Here's the problem: it doesn't have to be inevitable! If the culture presented us with only intelligent entertainment, would people stop going to the movies and watching TV? No, they'd adjust and adapt. They had to be trained to be proudly stupid. They can be re-trained to be intelligent.
And there lies another problem. Entertainment caters to the stupidity of people because maybe its just easier.
I swear I feel like people who make certain movies and shows sit around and go "hmmm what's better? plan things out and make an interesting compelling story or just mash up a bunch of dumb **** that everyone will run and see and fun utterly hysterical while sitting in a theatre laughing and clapping their hands like a bunch of happy morons?", and then they decide on the latter. It's obnoxcious honestly.
Well at this point I just chalk everything up to taste. I won't say people have bad taste or no taste because everyone is different. It's a matter of preference. If people still want to make what I feel is silly/stupid by all means go ahead. They just won't get any of my money.
He really is fun to watch. But the more I watched him, the more I realized that his "punchlines" are usually just him yelling. The fact that he's now starring in half of the horrible romantic comedies and frat boy 'comedy' films didn't help either.
Thoughts?
As far as trying to be an epic story, it did a great job. I felt like I wasn't as emotionally invested in some of the characters as I should've been, but there were a lot of characters, and I can't have my cake and eat it too.
He comes from the Ellen Degeneres School of Telling Jokes Without Punchlines. He's great at keeping his audience's attention, but if there was ever a stand-up comedian who needed a ghostwriter, it was Dane "Can you imagine being a snake with acidy spit? There's no punchline to that joke; I'm just going to mime it now" Cook.Thoughts?
That's really where standup comedy is right now, though. Punchlines are sort of considered passe. His problem is that he also comes from the Dennis Miller School of Abjectly Failing to Be Funny When You Do Observational Comedy, the Denis Leary School of Ripping Off People Who Are Funnier Than You And Still Somehow Failing to Be Funny, and the Andrew Dice Clay/Danny the Larry Guy/Jeff Foxworthy School of Catchphrase Comedy.
Yeah, but they lost, so they were less conscious of it maybe. Except Mister Miracle, who can escape from anything, including the existential torture of mundane Earthly living. And then Metron, who owned the s*** out of that f***in' Rubik's cube.
He's all about catchphrases. I guess I would call the "SuFi" (which is what that gesture is called) a catchphrase in a way. But half of his jokes are about inventing a catchphrase, like "Where's the ****in' van?" or "B&E!" or "Relation****" or whatever.
