They Came Together : Satire which wasn't funny

It was not funny. It did not work. When someone say they didn't like this movie, the common response seems to be "you don't understand satire". No, I understand satire, I also understand when something is poorly written, acted and directed. This was a terrible movie.

I thought this film was brilliant and very funny. However I agree with you on your point of if you don't like it it's annoying for someone to say "you don't get it". You just didn't like it. It's not a reflection on intelligence or even sense of humour it just didn't hit the right buttons for you.

For me it did. It's not nice to see a film that you feel is a waste, fir me I enjoyed thus film so much I'm glad I saw it. And will prob watch it again.

It's the sort of film where I could see me trying to share it with some friends who I constantly laugh with and feel have a similar sense of humour as, and I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't like it. My friends are funny and clever but there's something very 'marmite' about this film.

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I can't say whether you "understand satire" or not but I too thought this was hilarious. Personally, I don't understand the hate for it, as my wife and were laughing almost non-stop through the entire film. A great comedy, by some talented people.

Well, for me, it wasn't the satire that made this movie funny. The satire was just the launchpad for the trademark Wain/Sho humor. Sure, they're swiping at the generic romcom conventions - most of which are pretty non-specific tropes - but it's the guys' specific flavor that's funny to me.

For instance, the "Tell me about it/you can say that again" bit had nothing, really, to do with the genre. It's just a bit that they could have fit into any project of theirs with a comparable loose anarchy. And I think that's true of the film's funniest moments and best jokes. They don't really depend on that foundation, the satire; whereas I think something like Showalter's The Baxter had a much more intrinsic, plot-level dependency on it's bases.

But of course at the end of the day it's about what you find funny, not where in the movie you find it. I just think people geared up for a savage satire of romcom's are going to be disappointed on that front. TCT says nothing about the genre that hasn't already been said, but I thought it was funny as hell anyway.

Very well said!

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