12-09-16, 08:56 AM
(05-09-16, 05:55 PM)YamFazFan link Wrote: [quote author=BBROWN1664 link=topic=20720.msg240852#msg240852 date=1473059142]
I sat down yesterday afternoon and watched the "Till Death Do Us Part" and "Are you being served" remakes. What a load of tosh.
Ditto the new 'Porridge' :wall
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I didn't think the new porridge was so bad, but not a patch on the original. It seems humour evolves and moves on along with the rest of life, things that were really funny 40 odd years ago are no longer funny.
I recall back in the sixties see a back up movie at the cinema (when you used to get the main movie and a backup one) called 'Home of your own' with Spike Milligan, Ronnie Barker and numerous other we'll know comedy actors, It was filmed in black and white and there was no speaking in it at all just silly music playing quietly in the background, I remember finding it so funny and laughing so much because of the antics of the builders in the film, the film was a backup to a film called 'Shot in the dark' and it was based on a building site. I found that film so funny at the time that a couple of years ago I found it on eBay it had been ripped off and stuck on a DVD. I sat down one night in eager anticipation with a couple of beers and it hardly brought a smile to my face.
I'm not sure if I was easily amused all those years ago or whether I am just a grumpy old bastart now.