Aging better than Dodgeball is a very low bar, I assure you.
I don't want to find out what sails below it
Revenge of the Nerds
I think Revenge of the Nerds and its sequel are probably the most "I definitely watched and liked this as a kid and holy shit has it aged horribly" movies I can think of
Something like Porky's is probably in that conversation but I've never actually seen it and only know it by reputation so it doesn't qualify
Ace Ventura, both of em.
The rhino scene in the second movie is still one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
(reposting from locked acc) "The person who poured tomato juice on KJM is a transgender intersex woman who came here from Colombia as a refugee. She was able to infiltrate the group at the rotunda because none of the TERFs realised she was trans"
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist was a movie I loved when I was younger. It's irreverent, almost self-deprecating tone and committal to the idea of "we're taking this old movie and completely fucking with it" spoke to me when I was younger, and I feel like many of the jokes would still land today. The red shirt/blue shirt joke alone is inspired.
But, uh...
Boy it sure is a movie where a white dude digitally inserted himself over an Asian dude, while also dubbing over multiple Asian actors with himself doing kinda racist Asian accents. Boy it sure is that. Just movie completely full of that.
Aging better than Dodgeball is a very low bar, I assure you.
I don't want to find out what sails below it
Revenge of the Nerds
I think Revenge of the Nerds and its sequel are probably the most "I definitely watched and liked this as a kid and holy shit has it aged horribly" movies I can think of
Something like Porky's is probably in that conversation but I've never actually seen it and only know it by reputation so it doesn't qualify
Ace Ventura, both of em.
The rhino scene in the second movie is still one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life.
Oh yeah that's an all-time comedy scene. If you took out all of the problematic bits you would have two much shorter movies that are still super funny.
(reposting from locked acc) "The person who poured tomato juice on KJM is a transgender intersex woman who came here from Colombia as a refugee. She was able to infiltrate the group at the rotunda because none of the TERFs realised she was trans"
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist was a movie I loved when I was younger. It's irreverent, almost self-deprecating tone and committal to the idea of "we're taking this old movie and completely fucking with it" spoke to me when I was younger, and I feel like many of the jokes would still land today. The red shirt/blue shirt joke alone is inspired.
But, uh...
Boy it sure is a movie where a white dude digitally inserted himself over an Asian dude, while also dubbing over multiple Asian actors with himself doing kinda racist Asian accents. Boy it sure is that. Just movie completely full of that.
I have multiple friend circles that use "we trained him wrong, as a joke" a lot and it's always great.
The rest of the movie itself is... whoof, yeah.
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
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I cut Kung Pow a lot of slack for various reasons
one of them being me and my friends used to dub old kung-fu movies and it reminds me of our dumb little jokes and over-acted combat sounds
edit: oh also I got a dance emote in Destiny 2 that is Ace Ventura's tutu dance
I read an essay once about how Ace Ventura is actually a like, nature or trickster spirit/god and that's how he does all his crazy surreal stuff
like if you told me that at one point, Loki crawled whole out of the ass of a rhino and I'd be like "sounds right, didn't know they had rhinos tho."
Yeah kung pow is probably one of if not the most embarrassing movies that I thought was the funniest shit as a kid and was so bad in retrospect.
Such a strange cultural artifact too. Are there other movies like it? I can’t think of any. Like it’s essentially a long form of those YouTube videos where they put Walt from breaking bad into mass effect.
Yeah kung pow is probably one of if not the most embarrassing movies that I thought was the funniest shit as a kid and was so bad in retrospect.
Such a strange cultural artifact too. Are there other movies like it? I can’t think of any. Like it’s essentially a long form of those YouTube videos where they put Walt from breaking bad into mass effect.
Arguably Power Rangers is that.
And then MTV did Volcano High where they took kung fu movies and dubbed it with a bunch of rappers and changed the story.
Kung Pow, like Dodgeball, persists with a few lines of dialogue that have entered my personal lexicon, but as a whole object, I have no qualms about discarding them.
Yeah kung pow is probably one of if not the most embarrassing movies that I thought was the funniest shit as a kid and was so bad in retrospect.
Such a strange cultural artifact too. Are there other movies like it? I can’t think of any. Like it’s essentially a long form of those YouTube videos where they put Walt from breaking bad into mass effect.
Pretty close to What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Allen took International Secret Police: Key of Keys and overdubbed it with with stuff completely unrelated to the original
In addition to everything else, I feel like Kung Pow has probably aged badly because kung fu movies just… aren’t really a thing in the public consciousness at all anymore, so the entire premise of dubbing it into a genre parody doesn’t really make sense.
