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No two ways about it, this bromance was way over the top. Eliminate the egregiously ridiculous pairing of Ice Cube's hot daughter with the slob and it's really apparent (it's actually pretty glaring w/out it).
Strange we can't just make a gay comedy w/out the wink-wink. Anyhow, as a film, it was a weak comedy, overall, but I did get off a few belly laughs.
For those that think this truly is hilarious, I'd recommend a film that sets the standard for guy comedy, "Withnail and I." It's like comparing a fine single malt to bathtub gin.
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...the irony and humor went right over your high-brow head.
The film is making fun of all the buddy films (frequently called bromances), like Lethal Weapon, 48 Hours, Tango and Cash and all the rest.
They are taking it to an extreme as a form of American humor.
I thought it was pretty funny.
To you it was "gay".
I couldn't sit through "Withnail..."
The Three Stooges as "buddy films"! There was so much ultra-violence towards each other they should have been committed after the first episode.
But, I did love my Stooges, from the 50's into the 80's before they were banished from television.
...one of the Stooges episodes where they all 3 sleep in the same bed?
Those were love taps Moe was giving Curly and Larry.
Hey Wonka, get off the internet and go see The Apes so I know whether to see it next weekend.
The Birdcage, Brokeback Mountain, Milk, Gods and Monsters, Philadelphia, etc.?
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
I think "Some Like it Hot" may be the first one of those, too, but it was a long time ago.
I can't help laughing at the wild lesbian shoot-em up western: "Johnny Guitar."
maybe it was "The Boys in the Band"? NOT a comedy of course, but pretty mainstream.1970 and much more direct (and respectful) of gays portrayed in film than in the previous seven decades of Hollywood film making.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
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If you recall the fifties you would remember a LOT of humor was predicated on men dressing as women. Not because it is "gay" but because it is "ridiculous". Uncle Miltie in drag? Even Jack Benny in drag. Monte Python in drag half the damned time?Also, Tony Curtis spend most of his time trying to seduce MM in drag. Preposterous but funny that guys are so horny they will break character in the pursuit of a quick shot.
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and way near the top of best Billy Wilder films, which says a lot!
Joe E. Brown?!?!?!? BRILLIANT!!!
"Well... nobody's perfect..."
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
Automatically presuming foreign film is better or funnier or if it happens to has subtitles is just effete-ism at the highest level.
I saw it a second time and thought better of it than the first. There were a lot of things going on with the dialog and the "collegiate bromance" was far more serious than the "partner bromance". Remember, Seinfeld celebrated the male infatuation or "bromance" long ago. The idea that bruiser Channing could ever be giddy over a buddy is very funny.
Maybe you have a dirty mind or maybe . . . .
said, foreign films have far outstripped American offerings for the past what, 20 years, as American producers have decided that Fx is art, in itself. Budgets are blown on infantile story lines that bore intelligent 8 year olds. These films are helmed by hacks, portrayed by third-rate acting talents. For every "Shotgun Stories" or "Winter's Bone," there are seventy or more pieces of crap.
Actually, you have reverse snobbism, bordering on xenophobia. Critics are snobs. The masses are the true arbiters of art.
"Withnal and I" is a brilliant comedy on many, many levels and produced two stars because of its lasting influence. It just may be the funniest portrayal of male adults coping with the lunacy that was 1969.
Rottentomatoes has it @ 94% critics, 93% audience.
It appears you are in a very, very small minority.
Regarding 22: it was littered with over-the-top gay references, extremely gay male "bonding" behavior. NO other film I can think of is similar, as I stated.
Remove the "love" interest, and it is an American "La Cage aux Folles."
You've never been married, right? I mean, since we're throwing around insinuations?
Oh, if you google, you'll find many, many hits about the gayness of the film--- I picked this ditty randomly:
"Using their influence to override normally gay-wary studio execs, the team has kicked the brom-com — that recent phenomenon in broad comedy popularized by Seth Rogen, James Franco, et al. — into the overtly homoerotic. The result is brilliant, heroic and somewhat subversive; the filmmakers are tickling and trashing the American performativity of masculinity, which I recently railed against with regard to Elliot Rodger and what really pushed him to mass murder. But their impact is worth ten thousand pseudo-intellectual essays on social psychology. Joy."
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I love foreign cinema and watch it over any other category at home, usually. I particularly like Brit humor and drama but "Withnail" was just not my cup'o tea. I have serious problems with Richard Grant as well.
As for Rotten Tomatoes, remember Joe Six-pack, Joe White Wine, and Joe Doobie are the main participants in their rating system for audiences. I usually disregard that part of the Tomatoe unless a film appears on the horizon I've never heard of.
"22" was not about being gay. Tatum's defense of anti-gay language in one brief segment was still funny when he stated you can only call a gay friend "queer" if he doesn't really mind it. The target audience was not you or me (Capt Obvious) but people two and three generations beyond us. They don't see the world as we do and this film is part of the social engineering being exerted on society. Nevertheless, I thought it was very funny.
isn't terribly accurate in audience. I vastly more often agree with critics. If both do, it's almost infallible, in my experience.
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