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Jeff Dunham: Relative Disaster (2017)
Low Hanging Fruit of Comedy
I don't know if it's because I'm older, because Jeff Dunham is washed up or some combination of the two but I could not get through more than 10 minutes of this special. Every single joke was essentially the low hanging fruit of comedy. Jokes that have been made a million times about the same topics. A lot of his material is based on racial/ethnic/cultural stereotypes and it's just not funny anymore.
The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
Predictable and Clichéd
Imagine every single action movie cliché and it makes an appearance in this film. While I was watching this movie, I would think to myself "this won't happen, it would be too cliché" and then it would happen. It was painfully predictable. So many ex machina moments.
Gary Oldman's character was a huge disappointment. Gary Oldman is such a fantastically talented actor and I felt like his character was a hollow, generic "bad guy" with an accent that couldn't decide what country to be from. It felt like he had very little time to develop this character.
The only saving grace was the genuine comedic chemistry between Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L Jackson. It takes a huge screen presence to compete with Samuel L Jackson in a comedy setting but Ryan Reynolds took it in stride and stood out in his own right. But Jackson's character was the stereotypical "hitman who doesn't play by the rules" and some of his wacky, out of the box character moments were laughable, but not in the good way.
This movie seemed like a hastily thrown together action/comedy movie to make a bit of money between Reynolds's and Jackson's other projects.