Kung Pow, like Dodgeball, persists with a few lines of dialogue that have entered my personal lexicon, but as a whole object, I have no qualms about discarding them.
Long time since I've seen Dodgeball and I only have a hazy recollection of it. What are the unfortunate implications in it?
Kung Pow, like Dodgeball, persists with a few lines of dialogue that have entered my personal lexicon, but as a whole object, I have no qualms about discarding them.
Long time since I've seen Dodgeball and I only have a hazy recollection of it. What are the unfortunate implications in it?
A lot of unfortunate "jokes" regarding sexuality in that there film.
Yeah kung pow is probably one of if not the most embarrassing movies that I thought was the funniest shit as a kid and was so bad in retrospect.
Such a strange cultural artifact too. Are there other movies like it? I can’t think of any. Like it’s essentially a long form of those YouTube videos where they put Walt from breaking bad into mass effect.
It’s basically “What’s up Tiger Lily”, a (sigh) Woody Allen joint which is just a whole-ass Japanese spy/heist film, ”International Secret Police: Key of Keys”, dubbed over in English to be a screwball comedy.
As I recall, there was no additional footage added the way there was for Kung Pow, except for the end credits, where a Japanese woman performs a striptease while Woody Allen eats an apple reclining on a couch, but it’s pretty much the same idea; take Asian film, dub it with ridiculous nonsense, now you have a comedy.
Yeah kung pow is probably one of if not the most embarrassing movies that I thought was the funniest shit as a kid and was so bad in retrospect.
Such a strange cultural artifact too. Are there other movies like it? I can’t think of any. Like it’s essentially a long form of those YouTube videos where they put Walt from breaking bad into mass effect.
Pretty close to What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Allen took International Secret Police: Key of Keys and overdubbed it with with stuff completely unrelated to the original
Parody movies had a pretty prolific history.
MST3K was also about riffing movies. Also, if you watch Zero Hour! you'd be surprised how much the original script and setting were kept intact - like almost all of it.
Marty: The future, it's where you're going? Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
(reposting from locked acc) "The person who poured tomato juice on KJM is a transgender intersex woman who came here from Colombia as a refugee. She was able to infiltrate the group at the rotunda because none of the TERFs realised she was trans"
Kung Pow, like Dodgeball, persists with a few lines of dialogue that have entered my personal lexicon, but as a whole object, I have no qualms about discarding them.
Long time since I've seen Dodgeball and I only have a hazy recollection of it. What are the unfortunate implications in it?
A lot of unfortunate "jokes" regarding sexuality in that there film.
Yeah lotta homophobic jokes in that one. Some body shaming with the cheerleader tryouts flashback. And the stinger.
But, then Steve the Pirate.
A land of contrasts.
If you want to point to a movie from that time that is just bad in retrospect, you're looking for Old School
Kung Pow, like Dodgeball, persists with a few lines of dialogue that have entered my personal lexicon, but as a whole object, I have no qualms about discarding them.
Long time since I've seen Dodgeball and I only have a hazy recollection of it. What are the unfortunate implications in it?
A lot of unfortunate "jokes" regarding sexuality in that there film.
Yeah lotta homophobic jokes in that one. Some body shaming with the cheerleader tryouts flashback. And the stinger.
But, then Steve the Pirate.
A land of contrasts.
If you want to point to a movie from that time that is just bad in retrospect, you're looking for Old School
Even setting aside the stuff that's one can now recognize as problematic, the vast majority of the jokes just didn't resonate with me any more.
But, as I've said before, the film does justify its existence by adding "It's a bold strategy, Cotton" to our collective lexicon.
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A lot of comedies that age poorly still have one or two great lines.
I will never rewatch anchorman but "60% of the time, it works every time" is a great line.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I love Anchorman. I don't know how it will age but I don't think there's anything bad enough that I'll have to put it away for good.
Also "you woke up the bears, why would you do that" lives pretty rent free in my brain and comes up in reference to a lot of what goes on in this thread.
