ITT comedy "classics" that are actually unfunny garbage,

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>>87496998
for a more recent example

FUCKING AIRPLANE!. Not only is it a bad film by itself, it also inspired possible the worst genre in the history of film. That movie gave Seth McFarlane a career.

Comedy is very hit and miss - you either get it, or don't. It's not really about the movies - their popularity, age, or anything - just that if they click with YOU or not.

>>87496998
>>87497397
kys

>>87496998
Ghostbusters was more than just a comedy, you ignorant millennial queer

Animal House was so boring and unfunny I refuse to watch any of the other older National Lampoon movies.

Anything with Bill Murray is shit.
He talks too much and isn't funny.

Cornetto trilogy

>>87496998
I'll bite. Ghostbusters was never meant to be a jokey joke comedy. Dan Aykroyd wrote it as a supernatural fantasy adventure with comedic elements.

>>87497829
Interesting. I watched it recently and was surprised by how well it holds up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBW-p5eME_8

Some Like It Hot
Annie Hall and basically every Woody Allen movie where the faggot acts
Back To The Future

>>87497892
>lol pub and beer and lads lol
>britishisms haha

Worlds End was especially bollocks.

>>87496998
>Women are funny, deal with it

>>87497128
>and can you please put some pants on, I find it a little weird I have to ask twice

that line was good

>>87496998
Meme-ty Python and the Holy Grail

>>87497397
How Airplane!, a movie I love, gave a man I hate a career? Despite some superficial similarities, their comedy styles are totally different

>>87498006
>Worlds End was especially bollocks
>world ending aliens
They could have done anything. But no.

>>87496998
Agreed. Ghost Busters (2016) was superior in every way. If people took off their nostalgia goggles, they would see that. Kind of like how the Sequel Star Wars was a better sci-fi fantasy with darker and mature elements than the original trilogy.

>>87497397
Absolute pleb, Airplaine is amazing

>>87497397
Airplane is terrible. It led to the Scary Movie films and all those shitty parodies.

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>>87496998

Stripes
Brewster's Millions
Beverly Hills Cop
Spaceballs
The Princess Bride
Dr. Strangelove

>>87497778
Ghostbusters failed in every aspect, horror, comedy, and romance.

>>87498282
Fuck you, the Hot Shots movies are great.

>>87497859
>Anything with Bill Murray is shit.
>He talks too much and isn't funny.
I feel that way, but only when it's young Bill Murray. Why is old Bill Murray so much more funnier and likeable?

>>87497977
>Some Like It Hot
It's somewhat funny. Not hilarious, but not the worst comedy.

>>87498057
Zac Galifinakis carried the entire movie and it killed his career.

>>87498391
>The Princess Bride
HOLY SHIT THIS!!! I should've began this thread with The Princess Bride. I've never had to force myself to laugh more in my life. The Princess Bride contributed to completely destroying the comedy genre, it's absolute shit.

>>87498425
Well yeah we're talking "classics"

>>87496998
>>87497397
>>87497859

On behalf of the elder millenials, I hereby take the bait and for the record, totally disavow my idiot juniors.

>>87498894
35 year old here. I'm with you brother.

>>87498282
Airplane didn't invent this sub-genre of comedy that relies on parody and silly self-aware sketches intermixed with puns and ironic dialogue.

>>87497128

I never liked this even when it was released. Absolutely boring and unfunny movie.

I'm going with Superbad or Anchorman.

>>87498837
What?

>>87499037
>silly self-aware sketches intermixed with puns and ironic dialogue.
literally Airplane.

>>87499132
I didn't say it wasn't made up of that, just that it didn't invent that particular mixture.

>>87499173
alright, can't argue with that.

>>87497397
How can the greatest comedy of all time
be unfunny garbage?

>>87498357
Good catch, but Annie is more like a rom-com and not just pure jokes.

>>87499598
Same with a lot of the movies people are listing. Back to the Future >>87497977?

>>87498970
>>87498894
>hurf hurf im older this makes my opinion more relevant

Ghostbusters fucking sucked eat shit

>>87499739
What I'm taking issue with is OP classifying it as strictly a comedy when it combines multiple genres.

>>87499739

It really didn't, you just need loud explosions and (((quips))) every minute, as opposed to every three minutes, or somesuch.

You don't at all appreciate, for example, the humane humor in the scene where Bill Murray simultaneously bests his antagonist, and /wins over some guy/ with his perfectly-timed sales pitch: "IF WE'RE WRONG, NOTHING HAPPENS! We go to jail, peacefully quietly, we'll enjoy it! But if we're RIGHT.... and we CAN stop this thing.... LENNY. YOU, will have saved the LIVES, of MILLLIONS, of registered voters."

