How do people make these films? I didn't get it. Possibly the worst film I've seen in years. Am I missing something? Is it me?
That's an hour and a half of my life I'm not getting back. I just didn't get why it was supposed to be funny.
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SeasideMan
Pro - Saturday, Jun. 28, 2008 @ 13:01:15
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GilraenH
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- Saturday, Jun. 28, 2008 @ 16:25:02
It's one of those films that relies on one joke. Wears very thin after the first 10 seconds.
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SeasideMan
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- Saturday, Jun. 28, 2008 @ 16:42:12
Yup, that was my problem with it too. That's the trouble with most mainstream American cinema (and television) in my experience. They telegraph a joke in advance, then you get the joke, then they check you understood it and then explain it even more simply just in case. Then they do the same joke again. And again.
They still make some great stuff, but it tends not to be mainstream.
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The poster should have been your first clue. Always avoid films where the lead character is shrugging in the promotional photos.
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GilraenH
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- Saturday, Jun. 28, 2008 @ 16:24:16
Speech bubble from him, says, 'I'm gonna shoot me agent, I am'.
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VisionInBlue
Pro - Monday, Jun. 30, 2008 @ 00:02:51
I watched this a little while ago thinking, "if he's in it it should be alright". I should have stuck to my (rather long) mantra. "If a "big" actor is in it, it was made within the last 5 years and I haven't hear of it... dont watch it!"
Like you say, we've wasted time on that film when we could have been doing something much better with it... almost anything in fact. -
It's one of those post-modernist comedy films. You're supposed to be laughing at the people who like that sort of naff television programme, not actually at the programmes themselves. It's quite a scathing critique of American mass-culture really.
I didn't like it either though.
Tom.