I think the movie is great, but I never understood why people found it funny. I've seen it 4 times, and it never made me laugh out loud constantly. There are some funny moments, but not enough to classify it as a great comedy (to me, at least).
Please don't think I'm a troll for saying this. I do sincerely like this movie.
If you think it's funny, why?
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I never understood why people found it funny.
I just watched it for the first time, too, and have to say that I was surprised to find myself laughing out loud numerous times. I didn't expect to. The scene where all the women suddenly turned on Guido because he wanted to send an old one "upstairs" was hilarious, I thought. Actually, that whole sequence was pretty funny (his infantilization, the overtly archetypal behavior of the women), but it could easily have been very silly in the hands of a lesser director.
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shareshould depend on your mood but on the whole seems to me more of an elegiac piece than strait comedy
its subject is the whole of life and as such it just cannot be simply funny
but there is indeed a focus in it of amusing yourself simply about yourself that is
dont you think?
Plus comedic tastes change over time. I can appreciate a Chaplin film for instance but it would rarely make me laugh
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