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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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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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Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Boy, did I learn my lesson...
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The Honey and I were watching the gloomy pans across the trophies and all the other memorabilia while the fire raged and said, "That's not... funny."
06/29/09
1) Self loathing womanizer with a dry sarcastic wit. An attractive ex who is with a douch-y but nice guy who is financially stable..... I already own Californication.
2) I just don't care about his predicament. He's in a bad way because he forgot to pay his homeowners insurance so he wasn't covered when the fire hit, the solution is next dore; his neighbor wants to buy his house (more specifically his property) for (according to the dialog) a fair price but because he is stubbornly holding on to his parents home (that he nearly burned down), he wont sell it and is continuing to keep himself in this situation. Sell the house, move to a place you can afford and move-the fuck-on.
3) His ugly ginger kids. Christ almighty, I know this is superficial but those two could not have come from the people playing their parents, not even in movie world.
His son looks like someone put make up on an overweight black guy to make him look white. His daughter is one of 983746509823746340956 overweight "goth" girls who are loitering outside of Hot Topic right this second.
4) It's just not terribly entertaining. Those three issues aside, the show just didn't hold my attention. Everything was so forced and contrived. It felt more uncomfortable than entertaining.
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I'm glad they seem to be refining Peter Facinelli's character. That little tick they gave him in the first episode, where he grabs women inappropriately when he's nervous, was just stupid.
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She made it up to me later, though, when she said "Are you fucking serious?" to the woman who wondered if the cab was available.
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