It’s October, so in MasterChugs Theatervania, that means it’s time to break out the horror movies! Last week, we did a preliminary jump into the theme for this month: Horror Movies You Should Be Watching. That’s right, four under-appreciated, or maybe just under-watched films will be looked at. So how do we kick off the month? With the The Mist, possibly the best film adaptation of a Stephen King work. Continue reading MasterChugs Theater: ‘The Mist’
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MasterChugs Theater: ‘Dinner for Schmucks’
Dinner for Schmucks, directed by Jay Roach and based on a 12-year-old French movie known in English as The Dinner Game, is in some ways an exemplary modern Hollywood comedy. It treads a careful boundary between nasty and sweet, balancing the rude humor of humiliation with an affirming, tolerant, almost scolding final message: Be nice! It dabbles in sexual naughtiness without dreaming of going too far into complicated zones of lust and betrayal.
And, most of all, the film collects a cast of performers who know how to be funny. The success of this movie, following a formula upheld by just about any recent hit comedy you can name, lies as much with supporting players and plot-derailing set pieces as with the central story and characters. Jemaine Clement as a pompous, goatish artist; Zach Galifianakis as an I.R.S. flunky who believes he has the power to control other minds; Lucy Punch as a lovestruck stalker with no control over anything: these are the people who propel the movie on its meandering, offbeat path toward a madly farcical climax followed, inevitably and less happily, by a soft and sentimental dénouement. Continue reading MasterChugs Theater: ‘Dinner for Schmucks’
Science chooses adaptability over reproduction
Hey, dorkface, you know how you got picked on all the time in high school? Oh, don’t worry about me dredging up those repressed memories. Thanks to science, it would now appear that you’re invulnerable!
Sadly, what’s not mentioned in the article is that while having a weird appearance may help you avoid becoming dinner, you’re probably more likely to be found unattractive by the opposite sex. Thank you science for telling us what is obvious to the human population once again.