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When Comic Darkness Came into the Light
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When Comic Darkness Came into the Light |
06/08/09
"The 90s and early 00s were so boring and fatty and toothless, so we got the big comedies we deserved—dumb manic fare like Liar, Liar and Happy Gilmore"
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Made up funny words?
"So with this new type of funne"
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Be a happy player of the "Am I Outraged" game?
"we're not quite ready to laugh at maybe-date-rape yet. Well, most of us aren't anyway"
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But what of pedantery disguised as insight?
"Whatever the reason, it does seem, increasingly, like old Nelson Mandela was right. It really is our light that most frightens us. Leaving our darkness to make us laugh."
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Ladies and Gentleman this man is a comedy expert!
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Think about all the funny, cult, indie greats, Clerks, Royal Tenenbaums, Slackers, Rushmore... and when you saw them. For me it was usually on VHS or DVD, because there was no promotion for films like these, so they got little to no marketing and got buried by like Independence Day or some other Will Smith alien-shoot-a-thon. Even going waaayy back to Raising Arizona, the big budget schlock always gets top billing, until Hollywood realized there was a way to capitalize on a smarter, less sheep-like moviegoer, who decided talking gerbils just weren't funny. Eddie Murphy, you waste of comic genius, you.
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disclaimer: i could not get past the first half hour of 48 HRS because the direction and nick nolte were so bad.
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Honestly, though, great article. Let's hope this truly is a paradigm shift for Hollywood.
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Shame. on. you.
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Y'know, what with Star Trek, Up, and The Hangover, this has actually been very good season so far for genuinely entertaining studio movies.
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Good call. Nicholas Cage gets a lot of flack, and it's mostly deserved since he's made some horrific movies... but you called out some good ones. Adaptation is one of my all-time favorites.
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I saw Hangover and loved it. It's funny and clever and also appealing to a lot of people, that's not a bad thing.
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IOW, never.
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