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* Mark [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcHvRhq36hw patiently dismantles]] Creator/MichaelBay and ''Film/PainAndGain'', partly by comparing it to Creator/RichardLinklater's ''{{Film/Bernie}}'' - a film based on a true story that was ''good'', because "Richard Linklater is an ''intelligent'' person" and to Creator/PaulVerhoeven's ''{{Film/Showgirls}}'', a film which the director insisted was intended to be a satire of misogyny and Vegas/Hollywood culture, [[SelfDeprecation but by the filmmaker's own admission failed to achieve that end in the eyes of the audience]]. He also suggests that the film is so soulless that even Creator/WernerHerzog would actually be ''scared'' by the "void-like abyss of blackness the depth and enormity of which it is impossible to comprehend."

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* Mark [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcHvRhq36hw patiently dismantles]] Creator/MichaelBay and ''Film/PainAndGain'', partly by comparing it to Creator/RichardLinklater's ''{{Film/Bernie}}'' - a film based on a true story that was ''good'', because "Richard Linklater is an ''intelligent'' person" and to Creator/PaulVerhoeven's ''{{Film/Showgirls}}'', a film which the director insisted was intended to be a satire of misogyny and Vegas/Hollywood culture, [[SelfDeprecation but by the filmmaker's own admission failed to achieve that end in the eyes of the audience]]. He lambasts it for its misogyny, tone-deaf attempts at satire, "grotesquely inappropriate" visual sensibility and also suggests that the film is so soulless that even Creator/WernerHerzog would actually be ''scared'' by the "void-like abyss of blackness the depth and enormity of which it is impossible to comprehend."



** In a month where he had to sit through a number of such alleged comedies (including the disappointing ''Film/Zoolander2''), that he found ''Film/Deadpool2016'' a consistent laugh-generator worth the label of "Comedy", despite technically being a superantihero flick, was something he found rather a welcome relief. Which was an awesome surprise, if you were expecting him to pan it.

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** In a month where he had to sit through a number of such alleged comedies (including the disappointing ''Film/Zoolander2''), that he found ''Film/Deadpool2016'' a consistent laugh-generator worth the label of "Comedy", despite technically being a superantihero super(anti)hero flick, was something he found rather a welcome relief. Which was an awesome surprise, if you were expecting him to pan it.



* His frequent and sincere praise of ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' qualifies as this. Whether you agree with him or not, it takes some serious balls to be so openly positive and supportive of something so many people to love to hate and insult.

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* His frequent and sincere praise of ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' qualifies as this. Whether you agree with him or not, it takes some serious balls to be so openly positive and supportive of something so many people to love to hate and insult.
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* Mark [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcHvRhq36hw patiently dismantles]] Creator/MichaelBay and ''Film/PainAndGain'', partly by comparing it to Creator/RichardLinklater's ''{{Film/Bernie}}'' - a film based on a true story that was ''good'', because "Richard Linklater is an ''intelligent'' person" and to Creator/PaulVerhoeven's ''Film/Showgirls'', a film which the director insisted was intended to be a satire of misogyny and Vegas/Hollywood culture, [[SelfDeprecation but by the filmmaker's own admission failed to achieve that end in the eyes of the audience]]. He also suggests that the film is so soulless that even Creator/WernerHerzog would actually be ''scared'' by the "void-like abyss of blackness the depth and enormity of which it is impossible to comprehend."

