Posted by Ace Card at ac8fc7ae.ipt.aol.com on July 22, 2000 at 06:27:32:
In Reply to: Stop flirting with the boy, Smalls posted by BrianLynch on July 20, 2000 at 17:06:56:
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: I read a little of it (format kinda made my eyes hurt, sorry), and I gotta say, voice-over stuff in film/tv is kinda lazy, an easy way to express what you should be showing. Look at the WONDER YEARS. It started kinda funny, to hear Daniel Stern's reflections on what was going on, but by the end of the show's run the writers got lazy and Stern ran off at the mouth for the full 22 minutes whilest young Fred Savage nodded his head and looked worried.
: An even more annoying thing to do is have the character talk to the camera. This works in Woody Allen movies. This worked in FERRIS BUELLER. This worked in HIGH FIDELITY (to some degree). You could argue that it works in MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE. I laughed at it a couple of times in the Christian Slater vehicle KUFFS. But most of the time it's bad bad bad bad bad. To see it at it's worst, go rent DOWN TO YOU, the Miramax Freddie Prinze Jr./Julia Stiles opus. Or better yet, don't. Stay away. BUELLER and Woody Allen aside, I don't think I've been in a theater where the audience hasn't groaned when the characters turn to the camera and start dispensing logic. I'd lose it if I were you.
: That said, I liked the dude answering his remote and telling his friend he was working out. Don't need the line of him responding that he "does not just sit around watching TV"...you got the joke with the working out line, get in, get out.
: If you want, e-mail this to me in some kinda non-headache inducing format and I'll give it a read. Don't want to do it here lest we piss off Smalls no more.