Ducz on 8/9/2007 at 09:03
<Going out of lurk mode>
Good comedy now is hard to find. Sure, Kevin Smith’s movies are good, some Frat Pack flicks are at least entertaining (hell, Wedding Crashers is a good date movie), old comedies can be gold ( Murder by Death with Peter Sellers – laughed my pants off). Recently, I have seen a truly hideous movie – a flick called Wild Hogs or something. Lasted 20 min – more of that would have been excruciating.
But the best comedy that I saw was American Ninja 2 with the godlike martial arts master Michael Dudikoff. Cried for the whole length of the movie – especially while hearing those extremely smart dialogs. The eighties rule:cheeky:
(sorry for any mistakes – English is my second language)
vurt on 8/9/2007 at 11:13
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That was a TERRIBLE movie!! :mad:
Team America is at least an 8 or 9/10 in my book, but im a huge South Park fan as well (i have watched most epsiodes at least 10+ times.)
I absolutely loathed Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead.. But i think it's a age thing, i probably would've loved them in my early twenties.
One of my favourite comedies of recent years is "My Boss's Daughter". Most people on IMDB seems to hate that movie for whatever reason, but i find incredible funny because it's just so extremely silly and sometimes very unpredictable. It also has a kind of 80's vibe to it.
Old School was really funny too.
Scots Taffer on 8/9/2007 at 11:23
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Wroooong!
Well I haven't seen Hot Fuzz but Shaun of the Dead is nothing like Airplane/Police Squat/Naked Gun.
Uh, mind qualifying that?
I'm saying that it belongs in a broadly classified family of parody/homage type movies.
Jason Moyer on 8/9/2007 at 12:06
I found the Scary Movie franchise to be pretty much in the same vein as the other stuff David Zucker worked on. They're slapstick parodies of horror movies, in the same way Airplane! was a parody of disaster movies and Police Squad! was a parody of detective drama.
I'm probably the only hardcore Douglas Adams fan who feels this way, but I thought the Hitchhiker's Guide movie was pretty awesome. I didn't think it was as good as the radio series, but it held my interest a lot more than the TV show did. I actually found myself laughing more at the changes Adams wrote into the screenplay than the jokes I've had memorized since I was 10 years old.
While it doesn't have the constant and obvious non-stop gags of most modern comedies, I'd recommend Life Aquatic if you haven't seen it yet.
Ghostly Apparition on 8/9/2007 at 13:38
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I like juvenile comedy movies and if you don't you're just stupid.
Yeah, that was enlightening. :bored:
demagogue on 8/9/2007 at 13:50
... and Royal Tannenbaums.
But they're not really traditional comedies.
Quote Posted by Scots
I'm saying that it belongs in a broadly classified family of parody/homage type movies.
Yeah, he just meant they are in the same genre of comedy ... spoofing another type of movie.
But there's no doubt American vs Brit spoofs have a much different style ... the main difference I noticed is that in the Shaun of the Dead line, as stupid as it got, you always felt like the characters really meant what they said, but the US versions ... not exactly ... "and don't call me Shirley".
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Recently I caught Blades of Glory ... which was actually pretty damn funny
Same here. I was expecting this movie, and Will Ferrell in it, to be like a lot of the forced-premise kind of movie that seem popular recently that just fizzle on screen (instead of those 80s comedies which were really more story-based). Actually, Will Ferrell's done it a few times, where he's defied my expectation. When he's at the top of his game, the movie itself may still not be the best, but Will in it can be really funny and have you rooting for his side:
"Don't let them laugh at you. Let me tell you about a man named Niel Armstrong. They laughed at him for saying he could do a little thing like go to the moon. Well, now he's up there right now looking down on them ... and who's got the last laugh now?"
blueapex on 8/9/2007 at 14:10
For a post-Arrested Development kick, check out (
http://www.clarkandmichael.com), Mikey Cera and his mate Clark in a series of ten minute web episodes, one of the best shows in ages.
Rug Burn Junky on 8/9/2007 at 14:18
Quote Posted by Ghostly Apparition
Yeah, that was enlightening. :bored:
Reading comprehension isn't your forté, because if that's all that you took from that, then you're a fucking simpleton.
Thief13x on 8/9/2007 at 17:28
Fun with Dick and Jane had to be the hardest i've laughed in years. Super Troopers was also golden comedy...imo
and I thought Something About Mary was really good:( I could hardly breath from laughing so hard [SPOILER]when the cops interigated the guy about the hitchhiker[/SPOILER]
Ghostly Apparition on 8/9/2007 at 18:45
Quote Posted by Rug Burn Junky
Yeah, they're stupid at times, yeah, they're fucking juvenile, and yeah, some of them contain sexual humor.
I did read it.
Quote Posted by Rug Burn Junky
Reading comprehension isn't your forté, because if that's all that you took from that, then you're a fucking simpleton.
Apparently RBJ is having a bad hair day and is attacking people to make himself feel better.
Have fun dude. talk to me in a few years when you have developed a better sense of humor. LOL
