Hacks

I don;t think making fun of retardid people is very funny but there's a lot of funny other stuf in this like a white guy playing a black rapper and a middleage lesbian who tells vagina jokes. I couldnt help but laugh a lot. My brother is in a wheelchair and he does fall down sometimes and sometimes it IS funny. I also like the music. The nudity is scary and funny - that something you dont see every day.

Okay, first of all, Mr. Director, you are NOT Christopher Guest. I can see where you were going with this, but unfortunately the end product was lackluster at best.

Right off the bat: the packaging was incredibly misleading. There were no references to this being a "mockumentary," or fake in any way. We rented the DVD in the hopes we'd found an interesting and original documentary on the darker side of comedy. Boy were we surprised.

The acting was okay, I suppose, but being a comic myself I just found most of this film excruciating to sit through. Just because you put actors on screen with lines that a bad comic might say, doesn't mean those very lines are then funny. This was by far one of the worst films I've seen in a long time.

Now it did have some positives. A few of the lines / gags were funny, but by and large I found it impossible to sit through. I actually turned the film off before the end. I tried. I really did. But much like trying to slit my wrist with a spork, the going was slow and just too damned painful.

Stay away from this movie.

Saw this film as a submission to a festival for which I am a programmer. I wanted to write this quick review (of sorts) because I think this film was an absolute blast to watch, although unfortunately other programmers from my festival (festival shall remain nameless - I'd like to keep my job for next year) felt the film was far too controversial for a mainstream audience. I actually didn't agree at all. The film starts with words by the late Bill Hicks (a personal fave) and blasts off into a bizarre world of insanity. It's not a weird art film mind you, but there is an underlying sadness that makes all of the "edgy" stuff palatable. I guess I'm just writing this to let the world know that this film is out there and worth watching AT LEAST TWICE. It's a shame when good films get lost in other people's fear of a mirror. Yes - this film could be seen as EXTREMELY offensive, but you just have to look deeper than that. It's just a JOKE people! I'm a little wound up because we got out of our 'final stage' meeting and I had to listen to a bunch of people argue against this film citing it as 'too risky.' Hopefully other festivals have more cajones than the one I work for. I have to go on record as saying that it's NOT a cinematic masterpiece, but it didn't seem to be trying to be that. It's just a balls out hilarious film with a sweetness that we can all relate to -- and for that alone, it deserves all good things.

This is a funny movie with a serious point. Excellently written and directed. Good acting. If you like truthful, irreverent movies with outrageous humor, this movie will have you laughing so much there will be no time for popcorn. If you have a more restrained sense of humor, are offended by ethnic jokes, or don't care about using humor to get to the truth, you qualify for more popcorn. But you will also leave the theater with a full belly of entertainment and a few humorous moments where even the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse could not restrain the guffaws.

Hacks is about some incredibly lousy stand-up comics in New York City and the inept agency that manages them. See the movie to get the point.

I saw this film at the Orinda Film Festival and it did great with the inexperienced movie audience from Orinda. The film was not original, nearly a carbon-copy of previously released Christopher Guest Films. I mean the main character is a emulation of Corky St. Clair (Waiting for Guffman). The acting, however, was very impressive and the film itself is decent, but it isn't close to the creativity of a properly done film of this kind. Go see waiting for Guffman, Spinal Tap, Best in Show, or A Mighty Wind.