SilverEars
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It seems like we're missing some good comedy movies as of late. Has there been any good comedy on TV as well?
It seems like we're missing some good comedy movies as of late. Has there been any good comedy on TV as well?
I just watched the two movies that S. Craig Zahler has directed: Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99. Bone Tomahawk has an exceptional cast who provide equally exceptional performances. I really like Kurt Russell in westerns, from watching both Bone Tomahawk and The Hateful Eight. Brawl in Cell Block 99 was decent too.
However, I must say: these two movies display really graphic violence. In fact, I don’t think I will be watching any of Zahler’s future films. I wonder if it is really necessary to display this level of violence in a movie. And I’m no lightweight when it comes to violent movies. Some of my favorite movies include the Alien movies and Quentin Tarantino films.
Tarantino’s movies probably display more violent actions, but Zahler’s violent actions are probably 1.5, maybe even 2 times the level of graphicness, to give you an idea of what I’m talking about. Bone Tomahawk wasn’t that exceptionally violent, save for one brutal scene, but Brawl in Cell Block 99 was laced with graphic violence. It was surprising to me that Vince Vaughn, usually known for his slapstick comedy movies would take the leading role in such a serious, brutally violent film.
You might be wondering, “If he finds this director’s movies to be too violent, then why did he watch two of them?” Well, like I said, Bone Tomahawk wasn’t that exceptionally violent except for one brutal scene and I quite liked it otherwise, so I decided to watch Brawl in Cell Block 99, even though I did read from the critic’s consensus on Rotten Tomatoes that it was “brutally violent” beforehand.
It seems like we're missing some good comedy movies as of late. Has there been any good comedy on TV as well?
I too thought that calling it a horror movie was a bit of a misclassification. The only genre I consider it to fall into is Western. The "villains" of the movie were unsettling, but that is far from making the movie "horror".I thought Bone Tomahawk was OK - I was expecting more genre-mangling weirdness though
"Grindhouse" is a genre that I don't have experience with, but according to the critic's consensus on Rotten Tomatoes, Brawl in Cell Block 99 is indeed classified as grindhouse. Here is the full consensus, in case you are interested:I'm still interested in seeing Brawl in Cell Block 99. Reading between the lines of your review, sounds like it might be a bit higher octane and closer to grindhouse!
Brawl in Cell Block 99 rides a committed Vince Vaughn performance into the brutally violent -- and undeniably entertaining -- depths of prison-set grindhouse genre fare.
I thought Bone Tomahawk was OK - I was expecting more genre-mangling weirdness though, from the teaser I saw beforehand and it was a pretty straightforward Western for a lot of its run time (also dragged quite a lot in places). I'm still interested in seeing Brawl in Cell Block 99. Reading between the lines of your review, sounds like it might be a bit higher octane and closer to grindhouse!
Going to have to queue that one up. I may have seen it ages ago but am not sure.
Have you seen Pitfall by any chance?