knoxfan2008

Very entertaining, but very silly and often unintentionally funny.

Heretic is one of those movies where you can only hear the screenwriters voice and no-one else's. 80% of it lies in the "I'm 14 and this is deep" category. It feels like it was written by an angsty teen who had only discovered the ideas mentioned in this flick recently for the first time and thinks they're mind-blowing!

The "did you know that Jesus's story is derivative of dozens of other gods?" bit has been common knowledge for decades, I remember it being in Bill Mahers documentary in 2007. Also, the Monopoly factoids, again, just feels like the screenwriter saw a meme mentioning "The Landlords game" and put it in their script thinking that people would be impressed?

This movie has so many moments insisting "I made you think, didn't I?!", but, no. Not really. As soon as he started playing The Air that I Breathe, I knew he was going to trot out the factoid about Creep. What's bizarre is that most of these things I thought were pretty much common knowledge? But this screenplay acts like it's original. This movie would be impressive if it came out before the internet. You just saw things on the internet, wrote a mediocre essay, and then wrapped in a thin plot and characters.

Even though it's deeply unoriginal and meandering, it's very entertaining, and well directed. I can understand why Hugh Grant gravitated to this role. 50% of this movie is just him monologuing like the most uncharitable internet atheist stereotype.

I imagine thinking more of this, my rating might go down. But even though it's a very silly, "babies-first-theology lecture" kind of film, I was enthralled throughout.

I'm still surprised by how unfunny and univentive modern day family guy is. This episode didn't contain a single laugh, but not only that, it hammered in the most unfunny jokes way too much. That Jeff Goldblum bit would have been stale 10 years ago, and the impression wasn't even funny, but they keep bringing it back.

That 3-wise men gag is just a reworking on a much better joke from like 12 seasons ago. This story feels like a retread of the same beats and ideas that family guy have covered a million times before.

What I hate about this, and what the Halloween special also failed at, is that this Xmas episode doesn't feel like a Xmas special at all. It's just a normal, unfunny FG do with some Xmas icing on it. I remember when the writers actually used to put effort into these things.

Theres only so many ways I can say this episode was unfunny and dull. End this show please. It should have been put out of its misery 15 years ago.