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TehBamski@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

What's a great but uncommon comedy movie we should watch?

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What's a great but uncommon comedy movie we should watch?

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    Hot Fuzz. One of the best movies of all time.

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      I don’t feel like Hot Fuzz is uncommon.

    • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
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      No luck catching them swans then?

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        It’s just the one swan, actually

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      Uncommon?

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        Relatively, i would say. Otherwise, see my other comment below.

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      Such a good one!

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      There’s a hedgehog in the garden. BUT IT’S NOT THEIR ONE!

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    Tucker and Dale vs Evil

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      Alan Tudyk is one of my favorite actors who I feel gets too little credit. He’s hilarious and it seems he’s always in some funny/weird role in live action but has a surprising list of credits when it comes to animated and especially Disney animated movies. Pretty sure he’s been in almost every Disney animated movie of the last 15 years.

      I love Tucker and Dale vs Evil

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      I wonder how many people passed this up just because of the title and/or the cover picture

      Definitely one of the most original comedy films ever

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      “He just jumped into that wood chipper! Who does something like that?!”

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    Idiocracy is the funniest comedy I’ve ever seen, but its becoming like a documentary of our time now… And that wasn’t intended I think.

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      I fell asleep the first time I watched it. Worked at my corporation for a year and my friend made me rewatch it. Fucking love it now. I also put it’s got electrolytes in a lot of power points.

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        Welcome to Costco, I love you

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      No, it is not “a documentary”, and anyone who says that got the wrong message from the film. It is hilarious, though.

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    Is Kung Fury uncommon enough? Most people I talk to irl never heard of it

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      • Starb3an@sh.itjust.works
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        THAT’S A LOT OF NUTS!!

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          THAT’LL BE FOUR BUCKS, BABY! YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT?

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          Must be, what, 20 years since this was a thing? And I still heard this comment like it was yesterday.

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        Noted, thank you

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      Hackerman, he’s the greatest hacker of all time

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      Kung Fury!!!

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    Inspired by another answer in this thread, Kung Fu Hustle. It’s also a pretty good Kung Fu movie, similar to how Shawn of the Dead manages to be both a comedy and a pretty good zombie movie.

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      You’ve got red on you.

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    Clue. One of Tim Curry’s finest performances. Madeline Kahn’s, too.

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      One of Tim Curry’s finest performances

      That’s like saying one of the Beatles best songs. He is outstanding in everything, so all of his performances are one of his best.

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        Oscar is also excellent. Dr. Poole is one of his best characters.

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    Big Trouble in Little China

    Nothing but Trouble

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    What We Do in the Shadows (the movie, not the series). For something more obscure, An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn. Yes, both feature Jemaine Clement

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      The film is considerably better than the show.

      That really did go down hill after they replaced all the Kiwi writers with Americans. It basically lost its heart after the first season, you can tell when things start winning American TV awards.

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    Mystery Men!

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      The TERRIBLY mysterious Sphinx. The Shoveller, who shovels VERY well. You can’t go wrong with Mystery Men, absolutely rewatching this asap!

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        Also Tom Waits!

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        You threw a spoon at the guy Jeff!

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      “I’m the Blue Rajah! Not knifey boy!”

      “I shovel better than anyone!”

      “When you’re invisible, you can feel it!”

      Edit’?: “I was saving these for you wedding but… That seems… Well…”

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    Death to Smoochy is criminally underrated. Robin Williams and Ed Norton are so good in it.

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      Yes, I had to scroll way too long for this! One of my absolute favourites.

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      “Sir! Are you ok?” “I’m kinda fucked up in general, so it’s hard to judge”

      One of my favorite movie lines ever

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    Top Secret! (1984), a WW2 parody featuring Val Kilmer. From the same guys who made Airplane!.

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    If everyone hasn’t watched Hot Tub Time Machine, everyone should watch Hot Tub Time Machine.

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      One of my all time faves!!

      “Great White Buffalo!“

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        ᴳʳᵉᵃᵗ ᵂʰᶦᵗᵉ ᴮᵘᶠᶠᵃˡᵒᵎ

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      Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is way better and super underrated.

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        I still sing that song from the second one. “You’re a fucking nerd and no one likes you.”

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    Is it fair to say that Mel Brooks movies are uncommon now? Have they gotten old enough that people today are generally ignorant of them? If so, “Blazing Saddles”, “History of the World: Part 1”, “Young Frankenstein”, and “Spaceballs” are incredibly worthy of a watch.

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      No mention for Robin Hood: Men In Tights?

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        My bad! Another classic. Mel Brooks just does not miss.

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    Very uncommon. Arguably one of the most disturbing comedy’s ever made.

    Meet the Feebles is a 1989 musical comedy produced and directed by The Lord of the Rings mastermind Peter Jackson. The film is set behind the scenes at a Muppet Show-like theatrical company, and it nods to The Muppet Movie with its story about raggedy puppet entertainers dreaming of making it big. Except in Meet the Feebles, most of the puppets are diseased, drug-addicted, and / or sexually perverse. Jackson, his partner Fran Walsh, and fellow New Zealand weirdos Danny Mulheron and Stephen Sinclair collaborated on a screenplay that weaves together about half a dozen subplots; the most prominent involves the talented hippopotamus Heidi, whose lover (and the troupe’s impresario) Bletch is cruelly dismissive and adulterous. As the Feebles prepare for the show that could be their big break, their personal problems start to spill over onstage.

    https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/24/17778026/happytime-murders-peter-jackson-meet-the-feebles-perverted-puppets-streaming-recommendation

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      Absolutely love this fever dream of a movie

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      Yes! Truly a unique movie. The paparazzo fly eating literal shit will stick with me for the rest of my life!

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    ‘My cousin Vinny’ seems relatively uncommon, and is a beautiful courtroom comedy drama.

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      Great film but not uncommon. She won the Oscar for her performance.

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      Uncommon to the young folks. Pretty much everyone over the age of 35 has seen my cousin Vinny. It was also super popular and well known and is still definitely a great movie.

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      Amazing all around

      Cast, writing, and a lot of memorable scenes

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