[Movie] The Pink Panther or the oldschool comedy nostalgia indulgence

[Eggroll]

New comedy is just not for me I must be getting ooooold...

What's your favorite classic comedy?

[Stormcall]

Three Stooges shorts and Abbott and Costello movies. Also a lot of John Candy's stuff, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles in particular.

[Frontenac]

I like some movies with Louis de Funès like Oscar, Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob, Hibernatus or Le Grand Restaurant.



For movies in English, I like Mel Brooks, especially when there's Gene Wilder in it.

Also, this year is the 40th birthday of what has become somewhat of a cult movie here in Québec, Slap Shot.

[Shadowferal]

Three Stooges shorts and Abbott and Costello movies.

omg yes! Just thinking about them brings a chuckle..

[Revik]

I have always fancied dark humor for some reason. I'll often find myself laughing during movies at awkward times. Like in Vanilla Sky when Tom Cruise is in the car with a psycho Cameron Diaz behind the wheel. Or the scene when hes in the night club in the bathroom and some punks yell at him, "Fix your fuck'in face!". Scenes I am sure people wouldn't be laughing but I had milk coming out of my nose.

In that vein the classic movie for me is Dr. Strangelove.

[Frontenac]

Murder by Death. One of the best parodies of detective novels (Christie's Poirot and Marple, Dashiell Hammetts' Same Spade and the Thin Man, also Earl Derr Biggers' Charlie Chang) with a nice bunch of actors : Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Peter Falk, Truman Capote, etc. Oh, and written by Neil Simon.

[yetgdhfgh]

Iam quite a fan of the old Carry on series



Carry on up the Khyber such a classic!

[Lisa Frank Succubus]

I don't know if it counts as "classic" but it would be Welcome to the Dollhouse for me. I really just like dark humor but hate it when a film has to resort to mostly gross out stuff.

Doctor Strangelove is good.

[Sky High]

pffffffffffffft, I could go with the obvious "animal house" or "Monty python and the holy grail" but I do love me some Bachelor party. oh also "whats new pussycat?"



so many quotes in that opening scene holy shit.

[Charge me Doctor]

both links below are full movie on youtube, if you don't want to load 1+ hours of russian film with english subtitles beware
Any movie dirrected by Leonid Gaidai, like the diamond arm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvVpbNaSk6k
About man mistakingly being involved in diamond contraband
Or the twelve chairs by Mark Zakharov:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNZkUt0ePas
About two men trying to find 12 antique chairs, one of which had diamonds sewn into upholstery
Apparently mossfil was kind enough to upload full movies to youtube, but for some reason blocked linking them to other websites, so, no reason to put htem in video tags.

[dwightyo39]

I remember being so disappointed when I saw the pink panther movie. I was a little kid who expected a cartoon panther.

[Faroth]

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is definitely one.

But if you want me to really go older comedy, The Marx Brothers.



Groucho's insults were delivered with such speed and subtlety in the momentum of the scene that they were easy to miss if you weren't paying attention. That sort of wit is completely gone from most of today's comedy.

[Deleted]

Pink Panther and Doc Strangelove are incredible. Also loved some of the old Candy, Martin, Aykroyd, Chevy Chase and Murray stuff.

Planes, Trains
What about Bob
Spaceballs
Uncle Buck
Caddyshack
Volunteers
The three amigos
Fletch

Things like that

[Revik]

I don't know if it counts as "classic" but it would be Welcome to the Dollhouse for me. I really just like dark humor but hate it when a film has to resort to mostly gross out stuff.

Doctor Strangelove is good.

[callipygoustp]

I'm definitely a fan of the old Pink Panther movies, great stuff. A few more that come to mind from that era:
Casino Royale (1967)
Tom Jones (1963)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

[ravenmoon]

New comedy is just not for me I must be getting ooooold...

What's your favorite classic comedy?

i'm approaching mid twenties and classic comedy is way better than modern comedy... and i don't feel old, I feel ancient.

[Altrec]

Yeah, I'm a big fan of older comedies including the original Pink Panther movies. They were so much better on the whole than the vast majority of newer comedies that rely so heavily on disgusting humor more than anything.

[Eggroll]

i'm approaching mid twenties and classic comedy is way better than modern comedy... and i don't feel old, I feel ancient.

IKR, when I was a teenager I loved watching screwball comedies with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant..., like "Bringing Up Baby" or "Philadelphia Story".. I feel ancient, too

[ringpriest]

Marx Brothers (the quality sometimes varies, but at their best they blow everyone else out of the water).

The Pink Panther films are enjoyable, but the best scene in all of them has to be the one with Roger Moore as Clouseau - he absolutely nails it, and the sheer dissonance of (Bond)Moore channeling Seller's take on the character remains one of the most hilarious moment of cinema I've ever seen outside of the Pythons.

[Lisa Frank Succubus]

As a life long lover of military aviation,having been to many airshows, having a dad who went to flightschool (but didn't finish..he became a teacher instead) and generally loving bombers, especially the B-52..that line always makes my heart throb excitedly. I would probably behave the same way if I was in his position.