Yeah see him rounding up the kids at the pub was the opposite of funny for me. I was just like “man this guy is dick ruining everyones night”. Also for the record I don’t find Will Ferrell funny but maybe I will later according to Dime.
Idk how I’d describe my sense of humor. Can’t think of a funny movie off the top of my head.
Do you like Big Lebowski?
Never seen it. It’s on my “list” though.
It’s realky funny.
Maybe the funniest screenplay of all time for me.
This makes a lot of sense and is actually a very funny premise! When I watched hot fuzz I was actually taking the movie seriously, like I didn’t know what the “underlying” joke was. I knew it was t a serious movie of course, but finding the premise was hard.
As you stated it I can imagine a small town cop arresting a squirrel for battery on a tree, getting fingerprinted, getting put in a little squirrel jail… etc etc… could be funny if done right but that’s the context I see.
The premise seems very Don Quixote… ish.
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Lebowski is some more white people humor I just don’t get.
As in someone being unaware of their own surroundings? Kind of.
Its like he has to relearn how to be a local cop. Like the kids in the pub scene. We ALL drank in pubs underage. Police had no problems with it as long as
a) you could feasibly pass as 18 and
b) weren’t causing trouble.
That scene was there to show how our of touch he was from that sort of environment.
Lebowski grew on me big time
Like for me a funny movie (and i know this is a cliche answer) is Pulp Fiction.
Samuel L. Jackson and Travolta in the room with the college kids is fucking hilarious. Like when the guy is trying to talk his way out of the situation and Jackson just pops his friend mid sentence.
Idk I like direct humor but also some fucked up stuff. Not sure what the proper term is.
Yep, that’s EXACTLY what I meant.
I didn’t find that book funny either but I did feel I understood it’s premise, though of course I’ve never read the whole thing like I’ve never made it more than 5-10 into a Lebowski scene.
Humor that you don’t get, literally feels like pain.
Physical humor? Like Jim Carrey?
Personally dodgeball is one of my favorite movies because I love to see people get hit by things. I just find the shit hilarious.
People tripping over stuff as well… that’s one reason why the baby boy scene was funny to black folks at the time, the physicalness of it, plus the fact that these little bad asses were getting what they deserved.
Hey Dime…
If you ever get the chance watch an old British comedy called Bottom. I have never laughed harder. Proper slapstick… Violent slapstick
One of my favorite comedies that no one I know has seen is Hot Tub Time Machine, I just find everything so funny in it, Craig Robinson is especially hilarious in it lmao.
I was looking forward to the sequel, but the second one is just ass :T
A little bit yeah. Idk if it was the physicality as much as it was the abruptness and the absurd overreaction. Just how calmly the movie can portray violence lol.
I’ve been known to laugh at fucked up shit before so don’t mind me.
Pulp Fiction is great at black comedy.
The guy getting shot in the face in the car, Eric Stoltz as the drug dealer, Ving Rames getting raped.
You explain any of those scenes and they dont sound funny. But they are hilarious.
Yeah Black Comedy, or like dark humor, is the term i was looking for.
I grew up in a super conservative Christian household so I love my jokes vulgar and super fucked up since most of the adults in my life had sticks up their ass.
Hot tub time machine, along with the first knights movie where that guy killed everyone in the church, were two of the best “didn’t see that coming” movies ever.
Just rentals, turned out to be fucking gold. But yeah hot tub time machine was amazing. Check out beerfest, if you haven’t. It’s not a movie I’d say is funny because low expectations are what make it funny. If you go in thinking “this shit better make me laugh” it won’t. I think hot tub time machine is the same way.
As far as “normal” comedy, one of my favorites of all time is married with children. I thought it was funny in my teens, but now that I’m married? Shit knocks me on the floor. Everything al goes through I go through and the shit he says is shit I have said or shit I want to say. Perhaps the greatest sitcom of all time for me.
I can’t remember the last time a new movie made me laugh out loud.
Will Ferrel hasn’t really been funny since Talladega Nights and the original Anchor Man.
Big Lebowski is quirky funny, but it’s more of a smirk movie than a laugh riot.
There are a bunch of fucking hilarious old black and white movies that do fantastic dialogue on TCM. I wish movies still did witty dialogue. Stupid movies really need to be on point to get a reaction out of me.
I hear the new Ferrel film Holmes and Watson is bad…
Like walk out of the cinema bad.
That’s interesting because I would say witty humor is super overdone these days. Like if watch the Avengers movies everyone always has a quick witty comeback or remark.
For newer witty dialogue it got no better than Vince Vaughn in wedding crashes for me. Easily one of my favorite comedies, especially since I always had player friends and spent my youth chasing tail and running with scoundrels like Vaughn and Wilson.
Also, can’t forgte meet the parents… that scene where Stiller went fucking apeshit and spiked the volleyball into homexhicks face still has me dying, like I’m laughing as I type this, it’s so… jeez I’ve been there, you can feel what he was going through… seemed like the most natural reaction to what he was facingm SO GOOD!