Mathew Buck: Film Brain

Quotes 

• Film Brain : So remember, if you kill bad people, you'll be celebrated as the hero that you are - by CHILDREN no less! I think I've found a film that's morally repugnant than Seven Pounds.

• Detective : You shot Mrs. Lisa Sterndale, you shot the chef...

  Film Brain : You also shot the sheriff, but you did not shoot the deputy.

• Jill : He was fine at first. I even got my parents to give him their savings. They lost everything. My father committed suicide.

  Film Brain : The laughs never stop coming, do they?

• Film Brain : Finally, a movie that celebrates the cold-blooded slaughter of your enemies. You can see how this might have worked. I mean, the concept has this sense of wish fulfilment. It's hard to get past the bad taste it leaves in the mouth, and the execution here is terrible. It's badly directed and edited, and it looks and feels cheap, wasting most of the cast. The supporting cast only have one or two small scenes to set up their asshole-ness, and then get killed off in ways that aren't funny, as much as the score tells us so. The whole thing, especially the score, looks like it's escaped from the 1970s.

• Film Brain : Parting Shots grips you right from the very start.

  Doctor : It's cancer, Harry.

  Film Brain : That's literally the first line in the movie. Set phasers to laughter.

• Film Brain : Are you laughing yet? Yeah, me neither.

• Film Brain : Jesus, this is meant to be a fast, witty exchange, but the way it's directed, it's slower than a turtle taking a shit.

• Film Brain : Slapping comedy music over a murder does not make it funny.

  Phelous : Hey!

  Film Brain : Most of the time.

• Film Brain : You know, when you make a movie about shooting dead your enemies, you might want to afford a gun that fires to spare Ben Kingsley the indignity of being killed by a gunshot sound effect.