Seltzerberg’s entire filmography. If you’ve seen Date Movie, you’ve seen Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, Disaster Movie, etc, because they’re all the same thing with a different set of clothes on, as it were.
I wouldn’t call these horribly aged though, they’ve always been shit.
And they’re all so fucking stupid.
Epic Movie had a couple of good jokes in it but I walked out of the theater during Date Movie when the Pimp My Ride joke came up. They didn’t even try to make that movie funny.
For obvious reasons I never saw the remaining films.
My son is 15 and he saw a few of them and laughed his ass off. So I really can’t get behind that whole heartedly.
One of my favorite teen movies was 16 Candles, which I loved as a kid, and looked forward to showing my son, when he got old enough.
The day came, and he watched it without cracking a smile. When it ended, he asked, “What did you think was funny? The underage binge drinking, the wanton destruction of a beautiful house, the Asian racism, or maybe it was the statutory rape? What exactly is funny about this movie?”
He ruins everything.
Wait, you mean to tell me that 16 Candles was supposed to be a comedy!?
Teenage me absolutely did not pick up on that tidbit when I saw it in the early 2000s. I just saw it as yet another crappy romance film from the 80s. I was so bored that I can’t actually recall a single memorable scene from the film.
Hate to break it to you, dude, but the movie was very much a product of its time. Anyone younger than Gen X isn’t going to “get” the film. As a Millennial, I surely don’t.
Anthony Michael Hall’s character of The Geek was a comedy acting masterpiece. Easily the funniest teen character among ALL the great 80s New Wave Teen Comedies.
It was John Hughes’ first film, and it was a sloppy mess, but it was also an interesting concept because it flipped a lot of the standard teen movie tropes. The Main Girl was sweet and smart. Her parents weren’t idiots, they were overwhelmed by circumstances, but they were good people who loved their kids. The Big Athlete turned out to be a sweet guy who genuinely liked the Main Girl. And The Geek turned to be the coolest of them all.
As a fan of Home Alone, Ferris Bueller, and Planes/Trains/Automobiles, I get why you like the film, but from even a 20-year-old lens, it just doesn’t hold up to modern scrutiny. But you’re allowed to like what you like, so long as you acknowledge the fact that the whole sexual harassment subplot was fucked up then, and is still fucked up now. Poor Sam didn’t deserve to be treated like an object.
I guess I’ve only seen that movie once and it was about 30 or 40 years ago, I don’t remember a beautiful house being destroyed? I don’t remember any statutory rape? I guess it was just considered a normal sex scene back then? Either way I don’t remember that part either.
Remember the big party that was the centerpiece of the film? And the older guys were discussing having sex with the younger girls, one of them even saying “She’s a child!” But the older guy went after her anyway.
It was trashed during the party I think
I don’t know if 2010 is allowed, but Get Him To The Greek would probably have to be up there. Russell Brand and P. Diddy together on screen at last!
Shallow Hal is a pretty good contender
Isn’t the ultimate message of the movie wholesome though? I’ve never actually seen it.
The basic message is supposed to be but loses intent because of the fact it’s all fat jokes
Dear god. Never seen that, watched the trailer just now and can’t imagine that ever being funny.
I watched it when it came out, and I remember it being pretty meh, with very few (if any) laugh-out-loud moments, or even audible chuckles.
I can’t stand Jack Black, never found him funny.
Big “theatre kid” energy.
I rewatched Napoleon Dynamite last week and it holds up well IMO. So, not that.
Bow to your Sensei!
The thing is it was a refreshing change when it came out. I thought it was the funniest movie I’d seen in years, bought the DVD when it came out thinking it was still great then when I tried watching it again a year later and it completely lost it’s luster. It’s like Juno, that one movie was great for a change of pace in an otherwise stale genre
Some movies only hit on the first watch. Once you know the gags, twists or ending its just “Yeah Ok.”
IDK, I didn’t really buy into the hype of either film at the time so when I eventually saw them on DVD, I was disappointed of course. Individual scenes in Napoleon Dynamite were entertaining on their own merits and highly quotable, but the film barely had a cohesive plot and felt more like a series of comedy sketches stringed together rather than a proper movie.
Juno was terrible thanks to the dialog alone. IDK who wrote that script (and don’t care to look it up), but it was some of the most unrealistic dialog I’ve ever heard in a piece of media. Everyone talks like robots and always has the perfect quirky comeback anytime anyone says something. The only person in that film who spoke like a human being was Michael Cera, but every scene with him in it was insufferable because he’s Michael Cera.
