I notice that nobody mentioned a film from Spain. I understand it because our film makers and industry are not good enough compared to America or Asia. — javi2541997
Handia — Jamal
Lots of good silents by Buster Keaton. — T Clark
I've always loved this scene from Modern Times — T Clark
It's totally another to see the film in a movie theatre with an audience howling in laughter during the mirror scene. I remember laughing in the car when going home. — ssu
Favorite actions films? Mine is Raiders of the Lost Ark. — Tom Storm
Well, I personally think that the quality is not good enough. You mentioned Almodovar's films but even their films are weird and wacky. The problem is not about the availability outside Spain, because if ours films were acceptable, many translators would pay for them. I guess that some cultures are more interesting than others. For example: I see that some users put a lot of films of Kurosawa and Ōzu in this thread and they are "so Japanese" and despite this fact, their movies are over the world and translated in different languages.
I must accept (and this is true) that Japanese culture is more interesting than Spanish one, it is a fact. I understand that for a foreigner could be boring our dramas about politics and territories. — javi2541997
When I met my wife she introduced me to Soviet movies, most of which I hadn’t heard of but which are massively popular in Russia and the other ex-Soviet countries. — Jamal
On the other hand, it is interesting how your wife showed you "Soviet films". I mean, movies which represents how that era looked like. Here in Spain we had something similar in a cinema called "NO-DO". The films were about family topics about Franco's era and most of them were even so far from reality. If one day you watch one (I wish not) you would see they are so eccentric on the reality about middle-class families. Most of them are even available nowadays in a program called "cine de barrio" (it is special and is only available in Saturday) and only older people see them. I remember watching one with my grandmother and laughed at the actors and plot because everything was so forced. — javi2541997
Charlie Chaplin, Billy Connolly, Robin Williams, Stan Laurel, Buster Keaton. Would that team work, for example? — universeness
Arsenic and old lace?
Did you like any of the UK Ealing comedies? such as:
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Whisky Galore
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Man in the White Suit
The Ladykillers — universeness
Let's see, who would I include?... Bill Murray, Nicholas Cage, Woody Allen, Jim Carrey, Tom Hanks, John Cusack, Monty Python guys.... Ok, my favorite comedies: — T Clark
so we watched The Milagro Beanfield War instead, which was produced and directed by Redford and is damn near perfect — Vera Mont
What did you think of the point made in the comedy show 'The big bang theory,' where one of the characters points out a fatal flaw in that movie — universeness
but shhhhhhhh no one knows where the box is now! — universeness
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