O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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Airplane
Office Space
My favorite movie.
I showed it to my mom, who worked in an office and she brought my copy in to lend to someone. I got it back around 3 months later when eventually everyone on her floor had seen it.
Drop Dead Fred 🩵
Young Frankenstein, and it was made in 1974.
Marx Brothers, Duck Soup.
South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut
Y’all have mentioned so many, I have to go obscure. New Kids Turbo.
zonne grote vuurbal...
Don't forget about New Kids Nitro!
I need to watch it again. Loved it!
Tropic Thunder is a relatively modern movie considering it could not be made today, which adds a lot to the hilarious madness
Everyone keeps saying they couldn't make tropic thunder today but I don't understand why? Other than tropic thunder having already been made, why couldn't it be made today?
Is it because RDJ blacked up? It doesn't seem to have hurt his career at all, it seems most people got the joke.
Is it because they use the word "retard" a lot? I don't think that's integral to the film, it's more just something that ages it a bit and you could easily change the dialogue and have basically the same gag.
I really don't see why "it couldn't be made today".
When people say that it's based on their own personal reactions, which they assume every moral and ethical person shares identically. That movie couldn't have been made in 2008 either, but it was.
Having to convince investors to back it. A lot wouldn't touch a new movie without any potential controversy as it is.
Yeah, my guess is the blackface. But they really lean into it, and honestly, many of my friends of color thought it was hilarious, rather than offensive. Small focus group, but goes to show it's not a universally contentious topic.
And Tropic Thunder is a masterpiece.
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- Mars Attacks!
- Galaxy Quest
Ack ack!
:: yodeling intensifies::
Blazing Saddles, especially since, as they say, you couldn't make it today. 'Course, now that's less because you can't say the n-word and more because all the anti-racism would trigger the MAGA CHUDs.
I wish I could find it again, but years ago I saw a video about why you couldn't make Blazing Saddles today, aside from it already existing/permission/etc. It wasn't the racism or anything, or how people today are too sensitive.
It couldn't be made today because Blazing Saddles basically destroyed the entire genre.
Prior to its release, Westerns were everywhere. They were incredibly popular, with countless movies and TV shows released every year. Then this movie comes along, points out all of the overused tropes, and reveals the formula they've all been using. The genre of Westerns has never recovered. It would be lampooning obscure content with dated references that people don't understand.
That's the real reason it couldn't be made today.
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Idiocracy. started as a comedy, evolved through time in a documentary.
In Idiocracy, people take a crisis seriously, the state is actively looking for experts to solve the crisis, and defers to them quickly, and when evidence appears people change their minds. Finally they elect the person with the actual best plan for the future.
Idiocracy fundamentally has a wrong view of American stupidity. Idiocracy treats Americans as well-meaning but too complacent to care about the long-term consequences. It declares that society's problems are from a (genetic) lack of useful effort.
But, as the past 10 years have made increasingly hard to deny, American "stupid people" are actively hostile to reckoning with the long-term consequences of their actions. Ignorance was only ever an excuse. It's entitlement rather than complacency, and society's problems come from ('genetically smart') people deliberately bending useful effort towards societal harm for personal gain.
But while it may not have been quite as grating, Idiocracy was already wrong when it came out. Civil rights were suppressed with "ignorant" excuses that were a fig leaf on the desire to do harm. The eugenics the movie takes as a premise - that "smart people" breeding leads to a smart world and inversely for "stupid people" - is itself a form of "ignorance" about genetics that was actively being used as a fig leaf for genocide in the US in the century before.
But no, I'm sure you "just don't get" how Idiocracy is endorsing a genocidal view eugenics. It's easier to "believe" brawndo makes the plants grow.
While you’re correct that the movie highlights a leader searching for a solution to a problem, you overlook the unspoken criticism of society within the movie: the plainly evident results of generations of stupid Americans who were too complacent, and actively hostile, to reckoning with the long-term consequences of their actions.
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