Under genre, "comedy" is listed first. Really, the only comedy I saw was Pete's (Oliver Platt) drunken antics all through the movie. The rest is serious life-and-death stuff. If "comedy" should be included in the genre list, it would have to be last. GOOD MOVIE, albeit somewhat unrealistic situations, ex. the mob boss (Quaid) confronting Renata and Charlie with no backup.
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they don't have a noir genre listing so it gets missplaced in the comedy section. As for unrealist well it is a noir and even if it was real I could defently see the mob boss confronting people with no back up this does take place in Kanasas not New York
shareyeah, major error to market this as a comedy. It is a noir thriller with some dark humor. Most of the low ratings are from people who say "Gee, this wasn't funny at all.."
sharei thought is was very funny acualy, however i didn't feel like the laughs were meant to be the main thing in the movie, but merely to give it a little irony to all the dark stuff that was going on.
but yeah i laughed quite a lot :)
IT'S A BLACK COMEDY YOU JACKASS.
Not every joke has to reference chickens or buttsecks to be funny. Some of us prefer some irony, sarcasm and absurdity with our fart jokes.
Black comedy is comedy that employs morbid, gloomy, grotesque, or calamitous situations in its plot, but still has humor as the primary focus or genre. I just didn't see much humor. I consider my reply here pleasant, considering your nescient, ad hominem reply. Are you really an attorney?
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I, too, thought it was amazingly funny. In many ways it was the Big Lebowski with a cold, rainy Midwest gloom as a backdrop--strip clubs instead of bowling alleys.
shareUm, there's the whole scene with Roy in the box, most of the strip club scenes, anything with Oliver Platt, the basic fact that Charlie has no idea what he's doing...
There's loads of dark humour here, it's not exactly a SERIOUS noir, is it?
With the fact that Cusack's character (and most of his other characters share this trait) is sarcastic and dry all throughout. It's a black comedy. It's the very definition of black comedy. The black part being comedic situations involving killing and death etc. Read some Elmore Leonard, you'll get the idea.
"Did you make a copy? Coz if you made a copy, we could watch the copy..."
I understood this film was meant to be a black comedy. I love black comedys, Fargo being one of my favourites.
This film is just trash, which suprised me as I like the cast a lot and Im also a fan of Harold Ramis.
Maybe i missed out on some of the humour because i am not from the US.
If you want a black comedy cheak out Peter Mullan's Orphans.