While making my daily visit to Chicken Butt, I saw that my esteemed colleague had put up a list of comedic movies. From there, I was led to Whatever, which had the source list, attributed to a book, The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies by Bob McCabe , which has listed these movies as being canonical in that genre.
The Whatever site invited others to copy and paste the list onto their own blog, with notations of what movies from the list they've seen. Sounds like my cup o' tea, so here goes. Bold movies are ones I've seen, asterisked movies are ones I also own, bold and italicized movies are ones I've seen partially.
Airplane!
All About Eve
Amelie*
Annie Hall
The Apartment
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Blazing Saddles
Bringing Up Baby
Broadcast News
Caddyshack
Le diner de con
Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb*
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Duck Soup
Ferris Bueller's Day Off*
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The General
Ghostbusters
The Gold Rush
Good Morning Vietnam
The Graduate
Groundhog Day
A Hard Day's Night
His Girl Friday
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Lady Killers [1950's Alec Guiness version]
Local Hero
Manhattan
M*A*S*H
Monty Python's Life of Brian
National Lampoon's Animal House*
The Odd Couple
The Producers
Raising Arizona
Roxanne
Rushmore
Shaun of the Dead
A Shot in the Dark
Some Like it Hot
Strictly Ballroom
Sullivan's Travels
There's Something About Mary
This is Spinal Tap*
To Be or Not to Be [1941 Jack Benny version]
Tootsie
Toy Story
Les vacances de M. Hulot
When Harry Met Sally...
Withnail and I
I also noticed that the author of the Whatever blog, John Scalzi, had done a Rough Guide of his own, The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies, with it's own list of canonical movies in that genre.
So, here is that list with the same notations.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!
Akira
Alien
Aliens*
Alphaville
Back to the Future*
Blade Runner
Brazil
Bride of Frankenstein
Brother From Another Planet
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Contact*
The Damned
Destination Moon
The Day The Earth Stood Still*
Delicatessen
Escape From New York
ET: The Extraterrestrial*
Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers (serial)
The Fly (1986 version)
Forbidden Planet
Ghost in the Shell
Gojira/Godzilla
The Incredibles*
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 version)
Jurassic Park*
Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior
The Matrix*
Metropolis
On the Beach
Planet of the Apes (1968 version)
Robocop
Sleeper
Solaris (1972 version)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan*
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope***
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back***
The Stepford Wives
Superman*
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Thing From Another World
Things to Come
Tron
12 Monkeys
28 Days Later
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
2001: A Space Odyssey
La Voyage Dans la Lune
War of the Worlds (1953 version)
I triple-asterisked the Star Wars movies because I own them in all three variations - original, Special Edition, and Special Edition DVD.
The original blog post for the Sci-Fi list can be found here. Plenty of comments about it on that page! The comedy post also has many a comment.
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