• grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    Blazing Saddles, especially since, as they say, you couldn’t make it today. 'Course, now that’s less because you can’t say the n-word and more because all the anti-racism would trigger the MAGA CHUDs.

    • Tujio@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      Exactly! Always seems like the ‘you could never make it today!’ crowd is saying that the woke mob would get mad or some shit.

      Do they think that Blazing Saddles isn’t woke? The whole fucking movie is making fun of dumb white racists!

    • Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      I wish I could find it again, but years ago I saw a video about why you couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today, aside from it already existing/permission/etc. It wasn’t the racism or anything, or how people today are too sensitive.

      It couldn’t be made today because Blazing Saddles basically destroyed the entire genre.

      Prior to its release, Westerns were everywhere. They were incredibly popular, with countless movies and TV shows released every year. Then this movie comes along, points out all of the overused tropes, and reveals the formula they’ve all been using. The genre of Westerns has never recovered. It would be lampooning obscure content with dated references that people don’t understand.

      That’s the real reason it couldn’t be made today.

        • Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          The only reason it “couldn’t” be made is that Mel Brooks won’t license his work for a remake. Everything else is “wouldn’t”, including any concerns about people taking offense. There are entire studios dedicated to doing exactly that.

    • Chee_Koala@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 month ago

      Blazing saddles is a fun and wild ride. I came in expecting nothing and got kind off for blown off my socks! This movie is so much fun.

    • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      Life of Brian, too. I also love The Meaning of Life, but I recognize it’s not as popular.

    • Tiresia@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      In Idiocracy, people take a crisis seriously, the state is actively looking for experts to solve the crisis, and defers to them quickly, and when evidence appears people change their minds. Finally they elect the person with the actual best plan for the future.

      Idiocracy fundamentally has a wrong view of American stupidity. Idiocracy treats Americans as well-meaning but too complacent to care about the long-term consequences. It declares that society’s problems are from a (genetic) lack of useful effort.

      But, as the past 10 years have made increasingly hard to deny, American “stupid people” are actively hostile to reckoning with the long-term consequences of their actions. Ignorance was only ever an excuse. It’s entitlement rather than complacency, and society’s problems come from (‘genetically smart’) people deliberately bending useful effort towards societal harm for personal gain.

      But while it may not have been quite as grating, Idiocracy was already wrong when it came out. Civil rights were suppressed with “ignorant” excuses that were a fig leaf on the desire to do harm. The eugenics the movie takes as a premise - that “smart people” breeding leads to a smart world and inversely for “stupid people” - is itself a form of “ignorance” about genetics that was actively being used as a fig leaf for genocide in the US in the century before.

      But no, I’m sure you “just don’t get” how Idiocracy is endorsing a genocidal view eugenics. It’s easier to “believe” brawndo makes the plants grow.

      • ClownStatue@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        While you’re correct that the movie highlights a leader searching for a solution to a problem, you overlook the unspoken criticism of society within the movie: the plainly evident results of generations of stupid Americans who were too complacent, and actively hostile, to reckoning with the long-term consequences of their actions.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Clue was partially ruined by its theater gag; during its original theatrical run, you’d buy a ticket, go see a ~70 minute movie that randomly had one of the three endings. It flopped. The cable/VHS edit that hastily crammed all three endings together made it longer, you got all the content there was, and…it works better on TV.

  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    The Death of Stalin. There’s something hilarious about how a dictator who terrifies even his closest confidants couldn’t get the help he needed in time thanks to all his bad decisions. The second half of the film with the rushed scheming and backstabbing made by the power vacuum was just as good.