I just finished watching "Old Dads" by Bill Burr. I had high hopes after the first 15 minutes, because some of the jokes genuinely had me bursting out laughing. I am not precious about my identity, my generation, my values. I'm willing to poke fun at everything if it is funny.

But, it became clear he wasn't "poking fun" at modern cultural issues so much as he was forcing his own opinions down everyone's throats. It wasn't a film about two different generations having different values (with strengths and flaws) and coming to some sort of reconciliation. Instead, it was "haha... look at the woke mob. They're idiots!", "oh no look how poor hopeless Bill is being bullied by the woke mob", "wow Bill has lost everything due to the viciousness of the woke mob", "wow Bill has courageously rejected the woke mob and is so much happier for it!"

Generally in films you need to speak to your audience. A diverse audience, who may have different experiences to you and disagree with your opinions. This film didn't do that. There were the "reasonable" masculine, straight guys who of course agree with Bill's opinions, their girlfriends who are more like props to assist them through their midlife crises, and everyone else who is a hysterical libtard with no reasonable opinions. LGBT people, in particular, were symbols of everything wrong with the modern world that bewildered the main characters.

And ultimately there was no growth. No major lessons learned other than better 'anger management' is needed to deal with the woke libtards.

Anyway, this film seemed sort of emblematic of a certain perspective we're seeing pushed in comedy, and honestly, it is boring.

It is not the disagreeing that is the issue. Not the poking fun at woke-ism that is the issue. Not the representing 'old dad' perspectives that is the issue. It's the complete lack of introspection. Ccomplete lack of questioning. The "everyone else is wrong and I am right and they do not have a single reasonable point, but I, the saintly martyr, must do a better job of tolerating them" holier-than-thou attitude. And honestly the childishness that because they can't say and do 100% of the things they want without ever being criticised, they're going to throw their toys out the pram.

It's boring. It's old. And it's divisive. Unless you are in that specific demographic and hold those specific opinions, you just feel like you're being preached at. Good comedy brings people together and diffuses tension by poking fun at both sides. It doesn't enforce an agenda or prop up the ego of the storyteller. 0/10, I would rather not watch this shit again. It's not fun.