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Louis C.K.: Shameless (2007)
Louis did it again!
I watched his previous two specials, they are all funny as well, but this one started a little slow, plus his canceled TV show "Lucky Louis" made me a little nervous, perhaps he is slipping a little? No such luck, said Louis, 5 more minutes, he got into his new material about "Duck Vaginas", "Hating people in post office", "Bag of dicks", "Having had sex with some pretty chicks and being their bottom", "Most pathetic hand job", "Being fat", "Asshole kid daughter" etc, I found myself laughing out LOUD, almost non-stop, I found myself thinking, "Louis did it again, I got to tell all my friends to watch this! Even my girlfriend who usually does not like vulgar material", this is simply too funny!
Many comics makes me smile or even giggle, and occasionally you got people like Richar Pryor, Bill Costby, or more recently Bill Burr who can make me laugh out loud, but not throughout the show. The kind of HEARTY laughs that shake your entire body violently, you know what I am talking about? That's what this "Shameless" can do to you, what I felt afterwords is a little "shameful" as I suspect some people would feel since most of the material is dirty and offbeat, you almost feel a cringe as you laugh at it, but you just can't help it.
It is simply a, to use a cliché, "Must Watch".
Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
Ebert cut 'em a little slack.
Contains Spoiler It is OK movie, good Indie movie, and great APA movie, considering. But I do think Ebert cut AA community a little slack, Roper and him gave the movie juat a tad better review than it deserved, only because it was made by a model minority community which is WAY underrepresented in the entertainment business.
Having said that, it is not a bad movie by any stretch of imagination, given all the brainless crappy movies Hollywood's churning out these days.
It was good for the majority of the movie, but it seems to cater to the audience a little bit with some formulaic obligatory drugs, sex and violence when it was not entirely called for for the building of the plot. But I guess I can undertand that.
I went and saw the movie in San Jose's Camera One cinema the past weekend after all the underground marketing they'd done for it.
I am happy to report that it is indeed pretty good save for a few minor plot holes.
I LOVE Perry Shen's acting, it is very polished, mature and right on the mark with the circumstances, he never overreached himself. It did, however, seem out of charactor for him to do really bad things, since for most of film the audience is supposed to identify with him, he is supposed to be the good guy with a conscience, in the end he didn't seem to had too much of guilt.
Also some of characters couldn't been more fully developed, some of these guys come off a bit mysterious than I am sure the director intended. the dialogue couldn't used a little wit and edge, and the killing scene was a little reaching, it didn't quite make sense to me that they had to kill the guy after injuring him. And I thought the sex scene with the Vegas hooker was a little gratuitous.
Overall though Justin Lin deserves kudos for having the guts to stick to his vision and make it indie and for doing a very admirable job at that. We can certainly expect more from him in the future.
Indeed, Kudos to Justin for pulling this one off reasonably well, and here's hoping even "better luck" next film. It's not the blacks, it's we asians that need some breaks in this business, it's long over due.
Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
Ebert cut 'em a little slack.
Contains Spoiler It is OK movie, good Indie movie, and great APA movie, considering. But I do think Ebert cut AA community a little slack, Roper and him gave the movie juat a tad better review than it deserved, only because it was made by a model minority community which is WAY underrepresented in the entertainment business.
Having said that, it is not a bad movie by any stretch of imagination, given all the brainless crappy movies Hollywood's churning out these days.
It was good for the majority of the movie, but it seems to cater to the audience a little bit with some formulaic obligatory drugs, sex and violence when it was not entirely called for for the building of the plot. But I guess I can undertand that.
I went and saw the movie in San Jose's Camera One cinema the past weekend after all the underground marketing they'd done for it.
I am happy to report that it is indeed pretty good save for a few minor plot holes.
I LOVE Perry Shen's acting, it is very polished, mature and right on the mark with the circumstances, he never overreached himself. It did, however, seem out of charactor for him to do really bad things, since for most of film the audience is supposed to identify with him, he is supposed to be the good guy with a conscience, in the end he didn't seem to had too much of guilt.
Also some of characters couldn't been more fully developed, some of these guys come off a bit mysterious than I am sure the director intended. the dialogue couldn't used a little wit and edge, and the killing scene was a little reaching, it didn't quite make sense to me that they had to kill the guy after injuring him. And I thought the sex scene with the Vegas hooker was a little gratuitous.
Overall though Justin Lin deserves kudos for having the guts to stick to his vision and make it indie and for doing a very admirable job at that. We can certainly expect more from him in the future.
Indeed, Kudos to Justin for pulling this one off reasonably well, and here's hoping even "better luck" next film. It's not the blacks, it's we asians that need some breaks in this business, it's long over due.