Yeah, were there any teens in Home Alone?
In that one (which I didn’t see) I’ll assume no and that it was focussed on that kid, but would still lump that flick in with the teen demographic audience consuming that fare, which also falls under my teen exploitation film definition.
If there were any laughs in “Grumpy Old Men” they went right over my head. In the GOM universe, Sophia Loren shows up and, for some reason, it’s inevitable that she must choose between Lemmon and Matthau. I hope the stars had fun making the movie; I don’t blame them.
I thought it was hysterical. But I was eleven.
Home Alone, etc. (what I call teen exploitation movies)
Yeah, were there any teens in Home Alone?
It’s possible to consider all John Hughes movies as some kind of genre unto itself, and about half of them (Ferris Bueller, Sixteen Candles, Some Kind of Wonderful, maybe Uncle Buck) were teen exploitation, though Home Alone was in the other half, along with Curly Sue and Dennis the Menace.
This was exactly my reaction. I don’t like a lot of things other people do—I hate the Big Bang Theory, but I understand that it’s attempting to be funny and it’s just not my taste. But I couldn’t for the life of me see what was supposed to be funny about this show.
Sounds exactly like what I was talking about when I started the thread!
I’m NOT talking about shows that are clearly attempting to be funny, but maybe not landing because of poor execution, poor writing, or impaired viewer senses of humor, but rather ones that are billed and described as “comedies”, but seem to have nothing funny or amusing about them whatsoever.
I’ve never heard of White Lotus before this thread, but watching the trailer makes it seem like a comedy to me, for sure. An understated, dark one, but the little snippets I saw were very amusing in a somewhat absurdist sort of way – which is completely up my alley, comedy-wise. I’ll have to find a way to check it out (I don’t have HBO). To me, there’s really nothing funnier than strange situations and interactions being treated completely as normal, and the comedy of realizing the absurdity of what you’re watching, vs HAHA LAUGH AT THIS! type of comedy. Stuff like Man Bites Dog and Delicatessen are among my favorite comedies. Then again, so is The Blues Brothers, so I do like a range.
That’s the problem. Someone decided to market it as a light-hearted, sunny comedy.
Anyone approaching it from that perspective is going to think “This is a failure as comedy. Not one laugh.” And give up on it after one episode. That’s what my wife did.
I’m not sure I would call the trailer light-hearted and sunny, but it’s not overtly dark, either. It comes across as quirky and weird to me. I’m even more curious now, especially if it is much darker.
Call Me Kat. Took about 15 seconds of the first show to decide that this was about the worst show ever made. An elementary school would be ashamed of such a poor performance in a school play.
I don’t think any of the marketing materials I saw for The White Lotus sold it as a “light-hearted, sunny comedy.” Can you link to something that did, in your opinion?
Oh man, I never heard of it, but I just watched the first two minutes of the “Kat’s Blind Date” episode and … oof. That’s pretty terrible.
Call Me Kat is (or was) the American version of Miranda, which I never found funny either.
For something so terrible, it keeps getting renewed so clearly some large group of people are finding it funny. I had it pegged as a sure fire one season disaster too but De gustibus and all that.