IMDB should list your age when you review a film

I am 18. I love older comedies a whole lot more than newer ones. I grew up watching movies my dad and uncles liked, and came to like them. I love older comedies like Monty Python, Abbot and Costello, The Naked Gun, and several others. I just saw The Gods Must be Crazy yesterday with my cousin at his apartment. It came on T.V. and I recognized the title as a movie I had heard my dad once talk about. I told my cousin we should watch it. We both were laughing hysterically throughout the movie. I'd say about 90% of the film we spent laughing.
I actually dislike most of the comedies that have been made recently. I watched Scary Movie 2 and only found a few parts funny and didn't really enjoy it. I watched Knocked Up and actually hated it. I Haven't bothered to watch any new comedies the last year. I personally think the comedies made recently are complete crap. There are only a handful of Comedies made after the 90's that I actually enjoy. I hate Superbad, American Pie, and pretty much every other comedy that my generation likes. I am somewhat angry at my generation for failing to appreciate actual comedy and not strings of jokes involving nothing but sex, boobs, and penises which is all that's been made in the last few years. I think I'm going to stick with the older stuff. Bob Hope will beat Judd Apatow any day.

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Saw the film years and years ago, when my parents rented it and had me and my younger brother watch it. I'd guess I was somewhere between ten and thirteen at the time, and I remember liking it. My Anthropology teacher says that we need to watch it and email him a link to the movie online to prove that we did, which I find slightly ridiculous since A) I already saw it and B) I can't find it.

The age thing is an interesting concept, but it neglects the fact that chronological age often has very little bearing on maturity, whether it be mental or emotional (and yes, they are different), and the same goes for comparative intellect/education levels and the like, all of which are major factors in whether people enjoy movies.

For instance, I am twenty year old male with a somewhat haphazard formal education augmented by a great deal of independent study on everything from historical clothing design to clockwork mechanics. This means that I'm less likely to reject movies involving obscure subjects (since I know at least a little bit about most of them), and likewise less likely to reject a movie simply for being subtitled (although this also stems from a liberal upbringing with widely-educated parents). I'm also an Aspie, which brings a whole other set of factors into play, such as different ideas regarding humour and logical behavior, among other things. Even the subtitle thing may have Aspie roots, since I find it infinitely helpful to have the subtitles on even when I'm watching something in English, and my brother, another Aspie, is the same way.

Modern comedy tends to depend too heavily on the "stupid people doing stupid things" cliche. Just look at Family Guy and most of the sitcoms these days.

I've looked on imdb at 100s of movies and the comments posted about them. What is the purpose, I ask, of posting a comment about a movie? Is it to show what a superior person the commenter is? Or is it to inform readers about the movie? If the purpose is to show how superior the commenter is, the comment often fails to attain its goal. If the purpose is to inform the readers about the movie, it is not helpful to state that the movie is "dated". If the release date of the movie is 1981, it goes without saying that the movie is "dated". Yet, almost invariably, some commenters feel compelled to point out that the movie is "dated", as if this observation is somehow a pertinent critique. Show me a movie from 30 years ago in which characters drive 2008 cars and talk on cell phones. Could I reasonably say I enjoyed Chaplin's "Gold Rush" except for the fact that it was "dated" in that the characters could not be heard to speak and dialog was presented by means of title cards? If only it had sound and color, it might have been a really good movie. Sigh.

That depends. I am a huge fan of the Marx Brothers, but not too keen on the Bing Crosby/Bob Hope stuff, and they came out (slightly) later on.

I think it's more about what type of humour someone likes, regardless of age.

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I'm 16, watched the movie when i was 15.

This movie is a classic. I'm surprised it's not on Top 250 honestly, it should at least have a 7.5 at the minimum...

Such a great movie, very funny.