Lately, I've been sucked into watching episode after episode of the Wire, the HBO television series that was a sleeper hit earlier in the past decade. Although I've attempted to catch some funny sitcoms on Hulu, I haven't been happy with the selection aside from 30 Rock. But, this weekend, Netflix dropped the movie, The Darwin Awards, into my mailbox. It's pretty funny. And with some tummy trouble going on today, I preferred gut laughs over crime drama.
It has an excellent cast including Joseph Fiennes, Winona Ryder at her finest, Juliette Lewis, David Arquette, and plenty of other funny folks. The basic story line surrounds a quirky profiler with the SFPD who also happens to faint at the sight of blood and is obsessed with the Darwin Awards website. He is fired from his police post when he lets a murderer flee because he punches the perp in the nose then faints when his nose starts bleeding.
And, it continues with funny stories of stupid deaths around the United States including one where a drunk and high dude attempts to break into a Metallica concert and is smashed by a van. I liked the references to beat poets (Fiennes' character is named Burroughs), famous North Beach haunts (Vesuvio and City Lights are both featured), and all of San Francisco's musicians and actors. While not a standard comedy with slapstick humor and silly lines, I found myself giggling throughout at the stupidity and hilarity of humanity.
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