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kerrywins Donating Member (864 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:48 PM
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Why isn't "Coming to America" the funniest movie of all time?
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:49 PM
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1. As defined by who?
"MY SON WORKS!?"

I wish my dad was like that.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:49 PM
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2. I found it charming n/t
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:49 PM
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3. Because "Dumb and Dumber" is?
And there can't be two funniest movies?

Did I win?

What's the prize?
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:51 PM
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6. Dumb and Dumber was dumb.
Edited on Mon Apr-11-05 06:52 PM by YellowRubberDuckie
It was worse than Napoleon Dynamite...if that's possible.
Not that anything could be worse than Star Wars...Just a side note.

Duckie
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:53 PM
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7. Does this mean
I should scrub Napolean Dynamite from my Netflix queue? I haven't seen it yet.
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 07:02 PM
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12. Um...Don't do that on my account...
A lot of people here liked it.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3030347
Duckie
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:50 PM
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4. Because of the Royal Penis joke?
:shrug:

It's otherwise EXTREMELY funny, and witty.
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:51 PM
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5. Sexual Chocolate!
It's one of them, that's for sure. I showed my mystery white boy that once, and he was amazed he'd not seen it up until then (we were about...21). He owns it now, I think...

Yes, yes, fuck you too!
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:54 PM
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8. Because "What About Bob" was funnier
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:56 PM
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9. Trading Places beats it by a nose
but it is awfully funny. Its one of those movies I will always watch if its on TV.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:58 PM
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10. Because the Marx Brothers got to make movies
as did Charlie Chaplin, the Nat. Lampoon gang, Abrahams and Zucker, and countless others.

Had all other movies since Griffith's day been required by law to be dramas, mysteries, thrillers or sci-fi -- no comedies, in any event -- then yes, "Coming to America" would have been the funniest movie of all time.

No, wait, there'd still have been "Plan Nine From Outer Space", whose unintentional (?) camp would still have beaten out "Coming To America"...
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carpetbagger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 07:01 PM
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11. Because it has a developed plot.
That restrains the comedic license, and wastes precious time.

Go with Caddyshack. No time wasted developing a plot there.
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 07:03 PM
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13. One word: Arsenio...
Yeesh...
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 07:05 PM
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14. Because it isn't Blazing Saddles.
Coming to America was mediocre at best.
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kerrywins Donating Member (864 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 10:14 PM
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15. If someone could get a picture of Randy Watson
from that movie...that would make me very happy....
that is, if anyone even knows who I'm talking about....

"help me welcome him to the stage...Jackson Heights own...Mr. Randy Watson...yeahssss....."
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