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Theta9:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 14 Aug 2020, 16:11 ---Don't get me started on the use of 'comedy' in marketing for things that I feel like have no fucking business calling themselves comedies.
If anybody in this thread has seen Jeff, Who Lives at Home and can point me to more than half as dozen actual gags in that movie, which was marketed as a comedy, then I'll be amazed.
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I failed to laugh even once watching Napoleon Dynamite which coworkers assured me was hilarious.
Theta9:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 14 Aug 2020, 16:06 ---I watched "Being John Malkovich".
I have a very low tolerance for stories where every single character is an utter piece of shit, and that are extremely bleak.
So I think it should count for a lot that I really liked this movie. At first, I didn't think I would, but it's honestly brilliant. It works on pretty much every level I can think of.
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I concur with your assessment. It was a really good movie that I don't think I could watch a second time because that ending hurt.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: Theta9 on 15 Aug 2020, 07:52 ---
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 14 Aug 2020, 16:11 ---Don't get me started on the use of 'comedy' in marketing for things that I feel like have no fucking business calling themselves comedies.
If anybody in this thread has seen Jeff, Who Lives at Home and can point me to more than half as dozen actual gags in that movie, which was marketed as a comedy, then I'll be amazed.
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I failed to laugh even once watching Napoleon Dynamite which coworkers assured me was hilarious.
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That wasn't my point.
The Twilight parody movies are dismally unfunny, but they contain numerous unfunny JOKES. Thusly they are still comedies, just bad ones.
Admittedly maybe you just wanted to take a cheap shot at Napoleon, which is the kind of thing I do all the time for my own amusement
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 07 Aug 2020, 09:29 ---I finally got around to watching "Matrix Reloaded".
When I first watched the first "Matrix", I thought it was WAY overrated. I rewatched it in late 2010s, and I warmed up considerably to it. On rewatch, I thought the movie is pretty damn brilliant, bordering on genius. It, I feel, only gets better with age.
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The story maybe, technology has permeated society in a way back then nobody imagined. It feels more plausible these days. But apart from that, it's also an action flick. As an action flick it's showing its age, and feels VERY 90s, and to some people that may be off-putting.
oddtail:
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 15 Aug 2020, 09:27 ---
--- Quote from: oddtail on 07 Aug 2020, 09:29 ---I finally got around to watching "Matrix Reloaded".
When I first watched the first "Matrix", I thought it was WAY overrated. I rewatched it in late 2010s, and I warmed up considerably to it. On rewatch, I thought the movie is pretty damn brilliant, bordering on genius. It, I feel, only gets better with age.
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The story maybe, technology has permeated society in a way back then nobody imagined. It feels more plausible these days. But apart from that, it's also an action flick. As an action flick it's showing its age, and feels VERY 90s, and to some people that may be off-putting.
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I completely disagree that it feels "90s". Before that, there was nothing like that in Western cinema. Nineties movies are big muscular guys shooting a lot of guns at generic bad guys, usually terrorists. It's about big chases, big explosions, big dudes. "Matrix" introduced martial arts cinema to the West, it had a completely different, slick aesthetic, it was much more focused on fight choreography than special effects (yes, it had groundbreaking effects at the time, but those were about emphasising motion and speed of people fighting, not "things go boom"), it was a huge hit in part *because* it was so unlike any movies of the past decade, at least in the Western mainstream.
Whether it's dated is debatable - I don't think it is - but it's a movie that effectively *ended* the 90s action cinema. It couldn't be less 90s if it tried, IMO. When I think of quintesentially 90s movies, I think Terminator 2, The Rock, Total Recall, Speed, Die Hard sequels. Heck, even Independence Day (which I personally loathe, but it's the most nineties film that ever ninetied) and other big "disaster movies".
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