What was the last movie you've seen?

[customnesguy]

Grandmas boy. I lost it for a while and found it while cleaning so I popped it in.

[Luke]

You know that movie that frat boys loved so much that they made a sequel which was basically the same movie? Here's one more for ya:



He killed a giraffe, ho ho.

Looks like it won't be the same movie over again, but still, no thanks.

[Retrodude]

Finally someone who agrees with me! Comedy films are mostly terrible these days because producers think vulgarity for vulgarity's sake is comedy gold. It isn't. It's possible to do it well (i.e. Clerks 2), but there aren't that many people who know how to do it. I'm convinced that the only reason movies like The Hangover get good reviews is because the critics are terrified of looking uncool. If a comedy film is rated R for language, that's fine, but if it's rated R for "crude and sexual humor", I pass. I'm more disappointed than anything because some of these movies could have been good if they'd only pulled it back a little bit and made it PG13 instead (Harold And Kumar, for instance).

[Luke]

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Aw man. You had me up to Kumar.

That movie made Cheech and Chong seem like Plato and Socrates. It's one of the most phoned in scripts I've ever read. "Things get stoned" should have been the title, and that's why I didn't like it. Same with vulgarity, showing it doesn't = funny. I could watch HALF BAKED or DAZED AND CONFUSED any day of the week as every joke doesn't rely on weed, and as much as I love NPH, I think he was wasted with only a few cheesy cameos.

But I totally agree that vulgarity for the sake of it and "Remember that this happened?" humor is terrible and not funny.

THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY nailed vulgarity humor. It wasn't seeing the beans and franks that made us laugh, it was how the situation evolved that made us laugh. They could have deleted the showing of Ben's balls and it would have been just as funny. And the "hair gel" joke starts off pretty lame, and then *boom* hilarious payback.

Apatow also straddles the line when it comes this type of stuff. Lots of weed in his movies, but smoking weed is never the joke. Trying to find your secret stash during an Earthquake sure does make for a good laugh. And I'm not sure if THIS IS 40 is on disc yet, but I pray to God it includes a condescend cut. What I screened in 2011 was nothing like the final cut.


edit* Amazing Spider-Man bad lip reading:

[Retrodude]

Buddy comedies are usually my favorite kind (Wayne's World, Bill And Ted, Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back, etc) and if Harold and Kumar hadn't gone so completely and needlessly overboard, it might not have been a great movie but at the very least, it would have been tolerable and I wouldn't be quite so annoyed by its success.

[Luke]

Buddy comedies are usually my favorite kind (Wayne's World, Bill And Ted, Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back, etc) and if Harold and Kumar hadn't gone so completely and needlessly overboard, it might not have been a great movie but at the very least, it would have been tolerable and I wouldn't be quite so annoyed by its success.

LOVE Bill and Ted, Wayne and Garth, Jay and Bob, Jack and Reggie, Hunt and Oishi, Maverick and Goose, but H&K was a pain for me to sit through and I thought it would be right up my alley.

I do enjoy some "You know this is coming" moments, but when that moment is always getting stoned...no. The movie pretty much played out as "A dog. It's going to get stoned. An old dude. He's going to get stoned. A cheetah. It's going to get stoned. A person who has never been stoned? They're going to get stoned". Screw that movie. Screw it until the thread is worn off.

But on a happier note:

Better?

Excellent Adventure

-or-

Bogus Journey

[BurningDoom]

Finally someone who agrees with me! Comedy films are mostly terrible these days because producers think vulgarity for vulgarity's sake is comedy gold. It isn't. It's possible to do it well (i.e. Clerks 2), but there aren't that many people who know how to do it. I'm convinced that the only reason movies like The Hangover get good reviews is because the critics are terrified of looking uncool. If a comedy film is rated R for language, that's fine, but if it's rated R for "crude and sexual humor", I pass. I'm more disappointed than anything because some of these movies could have been good if they'd only pulled it back a little bit and made it PG13 instead (Harold And Kumar, for instance).

Waitaminute. You're complaining about some drinking and fart jokes, but give Clerks 2 the pass?! SERIOUSLY?! It had a freaking donkey show in it for crying out loud!

[AppleQueso]

Finally someone who agrees with me! Comedy films are mostly terrible these days because producers think vulgarity for vulgarity's sake is comedy gold. It isn't. It's possible to do it well (i.e. Clerks 2), but there aren't that many people who know how to do it. I'm convinced that the only reason movies like The Hangover get good reviews is because the critics are terrified of looking uncool. If a comedy film is rated R for language, that's fine, but if it's rated R for "crude and sexual humor", I pass. I'm more disappointed than anything because some of these movies could have been good if they'd only pulled it back a little bit and made it PG13 instead (Harold And Kumar, for instance).

Waitaminute. You're complaining about some drinking and fart jokes, but give Clerks 2 the pass?! SERIOUSLY?! It had a freaking donkey show in it for crying out loud!

Clerks 2 isn't really "vulgarity for vulgarity's sake" though. Or well, maybe it is.

I don't know, it's just plain a better movie than those other ones mentioned.

[Michi]

What the hell did I just watch?!? That was less a film and more a surrealist fever dream with a horror story attached.

I've been telling everyone that since last year.

You, sir, are late to the party

[Luke]

I'm not going to defend CLERKS 2, but I believe Dude's point is that at least the Donkey Show joke had a direct connection with the plot as it leads to the pivotal confrontation and resolution of the two lead characters.