So often, it’s tentpole big budget action movie or nothing.
That’s especially true with comedies.
From 2010 on, it’s tough to find a very funny comedy.
There’s Something About Mary cost about $23 million dollars to make.
It brought in over $360 million if you count worldwide box office.
That’s before cable or video rental revenue.
It would also never be made today.
I think that’s bullshit but that became the narrative.
Apatow also seemed to want to focus on other projects and no one picked up the torch.
But why can’t movies like this or Kingpin or Dumb & Dumber get made?
The Farrelly Brothers movies could be kinda gross (I guess?)
but they aren’t mean spirited.
Why can’t this be done today?
Why isn’t it?
This movie is so funny.
Matt Dillon should have been nominated for an Oscar for his role as Pat Healy.
It’s such a weird part and just about everything his does in this movie is hysterical.
This scene of Mary and Pat talking at the driving range might be the funniest scene in movie history.
There’s Something About Mary isn’t trying to offend or make a political statement.
It just wants to be funny.
There is something wonderful about that.
It’s also something we just don’t see as much.
Now, everything feels like a teaching moment.
It’s almost like we have to pay a price for laughing at something.
Or it’s through a political lens.
Something can just be funny.
That went away sometime and I really wish we could get it back.
We see it with stand-up comedy.
Their only job is to be funny and make you laugh.
I saw There’s Something About Mary in the theaters in 1998.
I laughed so hard, I had tears in my eyes.
But I haven’t done that in a movie theater in 15 years.
I’d love to have that feeling again.
I’m starting to doubt that I ever will.
There’s Something About Mary
20.
Schindler’s List
22.
Saving Private Ryan
25.
Dumb & Dumber
27.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
31.
Out Of Sight
36.
Carlito’s Way
37.
Wayne’s World
45.
Back To The Future Part III
47.
A Bronx Tale
48.
The People Vs. Larry Flynt
49.
Eyes Wide Shut
50.
The Green Mile
54.
Man On The Moon
55.
Boyz N The Hood
56.
Grosse Pointe Blank
57.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
63.
The Usual Suspects
65.
In The Line Of Fire
66.
My Cousin Vinny
67.
The River Wild
79.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
Stir Of Echoes
82.
Mission: Impossible
83.
For Love Of The Game
86.
Being John Malkovich
87.
Men In Black
88.
Glengarry Glen Ross
92.
Die Hard With A Vengeance
93.
The Blair Witch Project
94.
Any Given Sunday
99.
The Wedding Singer
100.
