Made in Dagenham.... another unfunny British "comedy" film.

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I saw this trailer for yet another useless British "comedy" that we do seem to love making.

This time it's an film about a group of women fight for sexual equality in the workplace. Get the feeling that women are going to like it more than men?

The trailer played out and didn't get a laugh, snigger nothing just dead silence. The laugh came when it had finished when one of the guys in the cinema said to his wife or girlfriend "You'll have to take it up the arse if you want me to come and watch that pile of shit!"

Is it any wonder that the British film industry never seems to get anywhere when it keeps producing so called comedies like this and all those bloody awful Richard Curtis films?

I can't think of the last British comedy film that actually made me laugh out loud. For some reason I have a feeling it could be the film version of Are you being served? (1977) and that was just one scene near the start of the film.
Some have made me smile but not actually made me laugh out loud.

Usually I'll give a film a try even if the trailer isn't good but this one looks especially dire. If anything it looks like an BBC TV show more than a film. Not surprising really as it says BBC Films and almost all of their films look like TV shows and TV dramas.
 
Nope. I know it's an Chris Morris film. I wasn't a fan of Brass Eye so didn't see the point going to see this one. Maybe when it pops up on Sky I'll give it a try if there isn't anything else I want to watch.
 
I never listen to peoples opinions based on a trailer.

The film may be a load of rubbish, but shouldn't one see it before calling it unfunny? What you are really saying is the trailer was unfunny.
 
Yes, but usually a trailer has the "best" bits in it. If it's an action film it shows you something exciting to make you want to see the film. Logic says if it's a comedy it should show stuff that makes you laugh out loud, snigger or make some sound to show amusement and want to see it.

Just out of curiosity have you watched the trailer? If yes, which bits made you laugh out loud. Rather than an comedy this trailer makes it look like an feminist propganda film.
Bob Hoskins says something like "I fought in the war and these women scare me more!" Wow that's incredibly funny.

If you are going to put that line in the trailer at least show something that would make him say it. From the looks of this, the guy that fought in the war is scared of women working in their bras. Hilarious!
 
Yes I have seen the trailer and yes the film looks rubbish. But a 60 second clip won't put me of going to watch it or making statements about the film as a whole when I've only seen a 60 second trailer.
 
Fair enough. :)

Perhaps I'm just tired of the onslaught of yet more British "comedies." As I sat watching the trailer for this in the cinema today I started thinking why do we have to keep making them? If it's not them it's stuff like Lock Stock, Snatch and similar films that are all the same. Lots of people talking like Danny Dyer, swearing a lot and being 'ard.

It would be nice if we could have a good British serial killer film for a change. God knows there are enough TV Dramas with them on all the time. How about something on the line of Rebus only not an safe TV version. The BBC made a cracking series called Messiah that was gruesmome and a bit dark. Something like that would do. A good serial killer movie, or a good thriller. Something that would show the rest of the world we can do something other than turn out more than just comedies, often centred around class or oop North, The I'm 'ard and I'm gonna kick your f****** 'ead in! films or period dramas.

I think the trailer for this film pushed me over the edge on just how dire it is as a comedy. If it's based on a true story do it as a drama or send it up and go camp like the Carry on films. At least try something different to what we've been churning out for the last 20 years.
 
Well that doesn't come over at all snobbish! lol

I get the jokes and the humour, but it doesn't make me laugh. That's the problem with humour, it's subjective.The infamous Paedophile one was cleverly executed, but was also very childish. Ha ha ha we tricked celebrities. Ho-hum!
But it was a social comment, blah, blah, blah. Fine whatever.

Comedy lives and dies on whether it makes the person watching laugh. With some people it succeeeded, with others it failed. It has nothing to do with how intelligent or how sophisticated a person's sense of humour is. Either it got a laugh or it didn't. End of!
 
what about "Still Crazy"? That was a hoot

OK it has Jimmy Nail singing a song, but it's also the first outing of Bill Nighy's Rolling Stone impression, and that's worth the admission price alone.
 
I worked in the cinema and the customers laughed at the trailer for this so I suppose its just depenRAB on the individual. I really like Sally Hawkins so I may go see it.
 
Have to agree with the OP. I've seen some shockingly bad British comedy films over the last couple of decades. Mercifully most of them disappear without a trace (if only to resurface 2 years later in the BBC2 graveyard slot).

Do you get the feeling that people are still desperately trying to replicate the fluke success of The Full Monty, 13 years later?
 
In may cases I think it is, hence the amount of films set in the North. It's amazing how similar themes pop up.

Full Monty - unemployment leaRAB to strippers
Brassed Off - Based around a Brass band and a colliery shutting causing unmployment
Billy Elliott - Boy wants to dance, background story the picket strikes and loss of jobs

When you look at quite a lot of the British movies they do seem to be mix 'n' match with something that has gone before. Richard Curtis' films tend to be very samey, romantic comedies. He has shown he can do other stuff with Blackadder and The Vicar of Dibley so why not do something that isn't an romantic comedy?

The two Simon Pegg films, Hott Fuzz and Shaun and the dead have been mentioned. Both have been popular hits so it shows that Britain can make films that aren't like the one's I mentioned above. They just don't seem to bother and want to turn out the same old, same old.
 
Withnail - I don't get all the hype and adulation. Nothing in there gets any response from me at all.

Shaun and Hot Fuzz - Smiles and smirks. Thats about it. There are good "comical" moments in those two but nothing to get a good laugh out of.

The danger of comedy, it's subjective and personal to each person.
 
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