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Why These Popular '80s Film Franchises Never Got a Reboot
MovieWeb ^ | 2/12 | Mike Damski

Posted on 02/12/2023 5:10:41 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: EvilCapitalist

You kill gophers at work?...


41 posted on 02/12/2023 7:38:04 PM PST by EEGator
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42 posted on 02/12/2023 7:41:59 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

I remember the 1980s. I thoroughly enjoyed the 1980s.

Americans had a sense of humor in the 1980s.

America has been taken over by screeching harridan feminists, race-baiting poverty pimps, bitchy faggots, and assorted other ne’er-do-wells. They’re all filled with bilious hatred, and don’t know how to laugh.

Q: How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: THAT’S NOT FUNNY!!!!!!!


43 posted on 02/12/2023 7:42:03 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: FLT-bird

Please, Please can we call it a tallywacker?


44 posted on 02/12/2023 7:42:36 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: EEGator

Yup, I kill every golfer on the course.


45 posted on 02/12/2023 7:43:26 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Plainly you and I are cultured intellectuals


46 posted on 02/12/2023 7:44:43 PM PST by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Excuse me, but if you do that they’ll lock you up and throw away the key.


47 posted on 02/12/2023 7:47:13 PM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Lol!


48 posted on 02/12/2023 7:48:52 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
[Nothing is permitted to be funny anymore.]

But what about THIS!
49 posted on 02/12/2023 7:52:16 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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50 posted on 02/12/2023 7:54:23 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: GaryCrow

[People who came of age in the last 20 years don’t have a capacity for humor. They were indoctrinated from birth that everything funny is offensive so they don’t have the ability to laugh at themselves or others]

Ran into a couple of them on the elevator about 6 weeks ago. Guaranteed they’re woke-tards.


51 posted on 02/12/2023 7:56:34 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Jonty30

“People are too sensitive today for these same movies to be successful.”

It ought to be interesting how Mel Brooks’ “History of the World Part II” fares when it comes out on March 6th.

Can you imagine the number of heads exploding IF “Blazing Saddles” were made today? The snowflakes would freaking riot.


52 posted on 02/12/2023 8:29:29 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know.)
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To: nickcarraway

Good luck with that.

Try and name comedies from this century that were funny.

The only two really funny comedies I can think of are “Dodgeball” and “Shaun of the Dead” and both were made early in the century nearly 20 years ago. Maybe “This is the End”
in 2013 is watchable for a few chuckles but its not something you would call a classic comedy in any sense, but other than that nothing since 2010.

Go pre-1999 and you can find at least a half dozen downright funny comedies made every year.


53 posted on 02/12/2023 8:58:44 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: rbg81

“Does not surprise me. Few or no good ideas anymore, so just left with reboots.”

Noticed that with gen-xyz or grunge or whatever decades ago.

Ripoffs of music done long before. Too tupid to come up with new music....have to rip off old stuff.

“Hernando’s Hideaway”, grunger style always cracked me up on the gym sound system.


54 posted on 02/12/2023 9:52:44 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: Chode

Porky’s: More naked women in the shower and no fat women.

Airplane! & Back to the Future & Honey, I Shrunk the Kids were lightning in a bottle. Cannot be re-made.


55 posted on 02/12/2023 9:57:38 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: 100%FEDUP

Please tell me you are kidding.


56 posted on 02/12/2023 10:24:58 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I think a new Airplane movie could be done in near-real-time with all the stupid that goes on at the airport. Passengers arrive “two-hours early.” Hijinx. “Flight Cancelled.” Roll credits.


57 posted on 02/12/2023 10:43:25 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Vacation, the follow up to National Lampoon, was quite funny.

Cockneys Vs Zombies is funnier than Sean of the Dead. Also, the Kingsmen films.


58 posted on 02/12/2023 11:14:09 PM PST by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe". https://www.thefabulous.co/s/2uHEJdj)
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To: nickcarraway
"Surely you're kidding."
"I am not kidding. And don't call me Shirley."
59 posted on 02/13/2023 3:38:27 AM PST by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.." )
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To: Sequoyah101

“There are plenty of old and very good movies to watch for a lifetime”

So true. Rather than “old” maybe “pre-woke, pre-profanity and pre-dirty”. Also, as another poster said, “foreign”.


60 posted on 02/13/2023 6:11:13 AM PST by cymbeline
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