Her drug shipment got intercepted and she destroyed the evidence?
Can she prove that isn’t what happened?
I’m just asking questions here. Nudge, nudge.
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Speaking to conservative platform PragerU in a video called “Why can’t Hollywood take a joke anymore?”, Zucker explained how when he first started making movies in the 1980s “we could be as offensive as we liked.”
He continued: “We went where the laughs were. We never thought we were offending anybody but if we were offending people, we knew we were on the right track. As time went on, it got to be the ‘90s and the 2000s, it did change. We never worried about any of this stuff with The Naked Gun or the Scary Movie films.”
“They’re destroying comedy because 9 per cent of people don’t have a sense of humour,” he continued. “When we would do screenings of Airplane! , we would get asked if we could do Airplane! today. Sure, without the jokes.”
Zucker’s last film was 2013’s Scary Movie 5 which he wrote and produced after directing Scary Movie 3 and 4 . He’s set to direct, write and produce the upcoming noir-spoof film The Star Of Malta though the film doesn’t currently have a release date.
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He hasn’t done a film in a decade?
No wonder he’s so out of touch.
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What a whiny baby.
Yes, a lot of Airplane didn’t age well, but saying they couldn’t do any of the jokes is ridiculous.
The whole, “picked the wrong day to stop…” is still funny and maybe even more relate able than when it was written.
“And stop calling me Shirley,” is still funny-silly.
IMO, his comments say more about what he considers the “good” jokes than anything else.
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Yes, that part. Another whiny white man, sad that assholes aren’t as appreciated for acting out their impulses as they used to be.
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What the hell? Airplane! is fine today. The only ones without a sense of humor are conservatives. Exhibit A: they think the only way to be funny is to make fun of people with less societal power than them.
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Yep. They find “punching down” hilarious…
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Sounds like he’s trying to get some free advertising.
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I can’t think of any comedy movie that would have been received as well if it had been released 40+ years later.
Would audiences in 2022 be put off by some of the jokes they made in 1980? Sure. But no more than audiences in 1980 would have been put off by some of the jokes they made in 1938.
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i think the jive talking bit might not be quite a hit anymore, and there are a few individual jokes which also edge into racism ( and probably homophobia)…
still i do think it probably holds up better than something like “back to the future” with both the terrorists and it’s frequent misogyny. probably better than the average john hughes film too
( i know there are also plenty of people who would fight me about those opinions so… )
im sure - yeah - he’s just upset he’s no longer famous or in demand. i mean: why work hard to be creative again, when you can just blame society and sell your soul to the conservative hate machine?
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I am surprised they’ve not targeted ATL yet… I guess that’s because many of our state offices are held by Republicans? But we certainly have a history here of working with refugees…
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They’re waiting till after Warnock wins.
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Gold teamed up with other doctors with controversial takes on the virus to create America’s Frontline Doctors as a nonprofit. As the Trump administration looked for a quick fix to the pandemic in mid-2020, Gold organized her doctors into a “White Coat Summit”—a widely covered press conference in Washington that earned them a meeting with Vice President Mike Pence. The event was only slightly marred when The Daily Beast reported that the event’s breakout star, Dr. Stella Immanuel, also believed that dream-sex with demons could cause dangerous medical conditions.
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Ever since i read this post, i have been trying to think of unacceptable humor in it. “I speak jive” might be questionable, but i don’t read it as racist. “Turkish prison” was a little cringey. Been a while since i watched it. What am i misremembering?
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I wasn’t especially fond of that scene with a long line of people waiting their turn to pound some sense into a “hysterical” woman.
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Hard for me to judge, but to this white guy it seemed like a joke that managed to handle a concept that easily could have gone very wrong pretty well. It could easily have been a Key and Peele skit.
True, but it could easily be turned into a riff on toxic masculinity by turning the “hysterical woman” into a “tough guy” and maybe even be funnier than the original!
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Same here.
And there was a lot of aura of “women’s place in society” that didn’t age well. Like, of course the female flight attendant couldn’t fly the plane, but she could save the day by giving the inflatable male co-pilot a blow job.
Signs of the times and all, but he’s not wrong that stuff wouldn’t really be considered funny today. Because times have changed.
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What is the obsession with remaking comedy from the past anyway? You couldn’t make this today you couldn’t make that today… No shit. Maybe no one should do that anyway because it’s boring and out of touch.
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