It’s Neeson
Month
And I don’t
know about you, but I’ve gotten a bit sick of this mediocrity, we need some good
old-fashioned cr*p. But I’m too lazy to find anything obscure, so just give me
an easy target
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He’ll do
very nicely. Yes Seth MacFarlane, the guy behind Family Guy and cavalcades of
Cartoon “”””””””Comedy.”””””””” I’ve watched maybe 5 minutes of Family Guy
and I already know I can’t stand it. Especially when they come up with Screams
of Silence, an episode which managed to be more offensive than Kill the Moon,
BY INTENTION and better yet as an attempt at shock humour. Here’s the thing about
offensive comedy, you can make people laugh by offending others, but it has to
be a 2-sided issue with valid arguments on either side, which is why political and
religious comedy can be funny. Domestic abuse isn’t funny! Or at least you have
to be very clever to make it funny, and it’s a few IQ points above
MacFarlane’s. He also did Ted and its sequel, both about a man and his
relationship with his teddy bear. I’d rather eat the goddamn bear than watch
those.
Thankfully
we’re not here to look at that today, this is a Million Ways to Die in the West
Released in
2014, this movie decides to try and parody how dangerous is to live in a
western. In theory, this could be the key to a lot of comedy, but it falls
short there and in various other aspects too. Neeson stars in this, but is not
the lead, instead we have to make room for MacPharlane’s ego as HE plays the
main character.
The movie
made $87m on a $40m meaning it only barely broke even, and would be considered
quite the downgrade from the Ted Movies, which made over $200m each for some
reason. The movie garnered a mixed reception, with a 33% rating on rotten
tomatoes and a 40% audience rating.
But this
intro’s getting long, let’s just dive in.
