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Some of the dark humor moments

posted 10 years ago by Aborawatabinost
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Did anyone catch the part where Andre was about to steal an extra shotgun from his cousin, but decided against it because the safety indicator had been removed, saying "I don't wanna get my brains blown out before Zero Day."

I also found Andre's character describing the drawbacks of the other guns quite funny. After showing off the reloading of the 20g double barrel shotgun, he says "By the time I do that and have closed it up, 3 football players have tackled me and bashed my head in with a chair. Not good!" Then he says the single action revolver is only good if you want to rob somebody.

I found myself laughing quite a lot at this movie. Yes, it's based on tragic events but I felt the dark humor added a lot of personality to the characters. Even though they are no-name actors I felt immersed in the story because I could somewhat relate to them, despite their insanity and evil actions. This movie also managed to pull off the found footage thing pretty nicely, only utilizing the video camera and security footage/911 call for most of the film. Only one scene I recall used a different camera, which was the prom scene, which imo should have been cut entirely.

Anyway, did anyone notice any funny moments I might have missed?

[–] SMORacka 9 years ago

You're so right...the movie had many funny moments.
Some of the funny scenes for me were:

- When Andre was describing the guns and he picked one up and said this gun could not kill anyone even if you shot them point-blank in the eye. LOL

- When they were walking to egg that guy's home and they do a role-playing act of Brad's mom.
Here's the scene on youtube - http://youtu.be/u-DjPfBrdVw?t=13m52s

[–] cocacolaistherealthing 9 years ago

When they're breaking into Chris' house to take the guns, Andre is by some bushes or a tree in the camo shirt and Cal's like--"Whoa! Camoflague really works!"

[–] donmunk321 8 years ago

At the final shooting scene with the 1, 2, shoot or 1, 2, 3 shoot? It's always 1, 2, 3 shoot.

[–] leetheflea20 8 years ago

I think it was intentional and the movie's one of my top five favorites of all time for it because the subject matter is so difficult but it forces you to at the same time confront the fact that these are two human beings who have the same capacity for good as they do for evil. It's a choice any of us could make. Any of us could be that evil or we could be good.

It's a choice and as monstrous as they are, it's not like it's some... exceptional thing. It's just something they decided. That's all that separates us from them and we NEED to confront this as a culture. I think, with some heavy editing of course particularly of the 'how-to' scenes, that high school students need to be made to watch this at some point.

I think it's a lesson we all need to learn and why not learn it young. We need to learn that these people aren't so different than us and we need to treat each other better. We have to stop begetting hate with hate, piling divisive rhetoric upon divisive acts.

[–] FireMinstrel 7 years ago

For me, it was Andre's line about "That's why we're the Army of Two- not the group of a$$holes with guns!"
And then there's the scene where Andre's flipping out over Cal's antics at the poetry reading. When he starts banging on the steering wheel screaming *beep* I can't help but chuckle.
Finally, Rachel and Cal joking about Kermit the Frog being buried in the cemetery.