Either I've lost my sense of humour...

[logansrogue]

Or "Hot Tub Time Machine" was a terrible movie.

None of their problems seemed like actual problems to me. Their problems were that they acted like assholes. All the time. Only they changed time so that life rewarded them for that or something. Holy shit, what a terrible movie.

Patriarchy, I blame you!

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[amarra-jade.livejournal.com]

Nope, I found it terrible as well. I didn't laugh once.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

My sister said it was funny, so did her husband, and they're fairly progressive people but no... no this wasn't funny at all. It was a hundred percent terrible. There were bits where I know I was supposed to laugh, but I was like, "No. No that isn't funny."

I always feel like a humourless feminist when I say movies like that suck. I said to my brother tonight, "No, I'm not the humourless one. I blame the people that can't make a funny movie with that dude from The Daily Show, whatsisface, the other whatsisface that was in Back to the Future and CHEVY fucking CHASE." That bastard, even though he's been in some horribly sexist movies, can throw a line like a fucking pro. WASTED.

Nothing upsets me more than a wasted opportunity to be truly hilarious.

[hippiegal22.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Hot Tub Time Machine but I just blame Hollywood for making films for the lowest common denominator.

[shantari.livejournal.com]

Have not even heard of this movie until now, but this review makes me hesitant. Looking at the wiki-article for the plot and getting to the line: "his video-game-obsessed nephew Jacob (Clark Duke) lives in his basement" and I'm all set to have absolutely no need to see this movie. Any movie that still hones in on the basement-dwelling game-nerd is not exactly screaming "we're avoiding painfully dated stereotypes". I have pretty much already seen the movie in my head now, even without further idea to the plot:

Idiots are being idiots in a world that confirms to stereotypical expectations of the white middle aged straight man. Then something extraodrinary happens. Then there's toilet humour. Idiots learn a valuable lesson that most of us learned about the same time we learned to walk and talk. Valuable lesson is completely undermined by the specially catered to the idiots happy ending. Antagonist takes a pratfall to the exaggerated mirth of the rest of the cast.

That a good summary?

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

The pratfall happens before the happy ending but, you nailed it. That's exactly that movie. You could have saved me bandwidth and an hour and a half.

[shantari.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't get how the people making these movies can have the balls/ovaries/guts/your choice of decision-making organ here to keep labeling these formulaic movies "comedies". True, if we were to go by the Ancient Greek definition comedy = happy ending. But since the 20th century it's taken on the meaning of "funny, able to inspire laughter", to the point that the happy ending criteria has been removed entirely. And you know one pretty basic requirement for fun-making? Some form of surprising effect.

It's a damn fundamental part of humour, and what makes puns (even horrible ones) and punchlines elicit the stomach bubbling reaction we refer to as laughter. The surprise doesn't even have to be sudden (like a punchline) but can rather be built up as a feeling of "contrary to our expectation", sometimes utilized by an individual using unnecessarily complicated words to describe something perfectly mundane.

And these morons get away with having films perfectly lined up to our expectations refered to as comedies? Are you shitting me?