Film / Documentary - Recently watched & worthy of some discussion

[hattori_hanzo]

By telling "understand" I meant that I could not relate with the humour. For that, some of Vivek's comedy does the same to me. For ex : the concepts that he takes (like religion or real estate) I begin to ask whats the whole thing is all about. Similarly the American comedy makes me wonder whether we are in the same planet. I do not have anything against it, just that I get tired after the movie ... LoL. When the movie got released, few of my friends here sugested to watch the movie, saying that its quite funny. I will watch it.

I get what you mean. I have this issue with many of American TV shows. 'Friends', 'Frasier' and other such sitcoms. Say, a Scary Movie is of that kind. You need to know a lot about their horror films to relate to the humor. Jerry Maguire too, though not a comedy. Vivek's comedies are generally chennai-centric. Just like how Cho or SS Chandran used to make fun of the political happenings during their period. I've often enjoyed Vivek's real-estate, vaasthu, cut-outs kind of jokes. I find many of Vadivelu's jokes painful. Of course there are many exceptions like Thalainagaram, Telex Pandian but the most of his jokes shown on TV Channels involve VV getting beaten or bitten by his allakai, teakadai-mate or taken for a ride by some over enthusiastic kid. I not only found them unfunny but never understood what makes everyone around me in a saloon/hotel/bar laugh out loud.

did you draw a comparison with the Referee & NKPK "innachi" ? I found that the Referee in '13' had the same lines to say about 4 to 5 times but in different suituations and how he brings the impact is formidable. People can ask me why : simple there is no BGM at all.

Never even thought of that. But yeah, solid impact. Why are these Hollywood directors so obsessed with unjust endings? Watched Dread, Funny Games, Irreversible, 13 Tzameti. They seem to be hell bent on letting the evil to triumph over the good.