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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Wet Hot American Summer*
Hot Tub Time Machine (watched it again yesterday!)
The Big Lebowski
MacGruber
Waiting for Guffman
Waiting for Guffman
every movie written by Charlie Kaufman†
NOTE: All of these movies are comedies! What in the world does that tell us? [Sometimes I think what it tells us is that good comedy can sometimes not "work" the first time around because we're "reading" it based on our assumptions of what kind of comedy it's going to be and kind of have to get used to the new style before being able to "get" it? Like, specifically in every one of these movies—except the Charlie Kaufman ones, which now that I think of it are also a totally different kind of comedy and might not belong in the same category—I remember that certain jokes struck me as specifically stilted and DOA the first time I watched them and then weirdly much more alive and hilarious on subsequent viewings: what the hell is that about, if not that I essentially wasn't ready for those jokes the first time around and my mind needed to grow to accept them?? or something? Note, too, that some of my favorite television comedies have taken some time for me to get into (although of course that may actually just have been because they took a little while to "get their legs" [maybe not an actual expression]).]
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| Must be some kind of...hot tub time machine. |
* This one I remember actually walking out of the theater and saying, "I bet I'm going to like this more if or when I watch it a second time." I guess I already told that story.
† I liked Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind immediately and have not yet rewathced Synecdoche, N.Y. Adaptation I was specifically annoyed by, Human Nature I liked isolated parts of but thought overall was a disaster, and Being John Malkovich I thought was about ⅔ good and ⅓ disastrous. (At first! At first, I'm saying. Fucking pay attention.)
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