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After undergoing a number of personal crises, a stand-up comic returns to the stage for a one-man show featuring stinging social commentary and very personal reflections about his life.After undergoing a number of personal crises, a stand-up comic returns to the stage for a one-man show featuring stinging social commentary and very personal reflections about his life.After undergoing a number of personal crises, a stand-up comic returns to the stage for a one-man show featuring stinging social commentary and very personal reflections about his life.
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It is not uncommon for a celebrity to be faced with the proverbial "wake-up call". And, should they survive this event, they come to a deeper understanding and appreciation of their particular good fortune. However, in the case of comedian's, they are rarely as funny after their epiphany as they were prior to it. Such is the case with Martin Lawrence. Frankly, I pay little attention to celebrities as I have much better things to do with my life than to spend it monitoring others'. So, I was unaware of the majority of what Lawrence had gone through prior to this film. It was interesting but, unfortunately, all too common. I was left with the larger impression that this guy's stand-up act just wasn't very funny. Save the big life messages for a book, just be funny on stage. If you want to see a funny Martin Lawrence, go rent some of the old Def Jams for which he hosted.
Don't rent Runteldat.
Don't rent Runteldat.
I had heard positive things about this concert film and had hear that even those unimpressed with Lawrence's films had to give him props. Although I have found his films to be puerile and unfunny more often than not I somehow find him personally to be pretty amusing in his delivery. So in a way I was quite looking forward to this film. Things didn't look that good early on as the film opens with a look back over the recent media controversy surrounding Lawrence and is essentially him putting two fingers up at all those who have, in his eyes, unfairly criticised and picked on him. It is embarrassing to watch as he seems to be telling us that the attention given him (as a global celebrity) is somehow unjustified.
I hoped this would just be the build-up under the credits and that the show would be a solid piece of stand up. Unfortunately he continues early on with him announcing he would tell his own story and so on but at least he soon got over it. But when his next topic was 9/11 I wished he had stayed where he was because in reality this section was nothing more than Lawrence racially attacking Muslims for all looking like Bin Laden and even a joke about how he had beaten up an Indian man behind stage just in case. He segues from this into the importance of beating your child (and indeed waiting for it outside the vagina so you can start kicking it then), material about sex after pregnancy (including a piece about "titties" that makes Benny Hill look like Oscar Wilde), bad drunks and the humour of domestic violence. Suffice to say that not of it is that funny and is about as basic as you can imagine.
By covering all this type of material Lawrence shows himself to be very much a base comedian in that his material appeals to an audience raised on sitcoms, swearing and who nod their heads and laugh uncontrollably at the most basic stereotypes and race clichés. His racist jibs are squarely aimed at every other culture apart from African-American, whereas with that group he seems to enjoy the failings of his culture. With people like Chris Rock and such you get it that they are critical of such things but with Lawrence he celebrates it. His material is predominately crude and tasteless, whether it is sexist, racist or just so broad that at times you sense he is close to losing some sections of the audience. Contrasting this with moments of trite insincerity just makes it even worse. There is no denying that he has good presence and runs the stage well but it is disappointing that he seems happy with such basic material.
Overall then a real disappointment of a show. The material is as basic as could be and rarely has any touch of invention or genuine wit across it. His audience mostly lap it up and I suppose those that have loved his recent films will love it however the majority of us should not be taking their enjoyment as a recommendation. Crude and basic stuff throughout and only worth a look for those die-hard fans of Martin's brand of comedy.
I hoped this would just be the build-up under the credits and that the show would be a solid piece of stand up. Unfortunately he continues early on with him announcing he would tell his own story and so on but at least he soon got over it. But when his next topic was 9/11 I wished he had stayed where he was because in reality this section was nothing more than Lawrence racially attacking Muslims for all looking like Bin Laden and even a joke about how he had beaten up an Indian man behind stage just in case. He segues from this into the importance of beating your child (and indeed waiting for it outside the vagina so you can start kicking it then), material about sex after pregnancy (including a piece about "titties" that makes Benny Hill look like Oscar Wilde), bad drunks and the humour of domestic violence. Suffice to say that not of it is that funny and is about as basic as you can imagine.
By covering all this type of material Lawrence shows himself to be very much a base comedian in that his material appeals to an audience raised on sitcoms, swearing and who nod their heads and laugh uncontrollably at the most basic stereotypes and race clichés. His racist jibs are squarely aimed at every other culture apart from African-American, whereas with that group he seems to enjoy the failings of his culture. With people like Chris Rock and such you get it that they are critical of such things but with Lawrence he celebrates it. His material is predominately crude and tasteless, whether it is sexist, racist or just so broad that at times you sense he is close to losing some sections of the audience. Contrasting this with moments of trite insincerity just makes it even worse. There is no denying that he has good presence and runs the stage well but it is disappointing that he seems happy with such basic material.
