Films these days have been trying to get as serious as possible. Why don't we have silly films anymore? Even our comedies attempt at deeper meanings and never really go over the top and/or experimental like Airplane! or What's Up Doc?
Where Has The Silliness Gone?
Films these days have been trying to get as serious as possible. Why don't we have silly films anymore? Even our comedies attempt at deeper meanings and never really go over the top and/or experimental like Airplane! or What's Up Doc?
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Look back at the older movies to find some great comedies. I've seen some good comedies in the last 10 years but mostly I prefer the classics, albeit the 90s or the 70s or the 30s, etc, etc.
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I think there's plenty of comedies still being made. They just mostly suck.
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Look back at the older movies to find some great comedies. I've seen some good comedies in the last 10 years but mostly I prefer the classics, albeit the 90s or the 70s or the 30s, etc, etc.
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Maybe the new Dr. Dolittle movie with Robert Downey will be the goofy film we're looking for
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I think there's plenty of comedies still being made. They just mostly suck.
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I would say its been pushed out by frat boy juvenility that's really dominated US mainstream comedy for the past 25 years the same way comedy based on wit has been in sharp decline in the mainstream.
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Not for everyone I understand, but if you want silly it's tough not to love Black Dynamite.
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Not for everyone I understand, but if you want silly it's tough not to love Black Dynamite.
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Yeah, love Black Dynamite. Michael Jai White is starting production on Outlaw Johnny Black, too, a western in the same vein.
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Films these days have been trying to get as serious as possible. Why don't we have silly films anymore? Even our comedies attempt at deeper meanings and never really go over the top and/or experimental like Airplane! or What's Up Doc?
I feel like The Dark Knight is what did it cause ever since that movie came out, even action movies are trying to be more serious since, then and movies are trying to be longer since then, as if Hollywood keeps on trying to aspire to it.
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I read this article, about how Todd Phillips said that Woke culture has killed comedy:
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articl...e-killing.html
Is that the reason why so many comedies are uninspired now, or is he wrong?
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articl...e-killing.html
Is that the reason why so many comedies are uninspired now, or is he wrong?