Too many PC people on this board
Get a sense of humor!
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My sense of humor is fine. Trouble is all of Jason Bateman's movies are pretty much the same. Basically he's another Vince Vaughan.
shareAt least Bateman doesn't eat/chew with his mouth open all the time like Vaughn.
shareI despise Vaughan. I think the only movies I liked him in was The Lost World and Swingers. Bateman, Idk, seems to be trying to be the funny guy that his younger years failed to achieve. Sometimes it comes off as charming but mostly it's childish like in Horrible Bosses when he referred to his dead grandmother as his "Gam-gam". Sure it's sweet in a family setting but at work where he's trying to land a huge promotion, he needed to be an adult. I couldn't help but agree with Kevin Spacey and laugh at his ass.
shareI agree; this movie was quite easy to like, and very funny in places.
I was an extra in this and I never had to fake laughter or applause.
PC people are critics.
This movie is great!
That's right!! Too many PC people. We need more Mac people!!!
shareTrilby's bullying of the two kids in the spelling bee who were so traumatized that they dropped out has been bothering me since I watched the film. It was cruel, and unnecessary. He did not need to do this in order to get back at the person he wanted to hurt. Everything was about him and his mission. To hell with everyone else -- including kids.
What is funny about telling lies to and manipulating 10 year olds?
Different strokes for different folks, but to me this has nothing to do with being PC or needing to get a sense of humor. It was downright cruel, and not funny at all.
good lord... when did everybody in the world become so sensitive? comedy has always been at someone else's expense... that's the true nature of comedy. doesn't anyone else realize that all this pc crap that everyone is living by now does nothing but breed dishonesty and resentment? what happened to the days when people could laugh at themselves? its not a good thing to take yourself so seriously.. only leads to more hatred and violence, which is exactly what these pc minded people claim that they are trying to do away with.
shareLook - if you like this kind of humor that's fine. I didn't like the original implication that if one didn't think it was funny, then that person was too "politically correct".
When growing up i used to laugh at a lot of things that i had to stop and ask if i should find funny. Maybe i shouldn't have, but i did at the time. For example on SNL there was a recurring Buck Henry character that used to babysit two girls. When the parents would leave he would have them pull their dresses up and take photos of them in their panties, among other things. It cracked me up. It seemed relativly harmless. But today, in this day and age, it is not harmess. Back then it wasn't common knowledge as to how many kids were being abused.
Certain comedy is on the edge. For some it crosses the line at times. At other times, it can actually help broaden your opinion, which is a great thing.
I have a sense of humor, thank goodness, or i coudln't get by in the world.
But, in my opinion, damaging a child's psyche just to get ahead in a spelling bee isn't funny. A lot of people do think it's funny, and it's a free country. The original post just pushed one of my buttons, and i was just too sensitive about it.
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Comedy is at someone's expense, but often it's done in a self-deprecating way such that it is at the expense of the joke teller...that there is direct or implied comeuppance for the party that is demeaning the "victim." I find that as I get older I get more sensitive to aggressive comedy that makes someone else the butt of the joke instead of itself. What was interesting about "Bad Words" is that Guy Trilman doesn't really get any comeuppance. He accomplishes his goal, he makes a friend, he gets laid, he even makes a few bucks.
I liked the movie, and found it very funny, though. I wonder if in part that's because Jason Bateman recently has been playing a kind of character that spends his time being the victim in other movies. A somewhat hapless character. And perhaps someplace in my head "Bad Words" plays out as turnabout for those other characters. Perhaps I'd have liked the film less if it had been a different actor.
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For Nate.
Hey guess what? Life is unnecessarily cruel sometimes Just like How Guy Trilby's character got treated unfairly in his childhood: his dad just up an leaving.
That's what the movie is showing. Kids can be and are often total pricks to each other, and adults too. The movie has a refreshing sense of honesty and reality which some people can't handle.
It's dark humor, guilty humor admitably. The laughter comes more from the outrageous-ness of what he does rather than the specific reality of it.
The whole movie isn't meant to be 1 big joke or even a series of feel good laugh out loud moments. No it's a movie with a message foremost,with bits of comedy added.
I hope that by the time this comment has reached you, that you have cleared up your understanding of what you've seen. What happened there at that spelling bee... that didn't really happen, everyone involved was an actor who was not really traumatized... If this had happened in real life I would join the line of people waiting to kick his ass... But it didn't. It was a movie. A movie that isn't real. So if you can't handle that then I would suggest watching stuff like Daddy Day Camp so you don't get too upset with the characters.
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I am a huge fan of films that would make the raunchiness of this movie look like goddamn Bambi. It has nothing to do with a sense of humor. It has to do with Bateman trying too hard to be offensive and the story trying too hard to be quirky. It's a pretty abysmal film. The kid is okay, though.
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