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Comedy ? What the **** is wrong with you people ?


How can this be categorized as COMEDY?? It has drama written all over it. Maybe the presence of Rogen - which didn't bring anything "comedy" related to the movie anyway - coule be considered somewhat funny. I consider whoever names the genre of this movie to be a complete idiot. Some crap movies WANT to be comedies, and have NOTHING funny in them, but this movie intends to be a soapy drama movie about a young guy having cancer from the start to the end. It so screams in it's attempt to be dramatic on all plans, including the soundtrack.

Offtopic - I found the overall cinematic feeling to be great - awesome shooting, awesome angles, awesome colors !

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i think, perhaps, we need to look at the etymology of comedy to answer your question. This actually quite falls in line with Aristotle's definition of a comedy which "ran parallel to that of tragedy, and described the art as a purification of certain affections of our nature, not by terror and pity, but by laughter and ridicule".

I am not drinking any *beep* merlot!

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I found it funny and I'm a cancer patient. If it can make me laugh about my own condition...then sure it's a comedy.


When you're going through hell...keep going. -Winston Churchill

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I didn't laugh, and when I had a very mild chuckle, it was just at realistic moments, not obvious comedy.



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"What is it with people like you? Why is it everytime you disagree with others, there is something wrong with them? Are you people really that self-absorbed or are you guys not aware of personal, subjective opinions?"

This one quote explain everything that is wrong with this website. I come on here to talk about and rate movies I like only to run into douchebags like this who can't let anyone else have fun.

I'll confess that I haven't seen this movie yet. I was just looking through the page for it when I found this. But I will see it eventually; it looks great. And even if I do hate it, I'll just give it a low rating and go away. I really won't care at all that you guys disagree with me. Because it's all opinion.

I don't know what's so hard to understand about that.

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Well, I found "Synecdoche, New York" under Comedy in my video store...

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Yup, no comedy for me. Cancer? a whole barrel load of laughs! And the joke is that his mate wants to pick up women?? A good film but in no way a comedy.

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If it's a comedy, it's a pretty poor one. If it's a drama, then I actually quite enjoyed it... :)

"I find your lack of faith disturbing." - (c) Darth Vader, 1977.

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i was quite surprised to see it categorised as a comedy as well. the way the music is set at the beginning in traffic reminded of a similar thing in blues brothers, but they were in a car. notice the old tv set with the big back, i still got one of those myself, i still haven't changed to a flatscreen or what its called, those thin tvs. in the same scene notice the cd and dvd collection. avoid the trailer to this, it spoils alot. i haven't been so captivated by a movie in a long time, i could have just kept watching the story of this guy.



she put her glasses on,
hair in a knot,
high heels and high voice,
at the path of the cold hard cash,
doesn't honey suit your sweetness,
you knock me out of breath,
and your transformation is scaring me,
cutest woman handling my money.



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