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To: fieldmarshaldj
Was that movie overrated or what ? I was expecting brilliant black comedy and it largely sucked (surprisingly, Tom Cruise was about the best part).

I totally agree. And I didn't appreciate the graphic descriptions of homosexual acts when we had taken my youngest son and his girlfriend with us. I'll never watch anything Jack Black does again.

47 posted on 06/21/2009 2:16:04 AM PDT by The Duke ("Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Democrat Party?")
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To: The Duke

I don’t know what it is about Jack Black, he tries too hard to be funny and falls flat. I don’t think I could name anything of his I’ve found to be particularly amusing or enjoyable. His “TT” character was just grating. I even thought Robert Downey, Jr.’s performance was not as good as made out to be (certainly not groundbreaking) and only had a few sporadic laughs. I couldn’t believe he received an Oscar nomination for it. The film itself sounded like a good idea in theory and perhaps on paper, but the execution left a lot to be desired. Satires are REALLY hard to do (think of a film like Paddy Chayevsky’s “Network”, which is probably one of the best ever done, predicting too well of the decline of network tv from the ‘70s onward).

I was thinking of other so-called comedians today, and although he is a very polarizing figure on FR, with folks either loving or hating him, I rather like Sasha Baron Cohen (Borat), but he just ain’t for the kiddies.


52 posted on 06/21/2009 2:44:29 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: The Duke

Years ago, when I read he was chosen to play one of the leads in the KONG ‘remake’, I knew instantly it would suck. It did, big-time. Primarily due to One of the worst movie casts in history. I’ve despised him and Naomi Watts ever since.


80 posted on 06/21/2009 5:24:18 PM PDT by The Ghost of Rudy McRomney (Stuck Between Barack and a Hard Place.)
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