The 10 most ironic films ever

The ultimate in irony. Seven Allied soldiers and a Japanese prisoner in World War II, and each of them finds an ironic fate in the Ox Bow Incident of war time.

While we have a hunch that Lucky isn't lucky, and that the gold will ultimately go to an unlikely place, there is even more irony here, as the search for a snitch never materializes, although it is almost surely Savon.

Fitting that the mother of Trespass makes the list. Again, Element number 79 goes to an unlikely place. The three prospectors find their entire existence full of irony, as they try to be ruthless, yet clearly don't want to be.

A musical that is the ultimate horror film, with the greatest horror scene ever produced (Tomorrow Belongs to Me). Horror against the glitz and carefree stage show back drop.

We have four main characters. Of these, only Tarzan is the same throughout, never yielding, while in contrast the three civilized characters undergo many changes, and even two of the servants play important parts. What makes it stand out in irony is the villain, one of the most three dimensional ones ever, as hemakes his changes.

This is not a movie I gave a good review to, but it fits in here, and has good points, basically making a great job out of what inferior movie makers turned into a cliche. A raving lunatic, self righteous and transparent, has an irrational hatred for the character who is most like him.

Not a great film, but made purely for irony. The entire basis of this movie is to be "no respector of persons". The survivors are the very people who would be killed in any other action movie, and vice versa. We get the ultimate reverse contrived writing. It's as though someone took a formula script and made it the exact opposite. A different sort of irony.

If one looks at this as action, it won't look very interesting or ironic, but if one looks at it as a dark comedy, it is extremely ironic. Where is the irony? The title should tell you, and the clues are there, as we see and hear all the background of the seventies-rotary phones, few billboards, clothes lines, the Statler Brothers on the radio, mixed with the nineties. It is the irony of how a kid in the seventies envisions the nineties to be, everyone is a super thief or hit man carrying a gun.

I hate to spoil the outcome, but since the title of this list is "irony", you may as well know. The leader of a group of hippie draft dodgers winds up where you least expect, as does the boy who wants to fight for his country, as does a rich girl. The two heroes chase after the homeliest girl in the film. And then there's the more interesting supporting characters, and the ultimate irony song in the most dramatic film entrance ever with "Easy to be Hard".

The story of the cruel Borgia prince is the story of Machiavellism, which had been clung to ever since as an ideal. Tyrone Power is in the greatest role of his life, ironically as Orsini, which was one of the cruel family names of cardinals who contested the papacy, and Orsini thinks he is true Machiavelli, evil designs under a facade of beauty, but he is the exact opposite, purity under the dissguise of evil.

HONORABLE MENTION: Bigelow is as mortal as they come. Lost in the drama of life and death as he dies of luminous poisoning for which there is no cure, is thedrama of his life. His roving eye and desire for other women, pitted against his genuine care for Paula. In fact, the character probably sets a record for the number of times he mentions a woman's name (Paula) in the film. The irony of wanting other women, yet wanting the stable life with one woman you care for.