I was watching this on IFC today and I loved it up until the last 10 minutes. Since when is a 3-legged dog and people in wheelchairs with no legs falling over and crawling on the ground funny? I didn't mind the rest of the film, but that was just sick.
shareTrue. i think the COhen brothers started a trend by employing handicapped and elderly people in films. Thier intent was to show that these people are reall and they can act. This ending was pure specticle, like most of the film it wasn't there to make sense it was a shock fest of what happens next. Was it fun, sure but it wasn't good. I did love the Cameron Diaz ending, it was so Wrath of Khan / George Costanza.
shareSorry to pull you up on this but it was in fact the Farrelly brothers not the Cohen brothers!!
"I have a heart condition,if you hit me it's murder!"
I looked it up and you are quite right, sorry.
[punches self in the face repeatedly while muttering "You idiot"]
Actually you need to go back to 1932 to Tod Browning's Freaks.
shareI think i do agree that the ending was little, shall we say, tasteless, but I think the intention of it was just to see Cameron's reaction - everything she dreamed of had been ruined (and it was her idea to kill the last guy). I don't think there is anyone in the world who is in the same situation as that family, however, the mockery of the disability wasn't needed but added to the horror for Cameron - I don't think anybody has such disobedient and terrible children (who don't seem to be grieving too much over their rcently deceased parents).
shareDitto.
Boycott movies that involve real animal violence! (and their directors too)
Let me see if I've got this right... a coked up bunch of men concealing the accidental death of a hooker by outright murdering the hotel employee who had the misfortune of stumbling upon their situation is funny. The burying of the dismembered bodies of the victims in the desert was funny. The subesquent murders of the 5 perpertrators and the wife of one of the killers was funny. But the presence of amputees (dog included) was not funny/sick.
Do you see what is wrong with the above at all? If we're going to go all serious, then since when is multiple homicide and sociapathy funny? Are people who laugh at amputees amoral while those who laugh at murder are beyond reproach?
Lol, bnlove, That was one of the funniest, and true observations I have seen. Had me laughing for a bit.
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yes. well said. the movie's intent is to force the audience to laugh at the most twisted and graphic aspects of life and death. it does a good job, if you ask me; it's modern-day theatre of the absurd.
shareI found the ending pretty satisfying. Cameron Diaz's character was such a spoilt control freak, there's some kind of sadistic pleasure to be had, watching her realise that she's stuck in this hopeless situation for the rest of her life.
Love will tear us apart again
"I found the ending pretty satisfying. Cameron Diaz's character was such a spoilt control freak, there's some kind of sadistic pleasure to be had, watching her realise that she's stuck in this hopeless situation for the rest of her life."
Exactly!
Remember when she said she could never be common? She was completely obsessed with having every aspect of her life appear to be picture perfect which is reflected in the way she handled the wedding. She didn't care that her fiance and his friends killed two people in Vegas, that their friends were dying or even that she smashed a guy's face in before walking down the aisle just as long as the ceremony went on as planned. It's almost funny that she took the news of the murder so calmly but had a nervous breakdown about the seat cushions. It is all about appearances, which is what makes the ending so ironic. She sends her husband to bury the last of their dirty secrets which leads to a crash that physically deforms him.
I think people laugh when they see these things in a "comedy", because (especially in this film) the visuals are so overwhelmingly apalling, that the human mind has no other outlet than to laugh (or turn off the film). It keeps you from throwing up in your mouth at the very idea of people like this existing.
It's the same thing with a film like American Psycho. This character is just so completely disgusting that you have to laugh at him, lest you suffer severe mental trauma after witnessing all of these horrific things on screen.
I totally get what you're saying. It's kind of like a coping mecanism. I should know. I've reacted the same way in similar situations.
So this is how liberty dies-with thunderous applause?
I see this film as more of a spoof than anything else. You are either with it or not. The scene at the end is just a continuation of what had been going on previously. It just got more and more ridiculous as it went on, so Diaz's dramatic breakdown just sort of fit.
shareFunny was the characters action and reaction to the offenses. Not the offenses themselves.
shareIT IS FUNNY! some of it is meant to disturb, but YOU WILL LAUGH or should at least
Has anybody seen severance - much more tasteful as it's actually scary with in your face funny moments - and it exceeds the necessary gore line - the plot is also rather creepy sooo..... yeh maybe it is better than very bad things - but a lot like it
This was absurd. Accidentally killing someone is one thing, but intentionally killing others, including family members, is just tasteless & unfunny.
Carpe Noctem!
i kind of liked the ending as well. it's like the author sayin': "you laughed over all this cruel stuff for more that an hour? damn you forgot to laugh about the disabled ones! here you go freak!" Whatever, an ending that fits to the whole movie. (i like the movie by the way)
sharepulpdog is right.
The humour comes from the fact that the bitch Laura's (Diaz) life is not quite as she planned.
I didn't find that the point was to laugh at disabled people at all.
RR123 is right, that pulpdog is right.
I loved to see Diaz´ character gettin so absolutely frustrated and crazy. ok the ending was a bit ... hmm.. wait.. no.. it was perfect. I mean the title says it.
it´s just VERY BAD. Someone in this thread (and the OP) has written, that it was just too much for him. Yeah. I get it. It was too much for me, too. But that´s what I love about movies, they provoke emotions.
The Climax was definitely the ending here.
Felt very sorry for the dog and the guy though. And no... nobody was supposed to laugh at disabled people in wheelchairs, why should anyone do that?
I think its more seeing everyone who was involved in wrong doings finally get their comeuppance by the end of the film. They either got killed, killed themsekves (in the car accident), injured so bad their lives will never be the same again or in the case of Diaz's character (who was involved because she turned a blind eye to everything and told her husband to murder his best friend and the dog) she gets a life which is totally *beep*
The only innocent one in all of this is the poor dog!
It's your coffin, my love. Enjoy it. Most of us never get to know what it feels like.
to me, it was one of the funniest moments in all of film history,
said the shotgun to the head
-Saul Williams
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Cameron Diaz doesn't necessarily have to have a *beep* life.
She could always divorce her husband and get away from it all.
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I see room for improvement but I thought it was funny. It was all so...VERY BAD.
I thought it was just hilariously pathetic when Jon Favreau was in the wheelchair and he's like "Honey, Honey, whats wrong? Honey, You wanna talk about us? Lets talk about us!"
man i hated this nonsense. turned it off during the scene where Favreau/Diaz are told their the legal guardians of Stern's annoying brats...i just could'nt take any more of it. I love black comedies but this film just is'nt a good exponent of that genre. There's only so much shouting, arguing, whining, blaming, more shouting i can take.
The only good moment was when Stern's unbelievably irritating character was roadkilled.
You didn't miss much then. American Psycho was subtle and clever. This was crass, annoying, mean spirited and very unfunny from beginning to end (though I do have a soft spot for Christian Slater).
I simply am not there...