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What comedy movies aged like fine wine?
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Marx Brothers, Duck Soup.
South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut
Y’all have mentioned so many, I have to go obscure. New Kids Turbo.
zonne grote vuurbal...
Don't forget about New Kids Nitro!
I need to watch it again. Loved it!
Tropic Thunder is a relatively modern movie considering it could not be made today, which adds a lot to the hilarious madness
Everyone keeps saying they couldn't make tropic thunder today but I don't understand why? Other than tropic thunder having already been made, why couldn't it be made today?
Is it because RDJ blacked up? It doesn't seem to have hurt his career at all, it seems most people got the joke.
Is it because they use the word "retard" a lot? I don't think that's integral to the film, it's more just something that ages it a bit and you could easily change the dialogue and have basically the same gag.
I really don't see why "it couldn't be made today".
Having to convince investors to back it. A lot wouldn't touch a new movie without any potential controversy as it is.
Yeah, my guess is the blackface. But they really lean into it, and honestly, many of my friends of color thought it was hilarious, rather than offensive. Small focus group, but goes to show it's not a universally contentious topic.
And Tropic Thunder is a masterpiece.
Because these days people freak out more about those details. It was a very different time back then.
I don't think that's true at all. People say "tropic thunder couldn't be made today" but nobody says tropic thunder is racist or homophobic or anything like that.
It's not like the looney tunes cartoons from way back when where blatant racist shit was just the norm, TT specifically pokes fun at the racist stuff.
Put it this way, nobody has "cancelled" Tropic thunder, it's still just as good to watch today as it was then.
Nothing has changed to put the film in a different light.
Dude.... People freaked out about that stuff THEN.
Not like today.
We'll never know.
I know
Your mom knows.
- Mars Attacks!
- Galaxy Quest
The Princess Bride
Is that a kissing movie?
yes, you're very smart... shut up!
The Death of Stalin. There's something hilarious about how a dictator who terrifies even his closest confidants couldn't get the help he needed in time thanks to all his bad decisions. The second half of the film with the rushed scheming and backstabbing made by the power vacuum was just as good.
It's one of my favourite comedies. It was even more fun watching it with my mother who grew up in the USSR. She was constantly affirming that some of the more ridiculous aspects of the movie are shockingly close to reality.
Blazing Saddles, especially since, as they say, you couldn't make it today. 'Course, now that's less because you can't say the n-word and more because all the anti-racism would trigger the MAGA CHUDs.
Exactly! Always seems like the 'you could never make it today!' crowd is saying that the woke mob would get mad or some shit.
Do they think that Blazing Saddles isn't woke? The whole fucking movie is making fun of dumb white racists!
The common clay of the west!
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Mr. Heulot's Holiday
Idiocracy. started as a comedy, evolved through time in a documentary.
In Idiocracy, people take a crisis seriously, the state is actively looking for experts to solve the crisis, and defers to them quickly, and when evidence appears people change their minds. Finally they elect the person with the actual best plan for the future.
Idiocracy fundamentally has a wrong view of American stupidity. Idiocracy treats Americans as well-meaning but too complacent to care about the long-term consequences. It declares that society's problems are from a (genetic) lack of useful effort.
But, as the past 10 years have made increasingly hard to deny, American "stupid people" are actively hostile to reckoning with the long-term consequences of their actions. Ignorance was only ever an excuse. It's entitlement rather than complacency, and society's problems come from ('genetically smart') people deliberately bending useful effort towards societal harm for personal gain.
But while it may not have been quite as grating, Idiocracy was already wrong when it came out. Civil rights were suppressed with "ignorant" excuses that were a fig leaf on the desire to do harm. The eugenics the movie takes as a premise - that "smart people" breeding leads to a smart world and inversely for "stupid people" - is itself a form of "ignorance" about genetics that was actively being used as a fig leaf for genocide in the US in the century before.
But no, I'm sure you "just don't get" how Idiocracy is endorsing a genocidal view eugenics. It's easier to "believe" brawndo makes the plants grow.
While you’re correct that the movie highlights a leader searching for a solution to a problem, you overlook the unspoken criticism of society within the movie: the plainly evident results of generations of stupid Americans who were too complacent, and actively hostile, to reckoning with the long-term consequences of their actions.
While the movie is funny you should know the basic premise is eugenics. Which might not be something to cheer on, given the current history repeating trend.
I don't think enjoying the movie somehow supports eugenics. The premise is about the correlation between education level and demographic trends, which is a real thing. The reproduction rate is well-known to be correlated with women's education specifically. Regarding eugenics, historically, the issue there was forced eugenics. That's a much different thing.
Yeah, but the general dumbing down of society is a complete fiction. In reality, someone born ten years after you should statistically have +3 IQ points.
Flynn effect.
I disagree, the issue with eugenics is that it's absolute bullshit. Made up by racists and fascists to justify their views.
Genes simply don't work like that, each person doesn't just get the genes from their parents, but from the entire bloodline of each parent. Which means we get a huge mix of stuff, some of which will be expressed and a lot of it won't be. This means children might be similar to parents (but also might not be), but after a few generations it's very hard to track any kind of complex trait.
Most people are about as smart as one another, given the chance to develop and grow. Differences in perceived intelligence are often much more a product of the environment, than anything related to genes. Rich families paid for their kids to go to the best schools, thus their offspring is perceived as more intelligent.
So no the issue isn't just forced eugenics, the issue is eugenics period. Genes do not make one person superior to another and there is no such thing as an Ubermensch or master race.
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Josie and the Pussycats is too often overlooked.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Life of Brian, too. I also love The Meaning of Life, but I recognize it's not as popular.
I think Dr Strangelove is still great satire that's only gotten better as time goes by and the world has gone crazier.
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I worked at a (mostly) metal venue in college and I can confirm that 'This is Spinal Tap' was just as hilarious and accurate in the '00s as it was in '84.
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I think a lot of Mel Brooks and Zucker comedies (Naked Gun et. al.) have aged pretty well with their absurd and physical comedy although they can definitely fall flat sometimes.
Christmas Vacation also comes to mind. I think everyone can still relate to the holiday family dynamic.
Even older can still be good - thinking like His Girl Friday style screwball comedies, or Desk Set, Some Like it Hot etc. They still work as comedy, you'll laugh, but they may also require a bit more cultural context to really enjoy, or interest in the period/fashion.
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