Overall then a real disappointment of a show. The material is as basic as could be and rarely has any touch of invention or genuine wit across it. His audience mostly lap it up and I suppose those that have loved his recent films will love it however the majority of us should not be taking their enjoyment as a recommendation. Crude and basic stuff throughout and only worth a look for those die-hard fans of Martin's brand of comedy.
This recent stand-up movie of his was expectedly as piss-poor as his previous, i.e. "You So Crazy".
Martin Lawrence is easily one of the most annoying personalities to be recorded on film. Not only is he a lowsy actor to begin with, he's incredibly irritating to watch. His stand-up act is simply unbearable because it's nothing but Martin Lawrence and his embarassing way of talking. He overdoes everything. Every gesture, every word, is overly-black! He thinks he can be funny by acting black and talking black, almost as if he equates "blakness" with humor. (Chris Rock gets away with this because his content is actually funny to begin with.)
For God's sake, THE GUY IS NOT FUNNY!!!! I didn't even crack a smile once during the nearly two-hours of his agonizingly stupid, unwitty stand-up routine.
Martin Lawrence is easily one of the most annoying personalities to be recorded on film. Not only is he a lowsy actor to begin with, he's incredibly irritating to watch. His stand-up act is simply unbearable because it's nothing but Martin Lawrence and his embarassing way of talking. He overdoes everything. Every gesture, every word, is overly-black! He thinks he can be funny by acting black and talking black, almost as if he equates "blakness" with humor. (Chris Rock gets away with this because his content is actually funny to begin with.)
For God's sake, THE GUY IS NOT FUNNY!!!! I didn't even crack a smile once during the nearly two-hours of his agonizingly stupid, unwitty stand-up routine.
Martin was funny..at times.. but sometimes it was just mildly entertaining. no new jokes, nothing that will knock you off your seat. The best part was about his own life incidents. I didnt realize how near death he was. Recommended only to the hard core Martin fans.
I love standiup comedy. I liked Lawrence when he was doing stand-up and I liked him in early "Martin" episodes.
Martin is no doubt a very funny guy, so I was ready to laugh when I went to see "RUNTELDAT."
LAUGH is something I never did. I sat, and I sat, and I sat... quietly waiting for his act to turn funny... but it never did. I will admit I smiled a few times, but I never laughed. And it is not hard to make me laugh.
Actually, I didn't hear anyone in the theater laugh either. Finally, I thought to myself... I'll give this about 10 more minutes and I'm walking. I walked.... I could suffer through it no more.
It seemed like a fourth grader wrote his material. If he could lose the language, he'd have an act that the Nikelodeon crowd would go nuts over.
I wanted Lawrence to make me me laugh, not tell me a story about how bad he's had it or how low he has been. A good portion of his material was just a big f--k you to everyone that has been mean to him. It was more like watching a therapy session than watching a comedy routine.
If you are looking to laugh, go to Blockbuster and rent Jamie Foxx's new DVD "I Might Need Security."
It's funny as hell and you won't be disappointed.
Martin is no doubt a very funny guy, so I was ready to laugh when I went to see "RUNTELDAT."
LAUGH is something I never did. I sat, and I sat, and I sat... quietly waiting for his act to turn funny... but it never did. I will admit I smiled a few times, but I never laughed. And it is not hard to make me laugh.
Actually, I didn't hear anyone in the theater laugh either. Finally, I thought to myself... I'll give this about 10 more minutes and I'm walking. I walked.... I could suffer through it no more.
It seemed like a fourth grader wrote his material. If he could lose the language, he'd have an act that the Nikelodeon crowd would go nuts over.
I wanted Lawrence to make me me laugh, not tell me a story about how bad he's had it or how low he has been. A good portion of his material was just a big f--k you to everyone that has been mean to him. It was more like watching a therapy session than watching a comedy routine.
If you are looking to laugh, go to Blockbuster and rent Jamie Foxx's new DVD "I Might Need Security."
It's funny as hell and you won't be disappointed.
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- TriviaThis movie uses the word "fuck" 347 times in its 113 minute run-time, leading to the second most constant use of that word (3.07 times a minute).
- Quotes
Martin Lawrence: No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.
- SoundtracksSchool Street
Written by Damon 'Grease' Blackman (as Damon Blackman) and DMX (as Earl Simmons)
Performed by DMX
Courtesy of Rush Associated Labels Recordings
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
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- Мартин Лоуренс: Живьём
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- Budget
- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $19,184,820
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,374,049
- Aug 4, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $19,184,820
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat (2002) officially released in Canada in English?
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