{"id":2411,"date":"2007-01-30T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2007-01-30T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T23:57:00","slug":"2411","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2411","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/node\/57935\">Nathan Rabin asks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is comedy? That seems like a strange question to ask after 100 years of cinema, but <i>Epic Movie<\/i> &#8212; the latest from <i>Scary Movie<\/i> scribes and <i>Date Movie<\/i> directors Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg &#8212; strays so far from the solid fundamentals of filmmaking that it calls the very foundation of humor into question. Is it enough to simply place a familiar pop-culture phenomenon into an unfamiliar context? Can contemporary comedy be reduced to the simple equation &#8220;pop-culture reference + slapstick violence or scatology = hilarity&#8221;?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rabin&#8217;s opinion seems to be no, hell no. I like how he says that &#8220;only the desperation and cynicism feel authentic&#8221; in the movie.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Rabin asks: What is comedy? That seems like a strange question to ask after 100 years of cinema, but Epic Movie &#8212; the latest from Scary Movie scribes and Date Movie directors Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg &#8212; strays so far from the solid fundamentals of filmmaking that it calls the very foundation of &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2411\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}