 Wysłany: Czw 8:19, 07 Kwi 2011 Temat postu: Frost play Graeme Willy and Clive Gollings |
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| Frost play Graeme Willy and Clive Gollings
You lose the perspective that a foreign culture brings, so instead of wit and samurai swords humor, you end up trafficking in self-congratulatory clichés and sentiment. Paul was directed by the estimable Greg Mottola ( The Daytrippers, Superbad, Adventureland) and boasts a surprisingly deep cast (even Steven Spielberg makes an appearance of sorts). And yet I still sat through it with gnashing teeth and increasingly weary brow, counting the minutes until it was over. How could so many talented people collaborate on something so dull? The blame, I think, rests with Pegg and Frost’s previous successes, which have made them a little overconfident and creatively sloppy. In Paul, they often don’t bother to write actual jokes: They settle for homage and references to other samurai swords films,Coal Processing, the way the Shrek pictures did. Recreating scenes from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in painstaking detail or having the house band at a roadside honky tonk playing the Star Wars cantina song is all well and good, but you also have to come up with something funny to happen in the foreground. Otherwise, you’re asking the audience to laugh simply out of recognition — “Hey, that movie theater marquee is advertising Duel!” — which is the laziest sort of comedy. It’s hack work. Pegg and Frost play Graeme Willy and Clive Gollings, British nerds who travel to the samurai swords United States to attend the San Diego Comic-Con, lust after girls dressed as Ewoks, contemplate buying $1,000 samurai swords and get books autographed by a disdainful science-fiction author (Jeffrey Tambor, in the first of the film’s many star cameos). Topics related articles： Company fights charges 无光彩喷纸使用的颜料 Rochelle's Table |
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