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« Reply #260 on: August 13, 2012, 09:31:18 AM »
I really wish I could name a comedy that I love and nearly everybody else thinks is funny. But I can't think of a single one.

For me it's always the opposite: everyone else loves and thinks a comedy is hillarious while I don't see what's funny about it at all. Or rather: I "get" the jokes. But I don't laugh at them.
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« Reply #261 on: August 13, 2012, 10:51:41 AM »
For me it's always the opposite: everyone else loves and thinks a comedy is hillarious while I don't see what's funny about it at all. Or rather: I "get" the jokes. But I don't laugh at them.

C'mon, you're just playing into the stereotype of chilly Scandinavian austerity. What are some of your favorite comedies? There must be at least one divisive pick in there.

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« Reply #262 on: August 13, 2012, 10:52:23 AM »
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« Reply #263 on: August 13, 2012, 10:58:43 AM »
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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #264 on: August 13, 2012, 11:01:50 AM »
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« Reply #265 on: August 13, 2012, 11:03:02 AM »
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I thought your answer was going to be 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days.

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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #266 on: August 13, 2012, 11:07:30 AM »
I laughed at Scary Movie 3 when I watched it with my little brother a ways back.
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« Reply #267 on: August 13, 2012, 11:54:19 AM »

C'mon, you're just playing into the stereotype of chilly Scandinavian austerity. What are some of your favorite comedies? There must be at least one divisive pick in there.

I really can't think of anything special. I love Monty Python, but who doesn't? Gregory's Girl and other Forsyth movies. Some odd ones such as King of Comedy, Blues Brothers, Four Lions, Groundhog Day and Annie Hall (if it counts as a comedy). Well basically a lot of Woody Allen's comedies apart from the very earliest ones such as Bananas, which really isn't my type of comedy. The Full Monty. Love that kind of British humor.

But I can't claim that those are movies that everyone else hates.

I have a memory of really loving Big when it came out, but I haven't seen it since so I have no idea of what I'd make of it now. In any case I don't think it's particularly weird to like that one.

The oddest choice I can think of is perhaps the 80s high school movie Can't Buy Me Love, but I doubt that this one is hated by those who actually have watched it. It's just a bit old.

Not sure how my type of humor fits into Scandinavian style. To be honest a lot of our biggest successes at the box office over the years have been Swedish comedies, intended for a Swedish market. I avoid to see them since I never find them funny at all.

Good grief, I sound like a complete bore, don't I?
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« Reply #268 on: August 13, 2012, 12:17:25 PM »
Well, if you're referring to Scorsese's THE KING OF COMEDY and not Stephen Chow's, that would fit. Otherwise, I'd say CAN'T BUY ME LOVE is a good pick.

But I can't claim that those are movies that everyone else hates.

Not everyone else hates, just everyone else doesn't find funny.

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« Reply #269 on: August 13, 2012, 12:20:24 PM »
Well at least I know that Martin has a thing for Can't buy me love as well. I'm not alone in my love for that dance!
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