favorite What is your favorite buddy film...

[indietalk]

...comedy, adventure, or otherwise?

 

[sfoster]

Comedy - Rush Hour, Dumb and Dumber

Adventure - Shrek

Drama - The Station Agent

 

[gofourmike]

...comedy, adventure, or otherwise?

Ghostbusters

 

[mlesemann]

The Station Agent
(great one @sfoster )

Lost in Translation

 

[Aspiring Mogul]

The original Blues Brothers. I wouldn't say it's my "favourite" as in my Number 1 choice, but it would rank pretty high up there.

 

[directorik]

Some great choices. I would have never classified "The Station Agent" as a
buddy film - but it sure is.

My favorite has got to be Silver Streak
Drama: Dog Day Afternoon
Action: Point Break
Western: C'mon, there's the one and only...

 

[sfoster]

oh yeah another great one

 

[indietalk]

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is my fave.

 

[Aspiring Mogul]

If it's more than two buddies, then I would name the original Star Trek movies, with Shatner, Nimoy, and Kelley - they had chemistry, and they were buddies.

 

[indietalk]

There's no rules but for me it's 2 people that are not in a relationship (buddies) that go on some sort of journey, mission, road trip, adventure, etc.

 

[Aspiring Mogul]

If it's two, then I'm surprised no one mentioned the Laurel and Hardy movies, or the Abbot and Costello ones. Also the Lone Ranger movie.

 

[indietalk]

You just did.

 

[Aspiring Mogul]

You just did.

Yes, I did. By the way, how much to make a movie about buddies ...... never mind.

 

[Spike]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

And a few come mind, probably not all time favorites, but memorable and certainly re-watchable:
The In-Laws, with Alan Arkin and Peter Falk, and Midnight Run, with Charles Gordon and DiNero.

Edit: And of course, while we're at it, The Sting. And one more: Wallace and Gromit?

 

[mlesemann]

The In-Laws, with Alan Arkin and Peter Falk,

"Serpentine, Sheldon! Serpentine!"
Great choice.

And absolutely The Sting.

 

[Spike]

"Serpentine, Sheldon! Serpentine!"

Yup, lol. That "serpentine" bit made me laugh, and chuckle again, now, just thinking of it--some great comic directing from Arthur Hiller, and acting from Falk and from Arkin, one of the premier actors of his generation.

(Listened to an audio book bio by Arkin, and was a little surprised that he was kind of a nut. And also, i guess, he did make some crappy movies. But whatever, he gets a lifetime pass, for me, for having been Yossarian. (Help the Bombardier. I'm the Bonbardier.)

 

[Aspiring Mogul]

The Odd Couple?

 

[indietalk]

The Wizard of Oz
(Dorothy and Toto)
The Wizard of Oz is about Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto who are transported to the Land of Oz by a tornado.
Buddy film!

 

[sfoster]

Oh we gettin silly now

 

[Aspiring Mogul]

Oz was an adventure with three other companions.