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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 230798" data-attributes="member: 23">Game Night (2018)

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Smug, entitled, middle-aged Americans act like the smart-talking sassy teenagers from Scream for no reason other than, apparently, because.

The constant pop-culture references were tedious. The lines were driven home with all the subtlety of the circus. One got the sense that the self-conscious actors thought they were incredibly clever to be delivering &quot;funny&quot; lines in a &quot;naturalistic&quot; way (which amounts to weird emphases, annoying pauses and saying &quot;OK&quot; at the end of sentences).

The self-indulgent existentialism of the three couples was highly unnecessary. Who cared that one couple wanted a baby and were having problems conceiving. Or that there had been infidelity in another relationship. Or that the third couple (the completely un-hilarious slow young guy and his incompatible date) weren&#039;t really sure if they were a couple. It&#039;s all there to pad out the wafer thin plot.

In place of actual intelligence was an over-abundance of self-awareness and a series of heavy, unoriginal twists which changed the reality of the film, each of which reduced my already fragile investment.

In terms of tone, one felt that it purloined from much of Nineties pop culture. Primarily sitcoms (the traditional game night scenes were lifted directly out of Nineties Will &amp; Grace, while the &quot;look how funny I am&quot; delivery of dialogue had all the smugness of Friends - which at least had actual funny lines to support it) and the meta-horrors like Scream and Final Destination. On that level, it was quite accessible to me. But there was really nothing new. It was nowhere near as original as it seemed to think.

Although it doesn&#039;t sound like it, there was something strangely watchable about it. But I couldn&#039;t watch it again. Probably.
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[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 230798, member: 23"] [CENTER][B]Game Night [/B](2018) [MEDIA=youtube]qmxMAdV6s4U[/MEDIA] Smug, entitled, middle-aged Americans act like the smart-talking sassy teenagers from [I]Scream[/I] for no reason other than, apparently, because. The constant pop-culture references were tedious. The lines were driven home with all the subtlety of the circus. One got the sense that the self-conscious actors thought they were incredibly clever to be delivering "funny" lines in a "naturalistic" way (which amounts to weird emphases, annoying pauses and saying "OK" at the end of sentences). The self-indulgent existentialism of the three couples was highly unnecessary. Who cared that one couple wanted a baby and were having problems conceiving. Or that there had been infidelity in another relationship. Or that the third couple (the completely un-hilarious slow young guy and his incompatible date) weren't really sure if they were a couple. It's all there to pad out the wafer thin plot. In place of actual intelligence was an over-abundance of self-awareness and a series of heavy, unoriginal twists which changed the reality of the film, each of which reduced my already fragile investment. In terms of tone, one felt that it purloined from much of Nineties pop culture. Primarily sitcoms (the traditional game night scenes were lifted directly out of Nineties [I]Will & Grace, [/I]while the "look how funny I am" delivery of dialogue had all the smugness of [I]Friends[/I] - which at least had [U]actual[/U] funny lines to support it) and the meta-horrors like [I]Scream[/I] and [I]Final Destination[/I]. On that level, it was quite accessible to me. But there was really nothing new. It was nowhere near as original as it seemed to think. Although it doesn't sound like it, there was something strangely watchable about it. But I couldn't watch it again. Probably. [/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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