Two types of people in this world
Those who get the humor of this movie and those who don't. I don't trust those who don't.
shareTrust me, I love British comedy. Hell, I love Life of Brian, and that's also Monty Python, but this was just utterly atrocious.
I don't read the script. The script reads me.
"this is [English] satire and is almost incomprehensible to americans who like their humour to be very serious [ie stand up and deliver and give points out of 10]
not being nasty to americans but that is just the way it is"
Yet more proof that many British and Australians who think they understand Americans don't actually know what the hell they're talking about. And the ones who make ignorant pronouncements all the same, like this one, don't show any more intelligence than the dumbest "Amurikin".
And yes, I am an American. And this film is my favorite film comedy. Of all time.
What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior.
Marlon, Claudia and Dimby the cats 1989-2005, 2007 and 2010.
It's not so much that you're inferior. It's just that I'm better than you.
shareI was joking.
See? ------> ;-D
Oh, superior eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.
Marlon, Claudia and Dimby the cats 1989-2005, 2007 and 2010.
And yes, I am an American. And this film is my favorite film comedy. Of all time.This whole English/American humour thing is so utterly, utterly stupid.
There are American films which ring all the same bells, 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' or 'Harold Lloyd' for instance, can be substituted in every post in this thread without changing the meaning (but making all the people trying to draw the line look rather foolish).
The harsh truth is that satire and indirect humour goes over a lot of people's heads and they don't like it.
In the UK, it's built on foundations created by Chaplin, Miller, Hanley, Milligan and Sellers. In the US it's built on Chaplin, Lloyd, S J Perelman, James Thurber and Joseph Heller.
That's about as big as any divide gets and it ain't geographical. share