Movies You Adore and Wish Your Loved Ones with Great Taste Didn't Detest.

[Emerson]

What do you mean by "the awful attrition rate of improv?"  Because once I understand it, I'm totally stealing that line.

Broken down minute by minute, most improv shows are unwatchable. Especially if you're not in the room and you're not an improv nerd. No matter how many ideas you have, most of them won't be good.

I used to do improv, so I know as much as anyone else that it needs to be spontaneous and immediate. It dies on TV.

All yours, Coat.

[shotzi]

Clifford and The 'Burbs. These are the two funniest movies I've ever seen and they do not get the credit they deserve.

On a far lower level, I enjoyed Joe Dirt. It think it's fairly funny, especially watching Kid Rock act, and at the end it makes me cry because I am pathetic. I've never met anyone who liked Joe Dirt, though.

[jamesp]

Clifford and The 'Burbs. These are the two funniest movies I've ever seen and they do not get the credit they deserve.

On a far lower level, I enjoyed Joe Dirt. It think it's fairly funny, especially watching Kid Rock act, and at the end it makes me cry because I am pathetic. I've never met anyone who liked Joe Dirt, though.

I'll go with all three. I've seen them countless times and will never turn the channel on any, especially Clifford. Martin Short's performance is classic.

[cutout]

I like Joe Dirt! I admit to not liking a lot of comedies because they don't make me laugh. For some reason, the real quiet movies or the real raw-nerve sad movies are the most enjoyable to me.

On that note, other than Breaking the Waves my other favorites are Days of Heaven, Badlands and The Thin Red Line -- and almost everyone I met hates at least two of those movies.

[AllisonLeGnome]

I too liked the Ten alot. It's nowhere as good as Wet Hot and a few of the stories fall flat, but I loved some of them.

When it comes to the State crew, I liked Stella, love Wet Hot, and watch Reno for a few laughs. Reno can have very mixed success but it's got a few actors (Nick Swardson, Toby Huss) that do great characters.

Pretty much the same here on all of the aforementioned projects. I'm not the hugest fan in the world of the Reno TV show, but I'll admit I thought the movie was good dumb fun.

[shotzi]

I like Joe Dirt! I admit to not liking a lot of comedies because they don't make me laugh. For some reason, the real quiet movies or the real raw-nerve sad movies are the most enjoyable to me.

On that note, other than Breaking the Waves my other favorites are Days of Heaven, Badlands and The Thin Red Line -- and almost everyone I met hates at least two of those movies.

I saw The Thin Red Line when I was 16 or so on opening day and the theater was completely empty. I remember enjoying it, but haven't seen it since. I like Badlands a lot. Days of Heaven I've yet to see. Same with The New World.

[jbissell]

I like Joe Dirt! I admit to not liking a lot of comedies because they don't make me laugh. For some reason, the real quiet movies or the real raw-nerve sad movies are the most enjoyable to me.

On that note, other than Breaking the Waves my other favorites are Days of Heaven, Badlands and The Thin Red Line -- and almost everyone I met hates at least two of those movies.

Everything Malick has done is brilliant. Despite the fact that I have a massive hatred for Richard Gere, Days of Heaven is amazing.

[cutout]

Yeah Gere is downright great in it, plus the way it was filmed, the colors, the strange narration, the quietness. Of any movie, it's the most vividly ingrained in my mind. Except maybe Red Dawn. I wish I was kidding. (being young in the 80s, I was always petrified of Soviet invasion/occupation).

[masterofsparks]

I really wanted to like Days of Heaven, but I couldn't get past Gere's presence. I didn't finish the movie. What I saw looked beautiful, but Gere's stupid face was a blight on those amazing images and I had to stop. Maybe I'll give it another shot.

[andrew in philadelphia]

i tried to play it this past christmas while everyone was opening gifts in hopes of starting a new yearly tradition. by popular vote, it was given the axe after 20 minutes or so.