The 40 Year Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It....*throws up*

[Infernai]

....-_- Please tell me this is just a joke and this isn't going to be an actual movie?

 

[FROGGEman2]

It isn't that bad, it just seems kinda meh.

I don't get the whole "OH DEAR GOD OH GOD WHY WONT IT DIE OH GOD IT WONT DIE OH GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE, SO MUCH FIRE, OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD IT'S ATTACKING THE BOAT" thing that everyone else is getting.

 

[joshuaayt]

so let me get this straight 9/11 ruined tv and everything? man put down whatever your doing and get off here before you say something that the moderators ban you for because i honestly do not know how much dope you would have to smoke to think that

Yep. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it. The fear and uncertainty generated by that event affected everyone, including those responsible for making creative content.

I think the rise of reality television, especially with a show called "survivor," topping the ratings for the 2001-02 season, speaks for itself.

You can also look at all the movie remakes in the past decade as people trying to go back to a happier time, before terrorists were lurking in every bush.

I think history will look back at this decade and label it one of the most culture-less and mundane of the next century. Guess what they'll point to?

sigh

i only have one thing to ask of you, you believe the government arranged for 9/11 to happen dont you?

What is with all the hate for conspiracy theories anyway? And, more importantly, what does that have to do with the debate at hand? Apart from the superficial 'it involves 9/11' bit.

 

[lodo_bear]

As for the recurring theme being parroted throughout this thread: Of bloody course it's possible to parody comedies. The underlying basis of the genre-spoof movies is perfectly sound: once a genre becomes so formulaic as to be repetitive and predictable, you can play around with its tropes in unexpected ways to create humor. This is true whether that genre is action, horror, western, or Apatow.

The sentence I emphasized is an important one, and thanks for saying it. This happens to everything and everyone; we get settled into our happy familiar rut, and it takes a little satire to shake us out of it.

However, when satirizing comedy, is it wise to do so with a comedy? Funny satire gets a laugh out of us by showing how formulas and tropes don't work; it emphasizing failure. When satirizing comedy, you'd have to show how it fails to be funny, and laughing at something for failing to be funny is not something that humans are inclined to do. A good satire of comedy would have to be a downer.

TFYOVWKUSMAFSBAI is trying to satirize comedy and be comedy. I say that these are contradictory goals; it cannot do one without sacrificing the other. In other words, the movie has at its very core an identity crisis, rendering it impotent.

The problem with the [genre] Movie films isn't in the premise, but the execution. I submit that it would be perfectly possible to make this movie well. It just hasn't been in this case.

I agree, but you and I disagree on what the proper execution should be. Comedies cannot be satirized the way horror and slasher films can be. This movie tried to mock comedy with comedy; it was doomed before it even got started.

The bit with the cop show got a smirk out of me, but the rest of it smacked of pointlessness. It reminded me of this phrase, attributed to Larry Miller: "A good comedian looks at the world and sees a funny place; a great comedian doesn't."

Take it too far, though, and you get guys like, for example, Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison, whose comedy routines eventually devolved into grinding, joyless rants about how fucked up the world is. It's comedy you can't laugh at because it goes too far in the other direction.

You know, I have thought the same thing about some of Bill Hicks's stuff. However, he did have some profound things to say:

Spoiler: What is the point to life?

Spoiler: He's going for the anti-marketing dollar

He was mean and angry, but he was thoughtful, and in my view, that counts for a lot.

On a related subject, one of my favorite stand-ups is one that, about half the time, isn't meant to be funny. It's David Sedaris recounting his visit to the morgue. Part of it is frank, graphic descriptions of death and the gore associated with it, and part of it is actual jokes, and the jokes are thoroughly enhanced by the morbidity. It aired on this episode [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1268] of This American Life, about 41 minutes in.

Bugs Bunny had sincerity - he faced genuine peril and had to summon all his wits and wiles to overcome it.

Yeah, that Elmer Fudd was quite the master hunter, wasn't he?

In certain circumstances, he was in peril:

Spoiler: Rabbit Punch

Spoiler: Hair-Raising Hare

Still, excellent counterpoint, sir.

 

[xDarc]

What is with all the hate for conspiracy theories anyway? And, more importantly, what does that have to do with the debate at hand? Apart from the superficial 'it involves 9/11' bit.

Nothing. Lizard was just trolling. I've been on the internets too long to bother responding to that.

 

[sanomaton]

The gayest non-gay movie ever? Oh dear *shakes head*

I don't really care for comedies and this one made me feel horrible. Pass. :|

I've found a brother! I never ever use the word gay unless I mean homosexual (or happy if I'm feeling archaic), but Meet the Spartans is the gayest movie I've ever seen in my life. Horrible horrible piece of garbage.

