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F--k: The Substitute for Writing Talent


There are some honestly funny bits in this movie, but it has spasmodic episodes which seem like a halfwit with Tourette's seized control of the keyboard and wrote a scene.

It's a shame. It could have been a fairly good spoof without all the gratuitous vulgarity.

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Yep, I agree. The swearing seemed excessive and pretty lazy.

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Agreed. It was as thuogh the first half of the script was written by someone different to the second half. The first half was much funnier, the second half just lots of ridiculous, needless swearing and apparent improv.

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I thought having Agent Cooper go all-out trash-mouth was funny a few times, because it's unexpected from this character, at first. But it was overused.

The movie was still fun for me overall though.

"I know! It takes, like, forever to listen to him."

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It wasn't even funny when she started. For me, it was just out of the blue, at the drop of a dime without any build-up or development of any kind. Just felt false.

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glad to see I wasn't the only one who felt this way... I don't have a problem with swearing if it seems appropriate, but in this film it did just ring false.

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It's suppose to "ring false". It's not her character and was meant to feel forced and juxtapose what we know about her. If it felt in character then it would've been a very different movie.

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I.e, every scene with Jason Statham. I watched it again last night and my God does he catastrophically butcher every scene he is in.

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I didn't get it. There was no reason for f-bombs in this type of movie. It took away from the enjoyment.

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I'm guessing you saw the "unrated" cut from the home video release? It seems like they added lots of cursing and dick pics to create this needless cut.

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just watched this last night and i don't know if im just getting old but i also thought there was a LOT of unnecessary swearing going on. it's a shame

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I understood how, maybe, the Statham character could have incurable potty mouth. I understood how the McCarthy character could use potty mouth for effect; it was very helpful to assert her authority in first meetings once or twice.

But then it became so relentless that it was unnatural. Was the writers' intention that the various characters were trying to out-pottymouth each other? Had they dialled it back a bit I would have added a point for edgyness. But eventually I tired of the repetition and ended up taking a point off for dumbing the movie down so much by overusing one particular word. Hint to writers: ERUDITION is not a dirty word.

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IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT YOU THINK...





i think tipping 18% is gratuitous lol







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Jeezus, you people obviously missed the point. But that's all right, we don't need you in this world.

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