• Bizzle@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I don’t remember noticing how obviously fake that rhinoceros was when I was a kid

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      I do, but that may be because iirc it was fake in cannon. It’s been a long time but as I recall he built the rhino as a sort of hunting blind, I don’t remember why well but I think it was to observe/photo animals.

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          He stole a white bat to halt a tribal marriage and then force a war between the tribes. Thus allowing an English company he owns to exploit the conflict to steal the guano trade for profit.

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    Say what you will about those stupid movies, I miss them…

    Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, Mel Brooks, the early Jim Carrey comedies, Police Academy…

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      I just miss silly spoof movies.

      I feel like those " (genre) Movie" films were such weak throwaways and the silly parody movie quietly just died shortly after. Especially when everything wanted to be an “adult comedy” or a “dramedy” (ughh!)

      You don’t really see that fun absurdist trope-poking humor of Kung Pow!, Airplane, Monty Python, or Austin Powers, anymore. Spy movie spoofs were such a great time. :)

      A TV show called Angie Tribeca did this SO WELL. It was such a great cop show parody full of silly wordplay and puns and unbelievably ridiculous scenarios.

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      I really loved police academy. Rewatched it recently with our late teen kids-wow, does it have some racial and queer jokes that made us all very uncomfortable. the rest is still gold though.

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    I’m surprised I didn’t rupture my spleen when I saw that.

    It was in a cinema, too, if you remember what those were.

    I couldn’t breathe, and I was all but a puddle on the sticky floor, laughing my adult ass off.

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      3 months ago

      That scene was about as hard as I’ve ever laughed. Must have had it on VCR because it was the 90s. Scared to revisit it because I couldn’t possibly laugh that hard a second time.

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    To this day, I’ve never laughed harder than I did when I first saw this scene. My cheeks and abs cramped up, my back started to hurt, my lungs damn near collapsed from laughing so hard.

    Thankfully, I don’t think I’ll ever laugh that hard for as long as I live, because I think there might be a good chance I could actually die of laughter.

    Jim Carrey is the GOAT

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      It’s hilarious the you’re simultaneously (and incorrectly) claiming “movies these days” are too PC for this, and yet the “edgiest” comedians you can come up with are a group of middle-aged dad’s doing the most pg “pranks” ever.

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        I don’t think they were claiming it was “too PC” so much as just movie industry trends. Like executives don’t see money in stupid-funny comedies these days maybe? I do wonder myself at the reason why.

        Impractical Jokers do be funny guys though. :D