After trying to watch Rango on the weekend, I found I got all the jokes but didn't find it funny at all, so I couldn't get through it. I generally call this the Bones/How I Met Your Mother effect because that's how those shows make me feel. What do feel is the worst kind of comedy experience for you?
I chose the top one, but now I think I chose wrong. Wouldn't the worst kind of comedy be the lack of comedy? Meaning the second choice is the only real choice?
After having a few bad comics at comedy clubs, esp. one at my birthday one year (rest of the time just finding the prices & mandatory drinks to get), just made me want to stop going to those. At least with a bad comedy movie I can either change the channel, throw the dvd on the sofa to mail to netflix after yelling at how stupid it is or just walk out of the theater. Comedy is so subjective, I'm often surprised at movie trailers or moments in films (at a movie theater) where many people are laughing at something rather average funny if not less than that.
I personally feel B is the worst, because like others have said, at least you feel something with really bad humor. If you just don't find it funny it just becomes boring more than anything.
Cringe-worthy jokes can be at least turned around and made fun of for how terrible they are, thus providing some entertainment value. Ones that just aren't funny but aren't bad enough to mock are the worst because you don't get anything out of it besides awkward silence.
B, laugh at something but don't find it funny. a couple of months or so fox changed their schedule for 6-7 show. they changed it to the big bang theory. i've been trying to watch the show. i just don't find the jokes funny. i only laughed at one joke, it was some quiz show. the two main characters were on different teams. one of the team mates was some russian guy. the final question was on something and the russian guy knew it. the jokes was like in russia i am engineer in america i am janitor. it was something like that.
I picked 'C'. The jokes that are tired, predictable, and boring are the worst. If you can guess the joke before it comes and already know the punchline before it is said then the humor is just sucked right out. So...sitcoms basically.
Ignorance is bliss in this case so if you don't get the joke there's no loss. Understanding a joke but not finding it funny can leave you feeling confused or superior depending on your personality type. Again, not all that bad. Now, "getting it" and cringing at how gawd-awful it is has to be the worst. That's your bang-your-head-against-the-wall experience. "C" is the answer for me because it's an aggravation.
People who commit to playing a character that was unfunny from the start, mix it with their own terrible sense of humor and then refuse to drop it when it's clear no one actually enjoys it.
A thousand times this. That movie didn't even get a single chuckle out of me. Everything about this movie is just bad. I actually had to put on Young Frankenstein That's the problem with bad comedies that other genres don't have to worry about. With comedies we want to laugh with the movie not laugh at the movie. At least with other genres we can still somehow enjoy it by laughing at the movie but when comedies go bad then it's just a nightmare.
@benspyda: I actually didn't Rango...it gave me a few chuckles here and there....especially refreshing because it seemed like Johnny Depp was just playing lizard Hunter S Thompson.
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