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Warren Beatty's Bulworth is one devastating satire on the political scene of the Clinton years.
Denys Arcand's new film STARDOM is a very funny satire of the celebrity obsessed times we live in.
Although Arcand goes too far sometimes, the film is overall and excellent satire of modern life.
Most actors act horribly, the entire satire and humour from the book have been cut.
This obscure little satire makes the point that there is "a sucker born every minute" and shows numerous examples to prove it.
This vulgar, scattershot, psychedelic sex satire is an utter failure, but boy what a fascinating failure!!
This movie is a satire...a dark comedy that initially looks silly and superficial but that's the POINT...to exaggerate in order to get a message across.
See, i feel sad in side because this sort of satire could really have some potential if the real hilarity wasn't so overshadowed by the disproportionate amount of really dumb jokes that would best appeal to 10-yr-olds (who, incidentally, are not allowed to see the movie).
It also marks the auspicious directorial debut of Paul Mazursky, a former actor who ended up making two decades' worth of insightful films focused on personal foibles and sympathetic satire ("An Unmarried Woman", "Down and Out in Beverly Hills").
It's not satire, but for all of its absurdity in humor there's an air of sophistication and intelligence.
The ultimate post-modernist statement: not only the complete deconstruction of logic and convention but also breaking every rule of satire surrealism, and overproduction.
When I first saw this, I laughed out loud at the obvious satire of our society's need for sex and violence in our entertainment.
While I really liked both plot and storyline, the satire mixed with random acts of violence makes it almost sort of dirty watching it and makes you sort of say, "actually that was sort of funny".
When you watch Li'l Abner, just remember, in the fifties this passed for pungent political satire and risqué humor.
BCTA is a smart, well-written, subtle, and at the same time, emotionally engaging satire of the 60's generation.
There are moments in this film that are perfectly set up for satire yet the scenes are played straight, effectively "dumbing down" the movie.
There's satire, silly humor, social commentary and gross-out comedy.
It's a really great movie for younger audiences because the satire has tremendous heart.
It's hard to tell what, exactly, the film is or is meant to be: it's a satire and an honest costume drama, a sword-and-sandal epic, a fantasy, an attack on the senses and an art mockery, and a love story.
It attempts to satire war and the role of religion during war.
However the films level of satire are as complex and subtle as someone dropping their pants and mooning you.
Nor is it satire.
It attempts to satire late 1960's,early 1970's soft core pre-porn films (when they had wall to wall female nudity,but no actual graphic/explicit sexual intercourse depicted on screen).
Yes, the message is serious, but we need a bit of black comedy with our satire, otherwise it's just like watching a very boring fact based documentary.
The comic strip Li'l Abner was a satire of life and I thought the movie caught this spirit.
True, it starts out almost like a parody or satire of white gangsta-wannabes, but it develops a true context for these characters and their behavior, and then it takes them to Chicago to contrast their ideas with the reality of drugs and ghettos.
Warren Beatty's BULWORTH is the craziest political satire I have ever seen.
It is actually more of a statement than a satire, touching on several important economic issues, most importantly the African-American place in our country.
The art of satire is to mirror life while leaving an artist's touch (of opinion); however, if this is dir.
The basic idea for "The Auteur Theory" really isn't bad, but the script and acting are so genuinely awful that they really make it impossible for this film to convey itself as any kind of a legitimate satire.
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