The main character was not even funny. How can you laugh at somebody who has a serious problem and cannot fully understand the world around him? It was not on purpose that he did not understand, just that he did not have the capacity. I was VERY disappointed in that this was considered a comedy. I was looking for a funny movie to watch and ended up emotional in the end. Good movie but VERY disappointed in the genre it was advertised under on here.
shareWell comedy is a broad concept, you're maybe too narrow minded about it I guess...
shareWhat is wrong with you?? Just because it has one funny moment, doesn't make it a comedy. A comedy makes you laugh, it makes you feel good and warm and fuzzy inside. This is a tragedy, not a comedy.
share"it makes you feel good and warm and fuzzy inside" Maybe PG-rated comedies. Any dark comedy worth a damn makes you cringe. Not a Coen fan, are you?
The knack to flying lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Agreed. A dark comedy through-and-through. I especially liked the sly, knowing winks at the audience as the writer/director touched on well-known superhero tropes.
I love this subversive superhero sub-genre that includes "Mystery Men", "Special", "Kick-Ass" and (probably) the forthcoming "Birdman".
All Art is pretense.
I consider it comedy with real heart. Dark comedy sure. But if I had the disc and were filing it, I would put it in my comedy section. It's funny to me how some in this thread get so adamant, almost offended, by the notion of anyone considering this "comedy". That's a generic term that covers far more than just things like Animal House and Wedding Crashers.
shareIt's a comedy is the same way Kickass is an action movie - it fits inside the broader genre. You can't deny that it had comedic elements. If the fact that the main character is mentally challenged keeps you from laughing, then you missed the point of the movie. Yes, Arthur wasn't "all there upstairs", but that wasn't the point of the movie; it was that ordinary people can be extraordinary.
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I ain't your friend, palooka.
This is not a comedy, no matter how broad ones definition is ... even the heaviest drama can have some funny moments, that doesn't make it a comedy ...
Calling this comedy is Hollywood PR people not knowing how to market this movie and because it has Harrilson in it it's easier to put it in that category than any other.
But funny? Not IMO.
"Everything is safe till it goes wrong" - Joe Simpson, "Touching the Void" - book only.
Whatever floats your boat. This movie, imo, belongs in Comedy the same way that Special belongs in Comedy - they're both hilarious with messed up heroes that ultimately suffer for their goodness. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
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I ain't your friend, palooka.
Well at least I don't have to watch 'Special' now. Cheers pal.
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-Firefly
-New Amsterdam
-Journeyman
-Life
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After seeing Natural Born Killers, it's hardly fair to describe Harrleson as a comedy guy.
The knack to flying lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Yep, it's not a comedy. However, if it would've been declared as a drama, I think a lot of people would not have seen it. So maybe it was done on purpose, for marketing reasons; but to call this a comedy is just wrong, no matter what sense of humor someone has. Some things may be considered funny in the first minutes, but after we learn about his life, you just have to re-evaluate this.
shareSadly, it is a comedy, it has funny moments despite the ending so it does fit into the comedy genre. To argue that point is like the republicans saying it is all Obama's fault that the economy tanked when he inherited the mess from a republicans president named Bush. Facts are facts but people are still stupid enough to argue even when they know they are wrong.
shareThere are a couple of funny moments in 'Schindlers List', does that make it a comedy?
No it doesn't. Your logic is flawed. I wouldn't class this movie as a comedy either, unlike in 'Super' where the protagonist had all of their faculties (at least more so than in Defendor) Defendor was clearly a likeable guy who had learning difficulties and was mentally challenged.
There is nothing funny about watching somebody who completely lacks awareness for their surroundings, getting beaten up and ultimately killed.
Although I did like the movie and enjoyed its message.
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-Firefly
-New Amsterdam
-Journeyman
-Life
-terriers
Tsk, politics and hobbies shouldn't mix because you have people who would otherwise agree (or, in this case, still disagree) who now see each other as jerkwads and cannot come to any agreement.
Even if we agree that he inherited a huge problem, it's not like he did anything whatsoever to help that problem get resolved. Instead, he's managed to alienate his own party, take massive hits to his public approval rating, shut out even the White House media, and just about wipe his butt with our Constitution because, in his stated opinion, it's not a relevant document anymore and needs to be "updated". If he isn't impeached over the bombing of Libya's "rebel fighters", then he certainly has to worry about the fallout of this whole budget cap fiasco. That, my friend, is all Obama and has nothing to do with Bush.
Now I sort of wish we had just stayed with discussing a movie...
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I ain't your friend, palooka.
Your Obama analogy doesn't really fit. At all.
The knack to flying lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
It is not a comedy per se, but has the elements of it. Therefor it is good that on IMDB it mentions "comedy" in the genre department.
shareLMAO!!!
shareBecome an advocate and quit judging my sense of humor, pretty please.
shareThis movie is totally a comedy with dark emotional layers underneath it (not even hidden, its blatantly obvious). The over-dramatic hero music, the terrible one liners, the combat tools (MARBLES AND WASPS?). The movie is definitely emotional and you grow attached to the main character and root for him all the way, but there are plenty of comedies that do the same thing, so its not like this is ground breaking, thus making it a drama. That would just be silly. I still love it though, GREAT film with a positive but often bleak message about contributing to society.
shareHow can people think it's a comedy. Geez - They're squirting LIME juice in people's eyes!
Inglorious Basterds. Now THAT was funny!
How bout u don't go on message boards 4 movies u don't want spoiled. Make more sense? I think so. (Only situation in which this doesn't apply is if the movie hasn't come out yet, to which I say that this movies been out for a year.) So, STFU!
shareHow about you just write fu(king "SPOILER" like every other person who uses imdb. Pri(k!! Might make sense in your retarded head but some people might want to check a movie out because they heard mixed things. Not everyone has 90 minutes of their life to waste on some film that they find has been mismarketed.
Ar$eholes!
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this thread ruined the movie for me cause of that jerk with the spoiler
i stumbled across the movie, high rating, woodys good, maybe ill check it out, it says its a superhero comedy so i go see what the discussion board says, i click the first thread i see "NOT A COMEDY!!!", then it gets spoiled for me
damn man ill never see this movie now ever
Yup. I was just starting to watch it, and it didn't come across as advertised. Came on here to check it out. Clicked this thread. Ruined. Thanks you f(_)kking prikk. Learn the rules of etiquette on here, or don't post. We are all movie lovers, and don't like having movies we haven't seen yet completely dicked over for us. Jesus.
sharebut you have time to waist on a forum of a movie you have not seen? what a moron
shareYeah, these things are ONLY for people who have seen the film aren't they? Not for people who like to find out about films to decide wether or not to watch them. Your logic sucks.
shareThere are many funny moments but no it's not an outright comedy, still an amazing film though. If your problem with it is that it's not a "comedy", then whoosh, up up and over.
"Life is just one damned thing after another" - Elbert Hubbard
I think it works as a comedy until you realise exactly how vulnerable he is, and by that time you genuinely care for the guy. It's a good film that can hit a lot of emotions and this really manages it
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