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“To be honest, I really had no idea what this movie was actually about but since it was on Netflix and since the ratings were (for once for a Netflix original production) pretty decent, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, eventually, it turned out to be a biography about Doug Kenney, one of the founders of National Lampoon, and since I didn't know much about National Lampoon and nothing about the guy, it was actually quite interesting and fairly entertaining. I mean, the impact that the guy had on American humor was huge and only therefore it made this movie quite valuable. Sure, at the end of the day, it was still a rather basic and straightforward biopic and I still don't think that I care much about this kind of humor but the whole thing still worked. I also have to admit that ” read more
BAMF's January 2018 Cinejourney (34 movies items)" Familiar Actors: Annette O'Toole Harry Groener Martin Mull David Wain Domhnall Gleeson Will Forte Camille Guaty Brad Morris Carla Gallo Rick Overton Mark Metcalf David Krumholtz Matt Walsh Elvy Yost Thomas Lennon Matt Lucas Natasha Lyonne Bob Stephenson Chris Redd Ed Helms Jackie Tohn Seth Green John Gemberling Joel McHale Meera Rohit Kumbhani Nelson Franklin Emmy Rossum Max Greenfield Joe Lo Truglio Finn Wittrock Brian Huskey Rich Sommer Abigail Klein Paul Scheer Martha Smith Leslie Nielsen "
BradWesley123's Movie Journal- January 2018 (33 movies items)" Netflix- 1hr. 41min. First Viewing A Futile and Stupid Gesture might be a fun movie for comedy nerds but, for most of us who really are not, it's a jumbled collection of scenes that range from amusing to bland, with little insight into the mind at the center of the story. The cast is fine, though it is a bit surprising that the (mostly) dramatic actor Domhnall Gleeson ends up handling this material better than the majority of comedic actors, but the script just doesn't have much bite. It goes f"
Movies the giraffe watched in 2018: February (30 movies items)"First viewing - Feb. 13th Prior to this I was not really familiar with the National Lampoon history beyond the movies the name has been attached to, so I found the film really interesting. It's also often hilarious, which should be the case given the subject, the cast, and the creative forces behind it. It's nothing groundbreaking really, as it's your basic biopic, but there's a narrative approach that makes it feel fresh and I was solidly entertained with it. So while it wasn't great I'd proba"
