Its Pretty Wack How They Just Dont Make Comedies Anymore

[ThaRealness]

You look at Will Ferrells Career, its pretty much kids movies after 2016.
Those 2000s flicks with Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn etc were the shyt.

And theres plenty of talent. Its just not a profitable venture these days. Hollywood would rather make superhero films.


Marvel Comics = the 3 point shot

R rated comedy = the midrange

 

[Days of Future Piff]

What really left me feeling a certain way is how spoof films have pretty much completely died off. Seltzer and Friedberg killed the genre dead.
It's a shame, too, because those parody movies of the 70s, 80s and 90s were classic.

Blazing Saddles is one of the funniest movies EVER made. You could NEVER make a flick like that in today's sensitive era. That's probably the biggest reason why comedy is dead now. Too many people get offended so easily now.

Imagine Revenge of the Nerds dropping in 2020

 

[jwinfield]

Imagine Revenge of the Nerds dropping in 2020

That movie had the good guys straight up raping chicks.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Still waiting on Jamie Foxx “AllStar Weekend” movie


Which was supposed to be a huge comedy

 

[FlyRy]

They make them they're just awful or flop or both. Good comedy has migrated to television

 

[Sccit]

THERE WERE SOME GOOD COMEDIES LAST YEAR

THE ART OF SELF DEFENSE, DOLEMITE IS MY NAME, GOOD BOYS, SHAFT, JOJO RABBIT, STUBER

TO NAME A FEW



BUT YEA, ITS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE

 

[Days of Future Piff]

That movie had the good guys straight up raping chicks.

Are you talking about the scene with the dude in the Vader costume? Yeah, that mess was even for the 80s.

 

[Json]

Comedy seems to come in waves around the actor or director who has the clout to make Hollywood trust them to give him the money.

Comedies were a product of the vehicle model of greenlighting

Will Ferrell, Mel Brooks, Reitman, Eddie , Apatow

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Comedies these days follow the same formula. No real clever comedies or Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy, Chris Tucker prime caliber performances.

 

[GiantGonzalez]

Can’t really make comedies anymore because you’ll probably offend too many fakkits with nothing better to do

 

[Ironman]

Black Dynamite 2

 

[HHR]

Can’t really make comedies anymore because you’ll probably offend too many fakkits with nothing better to do

Such a bullshyt excuse, usually made by people who can't be funny beyond the shock value.

Booksmart
Game Night
Spy
Death of Stalin
Popstar
What We do in the Shadows
Nice Guys

They still make comedies, though it's true mass audiences have kinda stopped showing up.

 

[HHR]

Comedies these days follow the same formula. No real clever comedies or Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy, Chris Tucker prime caliber performances.

bytching about about formulaic comedy and then wanting Chris Tucker? That man did nothing new after RUSH HOUR in 1998

 

[MenacingMonk]

Most of those Stiller and Ferrell flicks aged horribly. Loved them when they dropped, but now...

Some are still good (Something About Mary, Polly, Semi-Pro, Step Brothers), but most can

 

[StraxStrax]

Such a bullshyt excuse, usually made by people who can't be funny beyond the shock value.

Booksmart
Game Night
Spy
Death of Stalin
Popstar
What We do in the Shadows
Nice Guys

They still make comedies, though it's true mass audiences have kinda stopped showing up.

JoJo Rabbit
The Favourite
Tag
Thor Ragnarrök
Lego Batman
Zootopia
Bad Moms

We got plenty