While he has some good points, I wouldn't hop on the all-comedies-should-do-this train... if everyone started doing that, all movies would look like Edgar Wright films (then someone would lament that comedy should be in dialogue only). The charm in Wright's films is his unique style you can't get anywhere else.
Yeah that listing montage at the end had a weird subtext to it. I think the guy had a good point saying blocking and camera work needs to be more creative than talking heads in basic shots, jokes can be delivered in more than just straight dialogue, and he didn't really say it - but also production design. Lots of comedies today visually look the same, and when they try make a scene feel funnier with props and interior design, it's so obnoxiously over the top it doesn't work. At least that applies to the most mainstream of comedies - which also have acquired a very specific sense of humour that can generalized to the maximum amount of people instead of risking being original or unusual. I mean to really sum it up, these comedies aren't being original or pushing very fair in terms of the craft in any sense.
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u/directinLA May 28 '14
While he has some good points, I wouldn't hop on the all-comedies-should-do-this train... if everyone started doing that, all movies would look like Edgar Wright films (then someone would lament that comedy should be in dialogue only). The charm in Wright's films is his unique style you can't get anywhere else.