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yeah I'm a little confused why any of it is considered funny. LIke there wasn't a single joke in the 25 minutes of it I bothered to watch, just obvious dimwitted white guy challops. at least write a joke, for fuck's sake.

he's obnoxious

I don't like comedians that generally just yell their material (see also: the first couple decades of Chris Rock's career)

where his wife, who is african american, is the foil and it's clear in the bit that she is the one with the more reasonable/correct take

Maybe this is not the same thing, but more broadly, I am so tired of the childish/rulebreaking man who has a sensible wife who reins it all in and helps him fix things. It's so tedious. And it's in everything from Twitter joke formats to standup specials to children's television. There was some space rescue cartoon my nephews were watching that seemed to consist of the dad and the son going off on a harebrained plan and getting into trouble, and then the mam and the sister would come along and put everything right and roll their eyes. I just hate it.

The first comedian (Tracey Ashley?) on Tiffany Haddish's They Ready has a bunch of bits about being married to a white man and they were pretty LOL great. I think I had to finally give up on Bill Burr, it was work watching his act. I couldn't stand the screeching.

Tiffany Haddish's They Ready

I watched a bunch of these, some of them were p good like the one you mention, others needed a bit of work

Yeah, I remember laughing a ton during Tracey Ashley's set. The rest I can't really recall (or even if I finished it).

Burr had a big joke about wanting to drive by a feminist protest and yelling offensive things. And it isn't even funny. It's the sort of thing I'd hear when I was in college in the early 90's from guys who thought they were being funny. and now it warrants a comedy career? stuff is lazy. I could write this stuff in my sleep.maybe I should be an 'edgy' comic, it doesn't seem to take much work to get a netflix special.\
\maybe I hate comedy these days. I also watched the much praised Great Depresh (Gary Gulman) and didn't think very much of that was funny either.

bill burr's steve jobs bit is funny imo, and his some people don't know about lotion set up.

I am so tired of the childish/rulebreaking man who has a sensible wife who reins it all in and helps him fix things. It's so tedious. And it's in everything from Twitter joke formats to standup specials to children's television.

otm
long suffering/cleans up your mess woman-in-the-house is a tired and unfunny trope

Having not seen any of Burr's comedy but knowing he was well-regarded, I walked out ten minutes into his show a few years ago when he had done nothing but yell about how people who fly coach are slow at getting onto aeroplanes, and things his maid does which annoy him.

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Thursday, September 19, 2019 5:58 AM

love when twitter funny people
rightfully skewer “wife guys”

like wow, your bit is self-deprecation about how your wife is tired of keeping you functional, really funny

it's really late onset boomer humor 3.0? or something?

just actually shuddered at the idea that the show Home Improvement might show up on a bingeable streaming service

I think the only shows of these I have enjoyed were Married. w/ Ch.. and The Simpsons. I don't think I have seen others past one episode (I assume Modern Family was even in this mode?) Oh I guess I liked original Roseanne too. I felt sad when people at current jobs made 'I hate my spouse/ball and chain" types of jokes. Hopefully that is something millennials and onwards will get right.

I want to reprint some of the Tracey Ashley jokes here, because some were pretty edgy but performed in a wholesome way if that is even possible, but they are so much better watching her.

Enjoyed 'Tell me who I am', if enjoyed can be the right word. Although in the UK the pre-show warning about scenes of xxx that might cause distress gave away the underlying themes before it had started.

In the tall grass went from promising to a snooze fest. I fell asleep.

it's pretty

Finally got round to seeing the laundromat and it is good, not in the same league and Margin Call or the Big Short but it is good with some great performances.

“Tell me who i am”: i found it mediocre. :-(

the Rudd thing was kind of disappointing. good premise and promising start but didn’t really deliver. in that sense it brought to mind that Will Forte network show from a couple years back

tell me who I am is yeah....great story there, fascinating dudes, amazing confrontation...but I still wanted more exposition on the parents after that was all done.

Watched an odd little 20 min short on the weekend called Ghosts of Sugarland about these muslim young guys who were all wondering what happened to their black friend who took their islamic teachings a bit too far to heart and suddenly appeared in IS territory then disappeared. Just them, all sitting round in masks talking about what happened.

I say odd because it felt quite badly hung-together and a bit devoid of real substance or back story.

I assume Modern Family was even in this mode?

What was good about Modern Family (at the beginning -- I made the mistake of watching a recent ep not long ago and it's lousy now) is that yes, the dad in the central family is a very traditional "dorky and incompetent yet in the end loving and loved dad" but instead of the mom being the competent one who lovingly rolls her eyes, she's kind of brittle and incompetent in a totally different way, and if anyone plays the calming/competent role, it's the children -- but really not even them. So basically the idea is, even if there ISN'T a competent one, you all love each other and stuff kind of works out, which is a much more positive message than the one correctly complained about in this thread

tell me who I am is yeah....great story there, fascinating dudes, amazing confrontation...but I still wanted more exposition on the parents after that was all done.

