probably have been in with a shout of making my ballot and for me is easily the better of the two. Just rewatched Black Dynamite as it had been some years and it's decent with a number of amusing moments and lines but imo suffers from a bit of a lack of variety and wouldn't have been in contention.

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Ed Wood is IMO currently the best Burton. Seeing another man's life told so beautifully by an actor-director pairing like that is a hard thing to accomplish. 96/100

I absolutely adore films in the vein of Kung Fu Hustle. That movie is how to do a live-action cartoon just right. Having said that, I prefer his Journey to the West movie. 98/100.

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07-07-22
I know we're only at 65, but I doubt my #1 makes it.
I'm the only one on the site that's reviewed it.

I'm also the only one who has reviewed my #8 and #9 spots.

And if anyone else voted for #10, I will watch and review their entire Top 10.
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07-07-22
Okay, now I can say that "Kung-Fu Hustle" has been watched. Sadly, the only copy found was a dubbed English version. About the only negative I came away with.


Going in, had no clue what to expect. Only what's been read in this countdown. Great comedy and so over the top, that only kept escalating. How this flew under the radar is a major oversight. If this was watched a couple of months ago, this might have made my ballot.



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07-07-22
Originally Posted by Holden Pike
"Gag reel" and "outtakes" are synonyms. The photos at the end of The Hangover are not outtakes. Nor are they a gag reel.

I disagree 100% that a straightforward narrative of a bunch of guys having a bachelor party in Vegas is somehow more fun than them having to piece together what happened. Like completely disagree. It's like saying The Wizard of Oz would have been better if it had stayed black and white and in Kansas the whole time. You are allowed to think so, but you are also demonstrably incorrect and missing the entire point of the production.

But gosh bless.
Wasn't saying it had to be straightforward. And considering TWOO is in my top 5, I have no issue with changing narratives. Also, I liked Memento and Pulp Fiction.

I was saying it didn't make me laugh often enough. I find films that rely on violence or threats of violence for laughs rarely work for me. And I guess my reaction to this was similar to Napoleon Dynamite: a comedy that got hyped up and ended up leaving me disappointed.

Yes, parts of it did work. I think I gave this a C- at the time? I'm not coming at this out of hatred. I'm coming out of it less impressed than I should have been considering the critical hype and everything.



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07-08-22
Kung Fu Hustle was on my watchlist for the Foreign Language Countdown, but I never found the time to watch it.


I've never heard of Black Dynamite.
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07-08-22
Beetlejuice, Step Brothers, Kung Fu Hustle, and The Hangover all just missed my final list for other, more personal landmark movies. Some that stand out from the contexts of other releases of their time or for just their weird connections and influence on my young, fragile little mind.


I've said it before and I'll say it again that a 50-spot list would have caught everything for me without the pressure of representation. Those titles would have likely landed in my top 35 after rearranging my submitted list, slightly. All GREAT movies that sadly got nudged out.



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Originally Posted by Diehl40
72. Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
71. Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
No URL links for these ^ two, on the first page Diehl.

Today's wrong bets:
64. White Chicks
63. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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07-08-22


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Clerks
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Kevin Smith, 1994

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Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith


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07-08-22


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Happy Gilmore
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Dennis Dugan, 1996

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Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Frances Bay


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Trivia: Kevin Smith, a keen comic book fan, sold a large part of his comic book collection to help fund this film. He has since been able to buy most of them back.



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07-08-22
I've seen parts of both but never had any desire to watch the rest of either. Also, I'd started to get my hopes up for a Sandler-free countdown, so this is disappointing.
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07-08-22
Another two I've seen, and I respect, but not two I would have ever voted for. Clerks had a massive reputation to uphold when I first saw it, and that rep was so through the roof that it could never be anything other than not living up to it. I laughed a lot when that selection of pornos was read out, each title being more ridiculous and offensive than the last. And overall it was a very good film - but like some things that are ultra popular, I could only like it and not love it, all the while feeling a little jealous of those who could honestly hold it close to their hearts - for they were part of a club I was never going to be a part of - and it's gone that way with every Kevin Smith film I've watched. They've never done as much to me as they do his fans.

Happy Gilmore is one of the better Adam Sandler movies out there - and I get that a lot of people really dislike him, and I suspect he's not a very easy guy to get along with in real life, but he did have that certain something in his early stand-up days, and films like Happy Gilmore attracted a legion of fans for a reason. Lately, I've really taken to Sandler the serious dramatic actor, and think he has serious acting talent - but a lot of his latter-day comedies are pretty lazy, and the paychecks he gets for them are pretty obscene. But when I watched Happy Gilmore I enjoyed it, and count it as a good film - just not list-worthy for me.

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07-08-22
While I haven't actually sat down and watched Clerks in what feels like a really long time, it's still incredibly relatable for anyone who has ever worked in customer service, and it's possibly one of the most frequently quoted films among my friends group. It was #14 on my list.

For an Adam Sandler film, Happy Gilmore is pretty good, but it wasn't even remotely in contention for my list. As for yesterday's reveals of Kung Fu Hustle and Black Dynamite, I've only seen the first of those, and I remember nothing about it.

Seen: 26/38

My List: 2
04. Evil Dead II (1987) - #93
14. Clerks (1994) - #64


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