Diablo Cody was the writer of Juno, and I only know it because she became a hot commodity after the breakout success of Juno. And she had a middling hit with Jennifer’s Body but hasn’t done anything of note since.
Meanwhile whomever did Napoleon Dynamite was getting offers left and right, and his followup Nacho Libre was a dud because they were banking on the same success of ND but starring Jack Black. Jon Heder got a bunch of offers, including that skating movie with Will Ferrell but I think he kinda just fizzled out
I hadn’t seen it until this year; it held up well, but the peak for me was the jumpcuts while they talk about Pedro’s bike
Nothing left for me to do but dance.
OH GOD I just remembered Meet The Spartans exists.
To be fair this one didn’t age badly. It was already shit at release
In a so shit its funny way, or its just shit way?
It’s Friedberg and Seltzer at their worst, and that’s saying something.
I actually liked the experience. No, not the movie, that was terrible LOL. But I remember watching it with my friends in highschool and we were the only ones in the theater aside from some other group, so we were quipping our own funnier jokes back and forth with these strangers making each other laugh lol.
I think White Chicks is overall still a good movie, but Terry Crews’ character date raping the one guy so hard he ends up in a wheel chair was a bit too far.
Eurotrip - the whole dvd.
I clicked through rewatching some of it and it’s generically raunchy, like it was trying to outcompete the American Pie movie for sex references and topless women.
Edit: It can be very depressing in winter.
here’s a fun fact - unlike most films of the time, it doesn’t celebrate sexual assault as acceptable!
It also is surprisingly not bi-phobic - both Fiona’s MMF threesome and Jenny’s European crush’s bisexuality are not treated as aberrations against nature, etc.
“Stay Black Bert” is a problem though.
Fair point.
Mi scussi guy, everybody at the beach, the hooligans, and literally the entirety of Cooper’s character seems like a way bigger deal than stay black bert lmao.
I rewatched not long ago and would argue it remains one of the best raunchy teen comedies, not like that’s a high bar but I was still laughing through it.
The Mi Scussi guy is the best part of the film, and honestly I feel like that scene is even more relevant today then it was back then. Perverts should be mocked and ridiculed like they are in this film even moreso today!
I wasn’t actually saying those scenes were wrong, I was pointing out how dumb the other commenter’s complaint about “stay black bert” was…which they then kinda proved on their own by making a racist joke in their next comment lol.
Mi Scusi guy is also the Straight To Jail guy from parks and recreation, which I would NOT have realized without looking at his IMDB page.
I mean, the guys at the beach are being mocked for being perverts who women correctly avoid.
The hooligans . . . . I agree it’s not good to let people think being English is acceptable, but they are taking the piss out of Italians, so it’s a hard call . . .
Bruh what…you complain about “stay black bert” then make that joke.
Yeah, call me when American Eyeties are being incarcerated and killed by police at numbers far outside anywhere near representative to their population percentage.
Then you double down by dropping an actual fucking slur while completely forgetting the actual history of Italians in America. Fuck off, racist piece of shit.
while completely forgetting the actual history of Italians in America
Yeah buddy, I lived long enough around Italian-American reactionaries who were the most dependable enforcers of white privilege to find that laughable. My Black friends honestly had to look up some of the slurs the old men in Brooklyn would use for them without hestitation.
Italians were made white in America quite a while ago. Reminding people that want to enforce white supremacy that they were often not considered white isn’t racism, it’s pointing out that racism is bad to the people that most need to understand that.
But meanwhile, you’re all . . .
I don’t remember it being that bad and Scotty Doesn’t Know is a banger. Miscuzi!
Damon looked like he had a blast.
mi scusi
Hard disagree
Yeah I don’t get the love of it. Parts of it are ok, but there is a lot of cringe.
Anything with Adam Sandler
Primarily because he’s about as funny as a erectile dysfunction
He’s at his most hilarious when he sings with the squeaky voice 🙄
Someone completely ruined the band Alt+j for me years ago by pointing out that the singer’s voice sounds like Adam Sandler doing that goofy squeaky voice. Now I cannot unhear it. Every time I hear a song by them it makes me lol.
Now I’ve passed this onto you, and whoever reads this. You’ve now been cursed as well.
This is one of those monkey paw curses in reverse because, if anything, you just made Alt+J better.
Made me think of this internet classic:
I had Sleep Token ruined for me by a friend saying the singer sounds like he’s singing around a mouthful of peanut butter.
We’re just gonna pretend Wedding Singer isn’t a classic huh?
Big Daddy and Waterboy still hold up too. Everything else though…
If by “Big Daddy” you mean Happy Gilmore, I agree.