― akm, Sunday, November 3, 2019 9:22 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Why would you want to know more? Getting out the little information we were told took a lot out of the brother, and it was harrowing enough as it was. The dots didn't take much joining.

Why would you want to know more?

I understand wanting to know more, and there's nothing bad in that in itself. The father is mentioned very briefly twice or three times as are the mother's wilder earlier experiences, for example. Because some of the details are so sparse you do get a feeling that something about it isn't quite adding up - for the record, I suppressed that feeling and am in no way suggesting Marcus's story isn't true - just that the picture does not seem complete. It's a very traumatic doc. If I had another problem with it, it's that it's, frankly, too stylish, too beautiful to look at etc.

to exapnd slightly, I felt that the filmmakers were perhaps more invested in the beauty of this thing, as a film, than in communicating the story fully.

exactly, there is a lot hinted at about the mother, her rich and famous friends...who the fuck were these people?

re: wanting to know more: did they talk together about the initial experiences with the mother? did they talk about their separate experiences together once the other one had come back from a night away? it left me with many questions.

post-apocalyptic Ferris Bueller got progressively less fun

It's a very traumatic doc. If I had another problem with it, it's that it's, frankly, too stylish, too beautiful to look at etc.

Yes agree about this point. It was distractingly pretty and that felt weird to me. I also wondered who the f mom’s “friends” were. Not because I wanted to hear from them but like friends? Friends don’t want what she was offering.

this is something i have witnessed developing (i'm not saying i'm the only one to have noticed it by any means) (and i have been involved with people who make films and have worked on them) but there are a lot of directors in film and performance who are incredibly technically adept and know how to make something beautiful looking or beautiful feeling but have no idea how to engage with narrative, or specifically with acting/actors (if they are making fictional films). they have no connection or experience with e.g. rehearsal and getting the performance right before you hit go on the project. I know this isn't fictional but i do feel that a film like this is evidence of that, in a weird way. it's a shame to be honest. the film deserved someone who was more interested in the story than the aesthetic. someone who could really drill down into the matter at hand.

it's not like Ken Loach, for example, would care about how lovely his film looked. they can't all be ken loach but shouldn't all NOT BE Ken Loach. For many it's opportunistic: that this story enables me to make the lovely film i want to make.

that's a huge sidetrack

but, basically, I feel that young filmmakers want to make mood pieces and will latch on to subjects than enable them to make them.

well said

Jed otm about tell me who i am. It isn’t so much that I wanted to know more. But the doc felt disjointed (?). The style didn’t mesh with the content (if that makes any sense.)

I didn't find this to be a good-looking doc at all...the reenactments looked to me like they just ran some filters on the same kind of shots A&E or whatever uses for true-crime. The rhythm of the thing was tedious too, just dumb-dumb-dumbing metronomically from one revelation to the next, no sense for the beat

I stopped abt halfway in despite wanting to know what happened!

Only just started it, but the music supervision on The End of the F***ing World is still great anyway

I didn't think season 2 (end of F;ing World) could go anywhere but it really did. I liked it.

I also liked Let It Snow. It was much better than the netflix xmas prince or city person figuring life out in the country movies that are super popular. Kind of a Gilmore Girls/Love Actually vibe. And a Waterboys song features.

My kids were watching that yesterday and the music choices seemed really good. Georgia, Chemical Brothers and Washed Out too.

Jed otm about the apparent current focus on aesthetics over storytelling. On my FB post production related feeds there's always constant swooning over this and that cinematographer being attached to a project or how - yeah, the film wasn't that good but the cinematography "killed". Yeesh.
Is there a correlation between that and the fact that most of these people are very young and seemingly share a pantheon of (not-cinematographers)Kubrick:Tarkovsky:Nolan:Villeneuve?

Also the availability of drones for dramatic swooping aerial shots. That wasn’t possible 20 years ago.

Kubrick:Tarkovsky:Nolan:Villeneuve

one of these things is not like the other

I'd say "none"!

I can definitely see the crossover between Kubrick, Nolan and Villeneuve fanboys

I find it hard to believe they're out there stanning for Mirror though

Yeah it’s weird that the way a film looks and feels is a big part of what people like about this visual medium.

“Storytelling” is fairly far down on the list as far as things I give a shit about in film.

really! it's certainly in my top five! i can deal with non-narrative or fumbly narrative film but if you can't connect the dots to make an interesting story you damn well better sparkle in other ways.

It isn’t unnecessary! I’m just thinking about most of my favorite films (like The Mirror mentioned right up there) and a good ripping plot is absolutely not a factor in what makes them great.