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The commentary explains why the movie isn't good


The movie was ok, for what it was. I mean when you get the idea, a R-rated body switch movie, it's not rocket science. The director is a totally Hollywood douche though. Listen to the comedy and he talks about the movie as if it's some deep, complex, satire or something. He talks about the movie, like he's selling it to the studio, which I get that you have to pump up a movie to execs, but when you're watching a movie where a baby craps in someone's face, it's not art.

And he keeps talking about making an R rated movie. How Richard Pryor was an inspiration to him. He obviously doesn't understand comedy at all. Richard Pryor used his comedy to talk about a lot of social and cultural problems. He used profanity as a way to rate these subjects to average audiences. This movie is rated R because they threw in nudity and cursing. They weren't making a satire, they were making a lame popcorn comedy. I mean the joke where the guy tells Bateman that he's dressed like a Jew. What the hell was that? It wasn't funny, you don't have any real payoff to the boss being racist. It was thrown in there to try to be "edgy". Same thing with the kid banging his head on the crib. It wasn't really funny and there was no real payoff. He stops doing it, why? Cause now the family it happy?

The movie was was it was. It could've been better, but what can you do?

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I have to ask, If you didn't like the movie, why watch it a second time with commentary?

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I didn't. I watched it with the commentary the first time around. So I could kill two birds with one stone.

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I hope I don't come off as a troll, because I'm honestly curious and not trying to start an argument or anything, but I don't get watching a movie for the first time with the commentary on. In my experience the commentary drowns out the sound of the movie, so it seems like you would miss most of the jokes. It seems like you didn't really give the movie a fair shot. I prefer to wait until I've seen something a couple of times before I watch the commentary.

As far as what you said about the commentary, the director does sound like an ass. I didn't think it was the greatest movie, but i didn't regret watching it. To act like it is in any way deep is ridiculous It's basically just Freaky Friday with dirty jokes. Comedy being subjective like it is, I don't hold it against anyone if they didn't like it. I doubt I'd ever watch it again, but I don't regret watching it the first time.

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If you watch a movie with the commentary and the subtitles on, you know what's being said. Also, it doesn't totally drown out the sound of the movie. I heard all the jokes.

It wasn't a bad movie, but it's one of those movies you watch once and then probably won't watch it again. I do think there was a good movie in there, but they dropped the ball. The director seems to think that when you make an R rated movie, you have to dumb down the movie. If they were a little smarter, they could've done something interesting with the movie. But by having Ryan Reynolds star in a porn movie, which was stupidly exicuted, it was more porn than Cinemax movie. And then throwing in stuff like the pregnant girl or the boss making a racist remake, cheapens the movie.

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Who the hell watches a movies with the commentary on the first time they watch it?

Stupid.

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Bump.

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"I didn't. I watched it with the commentary the first time around. So I could kill two birds with one stone."

This can't be real. I love moviechat just for threads as bizarre as these lmao.

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I haven't listened to the commentary, but it does sound as though the director behaved like a douche when he recorded it.






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