Hey Hollywood! Cool it with the (un)funny dancing!
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Hey Hollywood! Cool it with the (un)funny dancing!
When did this horrible trend start? Napoleon Dynamite? Earlier? I don't know. I just know that every time a character in a comedy starts to dance for more than 5 seconds I want to cut my ankle tendons. Tropic Thunder is the most recent offender. Is it funny to see a character do a cheesy "club" dance? How funny? Certainly not funny enough to last a full scene.
I'm kinda drawing a blank on other recent examples. I'm sure you people can think of some.
I'm kinda drawing a blank on other recent examples. I'm sure you people can think of some.
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I like it when they show white people dancing to hip hop music.* Pure Genius!
*When it's old white people the comedy exits the stratosphere!
*When it's old white people the comedy exits the stratosphere!
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"I think he's doing the rolling-the-dice-thing too much."
"No, it is working for him." --Knocked Up.
I have to say I actually disagree with you. It calls attention to the ridiculousness of modern "dance." You know, convulsions and seizures on a dance floor.
"No, it is working for him." --Knocked Up.
I have to say I actually disagree with you. It calls attention to the ridiculousness of modern "dance." You know, convulsions and seizures on a dance floor.
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Chris Meloni's moves are the stuff dreams are made of....
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The bit in Tropic Thunder wasn't that it was a white guy. It wasn't that it was an "old guy".
It was that it's Tom Cruise, Mr. Scientologist, dressed up as an old guy, doing something most people didn't expect to see out of him at all.
It was that it's Tom Cruise, Mr. Scientologist, dressed up as an old guy, doing something most people didn't expect to see out of him at all.
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I don't know man. I don't think you can just toss out the "Old White guy" part.
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napoleon dynamite? i think crispin glover started the trend:
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the dance sequences were the funniest bits in both Napoleon Dynamite and Little Miss Sunshine because they more or less come out of left field. (FWIW, I actually like LMS as an overall movie but never got the full appeal of Napoleon Dynamite)
Tropic Thunder it was amusing in a Dr. Evil-doing-the-macarena sense for about 3 seconds but they ran it into the ground (common with Stiller flicks).
Tropic Thunder it was amusing in a Dr. Evil-doing-the-macarena sense for about 3 seconds but they ran it into the ground (common with Stiller flicks).
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The Tom Cruise dancing at the end of Tropic Thunder was starting to wear pretty thin and would have been pretty much unbearable if they didn't start intercutting it with the credits halfway through.
Speaking of (un)funny dancing, how come nobody's mentioned Spider-man 3!?!
Speaking of (un)funny dancing, how come nobody's mentioned Spider-man 3!?!
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I thought the 'offense' in Tropic Thunder was hilarious! If it wasn't spliced together with the end credits I may agree with you, but it was, so I was dying. I think a big thing that made it funny was who was dancing. I do think it would have been funnier if they hadn't introduced it earlier in the movie, but what can you do?
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The Tom Cruise dancing at the end of Tropic Thunder was starting to wear pretty thin and would have been pretty much unbearable if they didn't start intercutting it with the credits halfway through.
Speaking of (un)funny dancing, how come nobody's mentioned Spider-man 3!?!
Speaking of (un)funny dancing, how come nobody's mentioned Spider-man 3!?!
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Think of this way: when something evidently sucks that hard -- like a gravitational sinkhole, black hole, Spider-Man 3, etc. -- there's still going to be lingering afterimages of captive photons trapped in the event horizon.
So if someone says Spider-Man 3 sucks, that comment will reverberate for years. I still got a translucent image of Jeff Schwartz ripping apart "Hudson Hawk" in my living room from 17 years ago. What I'd give to get rid of that!
So if someone says Spider-Man 3 sucks, that comment will reverberate for years. I still got a translucent image of Jeff Schwartz ripping apart "Hudson Hawk" in my living room from 17 years ago. What I'd give to get rid of that!
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