For me the shape of water was the worst film I’ve ever seen because the whole story was just so weird and ridiculous… An alien and a woman getting together.
The worst part about it is that critics at the time were praising the film…
For me the shape of water was the worst film I’ve ever seen because the whole story was just so weird and ridiculous… An alien and a woman getting together.
The worst part about it is that critics at the time were praising the film…
It was the final nail in the coffin for Tom Green’s career
As intended. It was the punchline.
His greatest talent is making people forget he has talents. He was in a variety of bands in high school. He is a half-decent freestyle rapper. He had a significant career in off-the-wall broadcasting and swung that into a massive show on MTV. If you looked at young-adult cable circa 2000, the pillars of the zeitgeist were wrestling, South Park, and this fuckin’ guy.
Sacha Baron Cohen disguises himself physically so nobody sees him coming. When he shows up as himself, or as a character people already know, he can’t catch them off-guard with what a clever asshole he is.
Tom Green’s disguise is being Tom Green. Showing up as himself is what disarms people. It’s played-up, I’m sure, but it’s not a character or a bit. He is genuinely a high-powered maniac. Like a class clown who’s genuinely good at stuff. The boy who can do a pull-up just fine, but thinks it’d be funnier to struggle, and figures the longer he does it the funnier it gets. People with passing familiarity know that he acts like an idiot… but they don’t know why he acts like an idiot.