Hey Hollywood, it\u2019s me Felix. You don\u2019t know me, and possibly don\u2019t care, but have you ever bothered to look up the word comedy in the dictionary? While you\u2019re out there making \u201cEpic Movie,\u201d and \u201cDance Movie,\u201d and anything else that involves fart jokes, there are people out there making honestly good comedies with a budget of a little over a hundred bucks. And you know what? They\u2019re funnier than anything you can shit out in your room of Yes men, and monkeys on typewriters. Take for example, the nut jobs at Bullcrank. I\u2019m a fan. Yes, I admit it, and yes, they\u2019re kind folk, but I laughed more in \u201cZombies in My Neighborhood,\u201d and \u201cBatman\u2019s Gonna Get Shot\u2026\u201d than in any piece of crap you have ever come up with.<\/p>\n
Director Aaron Longstreth is carrying on the proud tradition of that wonderful comedy team, with \u201cSecurity.\u201d Has it been done before? God, yes. But does it mean it\u2019s not funny? Well, take for example the scene where we\u2019re following security guard Randall Gavies \u201cwalking the beat,\u201d and he disposes of a book he found atop a garbage can. He passes on and goes on a rant, while off-screen a confused college student is looking for his book that mysteriously disappeared and ended up in the trash.<\/p>\n
Notice, Longstreth doesn\u2019t draw attention on the student, he just glares over him as he looks for the book anxiously and begins disassembling the trash can, and I laughed. A lot. That\u2019s called subtlety, assholes. Comedy is mostly built around it, and \u201cSecurity\u201d often had me laughing hysterically. \u201cSecurity\u201d is a hardcore gritty look at the day in the life of\u2026 well a college campus security guard. Edgy. And that\u2019s what basically makes up Longstreth\u2019s short film. But Longstreth thankfully doesn\u2019t draw out the jokes and relies on subtle one-liners to sell the joke, and it\u2019s well done.<\/p>\n
I laughed often, because many people do take their jobs way too seriously. Even security guards. I really wanted to see more. After finishing up \u201cSecurity\u201d I was wishing that there could have been about two more minutes added for the sake of extrapolation, or a better look into the measly life of Gavies. I wish \u201cSecurity\u201d would have been a much longer comedy, and it goes by way too fast once you delve into it. Longstreth\u2019s comedy is much too short to completely soak up, but it\u2019s excusable since \u201cSecurity\u201d is probably one of the funnier shorts to come around in a long time. The Bullcrank nut jobs do it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hey Hollywood, it\u2019s me Felix. You don\u2019t know me, and possibly don\u2019t care, but have you ever bothered to look up the word comedy in the dictionary? While you\u2019re out there making \u201cEpic Movie,\u201d and \u201cDance Movie,\u201d and anything else that involves fart jokes, there are people out there making honestly good comedies with a […]<\/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":[219,501,672,885,941],"class_list":["post-7937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-indie-film","tag-mock-documentary","tag-s","tag-shot-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937","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=7937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}