(Welcome to my new sub-series! here is it's official theme song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge7S6-Ta3yg
Even though it was Joe-Jack that said it here and not me, I must agree with him, Ricky Gervais is not funny!
I watched the office, years ago, because, back then I worked, and no matter where you work, you'll always have work colleauges, and you'll always have small talk with them, and they where talking about this show that the world was raving about, called the office, so I watched it, and saw this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Eaz-1_3iA
And Didn't Smile, let alone laugh!
The next day, the whole world was talking like the stupid dance was the funniest thing ever!
And People wonder why just watch Dave, Python, chat-shows and wrestling now!
So How the Unfunny Goblin is making film now is anyone's guess! And that is where we start on the longest review ever drafted by mesel, The Invention of Lying!
After TEN, count'em, TEN! Trailers (it's Almost like Universal knew I was doing this, and tried to distract me!) Ricky starts narrating that we are in an alternative world where everyone tells the truth, not by forced by government or by cultural dynamics, but because....HUMANITY HAS NOT EVOLVED THE ABILITY TO LIE!
Which means we are doomed as a species!
As bad as it sounds, the ability to lie, is nothing more than an evolved version of our primate ancestors ability to look threatening, Considering that when we first fell out of the tree, we shared the world with not only animals that ate our food, but ate us as well, and our cunning in verbal times, saved many lives, where telling the truth was the wrong option.
Anyway this leads to a panel of people, a sickie-puller who tells his boss he hates his job, a woman telling an off-screen mother her baby is ugly, and a restaurant-goer exclaiming she took a giant shit!
In other words to make the guy who only plays Douchebags and Asshole Victims likable, they filled the world with bigger douchebags and Asshole Victims! Like Peep Show, but done Badly!
We Start with Mark (Gervais) who is here to date Anna (Jennifer Garner) for the 1st time, Anna tells Mark she was masturbating and only and only agreed to this date because being alone for the Rest of her life scares her
BUY A CAT-IT'S SIMILAR TO LIVING WITH GERVAIS AS BOTH ARE HAIRY ROUND-HEADED THINGS WITH AN ELEVATED AURA OF SELF-WORTH!
...Mark tells her that the restaurant they are going to is all he can afford because he fears he's going to be fired!
We cut to said restaurant, where even in a world where no-one can lie, people are still dickish about an attractive person on date with...well, The Unfunny Goblin! We also learn two sad truths about the world without lying, 1) everyone hates their jobs and their lives 2) Culture has taking a nosedive-Music is minimalist- art is set in the bounds of reality, and ads are executives telling people their food is bad, but your gonna buy it anyway!
Meh!
Explains why they still make synthetic trash like "Blue" Raspberry, Hot-dogs and Ketchup, so i'll give you that one, film!
After a confrontation with a suicidal neighbour, (Jonah Hill) we see where Mark works, in a film studio that makes educational films, as a scriptwriter, since acting, would definitely count as a lie.
Turns out that Mark is only bad at his job because of the pecking order and the only plays left are of sad historical events. Despite a valid argument, he's fired and dumped via email, and everyone knows because his secretary (the wasted talents of Tina Fey) hacked his account.
BECAUSE LIVING IN A WORLD WITHOUT LIES, MEANS YOU CAN ACT LIKE A DOUCHE, DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULD! LIE ISN'T THE SAME THING AS EMPATHY!
Does it get worse, yes it does. Rob Lowe's character tells Mark that he purposely turned people against him, and people are swayed easily like that?
Driving to the Sad Place for Hopeless People (you know this film is so depressing, it's actually draining!) It's actually what they call an old folks home, after a joke on how the nurses have a dead pool on who dies next, Mark wishes there is some way to change everything.
The next day Mark needs $800 for rent, he tells his landlord but he only has $300.At the bank, the system is down, so all the frustration has triggered synapses in his brain and all of a sudden, this pathetic man has told the world's first lie
Dumbfounded but excited, he tries to tell his drinking buddy, Greg (Louis CK) but the whole culture is hard to break, using the idea to make the world ending orgy, has turned it into a Rape analogy, the woman continually crying and saying things like "I have no choice!", and " I'll do want you want!" And making the entire scene uncomfortable, considering the set-up was used for trailer!
Realising that people do have some level of Free will, ("People Did like you, Mark, but they like being noticed by successful people even more".-Actual quote from the movie) he and Greg plan to use lying to cheat Vegas, saving a drunk greg from being arrested.
Despite being rich by defrauding the system, He saves a suicidal Jonah Hill with his lies, in fact he finds that being ensuring has given him a nice feeling so he helps people feel better with his lies by feigning an interest, and though this montage is wordless, Hill feels better for having a friend.
BUT NEVER MIND THAT SHIT!-Let's have Mark get revenge by telling the biggest lie ever! the ability to lie has created the one thing that this world is missing: Drama-in a world were the top draw entertainment is orators reading out teleprompter scripts of historical events or of documentaries, Mark writes a story and stains the pages with his coffee to make it look like and aged tome from the 1400s
Okay, Mark didn't trying to make World-Ending Orgy teach you to keep your lies simple? What did he Write about the 1400's? Proof that Saint Colmcile did discover America first? Proof Palidins existed?
No it's even more far-fetched! It's a Mish-Mash of Author Appeal about, Aliens, Babylon, Ninjas Fighting Robot Dinosaurs and Hot Alien on Human Action!
In other words, Fan-Fiction....and as i End part1...IT'S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE!
HOW WORSE WILL THIS FILM GET? FIND OUT IN SEPTEMBER, ONLY ON BOGGERBOXOFFICE!
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