Saturnalian wrote:
I watched a Million Ways to Die in the West.
Christ, it's just awful, isn't it? Isn't it? Brian from Family Guy may be a funny writer (well, actually, I'd disagree with myself right here but for the sake of this paragraph I'll assume he's written some funny lines) but he's just a terrible actor. There's something about him that's unlikeable; something about his face that's not right, and something about his overall screen presence that does not make him a star. At all. I've got a feeling that he's got a massive ego too which is why he was unable to give him his role to someone who might have done a much better job.
And, really, there's a shitting gag?
And a penis gag.
And a gag where a sheep does a wee on him.
I'm sure he thought this would be all very clever but it's awful. Man alive...
Oh man... We tried watching this on Sunday afternoon. I knew very little about it, other than Liam Neeson and Charlize Theron were in it and it was a comedy. It was horrendous, the worst movie I have ever attempted to sit through. It was in exactly the right humour for a 10-15 year old; the "jokes" were shockingly awful and I switched it off after the particularly laboured asshole "joke" near the beginning.
It's not in any way subtle or clever, all of the moments that you're apparently supposed to find funny can be seen from space. Perhaps it's my fault for watching it and expecting anything other than the shit Seth MacFarlane peddles as comedy. I thought Ted was bad but this... This is in a whole other league of cringe inducing awfulness.
I really cannot adequately describe how awful it was - there were a couple of physical comedy moments that raise a slight 'heh' and I found the horses name quite funny but unless you think Seth McFarlane is some kind of God, or you're 11: Avoid, avoid, avoid.
I agree about him being unlikeable, he looks a bit like a baby doll I think, which is fine because not everyone is movie-star handsome but he looks odd in a 'I can't quite put my finger on it' distracting way. And he's definitely a terrible actor.
The kids whinged when I turned it off, so I sent it to one of their xboxes so that could watch it upstairs. They thought it was hilarious. But they love Sacha Baron Cohen movies and Family Guy etc. so it was definitely their kind of level. We put Godzilla (2014) on. Which looked Oscar-worthy in comparison.