Big Daddy is one of his films that holds up the least to modern scrutiny, next to Little Nicky.
I can’t tell if they aged poorly because I also hated them when they first came out.
Hey Happy Gilmore is still decent I think. Pretty sure I watched that in the last few years. Maybe big daddy too I haven’t watched that in a minute tho.
Everything else by Sandler, yeah you’re dead right
Punch Drunk Love is good because he had no hand in it other than acting.
Even Punch-Drunk Love?
That’s not really a comedy. Adam Sandler is really good when he’s doing more serious movies. When he’s doing Adam Sandler movies, they’re awful.
hen he’s doing Adam Sandler movies, they’re awful.
cough little nicky cough
I saw that in theaters.
It was so bad, on par with The Adventures of Pluto Nash.
Yes, turns out the Adam Sandler movies get him and his friends a nice vacation to e.g Hawaii or some South African resort AND a paycheck to go along with it. When you realize that, you kinda understand why he’s producing that slop rather than genuinely good films. The slop is consistent, it’ll basically always do well enough to justify the cost.
One of my favorite trivia from IMDB:
Paul Thomas Anderson first announced that his follow-up to Magnolia (1999) would be an Adam Sandler comedy at a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival. The news was greeted with laughter by the assembled press. When “Punch-Drunk Love” eventually played at Cannes, Anderson won the Best Director award and was nominated for the festivals’ top prize, the “Palme d’Or”. Months later, Sandler was nominated for a Golden Globe in the “…Musical or Comedy” category.
The only watchable Sandler movies are Uncut Gems, Hustle, and that one with the spider in space.
and that one with the spider in space.
Spaceman was a GREAT movie. I personally think it’s one of the best Adam Sandler movies ever.
Spaceman was a GREAT movie
, and a pretty good dentist.
+Punch Drunk Love (just an actor)
Also Raign Over Me and Punch Drunk Love. And Funny People as someone else mentioned.
He’s OK in Funny People, because he’s basically just playing Sandler being a piece of shit.
It is an interesting question. Most comedy ages poorly, often not because it’s bad, but because the jokes are built on common assumptions of the era, and some of those are kinda shit.
Main exception being physical comedy. Some of those old silent films are hilarious, and just as funny now as when they came out 😂
Not having a language barrier, or anchor for that matter, makes a significant difference.
Like Mr Bean. I think the gags about cutting through photos of the royal family only get funnier with age.
or universal situations
City Lights is a great example of this but it is ALSO a great example of the opposite of this, specifically with all the jokes where drunk driving is the punchline
George Carlin
Well, I guess you did say most
Not a film per se but I nominate How I Met Your Mother. Barney is a funny and great guy, but he’s also a misogynist and a creep
Ted’s a bigger creep. I hadn’t noticed until I heard a woman say it. Thought about it and she was right.
At least Barney is self-aware of the fact that he’s a creep. Ted thinks he’s a nice guy
The other day I wanted to watch a fun animated movie, and found that I’d never seen a Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles movie that came out in 2007. Downloaded, put it on… and immediately greeted by the weinstien logo… then they had not one but TWO different Asian actors doing lines in the “broken Chinese accent.” Kinda ruined the whole movie for me.
Freddy Got Fingered
It’s always been an anti studio fuck you, and it’s brilliant in that regard
Yeah, Tom Green was fantastic, and his humor was always so much more than on the surface.
Soooooo did daddy actually want some sausage?
That is one of the biggest counter examples. Critical anger for daring to release the film. It’s considered a classic by now.
“I have a bag of jewels for you. They’re jewels Betty… They’re jewels. I got them all for you.”
Some movies age like fine wine, some age like milk, Freddy Got Fingered aged like urine. It was sewage from the very beginning.
Oof yeah that’s a rough one
This movie just came up the other day. I drove a LeBaron at the time it was released. I’ll never forget “number one son”.
Bring It On, which is surprising.
Just a little too much casual rape dismissed as “digits slip.”
I kid you not, I was a male cheerleader, and I had that happen to me (not on purpose). Bloomers are required for a reason.
Cheerleading as a whole is incredibly tied in with patriarchy and sexualization of minors to begin with.
Austin Powers.
It was hilarious back then but now, I can’t help but cringe through almost every scene.
If you’re cringing at Austin I think it’s doing its job. Austin is supposed to be a “poorly aged” character in a, for the time, modern setting.
There are a few (maybe more than a few) times where the “modern” world is out of date though.
I actually think this is one that stands the test of time.
Yeah i just rewatched it a few weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised at how well it stood up.
The Dr Evil/ Scott relationship stands the test of time.
