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Reviews
The Out-of-Towners (1999)
Why Does Hollywood Put Out This Trash?
Anyone who saw the original 1970 movie knows how an excellent cast, script, and director can put together a comedy masterpiece. By the same token, it's easy to see how the opposite of that can create another insipid Hollywood bore-a-thon! This movie was pathetic! Had it not been for John Cleese (a comic genius), I would have walked out about 15 minutes into this dreadful waste of celluloid.
Neil Simon wouldn't write another screenplay for this version (he said that he couldn't improve on the first), and I'm surprised that after this cinematic fiasco he wouldn't sue for defamation of humor!
Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis did such a wonderful job in the original, what were the producers thinking about when they cast this one? How could the director and editor look at these scenes and think any of them were funny? I don't know, but one thing I do know---it's no surprise why foreign and independent movies are becoming more and more popular.......
Friends (1994)
Pathetic, Juvenile "Comedy"
I was quite surprised to see Peter Bonerz was one of the director's of this inane sitcom, which caters to the twenty-somethings of today.
I don't have any kind words to say about this pathetic populist pablum that passes for "hip" popular entertainment. It's a show populated with dense morons playing your average dense moron---what a concept (ughh)! The storylines are insipid, the punch-lines are predictable, and the acting is at about the level of a high-school play. Norman Lear, please come save us with something on the level of a MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN!, or something.
Was Seinfeld's departure the end of quality comedy on television?