Dinner with the shhhhhhmucks........ [Archive]

fraga

01-18-2011, 01:14 PM

Yeah definitely not as funny as I hoped it was going to be...

Fpoonsie

01-18-2011, 01:14 PM

Yeah. I expect a lot from those 2, and that just wasn't funny.

Jemaine was prolly the best part...and even HE was a tad obnoxious.

benefactor

01-18-2011, 01:35 PM

Just watched this the other night. Definitely one of those films that goes in the "unmaximized potential" catagory. The writing absolutely destroyed it.

boutons_deux

01-18-2011, 01:38 PM

Based on Le Diner des Cons from France

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119038/

Viva Las Espuelas

01-18-2011, 01:43 PM

Good. I can strike this from my list.

RandomGuy

01-18-2011, 01:46 PM

Excruxiating to watch in places. It made me squirm a couple of times, simply due to the really awkward situations that the characters were put in.

I liked it, but don't think I could really recommend it freely.

If you like off the wall stuff, (farce is probably the best term) then see it. Definitely not for everyone.

benefactor

01-18-2011, 01:49 PM

RandomGuy...well said.

The really sad thing is that most of the characters were great. This film could have been funny as hell if it had been better written and better executed.

lebomb

01-18-2011, 02:01 PM

RandomGuy...well said.

The really sad thing is that most of the characters were great. This film could have been funny as hell if it had been better written and better executed.

.................X2.

It just seemed like a film about picking on losers like Phillip or something. Entertaining in a weird way, yet not funny at all. :depressed

Blake

01-18-2011, 02:01 PM

yeah, bad movie. I couldn't even make to the dinner scene before I had to just eject.

Wilford Brimley

01-18-2011, 02:06 PM

Awful film.

lebomb

01-18-2011, 02:06 PM

..............the wife made it in about 20 min. Then said "WTF? this sucks".....and departed the room. :lol

Viva Las Espuelas

01-18-2011, 02:09 PM

Departed the room, huh?

lebomb

01-18-2011, 02:13 PM

Departed the room, huh?

departed–verb (used without object)
1. to go away; leave: She departed from Paris today.

*shrugs*

mrsmaalox

01-18-2011, 02:13 PM

Yeah. I expect a lot from those 2, and that just wasn't funny.

Jemaine was prolly the best part...and even HE was a tad obnoxious.

Somewhere I read a "Top 10 List of Most Wasted Talent in 2010 Films" and Jemaine Clement ranked towards the top. Shame.

Fpoonsie

01-18-2011, 02:17 PM

Somewhere I read a "Top 10 List of Most Wasted Talent in 2010 Films" and Jemaine Clement ranked towards the top. Shame.

:lol

I dunno. I think his strong Kiwi accent makes his awkward mannerisms even funnier.

But nobody could've saved THAT trainwreck...

Fpoonsie

01-18-2011, 02:17 PM

departed–verb (used without object)
1. to go away; leave: She departed from Paris today.

*shrugs*

Admittedly, it's a tad nit-picky, but still...

Unless your wife did IN FACT bring two halves of the room back together, in which case...:wow

lebomb

01-18-2011, 02:23 PM

Admittedly, it's a tad nit-picky, but still...

Unless your wife did IN FACT bring two halves of the room back together, in which case...:wow

QF it's hella nit-picky!!!! :hat

............the wife did, indeed depart from said dwelling.

Sense

01-18-2011, 02:27 PM

Yeah I was disappointed with this film and kept waiting for the funnies... nothing

IronMexican

01-18-2011, 05:36 PM

More like movie for Shmuck's. You'd have to be retarded to watch this.

desflood

01-18-2011, 05:42 PM

Based on Le Diner des Cons from France

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119038/
That was a decently funny film. Saw it... eh, five or six years ago, maybe. When the previews for Dinner for Schmucks came out, I knew that yet again something good was about to be destroyed in the name of American "comedy".

Death at a Funeral is another example of this idiocy.

LnGrrrR

01-18-2011, 05:45 PM

Speaking of American remakes, did anyone see "Let the Right One In"? I saw the original foreign film, and I liked it quite a bit. Did they dumb down the American version?

Viva Las Espuelas

01-18-2011, 06:38 PM

Somewhere I read a "Top 10 List of Most Wasted Talent in 2010 Films" and Jemaine Clement ranked towards the top. Shame.

If I were him I'd fire my agent.

caribbean_spur

01-18-2011, 07:52 PM

DPG21920

01-18-2011, 08:26 PM

Terrible movie. But could be one of the ones you watch on TV over and over and then you like it.

Actually, no. It just sucks. This is not a "Dude Where's My Car" type movie like I described above.

DeadlyDynasty

01-18-2011, 08:34 PM

But could be one of the ones you watch on TV over and over and then you like it.

Me Myself & Irene was like that.

DarkReign

04-03-2011, 11:55 AM

Watched it last night. Horrible flick, unfunny and awkward at every turn.

baseline bum

04-09-2011, 02:09 AM

Le dinner de con was pretty funny. I knew this Smuck remake would suck. Same goes with the original Taxi movie,which was a good comedy , and queen Latifa et al, made a crappy remake out of it. Sigh....

Le Diner des Cons was hilarious. Dinner For Schmucks played out like a bad Simpsons episode with all the complete off the wall antics.