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"Listen, Strange women, lying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government."

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One of my favorites: "What Jesus blatantly fails to appreciate is that it's the meek who are the problem."

I'll write something.....now I just have to go make my list.

Freaux -- where do I send my lists? And, of course, I volunteer to write for any of the ones I vote for (and even the ones I don't if you're in a pinch). I need to think on my lists though, and don't want to send them yet.

It's harder than you think.

I will gladly do a write up on any movie I list.

Top Comedies-

1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2. Animal House
3. There's Something About Mary
4. Victor Victoria
5. Groundhog's Day
6. Caddyshack
7. Blazing Saddles
8. A Fish Called Wanda
9. 9 to 5
10. Beverly Hills Cop
11. Blues Brothers
12. American Pie
13. Blazing Saddles
14. Raising Arizona
15. Airplane!
16. Better off Dead
17. Bull Durham
18. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
19. Hot Fuzz
20. Trading Places

Top Sci-Fi

1. Alien
2. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
3. Terminator 2
4. The Matrix
5. Back to the Future
6. Minority Report
7. The Thing
8. Tron
9. Ice Pirates
10. Total Recall
11. Aliens
12. Terminator
13. WALL-E
14. Escape From New York
15. E.T.
16. 12 Monkeys
17. Independence Day (I know, it's really a disaster flick, but I'm running low)
18. Predator
19. They Live
20. The Running Man

ETA: Both lists might not be finalized until the last day.

Also, this is really a combination of what I perceive to be the "best" movies, which ones make me laugh the most, and the ones for which I have fond memories.

Top 10 Comedies

1. Dumb and Dumber
2. Monty Python Search for the Holy Grail
3. Spaceballs
4. Caddyshack
5. Animal House
6. Old School
7. Airplane
8. Major League
9. The Naked Gun
10. Coming to America
11. Billy Madison
12. 40 yr old Virgin
13. Blazing Saddles
14. Happy Gilmore
15. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
16. Ghostbusters
17. Blues Brothers
18. 48 hrs
19. Made
20. My Cousin Vinny

I still quote lines on a regular basis for all of these movies!!

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Sci Fi -

1. Alien
2. Metropolis
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. The Thing
5. The Prestige
6. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1974)
7. Stalker
8. Blade Runner
9. Children of Men
10. Brazil
11. The Matrix
12. Videodrome
13. The Day the Earth Stood Still
14. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
15. The Terminator
16. Dark City
17. Solaris (1972)
18. Pi
19. Bride of Frankenstein
20. The Truman Show




Top 10 Comedy

1. Monty Python and The Quest for the Holy Grail
2. This is Spinal Tap!
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. Gold Rush
5. Airplane!
6. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
7. Dumb and Dumber
8. Young Frankenstein
9. Duck Soup
10. Hot Fuzz
11. Ghostbusters
12. Top Secret
13. Groundhog Day
14. Harvey
15. Caddyshack
16. The Life of Brian
17. Best in Show
18. City Lights
19. Ace Ventura
20. Anchorman

Just missing the list: Animal House, Modern Times, Some Like it Hot

Top 10 Comedy Movies

1) CaddyShack
2) Airplane
3) Spaceballs
4) Blazing Saddles
5) Dumb and Dumber
6) Monty Python Holy Grail
7) Animal House
8) Coming to America
9) Anchorman
10)Super Troopers
11)Fletch
12)Zoolander
13)Shaun of the Dead
14)Role Models
15)Scary Movie 2
16)Old School
17)Major League
18)40yr Old Virgin
19)Billy Madison
20)Hangover


*** Not complete, still fooling around with placement and may subsitute

Sci-Fi:

1.) Blade Runner
2.) The Matrix
3.) Alien
4.) Planet of the Apes
5.) Children of Men
6.) Star Wars: A New Hope
7.) Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
8.) Dune (1984)
9.) Stalker (1979)
10.) Clash of the Titans
11.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
12.) Back to the Future
13.) The War of the Worlds (1953)
14.) The Andromeda Strain (1971)
15.) Godzilla (1954)
16.) Solaris (2002)
17.) Spirited Away
18.) The Fly
19.) Them!
20.) District 9



Comedy:

1.) National Lampoon: Vacation
2.) Spies Like Us
3.) Stripes
4.) The Big Lebowski
5.) Space Balls
6.) Groundhog Day
7.) Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls
8.) Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
9.) The Hangover
10.) Office Space
11.) Happy Gilmore
12.) The Jerk
13.) Tommy Boy
14.) Napoleon Dynamite
15.) Meet the Parents
16.) Monty Python: Holy Grail
17.) Darjeeling Limited
18.) Smokey and the Bandit
19.) Mars Attacks
20.) Mr. Mom


I'm done now, and will stop editing my list. This is pretty challenging. A Sci-Fi list all by itself would've been hard enough, but to add comedy on top of it, made it very tricky. I realized last night how the sci-fi genre is just getting broader and broader. I put in Clash of the Titans because, well Harryhausen just needed to be on the list. Then I jumped to Conan the Barbarian and well, my list just exploded.

Personally, I think Science Fiction lists should be limited to topics strictly dealing with at least three of the following as main characters or settings (or in some way a major part of the plot): space, aliens, time travel/parallel worlds, the future, technology, androids, or superhuman abilities. However, we left the door wide open for much more to come in and, well...they did. Eternal Sunshine is not a Science Fiction movie (it is an awesome movie though).

My judging was based on overall movie production quality, lasting impact, timelessness, best representation of a particular genre/director/actor, and in some cases just plain nerdiness. It would be pretty easy to skew the results of the list to put at the top of my lists movies that I know I like, and want to see on the top 100, however, they may not be chosen by anyone else. Yet, I tried not to do that, and assumed that we were really getting a representative grouping; however, we aren't.

All that being said...Freauxen thanks for all the effort you're putting into doing this. If nothing else, I had fun making my lists.

I would also, like to suggest a future list(s):

Horror

Fantasy

It would also be an interesting, yet lame/boring/almost gay thing to do to see what everyone would choose if they had to make a list on the best period piece/dramatic/chick flick type of films out there.

Prison movies might also be a good subject.

Comedies:

1. My Cousin Vinny
2. Animal House
3. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
4. The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)
5. Forrest Gump
6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
7. Arthur
8. Caddyshack
9. Beetlejuice
10. Blazing Saddles
11. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
12. Throw Momma from the Train
13. Kingpin
14. Stir Crazy
15. Night Shift
16. Dumb and Dumber
17. Best In Show
18. Something About Mary
19. Weekend at Bernie’s
20. The Birdcage

Sci-Fi

1. Deep Impact
2. Twister
3. Planet of the Apes
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. Jurassic Park
6. Star Wars- The Empire Strikes Back
7. The Matrix
8. Blade Runner
9. The Terminator
10. Aliens
11. 12 Monkeys
12. Star Wars (original)
13. Children of Men
14. Star Trek (2009)
15. District 9
16. Mad Max
17. Iron Man
18. I am Legend
19. Knowing
20. Back to the Future

Sci Fi:
1. The Thing w/ Kurt Russell
2. Predator
3. Aliens

Comedy:
1. Naked Gun
2. Dumb and Dumber
3. Old School