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.
Oh another fun (although flawed) romp was Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
Friendship is funny, but only if you can stomach an I Think You Should Leave comedy sketch for two hours.
There’s also a cute indie(?) British film I quite enjoyed called Time Travel is Dangerous that’s both funny and really cute.
Tim Travers and the Time Travelers Paradox is a goofy little low budget sci-fi.
Also Cunk on Life may be just an entry in the long-running Philomena Cunk universe, but it is also technically a film, whereas much of the prior Cunk media were television shows.
Hundreds of Beavers is deeply unique and one of the funniest films I have seen in my life. A combination of video game mechanics, looney tunes physics, and well, hundreds of beavers.
Comedy movies still exist, they’re just different than how they used to be, I think. Also I didn’t go to the theater for these because I’m poor but I wish I had! (also some of them were direct to streaming and never hit theaters, like I’m fairly sure was the case for Time Travel is Dangerous, Tim Travers, and Cunk on Life)