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Snake5555555555 01/20/21 2:26:14 AM #185:	kateee posted... great writeup! Thank you! Despite the film's reputation as a comedy I do tend to think of it more as a drama with most of the humor extremely mean-spirited and supremely dark rather than straight up side-splittingly hilarious. Like I think a lot of films bill themselves as black comedies but don't really commit all the way and are just content to throw jokes in there about someone's death or some sexually inappropriate scenario with not a lot depth or grace to it. Just dark for the sake of being dark. To me, the best black comedies use the style to genuinely highlight real-life hypocrisies, tragedies, and issues in a way that still takes the main points seriously while providing a fresh if sometimes extreme or outlandish take that still makes you laugh from the extreme absurdity of it. In Bruges is an excellent black comedy to me because of the way it tackles race and culture to provide one example, where it's shown that whether American, Canadian, Irish, Black, White, or what have you, there are no distinct lines on how our personal human experience is going to play out, and this is demonstrated to us through a drug-fueled rant I bet many would take a lot of issue with. I guess what I'm trying to get at is black comedy doesn't really concern itself with if its funny or not, just in the point its trying to make, if that makes any sense. kateee posted... What do you think are the consistently funniest movies of all time? I personally struggle too to find a lot of films "funny". I would say my favorite comedies are genre parodies like Shaun of the Dead or Deadpool 2, where they're still excellent examples of the genre they're lampooning but also take the opportunity to poke holes in itself wherever it can. I also like films that inject comedy into what would be a serious plot in another film, Burn After Reading an excellent example of this. I think my top 5 TRUE comedies would be (as in, to me it sets out to be COMEDY first and whatever other genre if any second, it's extremely subjective I know): Shaun of the Dead Burn After Reading Mean Girls Tucker & Dale vs. Evil This is Spinal Tap --- Hey, look on the bright side, there's nowhere but up from a canyon in hell. https://imgur.com/1e1e70S - https://imgur.com/a/bHIYzis <cite>Snake5555555555 posted [p:949703088] in B8 Movie C... [t:79213483]...</cite> <quote>kateee posted... </cite> <quote>great writeup!</quote> Thank you! Despite the film's reputation as a comedy I do tend to think of it more as a drama with most of the humor extremely mean-spirited and supremely dark rather than straight up side-splittingly hilarious. Like I think a lot of films bill themselves as black comedies but don't really commit all the way and are just content to throw jokes in there about someone's death or some sexually inappropriate scenario with not a lot depth or grace to it. Just dark for the sake of being dark. To me, the best black comedies use the style to genuinely highlight real-life hypocrisies, tragedies, and issues in a way that still takes the main points seriously while providing a fresh if sometimes extreme or outlandish take that still makes you laugh from the extreme absurdity of it. In Bruges is an excellent black comedy to me because of the way it tackles race and culture to provide one example, where it's shown that whether American, Canadian, Irish, Black, White, or what have you, there are no distinct lines on how our personal human experience is going to play out, and this is demonstrated to us through a drug-fueled rant I bet many would take a lot of issue with. I guess what I'm trying to get at is black comedy doesn't really concern itself with if its funny or not, just in the point its trying to make, if that makes any sense. kateee posted... </cite> <quote>What do you think are the consistently funniest movies of all time?</quote> I personally struggle too to find a lot of films "funny". I would say my favorite comedies are genre parodies like Shaun of the Dead or Deadpool 2, where they're still excellent examples of the genre they're lampooning but also take the opportunity to poke holes in itself wherever it can. I also like films that inject comedy into what would be a serious plot in another film, Burn After Reading an excellent example of this. I think my top 5 TRUE comedies would be (as in, to me it sets out to be COMEDY first and whatever other genre if any second, it's extremely subjective I know): Shaun of the DeadBurn After ReadingMean GirlsTucker & Dale vs. Evil This is Spinal Tap --- Hey, look on the bright side, there's nowhere but up from a canyon in hell. https://imgur.com/1e1e70S - https://imgur.com/a/bHIYzis</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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