Can the Theatrical Comedy Make a Comeback? ‘The Naked Gun’ Is the Ultimate Test
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Absolutely. But they’ve got to be good and they’ve got to be funny.
Airplane , the original Naked Gun trilogy, Young Frankenstein , Blazing Saddles , they all hold up today and are still hilarious. We didn’t stop going to see theatrical comedies, they stopped being funny.
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Why would theatrical comedies need to make a comeback? The love for them has never waned. Both my top 10 to 20/ most watched movies more than half are generally theatrical comedies. Police academy, top secret, hot shots, airplane, Robin Hood Men in tights, spaceballs, blazing saddles, real genius, and of course the original Naked Gun. They never stopped being good. Hollywood just forgot or didn't care to remember how to make them.
All anyone has to do is look at scary movie or Not Another series from the early 2000s. Starting out fairly decently. But quickly devolving into nothing but a series of references to other movies. Lazy cash grabs that weren't funny.
The one trailer I saw for this upcoming naked movie didn't seem encouraging to me but I'm going to hold off judgment until I've actually seen it. I really would like to see Hollywood embrace the format again. Well I love my action Blockbusters we've been starved for this kind of content for a decade or more.
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I don't think at this point, any genre is going to make a comeback to help the theaters. Biggest chain in the world AMC is hurting. They announced on the news yesterday that they are going to add more adds, like up to a half an hour of them before each movie. Guess there is no reason to get there early anymore.
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Liam Neeson
Leslie Neilson
LNYou cant tell me that wasnt intentional
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a test is if the movie was not a legacy sequel, an original comedy would be the real test.
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I really hope that "Weird Al" Yankovic is on the plane.
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A remake should not be the ultimate test of anything, except maybe futility
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Maybe it's just me, but I can't even make it halfway through the new Naked Gun trailer. I think it looks awful.
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Maybe it's just me, but I can't even make it halfway through the new Naked Gun trailer. I think it looks awful.
Eh I think it looks good. Different tastes.
