What movies from your teens (or other) that you loved, and still find hilarious? And what sucks now?

I rewatched the Austin Powers movies last year and laughed my ass off. A few weeks ago I turned off 10 Things I Hate About You, bored as shit after 15 minutes.

I want to rewatch some classic comedies, hit me with your recommendations that have stood your test of time.


26 comments

  1. Plains, Trains, and Automobiles surprises me every time I watch it with how effective it is.

  14. The Burbs

    Trading Places

    Grandma’s Boy

    Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

    The Gods must be crazy

  15. It’s a very valid. The movies that made fun of things that were offensive, even at the time, will last. The ones that were normalizing things that should be offensive won’t.

    Revenge of the nerds, American pie, porkies. at the time, they were comedy genius.

    Some of the stuff like Monty Python, airplane, blazing saddles, all work because they were offensive on purpose to be funny

  19. Airplane! (1980)

    Clue (1985)

    Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

    Clerks (1994)

    Office Space (1999)

    Super Troopers (2001)

    Superbad (2007)

    Stepbrothers (2008)

  21. The Big Lebowski, a box office failure is now considered by many to be the greatest movie ever made.

  22. I’m mentally checking if there’s anything in “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” that didn’t age well…

    It’s my go to outside of Monty Python.

  25. The Producers (1969) is a good candidate for best debut film ever, comedy or not. And IMO Young Frankenstein and High Anxiety also aged well. Some of Mel Brooks’ other films have not aged as well, to my taste.

    Another great one, which happens to be leaving Netflix soon, is Scorcese’s only comedy, After Hours (1985). King of Comedy is also pretty funny, but not quite a comedy.

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