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The Rules:
1. Must have been a commercially released film.
2. The work must propose an alteration of reality or a projection into the future; sci-fi/fantasy/woo-woo are all acceptable.
3. It must intentionally be comedy, spoof or satire.
4. Series counts as a single nomination.
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Princess Bride and Galaxy Quest spring to mind.
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Dr. Strangelove. It is borderline sci-fi with the doomsday device. Definitely on the speculative side.
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Spaceballs, the Movie.
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I liked all of those.
Okay, I can think of a lot of these. Here's some of the better ones (in my opinion, of course):
The President's Analyst
Sleeper
Real Genius
Young Frankenstein
Monty Python's Holy Grail
Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Weird Science
Shrek
The Incredibles
Defending Your Life
Ghostbusters
Edited to add:
Back to the Future
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Lots of good ones already.
I'll add Groundhog Day
A personal favorite of mine.
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Woody Allens "Sleeper"
The Big Bus
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Dark Star might be a dark horse candidate.
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"The Fifth Element"
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2001: A Space Travesty
Last edited by ggremlin; 2007-Jan-29 at 05:17 PM. Reason: Dropped Young Frankenstein.
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Pirates of the Caribbean
The Incredibles
Robots
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Unfortunately removing Free Enterprise. Unless the version of Shatner in that movie counts as alternate reality.Originally Posted by Lord Jubjub
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Gillianren read my mind...
For its clever (and I think unsurpassed) spoofs of sci-fi cliches, I say "Galaxy Quest" ftw!
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So many good ones suggested. How about I just second Young Frankenstein.
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Thanks for posting all of my picks
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!
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Young Einstein
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Airplane II
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Not as good as Airplane!, though. But A2 is sci-fi, A! isn't.
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Lots of good suggestions.
I'll add Evil Dead 2 & 3
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Bill and Ted's most excellent adventure, of course. Party on dudes!
Oh, and Gremlins.
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Ice Pirates
Men in Black
Spaced Invaders
Mars Attacks
Time Bandits
only because Princess Bride and Spaceballs were already mentioned.
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This is the list so far. I added Shaun of the Dead. That makes 43 movies. I wouldn't mind a few more before I start polling.
2001: A Space Travesty
Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Airplane II
Back to the Future
Back to the Future 2
Back to the Future 3
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
Bill and Ted's Most Excellent Adventure
Dark Star
Defending Your Life
Dr. Strangelove
Evil Dead 2
Evil Dead 3
Galaxy Quest
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters 2
Gremlins
Gremlins 2
Groundhog Day
Ice Pirates
Mars Attacks
Men in Black
Men in Black 2
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Princess Bride
Real Genius
Robots
Shaun of the Dead
Shrek
Shrek 2
Sleeper
Spaceballs
Spaced Invaders
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!
The Big Bus
The Fifth Element
The Incredibles
The President's Analyst
Time Bandits
Weird Science
Young Einstein
Young Frankenstein
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How many more do you want? I can think of other movies that fit the category, but I don't expect them to get many votes. For instance:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie, not series)
Coneheads
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
My Science Project
Space Truckers
By the way, there is an Evil Dead I and II, the third movie in the series is (usually) called Army of Darkness.
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Evil Dead is considered to be a serious movie. IMDb comments indicate that ED 2 and 3 have a decidedly comical aspect that I'll put them on the list. I will title ED3 aas Army of Darkness. Otherwise, I was kind of hoping for good comedies that had been previously overlooked.
Buffy. . .I'll put on. When the movie first came out, I thought it was a spoofy kind of movie. It is far less serious than the series though maybe not as good. My Science Project. . .actually was a pretty funny movie, though it was really out there. That will also go on the list. No guarantees either will make the cut for the second round, of course.
The rest I will treat as. . .blechh. . .unless someone else chimes in.
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Nitpick: The correct title (at least, in the US) was Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
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Army of Darkness was very much a comedy. Evil Dead II, in my opinion, had humorous aspects but wasn't what I would think of as a comedy. Evil Dead, I'd agree, not so funny. As for more "good comedies" - many of the ones on the list already are more in the nature of cult comedies.
I just realized I've seen all of the movies on the list, except I didn't watch Young Einstein and Big Bus all the way through. Ach! My poor, poor brain!
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There are a few I haven't seen, though I'm not sure I'd consider myself as having "missed" several of them.
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"You can't erase icing."
"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
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Death Race 2000 is my final nomination.
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I have to echo this.
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