Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Alan Tudyk is one of my favorite actors who I feel gets too little credit. He's hilarious and it seems he's always in some funny/weird role in live action but has a surprising list of credits when it comes to animated and especially Disney animated movies. Pretty sure he's been in almost every Disney animated movie of the last 15 years.
I love Tucker and Dale vs Evil
"He just jumped into that wood chipper! Who does something like that?!"
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I wonder how many people passed this up just because of the title and/or the cover picture
Definitely one of the most original comedy films ever
Hot Fuzz. One of the best movies of all time.
No luck catching them swans then?
Uncommon?
I'm really surprised I don't see "Big Trouble in Little China" on here yet.
I might catch some flack by saying this was a very respectful movie to Chinese culture for its time. This is an early Kurt Russel film, when he was pushing towards being an action star. It drifts from the classic "white guy hero in strange culture" trope and melds into a fun story where the audience-stand-in hero accepts he's out of his league and goes with it. Also, this is Victor Wong and James Hong's equivalent of Heat, where they get well developed characters and face off with each other in a grand arc. My brother and I used to quote it to each other all the time… if you ever hear someone say "Now this really pisses me off to no end," you'll get it by the end of the movie.
It's a great movie but I don't know about "uncommon."
Idiocracy is the funniest comedy I've ever seen, but its becoming like a documentary of our time now… And that wasn't intended I think.
No, it is not "a documentary", and anyone who says that got the wrong message from the film. It is hilarious, though.
Can you expand your point?
It's an old trope that everyone was somehow so smart and wise right up until my generation, then everyone suddenly got stupid and mean.
Socrates complained that the youth in his day were spoiled by having books to rely on so they didn't have to memorize things anymore.
Every generation has the same attitude, and humanity somehow keeps on keeping on. Sure we are finding new and different ways to be stupid, but we're also finding new and different ways to be amazing.
I don't know which generation you're from, but I never got the idea that it was blaming any particular generation. At the time the movie came out it was referring to a generation that didn't exist yet. They were more commenting on the direction we seemed to be going: the priorities of capitalism, our devaluing of education, and our celebration of ignorance. These were all issues that were systemic starting well before I was born. Which is ironic considering Carl Sagan said the same thing a decade prior, pointing to Beavis and Butthead as an example (Mike Judge made both Idiocracy and Beavis and Butthead).
The movie portrays people as mostly being interested in shallow things, such as nudity, sex, entertainment, celebrities.
I think humans are more interested than ever in those things now that we have mobile phones with Facebook and Instagram and tiktok and so on.
Also almost everyone is too tired after work to do something productive with their lives (by system design).
If the TV was bad, the mobile phone is worse. People can't even sit alone for 5 mins anymore.
These apps also make people very adhd and they can't focus on anything without needing stimulation. It's common to no longer be able to watch a movie without wanting to bring up the phone. Or to bring it up in the middle of a conversation.
One could argue it doesn't make people dumber though… And I guess not. Not dumber, just more unable to be in the moment and feel peaceful.
It's quite easy to come away from the film with the idea that a general "stupidity" of predominantly poor people is to blame for most of society's problems. The film even starts by heavily implying poor people breed too much and are stupid, while smart, educated, wealthy people are too smart to have kids because they've rationally determined it's a bad decision in the economy. It then goes on to outright claim this will make humanity, on average, "stupider".
This is very, very close to eugenecist rhetoric. Eugenecists are all about weeding out "inferior genes" from humanity to increase our iverall "fitness". So tbh, I may have overstated. If you think the film suggests we need to limit dumb or poor people's breeding, then you might actually be reading the film right.
What I should really say is I just hate the film's overall message, whether it's intentional or not. Which is a shame, because I otherwise like the film and find it quite funny.
Poor?
In idiocracy, it's portrayed as stupid people out breeding the smart. And implication of them being poor is you own bias. Trashy, yes. Stupid, yes. Poor? That's on you champ.
I'm sorry that you tainted your own experience of the movie in this way and that you think that the commentary has anything to do with anything other than intelligence. I'm sorry that gave you a very negative outlook on the film.
Sure, call it "my own bias" if you want. It's called coding. Characters can be coded poor, by giving them accents conventional of poor people, situating them in houses common of poor people, dressing them in ways that stand out as stereotypically poor, etc. And like I said, it might not even be intentional. But coding can happen even unintentionally.
The point seemed to be that society was deliberately creating a large population of low income, poorly educated people being fed the cheapest slop by companies for short term gain, and that society then reaped what it sowed. The population of Idiocracy aren't the ones being blamed, they're a result of their environment that was created around them.
I fell asleep the first time I watched it. Worked at my corporation for a year and my friend made me rewatch it. Fucking love it now. I also put it's got electrolytes in a lot of power points.
Welcome to Costco, I love you
Clue. One of Tim Curry's finest performances. Madeline Kahn's, too.
One of Tim Curry's finest performances
That's like saying one of the Beatles best songs. He is outstanding in everything, so all of his performances are one of his best.
Is Kung Fury uncommon enough? Most people I talk to irl never heard of it
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Noted, thank you
THAT'S A LOT OF NUTS!!
Inspired by another answer in this thread, Kung Fu Hustle. It's also a pretty good Kung Fu movie although with some Looney Tunes-like animation scenes in it, like how Shawn of the Dead is both a comedy and a pretty good zombie movie.
If everyone hasn't watched Hot Tub Time Machine, everyone should watch Hot Tub Time Machine.
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is way better and super underrated.
I feel like "The Man Who Knew Too Little" is pretty uncommon even though it's a Bill Murray movie. One of my favourite comedies of all time!
Yeah. That is such a great film, and you almost never hear people talk about it.
Thats a great one, saw it again a few years ago and it holds up pretty well
The Court Jester (starring Danny Kaye)
Old school movie from the 50s era. Still screamingly hilarious today.
A Night at The Opera has some of the funniest physical gags I've seen in a movie. It is from 1935, but I found it very entertaining.
I don’t know how many people watched or loved this movie but I absolutely loved Hot Shots when I was a kid.
Part Duex is great aw well.
"I just can't believe that Dead Meat is dead, and Washout couldn't cut it. It's just so shocking."
The Intouchables (SIC). The original French film with Omar Sy. Not the pointless Hollywood remake. Its my favourite comedy of all time.
What a film. Thanks for reminding me to re-watch this
Freddie Got Fingered is a masterpiece that, when released, was one of the worst rated movies ever.
It’s so incredibly ahead of its time, coming out before all the Adult Swim absurdist stuff that we all know and love.
Bless Tom Green.
Sex Drive! But it has to be the unrated uncut version. I'm grinning so hard just thinking about some scenes, especially those with Seth Green. "That's great cock, John!"
