{"id":20144,"date":"2016-03-21T00:35:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T04:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=20144"},"modified":"2016-03-20T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T18:43:43","slug":"some-of-my-best-friends-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/21\/some-of-my-best-friends-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of My Best Friends (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s the sheer absurd humor of Director and Writer David Cornelius’ short comedy film that I really enjoyed. It’s such an inexplicable scenario transformed out of a mundane situation involving a group of friends playing poker that I quite enjoyed where he was going with it. Even if director Cornelius never quite drew attention to the fact that a group of friends were casually playing poker, one of whom was a puppet, I still would have gotten a good laugh out of the unusual humor on display.<\/p>\n

“Some of My Best Friends” is a play on political correctness and the whole awkwardness that arises from a group of friends filled with diverse individuals. Someone always slips up and says something that is unintentionally narrow minded, and discover they’re a bit of a puppist. Cornelius does a bang up job evoking mumblecore, setting the scene on a group of pals playing poker and they begin tradin stories about their past romances. One of the pals is an unlikely homosexual prompting his friend to scoff at how unlike a homosexual he seems, prompting a quick diversion in to puppet friend Wyatt.<\/p>\n

What begins as a slip of the tongue descends in to a deeper and deeper hole as Wyatt angrily bemoans his friends’ apparent stereotyping of the puppet race. “Some of My Best Friends” is funny enough to be taken as a tongue in cheek satire of situation comedies while also spoofing the dynamics of political correctness and sensitivity to other cultures. Cornelius thankfully never drags the bit on too long, providing a short but brutally funny scenario worthy of an online series. I found myself chortling quite a bit during the sharp exchange of dialogue and collective of great performances from the entire cast. I look forward to seeing what more cinematic offerings Cornelius has in store for us in the future. Look for “Some of My Best Friends” when it hits festivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s the sheer absurd humor of Director and Writer David Cornelius’ short comedy film that I really enjoyed. It’s such an inexplicable scenario transformed out of a mundane situation involving a group of friends playing poker that I quite enjoyed where he was going with it. Even if director Cornelius never quite drew attention to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[219,501,809,885,938],"class_list":["post-20144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-indie-film","tag-puppets","tag-s","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20146,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20144\/revisions\/20146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}