Joel
03-03-17, 11:44 PM
This film contains one line that just sends me over the top into a fit of laughter. It's when the Indian guy is sitting in Vince Vaughn's finished rec room basement and they are talking but also suspicious of the indian guy (sorry, can't remember his name in the film or real life), and they are taking him to task for being an alien..and they mention the alien that killed their friend at wal mart and the indian guy goes something like "I know him, the man is a c*nt". I lose it there. He says the "man" is a C(expletive).
Now I'll share why I laugh so hard. Because of the carelessness of the writing.
Obviously, it's not a "him" or a "man". It's an ALIEN.
Clearly, when they wrote this, or improvised it and left it in the movie, that was a good thing. It's good because it reinforces a healthy credo: F##K it". It's a punk rock way of doing a scene. It's illogical and absurd. But that degree of carelessness makes it funny, and the fact that the director and editor thought it wise to leave it in the film further cements the comedy, in this instance, a stylistic choice.
So yeah, "The Watch" is one of my favorite disposable comedies for this particular scene, among many other funny scenes where they are hamming it up, huddled in the man cave, talking like complete idiots, about virtually nothing, just riffing, trying to out-do one another with semi-relevant plot points, but nothing that forms any kind of immediate cohesion.
http://cdn.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/the-watch-movie-ayoade-vaughn-stiller-hill.jpg
3.5
Now I'll share why I laugh so hard. Because of the carelessness of the writing.
Obviously, it's not a "him" or a "man". It's an ALIEN.
Clearly, when they wrote this, or improvised it and left it in the movie, that was a good thing. It's good because it reinforces a healthy credo: F##K it". It's a punk rock way of doing a scene. It's illogical and absurd. But that degree of carelessness makes it funny, and the fact that the director and editor thought it wise to leave it in the film further cements the comedy, in this instance, a stylistic choice.
So yeah, "The Watch" is one of my favorite disposable comedies for this particular scene, among many other funny scenes where they are hamming it up, huddled in the man cave, talking like complete idiots, about virtually nothing, just riffing, trying to out-do one another with semi-relevant plot points, but nothing that forms any kind of immediate cohesion.
http://cdn.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/the-watch-movie-ayoade-vaughn-stiller-hill.jpg
3.5