I have a few rules when it comes to watching movies.
1. If I start a trailer for a movie and immediately like it, I turn off the trailer and watch the film with no questions asked.
2. (How I found 'The Leisure Class') If I read a description and like it, then I watch the film also with no questions asked.
**Background on me: I went to school for film and TV, and have also been involved in the creative arts all my life. I have seen everything from a scale of pure sh** to amazing. I don't know everything about film, but I do know everything about what it means to sit through some very Sh***y things.
--In continuation, I find that too often we focus on the ratings and don't actually form our own opinions without reading the ratings or hearing the critic's reviews. For me this film has an essence of the British humour that is in the original "Death at a Funeral" 2007. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795368/
If you don't know British humour, then you wouldn't realize that this isn't your typical slapstick comedy or your American 'The Hangover' type humour.
A lot of the jokes were ridiculous, and the story is exaggerated. That makes a lot of people (especially people who go on IMDb) very anxious.
HONESTLY, sometimes you need to just have a mindless film. It takes a lot of skill to put our critical minds aside and give in ourselves to the film. Too often we have ideas of what we want a film to be, instead of letting the writer or director tell the story with a blank slate. I think this film was great, not for its amazing writing or comedy... but to tell a cohesive story that you can find yourself lost in. Not everything needs to be 10 stars.
Then again, I am so very tired of thinking. This movie allowed me to just relax and enjoy the theatrical quality of it.
Take or leave my review, but I didn't look at ratings first. This is my first review, but it shocked me so much how bad the rating was. I just had to voice that the film was good, maybe not great, but good enough for me.
1. If I start a trailer for a movie and immediately like it, I turn off the trailer and watch the film with no questions asked.
2. (How I found 'The Leisure Class') If I read a description and like it, then I watch the film also with no questions asked.
**Background on me: I went to school for film and TV, and have also been involved in the creative arts all my life. I have seen everything from a scale of pure sh** to amazing. I don't know everything about film, but I do know everything about what it means to sit through some very Sh***y things.
--In continuation, I find that too often we focus on the ratings and don't actually form our own opinions without reading the ratings or hearing the critic's reviews. For me this film has an essence of the British humour that is in the original "Death at a Funeral" 2007. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795368/
If you don't know British humour, then you wouldn't realize that this isn't your typical slapstick comedy or your American 'The Hangover' type humour.
A lot of the jokes were ridiculous, and the story is exaggerated. That makes a lot of people (especially people who go on IMDb) very anxious.
HONESTLY, sometimes you need to just have a mindless film. It takes a lot of skill to put our critical minds aside and give in ourselves to the film. Too often we have ideas of what we want a film to be, instead of letting the writer or director tell the story with a blank slate. I think this film was great, not for its amazing writing or comedy... but to tell a cohesive story that you can find yourself lost in. Not everything needs to be 10 stars.
Then again, I am so very tired of thinking. This movie allowed me to just relax and enjoy the theatrical quality of it.
Take or leave my review, but I didn't look at ratings first. This is my first review, but it shocked me so much how bad the rating was. I just had to voice that the film was good, maybe not great, but good enough for me.