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* Mark [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcHvRhq36hw patiently dismantles]] Creator/MichaelBay and ''Film/PainAndGain'', partly by comparing it to Creator/RichardLinklater's ''{{Film/Bernie}}'' - a film based on a true story that was ''good'', because "Richard Linklater is an ''intelligent'' person" and to Creator/PaulVerhoeven's ''Film/Showgirls'', ''{{Film/Showgirls}}'', a film which the director insisted was intended to be a satire of misogyny and Vegas/Hollywood culture, [[SelfDeprecation but by the filmmaker's own admission failed to achieve that end in the eyes of the audience]]. He also suggests that the film is so soulless that even Creator/WernerHerzog would actually be ''scared'' by the "void-like abyss of blackness the depth and enormity of which it is impossible to comprehend."
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* Mark [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcHvRhq36hw patiently dismantles]] Creator/MichaelBay and ''Film/PainAndGain'', partly by comparing it to Creator/RichardLinklater's ''{{Film/Bernie}}'' - a film based on a true story that was ''good'', because "Richard Linklater is an ''intelligent'' person". He also suggests that the film is so soulless that even Creator/WernerHerzog would actually be ''scared'' by the "void-like abyss of blackness the depth and enormity of which it is impossible to comprehend."

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* Mark [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcHvRhq36hw patiently dismantles]] Creator/MichaelBay and ''Film/PainAndGain'', partly by comparing it to Creator/RichardLinklater's ''{{Film/Bernie}}'' - a film based on a true story that was ''good'', because "Richard Linklater is an ''intelligent'' person".person" and to Creator/PaulVerhoeven's ''Film/Showgirls'', a film which the director insisted was intended to be a satire of misogyny and Vegas/Hollywood culture, [[SelfDeprecation but by the filmmaker's own admission failed to achieve that end in the eyes of the audience]]. He also suggests that the film is so soulless that even Creator/WernerHerzog would actually be ''scared'' by the "void-like abyss of blackness the depth and enormity of which it is impossible to comprehend."
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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNUYspbEVyM review]] of ''W.E.'' Kermode and Mayo call out the film's defending of [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor Edward VIII]]'s and Wallis Simpson's Nazi-sympathising as being an unfair label pinned on them by people "[[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories selling a lie]]" as utter nonsense. He's ''especially'' critical about the film un-ironically presenting [[ConspiracyTheorist Mohammed Al-Fayed]] as a resource of helpful information.

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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNUYspbEVyM review]] of ''W.E.'' Kermode and Mayo call out the film's defending of [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor Edward VIII]]'s and Wallis Simpson's Nazi-sympathising as being an unfair label pinned on them by people "[[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories selling "selling a lie]]" lie" as utter nonsense. He's ''especially'' critical about the film un-ironically presenting [[ConspiracyTheorist Mohammed Al-Fayed]] as a resource of helpful information.
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* Any review in which he attacks the "insulting" practice of superimposing the head of a tall actor onto the body of a short actor for the sole purpose of comedy, used in such films as ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zI-YEJiGRc such]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXYhDGAwExI films]] as ''Film/LittleMan'' and ''Film/FredClaus''.

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* Any review in which he attacks the "insulting" practice of superimposing the head of a tall actor onto the body of a short actor for the sole purpose of comedy, used in such films as ''[[https://www.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zI-YEJiGRc such]] such]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXYhDGAwExI films]] as ''Film/LittleMan'' and ''Film/FredClaus''.
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* Any review in which he attacks the "insulting" practice of superimposing the head of a tall actor onto the body of a short actor for the sole purpose of comedy, used in such films as ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zI-YEJiGRc Little Man]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXYhDGAwExI Fred Claus]]''.

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* Any review in which he attacks the "insulting" practice of superimposing the head of a tall actor onto the body of a short actor for the sole purpose of comedy, used in such films as ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zI-YEJiGRc Little Man]]'' and ''[[https://www.such]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXYhDGAwExI Fred Claus]]''.films]] as ''Film/LittleMan'' and ''Film/FredClaus''.



* It's good to hear Mark demolish alleged "comedy films" that are genuinely offensive, unpleasant, or just plain unfunny, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zI-YEJiGRc such]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXCGU0FCb9c as]] ''Film/LittleMan'' and ''Film/{{Norbit}}''.

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* It's good to hear Mark demolish alleged "comedy films" that are genuinely offensive, unpleasant, or just plain unfunny, ''[[https://www.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zI-YEJiGRc such]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXCGU0FCb9c as]] ''Film/LittleMan'' and ''Film/{{Norbit}}''.

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