Modern Comedy Recs

I can't post my Letterboxd favs of 2020s link, so they're: The Holdovers, Marcel, Red Rocket, The Menu, Another Round, Licorice Pizza, Bugonia, Beau is Afraid, Wake Up Dead Man, A Diff. Man, Asteroid City, I Care a lot, The French Dispatch, Rental Family, Saltburn, EEAAO, Btljc 2, See How They Run, Kinds of Kindness (yes, really), A Real Pain, The Kid Detective, Weird Al, King of Staten I., Thelma, The Suicide Squad, and Hustle. I’d be happy to find more, whether genre-bending or otherwise, as it’s hard to find good new ones that fit my taste. Wasn't a big fan of Poor Things but parts of it were funny.

Most film buffs notice how few pure, regular comedies have come out in the last 12 years or so. I’m tired of Deadpool/later MCU humor being attempted in all these new action/sci-fi/horror comedies like Abigail, Renfield, Ready or Not 2, the new Screams, Stranger Things after season 2, Mickey 17, Predator: Badlands, the Venom movies, Birds of Prey, Cruella, Army of the Dead/of Thieves, The Flash, most 2020s MCU movies, recent Ryan Reynolds movies, M3gan, Charlie’s Angels, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Uncharted, Send Help, Wolfs, The Running Man, Heart Eyes, Bullet Train, Don’t Look Up, Argylle I assume, and parts of Project Hail Mary for that matter. Audiences seem to eat it up but it’s so phony and obnoxious to me. No offense to people who love those, we all have our own tastes.

I like witty banter and cleverness, but when every character is witty (in theory) and all dialogue is banter and no one acts like real people, nothing is taken seriously even at a baseline level, I’m checking out. You’re taking it too far, rein it in. Older movies understood this. Does this make sense? Recent ones from before 2020, some rec's of my own, like Spy, The Nice Guys, Knives Out, Jojo Rabbit, OUaTiH, Deadpool, Marvel films from 2017, Ready or Not, The Meyerowitz Stories, Ingrid Goes West, The Favourite, Thoroughbreds, Blockers, Paddleton, Good Boys, Buster Scruggs, The Sisters Brothers, Private Life, and The Irishman made me laugh quite a bit. Anyway, happy to further discuss if anyone else feels similarly. Thanks for reading 👍