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Friday, March 19th, 2021 2:08 PM

Live Poll: Face-Off: American Film Institute 90s Funniest Movies

​The American Film Institute​​ (AFI) lists these ​​90s comedies​​ in the category "The 100 Funniest American Movies Of All Time".​

​Which is your favorite title?​

​Source: ​​AFI's 100 YEARS...100 LAUGHS​

​https://www.imdb.com/list/ls088575626/​

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3 years ago

@Jessica I am almost sure this idea unprecedented... 

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1 year ago

FYC, an alternate phrasing of the introduction and the question with the source citation incorporated. Plus, the title says funniest, but the question says favorite, which is the poll's scope, because they are not the same thing?

In 2000, the American Film Institute​​ (AFI) released its 100 YEARS...100 LAUGHS list, as part of its decade-long celebratory AFI 100 Years... series.


​Which of these ​​90s comedies​​ from their list of the 100 Funniest American Movies of All-Time makes you laugh the most?​

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@urbanemovies​ ok, done, thanks for the suggestion.

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1 year ago

@mariojacobs,

My mistake, I failed to pickup on the capitalized Of earlier, which should really nevervbe capitalized in AP style.

I am not sure you should be capitalizing here, especially with official list name being something else. Regardless,  "Of" needs to be "of" in your question.

Which of these ​​90s comedies​​ from their list of the 100 Funniest American Movies of All-Time makes you laugh the most?

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@urbanemovies​ corrected.

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@mariojacobs​ Thanks.

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1 year ago

@mariojacobs 

I looking at the poll suggestion again and it still needs some TLC. I would change the 90s used in the title and question to 1990s for clarity. Also, there is a lot of bolding, underlining, hyperlinking, capitalizing, and underlying going on. Not to mention the coloring and italics that are present in your other poll suggestions. Personally, if it is being done for effect, it overuse I find has the opposite effect for me, as being more distracting than helpful. Plus, if it being done for fun, I think the key here is moderation, overdoing it can ruin a good thing. Specifically, I think if you should underline or capitalize like a title anything in the question it should be the AFI category, not the scope years. I think a shorter title works better, IMHO. If it were my poll I would pick my spots for emphasis and make the following changes to this version. If you think it is better as-is, make no changes. If you agree make the corrections.

Title: AFI Top 100 Funniest 1990s Movies

In 2000, the American Film Institute​​ released its 100 YEARS...100 LAUGHS list, as part of its decade-long celebratory AFI 100 Years...series.


Which of these ​​1990s comedies​​ from the AFI's  100 Funniest American Movies of All-Time list makes you laugh the most?

Existing Poll Suggestion:

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@urbanemovies​ Ok, I will just keep the full title American Film Institute because not everybody knows what AFI means. I didn't know! Until I joined the IMDb poll makers community...

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@mariojacobs​ Your call, but you use the full AFI name in the your first sentence, so its not like they have to go elsewhere to figure it out. Also, I think the Face-Off might be left in the poll thread title for internal flagging, but it isn't necessary in the actual poll list title, only making it needlessly longer.

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1 year ago

Congratulations, @mariojacobs 

Poll Title: Face-Off: American Film Institute 90s Funniest Movies

Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/X5tneKbQuNY/

Please change the "Poll Suggestion" to "Live Poll" in the discussion thread title and change the settings so that it appears under "Praise" now, rather than "Idea."

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1 year ago

Just think in 20-odd years some poor bastard is going to have to compile a list like this from 2010 - 2019.

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1 year ago

Fargo (1996)was the best movie on the list. But it wasn't the funniest. That's Groundhog Day (1993).

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I just don't get what everyone likes about Groundhog Day, or Bill Murray for that matter.  But if you like the repetitious cycle themed movies, it's probably one of the better ones. Mary would be my pick for the best on that list, but far from the best comedy of the 90's 

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Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray, was rather fun (not so much hilarious) when it first came out, but it hasn't necessarily stood as some kind of a great classic among comedic movies. He plays a wonderful jerk in most of his movies, but maybe Dennis Leary is less method-like.

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Yeah, I get that, it was a "fun" flick, but the poll is about "Funniest", when I think of the funniest films of the 90's Mary would be the only one on that list I might consider, but it wouldn't be at the top. Fargo might make the cut, but it would be way closer to the bottom.

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Yeah, and actually I was thinking the same thing.

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@rob_webster​ Off the top of my head (not sure what is) but I wouldn't say Groundhog Day was the funniest 90s film. Just the funniest from the list.

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Yeah, I hear you. Surely they have to be just a random 5 picked from the list, not the top 5?