You and your distaste for comedies. What a humorless twat you are.
Fuck that.. it's because most comedies are base and rehash the same tired jokes. Comedy that is too obvious just isn't funny to me.
I know we've gone over this before but...there have been exceptions, correct? Like do you enjoy stand up comedy?
Yeah, of course.
Any comedians in particular that hit with you?
Richard Pryor
Rodney Dangerfield
Red Foxx
George Carlin
Bob Saget
Dom Irrera
Lewis Black
Bill Maher
But more importantly, people I can't fucking stand:
Dave Chappelle.. if you don't know why, then read up on his own opinions of his comedy in retrospect.
Kat Williams.. fuck this guy.
Kevin Hart... tired..
There has to be some kind of comedies that you would enjoy.
Clerks is my favorite comedy. Stepbrothers was hilarious. Anchorman was good too. Going to go see Bad Grandpa tomorrow..
As far as horror goes...it is my favorite genre, but also probably the genre that's most difficult to be fresh and still frighten people with. Did you see The Conjuring?
That's the problem.. I've seen anything that would come to the top of your head. And I feel like I'm in hell, because there's nothing new. I saw the Conjuring when it came out.. twice.. Great movie. Insidious 2 was fucking garbage. But I've seen most (if not all) A-list horror movies. And yeah, it's my favorite genre too.
Great example of a movie that didn't bring any new concepts to the table, but did a great job of rehashing the traditional scare tactics in a novel way, by using a very good cast and great atmosphere.
That's exactly what made it so good. It was
refreshing to get that late 1970's horror movie feel. The slow zooming panoramic shots, the use of natural lighting for much of the movie. It was so well done, from a cinematic and directorial standpoint, that they really deserve a great deal of praise. The atmosphere in that movie is enveloping, and that's really what I want from a good horror movie.
The best horror around over the last three years has been American Horror Story. It's really the only horror around that offers consistently new takes. It's using old themes (haunted house, haunted nunnery, aliens, voodoo, serial killers, etc) but it's presenting them without any filter whatsoever, minimal plot armor and doing it in a very stylized but not over the top way.
I've never seen it. I don't want much TV at all. It's interesting that it's a miniseries. The only problem with series is that I rarely have time to watch them in any continuity, because I'm always working.
Tell you what.. Here's a copy paste of the movies on my media server that I've watched recently.. I'll go down and rate them.
Mine:
1) Insidious --9/10
2) In the Mouth of Madness --10
3) The Thing --10
4) Texas Chainsaw Massacre --10
5) The Conjuring --9
6) Rosemary's Baby --10
7) Saw --7
8) Hostel --6
9) VHS --5
10) The Cell --7
11) Dawn (or any) of the Dead --6.5
12) 28 Days/Weeks Later --7
13) The Fly --10
14) Innkeepers --4
15) Inside --7.5
16) Last Exorcism --7
17) The Mist --8.5
18) Pulse --5
19) Woman in Black --5 (boring)
20) Apartment 143 --5
21) Carriers --6.5
22) The Collection --6.5
23) Chernobyl Diaries --5
24) Final Destination --4
25) Evil Dead --7
26) Event Horizon --7.5
27) Exorcist --10
28) The Eye --4
29) Grave Encounters (love these movies) --8.5
30) Let Me In --6
31) The Omen --10
32) The Ring --10 (amazing movie)
33) Rec --6
34) Quarantine --7
35) World War Z --7
36) You're Next --4
37) Ethan Hawke's horror movie --8
38) Blair Witch Project --9
...Yeah, so anything not on that list would be great!