The thing I liked most about this movie is that nearly every time I thought the movie was slipping into a cliche, it managed to hurl itself the opposite direction and make fun of the cliche that I thought it was falling into.
Because I'd heard this movie compared to Pulp Fiction so much, I was comparing it to Pulp Fiction a little when I saw it... I definitely liked the humor in this movie more than Pulp Fiction's; not only was the script excellent, but the lines were delivered in such a way that even if I knew what a character was going to say, I laughed out loud because of how well they put it. The way the director used cutting to reveal new information made the jokes even funnier. But what makes this humor more entertaining (for me) than Pulp Fiction's is its taste... Both movies seem to make fun of cliches and genre & cultural conventions, but Go's is a bit more tame. For instance, in Pulp Fiction, I thought it was funny to see the big bad crime boss get his butt kicked, but not to see his butt get raped. In Go, just when I think that the humor's on the edge of going too far, it stops and turns to something else.
Anyways, I found this movie to be very enjoyable, and the pop soundtrack was great. It's definitely a refreshing change from most of today's formulaic comedies where I constantly find myself waiting for the movie to end.
Because I'd heard this movie compared to Pulp Fiction so much, I was comparing it to Pulp Fiction a little when I saw it... I definitely liked the humor in this movie more than Pulp Fiction's; not only was the script excellent, but the lines were delivered in such a way that even if I knew what a character was going to say, I laughed out loud because of how well they put it. The way the director used cutting to reveal new information made the jokes even funnier. But what makes this humor more entertaining (for me) than Pulp Fiction's is its taste... Both movies seem to make fun of cliches and genre & cultural conventions, but Go's is a bit more tame. For instance, in Pulp Fiction, I thought it was funny to see the big bad crime boss get his butt kicked, but not to see his butt get raped. In Go, just when I think that the humor's on the edge of going too far, it stops and turns to something else.
Anyways, I found this movie to be very enjoyable, and the pop soundtrack was great. It's definitely a refreshing change from most of today's formulaic comedies where I constantly find myself waiting for the movie to end.