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Waited ages for this on DVD and.....not as good as i hoped.
Ed Helms is a great comedy actor (and needs a proper lead role) and there were some good bits...but overall the trailer was 90% of the funny (in fact, what the trailer did with the Tyson scene is funnier than the real edit of that scene!)
I saw Observe and Report last week and that made me laugh more!
Overall 6.2 / 10 (gets an extra point for sticking the Dan Band in but looses one for a pointless shot of Heather Grahams sagging old tit)
oh....and the directors comentary...good god, what an exmaple of how NOT to do it. They had a little box in the bottom corner of the screen showing the 3 leads and director watching the film...and the audio on the film RIGHT down. So you'd have Ed say "oh, i love this line" and they'd all listen to it and laugh...yet you couldnt hear it!!!!!
They just sat there like embarassed fools not sure what to say next.
Apatow/Rogan/Farrell they aint!
Ed Helms is a great comedy actor (and needs a proper lead role) and there were some good bits...but overall the trailer was 90% of the funny (in fact, what the trailer did with the Tyson scene is funnier than the real edit of that scene!)
I saw Observe and Report last week and that made me laugh more!
Overall 6.2 / 10 (gets an extra point for sticking the Dan Band in but looses one for a pointless shot of Heather Grahams sagging old tit)
oh....and the directors comentary...good god, what an exmaple of how NOT to do it. They had a little box in the bottom corner of the screen showing the 3 leads and director watching the film...and the audio on the film RIGHT down. So you'd have Ed say "oh, i love this line" and they'd all listen to it and laugh...yet you couldnt hear it!!!!!
They just sat there like embarassed fools not sure what to say next.
Apatow/Rogan/Farrell they aint!
It was one of those films where I wondered if I had seen the same thing as everyone else. I saw a plot reminiscent of 'very bad things' and some other predictable formulaic american collage humor style add on comedy bits. I saw the another death nail in this style of films ability to entertain without becoming every other film. Everyone else seemed to see an amazing comedy.
I think it just lacked the spark you get from letting FUNNY actors deviate a bit...it was all very "to the script" and in the commentary the leads new where each line was and could tell when one of theirs had been cut out.......in an Apatow film his guys wouldnt have a clue which line was used with them shooting 1mil feet of improv!
Not saying Apatow/Rogan/Carell should be everyones cup of tea but you do get some gold turning up (along with some crap) when you let funny guys do their thing. (jonah hill and ben stiller in the museum 2 flick, for example)
Not saying Apatow/Rogan/Carell should be everyones cup of tea but you do get some gold turning up (along with some crap) when you let funny guys do their thing. (jonah hill and ben stiller in the museum 2 flick, for example)
Edited by Tiggsy on Wednesday 9th December 13:47
qube_TA said:
Heard really good things about this film, one chap at work went to see it several times, said it was the funniest, laugh-out-loud film he'd seen in years.
I bought the BD the other day, watched it, it just kinda missed, was a good idea, could've been really funny but disappointed.
I watched in it the cinema and it was awesome, posibly a film to be seen in the cinema? Everyone was laughing and it just came across as a cracking film.I bought the BD the other day, watched it, it just kinda missed, was a good idea, could've been really funny but disappointed.
Tiggsy said:
Pothole said:
sorry mate you've honestly lost me with this sentence:
"I saw the another death nail in this style of films ability to entertain without becoming every other film."
translates.....modern films are all to formulaic and this just goes to show it "I saw the another death nail in this style of films ability to entertain without becoming every other film."
k is a death nail?Tiggsy said:
Pothole said:
sorry mate you've honestly lost me with this sentence:
"I saw the another death nail in this style of films ability to entertain without becoming every other film."
translates.....modern films are all to formulaic and this just goes to show it "I saw the another death nail in this style of films ability to entertain without becoming every other film."
Pretty much, It just gets boring to watch a film and realise it's a composite of a few other different films you have seen. I appreciate there are always common themes but it's nice when a film doesn't just cherry pick items from similar films and create a lazy new film that never steps out from beyond the donor films shaddow. To me most american collage comedy is so formulaic and uses such similar elements it's time has to be at an end. It's got to be one of those films that is on the coat tails of the american pie type comedy a vein that has now run it's course.
Jackpot said:
qube_TA said:
Heard really good things about this film, one chap at work went to see it several times, said it was the funniest, laugh-out-loud film he'd seen in years.
I bought the BD the other day, watched it, it just kinda missed, was a good idea, could've been really funny but disappointed.
I watched in it the cinema and it was awesome, posibly a film to be seen in the cinema? Everyone was laughing and it just came across as a cracking film.I bought the BD the other day, watched it, it just kinda missed, was a good idea, could've been really funny but disappointed.
qube_TA said:
Jackpot said:
qube_TA said:
Heard really good things about this film, one chap at work went to see it several times, said it was the funniest, laugh-out-loud film he'd seen in years.
I bought the BD the other day, watched it, it just kinda missed, was a good idea, could've been really funny but disappointed.
I watched in it the cinema and it was awesome, posibly a film to be seen in the cinema? Everyone was laughing and it just came across as a cracking film.I bought the BD the other day, watched it, it just kinda missed, was a good idea, could've been really funny but disappointed.
Pothole said:
qube_TA said:
Jackpot said:
qube_TA said:
Heard really good things about this film, one chap at work went to see it several times, said it was the funniest, laugh-out-loud film he'd seen in years.
I bought the BD the other day, watched it, it just kinda missed, was a good idea, could've been really funny but disappointed.
I watched in it the cinema and it was awesome, posibly a film to be seen in the cinema? Everyone was laughing and it just came across as a cracking film.I bought the BD the other day, watched it, it just kinda missed, was a good idea, could've been really funny but disappointed.
1. It's ridiculously expensive.
2. Almost no cinemas in the UK are digital, this means that the picture is scratchy (already been though a million US cinemas before it got to your local multiplex), usually out of focus and the sound pops n crackles (often switching to mono and then back to surround).
3. I'm over 2M tall, cinema seats and legroom are generally inadequate.
4. Unless you time it right to get in you're forced to sit in a sub-optimal seat, the price is the same yet you can't see the picture correctly. In order to get an optimal seat you have to get there ages before it starts, which means an hour of adverts and that's before the trailers start.
5. You have to share the room with the general public, this means putting up with mobile phones, folks needing the toilet every 5 minutes, mongs kicking your seat, noisy eaters, people talking, idiots that have paid to watch the film but have no intention of actually watching it or letting anyone else watch.
No film is that good that it makes the above worth putting up with. You can hang on about 3 months it'll be out on BD, can sit in the comfort of your living room, watch the film on a nice, digital screen with lovely surround sound, on a nice seat (with guaranteed optimum position), no chavs, no phones, no rip-off snacks, no-one shoving past to go pee etc, all for a fraction of the price of a lousy trip to the cinema.
Cinema made sense before folk had TV's, it still kinda made sense when all we had was a 28" CRT with Pro-Logic sound, however these days it's a bit pointless, maybe when they go all surround 3D imagery it'll have some appeal but until then I'll stick to watching at home.
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