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Post by Belchic on Sept 23, 2009 16:40:56 GMT -5
Before posting anything, please read this description!
In this topic, bring up a moment from either a movie or an episode of a TV show that is supposed to be a joke, but you find it to be not funny or ammusing in any way, and give a valid explanation as to why it shouldn't even exist at all. For instance, it could be a funny joke that got ruined by something that followed it, or it could be something that you totally saw coming.
A good example I have is this scene from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".
There's one scene where one of the Hogwarts students (to be more precise, Neville Longbottom) recieves a Remembrall. Hermoine says that when you hold a Remembrall, it turns red, which means that you have forgotten something. That's a bit vague, don't you think? People forget things all the time throughout their entire lives! So having that Remembrall is kind of pointless. It will always turn red no matter who touches it! Maybe it would make more sense if they said "It means that you have forgotten something important", but no, it's just "forgotten something." Not only that, but to make matters worse, Neville touches it, it turns red, and he says this: "Only problem is, I can't remember what I've forgotten." Dude, THAT IS NOT FUNNY! It's quite obvious that you can't remember, because you have FORGOTTEN it!
I'm pretty sure that everybody who has seen this movie who has any logic would have seen that whole scenario coming!
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Post by babclayman on Sept 24, 2009 5:19:37 GMT -5
You know a movie which has go NOT A SINGLE THING FUNNY ABOUT IT is?
Anything by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer
Case in point; “Disaster Movie”
That movie was just terrible joke after terrible joke which would work more as a sketch show than a movie. The humour sucks too; most scenes are of either bikini girls running around, spraying everyone with breast milk, or women getting beaten up. How does anyone approve their work? Another bad thing about their movies is; THERE IS NO PLOT. The movie is just making references to every single movie that is popular at the time. Example; there was one scene where a twister comes; Iron Man, Hell Boy and Hulk (each character shouts out who they are as they think the audience is stupid enough not to know what reference it is) get hit by a cow, They milk this joke so much and do it 4 times. There is even a scene when they meet and fight the women from “Sex and the City” but the entire thing is just a BLAM of woman fighting and even a baby in Junos womb kicking them in the face. If you took out every single unfunny joke and reference to BETTER movies made in Disaster movie, you only have 2 minutes of plot.
Still, I would stick with 2 minutes of plot than unfunny jokes or references.
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Post by Belchic on Sept 24, 2009 13:38:35 GMT -5
Funny you mentioned that, bab. For some reason, I thought you were going to bring up that one scene from "Jingle All the Way". You know, the one the NC pointed out in his review.
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Post by babclayman on Sept 25, 2009 16:30:16 GMT -5
Why? I am not like Disaster Movies making references to everything i see =P Besides Disaster movie is a terrible piece of horse vomit pig sh*t and is something no one should ever have to see
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Post by RaceFanX on Sept 26, 2009 0:20:30 GMT -5
In the 2001 racing film "Driven," basically about CART indy car racing, there is a scene in the big climatic race of the season where a big wreck happens. In with all the CGI chaos a tire flies off one of the race cars, zooms right up the camera and drops into the crowd where it crashes with a thud. Since the scene doesn't involve main characters in any way I assume it's intented to lighten the mood of the intense racing scene.
Not only is this unfunny, it tries to make a light moment out of a very serious subject in auto racing, keeping fans safe.
In the 1998, three full years before the film was released, three fans were killed and six injured during a CART race at the Michigan International Speedway when a tire came off a s car in a crash and flew into the stands like in the film.
Trying to make humor from a topic such as this isn't just unfunny, it's sick and tasteless.
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Post by Belchic on Sept 26, 2009 1:24:31 GMT -5
Alright, here's one for you guys:
This is a joke that has been overused in a lot of the old Looney Tunes shorts. A character just randomly blurts out the phrase: "I'm only three and a half years old." The thing that annoys me about this joke is that I just don't get it. What's the joke? What's it supposed to make reference to? Why did the character say it? It almost always makes no connection with the scenario at all. Why do they use that phrase so much?
In fact, Looney Tunes had a lot of jokes like that like "Duh...which way did he go, George?" Who originated that phrase?
Somebody please help me on this one!
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Post by bluecatcinema on Oct 24, 2009 20:49:49 GMT -5
Not technically on-topic, but there is this one joke-related occurance in movies and TV that really annoys me: When we hear a character telling the tail-end of a joke, you know, like "And the guy says 'I was talking to the duck', and everyone around just collapses in hysterics. That really bugs me for some reason.
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