You forgot Discovery!

Did anyone watch "When We Left Earth"?

That was outstanding!

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I love comedy. I can sit and watch old stupid movies all day.

Some of the better ones are 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", "Raising Arizona", "Gumball Rally", What about the 'On The Road' Flicks? I loved the ensemble movies where you watched and tried to name every star that starred or did a cameo.

I saw "Hot Fuzz" the other night and thought it was pretty funny-The Brits WRITE dialogue. They have the ability to take something weird or naughty, then present it to you in a civilized manner.

A 'gas' joke in a British movie is far more "offensive" than an American flick.

Example?

A guy slides into a taxi. As he moves across the seat, his face will get wrinkled up, he'll look down between his legs, then rush to roll down the windows and while using a newspaper to fan the air around.

The implications are the joke!

In a Hollywood comedy the same scene goes like this.

Man slides across the taxi seat. Then you get the gas noises, that are totally overboard and and sound like the poor dude doodied himself. The ethnic cabby starts to yell at the guy, "You poop my taxi!" kicks him out and everyone laughs.
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Here's my formula for movies that give me an idea as to how effort I put into watching movies....


1) Nudity. If there is a nude woman in the first 10 minutes I tune out pretty fast. It's usually an 'actress' who is better naked than in a role. "Acting" naked is really tough.

2) If the male lead has ever done an interview and lapses into voices or characters, I won't watch.

3) Human Drama isn't two people getting drunk, sleeping together and then it turns into a comedy when the gal gets pregnant.-Another offensive movie was "Baby Mama" . I saw the trailer for it. There were two stupid scenes in it.
Based on that, not interested...

4) Marketing- Make a trailer that doesn't show the whole movies in 30 seconds. Also, go easy on the promotions. I really hate to see the cups with movie ads that people toss all over the street. Don't buy every other commercial slot to promo it- And don't photoshop the actor's bodies on the posters or print ads!

5) Don't bother me with remakes either. You find some dopey actor that totally screws up the image I had of the classic.


6) With a few exceptions DON'T make a sequel to a movie that makes 50 zillion dollars, Take your money and retire.

I am still trying to figure out The Matrix. It was O.K. but, they tried to tell a story.

Like WTF, Neo?.......Why not just move to a new town and forget all the drama?


6) From the Producers of......

Scrap that line- You made one good movie, that doesn't entitle you to follow it up with another winner......