Great call. Iām a big Harrison ford guy too. The Fugitive is all time
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Anyone seen Happy Gilmore 2? Reviews are mixed
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Ronin is fun. Good car chases and a murdererās row of all-timer character actors.
Edit: also, The Rock delivers every time you want action AND a turned-off brain.
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To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Thief (1981)
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Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Tombstone and The Usual Suspects are a pretty decent starting point.
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Somehow, I could never get enough of Speed
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If you loved Happy Gilmore and it has a strong place in your nostalgia ā¦ youāll enjoy some parts of Happy Gilmore 2. Otherwise, donāt bother.
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Are there any good comedies that have been put out lately?
I found myself muttering āthis is so stupidā numerous times watching it but enjoyed it nonetheless. I remember seeing the original about 5 times in the theater so Iām probably exactly the middle aged demo this was made for.
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Sorry for the self-reply (hope I didnāt infringe @haneyās patent), but Silence of the Lambs, Cape Fear, Heat, and True Romance are other good ones.
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I love golf and love HG1 so I was laughing at a lot of it and the cameos were great for the most part. Could have done without any of the new cameos that they obviously threw in to get the younger pop culture audience. That was just stupid. Again like XHoo I grew up on HG and Billy Madison, as stupid as they were, so I was probably right in their range for people who would watch, laugh, and enjoy for the most part.
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Snack Shack, Banshees of Inisherin, American Fiction, Bullet Train, Friendship (although Tim Robinson can be hit or miss). Glass Onion, a Knives Out mystery, is great. Everything Everywhere All at Once is great if you havenāt seen it yet. James Gunnās Suicide Squad, Saturday Night, The Lost City, The Holdovers
The ones Iāve seen over the last 2-3 years.
Hundreds of Beavers has been recommended to me and I still need to watch that.
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Yeah I can quote the first one almost front to back despite not having seen it in 10+ years. I still was just so distracted by some of the bad-ness of HG2.
Still would recommend if the first one holds a nostalgic place in your mind! But be forewarned ā¦
YES. But I imagine if you havenāt seen I Think You Should Leave (and like it) then may be miserable.
Didnāt end up loving this. It was good. But the unrealistic dialogue and 45 year old looking sidekick had me too distracted.
YES. A top 10 all time movie for me. Some funny parts but felt like the movie was genre bending enough to not think about it as a comedy.
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Not to be overly pedantic about it, but I feel like half of those movies are (insert-genre)-comedies. A lot of funny stuff on that list, but there is some other thing attached to the pitch in order to get a studio to produce and distribute a movie thatās made for laughs. Maybe itās just that audiences are so genre-savvy now. I donāt know, but the days of āhey, hereās a funny person and weāre just gonna put them in a silly plot for 90 minutes and see what happens and probably make some moneyā are gone. Or a movie like that gets sent off to a streaming service to debut quietly and be quickly forgotten.
On that note, please watch this PSA from Liam Neeson and the Naked Gun team:
Long gone are the days of sole comedy movies. The Scary Movies trilogy (never saw the 4th one) will hold a special place in my childhood.
One of them Days and Joyride are fun (the later raunchy/female version of the hangover). Babes.
Also some Halloween vibes comedies like Your Monster, Renfield, and Lisa Frankenstein
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Reminds me of this interview ā thought Damon explained it well
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Spot on. I meant to make a qualifiier for true comedies that werenāt attached to a mystery, drama or action film. Knives Out was an example to me of comedy embedded in mystery.
Reminiscing on past true comediesā¦.
I loved the Sandler movies growing up (Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, Bulletproof, Waterboy) which to me jumped the shark between Big Daddy (which I liked) and Mr. Deeds (which was bad).
And then the Vince Vaughn films. (Swingers, Wedding Crashers, Old School, Dodgeball). Probably jumped the shark with the Breakup.
Ben Stiller had Dodgeball, Meet the Parents, Zoolander. Thereās Something About Mary. The Cable Guy. Tropic Thunder.
Seth Rogan films. Superbad, Pineapple Express. Knocked up. 40 year old virgin (really Steve Carell).
Chris Farley had Tommy Boy, Beverly Hills Ninja, Black Sheepā¦
Will Ferrell (who I think is the worst jump the shark guy) had Stepbrothers and Anchorman. Black Sheep.
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Universal has just announced Focker-in-Law for Thanksgiving 2026. Franchise extension, but definitely is (or is supposed to be) a āpureā comedy.
https://x.com/fockerinlaw/status/1949847331786150043?s=46&t=vkjgQUekzGC7z44tIfnIRQ
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This is an interesting topic and I have no answers.
But one thing to add: for a while, there was an SNL to comedy movie pipeline, and that pipeline is broken now.
Iām not really sure what is the next stop for the current SNL breakout stars. But it does seem notable that Ferrell and Sandler and Farley became movie stars and Hader and Sudeikis (the next generation) became TV stars and now I donāt watch SNL anymore so I donāt know what the breakout stars do. Tik Toks? I see Chloe Fineman on bus stop adsā¦
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