Logical, clean, funny. You really are dumb. Go do a snapchat session or whatever the fuck.

>>87496998
I unironically agree

>>87499813
Ghostbusters fails at those other genres too though.
Horror - not scary in the slightest
Sci-fi - little to no actual ghostbusting
Romance - Sigourney Weaver hates Venkman the entire movie and they have no chemistry

>>87500018
>hates Venkman the entire movie

That's not true.

>>87499938
>You don't at all appreciate, for example, the humane humor in the scene where Bill Murray simultaneously bests his antagonist, and /wins over some guy/ with his perfectly-timed sales pitch: "IF WE'RE WRONG, NOTHING HAPPENS! We go to jail, peacefully quietly, we'll enjoy it! But if we're RIGHT.... and we CAN stop this thing.... LENNY. YOU, will have saved the LIVES, of MILLLIONS, of registered voters."

That's not funny. Witty doesn't mean funny. This is the only funny scene in the entire movie. The introduction of The Destructor had potential to be funny, but the execution is bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-b-CfHbPGQ

>>87497397
Only redditors like and praise that movie. So you are right.

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>>87500154
im young and hip.
go back to redit.

>>87500098
Maybe not hate, but she isn't interested in him. And he shouldn't be interested in her. Sigourney Weaver isn't ugly at all, but Venkman is set up to be a bit of a sleazeball in the very first scene when he's lying to the blonde student and trying to sleep with her. He's set up as a guy that prioritizes looks over everything and that characterization is kept consistent when he first meets Dana.

Sigourney Weaver is not a traditional beauty though, she has a strong jaw and isn't bodacious. The very first impression we get is that he'd be into someone more like Marilyn Monroe or Christina Hendricks and nothing is over done to challenge that impression, he continues to not be interested in her outside of how she looks.

Ghostbusters 2 is still shitty, but it's a better movie.

>>87500430
>Ghostbusters 2 is still shitty, but it's a better movie.
Stopped reading there. I hate Ghostbusters too but the second movie was the same as the first but worse in every way.

>>87500018
>Sci-fi - little to no actual ghostbusting

They showed as much as they needed to of that. If you want more of that, go watch the cartoon spin-off. It's honestly better.

>>87500416
The joke is that Ray thought of something totally innocent for The Destructor's form, but it's ruined by using a symbol that only exists within the universe of Ghostbusters. Nobody in the audience has a connection to the Stay Puft Marshmalllow Man. I don't think comedy should rely on references because it's lazy and becomes dated, but for this joke to work, it needs to.

The Destructor could've been a Snoopy balloon, or Woodstock. The Peanuts will never fall out of the American public's consciousness.

American Pie and Road Trip. I still like Eurotrip though.

>>87500591
>American public consciousness


fuck off third world cuck. Sharia law says its time to get off the internet and prep the muslim to fuck your wife.

>>87500496
>Stopped reading there.
That was that end of the post.
>I hate Ghostbusters too but the second movie was the same as the first but worse in every way.
It's more fun, it has more Winston, Dana is an actual character, a more interesting villain, the romance subplot is a lot better, Louis x Janine, and a better soundtrack.
It's schlocky and kind of kiddiefied but it has a lot more good than the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaIZvCDWAcQ

>>87497397

This.

>>87500777
CHECKED

>>87500591
The joke works fine thanks to the visuals, which kind of evoke similarities to brand mascots like the Pilsbury Doughboy.

Using an actual brand would have been way too on the nose, especially considering the actual instances of product placement in the movie.

Also, only middle aged women give a fuck about Snoopy.

>>87501016
prep the bull.

>>87496998

Boomer garbage

This thread is disgusting

>>87498282

That's like saying Alien inspired Paranormal Activity

blazing saddles

naked gun

haven't seen animal house, but that's probably lame as fuck

>>87498425
because young bill murray walked around with a smug satisfaction of being "bill murray"

old bill murray says very little, looks depressed, and lets the joke work around him

Animal House is distinctly American so I do wonder if it loses a bit in translation in other countries.

>>87501618
>this is jimmy fallon in the future after the drink takes over his life

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>>87501522
>blazing saddles

>>87501753
name 1 joke.

>>87501810
Blazing Saddles is GOAT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=493pL_Vbtnc

>>87498391
Fuck you, Stripes is amazing.

Films like Airplane! and Hot Shots are hilarious for those 30 and over because they encapsulate the era when they were released. It was a happier, more care-free time. Everything didn't revolve around ego and trying to outshine everyone around you.

If younguns (1990+ kids) enjoy them then fair play but I'd understand why you can't.

>>87501810
>when the sheriff says to the old woman in the most sunny, pleasant and friendly tone possible: Good morning, Miss ___! and she calls him a nigger.

