Subj : Re: state of movies
To   : Nightfox
From : Boraxman
Date : Fri Sep 24 2021 15:27:00

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 Ni>   Re: Re: state of movies
 Ni>   By: Boraxman to Nightfox on
 Ni> Thu Sep 23 2021 05:45 pm

 >>> The Naked Gun movies were based off it.  Same gag humor as Airplane
 >>> films

 Bo> I think what I liked about them, and what you don't find much, is they
 Bo> didn't take themselves seriously. They were wacky, but very much so. For
 Bo> example, in Airplane they say "light the runway" or something like that,
 Bo> and you see someone dump lamps on to it. They would do anything for a
 Bo> visual gag, it didn't have to concord with reality or have any continuity.
 Bo> The gags were thrown in just for laughs.

 Ni> Yes, I think that's what made those movies great.  Also in Airplane,
 Ni> when they're taking off: "You have clearance, Clarence." "Roger, Roger.
 Ni>  What's our vector, Victor?"  It's full of gags.

 Ni> There's little things here and there in those movies too.  In Hot
 Ni> Shots, there's a scene where it shows the name of a ship written on the
 Ni> side of the ship, which is the SS Essess.

 Bo> Comedies now are more, well, conservative. Some are 'screwball', but they
 Bo> kind of still take themselves too seriously. Modern Family I think is a
 Bo> good example. It tries to be quirky, but it just ends up being characters
 Bo> with particular mannerisms and affectations. There are some modern shows
 Bo> which I think still have this element, Family Guy is one, where something
 Bo> completely wacky will happen for a gag, though that show tends to overplay
 Bo> it a little. Malcom in the Middle, maybe, but I can't think of many or any
 Bo> movies like that. It seems there is too much concern about things making
 Bo> sense, about conforming with reality.

 Ni> I haven't seen Modern Family.  I actually haven't seen a whole lot of
 Ni> TV these days, but there are some shows these days that I like.  I've
 Ni> seen a couple episodes of Family Guy and thought it was funny, but I
 Ni> think I'd agree it might overplay things a little.

 Ni> The Orville is a newer show that I like.  It's created by Seth
 Ni> Macfarlane, who also made Family Guy, so I think it has some of the
 Ni> same type of humor.  I like the wacky humor on the show.  One of my
 Ni> favorite episodes was when they discovered a time capsule from the
 Ni> early 21st century (The Orville is set in the 2400s).  One thing they
 Ni> discover from the time capsule is cigarettes, and a couple of the
 Ni> characters (Bortus and Clyden) start smoking, for comedic effect. The
 Ni> scene with Bortus casually smoking a cigarette on the bridge was one of
 Ni> the funny moments..
 
Never heard of that show, but I'll keep an eye out.  Seth McFarlane is quite
talented.

Modern Family seemed to get rave reviews, but I couldn't get into it.  I
watched maybe one episode, part of another and found it irritating.  It had
that 'hand held camera' fly on the wall style cinematography, and the
characters were acting is if they were people playing characters.  Kind of
similar to how many people actaully are, where they put on a persona.  The
humour was lacking, and to me, there weren't jokes or anything witty, we were
supposed to laugh at HOW they were acting.

All a bit underwhelming.

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