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I can't stand Woody Allen or any movie he has been in or directed. He's just no funny. All his movies are about being awkward and annoying. Does anyone like his movies.
PS I have a friend who took one year of cinema studies or something like that. We were arguing about this. I was looking for some other opinions.
Allen is like Jerry Lewis -- you either 'get' him or you don't.
Allen's also a sleazebag, whereas Lewis did a lot of good and raised a ton of money for muscular distrophy
I stopped liking that little weasel when he hooked up with his stepdaughter.
i liked select bitsa 'sleeper' but overall his movies is pretentious horseshit
He has a much younger wife who I am sure appreciates an older more experienced lover.
The point of Woody Allen films is a tribal thing. If you're part of a certain effete, cinephile, intellectual elite, you get the humour and know to laugh in the right places. (It helps if you're Jewish and from New York.)
If you're not a member of that club, you don't laugh, and all the cinephiles have the pleasure of looking down their noses at an ignorant philistine.
You see similar at performances of Shakespeare. The language is so distant from modern English and the references so arcane that the story is hard to follow unless you've studied the play beforehand. Nevertheless, there will be people in the audience braying at jokes that they have obviously heard or read before, because they want to demonstrate how cultured they are.
I agree.
But I'm one of those people who understand Shakespeare and I do laugh at the jokes. In my defense though people don't even know of some of Shakespeare's darker plays. There's not much laughing in his tragedies. Like his first, the first one I had seen, Titus Andronicus. What they did to Lavinia was ghastly. This play was where the idea for the ending of "Scott Tenormen Must Die" episode of South Park came from.
That’s heavy, but maybe his humor is just outdated. I think everyone gets he plays the ostracized and helpless NY Jew in all his movies, but once is enough. He should go quietly into the sunset, he’s no longer relevant where Shakespeare’s work (if he indeed wrote it all himself) is being used and modernized regularly.
Sleeper is the only movie of his I ever liked, but I might have been buzzed at the time.
Once I understood he married his daughter I since avoided all the shit he ever made. With all the shit going on in Hollywood I don’t understand how he is still accepted.