>the opening scene when the white workers save the minecart instead of the protagonist

>the ongoing fact that you're too much of a sensitive sally to appreciate it

all bring a smile to MY face

>>87502067
I'll agree with that. I was born in 1982 and have sort of an obsession with comedy from the mid-70s, especially early SNL and The National Lampoon Radio Hour.

>>87501810
>They called me............................................ Jim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmAAEntLaYI

Blazing Saddles is a masterpiece, only low point is the farting scene, and it's not that bad.

>>87502067
>It was a happier, more care-free time
>what is the Cold War
>what is living in fear of nuclear winter
>what is the Vietnam War
>what is Watergate
>what is the Iran hostage crisis
>what is the Iran-Contra affair
What a dumb underage post, or oldfag with rose tinted glasses. The idea that people didn't have ego or tried to outdo each other before 1990 is also completely retarded, considering the 80s are completely characterized by neoliberal economic policies.

>>87502311
>b-but social media and smartphones!

You're absolutely correct.

>>87498558
>t. man with girlfriend

>>87502311

You are talking absolute shit. Young people had nowhere near the the ME! ME! ME! mentality then as they do now

>>87496998
trivializing the supernatural by making them normal exterminators is pretty funny.

>>87496998
I like the part where they shoot their packs at the lady, and then Murray goes "we thought you were someone else." I like when Egon goes "I collect spores, molds, and fungus."

>>87501522
Honestly I don't like Blazing Saddles very much either. Naked Gun is my favorite comedy though. Maybe just because the only time I watched Blazing Saddles was with other people, and I've always seen Naked Gun alone.

Comedy movies are just less funny when you watch them with other people, especially the older ones.

>>87502694
And you know this how?

>>87497501
GO be mature somewhere else

>>87502694
>what is the hippie generation
wrong again, you were just one of them back then so you didn't notice.
Narcissists and idiots have always existed, the internet just made them louder and more noticeable.

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>>87502686
No, man with sister.

>>87503025
there are good bits in naked gun, absolutely. i liked when oj got shot a lot, bribing the dock owner, and the chalk outline on the water

but there's SO MUCH filler and stuff that is plainly not comedy, specifically toward the end when it has to have a big climax

>>87503142
I guarantee he was born after 1990.

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>>87498391
>spaceballs
Spaceballs is not considered as a classic comedy lol

>>87502311
that sounds pretty hunky dory compared to world war II.

>>87498236
>Look mom, I'm being a contrarian again.

>>87497128
I didn't know this is considered a classic. Watched all 3 recently and enjoyed them all, but I don't remember much about the first except thinking that 2 was better

>>87503364
Nuclear War would have been far worse than WW2, and we got dangerously close numerous times.

>>87503735
This. The Cuban Missile Crisis is scary as fuck to read about.

>>87503735
would have, if it happened, which it didn't, unlike an actual war fought across the planet.

Sounds like somebody's scared because they though there was no meaning to life so they could be a decadent shitstain for 80+ years.
Oh boo hoo for you.

>>87504139
Are you replying to the right thread?

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>>87501810
"the sheriff is near..."
GOAT of all GOATS
you have no fuckin idea
cause we don't need no stinking badges , lily lily legs

>>87504071
People then didn't have the benefit of hindsight to know that Nuclear War didn't happen.
So yes, if you time travelled from 2017 to 1960 and knew there wasn't going to be a nuclear war you would probably have a swell time but the people actually living back then didn't have that luxury and were constantly living in fear of an air raid siren and everything they've ever known getting obliterated.

>>87504342
Damn. >>87504071 obliterated.

>>87503142

You're not wrong, but the internet not only makes it more noticeable, it also makes it more intensive

>>87504342
yeah I don't buy people going about their lives in expectance of an air raid siren or fiery inferno devouring their small town was as big of a thing as you claim, despite the on-going soviet scare from the '60s onwards. Even in the media it seems the only film to really touch on this from that time period was Threads. I have as much of an argument about nuclear war being a present fear now moreso than in the eighties by using a metric like the Doomsday Clock (however sceptical people may be of it), and not going by popular opinion.

>>87504457
samefag.

>>87504342
I mean technically it still could but the USSR is no longer right there up in our faces saying "Yeah we're going to nuke the world."

>>87504628
Are you serious? Plenty of Twilight Zone episodes addressed the fear of nuclear war.

>>87496998
>>87497397
>>87497829
>>87497892
>>87498107
>>87498391
>>87498558
>>87501522

Wow literally fuck all of you. How is it possible to be so wrong? How do you live with such a horrible sense of humor?

