Re: Why didn't you tell me about this before?

Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
> jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (James Nicoll) wrote in
> news:fse14l$ol0$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> In article <oFvGj.6041$6H.43@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> Mike Schilling <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:15:19 GMT, Gutless Umbrella Carrying
>>>> Sissy <taustinca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> [1]I don't hate Ferrel's comedic work because he's bad at it,
>>>>> but rather, because he's very *good* at it. I just absolutely
>>>>> despise the kind of comedy he usually does.
>>>>
>>>> That pretty much sums up my own feelings on the subject.
>>>
>>> It's the sort of comedy I might enjoy once or twice, but I'm not
>>> interested in watching him as he makes a career of it.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>      I've been told ELF isn't bad but I've never seen it.
>
> It might be, perhaps, the best of his comedies, but it is
> quintessentially *that* sort of comedy. I managed maybe ten minutes
> of it before it got too annoying to bear any more.
>
> It's the sort of comedy that depends, absolutely *requires*, all
> the chaacters - every single one of them - to be profoundly stupid,
> and put up with things normal people would respond to by beating
> someone to death with a shovel.

OK, but it's worse than that.  After being told to be amused at their 
stupidity for the first hour or so, we're then told to care about them 
so we can be touched by the happy ending.