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re: When was the last time a good solid Comedy came out?
Posted on 7/24/24 at 3:12 pm to skrayper
Posted on 7/24/24 at 3:12 pm to skrayper
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I miss those absurd, over-the-top comedies that seemed to die out when we got oversaturated with them (most bad) after the success of the Scary Movie franchise and Not Another Teen Movie. I think those spawning the gazillion other parody movies practically killed the genre:
I think more directly, the internet becoming mainstream for the wide audiences, makes parody films very hard to make in today’s age. The best jokes from those movies would’ve been posted on Reddit and Twitter within a few hours of those movies coming out. Plus things move out of the zeitgeist so quickly, it’s hard to make a script that still feels fresh by the time it hits the theaters.
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Posted on 7/24/24 at 3:25 pm to FLTech
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the last time a good solid Comedy came out?
My pick is The Death of Stalin - 2018.
Posted on 7/24/24 at 3:50 pm to Corinthians420
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Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
this.
was hilarious.
Posted on 7/24/24 at 3:55 pm to Tigris
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My pick is The Death of Stalin - 2018.
Mine as well.
Posted on 7/24/24 at 3:59 pm to CBandits82
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Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Really, really good movie. Not great. But really good. Hope they make another. Chris Pine is solid in damn near everything he does.
Posted on 7/24/24 at 5:29 pm to FLTech
Daddy’s Home and Daddy’s Home 2 are 2015 and 2017. Those are the first to pop in my head as fairly recent.
Posted on 7/24/24 at 6:50 pm to Esquire
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Esquire
Good post. Comedy is definitely a dying breed, and Good Boys might be the last funny movie I've seen made. I liked that one.
Posted on 7/24/24 at 7:58 pm to CocomoLSU
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watched Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain (2023) a while back and it was pretty hilarious as well.
Had a cameo of the subject of one of the greatest outdoor board threads. The perfect bobcat mount.
From the movie.
Posted on 7/24/24 at 7:58 pm to highcotton2
Ricky Stanicky had some pretty funny scenes
Posted on 7/24/24 at 8:34 pm to FLTech
Tag was 2018 but needs to be mentioned
Posted on 7/24/24 at 10:56 pm to FLTech
I'm sure I'll get shite on for this but the Impractical Jokers movie was hilarious. Of course a lot of the parts where they actually acted were stupid but some of their bits were even more inappropriate than the ones normally on the TV show and it was awesome.
Posted on 7/24/24 at 10:58 pm to FLTech
Ricky Bobby
Posted on 7/25/24 at 6:34 am to FLTech
The drop off from the 2001-2010 period to 2011-2020 is steep.
Posted on 7/25/24 at 7:31 am to FLTech
Hangover 2009.
Could make an argument for the campaign in 2012. But the first hangover is the last comedy classic that everyone loved that I can remember.
Could make an argument for the campaign in 2012. But the first hangover is the last comedy classic that everyone loved that I can remember.
This post was edited on 7/25/24 at 7:32 am
Posted on 7/25/24 at 8:39 am to jbird7
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Hangover 2009. Could make an argument for the campaign in 2012.
Like 12 people watched the campaign when it came out, i don’t see how these two fit the same category your describing
The jump street movies feel like the last large budget comedy that was a huge commercial success and felt like it took over the zeitgeist for a good while similar to the hangover - also from 2012.
Posted on 7/25/24 at 8:44 am to wildtigercat93
The first jump street was great second was a forced sequal. Those rarely live up to the hype.
Posted on 7/25/24 at 8:57 am to jbird7
I disagree. There’s an argument that 22 jump street is better than 21 jump street and it is possibly the best comedy sequel ever made (small bar to pass)
Posted on 7/25/24 at 8:57 am to wildtigercat93
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I think more directly, the internet becoming mainstream for the wide audiences, makes parody films very hard to make in today’s age. The best jokes from those movies would’ve been posted on Reddit and Twitter within a few hours of those movies coming out. Plus things move out of the zeitgeist so quickly, it’s hard to make a script that still feels fresh by the time it hits the theaters.
That's fair, though the movies started to suck long before that.
I still think you can do good parody movies, even if they're not quite in the same vein. You could still do a Spaceballs or a Galaxy Quest today, but it takes a special kind of writer who is both great at comedy and has a love for the original material to truly make it work.
There's a difference between poking fun of something you genuinely love and doing it out of spite. The first will get you an audience made up of people who liked the original, while the second will only appeal to people who already hated the original material - and they were unlikely to spend money watching your product as well.
It seems to me that most jokes these days seem to be coming from the second source anyway. We've gone from jokes about the things we love to mocking the things we hate - and people can tell. Spite is a very draining thing to appeal to.
Posted on 7/25/24 at 8:59 am to FLTech
This thread proves a pretty good point.
Almost all of the "recent" ones listed barely anyone saw
Almost all of the "recent" ones listed barely anyone saw
Posted on 7/25/24 at 9:01 am to wildtigercat93
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possibly the best comedy sequel ever made (small bar to pass)
Trying to think of another comedy series where the second was funnier than the first.
I will give kudos to when they don't just completely rehash the first movie (like in Scary Movie two they didn't just make another Scream parody), but that doesn't always make it "better".
I'll say:
Ace Venture: When Nature Calls
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (though technically not the second movie, but is a sequel)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
There are some others, but those come to mind.
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