Personally, I'm torn.

There needs to be an "all of the above" option.

Choose, Damn it!

Seriously stupid films.

As the saying goes, if you're going to have the operation, have the operation!

I hate those serious films released over the fall, unless they're good, or stupid.

Since I take my stupidity very seriously, I voted for the third option. Besides, I like Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. I especially love the scene where the Children of the Bomb try to detonate their nuke, and Charlton Heston has that amazing death scene.

Stir Crazy starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wiler was a hit movie (it was their second movie together after Silver Streak). There was TV show spin-off of this movie in the mid-1980s.

My parents took me to see that film on my 16th birthday, and I had a good time seeing it.

This is not a choice. All of these things have their places in your life. And to characterize Stir Crazy as a stupid film where people fall over is rather snooty and dismissive of the film.

No, honestly James - I LOVE stupidity in films and I'm only putting forward these choices because I find them so hard to make myself. Stir Crazy is one of my favourite films.

Sorry for upsetting you.

No problem. I get you now. See, I write comedy and I know how difficult it is to do well and I just get a little defensive when comedy is dismissed. It takes quite a bit of talent to write a "stupid" movie like Stir Crazy.

This is my happening and it's freaking me out!

I watch maybe a comedy or three a year, and usually not of the "slapstick" variety. I don't know why, but that's how it goes. They don't draw me in. I tend to like either stylistic period pieces, drama, or pure escapism. I like my comedy laced with some straight drama.

The last comedy I watched was Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry, which is funny, but hardly a gut-busting style comedy. Before that it was another Hitchcock, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and before that yet another, a really great comedy from his silent film era, The Farmer's Wife.

I had been tracking the movies I watched in 2006, something I've done since 2004, but I faltered in April and never picked it up again. Glancing over the list, I see no other comedies in 2006.

I have my 2005 list handy. Quite a few comedies on that list, mostly because I was catching up with Kevin Smith's catalog. From 2005:

After Hours - (the Scorsese films. It's a black comedy.)
Fargo - (black comedy? I dunno ...)
Chasing Amy
Office Space
Swingers (sorta. closer to drama, to me)
King of The Corner - my review

Actually, not a bad year. Not much in the way of gut-busters, though.

I especially like smart, funny films, some of which may include people falling over (e.g. Marx Brothers), but of the categories given, I like good serious films better than stupid ones. I really don't like stupid movies.

I think Stir Crazy isn't that dumb a movie. Silver Streak was smarter, the Prior-Wilder movie where one was blind and one was deaf (or whatever it was) was dumber.

Cheech and Chong movies are good, dumb movies. Same goes for Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer movies. Dumb, but fun.

The only 'comedies' I cannot stand are those Tomcats/American Pie style ones, which just bore the shit out of me.

My favorite "stupid" movies:

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
The Big Lebowski
Blazing Saddles
The Blues Brothers
Clerks
Dazed and Confused
Fargo
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
O Brother, Where Art Thou?