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King Vidiot
Feb 17, 2007

You think you can take me at Satan's Hollow? Go 'head on!

COBRARocky posted:

You just keep sitting there waiting to laugh and it just never comes.

This is why I don't recommend comedies or watch comedies recommended to me. It usually ends with you or the other person feeling really awkward the next time you meet up because the other one didn't really find it funny and was barely paying attention.

So just watch comedies separately and then tentatively feel people out to see if they've watched or liked it. If they haven't seen it, drop the subject and don't start quoting lines out of context from it.

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serious norman
Dec 13, 2007

im pickle rick!!!!
I watched Happiness alone with my dad Op.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





even good comedies because people wont shut the gently caress up during monty python poo poo and they are awful and have terrible deliveries. KNIGHTS WHO SAY NI HAHAHAHAHAH IM AM SO FUNNY

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


i watched Cop Out with friends and I would have never laughed once had I been alone but somehow being high and with friends made it funny for all of us, but not even with that in hindsight could any of us be brought to watch it ever again.

serious norman
Dec 13, 2007

im pickle rick!!!!
Fridens who loudly quote movies while watching with them own !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cnut the Great
Mar 30, 2014
i hate doing...things....with people.....

serious norman
Dec 13, 2007

im pickle rick!!!!

Cnut the Great posted:

i hate doing...things....with people.....

Same except alcohol to a certain degree

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



SaltLick posted:

even good comedies because people wont shut the gently caress up during monty python poo poo and they are awful and have terrible deliveries. KNIGHTS WHO SAY NI HAHAHAHAHAH IM AM SO FUNNY

Took me far too long to realise that the French guy who calls them kniggets was just say 'knights' in a really dumb way. Goddamnit.

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008

EL BROMANCE posted:

Took me far too long to realise that the French guy who calls them kniggets was just say 'knights' in a really dumb way. Goddamnit.

it's that high brow british comedy, not everybody gets it you know...

MegaGatts
Dec 12, 2004

The Enteroctopus dofleini, also known as the giant Pacific octopus (GPO) or North Pacific giant octopus, is a large marine cephalopod belonging to the phylum Mollusca and is tripping balls.
Dodge ball was the last comedy I watched that I laughed so hard my sides hurt. I really don't want to be friends with someone who doesn't like it. It's weird because I really hate most other stuff Ben Stiller made.

Vordhosbn
Aug 7, 2008

Monstrous Dooklord posted:

Try watching irreversible with you gf some time

serious norman posted:

I watched Happiness alone with my dad Op.

I can't decide which would be worse. :cry:

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



Pornographic Memory posted:

it's that high brow british comedy, not everybody gets it you know...

i dont think we even try to pretend to be high brow anymore. why get a writer team of 2 people to spend 3 years making a new 6 episode season when we can just import big bang and family guy until the end of time for less.

pretty soft girl
Oct 1, 2004

my dead grandfather fights better than you

SaltLick posted:

even good comedies because people wont shut the gently caress up during monty python poo poo and they are awful and have terrible deliveries. KNIGHTS WHO SAY NI HAHAHAHAHAH IM AM SO FUNNY

I watched the holy grail for the first time at a public showing

Every punchline was delivered by the audience ten seconds before the actors did and it ruined the whole loving thing, I wisely decided not to go to the showing of Airplane! the next week and watched it by myself and had a blast

King Vidiot
Feb 17, 2007

You think you can take me at Satan's Hollow? Go 'head on!

EL BROMANCE posted:

Took me far too long to realise that the French guy who calls them kniggets was just say 'knights' in a really dumb way. Goddamnit.

:psyduck: Son of a bitch...

Shakenbaker
Nov 14, 2005



Grimey Drawer
Man gently caress The Big Lebowski. I saw it last weekend for the first time and I have no idea why I've had to go through a decade of hearing about that movie.

Wish I hadn't so I could go the rest of my life not getting the constant references I now get. Ugh.

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Why aren't Jews funny anymore?

Judd Apatow & Co. are so loving bad and have turned American Hollywood comedies into zany one-liner shitfests. Lorne Michaels hasn't made a funny thing in 10 years. Ben Stiller hasn't been funny in 15+ years. Andy Samberg was funny for about 5 minutes and went on to do nothing.

Don't get me started on this loving schmuck.

serious norman
Dec 13, 2007

im pickle rick!!!!

Vordhosbn posted:

I can't decide which would be worse. :cry:

It was p awkward :(

Yvershek
Nov 15, 2000

and there are no
diamonds in the
mine
I have an urge to make someone watch Antichrist with me. Must be from the hosed up part of my head.

Ahundredbux
Oct 25, 2007

The right to bear arms
Think watching anime would be worse.

Even if you were all alone

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOzD4Sfgag

Khorne
May 1, 2002

serious norman posted:

I watched Happiness alone with my dad Op.
That would be pretty awkward to watch with most dads. Unless they legitimately like cinema or a few other situations far more fringe.

