Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by dave c (A) on May 30, 2006 at 13:04:12

In Reply to: Favorite Martin film- was LA Story- now Shopgirl posted by EdM on May 30, 2006 at 06:30:47:

I think that Martin has that ability to connect comedy and tragedy, to not always be funny, and that he has made career choices along that line which may have cost him in some ways.
But, like the best sit-coms, by not just being a series of set-ups, they remain watchable. I am thinking Frasier, MASH, Only Fools And Horses, and a long line of others.
SOme comedy films, to me, are a random collection of "jokes", and that makes them the equivalent of shoot em ups, gore fests, and FX based movies in that mmmm I can hardly stay awake throught them!