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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy" data-source="post: 2137710" data-attributes="member: 4036">It's amazing how much the environment you are in can shape a perception of a movie. Finding Neverland had an interesting moment where the success of the play was determined by the presence of people who would understand it, and they in turn brought the rest of the audience into understanding. Like I said in my post, I happened to have a great and very appreciative crowd. The one-liners all got laughs, the really painful moments all got winces, and some of the over-the-top violence or well deserved pay backs got laughs too. The pez-dispenser section was hilarious. Some of the applications of the hatchet were hilarious. Marv loving him some coats... Marv's reaction to getting a little electrocuted. Harrig--nevermind. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Suffice it to say, depending on the audience you are with, particularly who you bring to the movie with you, the violence can either shock you and knock you out of the enjoyment, or can become amusing in it's impossibility all by itself and further heighten the humor in contrast.  That's a perfect example right there.  Because we were enjoying the ride at that point, this made sense and got a bunch of laughs.  It was so richly deserved by the sick S-O-B, it was the only justice the hero was going to get both for what had come before and for what the hero knew would come after, and it was also release of anguish from the hideously unfair utter destruction of his life.  We also found it funny in a kind of, "The first time wasn't enough?  Try this on for size!" kinda way.  But it's remarkably easy to see how this scene would rattle people who weren't in the right mindset for it or worse, had been put in the exact wrong mindset for it by the preceding bits of the movie. Can you imagine if they just put that in trailer?  The movie would be blamed for everything from serial killers to school shootings for the next 30 years. Kill Bill did the same thing to some people, they either went with people they didn't want to appear low-brow in front of, or sat in a theatre that was disgusted by what they saw, and had a miserable time of it. That time I was fortunate again, you would have thought the audience was watching Kung Fu Hustle. Talk about hit or miss. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Sorry you didn't get to enjoy the flick. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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