Comments on “Life Stinks” which, your mother will tell you, you should get the DVD of and watch, while contemplating the message(s) for you it is sending (already) !
He is one of the world's funniest people and a comedic genius. So let's think about this for a minute. Do you really think that the comedic genius who has either written or picked the successful scripts like the ones above over the years would be blind to the LACK of humor in this work? Do you think someone who loves being the Best Buffoon would unconsciously pick a Non-Boffo showcase for his talents?
After all, this man does not have to say to himself "let the Schvartz be with you," He IS THE SCHVARTZ! And the Schvartz, take it from me (and you ought to because I don't deserve to have it) . . . The Schvartz Never Does Anything Unconsciously . . . sooooo I think you should weigh the idea that when The Schvartz, who has been funny for 2,000 years, does a piece that EVEN HE CAN'T MAKE FUNNY, then maybe, just maybe (which, of course, means For Sure!) he did it to sensitize us to the things around us today which are so bad, need so much attention and are being ignored by so many ... to get us to think ... to fill the intellectual blind spot into which we shove the homeless, the poor (urban and otherwise), the poor (urbane and not so urbane and otherwise), those people in whom a sane idea could not find a home (a slightly different kind of "homeless" person).
What if we reject the hypothesis (which is even difficult to write about it is so ridiculous) that some mindless twit in the finance department of the studio has been told "Give Brooks whatever he wants, $10, $20 million, whenever he wants it."
He would probably get a bigger laugh from the request for $20 million than he would for the jokes in a bad script. These are the times when 8, 10, 12 writers go over and over a script before it is produced. So I personally think we have to reject the hypothesis that the picture was produced by zombies in their sleep spending down overflowing money coffers to avoid paying tax on earned income.
Anyone who has ever tried to tell a joke, write a skit or get a laugh at a party knows two things: 1. you have to think hard to get it right; and, 2. thinking is hard work. So this movie didn't just "happen," it was created by hard-thinking people who know two more things about comedy than we do: nobody likes pain of any sort and all good comedy is based on suffering, hopefully the suffering of someone other than ourselves.
Therefore, assuming that the apparently mindless comedic genius of Brooks has to have a mandatory sense of the painful, then what kind of movie would he produce if he wanted to talk about suffering to an audience that doesn't even want to THINK about the pain and suffering of others, let alone DO anything about it? VOILA! "LIFE STINKS! Already !! "
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Life Stinks: IMDB pages: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102303/
