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I was having a discussion with my brother last night, and it was actually extremely difficult for us to come up with a relatively recent comedy movie that either of us truly liked, or liked enough that we would watch it a second time. We decided to scroll through all of the comedies offered by Netflix and HBO GO, and after ~15 minutes of looking came up with only about a handful of available movies we would watch...4 of which we had already seen multiple times.

What do you think? Am I just living under a rock, or are all of these new comedy movies generally terrible? I fear we will never have another comedy great like Rodney Dangerfield making movies because of all of this PC nonsense that has been spreading like a plague.

I was having a discussion with my brother last night, and it was actually extremely difficult for us to come up with a relatively recent comedy movie that either of us truly liked, or liked enough that we would watch it a second time. We decided to scroll through all of the comedies offered by Netflix and HBO GO, and after ~15 minutes of looking came up with only about a handful of available movies we would watch...4 of which we had already seen multiple times. What do you think? Am I just living under a rock, or are all of these new comedy movies generally terrible? I fear we will never have another comedy great like Rodney Dangerfield making movies because of all of this PC nonsense that has been spreading like a plague.

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[–] jobes [OP] 2 points (+2|-0)

they try to exploit it by having long drawn out scenes that are lightly scripted and rely on the comedians to salvage it and make it funny

That formula works well only under certain circumstances. Curb Your Enthusiasm generally did a good job at that, but some scenes just turned out bad or lackluster and resulted in there being several episodes I would not want to re-watch.

they write 20-30 sketches and link them together, which has the effect of each cut to another scene feeling like you're jumping into a different film altogether.

I watched Ted 2 because it was on HBO, and it was exactly this. It was kind of painful to watch. I remembered liking the first one, but maybe it's because I was stoned.

And fuck jumpscares. I think Cabin in the Woods is the most recent American 'horror' film I've seen that I enjoyed.

[–] PMYA 2 points (+2|-0)

Watch Grown Ups 2. It is the definition of a sketch comedy film. The first scene has a fucking CGI deer.

[–] jobes [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

Watched the trailer, it had the deer. The trailer seemed like it had 10 seconds from each scene in the movie, so pretty sure I basically just watched it.