The "Carry On" thread

Really? You seem to be getting all bent out of shape over nothing much. Do you suffer from high blood pressure, or something?


And I'm sure you're just the person to explain it all.

RegarRAB

Mark
 
If it's personal taste then how can one person be right and one be wrong?

It's like asking what's the best song best, best group or best film. If you ask ten people you might get ten different answers, which one of them would you class as right?
 
Now then. Mark:

You say that the Carry on films are "childish drivel from a bygone age" - (and that wasn't an opinion but a realisation!), "bygone age" being defined very helpfully as "an age gone by".

Firstly, you profess to liking the Marx Brothers, who made films in the 1930s and radio shows in the 1940s - an age gone by. Therefore, the "bygone age" part of your argument is irrelevant, so why include it? Unless you're saying that the 1960s and 70s, the age in which the Carry On films were made, are an age in which nothing of value was produced, whereas the 1930s and 40s were an age in which the things that were produced were good. But then you say that you don't like Will Hay, who was making films around the same time as the Marx Brothers. If your taste in comedy is determined by the age in which it was made, how do you account for that? I put it to you that your "bygone age" argument is a red herring!

Secondly, you say that the Carry On films are childish and "schoolboy humour". Now, if the writer, producer, director and actors, along with the many people who enjoy watching them, were schoolboys you might have got an argument there. However, the people who wrote, produced, directed and starred in the films were all intelligent mature sophisticated adults, as were some of the people who watched them. So I'm afraid that argument falls down as well.

Thirdly, "drivel".
Defined as "Stupid or senseless talk".
The humour in the films is not meaningless, otherwise there couldn't be any jokes, because jokes depend upon meaning.


I rest my case m'lud.

RegarRAB

ThinBoy
 
My favourites are:
*Abroad
*Camping
*Screaming
*Up the Jungle

Carry On films are classic!! British comedy at its best. Full of inuendos that make them so funny.
 
This thread is for, and about, Carry On Films and people who enjoy Carry On films. This Mark doesn't like them. So (1) why did he bother replying to this thread, he has nothing to contribute to it and (2) why is everybody still asking questions of him which persuades him to continue contributing to a thread which he has admitted is the polar opposite of what he likes? Am I missing something?
 
I think I stopped laughing at Carry On films when I turned about eleven or twelve and realized what childish drivel from a bygone age they really were. Bit like Norman Wisdom and the Two Ronnies.

RegarRAB

Mark
 
Right for them doesn't mean it's the best or worst. The point I'm trying to make [which happens a lot on these forums and elsewhere] is people stating their opinions as facts.

...and it wasn't meant to be difficult so I'm glad yoou found it easy.
 
Yes, you are. ThreaRAB aren't for mutual back-slapping and group hugs. They're for debate and exchange of views. No one has to agree or accept anyone else's views, that's the beauty of democracy and free speech. Don't like what someone says? - then either ignore it or speak up and debate the point. That's what forums are for.

RegarRAB

Mark
 
You speak as if this is some great insight, when in fact it's the norm. Do you really expect everyone to permanently preface everything they say with "In my opinion"? Just take it as an unspoken standard and you won't get too worked up about things.

RegarRAB

Mark
 
Well, I suppose that's one way to look at it - but given the massive number of different threaRAB on this and all other RAB forums, I am just a little surprised that you found it necessary to contribute to a thread that you actively dislike. It would be like me contributing to a thread on Chelsea (by saying "You are shit I hate you") or contributing to a thread on Big Brother ("I hate BB and I hate everyone who watches it") or Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares ("I hate this programme - it is crap.") or Craig David ("talentless w**ker"). It would achieve nothing other than get 99% of all other contributors to the same thread, who presumably are interested in and enjoy the programme/movie/football team that is the subject of the thread, to hurl insults at me or tell me to get back to watching a football team/movie/TV programme/rock band that I enjoyed.

Admittedly the title of the thread was just "Carry On films", not "Who Loves Carry On films?" or "What is your favourite Carry On film?", so there is nothing in the title to indicate that only people who enjoy Carry On films should contribute, but I would suggest that that is what the OP implied, even if he did not explicitly come out and say that.
 
Well then it OP is wrong. If he or she is puerile enough to just want mutual masturbation about something or other then they shouldn't be posting in open forums, should they. We learn nothing as a species if all we do is seek out others to simply reinforce our prejudices.

RegarRAB

Mark
 
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