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"Shaun of the Dead"

Finally got around to seeing it.

Awful.

Might have been funny if I was drunk whilst watching it. Hardly a Braindead/Badtaste or even as funny as an episode of Spaced.

A real letdown.

Light wrote:
> Pandaemonium wrote:
>
> See also Delicatessen, Man Bites Dog and Dr. Strangelove.
>
> All of which are utterly, stultifyingly superb.
>
> That said, Man Bites Dog...the "morning after the night
> before" scene made me hate myself for having laughed along with
> the film before that point. It's a VERY difficult film to get to the
> end of.
>
> Yet still not as bad as Funny Games. I've yet to watch that all the
> way through...

Seen MBD and Delicatessen.

Obviously I have been spoiled by better films because SOTD seemed naff.

I really need to watch Dr. Strangelove. I believe there's a special edition DVD out now or soon...

Think I'll add it to the rental list.

It's great.

Hedfix, do you have a soul? Just that you seem to complain about everything like some petulant little child.

Shaun of the dead is great.

I got this for Christmas and I STILL haven't seen it. To much to do, too little time etc.

Hedfix wrote:
> Might have been funny if I was drunk whilst watching it.

About ten of us rented it out about a month ago, seemed quite fry in places IMHO. But did seem to get funnier after everyone had a drink or five. Strange that.

Pandaemonium wrote:

> See also Delicatessen, Man Bites Dog and Dr. Strangelove.

All of which are utterly, stultifyingly superb.

That said, Man Bites Dog...the "morning after the night before" scene made me hate myself for having laughed along with the film before that point. It's a VERY difficult film to get to the end of.

Yet still not as bad as Funny Games. I've yet to watch that all the way through...

CDouch wrote:
> Stryke wrote:
> A black comedy is something like American Psycho, in my opinion.

Aye.

See also Delicatessen, Man Bites Dog and Dr. Strangelove.

Stryke wrote:
> A black comedy is something like American Psycho, in my opinion.

I see things like Rules of Attraction and Fargo as black.

Hedfix wrote:
> Your average South Park episode takes more extreme comedic risks than
> this movie.

depends on what yo consider a comedic risk.
there are plenty of moments in SOTD that would have been rubbish if the timing was slightly off or the camera usage was different.
there's a difference between good comedy writing and just adding as many massively offensive things as you can.
personally, i appreciate both schools of thought :)