watching heckler
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marionettes — 16 years ago(April 27, 2009 12:42 PM)
I kind of understand what Kennedy is trying to do, but the way he delivers it makes it seem like we should feel sorry for people who make bad movies and perform poorly. I think all performers know going into their profession that they are subject to some intense scrutiny. I agree that some people go too far, but some comedians go too far. It's just a way to get noticed.
I hate the defense that critics need to make a movie or do a comedic set and then the performers will accept their criticism. That's stupid. Comedians don't perform for other comedians, they perform for the general audience, so if you fail the audience you fail at your job. I do agree2000 with one comedian who flat out said if you don't like the show don't go shoot your mouth off, just get up and leave. Hecklers are annoying, albeit, occasionally funny.
I don't like Uwe Boll (sic?) but love watching him beat up those pretentious critics.
Kennedy hasn't done much good lately, he was all right in scream. -
itsalltears — 16 years ago(April 27, 2009 11:14 PM)
the part about hecklers made sense, but apparently the subject of drunk people who talk out of turn couldn't be stretched into a full length movie, so the focus of the movie switched to something completely different like 20 minutes in.
it's called "heckler" but the end is him burning some published reviews.
what's sad is i think that jamie kennedy thinks people are just jealous of him, or are yelling out at his shows that he sucks because that's what hecklers do.
i really think most hecklers are just trying to be part of the show, trying to request a particular bit, and get the comedian to pay attention to them. they aren't trying to disrupt the show. i've seen dave attell (a great comedian in this movie) live and there were drunk frat boys yelling the whole time. it disrupted the show and totally sucked, but they were doing it in a retardedly misguided way because they love him.
i feel like the people who were heckling jamie kennedy in the movie were doing it because they were angry that he sucked so much. -
birdparade — 14 years ago(July 18, 2011 09:13 PM)
i gotta say, i WANTED to side with jamie kennedy. i just cant. i'll go as far as to say he has a point about the critics being particularly rabid in their bad reviews. thats not necessarily cool. BUT at the same time, jamie kennedy makes plenty of jokes that would upset people just as much, so it evens out.
the documentary is entertaining. jamie kennedy's comedy just isn't that great. i did like his hidden camera show, however. -
jasonayeiter — 13 years ago(May 29, 2012 11:17 AM)
As much as I liked Jamie Kennedy from the 'Scream' movieshe isn't just unfunny, he can't even recognize humor in general. When some of the critics are making jokes, Jamie doesn't appear to even understand humor is being made. He asks question and they answer them honestly and intelligentlyand he calls them nerds and points out they don't have as much money as him. Rinse, lather, repeat.ughhh.
He seems to be on the 'Andy Dick level' in terms of being thin skinned. The scene in 'Heckler' where he is acting all depressed while an episode of 'Celebrity Deathmatch' with him featured in it plays is the low point of the movie. When shows like that parody or reference you, it means something. It means you're on people's radaryou've 'made it' to a certain degree. He's about to cry over a goofy claymation show that's about celebrities fighting in a boxing ring. That's not even a real criticism! -
Elemenoh — 13 years ago(June 18, 2012 06:44 PM)
I'd say that he doesn't know the difference between critics and hecklers. A critic writes a review after the performance is over. A heckler interrupts the show right in the middle of it. That and Kennedy's behavior in the last few years, like his drunken rant at E3, make it hard to sympathize with him.
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HowardJohnsons — 13 years ago(June 29, 2012 05:16 PM)
I just watched it on netflix. It seems the majority did not "understand" why "Critics" were included. They specifically pointed out that the "critics" they had issue with were not "critiquing" the film/comedy, but insulting the person with unrelated personal attacks.
Someone who writes a "critique", that has nothing to do with the body of work itself and is just a series of personal insults, damages the work. These practices drive consumers away, whether it be comedy club audiences or theatre seats. It contributes nothing and does disrupt the entertainment from reaching the consumer, and in that context, I think there is definitely room to argue that those types of "critiques" are a form of heckling. -
birdsofprey93 — 12 years ago(September 26, 2013 08:22 AM)
Jamie kennedy is a whiner and being a waitress is being more productive than the crap he does. At least waiters have a service that people want to pay for unlike him. Stop complaining or get better at what you grossly get over paid for considering he doesn't have any talent
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Buildinwings — 12 years ago(December 13, 2013 02:35 PM)
Except that criticism isn't heckling at all. Heckling is when you interrupt a live performance.
Kennedy just wants to conflate the two so that his audience walks away thinking film critics are just like actual hecklers, when in reality they're just the same kind of normal people who come home from a show they didn't care for.
It's an insult to comedians who actually DOb68 deal with hecklers to lump film critics in with them.
Everyone who ever loved you was wrong.