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Gets WORSE with subsequent viewings


Humor doesn't seem to hold up. Was looking forward to this, after not seeing it for 10 maybe 15 years...somehow, I found it funnier in the 80's. Today, it comes across as forced...lame...unfunny...

Guess you had to be there. Funny thing is...I was. Just ain't no good no more.



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Maybe you didn't find it as funny now is because your much older now? I still think it's hilarious just as it was when it first came out. Idk, it's just a thought.









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Could not disagree more. I loved this film as a 12 year old when it first came out and I still laugh out loud every time I see it.

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Just watching it now to check....

Nope. It is still hilarious.

Must be you?

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To me, just as funny (and moving) as the day I first saw it (back in 1981).



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Would love to see a list of five movies from this century you consider funnier than the original ARTHUR.

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I saw this as a 20-year-old in Manhattan in the fall of 1981, and the audience was in hysterics. Funniest movie we'd ever seen.

Just saw it alone on Amazon streaming video and I was like "Did I really laugh at that line as hard as I thought I did back in the day?"

I don't know how much of Arthur's attenuation in funniness is the intervening 35 years vs. seeing it by myself (instead of in a theater).

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Loved it then, love it now.

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No, PEOPLE ARE GETTING WORSE WITH SUBSEQUENT YEARS.

Actually, I think the preponderance of negativity one sees here in recent threads comes from neurotic malcontents, most who have never sen the film, who come here and want to spread *beep* on all the joy this movie inspires in the sane viewers.










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Humor doesn't seem to hold up.
Hoe much humor actually does show up in such? Much of it is topical, or at least becomes less cutting edge because classics like this set the trend for what comes after. Don't get as big a kick out of Animal House, Something About Mary or American Pie as on first view either, even if still appreciate them from what they were at the time.

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