Hmm. I wonder if it's country-specific. How in hell does someone find Caddyshack not funny? Like, I see people posting Father Ted clips occasionally, and I feel the same way about Father Ted you feel about Waiting For Guffman: I can tell it's supposed to be funny, but it just isn't. Shots fired!
Maybe one had to be a Parker Posey fan? The NYC “it girl” pretending to be a white trash hick from Missouri, grilling a single chicken wing while smoking? I don't know. It's partly the "cringe" type of mockumentary, where people do things that are embarrassing and not slapstick.
Yeah, there's definitely a cultural aspect. I obviously do regularly enjoy US comedies, but there's a part of them that just leave me cold. It seems to me it's a kind of college humor but I might be wrong. Either way, this is definitely part of it. I also have no idea who Parker Posey is or was, and I suppose that doesn't help!
Maybe I should something find something typically Dutch and see how you like it. But then it'd have to be subtitled and you wouldn't get any jokes with accents, so I don't think I could make that work for the sake of our deeply scientific experiment here!
Your report on Maestro needs to be two pages, single spaced.
You mean 40 posts without anyone cutting into my monologue?
Must be because I don't find that clip even a tiny bit funny either. And I think cringey mockumentary stuff can be hilarious.
@Cheimoon
Does this clip leave you cold too?
On and off. The boot polishing comment ('well, I guess he does') and how he ends up sitting on the desk when she comes in are funny, none of the rest is for me. I hate anything cringe really, so the whole interview itself I don't enjoy at all, I just want to turn it off.
To take an example, Bohemian Rhapsody, a film I abhor, has nothing to say, isn't daring visually, is edited terribly, the list goes on. Its only merit is to tell the story of Freddie Mercury. But it doesn't even do that very well - it's boring and flat for the most part, and a lot of the drama (the HIV positive test just before Live Aid - it's offensive) is just fabricated.
I enjoyed it because it's Queen (yay, a film about Queen!), but yes, it's poor. As a Queen fan, I also know in some detail how it basically invents every dramatic turn right from the start of the band. (And any I do mean every: they completely mash up (and partly make up) sequences of events for dramatic purposes.) That completely defies the point of making a biopic, since it's not actually about something real anymore.
In the vast majority of cases, a biopic is much better if it were rather a film about a fictional character that's inspired by the real one. At least that allows for a proper film, not some weird lip-service sort of thing.