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Olivawgood name, isn't it?the foot of mt fujiRegistered Userregular
I’ll be real, Kung Pow is a terrible film, but I still watch it every so often and laugh uproariously because there’s a part of my brain that is broken
It is bracingly stupid in a way that I feel a lot of comedies are scared to be, and for every awful joke that doesn’t land or has aged poorly or is a bizarre Matrix parody for no reason, there are two that just live rent-free in my head
Every single time I see a picture of a bird, like every time, I hear the villain looking at the ancient scrolls and going “bird. birdie.” Or I see someone swing a chain and I just hear “swingin a chaaaain, swingin a chaaaain”
And god forbid if I see someone selling roasted nuts
"It's so hot milk was a bad choice" is still funny
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I hated kung pow when it came out but dear God "We trained him wrong as joke" and "I'm bleeding, making me the victor" and "My nuts to your fist style!" are all great.
It's not a good movie and it has aged awfully but that one and a half scenes? Gold.
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The rhino scene in the second movie is still one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life.
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Blessed be the humble tomato
But, uh...
Boy it sure is a movie where a white dude digitally inserted himself over an Asian dude, while also dubbing over multiple Asian actors with himself doing kinda racist Asian accents. Boy it sure is that. Just movie completely full of that.
Oh yeah that's an all-time comedy scene. If you took out all of the problematic bits you would have two much shorter movies that are still super funny.
Échale, Colombia.
I have multiple friend circles that use "we trained him wrong, as a joke" a lot and it's always great.
The rest of the movie itself is... whoof, yeah.
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one of them being me and my friends used to dub old kung-fu movies and it reminds me of our dumb little jokes and over-acted combat sounds
edit: oh also I got a dance emote in Destiny 2 that is Ace Ventura's tutu dance
I read an essay once about how Ace Ventura is actually a like, nature or trickster spirit/god and that's how he does all his crazy surreal stuff
like if you told me that at one point, Loki crawled whole out of the ass of a rhino and I'd be like "sounds right, didn't know they had rhinos tho."
Grand openin' Grand closin'
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Such a strange cultural artifact too. Are there other movies like it? I can’t think of any. Like it’s essentially a long form of those YouTube videos where they put Walt from breaking bad into mass effect.
Arguably Power Rangers is that.
And then MTV did Volcano High where they took kung fu movies and dubbed it with a bunch of rappers and changed the story.
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Pretty close to What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Allen took International Secret Police: Key of Keys and overdubbed it with with stuff completely unrelated to the original
Long time since I've seen Dodgeball and I only have a hazy recollection of it. What are the unfortunate implications in it?
A lot of unfortunate "jokes" regarding sexuality in that there film.
Yeah, I'm not going to watch that again any time soon. Just happily enjoy my memories.
It’s basically “What’s up Tiger Lily”, a (sigh) Woody Allen joint which is just a whole-ass Japanese spy/heist film, ”International Secret Police: Key of Keys”, dubbed over in English to be a screwball comedy.
As I recall, there was no additional footage added the way there was for Kung Pow, except for the end credits, where a Japanese woman performs a striptease while Woody Allen eats an apple reclining on a couch, but it’s pretty much the same idea; take Asian film, dub it with ridiculous nonsense, now you have a comedy.
Oh, I see this has been covered. :P
MST3K was also about riffing movies. Also, if you watch Zero Hour! you'd be surprised how much the original script and setting were kept intact - like almost all of it.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
terfs can get in the fuckn sea
Yeah lotta homophobic jokes in that one. Some body shaming with the cheerleader tryouts flashback. And the stinger.
But, then Steve the Pirate.
A land of contrasts.
If you want to point to a movie from that time that is just bad in retrospect, you're looking for Old School
Even setting aside the stuff that's one can now recognize as problematic, the vast majority of the jokes just didn't resonate with me any more.
But, as I've said before, the film does justify its existence by adding "It's a bold strategy, Cotton" to our collective lexicon.
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I will never rewatch anchorman but "60% of the time, it works every time" is a great line.
"Well, that escalated quickly" is another
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Also "you woke up the bears, why would you do that" lives pretty rent free in my brain and comes up in reference to a lot of what goes on in this thread.
It is bracingly stupid in a way that I feel a lot of comedies are scared to be, and for every awful joke that doesn’t land or has aged poorly or is a bizarre Matrix parody for no reason, there are two that just live rent-free in my head
Every single time I see a picture of a bird, like every time, I hear the villain looking at the ancient scrolls and going “bird. birdie.” Or I see someone swing a chain and I just hear “swingin a chaaaain, swingin a chaaaain”
And god forbid if I see someone selling roasted nuts
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It's not a good movie and it has aged awfully but that one and a half scenes? Gold.
Like whenever I get a cut or scrape and have to use some triple antibiotic creme I have to sing the Neosporin song