It’s said that comedy movies are dying because they don’t bring people to the theater.
I remember when rom-coms used to be a genre that would be practically guaranteed to do good numbers, but it seems like studios are avoiding the genre now or releasing direct to streaming.
I think that most comedies today are primarily another genre, like action/adventure or horror with a bit of millennial irony on the top. I think the biggest comedy this year was The Devil Wears Prada 2; I’m not really the target audience for that one, but it is nice to see that there is a market for it, even if it’s a bit of a look back on a 20 year old movie.
The last one that I saw in the theater was Asteroid City, but frankly I went just for the cinematography; I usually prefer to watch comedy at home because it’s not an experience that really matters if it’s on a theater screen or not.
So what was the last comedy that you went to the theater for? I’m particularly interested in people who regularly go out to movies, but also just generally curious about people’s thoughts.
I rarely go to the cinema these days on the account of cinema seats being incompatible with my back pain. Last comedy I saw was Naked Gun because it’s short and I thought it was one of those movies where real life laugh track improves on the experience. It’s a kind of movie you have to watch either in cinema, on VHS, or some random cable channel at 2AM.