Movie Talk (New Films, Old Films... doesn't matter) (38 Viewers)

[Zé Tahir]

Doesn't make his movies good. A lot of comedians think that since they're good on stage they will be good in a movie. Total fail.

Ah, I didn't know you were a fan of his stand-up.

I do wonder how much 'freedom' these comedians get when it comes to making movies. Do we really see what they wanted out of the movie or were their hands tied in a lot of its production?

Frankly I find his racist material offensive and an example of societal double standards.

Racist against white people?

 

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[Ahmed]

get a grip, standup comedians won't be funny if they're not offensive.

 

[IrishZebra]

Racist against white people?

Yes, so is Dave Chapelle, in fact by rights I should be able to go on American TV a say "ooh ohh ahh ahh I love KFC and watermelon" with the latent anti-white rhetoric of most coloured american comedians.

It's all well and good to do it in an Omid Djalili sort of way where he deameans himself and every other stereotype...

 

[Martin]

Ah, I didn't know you were a fan of his stand-up.

I do wonder how much 'freedom' these comedians get when it comes to making movies. Do we really see what they wanted out of the movie or were their hands tied in a lot of its production?

I don't think that's really the problem. They write jokes, they don't write screen plays. It's that they don't know how to write for a movie. Did you see Seinfeld's Bee Movie? That was quite good, but it took them 4 years to make it. But then Seinfeld is a genius, most of them aren't on his level.

Frankly I find his racist material offensive and an example of societal double standards.

I don't find it offensive, but I do find it dull. Half his act is about race, and it's always been that way. I mean enough milking it already, find a new topic, we've heard this stuff so many times already.

 

[Zé Tahir]

Yes, so is Dave Chapelle, in fact by rights I should be able to go on American TV a say "ooh ohh ahh ahh I love KFC and watermelon" with the latent anti-white rhetoric of most coloured american comedians.

It's all well and good to do it in an Omid Djalili sort of way where he deameans himself and every other stereotype...

Segregation ended not too long ago, it's retribution time. White people just gotta eat it

I don't think that's really the problem. They write jokes, they don't write screen plays. It's that they don't know how to write for a movie. Did you see Seinfeld's Bee Movie? That was quite good, but it took them 4 years to make it. But then Seinfeld is a genius, most of them aren't on his level.

Nope, never even heard of it. Is it by Seinfeld or that Larry David guy?

 

[IrishZebra]

Segregation ended not too long ago, it's retribution time. White people just gotta eat it

I'm white an my nation were victims of comparable discrimination and treatment, maybe they should specify white americans...

 

[Martin]

Nope, never even heard of it. Is it by Seinfeld or that Larry David guy?

Seinfeld. It's an animated movie.

 

[Zé Tahir]

I'm white an my nation were victims of comparable discrimination and treatment, maybe they should specify white americans...

It's stand-up by American comedians in America. It's not their fault everything American sells around the world.

 

[IrishZebra]

It's stand-up by American comedians in America. It's not their fault everything American sells around the world.

True, however when comedians over here talk about different races it's done by nationality, usually the nigerian bank scammer or the american 'gansta', russian mobster etc, etc.

Maybe it's just a culture thing but it seems rather uncouth to make it a geo-racial type of stand-up.

Either way neither of the two I mentioned are funny, especially Chris Rock.

 

[Zé Tahir]

True, however when comedians over here talk about different races it's done by nationality, usually the nigerian bank scammer or the american 'gansta', russian mobster etc, etc.

Maybe it's just a culture thing but it seems rather uncouth to make it a geo-racial type of stand-up.

Either way neither of the two I mentioned are funny, especially Chris Rock.

That's not really how it works here. People here are divided into bigger subcategories; you got the Hispanics (any spanish speaking people), Arabs/Middle Easterners(includes S.Asians), Africans, and Asians (any slant eyed people).

Then you might see comedians talk about Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, Polish-Americans, etc.

 

[JBF]

get a grip, standup comedians won't be funny if they're not offensive.

Yet there should always be a red line, and some opt to cross that...

 

[Dostoevsky]

Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist II

 

[Bozi]

get a grip, standup comedians won't be funny if they're not offensive.

thats why i love Frankie Boyle

 

[mikhail]

I'm white an my nation were victims of comparable discrimination and treatment, maybe they should specify white americans...

Even in America, at times, and we didn't take it sitting down.
"The Irish were another favourite target of the Klan, who portrayed them as subhuman goons or drunken degenerates" -- Todd Tucker, Notre Dame vs. the Klan: how the Fighting Irish defeated the Ku Klux Klan.

 

[king Ale]

In America. God it was wonderful. It was the third movie I saw from Jim Sheridan and like the first two, I loved this one just as much. I don't know what it is in Irish people that attract me so much to the movies which are about them

 

[ĵџvє_вãвγ]

Blindness ,that was a very interesting movie indeed,loved it

..***..

 

[JBF]

Thoughts on Law Abiding Citizen?

 

[king Ale]

Blindness ,that was a very interesting movie indeed,loved it
..***..

I read the novel and I liked it but I heard that the movie wasn't as good as the novel.

 

[king Ale]

Thoughts on Law Abiding Citizen?

I didn't like it that much but Rab and IZ did if I recall it correctly

 

[JBF]

Merci beaucoup