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ClausThomsen said:
For the last 20 years there has been a ton of big hearted loser films with many of them fat. Some more succesful that others. Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jack Black etc etc have all relied on that formula.

The modern 'family comedy' tends to be animated as the format has become much more sophisticated.

The majority of the offense seems to come from casting women in remakes (Ghostbusters) or anything that pokes fun at men being a bit silly sometimes (Barbie).
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Even in that there has been a shift in the last few years. Some of those you are talking about were in the 00s or early 10s before the current culture went into overdrive.
 
Abertonian said:
Even in that there has been a shift in the last few years. Some of those you are talking about were in the 00s or early 10s before the current culture went into overdrive.
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I think you can throw 90s into that as well. So after 30 years that's basic market saturation. It gets repetitive - hello Marvel.

The biggest driver of what gets made is what makes money. Not culture overdrive...whatever that means.
 

Abertonian said:
Even in that there has been a shift in the last few years. Some of those you are talking about were in the 00s or early 10s before the current culture went into overdrive.
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Most the 80s classics are hardly offensive. Trading places, planes trains etc haven’t dated that badly in terms of modern sentiments. Maybe the odd joke or stereotype but nothing outrageous.
Would imagine the studios just aren’t interested in that kind of movie anymore. There’s plenty of creative writers out there.
 
JimmyJeffers said:
Most the 80s classics are hardly offensive. Trading places, planes trains etc haven’t dated that badly in terms of modern sentiments. Maybe the odd joke or stereotype but nothing outrageous.
Would imagine the studios just aren’t interested in that kind of movie anymore. There’s plenty of creative writers out there.
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John Landis. Good call.
The blues brothers
Coming to america
An american werewolf in london
Clue
Three amigos!
Animal house

Similar nicey nicey heroes come good type fare.
 
Rita_Poon said:
John Landis. Good call.
The blues brothers
Coming to america
An american werewolf in london
Clue
Three amigos!
Animal house

Similar nicey nicey heroes come good type fare.
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You’d have thought those kind of comedies would make a good profit for studios considering they’re relatively cheap to make.

Can’t recall the last comedy film I enjoyed. Maybe Step Brothers or something.
 
JimmyJeffers said:
Most the 80s classics are hardly offensive. Trading places, planes trains etc haven’t dated that badly in terms of modern sentiments. Maybe the odd joke or stereotype but nothing outrageous.
Would imagine the studios just aren’t interested in that kind of movie anymore. There’s plenty of creative writers out there.
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Dan Ackroyd’s blackface in Trading Places is a bit on the uncomfortable side these days.

People forget about that, as they only remember up to the bit where Jamie Lee Curtis takes her top off.
 
JimmyJeffers said:
You’d have thought those kind of comedies would make a good profit for studios considering they’re relatively cheap to make.

Can’t recall the last comedy film I enjoyed. Maybe Step Brothers or something.
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We've seen hundreds try to capture the magic of 'midnight run' and fail spectacularly. The wheels fell off Murphy, he'd become the main show and threw his name behind any old spite* and audiences got tired of his crap cash ins.

'Grosse pointe blank' was ok. 'High Fidelity' also. 'School of rock' fit Black perfectly. Thing is about comedy, it's similar to horror, once you've seen some of the same laughs/scares they lose their impact. So to newer eyes everything is original because not everyone is going back through 'Nosferatu' or 'Hoi Polloi' or 'Duck soup'.

Bill Murray is solid, 'Scrooged', 'GHD', 'GBHotel', 'Ed Wood', 'Rushmore', 'Zombieland', 'What about Bob', 'Quick Change', 'Royal Tenenbaums', 'Mad dog and Glory'. Is 'Lost in translation' a comedy? (I've picked his better efforts since the 80's here).

I reckon HBO landing in such a way and giving us a work so funny it'd reduce Shakespeare to tears with 'the Soprano's' and then Gervais rewriting current comedy traits world wide with 'The Office' meant crud like 'dude where's my car' and 'road trip' and other lamebrain stuff was all anyone could be bothered dreaming up.
 

There have been plenty of good comedies over the last 20 years or so. Not including sequels as they are largely pale imitations of the original.

Zoolander
Anchorman
The Hangover
The Cornetto Trilogy
Dodgeball
This is the End
Palm Springs
Napoleon Dynamite
Blades of Glory
Ted
40 Year Old Virgin

That’s just off the top of my head, sure there will be loads more that I’m forgetting.
 
Wizard said:
There have been plenty of good comedies over the last 20 years or so. Not including sequels as they are largely pale imitations of the original.

Zoolander
Anchorman
The Hangover
The Cornetto Trilogy
Dodgeball
This is the End
Palm Springs
Napoleon Dynamite
Blades of Glory
Ted
40 Year Old Virgin

That’s just off the top of my head, sure there will be loads more that I’m forgetting.
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Some of those are absolute hot trash.
 

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