It seems to me that most people just don't get this movie. It's a black comedy and it's meant to be dark and sort of creepy.
Maybe it's an acquired taste or maybe it's a matter of expectations from the film. Whatever the case, I still find this movie funny and just can't understand the overly negative comments about it.
yeah. it's so funny and everyone is so hostile. strange.
shareI agree that folks on this board don't seem to appreciate black comedy. I think creepiness is a good thing in a dark comedy about a bad relationship.
That said, I don't think this is a particularly good film, but not a complete waste of time. It had a few amusing moments, but the film lost me once the focus shifted from Ellen to Bill.
It seems like most people, if they don't like a movie, automatically assign it a 1, as if it's the worst it could possibly be. I don't think that's the case here. I gave this a 5.
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I LOVE "Cable Guy"! Unfortunately, when I was in the theater, I was the only one laughing. I've always thought Jim Carrey has tremendous talent, but he doesn't make the best movies. "Cable Guy" was the perfect role for him -- hilarious, twisted, and scary! I'd much rather see him in a role like this than another Ace Ventura film.
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Obviously none of you have ever been the victim of a stalker or you would not find anything in this movie to be the least bit funny.
shareOnce, I took my children (10,12) to see Zoolander in a tiny West Texas theatre,
and we were the ONLY ones laughing. It was weird! And I dont even think of
that movie as a "dark" comedy...I guess they all just didn't get it.
Also, that same outing, a man in front of me asked the ticketlady for 3
tickets to " A - ONE ". The film showing was A-I!!!! hahaha
I feel kind of silly being the only one laughing in a movie, especially if it's kind of inappropriate to laugh but I still find it funny. I did laugh quite a bit at "Zoolander," though -- but I was home alone.
shareYou say this like you're a film professor or something. Learn what an actual black comedy is. They make you laugh at things that shouldn't really be funny. This just isn't funny, period. There's a difference.
shareI'm not defending this film because I don't think it's that great -- and I don't think it's necessarily a black comedy either -- but a black comedy doesn't have to make you laugh, and it doesn't even have to be funny.
sharewrong. look it up. why would it be called a black COMEDY if it didn't have to have an element of humor? think about what you just wrote.
shareThe "comedy" in black comedy refers to satire, which doesn't have to be funny. Films like "Dr. Strangelove," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and "The Trouble With Harry" (many of Hitchcock's films, actually) are considered black comedies without necessarily being "funny ha-ha."
shareMore recent examples: "American Beauty," "Natural Born Killers," the black comedies of the Coen Brothers ("Barton Fink," "Fargo," "Blood Simple"), David Lynch ("Blue Velvet") and Tim Burton ("The Nightmare Before Christmas"). All black comedies, though not necessarily humorous.
shareI guess we have a different definition of funny, because I laughed at and found humor in all the movies you named that I have seen.
But also:
"Black humour (from the French humour noir) is a term coined by Surrealist theoretician André Breton in 1935, to designate the sub-genre of comedy and satire in which laughter arises from cynicism and skepticism."
"In black humour, topics and events that are usually regarded as taboo, specifically those related to death, are treated in an unusually humorous or satirical manner while retaining their seriousness; the intent of black comedy, therefore, is often for the audience to experience both laughter and discomfort, sometimes simultaneously."
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So that's who coined the term---I've always liked comedies with black humor, so it's nice to see where that term came from. It's great when it's done well---depending on who is doing it, though, and what it's about.
I love this movie. I would say it is a border-line black comedy. Some of my favorite black comedies are Heathers, The War of the Roses, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Tucker and Dale Vs Evil, everything written by Joss Whedon, and Eulogy.
nothing here to see just imminent danger in the middle of it ME!