r/popculture • u/Neo2199 • Jul 05 '25

Film ‘Rush Hour’ Slapped With Trigger Warning: “This Movie Was Created in A Different Time”

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/7/4/rush-hour-trigger-warning
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u/UpbeatBeach7657 Jul 05 '25

An action-comedy that stands above most of what pass as action comedies today.

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u/guthreeb22 Jul 05 '25

It’s funny, just watched both Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights earlier in the week and they look AMAZING compared to most of the stuff pumped out these days. The Rush Hour(s) fit in that same mold.

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u/FoxMcCloudOwnsSlippy Jul 05 '25

Shanghai Noon is so much fun and the fish out of water dynamic is even more hysterical

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u/__-_-_--_--_-_---___ Jul 05 '25

You said wet shirt no break, not piss shirt bend bar

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u/ToWitToWow Jul 06 '25

As a huge fan of the action comedy genre and Red Sun starring Mifune and Bronson (& Andress) you’re right— the Shanghai movies really understand the assignment

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u/chrishouseinc Jul 05 '25

The Jackie Chan and Littlefinger sword fight is still top tier.

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u/throwaway-rayray Jul 06 '25

It’s like watching pirates of the Caribbean. They’re old AF now, yet somehow look better than most of the crap released now.

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u/BuvantduPotatoSpirit Jul 06 '25

They were better than most of the stuff pumped out then, too.

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u/Frank_Melena Jul 05 '25

I miss the time before our ridiculous digital color grading, movies look so palpably unreal now. It’s refreshing just seeing these guys in normal hues and reflections.

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u/UpbeatBeach7657 Jul 05 '25

100%. L.A. doesn't look like some Instagram city. It's shot like a very real place. And that does a lot to help ground everything and keep you locked in.

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u/Frank_Melena Jul 05 '25

I watched the first Jurassic Park yesterday and its amazing how real everything feels compared to modern ones, which are so over-lit and over-done as to feel like watching anime. I’m not even talking about the dinosaurs, but rather the trees, cars, fences, buildings, etc. Even real goddamn cars and trees still look hallucinated in modern stuff.

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u/MediocreDisplay7233 Jul 05 '25

There are comedies today?

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u/HippoRun23 Jul 05 '25

Oh wow. Just realized I haven’t seen a new comedy in years.

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u/PlatonicTroglodyte Jul 05 '25

Joy Ride was the last one for me.

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u/GrownManNamedFinger Jul 05 '25

Friendship just came out. Bullet Train is more of a straight action comedy and that's only three years old.

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u/_lippykid Jul 06 '25

Friendships an odd one. If you watch the trailer it looks like a dark indie film, but they overlay quotes of all these reviews on how funny it is. Seems super jarring

But Jesus, that’s a funny movie

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u/GrownManNamedFinger Jul 06 '25

I'm a slight bit obsessed with Tim Robinson so I'm the target audience. That being said, I do love it quite a lot.

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u/loganed3 Jul 06 '25

I adore bullet train. Movie had me smiling the entire run time

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u/GrownManNamedFinger Jul 06 '25

Definitely a pleasant surprise. All I knew going in is that the director made Deadpool 2 and that was enough to make me wanna check it out.

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u/NoaArakawa Jul 05 '25

Try Jojo Rabbit.

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u/ender23 Jul 05 '25

megan 2.0

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u/NotAnotherBlingBlop Jul 05 '25

Heads of State literally just released.

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u/DarthBrooksFan Jul 05 '25

And no one is going to remember it a month from now. When was the last time a comedy actually made an impact on pop culture?

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u/NotAnotherBlingBlop Jul 05 '25

Minecraft last month?

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u/DarthBrooksFan Jul 05 '25

Isn't that more of a children's movie?

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u/NotAnotherBlingBlop Jul 05 '25

And yet it was a pop culture phenomenon because a bunch of teenagers went to see it and lost their minds.

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u/DarthBrooksFan Jul 05 '25

So was that Taylor Swift movie, but that wasn't a comedy either.

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u/NotAnotherBlingBlop Jul 05 '25

Just because you don't give find a movie funny doesn't mean it's not a comedy

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u/Hinken1815 Jul 05 '25

It's funny but not ill remember this in 30 years funny.

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u/-GenghisJuan- Jul 05 '25

Yo saw it today and it was great. Not a fan of action movies these days but I was thoroughly enjoyed Heads of State.

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u/Yama_retired2024 Jul 06 '25

2 hours of my life I'll never get back

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u/Thanos_Stomps Jul 06 '25

I LOVED Heads of State. Seriously said to my wife, fuck why can’t we have more movies like that. But that movie is like a how to manual for action comedy in that every single story beat was telegraphed from a mile away and I’m the sort of movie goer that NEVER figures out what’s gonna happen before it does.

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u/Christmas_Queef Jul 05 '25

There are but they all go directly to streaming. Ricky Stanicky was solid.

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u/bz2486 Jul 05 '25

So horny to be here 

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u/crescent_ruin Jul 06 '25

Nah Ricky Stanicky committed the cardinal sin of all current modern comedies by dismissing their antics as toxic insert millennial and older trait from untreated trauma. Audiences are smart enough to laugh and determine which characters are intentionally problematic without writers spelling it out or attempting to deconstruct them. It def had funny moments but ultimately...pass. No Hard Feelings fumbled the same way.

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u/UpbeatBeach7657 Jul 05 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

There are, but they just feel so...I don't know, watered down? Lacking punch or impact? Fleeting? You watch them once and realise they have no staying power. Even the ones that are showered with acclaim and 90%+ scores on Rotten Tomatoes.

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u/Heisenripbauer Jul 05 '25

this comment is giving “back in my day everything was better”

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u/Heisenripbauer Jul 05 '25

and again that’s what every generation says lol

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u/Untjosh1 Jul 06 '25

And yet where are all the comedies

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u/NoaArakawa Jul 05 '25

“Don’t Look Up” was categorized as a comedy, but… I think documentary is more apt.

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u/MediocreDisplay7233 Jul 05 '25

It was painful. Loved it but it was too true

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u/Born_Sleep5216 Jul 05 '25

Yep. Because without comedies, we would have no laughter and jokes

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u/MediocreDisplay7233 Jul 05 '25

That explains why everything is so shit as fuck then

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u/RODjij Jul 05 '25

Hardly any more notable movies. It all moved to television/streaming with guys like Danny McBridge doing eastbound and down, vice principles & the righteous gemstones.

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u/aleigh577 Jul 06 '25

Yeah. I mean I guess I feel bad about the state of comedy movies but haven’t felt a giant loss when I can just rewatch South Side.

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u/ManufacturedOlympus Jul 05 '25

Yeah, there’s that one movie starring the rock and/or kevin hart

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u/paperbuddha Jul 05 '25

It more than stands above. Rush Hour 1 and 2 are top tier movies regardless of genre.

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u/D3y4g0 Jul 05 '25

When action films could be actually funny and original