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I'm fine with alternate realities... yes, it's possible that people evolved without being able to tell lies... but this movie was logically inconsistent within its own premise, and that disqualified it for me.

Gervais's vision of a society that can not tell lies also apparently meant that nobody could be mistaken. For example, when Ricky told the bank teller he had $800 in his account and her computer told her otherwise, even in a lie-less society there is a great possibility he could have simply been mistaken. If people can't even make mental mistakes I had to wonder how Napoleon's wars had ever occurred. Surely both sides would have just accepted whatever the other side said they were entitled to?

Also, Ricky's apparent message is that religion would never have occurred on the planet if the first religionist hadn't invented a lie. I don't think that makes much sense evolutionarily... surely an ancient person seeing lightning bolts from the sky might have thought there was a powerful being up there. You don't have to lie to believe so.

It also bugged me that Ricky, a lying thief, is the hero of this movie and we're supposed to sympathize with him???? What's the message here?

All of that would have been OK if there were some laughs. But there weren't.

This. Terrible movie

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Posted by TigerMyth36

River Ridge

Member since Nov 2005

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Posted on 3/7/10 at 1:59 pm to lsunewcastle

I like everything Ricky has done to this point, but this movie was a bore.

The scene where he makes everyone happy by telling them lies was straight up lazy as hell since they didn't even let us hear what he was telling all the people.

Definitely a huge attack on organized religion. You have to be blind not to see that.

To say "take it easy" because it is just a movie is a pretty lame statement. If the satire is poorly crafted then it is shite, plain and simple.

The premise was interesting but the execution was turrible.

I love the idiots on this board that love to talk down to people that don't agree with them.

Disaster Movie? This is probably as bad as disaster movie. At least that movie, you know you were getting a bad spoof movie. With Lying, there is an interesting premise with very few actual jokes.

I'll stick to Life of Brian when I am in the mood for religious satire.

Invention was shite, not worth viewing ever again.

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Posted by TigerSinceBirth4Life

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Posted on 3/7/10 at 4:24 pm to Rex

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So, OK, I take it that Ricky Gervais is an atheist and this movie displays that bias. The Ten Commandments on pizza boxes... hardy har. This thing was a complete bore.

Agree, stupid as hell.

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Besides all that, there was nothing funny in any of it.

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Posted by etm512

Mandeville, LA

Member since Aug 2005

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Posted on 3/7/10 at 7:49 pm to LSUFreek

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The OP and some others here just don't "get" Ricky Gervais' reactionary comedy.

He plays an "everyman" that is put in uncomfortable situations, and his comedy is about those reactions and/or his observations to those uncomfortable situations.

The joke is not about how horrible or shocking the comments are made about him (ala the dating scenes with Jennifer Garner), it's his passive-reaction of disbelief to those comments.

The joke is not that Ten Commandments is on a pizza box, but the reaction of disbelief to the incredulous devotion that the masses are willing to accept a set of Ten Commandments written on a pizza box.

Seriously though, if you didn't already "get" that, you might enjoy Disaster Movie. The Invention of Lying was brilliant, and yes, I laughed throughout the movie.

Dude, seriously, get the frick over yourself. To say that those that didn't enjoy this movie are more adapt to enjoying mindless spoofs like Disaster Movie is one of the more idiotic statements I have read on this board lately.

As said before, the premise was good, the execution was shite.

And let's not act like this was some extremely deep thinking high brow humor he was going with here. There was masterbation jokes and shite like that. So to say that people "don't get it" is again idiotic. With that line of thought, I didn't enjoy Paul Blart Mall Cop because I thought it was a shite movie. Now it is clear that I simply just didn't "get it". Thanks for clearing that up for me.

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