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

"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
>> jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (James Nicoll) wrote in
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>>> 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. 
> 
Which, itself, amounts to "If *everybody* is prfoundly stupid at 
once, then they'll all be HAPPY!!! Let's SING!!!" yeah.

Eight Deadly Words, indeed. (Except that I did, in fact, care what 
happened to some of them, to the extent I'd have paid real money 
for the DVD if the director's cut included the violent deaths of, 
well, virtually the entire cast. And their characters.)

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