Why Hollywood shouldn't be given nice things...

[Kozahk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFeYUNHtUG0

This on top of the 'Battleship' movie and the remakes of 'American Psycho' and 'Starship Troopers'. You know when you have to get your actors from MTV's Jersey Shore, you're in the shits.

[Gixugif]

That looks entirely unfunny. And what's this about a remake of Starship Troopers now? Will this ever stop?

[Kozahk]

Aye, tis true unfortunately: http://www.inquisitr.com/164752/starship-troopers-remake-neal-moritz/

[Kozahk]

We can also chalk up a 'Point Break' remake. “The new version is set in the world of international extreme sports, and like the original involves an undercover FBI agent infiltrating a criminal ring.”

So instead of surfers we will have skiers? Mountain climbers? Snowboarders? BASE jumpers? No sense calling it 'Point Break' without the surfing, kinda like how there is no point calling the American AKIRA remake 'AKIRA' if it has practically nothing to do with the original works (yes I am still fuming at that).

http://www.inquisitr.com/141342/point-break-remake-on-the-way-really-has-nothing-to-do-with-the-original/

[Konrad]

I'm still not even sure what AKIRA is...

In all seriousness though, The Three Stooges was never funnier than that trailer, the dumb physical humor seems to be spot on. As for Snookie being in a scene... I dunno, t's just a pop-culture reference like the iPhone thing. Big deal? Doubt it.

[Kozahk]

AKIRA is...fuck it, just google the bitch.

As for the three stooges, their slapstick physical comedy was much better in their hayday than what was shown in the trailer. Personally, I think they look like they are trying hard to 'be goofy' whereas in the original the silliness felt much more normal, if that makes any sense. Feels like they grew out of their characters and are now trying hard to be what they aren't anymore. Kinda like when a movie intends to be a campy, cheesy flick and just ends up being bad; as opposed to the unintentionally cheesy campy movies that are funny to watch. And Snookie...well they had the right thing in mind for a pop culture reference, but Jersey Shore and Snookie are laughed at in a 'wow what a fucking waste of life and space' kinda way and not in the 'wow that was entertaining' kinda way.

[Cthulhu]

AKIRA is...fuck it, just google the bitch.

As for the three stooges, their slapstick physical comedy was much better in their hayday than what was shown in the trailer. Personally, I think they look like they are trying hard to 'be goofy' whereas in the original the silliness felt much more normal, if that makes any sense. Feels like they grew out of their characters and are now trying hard to be what they aren't anymore. Kinda like when a movie intends to be a campy, cheesy flick and just ends up being bad; as opposed to the unintentionally cheesy campy movies that are funny to watch. And Snookie...well they had the right thing in mind for a pop culture reference, but Jersey Shore and Snookie are laughed at in a 'wow what a fucking waste of life and space' kinda way and not in the 'wow that was entertaining' kinda way.


yeah I agree here but I grew up on the 3 stooges and was laughing hysterically until the snookie bit and turned all :upset: faced

[MyNameDidntFit]

I think all it is is that slapstick humour in the old sense just isn't funny anymore. Sure, I go to work and slap a mate in the face when he's not expecting it, it's funny. But when I see it on my screen? It just isn't.

The same way a show focused on double entendres like Are You Being Served? wouldn't be funny today either.

[Jason]

See, I'm a fan of slapstick humour. Not sure how well it's known internationally, but Bottom (Rik Mayall and Ade Edmonson) is one of my all-time favourite shows - there's absolutely nothing subtle about it - most episodes boil down to a collection of violent slapstick assaults (usually to the testicles), knob jokes, and general childish humour.
And it's bloody brilliant.
Whilst I can appreciate the Three Stooges and how they're clearly the founders (well, maybe not the true founders, but certainly one of the acts that brought the method into the mainstream consciousness) of that comedic style, it doesn't make me laugh now, because a lot of what made them original and funny at the time has been repeated and riffed on so many times that I've seen it all before.

I believe TVTropes calls this situation Seinfeld Is Unfunny (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny), and they do a lot better at explaining it than I could.

To use a videogame example, it'd be like playing Serious Sam 3 in all its glorious madness and then going back to playing Doom. It's not that Doom is a bad game, and without it there's a good chance SS3 doesn't exist, but when viewed by today's standards (that it helped define, no less), it can't possibly expect to hold up as anything but a nostalgia trip.

[Konrad]

Which could be the precise reason Doom 3 and RAGE have been as succesful ad they are. In short, I agree.