I'd rather be in Idiocracy.

Three darts is too much...

And now... A YAK! YaaaaaAAAK. YAAAaaaaAAK. YAAK!

I had Sleep Token ruined for me by a friend saying the singer sounds like he's singing around a mouthful of peanut butter.

We watched this one in my high school civics class lol. Teacher was a wacko conspiracy/UFO guy. We were supposed to be learning about the constitution or some shit 😂

“You couldn’t make that movie today. They’d take one look at the script and say hey. We can’t make this. This is Blazing Saddles, this is already a movie.” — Mel Brooks

It’s funny to me that part of the reason this movie feels racist now is because this movie was genuinely part of making the wider culture less racist. It worked!

Freddy Got Fingered

The other thing about it now is they cut the scene in every version of the film that establishes Ace is using his "powers" for good: when he pretends to be a trainer of dolphins to head off the reporters. Without that scene, he's just an asshole the whole film.

Ace Ventura: Heinz Getwellvet. I am trainer of dolphins. You want to talk to de dolphin, you talk to me.

Reporter #1: What happened to the regular trainer?

Ace Ventura: Vat happened to him? Vat happened to me? Seven years I am wit Siegfried.

[he holds up only four fingers]

Ace Ventura: Ve are making de dolphins disappear, und den Roy is coming wit ze tiger und ze shtuffing in de pants und den I'm gone.

Reporter #2: [skeptically] Where is Snowflake?

Ace Ventura: Why do you care about Snowflake? Do you know him? Does he call you at home?

[shouts]

Ace Ventura: Do you have a dorsal fin? To train ze dolphin you must zink like ze dolphin! You must be getting inside ze dolphin's head. I am saying to Snowflake, "Akay!... Akay Akay Akay?" und he is saying "AKay Akay!" und he is up on ze tail "Eeeeeeeeee!" und you can quote him!

[Ace spits]

Yeah, but it is because the rich people in modern times didn't have kids while poor people were, even having significant resources given to them to allow them to survive and reproduce.

Mr Robinson's Neighbourhood!

Hey Happy Gilmore is still decent I think. Pretty sure I watched that in the last few years. Maybe big daddy too I haven't watched that in a minute tho.

Everything else by Sandler, yeah you're dead right

Famous 2000's movie, Blazing Saddles.

I can't tell if they aged poorly because I also hated them when they first came out.

I can't stand Jack Black, never found him funny.

This is one of those monkey paw curses in reverse because, if anything, you just made Alt+J better.

Point of order: International Man Of Mystery and The Spy Who Shagged Me are both 90s films. Only Goldmember is from the 2000s.

Big "theatre kid" energy.

The way I saw it, the idiots in Idiocracy were that way because they were stupid, and less so because they were actually malicious. That's in contrast to today where we have people who are certainly capable of doing better but chose to act the way they do.

Isn't the ultimate message of the movie wholesome though? I've never actually seen it.

The sad dad in Click still elevates Click though.

Though it showed the people who were not having kids, as middle class, and it showed the people having kids, as poor, it wasn't a point in the story that the rich got replaced, only the smart people.

Wealth was never a point or even a subtle representation in the movie. It was certainly a movie written by a rich white man though, and can definitely be critiqued as having those biases.

Judge has shown time and again that he is very against institutional controls and concentrated power in general. All the "pro fascism" stuff you're taking about are your own ideas for "solutions" to the problem Idiocracy poses.

The basic message is supposed to be but loses intent because of the fact it's all fat jokes

The thing is it was a refreshing change when it came out. I thought it was the funniest movie I'd seen in years, bought the DVD when it came out thinking it was still great then when I tried watching it again a year later and it completely lost it's luster. It's like Juno, that one movie was great for a change of pace in an otherwise stale genre

I love Dead Like Me, but the problem is Ellen Muth seemed to just give up midway through the first season and her IRL eating disorder showed. So many of the other characters were pulling their own weight but even they couldn't carry it.

