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Post by slayrrr666 on Feb 20, 2008 11:00:50 GMT -5
Maybe you should go back to watching "Epic Movie." It wasn't that this was a "Valentine's Day" episode, though, yes, it took place on that day. It was just a collection of love stories, none of them which ever took place on Feb. 14th. Or did you not realize this? A Valentine's Day episode would entail someone trying to do something for someone else, to win them over or break them up or whatever; this one just told love stories. Parodied them. Yes, and those aren't funny. You proved my point. So what is, in your opinion, the status quo of relationships? Cross-country killing sprees? Drugged out tumultuous relationships? The most definitive one was with the dogs and abadonment (did that happen in the original? I haven't seen that movie in years) and return. They were goofing off with all these stories and their nature of romance at the same time. Couple fights, everyone thinks it's the end as they've never had a fight that big before but in the end, he performs some gesture that wins the over over. You know they're not going to split up, just have them fight and grudingly get on with it the next episode, like it never happened. They did the same thing with the revenge tales. And then the classics of literature. Biographies. American Tall Tales. Mythology. Or are those all status quo too? But those were actually funny, they warped them with they're sense of humor and made them respectful of what happened with their style of humor. |
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Feb 20, 2008 18:17:46 GMT -5
A. I did not prove your point. You're confusing "love story" with "Valentine's Day," since that was my defense. The only Valentine's Day happenstance was that they were stuck in a jello river telling stories.
B. Surely you realize that every single story in existence has been told in some way or another? Most of them have been told by the time Shakespeare put pen to paper. The couple fighting isn't the problem, it's how it's handled. Read some books.
C. Again, I don't see how they didn't warp those love stories. They handled the episode the same way they did for all the other ones.
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Feb 20, 2008 18:37:48 GMT -5
Paranormal State
Dirty Jobs
Scariest Places On Earth
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Post by Termination on Feb 20, 2008 20:49:01 GMT -5
Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 1 - Disc 7 (1966/67) (HD DVD)
Tomorrow Is Yesterday
HD Video - 7/10
HD Audio Dolby TrueHD - 8/10
Court-Martial
HD Video - 7/10
HD Audio Dolby TrueHD - 7/10
The Return Of The Archons
HD Video - 8/10
HD Audio Dolby TrueHD - 8/10
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Post by slayrrr666 on Feb 21, 2008 11:00:09 GMT -5
A. The original point was never whether it was "love story" or "Valentines's Day." It was whether or not it was a humorous idea, and it failed. Bringing up the others have the same problem: they're not funny.
B. You can tell the same story over and over again and put spins on it to make it seem fresh and original. These here have that problem: I've seen them before without having a twist put on them to change them around. Wrap it up with not-humourous antics and it lays there.
C. Look back at the Bible Tales. That one featured a lot of humorous ideas (Ralph as a sheppard who fights Goliath; Reverend Lovejoy's sermon; the apocalypse at the end) are just some. They took the original stories and made them funny without changing around the story. This one just put the characters into the stories without making it funny.
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Feb 21, 2008 12:30:57 GMT -5
Alright guys, hate to play moderator, but this is probably enough on this topic.
"What is funny?" is very subjective and obviously no one can "convince" someone else that something is or isn't funny. I thought it was funny and mentioned it, didn't mean to spark a debate which seems to be getting more heated with each post and ultimately, will lead nowhere as you're both set in your opinion.
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Feb 21, 2008 23:58:42 GMT -5
SURVIVOR
LOST (Wow, oh, wow...)
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Post by slayrrr666 on Feb 22, 2008 10:59:42 GMT -5
Alright guys, hate to play moderator, but this is probably enough on this topic. "What is funny?" is very subjective and obviously no one can "convince" someone else that something is or isn't funny. I thought it was funny and mentioned it, didn't mean to spark a debate which seems to be getting more heated with each post and ultimately, will lead nowhere as you're both set in your opinion. I can live with that. Fair enough. |
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Post by frankenjohn on Feb 23, 2008 10:15:06 GMT -5
Lost
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Post by Termination on Feb 24, 2008 2:06:24 GMT -5
Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 1 - Disc 8 (1966/67) (HD DVD)
Space Seed
HD Video - 8/10
HD Audio Dolby TrueHD - 8/10
A Taste Of Armageddon
HD Video - 7/10
HD Audio Dolby TrueHD - 8/10
This Side Of Paradise
HD Video - 8/10
HD Audio Dolby TrueHD - 8/10
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Feb 24, 2008 8:35:50 GMT -5
MAN CAVES (50's style lounge)
FIREFLY
EBERT & ROEPER (Two thumbs down for VANTAGE POINT and CHARLIE BARTLETT, one thumb up and one down for DIARY OF THE DEAD.)
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Feb 24, 2008 10:25:32 GMT -5
taped stuff from last week:
Ghost Hunters International
Mythbusters
Smash Lab
Monk
The Universe
and yesterday:
some of the NFL Combine
Fuse Rocks The Garden: Foo Fighters
Live Through This: Nikki Sixx
Cedric The Entertainer: Taking You Higher
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Feb 24, 2008 23:47:14 GMT -5
The 80th Annual Academy Awards (while doing homework). 3 hours, 19 minutes, not too bad.
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Feb 25, 2008 0:22:38 GMT -5
The Barbara Walters Special (But only the Harrison Ford interview. Fast forwarded through everything else.)
The Academy Awards
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Post by frankenjohn on Feb 25, 2008 6:54:42 GMT -5
The 80th Annual Academy Awards
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