They're back, 17 years later, doing
the same kind of jokes — the kind of thing a 13 - year - old kid or a stoned adult would find hilarious; anyone else would groan.
It's
the same kind of joke as saying that Naughty Dog is a perfect developer, or making excuses for the incalculable amount of bugs in Bethesda games.
Not exact matches
«He was rolling on the floor laughing at his own
jokes, and I thought, That is my
kind of guy — I do the
same thing,» Buffett says.
ARSENe Is a complete
JOKE of a manager; the
same kind of Goals conceeded 4 d lat 4 yrs; arsene is a dissappointment to arsenal
An article containing the words» planning» and «Arsenal» in the
same sentence, has to be some
kind of a sick
joke!
But all the
same, lines like «is this some
kind of joke» put the exchange on another level.
My guy and I
joke that Northeasterners and Southerners are
kind of the
same people: we love bright colors, home - cooked food, and handwritten thank - you notes (or hostess gifts, or all those little etiquette rules).
«When Ryan talked about doing this three years ago, before we actually got the ball rolling last year, I would
joke with him saying, «Hey man, I would love to do this, but if you don't want me to do it with you, I defy you to find another guy who looks
kind of like him, who's in the
same age range, who's in your Rolodex
of actors.
But the novelty
of this has certainly worn off a bit and in the interests
of both retaining fan favorites and introducing new personalities, this third film feels a little crammed with characters all vying for the
same kind of calculated
jokes.
Is Wiseau, who seems to appreciate «The Room» only as a way to make more money, really in on the
same joke as the audiences who have adopted him as a
kind of aging - hipster mascot?
Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner
of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages
of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop
of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns
of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means
of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the
same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney
joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family
of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode
of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.
«Old Dogs» is the
kind of movie where the
jokes are set up like dominoes, knocked down in the
same scene, and rebuilt as the next sequence starts.
The two actors have had pretty much the
same kind of film career, and while I know that I still believe that Johnson actually has a career in front
of him I think it's a nice little
joke that's worth laughing at.
Not here: The guiding
joke in The Kids Are All Right is not that Nic and Jules are a
same - sex couple, but that they're so utterly conventional — the
kind of healthy - eating, meticulously recycling, solid citizens you might find in any affluent metropolitan enclave.
His earlier films, funny as they are, are hampered by unevenness and overemphasis, and by the
kind of selfcongratulatory distrust
of the audience that makes Brooks hold his shots too long, zoom in insistently on his sight gags, use the
same joke again and again under the misapprehension that that makes it a running gag, or — when in doubt — have an unlikely person say «bullshit» or burst into Cole Porter.
Well, Lenny's wife Roxanne (Salma Hayek), who even Lenny admits in the movie's single and genuinely clever
joke is too beautiful for him, is over-emotional (the movie's opinion
of her) because she wants to have another kid, so it does aim one sexist stereotype at one
of its few major female characters (Speaking
of sexism, can we talk about the MPAA ratings board's glaring double standard in pointing out that a movie's nudity is
of the «male rear» variety, directly implying that there's something different — worse, more offensive — about the
same of the female
kind?).
When my friend started driving Priuses in»06 I made every
kind of joke possible including one about buying two Corolas, one for Sunday - for the
same money.