Word: funnier
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Argento's prettier, more feminine twin. No wonder Ryno can't shake off Vellini's spell - she is his more volcanic, dominant half. The film may be more seductive than it is plausible, and it's not Breillat's most engaging work (that would be Fat Girl and its funnier remake, Sex Is Comedy). But this filmmaker's train of erotic thought is always worth riding...
...medieval monk who's having trouble with a new piece of technology, something called a "book." He gets his tech-support guy in to walk him through it. "Compared to the scroll," the monk complains, "it takes longer to turn the pages ..." And so on. Maybe it's funnier in Norwegian...
...Gone in 60 Seconds” (the original one), and “Dirty Mary Crazy Larry” sequences it emulates. But ultimately the difference between the two segments is the attitude each director takes towards their self-reflexivity. Rodriguez’s film is funnier, cheekier, more willing to recklessly embrace its own cheesiness. You don’t have to be a zombie savant to appreciate his joke. But Tarantino’s flick all but demands a genre aficionado to fully appreciate the references. “Grindhouse” is a testament to nostalgic perversion...
...ideas for their plays, Jones says her previous experiences with directing have led her to adopt a less orthodox style. I’d be giving stage directions in the first couple of weeks, and they’d say, “Maybe it’d be funnier if I did this.” In high school, I never really got to engage on that level with a director, and I wanted that for them. This open-mindedness has led to the close connection between Jones and her actors. This bond, she says, has made for more...
...catch on in the 1980s was partly that Harvard and the ad agencies it worked with persuaded TV networks to slip the idea into their shows. There's a reason a designated-driver poster appeared in the bar on Cheers, and it's not because it made the jokes funnier...