I did a marathon in the last year and it was difficult to get through the last few episodes...let alone the movie

City Lights is a great example of this but it is ALSO a great example of the opposite of this, specifically with all the jokes where drunk driving is the punchline

The other day I wanted to watch a fun animated movie, and found that I'd never seen a Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles movie that came out in 2007. Downloaded, put it on... and immediately greeted by the weinstien logo... then they had not one but TWO different Asian actors doing lines in the "broken Chinese accent." Kinda ruined the whole movie for me.

or universal situations

https://youtu.be/imXC0Ryye0k

I watched it when it came out, and I remember it being pretty meh, with very few (if any) laugh-out-loud moments, or even audible chuckles.

That was 1994 (question is about the 2000s)

Don't go dissing the original Hangover movie like that.

What the movie is REALLY about is, there's two groups of racists: There's the elites, the governor and cronies, whose racism is borne mainly from greed and thus insaitable and incurable, and then there's the townsfolk whose racism is borne of xenophobia and easily cured by understanding. World War 2 veteran Mel Brooks' intended solution to the problem of racism is to understand that xenophobia is just human nature and that those people are best reached out to with civility and good intentions to get through to them on their level, and the way you deal with the folks who are intentionally enforcing systematic racism is to shoot them in the dick in the real modern-day street because nothing else will ever work.

"The Right" is content to laugh at the racism because that's the part they like and they mentally check out somewhere around "throw out your hands, stick out your tush" and "The Left" would try to cancel Mel Brooks because "You can't have white people in a movie saying the N word. That's racist." They're over here trying to boycott Lucas Pope because a game he made 13 years ago has a "strip search to confirm gender" mechanic. The point Pope is trying to make is that brutal dictatorships sure are dehumanizing, but no, brains turn off at "I think that's anti-trans."

The problem I fear is that the number of people who are willing and able to ask "What's this movie actually saying, overall?" is dwindling.

Turns out it was a lesson on authority figures that don't know how to distinguish fact from fiction, seems like it stuck with you.

It's dumb slapstick comedy, then and now. OP's tastes changed.

Oof yeah that's a rough one

They’re over here trying to boycott Lucas Pope

Who is "they" and do you have a source about this?

Yeah I don't get the love of it. Parts of it are ok, but there is a lot of cringe.

Bumblebee Tuna. Bumblebee Tuna! (Your balls are showing.) Bumblebee Tuna!

I disagree. The core of the film is very much anti-trans with characters on screen becoming physically ill at the notion of transgenderism. It is very much the sort of script that would be discarded with great alacrity these days.

Many of the one-off jokes in the film are slapstick of a decidedly Jim Carry nature for sure, but the sequel does it better with less punching down and more giggling with rather than at.

I give to you: "They"

That is one of the biggest counter examples. Critical anger for daring to release the film. It's considered a classic by now.

Some movies age like fine wine, some age like milk, Freddy Got Fingered aged like urine. It was sewage from the very beginning.

So, when you say "the left" is trying to boycott Lucas Pope over something that happened 13 years ago, what you actually mean is that one Tumblr account, which went inactive 10 years ago, once asked people not to buy his game. When you say that "brains turn off," you really mean more like one specific brain turned off.

At some point, we, as a society, need to come to terms with the fact that you can always find some stupid person saying some stupid thing if you look hard enough, and that that isn't representative of a larger movement.

Was "dead like me" the oen about the pathologist who was a brain eating zombie?

The opening scene has no mention of genetics. Just that stupid people raise stupid children. Yes, in real life, a child can break free of bad parentage, but it's rare and outside the scope of an 84 minute movie. In real life, the stupid people would be way, way more mean spirited, but that would make for a bad comedy.

There's a reason that the sequel got replayed on tv more then the original. At least, I remember being replayed.

No, dead like me was the girl who got killed by an airplane toilet, and then worked as a grim reaper

Some kid in my class insisted we play it in my civics class. I tore it apart as it was playing.

That's not really a comedy.
Adam Sandler is really good when he's doing more serious movies. When he's doing Adam Sandler movies, they're awful.

It's always been an anti studio fuck you, and it's brilliant in that regard

It can't age poorly when it was never good to begin with

Yeah. People act like this. It's one example of a broader trend of consuming media at a surface level and immediately discarding anything "problematic" because simply hearing certain words or discussion of certain topics at all makes them uncomfortable. In this very thread you have people calling Idiocracy "pro-eugenics" because it made its point that low-brow culture that actually values stupidity and ignorance seems to be growing at an alarming rate in the context of a family tree. Obviously that means the creator thinks only smart people should be allowed to breed.