You're gonna be bothered by how cool I am.

The Out-of-Towners (1970)

One of the funniest movies I've ever seen. It's written by Neil Simon, so it's pretty much guaranteed to be awesome. This came on Turner Classic Movies or something when I was in college, and my roommate and I laughed our butts off watching it. It's a simple story - guy goes to interview for a job in NYC, takes his wife with him, all manner of catastrophes befall them over the next 24 hours. Their flight lands a few hundred miles from NYC, they have to take a train the rest of the way, they lose their hotel room because they arrived late, their luggage is missing, their money is stolen, the public transit workers are on strike, they end up sleeping in Central Park, and they can't even go into a church to pray.\

It's a classic man-against-the-city story. No life lessons, no hidden agendas, no deep meaning, no heartstring-pulling. Just very, very funny. I haven't seen the new version with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn, but it can't possibly be as good or as funny as the original.

The Out-of-Towners (1970)

One of the funniest movies I've ever seen. It's written by Neil Simon, so it's pretty much guaranteed to be awesome. This came on Turner Classic Movies or something when I was in college, and my roommate and I laughed our butts off watching it. It's a simple story - guy goes to interview for a job in NYC, takes his wife with him, all manner of catastrophes befall them over the next 24 hours. Their flight lands a few hundred miles from NYC, they have to take a train the rest of the way, they lose their hotel room because they arrived late, their luggage is missing, their money is stolen, the public transit workers are on strike, they end up sleeping in Central Park, and they can't even go into a church to pray.\

It's a classic man-against-the-city story. No life lessons, no hidden agendas, no deep meaning, no heartstring-pulling. Just very, very funny. I haven't seen the new version with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn, but it can't possibly be as good or as funny as the original.