All these scary/epic/disaster/superhero/date movie(s) really are terrible. It seems like a bunch of frat boys wrote down their "wouldn't it be funny if" conversations

Actually you've found a sister but yay for us! *high five*
But seriously thinking about it you are right. I can just imagine some frat boys laughing their asses off and writing down or just having a conversation, "Wouldn't it be funny if they really were gay - lulz!"

Wasn't that New Moon? What with all the shirtless dudes wrestling eachother...

Ah, I forgot about that. I actually did watch New Moon and... Well, whenever Edward was around it literally made me wanna close my eyes/look away from the screen. It was hideous to see him without a shirt. *twitches*

 

[Rorschach II]

...feel quite bad for the actors involved.

Well, they auditioned for it. Unless they were thrown into a cellar and were forced to make this movie, which seems logical now that you think about it. Who would ever consider being in this???

 

[Lemon Of Life]

Oh-ho-ho-ho-NO. This just ain't funny.

 

[Robert632]

why did they make a "can you hear me now" guy joke? that joke is fairly old, and wasn't that funny to begin with.

 

[Hollock]

This strikes me as being one of those films that just ends up being a putrid stream of pop culture references with a few movie quotes thrown in (in other words, only chavs and people with the emotional age of ten would find it funny).

Scary Movie was funny back when the idea was original but now I can feel my brain cells dying when I see footage from them.

It wasn't even original back then. Airplane and Hot Shots were doing that shit before them. The only people who have ever done a good full length movie parody was the people behind hot fuzz. And I'm glad this came up to day ago when Shaun of the dead was on tv. It actually worked as a decent zombie movie that was funny. And hot fuzz was a decent acton movie that was actually funny. This movies is a shitty comedies based on, wait how the fuck are they going to parody other comedies. It's like back when scary movie came out and they were making the main villian the guy from scream which was already a lampooning the slasher genre. please don't go see this tell everyone you know not to see this.Oh and that goes double for the movie Transilmania.

EDIT: I forgot about Mel Brooks he was great too. I was kind of talking about the past 10-15 years, but they're have been other good ones.

 

[Joachim Aachen]

I found the little 'nipple' comment to be funny (it reminded me of a Jeff Foxworthy joke about a guy getting his entire nipple bitten off by a beaver), but other than that, I didn't find it to be funny.

 

[Arawn.Chernobog]

I didn't laugh...

I was enraged and threw up a little bit inside

If anyone finds this funny, said person should be taken behind a tool shed and executed for the sake of genetic selection (The entire cast of the movie as well, btw)

 

[Hollock]

It isn't that bad, it just seems kinda meh.

I don't get the whole "OH DEAR GOD OH GOD WHY WONT IT DIE OH GOD IT WONT DIE OH GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE, SO MUCH FIRE, OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD IT'S ATTACKING THE BOAT" thing that everyone else is getting.

because going to see them tells the producers, directors, actors, and everyone involved they were making a worth while film and THEY MAKE MORE! CAP LOCKS MAKES THINGS XTRREEEME!

 

[CLEVERSLEAZOID]

oh noes, you found something funny, you are obviously not worthy of life! is pretty much what I'm getting here rofl.

I found the Hansen part funny, the two parts featuring the elderly, and the last bit just made my eyebrows raise slightly.

 

[BonsaiK]

This movie looks very unfunny. I did not laugh at anything in the preview. That is all.

 

[Chimpaco]

Fuck My Ass... Im so over these Retards and there Dumb Ass Fuck movies...

 

[AWC Viper]

wow, i dont know whether it's because im spending too much time on 4chan or because my roommate was smoking some weed in the kitchen before but i laughed a fair bit at that clip.

wouldn't pay to see it though.

maybe download it, when i have free downloads or off peak.

 

[lodo_bear]

wow, i dont know whether it's because im spending too much time on 4chan or because my roommate was smoking some weed in the kitchen before but i laughed a fair bit at that clip.

wouldn't pay to see it though.

maybe download it, when i have free downloads or off peak.

I'm no expert, but I think that weed, even secondhand weed, is a good reason to laugh at anything. As for 4chan...never mind, I don't go there.

 

[Amnestic]

The gayest non-gay movie ever? Oh dear *shakes head*

I don't really care for comedies and this one made me feel horrible. Pass. :|

I've found a brother! I never ever use the word gay unless I mean homosexual (or happy if I'm feeling archaic), but Meet the Spartans is the gayest movie I've ever seen in my life. Horrible horrible piece of garbage.

All these scary/epic/disaster/superhero/date movie(s) really are terrible. It seems like a bunch of frat boys wrote down their "wouldn't it be funny if" conversations

Actually you've found a sister but yay for us! *high five*
But seriously thinking about it you are right. I can just imagine some frat boys laughing their asses off and writing down or just having a conversation, "Wouldn't it be funny if they really were gay - lulz!"

A sister huh. Well too bad Meet the Spartans taught me that girls are for homos; I'm afraid we can't be friends.

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