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07/26/09
For instance I suspect there's a lot of mileage in the bottomless existential question, "When has a Todd McCarthy view ever deviated from kneejerk, analysis-free, conventional wisdom in any way?"
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If he wrote the script I'll give him credit for that too.
I wasn't a fan of Happy Gilmore-era Sandler. when he was more popular than now, and the films he's made recently are inevitably among the year's worst.
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07/25/09
In short, if you like Apatow, you'll like Funny People. If you're a soulless fool and know nothing, you won't like it.
07/25/09
Uh, not particularly liking stories about schlubs and their pathetic search for the hot babe (and she MUST be hot, always) does not make me "soulless", just grown up.
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Knocked Up? Okay I get the premise and I was willing to buy the premise, but when the film unrolled on screen? Wow, I didn’t buy anything about that film.
Funny People seems to be Judd’s plea to the world of "C’mon, we are dark a-holes who should have blunt objects smashed in our face but we’re real people just like you!" Well, here’s my problem with the premise.
First, anyone remember Punchline? Exactly. Now in this film, the premise being pushed on my is this guy has cancer and a failing marriage and now I have to feel sorry for him and excuse his arrogance. C’mon, you know what, comedians aren’t the only ones out there who act callously. And cancer that magically makes a-holes nice people is not something I want to see/hear. It’s a button-pushing premise that drives the point home like a freight train.
Apatow is not a bad guy and Freaks & Geeks is an amazing show, but I don’t think he’s a genius filmmaker and I think he’s reached the limit of what he can create. What’s next? An Ingmar Bergman period?
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