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The thing to remember about all those old slapstick comedies is that you're supposed to watch them between the ages of 6 and 9. That's the level they're pitched at. If you watch one of them now, you're not going to get very much out of it.
Hobbes, I don't know if you're just pissed off that everyone has always been ramming fawlty towers down your throat every day since you were born, but it is genuinely brilliant. The main problem with it is that it is set in the rather specific milleu of post war decline, but there's only twelve episodes, and each is so tightly written and vivid, that it's not really a surprise that the Strain nearly broke Cleese.
But everyone telling you you have to love something doesn't help.
"The Guard " paddywhackery rubbish, let's all laugh at the Irish, every Irish character is either racist,corrupt or stupid and the title character is all three,can't see the praise for it
Have you ever been to galway? I quite liked it.
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View PostThe thing to remember about all those old slapstick comedies is that you're supposed to watch them between the ages of 6 and 9. That's the level they're pitched at. If you watch one of them now, you're not going to get very much out of it.
Hobbes, I don't know if you're just pissed off that everyone has always been ramming fawlty towers down your throat every day since you were born, but it is genuinely brilliant. The main problem with it is that it is set in the rather specific milleu of post war decline, but there's only twelve episodes, and each is so tightly written and vivid, that it's not really a surprise that the Strain nearly broke Cleese.
But everyone telling you you have to love something doesn't help.
"The Guard " paddywhackery rubbish, let's all laugh at the Irish, every Irish character is either racist,corrupt or stupid and the title character is all three,can't see the praise for it
Have you ever been to galway? I quite liked it.
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View PostThe thing to remember about all those old slapstick comedies is that you're supposed to watch them between the ages of 6 and 9. That's the level they're pitched at. If you watch one of them now, you're not going to get very much out of it.
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I really like laurel and Hardy too, and bought my Dad the DVD box set there a couple of years ago, and I'm with you on a lot of the others. But I know that most of it is down to me loving it as a child, and watching it with my dad. Someone watching it for the first time now isn't going to get a huge amount out of it
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Some Star Wars fans are petitioning to get Meryl Streep cast as Princess Leia. http://comicbook.com/starwars/2018/0...ep-episode-IX/
Which makes me think I'm surprised Star Wars hasn't been added to the list.
I could never get Star Trek: The Next Generation. The best description I've ever heard for it was 'Meetings in Space'. Every time Trekker fans convinced me to give it another go it would seem to be an entire episode of talking and discussing the ethics of some random situation. Plus all the aliens looked like people in rubbery make up.
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostSome Star Wars fans are petitioning to get Meryl Streep cast as Princess Leia. http://comicbook.com/starwars/2018/0...ep-episode-IX/
Which makes me think I'm surprised Star Wars hasn't been added to the list.
The fandom for them though I definitely don't get.
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The early seasons of M*A*S*H* are genius - the McLean Stevenson/Larry Linville/Wayne Rogers years. But when they all left, they made the mistake of replacing comic foils with straight men, and they're not the same thing. Also, it went on too long and became a Serious Show. And, of course, Alan Alda.
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostThought of another one. Steven Moffat's Sherlock series. People extol them but it's just a series of 'look at us, we're so clever' set ups with the viewers being the victims of condescension.
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Channel 4 has (to date) commissioned at least 2 series of The Mighty Boosh, and then put the twat on the Bake Off. He's about as funny as treading in shit wearing your only pair of sandals on holiday. Six miles from your hotel and any shops.
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Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View PostChannel 4 has (to date) commissioned at least 2 series of The Mighty Boosh, and then put the twat on the Bake Off. He's about as funny as treading in shit wearing your only pair of sandals on holiday. Six miles from your hotel and any shops.
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Much of The Day Today, most of Brasseye and all of Blue Jam. Although I usually find Chris Morris cameo appearances quite funny.
Anything involving Stewart Lee, can't stand his style of comedy and his show.
Stranger Things, gave up after 3 episodes.
Horror movies.
League of Gentlemen (but I love Inside No.9).
Charlie Brooker
Other than that, I love:
Fawlty Towers
The Big Lebowski
Withnail and I
The Mighty Boosh
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Originally posted by Snake Plissken View PostI think their films are very cold. It makes them easy to respect but quite difficult to like.
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