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Paul (2011)
Fun movie, good cast and a funny alien.
Not much more to say really.
Feel good comedy with some nice action packed in, can't go wrong with this one.
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003)
Funny at times, but not to be taken to seriously.
A series full of debunking trough shallow paper thin arguments, based on "common sense" and led by the ideals of pen and teller.
Troughout the series you will find times you agree with them and times you don't, but none of it is presented with very convincing arguments but full of riducule.
I guess it is though provoking and helps you think deeper about the world around you, i just think penn and teller aren't the right persons to lead their audience in this endevour.
As magicians they are masters of social engineering, redirection and reframing, and it shows in this series.
As entertainment it is passable i guess. I doubt most people see it as such though, but rather use it as validation of their allready held beliefs. In that context it pretty much is useless information full of questionable sources and shallow reasoning and logic.
It isn't any worse then anything else on tv though, i guess this is as good as it gonna get.
The Pink Panther (2006)
Why doesn't hollywood understand their own business?
Why is it so hard to understand that most succesfull films, especially comedic films or films build on a single character are usually just succesfull because of multiple things comming together in a certain moment in time.
The original pink panther is completely build on sellers. If anyone else had played that role back then nobody would have remembered the thing and no sequals would have been made.
It would have drowned in the sea of mediocracy made every year.
The original cast just had the right chemistry and sellers gave the inspector a certain flair that went perfect with the time and the scripts.
Martin doesn't do a bad job and the film has a couple of funny moments, but it is just a mediocre film, filler to keep the screens going in the movie theatre.
If you never saw the originals you might enjoy it as an easy to watch but forgetable movie. But it certainly isn't a classic.
Anyway, that's why sequals rarely come close to the original and remakes almost always disapoint. Recreating whatever made a movie so good is often just impossible.
Especially when americans remake foreign movies/actors it hardly ever ends well.
I wont be watching any more of the current wave of remakes, it's just not worth it.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Very enjoyable and thought provoking satire.
Though i doubt it deserves the place it has in the lists of best movies of all time, it is a very smart movie with a lot of debt and subtle comments on the world we live in and the absurd global situation we still find ourselves in.
The idiocy of propaganda, the power of millitary, the social status of corperations, the danger of mindless patriotism, it all gets ridiculed in a dark but funny way.
It is for sure the best social critique i have ever seen.
Sadly a lot of people who comment here are not able to pick up on it nowdays anymore.
What used to be absurd sarcasm and caricature has now become the reality we live in.
I wonder if kubric intended it to be a window into our future.