The Comedian

[Brian in Mesa]

The Comedian

Release date: February 3, 2017 (NY, LA)
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Taylor Hackford
MPAA Rating: R (for crude sexual references and language throughout)
Screenwriters: Art Linson, Jeff Ross, Richard LaGravenese, Lewis Friedman
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Starring: Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann, Danny DeVito, Edie Falco, Veronica Ferres, Charles Grodin, Cloris Leachman, Patti LuPone, Harvey Keitel

Plot Summary: An aging comic icon, Jackie (Robert De Niro) has seen better days.  Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played.  Already a strain on his younger brother (Danny DeVito) and his wife (Patti LuPone), Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he meets Harmony (Leslie Mann), the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul (Harvey Keitel), and the two find inspiration in one another resulting in surprising consequences.

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[Chaplin]

This is getting poor reviews, but I'd like to see it.

 

[Stout]

De Niro's way past his prime, and it just gets sadder by the movie. PASS.

 

[Chaplin]

De Niro's way past his prime, and it just gets sadder by the movie. PASS.

You definitely win the "Most Unnecessary Post" Award.

 

[Stout]

You definitely win the "Most Unnecessary Post" Award.

Aw, thanks. I was thrilled just to be nominated, but I never thought i could actually win

It's such a shame. De Niro has been at the top of his profession for so long. It's like watching that aging baseball player become a shell of his former self, and keep on getting chances because of his past career. He clearly hasn't recognized what he's doing, and will keep doing movies as long as he gets offered roles, or maybe he's having money problems and needs the dough. If it's the latter, I don't blame him in the least. The former is just sad.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Aw, thanks. I was thrilled just to be nominated, but I never thought i could actually win

It's such a shame. De Niro has been at the top of his profession for so long. It's like watching that aging baseball player become a shell of his former self, and keep on getting chances because of his past career. He clearly hasn't recognized what he's doing, and will keep doing movies as long as he gets offered roles, or maybe he's having money problems and needs the dough. If it's the latter, I don't blame him in the least. The former is just sad.

after seeing Dirty Grandpa, I could only surmise that he's developed alzheimers or has serious, serious $ problems... or was blackmailed. Those are literally the ONLY reasons he would have made that delicious piece of complete and utter embarrassing trash.

 

[Chaplin]

after seeing Dirty Grandpa, I could only surmise that he's developed alzheimers or has serious, serious $ problems... or was blackmailed. Those are literally the ONLY reasons he would have made that delicious piece of complete and utter embarrassing trash.

I don't know, I have more worries about you since you now claim you've SEEN DIRTY GRANDPA.

 

[Cheesebeef]

I don't know, I have more worries about you since you now claim you've SEEN DIRTY GRANDPA.

I get together with one of my friends about twice a year to see the absolute worst movie possible. That one topped all of them over the last 8 years... well, maybe second best worst, next to The Orphan. That one was legendarily bad as well.

 

[BigRedRage]

thats one of those movies I wanted to like and it just looked stupid so I never bothered.

But i guess thats most movies for me these days.

 

[Chaplin]

thats one of those movies I wanted to like and it just looked stupid so I never bothered.

I thought the same about this guy:

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[BigRedRage]

I thought the same about this guy:

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Highly doubt that you wanted to like a libertarian

 

[Chaplin]

Highly doubt that you wanted to like a libertarian

Jeez, it was a joke. In a thread called The Comedian!

 

[BigRedRage]

Jeez, it was a joke. In a thread called The Comedian!

.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Jeez, it was a joke. In a thread called The Comedian!

unfortunately, the joke landed much like the movie did... with a thud.