Super Sweet Movie Discussion Thread

Ooh-Rah said:
It's hard for them to enjoy 80's movies
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Not trying to revive an old thread, but this reminded of a recent situation with a younger buddy of mine. He's 30 ish YO and had never heard of Andrew Dice- Clay. I put it on and he didn't even chuckle. He's a good guy with a good sense of humor but just said his generation wouldn't find it funny at all. When I asked why, he said that sort of uncensored, dumb comedy no longer has a shock effect because its all out of the bag. I guess that makes sense, but I think its sad that we can't all just laugh at shit anymore.
 
Topkick said:
Not trying to revive an old thread, but this reminded of a recent situation with a younger buddy of mine. He's 30 ish YO and had never heard of Andrew Dice- Clay. I put it on and he didn't even chuckle. He's a good guy with a good sense of humor but just said his generation wouldn't find it funny at all. When I asked why, he said that sort of uncensored, dumb comedy no longer has a shock effect because its all out of the bag. I guess that makes sense, but I think its sad that we can't all just laugh at shit anymore.
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Interesting observation, thanks for sharing. I had a similar reaction when I tried to get them to watch the first Borat movie. They literally told me “enough” and quit watching during the “throw the Jews down the well” scene. (Which still makes me LOL pretty hard)


@Muppet - if you’ve not seen this, it right up your humor alley!
 
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Topkick said:
Not trying to revive an old thread, but this reminded of a recent situation with a younger buddy of mine. He's 30 ish YO and had never heard of Andrew Dice- Clay. I put it on and he didn't even chuckle. He's a good guy with a good sense of humor but just said his generation wouldn't find it funny at all. When I asked why, he said that sort of uncensored, dumb comedy no longer has a shock effect because its all out of the bag. I guess that makes sense, but I think its sad that we can't all just laugh at shit anymore.
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All out of the bag, or everything is so taboo and offensive?

My older sons and I watched Blazing Saddles, they found it hysterical. You know why? That shit is funny and I taught them everything is inbounds and can have humor.
 
Devildoc said:
If it's no longer taboo, we'd still have more movies like fill-in-the-blank. People seemed to be offended at so much less. I dunno.
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My buddy is as far from woke as you can get, definately not offended in this case. Lol. But yeah, Two things can be true. With the internet and much less censored TV, I agree that its much less taboo. That being said, I haven't met anyone who doesn't laugh at Blazing Saddles.
 
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As a kid I was subjected to entertainment my parents enjoyed which included comedians like Jerry Clower, movies like No Time for Sergeants, and radio such as Paul Harvey. As I got a little older I found material from their generation such as Patrick McMannus to be hilarious, but my dad did not like him for some reason. I still look up Jerry Clower to this day (listing the brothers and "Shoot up here amongs't us, one of us has got to have some relief") are my classics. My dad hated movies like Airplane and Blazing Saddles though I consider them to be some of the funniest movies of all time.

My daughter's head would explode if she watched Blazing Saddles.

Every generation is a bit different, individuals are different. I hated Super Troopers until I watched it a few times (thanks Afghanistan!) but will still laugh at Abbott and Costello's "Who's on first?" skit. To show how the pendulum swings (and the ignorance of youth) the 20's somethings who worth with my wife told her about this amazing song, one of emotion and loss where the singer was pouring out his heart and yada, yada.

Black by Pearl Jam was "discovered" some 30-ish years after the fact. Kate Bush ran up a hill some 40 years afterwards thanks to a shitty TV show I can't recall.

"Cool" entertainment is a weird thing.
 
Ooh-Rah said:
Re: John Wick: Ballerina


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The timeline doesn’t add up. When he appears at the end of the film, he should’ve been completely preoccupied with dodging a multi-million-dollar bounty. She originally meets him when he’s “punching his ticket” and heading out to Casablanca and Sophia.— so seeing him pop up at the end felt out of place and pulled me out of the story.

Honestly, they would’ve been better off leaving him out of that early scene with her altogether. I’m guessing his appearance will somehow be explained as some allegiance to the Director and Ruska Roma, but his appearance just felt forced.

6 out of 10 ballerina slippers

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I finally got to watch it. Best FIRE fight of 2025.

:ROFLMAO: :thumbsup:
 

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