You know... I really don't think it can be done. You mention "M.P's Holy Grail" as the funniest comedy of all time yet I have never been a Monty Python fan. For some, great comedy could be slapstick while others prefer situation. The Three Stooges and Seinfeld are both great examples of time-tested comedy very different yet equally alive and well. Perhaps and i'd imagine probable, ones' sense of humor is related to their social surroundings, their life experiences and parental influence.
Meaning of course, that what makes us laugh, cry, dream, or inspires us to action varies from person to person.
Rush... no, don't change anything! I was simply stating what most already know anyway. If people are interested in complicating the whole matter by breaking it down so, then maybe it would be entertaining to see an outcome and whether or not it'd be different from people's personal favorites.
A few great movies in the "cannibal genre" for anyone planning a "dinner and a movie" night this weekend:
The Cook,The Thief His Wife and Her Lover (stir-fried satire)
Delicatessan (charbroiled black comedy)
Eating Raoul (chickenfried cult classic)
Wouldn't one have to establish the "best movie genre" before a single movie could be chosen "Best Movie Ever?" For example, there are great comedies that could easily be chosen but how does one choose between a great comedy and a great drama? We're talking apples and oranges here. What makes a movie great anwyay? Direction? Camera work? Editing? Music score? Acting? Casting? Writing?
I would suggest that categories be established first. Movies are then added to these catagories per recommendations; the movie with the most catagory listings would then be titled, "Best Movie Ever". (or something like that... from a guy who's already stated he knows nothing about movies or how they're made).
My suggestions would be but no limited too:
Direction
Score
Casting
Acting
Cinematography
Script
Storyline
Location
"...fruit of his first genetically modified elocutive sapling?"
That sounds like the rhetoric of some belletristic, post-apocalyptic, self-proclaimed "Adam" aspiring to be the quasi-omnipitent demigod of some colloquial genesis! (Sheesh!)
I'z just pickin' Wezzo... trust me, I don't know enough about pop music or R.E.M to participate in this discussion. What I do know is that it's rare for true artists' (like R.E.M) with real life experiences, intelligent observations and the capacity to express emotion beyond "puppy love", to choose pop with which to do so.
"Favorite REM Album?"
Someone elses! Never been an REM fan.
"Catchy pop and deep emotion?" Isn't that an oxymoron?
(If i've come across as being a smart-ass, just remember that i'm the guy who doesn't know much about perfect balance or radio free Europe).
I have to say I never illustrated any of my own books, but when I was really small (early 60's), i'd "illustrate" in my mom's sewing manuals. Inside them were all these 50's drawings of kids wearing the clothes you could make with the patterns. I'd draw big looping, peeing penises on them all (male or female) as well what one seeing them today would describe as "dookey balls" coming out of their butts.
Little has changed for me as well; i'm still not potty trained and my wife hides all her magazinges. Thank God for "resident" catalogs!
I always suspected Paul Bunyon was a two-toed, sexless, pasty, ever-grinning freak combing the forrests and fields for short legg-ed folding tables to chop to pieces with a devastating blow from his curving arrow flag.h
Your mention of having seen "Midnight Cowboy" got me to wondering if you've seen "Midnight Express". Although released a little later (1978) it was nominated by the academy awards that year for "best director, supporting actor, picture, editing" and won "best original score". Very much a worth see for anyone who digs the screenwriting skills of Oliver Stone and the added thrill of knowing it's based on the autobiography of a young American tourist sentenced to 30 years in a Turkish prison. You gotta' hate that!
You know... I really don't think it can be done. You mention "M.P's Holy Grail" as the funniest comedy of all time yet I have never been a Monty Python fan. For some, great comedy could be slapstick while others prefer situation. The Three Stooges and Seinfeld are both great examples of time-tested comedy very different yet equally alive and well. Perhaps and i'd imagine probable, ones' sense of humor is related to their social surroundings, their life experiences and parental influence.
Meaning of course, that what makes us laugh, cry, dream, or inspires us to action varies from person to person.
Rush... no, don't change anything! I was simply stating what most already know anyway. If people are interested in complicating the whole matter by breaking it down so, then maybe it would be entertaining to see an outcome and whether or not it'd be different from people's personal favorites.
A few great movies in the "cannibal genre" for anyone planning a "dinner and a movie" night this weekend:
The Cook,The Thief His Wife and Her Lover (stir-fried satire)
Delicatessan (charbroiled black comedy)
Eating Raoul (chickenfried cult classic)
Enjoy!
Big fancy words don't make the man Luke... it's how many pairs of socks he owns!
Wouldn't one have to establish the "best movie genre" before a single movie could be chosen "Best Movie Ever?" For example, there are great comedies that could easily be chosen but how does one choose between a great comedy and a great drama? We're talking apples and oranges here. What makes a movie great anwyay? Direction? Camera work? Editing? Music score? Acting? Casting? Writing?
I would suggest that categories be established first. Movies are then added to these catagories per recommendations; the movie with the most catagory listings would then be titled, "Best Movie Ever". (or something like that... from a guy who's already stated he knows nothing about movies or how they're made).
My suggestions would be but no limited too:
Direction
Score
Casting
Acting
Cinematography
Script
Storyline
Location
"...fruit of his first genetically modified elocutive sapling?"
That sounds like the rhetoric of some belletristic, post-apocalyptic, self-proclaimed "Adam" aspiring to be the quasi-omnipitent demigod of some colloquial genesis! (Sheesh!)
I'z just pickin' Wezzo... trust me, I don't know enough about pop music or R.E.M to participate in this discussion. What I do know is that it's rare for true artists' (like R.E.M) with real life experiences, intelligent observations and the capacity to express emotion beyond "puppy love", to choose pop with which to do so.
"Favorite REM Album?"
Someone elses! Never been an REM fan.
"Catchy pop and deep emotion?" Isn't that an oxymoron?
(If i've come across as being a smart-ass, just remember that i'm the guy who doesn't know much about perfect balance or radio free Europe).
I have to say I never illustrated any of my own books, but when I was really small (early 60's), i'd "illustrate" in my mom's sewing manuals. Inside them were all these 50's drawings of kids wearing the clothes you could make with the patterns. I'd draw big looping, peeing penises on them all (male or female) as well what one seeing them today would describe as "dookey balls" coming out of their butts.
Little has changed for me as well; i'm still not potty trained and my wife hides all her magazinges. Thank God for "resident" catalogs!
I always suspected Paul Bunyon was a two-toed, sexless, pasty, ever-grinning freak combing the forrests and fields for short legg-ed folding tables to chop to pieces with a devastating blow from his curving arrow flag.h
Your mention of having seen "Midnight Cowboy" got me to wondering if you've seen "Midnight Express". Although released a little later (1978) it was nominated by the academy awards that year for "best director, supporting actor, picture, editing" and won "best original score". Very much a worth see for anyone who digs the screenwriting skills of Oliver Stone and the added thrill of knowing it's based on the autobiography of a young American tourist sentenced to 30 years in a Turkish prison. You gotta' hate that!