• all-knight-party
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    212 months ago

    The other night my wife suggested we watch this and I’d vaguely heard of it, but not its reputation, so we did watch it since an anthology would be fun! We made it maybe 40% through until I realized it was so bad that I had to stop. They just don’t know when a joke stops being funny, and most of the skits are barely funny to begin with.

    If they cut most of those skits down by probably half, the movie would be awkwardly short, but it would at least flow better, and you’d be able to move onto something else if you weren’t liking the current skit much, but as it is, it’s a mediocre slog that has a bafflingly star studded cast.

    It’s just far too juvenile and long in the tooth, and I have nothing against juvenile humor, but man, I just couldn’t get much out of it.

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    182 months ago

    Weren’t most of the “stars” in this movie only there because someone involved called in favors?

    • @[email protected]
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      122 months ago

      Yep, and it was actually made over a long time, whenever the actors were between projects and a few days of shooting playing something different sounded nice. Also, each famous actor was used to goad the next. (Specifically, the Hugh Jackman-Kate Winslet segment which was shot first.) And the segments themselves were also directed by stars like Bob Odenkirk or Elizabeth Banks.

    • @[email protected]
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      162 months ago

      Clooney is known to have a sense of humor. He’s part of the reason South Park got produced. For a South Park special they had him cameo as a dog and all he did was bark.

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        102 months ago

        He’s a real cheeseball in Burn After Reading. Still manages to be a charmer even though he’s a pretty sad guy.

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    112 months ago

    Because clooney is a smug bastard. With Lemmy being so small, I’m sure you’ve heard me say this multiple times before this topic. It’s surprising how often I have to call clooney a smug bastard, but here we are.

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        -12 months ago

        I haven’t seen the movie, but I’m confident he was smug in that role. Because George Clooney was played by George Clooney…the smug bastard.

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          42 months ago

          Its a show on hulu. He’s a dumb guy who gets cuked by his wife by the main character. He didn’t write the role, he adapted it from the book. And that’s the (minor) character he played.

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    82 months ago

    This movie is such a trip. I unironically love the first half of the skits, up to and including the superhero dating.

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      22 months ago

      All I remember is the Terence Howard skit and how it felt like a cheap knock off (but still chuckle worthy) of a Chapelle or Key and Peele sketch.

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        2 months ago

        Oh yeah, that one is great one too! Definitely the highlight of the weaker second-half in my opinion.