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"The Hot Rock" and "Where's Poppa"

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In Reply to: RE: Easily the most underrated American comedy (that's funny)? posted by tinear on May 27, 2010 at 07:36:19

I know that the Pollack film is really a crime caper movie, but it had a lot of humor: Ron Leibman (sp?) and Zero Mostel are great. The Reiner film is one of those counter culture 70's pix with really dark, subversive humor. George Segal at the top of his substantial game, Liebman also appears in this movie as Segal's crazy brother. The Chayefsky "Hospital" was another good one, but I suppose it wasn't really underrated.

Edits: 05/29/10

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"Hospital" is the darkest American comedy I've seen. It is totally forgotten so, yeah, I think it - tinear 10:19:40 05/29/10 (4)
does qualify as underrated, now.
Thanks for reminding me of that pearl. I've got to see it; it's been far too long. Brilliant dialogue.
- RE: "Hospital" is the darkest American comedy I've seen. It is totally forgotten so, yeah, I think it - mpathus 23:00:19 05/30/10 (0)
  The Hospital is absolutely number ONE on my list too if a comedy - Ok, I laugh, but for all the wrong reasons.
  
  (I just find it "funny" in the way a speech in "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" comes across, where Richard Burton's Alec Leamas vents in the car to Claire Bloom's Nan Perry about the futility of spy vs spy and the quiet desperation that men gleefully ignore, just prior to their own tragic end. Even then that becomes more hilarious the older I get - weird.)
  
  The Hospital is by far my favorite George C. Scott film.
  
  Diana Rigg is HOT HOT HOT.
- Haven't thought about that film in ages-just added it to my netflix queue - padreken 11:06:38 05/30/10 (0)
  A great screenplay from Paddy Chayevsky, very similar to Network.
- And a great movie it is, too - danj 19:47:58 05/29/10 (0)
  I've always been a fan of Mr. Scott, even back as far as his "The Flim-Flam Man." That film is certainly not the quality of "The Hospital" but Scott's performance is brilliant and very funny.
  
  "The Hospital", along with "Network" are,imho, two of the finest American films of the 1970s. Both were written, of course, by the amazing Paddy Chayefsky.
- RE: "Hospital" is the darkest American comedy I've seen. It is totally forgotten so, yeah, I think it - Dave Mester 11:22:29 05/29/10 (0)
  Agree, always liked it. Not totally forgotten, though. It pops up on my cable once in a great while.

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