clayton@satan.DEC (10/22/85)
> AFTER HOURS > A film review by Mark R. Leeper > > > ...It has been suggested that only New >Yorkers will appreciate this film noir comedy and I suspect that remains to >be seen. But I haven't laughed so hard at a comedy since seeing A CHRISTMAS >STORY two years ago (perhaps not even then)... Perhaps knowing New York better than I do would have helped, but I did not think this a particularly funny film, not eliciting more than a few chuckles from me. I don't think many other people in the audience thought it very funny either (I saw it in northern Mass.), as I don't ever remember hearing anyone else giving much more than a chuckle either. I, and several others I know, were disappointed by this film which has been given such high marks for comedy. It was amusing, it was original, I enjoyed it, but it just wasn't all that funny. About a +1 on the -4 to +4 scale. E.A.Clayton ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-nisysg!clayton
leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) (10/30/85)
>Perhaps knowing New York better than I do would have helped, >but I did not think this a particularly funny film, I would not have thought that knowing NYC would make that much difference, but perhaps it does. I just found some of the weird people pretty funny. The weirdo described in the film who loved WIZARD OF OZ, for example, is putting a perfectly valid interpretation on the film, but not one I would have thought of. Coming up as it did, I thought thought was a clever piece of humor. There were all kinds of little ironies tying apparently unconnected pieces of the film together. I won't repeat them here so as not to spoil the film, but it was just an amazing script. It plays very heavily on the viewers' expectations. It is not to everyone's taste, I suppose, but it is certainly worth a try. >not eliciting more than a few chuckles from me. I don't think >many other people in the audience thought it very funny >either (I saw it in northern Mass.), I grew up in Western Mass. I didn't see too many of the SoHo types there. They all seem to gravitate to the big cities. It is hard to say what I would have thought about the film had I not lived for some time near NYC. That could make a difference. Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper