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Zohran Mamdani Gets 8,000 Potholes Filled in a Single Day (novaramedia.com)
submitted 5 months ago* by to c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
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[–] 105 points 5 months ago (18 children)

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago* (17 children)

    I wish those movies were still funny today. They were so great in their time.

    They aged terribly

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I find the first one aged better than the rest. I still laughed out loud after watching it recently. The later movies, not so much.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Agree, the first one has aged like fine milk (opinions differ of if its spoiled or turned to cheese) and the opening bit of the second film where they had a real budget for a split second.

    The part there thats aged well is of all the actors cast in the parody opening, Danny Devito is the only one who isnt problamatic.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    Can you share examples?

    I don't remotely remember the one i saw.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Well, just off the top of my head, from very old memories, there's tons of sexual assault. Also lots of making fun of fat people and people with different bodies in general. I'm sure there's a lot more.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    There's also the fact that half the 'jokes' were just a scene going on longer than you'd expect.

    I think a lot of the body shaming jokes don't land not because we are uptight PC wokies, but because when you don't stigmatise something, it loses its social power. Oh that person has a mole? So what? The boomer humour was 'oh, it's bad to have a mole, but you should never say anything about it!' when you don't believe either of those statements there is no joke, and the scene goes on for like 5 minutes...

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Isn't the whole point that it's riffing off the sexual misconduct in the bond movies? Also, Its been a while, but I recall Austin always being overtly consensual as a contrast to the Bond series

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Yes, that's the satire. Which is lost on folks who did not grow up with the old bond movies, instead tossing it in the "boomer humor" category without understanding that the reason it was funny to the last generation was because it played off stuff from the previous generation.

    Time moves on. Like a poster above us said, the movies aged badly because the comedy isn't timeless, say like Who's On First.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Sexual assault like this?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Someone else mentioned that it's actually pretty consensual. I assumed it wasn't, but I guess I must be wrong. Again, it's been a very long time since I've seen them. I know that consent wasn't the big talking point then that it is now, so I just thought they'd have fucked it up. It's good to see they didn't totally.

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