Comments on: Your Dysfunctional Family

By: marquisdejolie

marquisdejolie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:21:37 +0000

Oh wait. Maybe this one is more dysfunctional:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5AqqnVuhtI

By: marquisdejolie

marquisdejolie — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:46:47 +0000

Oh wait. I meant to send yall this one of mom and sis scrapping over pills:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUHRmNUUPe4

By: marquisdejolie

marquisdejolie — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:25:41 +0000

When my sister’s purse is not in the house, my mom “crumbs” the drawers for drugs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G764eum_bLQ

By: somecallmejim

somecallmejim — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:05:46 +0000

All I want for Christmas is You (and all your subs)

(click)

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:36:03 +0000

Yeah, Dahlia was right about a lot of things. I enjoyed it, but perhaps not as much as I would have had I not already known that Jo was so NOT like her character.

I no longer have parents, so we always go to my in-laws for Thanksgiving. I have the drunk, facist, hunting father-in-law who can’t stop talking about how great Bush is and who really would rather be hunting, the tireless mother-in-law who still manages to spend her whole life in the kitchen (at 86!), even though all she makes anymore in the cranberry sauce.

My brother-in-law and his wife do Thanksgiving in Florida with her dad, so we don’t have to listen to her go on ad nauseum about how great it is that they have 2 six-figure jobs and no kids and travel everywhere and hate my dog.

Then there is the bright spot in all of this; my husband’s 2nd cousin who does 90% of the work to get dinner on the table, and she is a great cook and a great hostess and I find it hard to believe she shares any blood with the rest of them.

By: Nalts

Nalts — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:46:04 +0000

3- OMG Dahlia comes out with some serious analysis. Yeah- Jo can’t pull that off because she’s too smiley. And because we kinda know her already. That’s why i didn’t put myself in… I wanted it to feel more like candid camera.

6- but did he subscribe!? Mean Kitty is breathing down my neck!

By: jischinger

jischinger — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:26:26 +0000

Believe it or not I have a buddy who hates You Tube, (I know, imagine?!)
To make a long story short, I was watching this video while he was standing behind me talking to someone else and to my surprise when I turned around he was totally engaged in watching this video. At the end he said, “That was pretty good,” and he rarely says anything like that, so this video made quite an impression on one of the staunchest critics I know.

I think you found your new forte, the Mokumentary

By: somecallmejim

somecallmejim — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:56:09 +0000

Kevin, your family never ceases to amaze me.

By: NutCheese

NutCheese — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:45:41 +0000

My whole family is the drunk uncle. Actually my mom is the one that never shuts up about the latest diet fad as she stuffs her face with pumpkin pie.

By: DahliaK

DahliaK — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:23:17 +0000

Well, here’s my take on why this isn’t going to thrill the masses (hey how do you know that anyway? it just went up yesterday).

There are a lot of rather good, feature-length studio films on dysfunctional family get-togethers at the holidays. It’s a genre richly mined. In a full-length film you have the opportunity to develop a strong feeling about someone and then have your mind opened when their character is more fully elaborated through plot development. This usually involves a somewhat cathartic climax and denouement.

The lighting and sound in your movie made it hard to fully hear/see what was going on. Plus, we really needed more closeups to get inside the neurotics’ heads. Finally, I don’t care how she tries, WoN is never going to come across as a neurotic so-and-so; she doesn’t have the decades of worry lines that it requires. (She’s too pretty, is the problem.)

I think the character missing from this video was Kevin, who plays neurotic pretty well. You need a camera, lighting and sound team so you can be in your own videos (unless they involve pratfalls, and then you need a stunt double).

BTW, my favorite dysfunctional family movie of all time had to be The Royal Tenenbaums. I felt like I died and went to – the family of my teenage years. Or Hell. Either designation applies.