So I just watched this movie with Tina Fey. I'm feeling like the whole movie was a fake-out, and the title is how I feel having watched it. The movie plays like "The Hurt Locker" with an embedded female journalist in Afghanistan. Taken seriously, it's a pretty good movie. But the DVD cover says it's a comedy, which is what you would expect with Tina Fey, except that the movie isn't funny. The closest thing to funny are "we can laugh about it now" kind of events that would be more accurately called coping mechanisms, and which are completely appropriate given the dangers and culture shock that Fey's character is experiencing. I just wondered if anyone else here has seen it, and what your take on it is.
Posted by JanitorBlade (Member # 12343) on :
Huh. It's not a comedy?
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
It's billed as a comedy. Perhaps some people would think it's a comedy. I find the funny bits are more sad, given the context. I think that if they marketed it differently it could have been successful. In particular, I think it's kind of similar to "The Hurt Locker" with some "M*A*S*H" thrown in, only more desperate.