merari42@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 6 months agoHow have your opinions on media you once enjoyed changed over time? Are there movies or shows you used to find funny but no longer do?message-squaremessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up190
arrow-up190message-squareHow have your opinions on media you once enjoyed changed over time? Are there movies or shows you used to find funny but no longer do?merari42@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square72fedilink
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·6 months agoWatched Beetlejuice with the kids last night. Not as funny as I remember, and they weren’t laughing either. OTOH, we all thought The Lost Boys was still pretty cool. Blazing Saddles next?
minus-squareDrusas@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up33·6 months agoBeetlejuice was never funny, so much as it was fun and weird.
minus-squareZron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·6 months agoBlazing saddles was written with the golden rule of offensive comedy: don’t punch down or up, punch in all directions.
Watched Beetlejuice with the kids last night. Not as funny as I remember, and they weren’t laughing either.
OTOH, we all thought The Lost Boys was still pretty cool.
Blazing Saddles next?
Beetlejuice was never funny, so much as it was fun and weird.
Blazing Saddles still holds up
Blazing saddles was written with the golden rule of offensive comedy: don’t punch down or up, punch in all directions.