Monstrous Dooklord posted:

Try watching irreversible with you gf some time
Went fine, got laid mid film, watching it wasn't my idea though.

I'd probably dump someone who had an adverse reaction to it. But I don't get why I'd date someone like that to begin with. In retrospect maybe I should dump anyone who is openly turned on by it as well.

Yvershek posted:

I have an urge to make someone watch Antichrist with me. Must be from the hosed up part of my head.
Anyone who has watched a horror movie in their life probably wouldn't be bothered by that movie. But it's a film that people who only watch popular big hit box office movies probably won't like, so I've only seen it with friends who like movies a bunch.

old bean factory
Nov 18, 2006

Will ya close the fucking doors?!

Shakenbaker posted:

Man gently caress The Big Lebowski. I saw it last weekend for the first time and I have no idea why I've had to go through a decade of hearing about that movie.

Wish I hadn't so I could go the rest of my life not getting the constant references I now get. Ugh.

Shut the gently caress up, Donny! :xd:

I feel awkward when I laugh at a bit when someone else doesn't. Maybe they chuckle on the inside.

serious norman
Dec 13, 2007

im pickle rick!!!!
I can confirm irreversible is a good chick flick if u wanna gently caress some hot Goth babe

Ramsus
Sep 14, 2002

by Hand Knit
There is only one instance a goon-type would like or recommend a comedy, they must discover the film themselves. Then it becomes a have you heard of kind of thing.

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib

Bert Roberge posted:

Watch some movies with gratuitous sex scenes in them with your family.

Esp masturbation scenes

axeil
Feb 14, 2006
porn is the worst to watch with other people hth

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib

Shakenbaker posted:

Man gently caress The Big Lebowski. I saw it last weekend for the first time and I have no idea why I've had to go through a decade of hearing about that movie.

Wish I hadn't so I could go the rest of my life not getting the constant references I now get. Ugh.

The big lebowski is so loving overrated. Sure it was funny the first time, but holy god that pacing...

serious norman
Dec 13, 2007

im pickle rick!!!!

axeil posted:

porn is the worst to watch with other people hth

Except real east European incest porn.

SnowblindFatal
Jan 7, 2011

axeil posted:

porn is the worst to watch with other people hth

look at this incel

King Vidiot
Feb 17, 2007

You think you can take me at Satan's Hollow? Go 'head on!

Your Dead Gay Son posted:

The big lebowski is so loving overrated. Sure it was funny the first time, but holy god that pacing...

I love the movie but it really is just a series of memorable scenes. It's much better in your head after watching than it is while you're sitting there watching it.

But I guess that could apply to most Coen Brothers films.

Mr. Meagles
Apr 30, 2004

Out here, everything hurts


Gentwise
Sep 12, 2003
Gentwise Bankfourthe, Esquire.

King Vidiot posted:

This is why I don't recommend comedies or watch comedies recommended to me. It usually ends with you or the other person feeling really awkward the next time you meet up because the other one didn't really find it funny and was barely paying attention.

So just watch comedies separately and then tentatively feel people out to see if they've watched or liked it. If they haven't seen it, drop the subject and don't start quoting lines out of context from it.

God I know it's just unbearably awkward to have a different opinion about some media than a friend. It must be avoided at all costs.

BONE DOG
Jun 7, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
Not really because you can make fun of how bad they are. One of the most uncomfortable movies to watch with a sensitive person or your mother or something is probably Happiness

Telemundoz
Dec 23, 2014

CHEE

pretty soft girl posted:

I watched the holy grail for the first time at a public showing

Every punchline was delivered by the audience ten seconds before the actors did and it ruined the whole loving thing, I wisely decided not to go to the showing of Airplane! the next week and watched it by myself and had a blast

If someone did that during Spaceballs, or Wayne's World, that would ruin both of them for me.

Same thing with Blazing Saddles.

Telemundoz fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Dec 27, 2014

ArtIsResistance
May 19, 2007

QUEEN OF FRANCE, SAVIOR OF LOWTAX

Gentwise posted:

God I know it's just unbearably awkward to have a different opinion about some media than a friend. It must be avoided at all costs.

to be fair it kinda sucks when you show a friend your favourite movie and they're just on their phone not paying attention

good thing I don't have a favourite movie or friends B)

King Vidiot
Feb 17, 2007

You think you can take me at Satan's Hollow? Go 'head on!

mookface posted:

Not really because you can make fun of how bad they are. One of the most uncomfortable movies to watch with a sensitive person or your mother or something is probably Happiness

Todd Solondz movies aren't meant to be "enjoyed", let alone enjoyed with other people. They're miserable movies for miserable people to watch alone and be miserable, and/or to laugh at people more miserable than themselves. I watched Palindromes back-to-back with Storytelling once. That was a fun time, let me tell you.

Gentwise posted:

God I know it's just unbearably awkward to have a different opinion about some media than a friend. It must be avoided at all costs.

I didn't say "some media" as in "any media" you boob, only comedies.

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a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

i never watch comedies alone, that shits boring

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