• IninewCrow
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    They’re moving at enormous speed … they’ve gone PLAID

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          The joke is in the same style of silliness and nonsense as Tim Russ as the uniformed solider with the black ball helmet in the desert answering ‘We ain’t found shit!’

          I miss that kind of wacky humour from the 80s/90s … Mel Brooks movies, Monty Python (although from the 60s was rerun often in the 70s and 80s), Zucker/Abrahams films (Airplane movies, Top Secret, Hot Shots) … then throw in the mix Weird Al, UHF and his music videos.

          The modern stuff that tries to emulate this kind of humour feels more forced or artificial now … it’s not the same.

          Who else can deliver dead pan humour like Leslie Neilson, Marty Feldman, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack … or character comedians like Gene Wilder, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Cary Elwes

          They gave us such a weird silly off the wall kind of humour that when I say or do anything like them now … very few younger people understand it and see it as just ‘weird’ … I feel like an older generation of people doing a Groucho Marx joke, while holding an imaginary cigar ‘I shot an elephant in my pants, how it got in my pants I don’t know’

          • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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            I have been lamenting a lack of that kind of comedy for a long time. So many new comedies are just mid romcoms or weird, pretentious “comedies” that might be humorous at times, but we’re definitely not written specifically to make the audience laugh.

            I love the absurd. Definitely would love to see more like Airplane! and Top Secret!. Max Brooks-esque stuff. Python inspired stuff. More stoner movies, too. I haven’t seen a good one of those since Grandma’s Boy.

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        I always thought it was making fun of the warp effect with the streaking stars. It wouldn’t just be straight lines at ludicrous speed, it would be a plaid pattern.