Just the Ticket #73: Dealin' With Idiots
I made a grievous error when I assumed that Dealin' With Idiots would hold any merit. True, the toilet crud of a film boasts Timothy Olyphant (TV's Justified), Gina Gershon (Breathless), and a who's-who-meets-who's-that of comedy (Richard Kind, Jamie Gertz, JB Smoove, Jeff Garlin, etc.), but what the actors are subjected to (and are made to subject us to) is a brand of selfish, mundane obssessiveness so infuriatingly deadpan that it could more rightly be called lifeless-pan, or soulless-pan, and calling it a comedy would be an undeserved compliment.
Apropos of this cinematic nothing, Garlin plays a comedian surrounded by one-dimensional personifications of every "don't" in the anger management handbook. The only thing that could possibly make this movie any worse (and does) is that people are really that insane.
I suppose that therein lies the point of the pointlessness, but why buy the milk when you can ask the cow's grandmother to show you her family photo album for free? And really, you wouldn't even have to ask.
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Apropos of this cinematic nothing, Garlin plays a comedian surrounded by one-dimensional personifications of every "don't" in the anger management handbook. The only thing that could possibly make this movie any worse (and does) is that people are really that insane.
I suppose that therein lies the point of the pointlessness, but why buy the milk when you can ask the cow's grandmother to show you her family photo album for free? And really, you wouldn't even have to ask.
F
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