A while back
HERE I lamented re: Will Ferrell launching a new style of comedy wherein nothing funny actually happens or is said, but the audience convinces itself its funny since it's a "comedy", and now apparently
there's an entire movie somewhat based on this..."comedy style"
(in Williamsburg, natch):
Negative reviews are positive reviews. Up is down. Black is white. Cats
are chasing dogs. Beet and goat cheese salads are ordering us. This is the The Comedy,
a "comedy" that supposedly garnered a ton of walkouts at Sundance.
(Something the creators were probs pumped about.) The film stars Tim
& Eric and LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy and is about a bunch of
hapless 30-somethings who are disenchanted with the universe, so they do
awful shit to see how the world reacts. It will probably will be awful,
which means it will be great, or it will be great, so that means awful,
right? Ugh, I'm confused. Where's my beet salad?
And
HERE:
Even the most admiring reviews comment on how excruciating this movie
is, but on the flip side, even several of those who hated it seemed to
find an odd genius in it. The Huffington Post,
whose comment about walking out was featured prominently in the
trailer, admitted that the movie was “on second thought, kind of
brilliant.” Yes, the leads are utterly loathsome, but that’s not exactly
a negative when it’s done by design; as the New Yorker notes, “it’s hard to hate Swanson more than he hates himself.”
So the main characters are such douchebags and the movie SO unfunny that we're supposed to assume it's far too funny for us to really grasp, so we'll just accept it as being funny. Of course.
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