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Thread #150101 Message #3495886
Posted By: Ron Davies
28-Mar-13 - 07:19 AM
Thread Name: BS: Jim Carrey & The Cold Dead Hands of FOX
Subject: RE: BS: Jim Carrey & The Cold Dead Hands of FOX
Perhaps my expectations were raised too high by the praise for this video earlier in the thread. If Fox is attacking it, that's clearly a waste of their energies. It's a bit over the top, to put it mildly, that anybody should get exercised about it--either on a positive or negative basis.
There's a difference between a sledgehammer approach and effective satire. Americans are famous for not being able to tell the difference--and this seems to be a case in point. Understatement, for which the British are famous and we are not, is often far more effective.
Anybody who thinks my criticism means I endorse the NRA is invited to read my postings on gun control.
But in humor, often less is more, and that's not Jim Carrey's forte. Obviously this is a matter of taste and Carrey's approach has many supporters--as witness his huge box office success.