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Any1 Prefer Non-Comedies For Humor?

posted 4 years ago by BillHicksFan (10102)
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My username is self-evident; if I want to laugh, I need it mainlined with stand-up comedy. It's very rare I find any humor in movies in the "comedy" category. I never liked slapstick, screwball, or stupid. I seem to like angry behavior, someone calling out bullshit, getting to the truth, exposing something essential flippantly, or things that are well-written (usually inside laughter).

I'm thinking of funny parts, and they're all in dramas.
-Harry and Tonto
-La Strada
-One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
-Buffalo '66

or that scene with Joe Pesci in "Casino" when he starts yelling about Charley M.

[–] sslssg (27744) 4 years ago

I get most of my comedy from horror.

[–] BillHicksFan (10102) 4 years ago

LOL

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[–] db20db (16208) 4 years ago

The Judge (2014) has exactly the element you describe. Robert Downey Jr. plays a high profile lawyer who has a rapid fire, sardonic style of verbally antagonizing and intimidating others in the story. His love interest summed it up with the clever line. "...that vocabulary vomit thing that you do."

[–] TexasJack (12515) 4 years ago

I have to see that one. I'm a big RDJ fan.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 4 years ago

You call yourself a big RDJ fan and you haven't seen The Judge?

[–] TexasJack (12515) 4 years ago

Ok, maybe I'm a medium RDJ fan.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 4 years ago

Fair enough.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Buffalo 66 was hilarious especially Ben Gazzara.

[–] BillHicksFan (10102) 4 years ago

The final scene at the graveyard was hilarious. Listening to the football game, lol.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Death Wish 3 (1985) ticks all the boxes. ✔️

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I remember this one, That was the end of Freddie's dandruff problem once and for all 😁

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

In general most modern comedies aren't funny at all, they all try way too hard. I am finding the tv show "The Good Doctor" hilarious right now for example. It's about an autistic guy who becomes a doctor, for a start he doesn't seem autistic it's more Asperger's or straight up Down Syndrome or retard. At the moment he has a girlfriend(!) and she wants to have sex with him but he doesn't feel comfortable being touched. In the last ep she was sitting topless in front of him when he just gets up and says he wants to watch TV and leaves the room.

I can't take it as anything but comedy.

Compare that to say someone like Rebel Wilson. Oh look she's falling over because she's fat, oh hilarious.... look she's eating because she's fat oh my I can't breathe because I'm laughing so hard!

Not.

[–] KD637 (488) 4 years ago

I know what you mean. Joe with Nicolas Cage is another fine example. Forest Gump. Most Tarantino films. I also like movies such as Evil Dead, where humor almost seems unintentional. Or even when it is unitentional (The Room).

[–] BillHicksFan (10102) 4 years ago

Joe (1970) had moments of humor, a result of Peter Boyle ranting.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Some quotes from the book, Catch-22, many of which got into the screenplay:

Capt. Yossarian: He was very old.
Luciana: But he was a boy.
Capt. Yossarian: Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.

“They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly.
No one's trying to kill you, sweetheart." Clevinger cried.
Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked.
They're shooting at everyone, Yossarian!" Clevinger answered.
And what difference does that make?”

From now on I'm thinking only of me."
Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way."
"Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?”

Etc, etc. INTELLIGENT comedy. The best kind.