Hot Fuzz. One of the best movies of all time.
I don’t feel like Hot Fuzz is uncommon.
No luck catching them swans then?
It’s just the one swan, actually
Uncommon?
Relatively, i would say. Otherwise, see my other comment below.
Such a good one!
There’s a hedgehog in the garden. BUT IT’S NOT THEIR ONE!
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
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
“He just jumped into that wood chipper! Who does something like that?!”
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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.
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
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.
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.
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).
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.
I understand where you get the bias from, don’t get me wrong.
There’s “coding” (as you put it) in media and TV that people who are stupid, are lower stationed economically, working dead end jobs, living in squalor, etc. The stereotypical image of the idiot during the first section of the film loosely fits a number of those stereotypes, like living in a trailer.
Media and TV have made intelligence almost synonymous with success and financial gains. Certainly that sequence doesn’t help. The two “intelligent” people examples are all put together in their upper-middle, or upper-class home and apparel, speaking of their careers and “the market” or whatever. Here are the smart people being very closely aligned with two successful professionals, with plenty of money to live on the more luxurious side of life…
That portrayal is a strong example of the point, whether you want to call it bias or coding or whatever, either the people who created the scene, or the audience watching the scene, have conflated the idiot, with someone who is poor, and intelligent people with those that are wealthy.
But the way it’s portrayed, and what you may think it’s trying to portray, isn’t what the focus is for that scene. If you listen to the narrator, and focus on the literal story telling provided, while the idiot may look “poor” to you, they’re not set as an example of someone who is poor, but as someone who is stupid.
Could they have done a better job to ensure the audience doesn’t conflate stupid with poor? Probably.
I would argue that if your main take away from the first act of idiocracy, is that it’s not about the idiots, but rather has some connotations about the poor, then the idiot in that scene is the observer.
You still haven’t explained what bias you believe I had. Or acknowledged that I’ve already mentioned they probably didn’t do it on purpose. Or that I generally actually like the film and that these little points don’t get in the way of that.
It seems like you have some sort of idea in your head about what I must be, and are ignoring evidence to the contrary. That you perhaps… have a bias. Unlike you I’ll be specific. A bias against acknowledgements that otherwise good media can, intentionally or not, express harmful ideas. A bias against recognising prejudices, about being… awakened to discrimination. A bias against being… “woke”, if you will.
I will fully admit I had to stretch for that, but I’m still confident in it.
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 don’t see the film pointing fingers at capital or the state. It’s even stated that research continued, but only to cater to the wants of dumb people.
Inspired by another answer in this thread, Kung Fu Hustle. It’s also a pretty good Kung Fu movie, similar to how Shawn of the Dead manages to be both a comedy and a pretty good zombie movie.
You’ve got red on 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.
Oscar is also excellent. Dr. Poole is one of his best characters.
Big Trouble in Little China
Nothing but Trouble
What We Do in the Shadows (the movie, not the series). For something more obscure, An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn. Yes, both feature Jemaine Clement
The film is considerably better than the show.
That really did go down hill after they replaced all the Kiwi writers with Americans. It basically lost its heart after the first season, you can tell when things start winning American TV awards.
Mystery Men!
The TERRIBLY mysterious Sphinx. The Shoveller, who shovels VERY well. You can’t go wrong with Mystery Men, absolutely rewatching this asap!
Also Tom Waits!
You threw a spoon at the guy Jeff!
“I’m the Blue Rajah! Not knifey boy!”
“I shovel better than anyone!”
“When you’re invisible, you can feel it!”
Edit’?: “I was saving these for you wedding but… That seems… Well…”
Death to Smoochy is criminally underrated. Robin Williams and Ed Norton are so good in it.
Yes, I had to scroll way too long for this! One of my absolute favourites.
“Sir! Are you ok?” “I’m kinda fucked up in general, so it’s hard to judge”
One of my favorite movie lines ever
Top Secret! (1984), a WW2 parody featuring Val Kilmer. From the same guys who made Airplane!.
If everyone hasn’t watched Hot Tub Time Machine, everyone should watch Hot Tub Time Machine.
One of my all time faves!!
“Great White Buffalo!“
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Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is way better and super underrated.
I still sing that song from the second one. “You’re a fucking nerd and no one likes you.”
Very uncommon. Arguably one of the most disturbing comedy’s ever made.
Meet the Feebles is a 1989 musical comedy produced and directed by The Lord of the Rings mastermind Peter Jackson. The film is set behind the scenes at a Muppet Show-like theatrical company, and it nods to The Muppet Movie with its story about raggedy puppet entertainers dreaming of making it big. Except in Meet the Feebles, most of the puppets are diseased, drug-addicted, and / or sexually perverse. Jackson, his partner Fran Walsh, and fellow New Zealand weirdos Danny Mulheron and Stephen Sinclair collaborated on a screenplay that weaves together about half a dozen subplots; the most prominent involves the talented hippopotamus Heidi, whose lover (and the troupe’s impresario) Bletch is cruelly dismissive and adulterous. As the Feebles prepare for the show that could be their big break, their personal problems start to spill over onstage.
Yes! Truly a unique movie. The paparazzo fly eating literal shit will stick with me for the rest of my life!
Absolutely love this fever dream of a movie
Is it fair to say that Mel Brooks movies are uncommon now? Have they gotten old enough that people today are generally ignorant of them? If so, “Blazing Saddles”, “History of the World: Part 1”, “Young Frankenstein”, and “Spaceballs” are incredibly worthy of a watch.
‘My cousin Vinny’ seems relatively uncommon, and is a beautiful courtroom comedy drama.
Great film but not uncommon. She won the Oscar for her performance.
Uncommon to the young folks. Pretty much everyone over the age of 35 has seen my cousin Vinny. It was also super popular and well known and is still definitely a great movie.
Amazing all around
Cast, writing, and a lot of memorable scenes
Swiss Army Man!
Farting happy potter raft will never not be incredible.
