Half-Baked. Happy Gilmore. Billy Madison. Grandma’s Boy. Dude, Where’s My Car? Where have the movies like this gone? Clerks 3 was, I think, the last good one I’ve ever seen (and even they got too real and too sad so I don’t even know if I ever want to see it again as a comedy). There’s gotta be some good, funny shit that’s even funnier when stoned out of your mind that’s more recent than that, right?
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Don’t forget about all the Harold and Kumars, pineapple express, basically every other movie with Seth rogan, all the bill and Ted’s, Project x, role models, tropic thunder, horrible bosses, 21 jump street, etc. Some of these are also older, but I do think there are a lot more out there than you’re listing
Två main reasons:
- Medium budget films are not economically viable anymore. 30-75 million dollar films where these comedies would fall are too risky and don’t pay off.
- Comedies have been made into comicbook-movies. I hate it.
Your first point is definitely a big trend. Studios either target a niche audience (like horror or art house maybe), which don’t have the size to support larger budgets. Or they go after the larger more casual crowd, but then they compete against the blockbusters. Not only on the production budget side, but importantly also in marketing.
I guess the question is if these kinds of comedies could somehow be done on a lower budget.
They go in phases. Really the peak was the Cheech and Chong era, then they vanished for 20 years, came back for Harold and Kumar, Clerks, etc.
They still exist, but the comedians you’re nostalgic for doing them have gotten old now. And watching an old man trying to carry on like a teenager is more pathetic than funny.
They still make them, it’s just that they aren’t super mainstream anymore and most people who grew up with them grew out of that type of humour, and the nostalgia is what’s hitting them for those movies.
Seth Rogen still makes them, the guys from workaholics made one not too long ago, there’s some other good fringe ones I’ve seen.
Cocaine Bear, Strays, Bad Trip, Barbie, Everything Everywhere all at Once, Marcel the Shell with shoes on, Cats, Inherent Vice, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Saving Private Ryan, The Truman Show, NHDTA-613: "If you don’t hurry up, you’ll have a baby!”, Event Horizon, The Lego Movie
Cocaine Bear is possibly the only one on here that fits the “stoner” moniker. But I had forgotten about it and haven’t seen it yet.
Everything is a stoner comedy if you’re stoned enough according to this guy
It was shit. Somehow they basically tried to make it a drama. It was unbelievably stupid, and not because of the premise, which is saying something.
Yes, highest rated narrative film on Letterboxd = shit. Perhaps you’re the person who might be out of sync
If Cocaine Bear is the highest rated anything, I’m happy to part with society.
