I didn't think this was funny..
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sstack-3 — 15 years ago(September 02, 2010 01:51 PM)
I agree with the OP. Watched this movie for the first time last night. People have been talking it up for years to me, but there really wasn't anything I laughed at. Will Ferrell to me tries way too hardand just isn't funny. It was like watching one of his old SNL skits which (with the exception of his George Bush impersonations) were painful to watch. And the other jokes you could see coming a mile away (like Blue's fate, fat guy with rope around his unit, etc.). I loved The Hangover, which everyone said was Todd Phillips' best work since this movie, so I had high hopes. But this was a major disappointment. When you compare it to classics like Animal House well, there really is no comparison.
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tripxcore — 15 years ago(September 03, 2010 08:59 PM)
Whenever I comment on a "classic comedy" that I didn't think was funny, people rip into me saying "LOL you need to get laid" or "you must be boring to hang out with!!!!"
Therefore, let me preface this by saying that I get laid a ton and party pretty hard into my mid-20s.
I just didn't like it. I didn't really laugh at the jokes.
Why is "You're my boy Blue" funny? Everybody seems to love that line. It just doesn't do anything for me. And Will Ferrell streaking? Eh. Again, not funny. These are things that I did in college. To see somebody older doing it is not funny to me.
I hated "The Hangover" too.
And its not just that I hate Todd Phillips' movies because I really, really enjoyed "School for Scoundrels."
Craig Kilborn was the funniest actor in this movie, IMO. I can't really think of any other "laugh out loud" moments.
Why people love this movie has always been a mystery to me. This and The Hangover.
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behamut — 15 years ago(January 14, 2011 01:53 PM)
I gotta agree with you. I finally sat down and watched this with my wife after my friends and brother kept hounding me that I gotta see it.
Normally, probably 70 - 90% of the time, I'm generally on the side that likes different styles of humor, and love the movies that a lot of people just don't "get". I love comedies from stupid slapstick to witty intelligent humor.
But while I thought it was mildly entertaining, and I understood what the appeal may be, I just didn't find Old School very funny. (I remember my brother being dumbfounded when I broke that news to him, poor guy.) I laughed a couple times, but for the most part my wife and I were bored. -
MartinP666 — 15 years ago(March 09, 2011 05:52 AM)
I got a few laughs out of it, but as a whole I thought it was a pretty crappy movie. I liked The Hangover, and absolutely loved Due Date, bur Old School was just not very funny or good in any way.
I think Will Farrell got too much space, and that guy just isn't funny. He's just a pain to watch. -
SmokeyTheGreat — 15 years ago(March 25, 2011 11:56 AM)
Craig Kilborn was the funniest actor in this movie, IMO. I can't really think of any other "laugh out loud" moments.
Kilborn didn't have any funny lines b/c he was playing the 'dick boyfriend'. Is your point that the movie is so humorless that a guy who wasn't supposed to be funny was in the fact THE funniest in it? -
rjs09 — 15 years ago(March 27, 2011 10:36 AM)
"And its not just that I hate Todd Phillips' movies because I really, really enjoyed "School for Scoundrels."
Hated Hangover and Old School but loved School for Scoundrels. I hope u don't expect anyone to take your comedic opinion seriously lol. -
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Bassmint_Stile — 14 years ago(June 10, 2011 07:42 PM)
I was thinking the same thing. I really wanted to like School for Scoundrels. But I think that movie is the one that was not funny, and fell flat.
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theblkrev — 14 years ago(September 22, 2011 07:15 AM)
Wrong. I'm under 20 and I did not enjoy this movie that much.
Short Summary:
*Nothing but frat-boy humor (I hate frat animals)
*Luke Wilson is an unfunny regular guy
*Vince Vaughn is a talkative, annoying, unfunny guy
*Old guy dying from breasts is not funny
*Drama mixed in
*The thing with the antagonist at the end not funny
*Jokes fall flat (dicks attached to boulders, really?)
*Not Will Ferrell's best (which was Step Brothers btw)
Even Wedding Crashers isn't that good, but Will Ferrell's cameo was the best thing it had too offer.
There. Case Closed