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« on: March 05, 2010, 02:31:24 PM » |
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two star crossed lovers, that is, Slumdog Millionare the movie and Mike +the gang, are destined to be together to form the most feel good riff of the year.
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« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2010, 06:08:35 PM » |
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if you don't appreciate this film then you and hope don't belong in the same sentence, or room. You don't understand what hope is, you need a heavy dose of pointless cheerfulness mr. mcscrooginton!
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« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2010, 05:48:06 AM » |
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Yeah, although I don't think Slumdog is anywhere near Boyle's best work I'm really not sure the film lends itself to riffing that much.
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« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2010, 06:38:51 PM » |
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If Titanic lends itself to riffing with the corny love cliches, then so should this.
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« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2010, 07:10:01 PM » |
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No movie is sacred...especially Oscar winners!!! Off with its head!
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« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2010, 02:28:35 AM » |
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Jesus, Gladiator deserved its oscar more than this! Especially, ESPECIALLY when titanic and Casablanca can be made fun of, it's so obvious! The fact Slumdog isn't half the good movie Titanic is gives us a nice palate of mediocrity to laugh at as well. When the little fucking kids effortlessly escape the bad guys at the beginning I can already hear them humming the indiana jones theme.
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« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2010, 03:44:56 AM » |
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No movie is sacred...especially Oscar winners!!! Off with its head!
I was more thinking of the child-mutilation personally |
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GREATEST POST EVER (imo): I once heard a guy state that he enjoyed something I disliked.
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« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2010, 06:35:53 AM » |
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Yeah it's not that the movie is a precious movie per se it's just some of the story elements might not serve too well as a spring board for jokes.
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« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2010, 10:20:40 AM » |
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except the fact that the story is joke
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« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2010, 10:26:33 AM » |
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except the fact that the story is joke
It's not meant to be realistic. If anything, it's more like a fairy tale. |
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« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2010, 11:54:33 AM » |
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except the fact that the story is joke Be that as it may, it's not one that provides much in the way of material for other jokes. |
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« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2010, 03:39:42 PM » |
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I would like to have a constructive debate about it. I want to know why you believe that it doesn't lend itself to jokes.
For one, Mike, Bill and Kevin love to make superficially observational jokes about how unintentionally funny a situation looks and sounds. An indian version of Regis Philbin alone is a very unintentionally funny thing they can mock, imitate, bring up cliches from the original Millionare show and tie them with the ridiculous circumstances of the film, the jokes are limitless.
Mike, Kevin, and Bill are at their best when they are in awe of how ridiculous the circumstances of a film are.. When you see each "improbability on top of improbability" as Salmon Rushdie describes, there is SO much the riff crew can be saying.
Just answer this at least: doesn't the limitless amount of ridiculousness in the film lend itself to a limitless supply of funny comments? Think about it.
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« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2010, 03:46:13 PM » |
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Nope it's never happening. And I'm perfectly OK with that.
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« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2010, 04:51:06 PM » |
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Are you going to contribute something constructive or just pointless snarky comments?
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« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2010, 05:51:24 PM » |
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The movie deals with some of the horrible things that occur in the lives of the untouchables and as such it'd be difficult to add jokes to the commentary and not seem like a colossal arse. I think Scott summed it up fairly succinctly a few posts back: I was more thinking of the child-mutilation personally |
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