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Dinner for Schmucks
2010 · Film · 114 min
Directed by Jay Roach
Rising executive Tim Conrad works for a boss who hosts a monthly dinner in which the guest who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career-boost. Tim plans on not attending until he meets Barry, a man who builds dioramas using stuffed mice. Barry's blundering but good intentions send Tim's life into a downward spiral, threatening a major business deal and possibly scuttling Tim's engagement to his fiancee.
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This behavior has some parallels with what happens in the movie Dinner for Schmucks.
Agreed, with a thought:
I actually think that Facebook's business model was premised on the Steve Carell movie, "Dinner for Schmucks," where a tool originally designed to signal you went to an ivy school got that cohort on board, and then invited everyone else for as kind of a cruel joke where they didn't know they were only the entertainment. Now the party's long over and the only people left are loud drunks yelling at each other and couples acting out some very public domestics.
Imo, there is no solution to those platforms' moderation problems, only management into something even more banal and worthy of disruption.
Why is the author so hung up on "Dinner For Schmucks"? It didn't seem like he's seen it yet and so far its RottenTomatoes score is a bad but not horrible 56% while Grown Ups is just at 10%. Unless he's seen it I don't think it's fair to call it the likely worst film of the year.
Is it just because no one is allowed to remake French movies?