Ok, I am aware that dissing certain genres, actors and directors generally elicits a strong response from it's fans of the 'frat pack' particular. However, my goal is to be completely honest in my posts even at the risk of sounding pretentious and snobbish, which I most certainly am not.
I simply can't stand comedy films. Will Ferrell films are the worst offenders, imo. Not only is he completely unfunny are by the number 'comedic', but the guy has zero charm. Actually, i'll take that back - Adam Sadler is worse than him. How people can find a guy that shouts at stupendous levels funny is beyond me.
Romantic comedies don't help as a hybrid genre too. I find the entire genre and it's goals an oxymoron. They're not funny the majority of the time and theres hardly any distinction or fresh ways of revamping such a genre.
I'm a much bigger fan of dark humour. Like seriously dark humour. Humour that's unexpected and deliciously daring yet nuanced gets my funny bones tickling. American Psycho, for example, is a PROPER comedy to me. It's incredibly funny and not in a fart gag sort of way, but with malicious intent and daring humour. A brilliant spin on an otherwise bleak book.
Obviously, there are SOME comedies that are an exception. I laughed a lot more than I normally would have while watching Knocked Up. Seth Rogen wasn't bad at all, and i'm thinking his chemistry with Katherine Heigl helped make it an adequate comedy. However, that's the only one I can think of that generally charmed me. Evil Dead 2 and Mick in Wolf Creek are worth a mention, too. But like I said, those films rely on dark humour, specially the latter.
Maybe it's just me. It might be that I need a degree of seriousness in the films I watch. So lets have it MoFoers...am I only with these thoughts or are there people that agree with me? Feel free to disagree. Negative rep spreeing is so 2007.
I simply can't stand comedy films. Will Ferrell films are the worst offenders, imo. Not only is he completely unfunny are by the number 'comedic', but the guy has zero charm. Actually, i'll take that back - Adam Sadler is worse than him. How people can find a guy that shouts at stupendous levels funny is beyond me.
Romantic comedies don't help as a hybrid genre too. I find the entire genre and it's goals an oxymoron. They're not funny the majority of the time and theres hardly any distinction or fresh ways of revamping such a genre.
I'm a much bigger fan of dark humour. Like seriously dark humour. Humour that's unexpected and deliciously daring yet nuanced gets my funny bones tickling. American Psycho, for example, is a PROPER comedy to me. It's incredibly funny and not in a fart gag sort of way, but with malicious intent and daring humour. A brilliant spin on an otherwise bleak book.
Obviously, there are SOME comedies that are an exception. I laughed a lot more than I normally would have while watching Knocked Up. Seth Rogen wasn't bad at all, and i'm thinking his chemistry with Katherine Heigl helped make it an adequate comedy. However, that's the only one I can think of that generally charmed me. Evil Dead 2 and Mick in Wolf Creek are worth a mention, too. But like I said, those films rely on dark humour, specially the latter.
Maybe it's just me. It might be that I need a degree of seriousness in the films I watch. So lets have it MoFoers...am I only with these thoughts or are there people that agree with me? Feel free to disagree. Negative rep spreeing is so 2007.