Post by Salzmank on Apr 2, 2019 23:15:32 GMT
It was pretty much awful—incredibly boring and unlikeable. The best parts were the opening credits and Jordan Peele’s narration. Even the premise is flawed: we needed a more direct connection between someone’s vanishing from existence and the cause—a painter’s getting rid of a figure in his painting, for instance. “Making a joke about someone causes that person to disappear” makes little sense. There’s no explanation for the Mephistophelean great comedian (is he dead? Who knows?), and have I mentioned the whole thing is boring? Extremely.
Someone in the YouTube comments section mentioned it seemed like “Squirrel Jokes,” an episode of the children’s show SpongeBob Squarepants (except used for horror rather than comedy, of course). The commenter was right, but “Squirrel Jokes,” a kids’ cartoon, is an infinitely more intelligent and inventive fifteen minutes than this episode’s entire hour. But why?
At least the last shot, with an inexplicable reference to The Shining, looks nice.
Someone in the YouTube comments section mentioned it seemed like “Squirrel Jokes,” an episode of the children’s show SpongeBob Squarepants (except used for horror rather than comedy, of course). The commenter was right, but “Squirrel Jokes,” a kids’ cartoon, is an infinitely more intelligent and inventive fifteen minutes than this episode’s entire hour. But why?
At least the last shot, with an inexplicable reference to The Shining, looks nice.