I watched Waiting not too long ago, for the first time since it came out probably, and they use some of the classic early 'oughts terms that we don’t use anymore. Often.
OH GOD I just remembered Meet The Spartans exists.
Eurotrip - the whole dvd.
I clicked through rewatching some of it and it’s generically raunchy, like it was trying to outcompete the American Pie movie for sex references and topless women.
Edit: It can be very depressing in winter.
I don’t remember it being that bad and Scotty Doesn’t Know is a banger. Miscuzi!
Damon looked like he had a blast.
mi scusi
Yeah I don’t get the love of it. Parts of it are ok, but there is a lot of cringe.
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.
Anything with Adam Sandler
We’re just gonna pretend Wedding Singer isn’t a classic huh?
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
Punch Drunk Love is good because he had no hand in it other than acting.
Primarily because he’s about as funny as a erectile dysfunction
He’s at his most hilarious when he sings with the squeaky voice 🙄
Someone completely ruined the band Alt+j for me years ago by pointing out that the singer’s voice sounds like Adam Sandler doing that goofy squeaky voice. Now I cannot unhear it. Every time I hear a song by them it makes me lol.
Now I’ve passed this onto you, and whoever reads this. You’ve now been cursed as well.
This is one of those monkey paw curses in reverse because, if anything, you just made Alt+J better.
Made me think of this internet classic:
Shallow Hal is a pretty good contender
Isn’t the ultimate message of the movie wholesome though? I’ve never actually seen it.
The basic message is supposed to be but loses intent because of the fact it’s all fat jokes
I rewatched Napoleon Dynamite last week and it holds up well IMO. So, not that.
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
IDK, I didn’t really buy into the hype of either film at the time so when I eventually saw them on DVD, I was disappointed of course. Individual scenes in Napoleon Dynamite were entertaining on their own merits and highly quotable, but the film barely had a cohesive plot and felt more like a series of comedy sketches stringed together rather than a proper movie.
Juno was terrible thanks to the dialog alone. IDK who wrote that script (and don’t care to look it up), but it was some of the most unrealistic dialog I’ve ever heard in a piece of media. Everyone talks like robots and always has the perfect quirky comeback anytime anyone says something. The only person in that film who spoke like a human being was Michael Cera, but every scene with him in it was insufferable because he’s Michael Cera.
Diablo Cody was the writer of Juno, and I only know it because she became a hot commodity after the breakout success of Juno. And she had a middling hit with Jennifer’s Body but hasn’t done anything of note since.
Meanwhile whomever did Napoleon Dynamite was getting offers left and right, and his followup Nacho Libre was a dud because they were banking on the same success of ND but starring Jack Black. Jon Heder got a bunch of offers, including that skating movie with Will Ferrell but I think he kinda just fizzled out
Some movies only hit on the first watch. Once you know the gags, twists or ending its just “Yeah Ok.”
I hadn’t seen it until this year; it held up well, but the peak for me was the jumpcuts while they talk about Pedro’s bike
Bow to your Sensei!
Nothing left for me to do but dance.
Two that come to mind to me are Click and That’s my Boy. Both Adam Sandler movies of course. The first one is very queerphobic and sexist, and the second one is a story about pedophilia. Still surprised they managed to get Christopher Walken for Click tbh…
The sad dad in Click still elevates Click though.
7 Dwarfs - The Forrest is not enought
In german there is a joke being done i think 3 times:
“Holt den Jäger!” (Get the Hunter!) a black Person walks in “Den Jäger, nicht den Nxxxx!” (The Hunter, Not the N-Word)
Yeaaaah…do i need to elaborate? 2006…what a different time of society, especially in germany.
Then there is basicly all of the Star Trek Parodies “(T)Raumschiff Suprise” by Michael Bully Herbig As well as the “Schuh des Manithu” Movie.
Wish I could tell you off the top of my head, but if anyone is fond of badly aged comedy films (or just talking about them) there’s this great podcast/YT channel called This Aged Great focusing on 70s 80s & 90s films.
Edit:
- I think American Pie is a bit weird, not thwt funny given the subject matter, and contains really unpleasant elements
- Some of the high school movies of early 2000s were leaning into the template set up by their famous 80s predecessors, but i think people understood that the 80s films were purposefully trope-y. Whereas for the 2000s movies, they were treating it with reverence and it was like an unpleasant commitment to keeping alive a situation which had only ever existed in the real of fiction
that’s a great channel.
I feel like 50 First Dates doesn’t hold up
Heretic!
Little Man
I haven’t thought of it in years but i suspect me myself and irene might have some questionable parts.
I highly recommend the first few episodes of “dead like me” though. Perfectly captures the y2k/bondi blue imac g3 aesthetic.
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
Was “dead like me” the oen about the pathologist who was a brain eating zombie?
No, dead like me was the girl who got killed by an airplane toilet, and then worked as a grim reaper
Okay I missed that one. What was I thinking of?
Are you thinking of Santa Clarita Diet?
No that was the thing that Timothy Olyphant did after Justified.
Damn near all of them.
The one exception (it did age decently) is Austin Powers.
They must have used the time machine to look forward and figure out what they could get away with and then danced as close to the line as possible.
Point of order: International Man Of Mystery and The Spy Who Shagged Me are both 90s films. Only Goldmember is from the 2000s.
The franchise could have an amazing modern day sequel if done properly.
Loose Change.
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 😂
Some kid in my class insisted we play it in my civics class. I tore it apart as it was playing.
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.
comedy
Yeah that one wasn’t even funny then.
It had its moments, none of them intentional.
