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Kids in the Hall sketches are also more thought provoking than SNL. SNL is more of a contemporary pop culture reference machine like Mad magazine and Family Guy.

The pop cultural references in KitH are to things of higher value like early cinema classics (Citizen Kane), Nietzsche, Morrison Hotel, surrealism, film noir; and with heavy pro LGBT, pro environmental (the beaver!) and anti corporate themes; displaying the frivolity of office politics, and the HARDCORE Canadian law enforcement.

What does SNL give but a couple'a chuckles, eh?

oh
my
god...
welcome to the realm of the absurd.
*promote political theater turned surreal.

The part that gets me is :50 to 1:00; it is almost surreal. Parts of it, your brain really wants to tell you that it is CGI, but you know it isn't.

Just fantastic engineering. Looks like they are ready for use pretty soon.

quick edit- By far the most fascinating and interesting point, from an engineering standpoint is around :28.

I had a similar thought only it involved Kurt Cobain. But even the ending they have is kind of surreal in it's own way, all that technology and craftsmanship and what's it for? To kill some birds, fuck you, birds!

*length=2:25 of trippy, surreal *quality

Wow. Surreal. At 0:21 there's a bang that seems to correspond to the halves of the tree smacking back together. It might be a coincidence with something that's happening off-screen, but it does seem to convey the magnitude of the murmuration.

A surreal Chuck Wagon dogfood commercial is now waiting to be made.

I lived in Cape Canaveral at that time. A very surreal day.

Good one, not perfection but if you hear Geddys solo tracks from the record and lately from a live, it's about that. Of course what makes it different is that Geddy is there walking and jumping, waving to the crowds AND doing this. It's quite surreal when you know how much talent there is when he takes these licks so effortlessly. And his right hand technique... It looks like a muddly mess and yet hits just the right strings at the right time. Farcry from disciplined action you see this fine lady doing in this video.

I enjoy Tim & Eric so I'll give it an upvote.

However, sometimes I wish their comedy had some level of content to it. Avant-garde, neo-surrealism (or whatever this is) is terrific and all but even one setup/payoff joke would be enjoyable.

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*quality freakishly surreal [say THAT 10 times fast!]

@Sarzy, @lucky760:

To's output can be roughly divided into three categories:
- Straight Film Noir influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville, including his early Milkyway Image productions, his The Mission / Exiled / Vengeance sort-of-trilogy, etc, with a special mention for Election 1 & 2.
- Somewhat more 'commercial' ventures: Running Out Of Time, Full Time Killer, Drug wars, and Breaking News... Less edgy, but better production value.
- And his more 'out there' attempts, that are usually crime films with some surreal aspect: Running On Karma (Shaolin-monk-turned-stripper sees people's past incarnations, tries to reverse their karma), Throwdown (everyone is a secret Judo master), Mad Detective (schizo detective can see people's inner personality and dialogue with them)...

He sometimes misses the mark, but his films are usually worth their salt (this often extends to other Milkyway films he produces).

Breaking News, it turns out, is a minor To film. It's well directed (as you can see by yourselves), and it's definitely fun to watch, but ... it's just that his other films are better! My advice : start with PTU, Exiled, or Full Time Killer. Then if you like what you see, go for the rest.

And if you like Running On Karma, check out Wai Ka Fai, To's writer / Milkyway co-founder and sometimes-director. That guy is good.

One more for the road: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/today_i_briefed.html

Bruce Schneier, whom I consider to be the supreme overlord in my line of work, was asked to brief six members of Congress on the actions of the NSA, because the NSA refused to.

This is so surreal that somebody should investigate if this whole affaire is being orchestrated by John Cleese...