>>87504757
Well that is a sci-fi anthology. Plenty of tales involving nuclear armageddon have cropped up since, but they're largely playing on the universal fear of everything being wiped out as a means of scaring the audience and invoking philosophical themes that surround the topic of nuclear annihilation. As a show each episode delves into things both in the past and present, as well as the future, so it wouldn't be a stretch to say it was one among many topics that were ubiquitous.

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>>87505011
Fair enough but I'd still argue a lot of episodes have a very Cold War era feel to them. Similarly, the early seasons of the X-Files captured the feel of 90s paranoia about the internet and rapidly advancing technology.

Millennials will never learn: the thread

>>87496998
literally any dated British comedy

>>87502117
2 far anon

>>87505086
I'd estimate that over 90% of 4chan's userbase consists of millennials. You're still a millennial if you were born in the 80s.

>>87505132
I wager at least 30% were born after 2000 and 5% over 35.

>>87505182
Yeah, depends on the board I guess. Obviously /v/ and /tv/ are going to have a large population of teenagers.

>>87498107
Piss off lad.

>>87504628
>>87504637
I was actually considering mentioning that nuclear fallout is still very much a possibility as it ever was, but there wasn't the same level of direct confrontation over nuclear weapons currently like it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis and other scares which were in the public eye, so it doesn't change the fact that acting like the Cold War period was some sort of Disneyland because there wasn't a nuclear war is just wearing heavy rose tinted nostalgia goggles.

>>87505132
"Millennial" covers too broad of a time span. Somebody born in 1983 is not going to have the same perspective as somebody born in 1999.

>>87505370
I'd put the cutoff for millennial birth year at around 1994 or so.

>>87497397
>being this wrong in life
Wow, you would not be fun if you even went to parties, if you even talked to anyone, instead of just sit in the corner wishing you were back on /tv/.

>>87505488
People born in the mid to late 90s get called Millennials all the time too.

>>87505611
TIL that /tv/ seems to think Airplane! was the first parody film ever.

>>87505370
national lifestyle and standard of living is changing more and more rapidly as time passes. As each individual becomes more targeted, tracked, profiled, and involved in industry, commerce, etc. the amount of complex systems in place to facilitate these involvements will increase as well. Government will expand its regulation on human transport and interaction through technology, and as new tech becomes established and social customs establish normative behavior, new forms of interaction will be created with new stakes and stipulations. I expect someone born in 2085 would have - on average - far less shared with a 2090 kid than our generational gaps we gripe about today

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unfairly forgotten

anything with andy samberg
anything with amy shumer
anything with a woman protagonist

>>87505800
10/10 peak Zemeckis right there

>>87505832
I don't think you understand the concept of this thread.

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>>87504139

Beavis and Butthead were never funny they were just retarded edgelords that GenX thought was brilliant.

Also Ren & Stimpy was fucking terrible. It was the Rick and Morty of its time. GenX should be banned from the Internet. Prove me wrong

>>87505800

Get off of this website grandma. What did I tell you

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>>87506094
you're a faggot dude

>>87505832
Andy Samberg is legitimate comedy poison.

>>87496998

If Superbad counts as a classic, I'll say that.

The movie starts off decent, but loses all momentum when it introduces the two cops. Seeing the kids crack jokes at school was a lot more entertaining than those boring party scenes or those garbage scenes with the cops.

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>>87505800
when was the last time there was an american comedy that was actually written as a comedy as opposed to either being
>a loosely tied together series of comedy sketches that barely form a cohesive plot,
or
>just a really boring low-stakes drama dressed up to look like a comedy by having all the actors improv hilARIOUS dialogue in every single scene

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>>87506094
>I'm a millenial in need of validation! Hear me roar!

>>87505800
Death Becomes Her is great and actually funny though.

>>87506303
The Nice Guys came out last year.

>>87506303
what is happening here?

I don't even like comedies and I got triggered by this thread.

>>87497128
This movie is OK at best.
It's a movie you grow to like over time.

>>87498107

This.

That fucking "movie" SUCKED.

>>87498391
>Beverly Hills Cop

Eddie Murphy is a comic genius.

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>>87504342

War Games basically admits that the Cold War was fake as fuck. WOPR sounds like 'whopper', a huge lie. The new is one big psy-op, using actors.

>>87498391
>Brewster's Millions
>Beverly Hills Cop
What's it like to be born tragically without a sense of humor?

>>87501522
>blazing saddles
kys If you can't laugh at "Sorry about the 'UP YOURS, NIGGER!" then you can't fucking laugh.

>>87498558
>I've never had to force myself to laugh more in my life.
You didn't like a movie and made yourself react disingenuously because you were afraid of being judged by the people around you? Turn in your fucking ballsack if you haven't already. You're not going to be needing it.

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>>87496998
This board fucking sucks so much.