Everywhere I look, people say OMG! So funny, best film ever lol.
This has to be one of the most unfunniest pieces of sh!t ever made. I only chuckled a few times but that was it. Very lame, dated humour. I also can't believe this came from John Landis who directed Animal House and An American Wolf in London.
In summary, why do people like this?
If Something is hard to do then it's not worth doing.
it made fun of the mores of the time and a lot of it doesn't translate 30 years later. I love it.
sharePeople like it because they have a brain and a good sense of humor. You seem to have neither.
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This is the kind of humor you have to "get".
You obviously don't "get" it, so there's no point in telling you why a lot of us think it's funny.
Compared to this, there are very few movies that are actually funny. I'd probably think of 5, maybe 6 movies that are as funny or funnier.
I certainly haven't laughed at ANY movie in the last 10 years or so, that's for sure.
That's the same thing people say about Tim & Eric, that you have to "get" it. (Can't stand that program really.)
A lot of the skits I found to be overdone (like the educational video that ended in tragedy), but a few of them were absolute gold (like the courtroom and "feel-around" sketches).
I don't know whether I'll be giving it another watch however and come to like it more.
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Well I'm a mushroom cloud layin *beep* *beep* Now where's my pulp fiction bluray?!
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"In summary, why do people like this?"
In summary, because we have a sense of humor.
Just watched it now on Crackle on the X360.
It's not great NOW, but for its time, it's pretty decent and revolutionary. Comes two years after Saturday Night Live launches and a few years before the Zuckers and Abrahams launch Airplane/Flying High. It came at a point when sketch comedy was getting more 'adult'.
Given the era it was in, it hits what was funny at the time, which is a lot of play-on-words, sex comedy and a decent amount of racial stereotyping.
In no way, does it work with what's become comedy (both sketch and film) since then. But if you imagine how people were enjoying comedy in the late 70s, it does the job. Also, as stated elsewhere, for stoners in that period, it must've been the greatest thing they could ever watch.
Enjoy it for a walk down the 1970s comedy lane.
"Given the era it was in, it hits what was funny at the time, which is a lot of play-on-words, sex comedy and a decent amount of racial stereotyping. In no way, does it work with what's become comedy (both sketch and film) since then."
So, it hits it's marks with word-play, sex-gags and racial stereotyping, but fails to adapted to today's brand of comedy...Word-play, sex-gags and racial stereotyping(?)
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