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Haneke doesn't make movies for people to enjoy.
Not to say that's necessarily a bad thing: it's hard to "enjoy" 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, but it's a great movie nonetheless, even though it uses a similar shooting style (almost no camera movement).
I watched Slumdog Millionaire last night and I was a little disappointed. I didn't understand why a lot of the characters behaved the way they did and Jamal's stone faced reaction to stress made it hard for me to sympathize with him. I also wonder if seeing the picknick episode of The Office first ruined the movie for me.
Oh, AV Club, sometimes you confuse the hell out of me.
the centerpiece of Park Chan-Wook’s revenge thriller bears a resemblance to a famous scene in The Simpsons that pits Sideshow Bob against a field of rakes. At first these scenes are thrilling, then they’re sickeningly sad, and finally, they become darkly funny comments on human persistence in the face of futility.
Remember how sickeningly sad it was when Sideshow Bob took a rake to the face? Yeah.
Anne Hathaway’s character in Rachel Getting Married ought to be about as likeable as Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds.Erm. You say that like... because he kind of *is*... wait, what?
I wish I'd seen the rake scene from The Simpsons. I can't even begin to imagine the parallels they're drawing. I need to check youtube when I get home.
The rake scene is a bit notorious among comedy nerds for having about nine iterations of a joke, instead of three or four, so it becomes funny just because the gag is going on far longer than you expect. Everyone's referent for the idea of doing something nine times in a row is that scene, seemingly.
Huh. I don't know how that that synchs up with the OldBoy scene, since that also happens to be a kickass fight scene. It's just linear and very long, so absurd because of the odds he overwhelms.
Personally, for jokes I prefer three or five iterations of a joke. Five tells me you know the standard answer is three, and that's all I need to know. Nine? It had better be a good joke.
Yeah. Basically, it's a little funny once, and then it keeps happening so you're like, "You have sucked the marrow from comedy's bones, move on," and then it keeps going and somehow circles back around to hysterical because it's so stupid.
So I understand the comparison at that level. I don't understand the thrills and the sadness and the deep thoughts.
The fact that someone got deep thoughts out of the Sideshow Bob rake thing is the funnier than the actual bit.
I submit that the Oldboy fight scene is both funny and awesome. Or, rather, awesome and funny. Cursory searching doesn't show me the rake scene. Well, not in English. Can anyone help?