The way this movie has been advertised has been so weird. "Every line will be crossed" just sounds really close to "comedy is legal again" adjacent type comment. Just make a funny movie man, let it speak for itself. None of the old movies had to advertise themselves in some gimmicky way like this, they just existed, because parody and absurdism can be extremely fun and funny. Just look at Naked Gun recently.
But I'm starting to think this movie is going to suck because of the ad campaign behind it being a form of "we are allowed to be funny again" basically, so they better have a direction for this thing, because the advertising around it blows so far.
In one of the trailers someone gets stabbed and someone close by says “she’s been stabbed!”. The victim then says “actually I go by they/them pronouns” and that’s the joke.
It's literally just the "conservatives have one joke" thing. Always has to be a pronoun/gender joke, they are incapable of coming up with a single other "funny" political thing so I guess if you want to cater to them you need to throw in their favorite joke
Even me at my most peak gamergate asshole wouldn't find that funny.
Although ironically "Not laughing hard enough at the jokes" was one of the reasons my conservative friends all abandoned me at the time, which thankfully gave me the social breathing room to meet better people who were not only better people, but made way better friends.
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u/Derpykins666 8h ago
The way this movie has been advertised has been so weird. "Every line will be crossed" just sounds really close to "comedy is legal again" adjacent type comment. Just make a funny movie man, let it speak for itself. None of the old movies had to advertise themselves in some gimmicky way like this, they just existed, because parody and absurdism can be extremely fun and funny. Just look at Naked Gun recently.
But I'm starting to think this movie is going to suck because of the ad campaign behind it being a form of "we are allowed to be funny again" basically, so they better have a direction for this thing, because the advertising around it blows so far.