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Every review says 'not funny' but see--

posted 8 years ago by infanttyrone-1
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--the thing is, Bill Murray, like Robin Williams and Roberto Begini and Richard Pryor and Charlie Chaplin, has such a deep core of sadness in him. And I think what's appealing to Murray in this story is how the character uses humor and distraction to hold the world at a distance. Murray //is funny in this movie, because Bill Murray is funny, and that's how he handles loss and stress and fear and anger, because it's a method he know.

Lost in Translation isn't a comedy. The Life Aquatic is a great showcase for Murray. And I'm glad I finally got around to watching this. I was ten when it came out but the foax wouldn't let me go because "it's not a funny movie."

[–] liscarkat (18992) 2 years ago

What halfwit watched this movie expecting it to be funny?

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

Considering where Murray had been prior to this? Just about everything else he was in was a comedy. SNL, Meatballs, Caddyshack, Stripes, Where the Buffalo Roam.... I'll agree that if they'd known anything about the source material they would have thought twice about it but Murray was the quintessential actor-comedian of in this time. His attempts at lightness in The Razor's Edge also come off as comedy but certainly a much more matured and subtile form of comedy than his earlier works. I think the OP had it right about how Murray handles comedy as a personal comfort zone of sorts.