I had to crack a smile now and again…
Just catching up:
Mel Brooks: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein = Brilliant; Silent Movie = Good; Everything else = average to crap
Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker style spoofs: Airplane = Outstanding; The Naked Gun = Not too bad; All the others = meh
The Inbetweeners = Brilliant
The Office: UK = Excellent; US = OK
The Carry On films = Mostly masterpieces, way smarter than they appear at first glance, performed by one of the greatest ensemble casts you’ll ever see
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown = fupping dreadful. Sean Lock and Joe Wilkinson are desperate tryhards and Jon Richardson might be the dullest ‘comedian’ ever to have made a penny in that industry. I can feel my lifeforce ebbing away whenever it’s on. Pile of auld cockwank
Jimmy Carr (in a more general sense) = okay in VERY small doses. Nowhere near as funny as he thinks he is
Ricky Gervais = He seems to be getting more popular but, the more of his stuff I see, the more convinced I am that Stephen Merchant was the funny one in that writing duo. Loved The Office, loved The Ricky Gervais Show (mostly because of Karl Pilkington), like Life’s Too Short (mostly thanks to Warwick Davis’ performance of Gervais’ material)… everything else leaves me cold. Extras feels dated, I can’t stand his stand-ups, or Derek, or the wildly popular After Life, or any of his movies, including the David Brent one.
Sacha Baron Cohen = His TV shows were brilliant but their reliance on current events hs left them horribly dated. As to his films: Ali G InDaHouse was poor comparative to the character’s impact on TV, The Dictator was instantly forgettable and Grimsby was shockingly bad, one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. Brüno was very good however, and Borat was/is brilliant.
All merely imho, of course. 
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ALI G… I got the nickname from that 
programme. People stopped talking normally to me and in the Ali G voice. 
As a northerner I just felt offended by GRIMSBY.
You don’t have to be a Northerner to be offended by it … well, I wasn’t exactly offended as surprised how quickly SBC ran out of funny characters and resorted to fairly revolting ‘jokes’ … I’m referring to the hiding in the elephant scene. 
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Well, for me there are some pretty memorable moments I was surprised by - the siege of the castle with the help of the hero’s invention or plagued meat thrown inside the castle to name a few
I have to disagree, there’s a lot of fresh ideas towards the end although I have to say some of them are on the verge of parody.
That’s really low rating. I mean the movie is basically one cool scene after another what would you want more? 
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Maybe I’m been tetchy but the fact it portrays northerners as uneducated morons got to me. Not that they don’t exist…
I tried several times but never finished it. Tv program was neat though.
One of the most mindbendingly piss-poor scenes ever committed to film. It was just depressing.
He may well have been going for the “thick northerner” easy stereotype but, for me, all he did was demonstrate how badly written that specific character was (and indeed, how badly written the entire script was). When I watched it, I wasn’t laughing and thinking, “Yes indeed, northerners are exactly like this. They’re so stupid!” I wasn’t laughing at all. I was probably fighting the urge to run across the room and scissor-kick the television.
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Ditto Asa!!!
Nope, it starts promising and is mostly mediocre in every respect towards the end. Actually the remake, which has its own problems (it feels heavily cut), is not worse.
But the real bad and boring film is Robocop. Incredible how bad that one is. 1/10
I generally don’t care much for Verhoeven’s style, but most of his other films are way better.
I’ve never been particularly fond of Robocop, but 1/10 is a super freaking harsh rating. 
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No, because it is mostly a totally boring film. There are some nice ideas at the beginning, and that was it, but the directing is actually bad form the beginning on, and I mean bad, and the characters and the story are all … well I said it totally boring.
But I enjoy e.g. Starship Troopers, and I like Hollow Man, a film most Verhoeven fans don’t like that much.
The funny thing I expected to like Robocop when I re-watched it a few years ago, cause some people whose opinion I value praise Robocop, and then I was surprised that it was even worse than remembered.
I have it on the program, but I can definitely predict that I’ll be more generous.
I wonder what rating would you give Robocop 3? Something like - 6/10?
I worked in a cinema when Robocop came out so have seen it (or at least the last half hour of it) many many times. I re-watched again a few years back and still loved it and certainly couldn’t ever call it boring. But, you know, vive la difference.
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While I do think Robocop is a really overhyped and overrated movie that it doesn’t really excel in any concrete field technically speaking, 1/10 is an incredibly low rating, I hardly ever give this kind of rating to movies. I only give 1/10 ratings to flicks that I genuinely despise and virulently hate, the kind of heinous stuff that makes me want to bash my head against the wall. To my way of thinking, Robocop is just a regular trashy sci-fi with nothing out of ordinary and without anything all that great as its reputation would suggest. Plenty of similar stuff that does the job better IMHO.
I can’t even recall (wink, wink) a movie I would give 1/10. Maybe if the camera lens were out of focus half the time of the movie then maybe.
If a film is totally boring it gets a 0/10
Some Fidani Spags or the one from Crea that I had to undergo, are also plain zero films.
But as some here should know, I use the whole 10er spectrum, and give points for every step of quality respectively entertainment a film has to offer, and a 2/10 is by that a mediocre film, not a real bad film.
The one Robo point is for the few trash elements (mostly at the beginning) that worked for me.
Ben Hur (1959) is e.g. a 2/10 and several Peter Jackson films (he is such a bad story teller and also an surprisingly untalented director) are also in that region. His best film Braindead could have become a 10, but the unstylish directing ruins it a bit. Still a 8/10, which means even a bad director can make good films, but actually that’s really a great exception.
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You’re tougher than an overseer on a Roman galley ship!
What would you give the recent re-make ? … I switched off after less than 5 minutes -10/10 
The remake was better than expected, but actually nothing special. Positive it is that is much shorter and skips most of the sentimental and idiotic stuff. Maybe a 4/10
Ben Hur gets the 2 points mainly for the still exciting car chase, the rest is obsolete, is mostly overly bombastic and cumbersome and sentimental and there is also some bad humour and many, many terrible dialogues and the score kills all what is left. Ben Hur represents for me the worst side of Hollywood, and is the worst film of its famous director (Interestingly Wyler’s also costly western The Big Country, which was made the year before, is a much, much better film). But then, it is probably a producer’s film anyway, and the director was interchangeable.
For this kind of films Gone with the Wind ( 7/10) is the much better choice, or one of the later David Lean films.
Another good example for the worst side of Hollywood is Jackson’s King Kong remake, a narrative disaster.
Whatever, the best Hur is the silent version (1926), the best Ben is Ben Cartwright
Sorry I asked !